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announcer: this is “nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening terrifying images coming out of cuba tonight. a five-star hotel in downtown havana ripped by a massive and deadly explosion the death toll rising as rescuers search for the missing. dozens of injured were rushed to hospitals. cellphone video capturing the moment of the explosion as the saratoga hotel was quickly engulfed in smoke and dust its facade crumbled by the blast. cuban authorities tonight blaming the blast on a gas leak. the hotel once frequented by well heeled tourists and celebrities including some americans was closed for renovation. kerry sanders now with late developments. reporter: moments after the explosion, a witness began recording as the cloud of dust from the blast enveloped the streets of old havana. a witness points and yells, there s people alive, there s people alive! in the rubble another says, there s one, there s one! bystanders, police, firefighters began climbing ov ....
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bloody. the military governor claiming about 200 se0 civilians remain trapped. the complex, authorities are doing everything they can to get people to safety. russian shelling and assault does not stop. civilians still need to be taken out. women, children. many children who are still there. just imagine this hell and there are children. more than two months of constant shelling, bombing and constant death nearby. he didn t say how many people left on thursday. only that evacuations are ongoing. the red cross says more than 300 people believe to be from mariupol and other nearby areas arrived on wednesday. wounded soldiers are dying in agony. reporter: this is the last bastion of ukrainian resistance. the steel plant under what a city official calls nonstop shelling and assault by russian forces. the commander saying fierce combat is ongoing. he says russian forces breached the compounds barrier. the commander begging for transport of the bodies of soldiers who di ....
the russians are accused of breaking their promises for evacuations. still, they re doing everything they can to get people out. translator: russian shelling does not stop. but civilians still need to be taken out. women, children, many children who are still there. just imagine this hell. and there are children. more than two months of constant shelling, bombing, and constant death nearby. reporter: meanwhile, sources tell cnn, ukrainian had some help from the u.s. in targeting russia s flagship last month. the warship sank on april 14th after ukrainian missile strikes. the sources say the ukrainians spotted the ship. then asked the americans for confirmation that it was in market the moskva. the u.s. provided intelligence about the ship and its location but wasn t involved in ukraine s decision to launch missiles. a ukrainian commander says wounded soldiers inside the azovstal steel works are dying in terrible agony. those who are able are fighting to defend the p ....
evacuate civilians. they said one person was killed, six wounded. let me turn to cnn s scott mclean who is in lviv. i understand you re learning that russian state media reported some people escaped that steel factory. what do you know? reporter: yeah, that is true, victor. so this is according to russian state media, who says that 25 people have managed to make it out of the steel factory, including five children. there is new video that cnn cannot verify at this stage that shows some smaller buses, people getting off them and getting transferred onto a larger coach. now, it was unclear whether this is part of the u.n. and red cross effort to get people out, but there are no u.n. vehicles, there s no red cross vehicles shown in any of these videos. so it seems like this is a unilateral effort on the part of russia. you ll recall that russia had previously said that they would allow civilians to get out of the plant yesterday, today and also tomorrow during basicall ....