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we begin tonight there in morocco with matt bradley. >> reporter: tonight high in the atlas mountainslimmers of hope survivors brought out on stretchers somehow making it out alive after the most powerful quake to hit morocco in over a century. this man clutching his two daughters. his other two children were killed. these were the horrifying moments when this massive 6.8 magnitude quake struck friday night, sending customers pouring out of a restaurant, buildings crashing down this man managing to escape just before the roof caved in. here in the middle of a performance a wedding band feels this rattling and rushes out we traveled to one of the hardest-hit areas in the countryside you can smell the death here between 90 and 100 people were killed in this village alone, and they're no longer looking for survivors. she says this is her bedroom right here [ speaking in a non-english language ] four members of hanan's family were killed in the earthquake she says everybody was taken out. right now they're looking for things they're looking for their identity cards and other things they n

matt bradley is in turkey with late details. an american explorer trapped in one of the world's deepest caves could be hours away from beginning his long journey to the surface. >> i'm doing well, thank you. >> reporter: it's been nearly a week since a frightening illness left mark dickey stranded 4,500 feet below the surface. >> and as you can see, i'm up, i'm alert, i'm talking, but i'm not healed on the inside yet, so i'm going to need a lot of help to get out of here. >> reporter: he suffered severe gastrointestinal bleeding while on an expedition to mark the cave, turkey's third deepest. this is the mouth of the cave you can see how steep it is, so rescuers have to rappel down and climb up multiple times a day, but they tell me, this is the easy part. the turkish rescue team says they're waiting for the all-clear from doctors and rescue teams who are using small explosives to widen parts of the tunnel. this rescue will rank among just a handful of cave rescues ever attempted at this depth, and this man was on the same exped

matt bradley leading us off tonight. >>> back here at home we turn now to hurricane lee.has restrengthened to a major category 3 hurricane. nbc meteorologist bill karins joins us now. and bill, we have a bit of breaking news here. boston's now in the cone? >> yeah, we've expanded this northwards now including areas of nova scotia getting into the main coastline and boston and the cape and the islands are now included in the cone. now, the storm will be much weaker then than it is now. and it will look a lot different. almost like a powerful nor'easter with a large wind field. but we will miss bermuda, and then it looks like it will make its way on friday night into saturday towards the gulf of maine. all of our computer models are up here. now, none of them are going directly into new england. but the storm itself is going to be expanding in size. even if the center of the storm is 200 miles to the east, we could still see winds over 50 to 60, maybe even 70 miles per hour on areas of cape cod. and with leaves on the trees that's a big difference in what we'd deal with in

>> reporter: >> matt bradley thank you. the u.s.are aware of a small number of americans injured in the earthquake but no deaths as of yet. morocco has become a prime deft-nation for tourists. maggie vespa spoke to americans who survived the quake. >> reporter: tonight a north african beacon for tourists worldwide is decimated. among the survivors, throngs of visitors terrified in a foreign country. >> you heard people screaming. >> yes, we did. >> reporter: tamika gambrel is visiting morocco from michigan with her partner and friend. >> one person actually thought maybe a bomb had went off. >> reporter: u.k. residents nikita voldobia and avi ashiani were finishing dinner in marrakesh when the shaking start sxwlpd it felt like forever. >> reporter: unsure of where to go many tourists joined locals sleeping outside. >> everybody was out there. people were crying. >> reporter: armando jimenez posted this video after moving his family from d.c. last week for a language fellowship. he and his wife panicked, saving their toddlers. >> the

i want to get right to my colleague, nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. matt, what do we know about the rescue efforts underway? we're still in the early hours, which means while they are finding more bodies, they could also find more survivors. >> that's right. when i was here in turkey back in february, there was a devastating twin earthquake here that killed tens of thousands of people. and we thought, wow, we hope the novels don't go up to that level. there are people being dragged out of wreckage, five, six days afterwards. that's something we're hoping we can see in morocco, outside of marrakech. as you mentioned, this was a 6.8 earthquake on the richter scale. as you said, this is the strongest they fell in 123 years. so what we're seeing now, a coordinated rescue effort between local authorities and the moroccan military, trying to get, out as you mentioned, to some of these more remote areas. this is going to be a struggle. because you know, they haven't actually officially, the government of morocco, asked for any foreign assistance. we've heard

i want to get right to my colleague, nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley.

matt bradley now with the race to rescue him. >> reporter: the dramatic first video of american scientist mark dickey, days after a life-threatening medical emergency trapped him 3400 feet under ground in turkey. >> i'm doing well, thank you. >> reporter: visibly tired but in good spirits, surrounded by the international rescue team that gave him life-saving medical care. >> as you can see, i'm up, i'm alert, i'm talking, but i'm not healed on the inside yet. i need a lot of help to get out of here. >> reporter: the 40-year-old veteran cave diver experienced severe gastrointestinal bleeding on saturday while working on a caving expedition in southern turkey. the medical emergency leaving him unable to eat and partially unconscious for three days, until two doctors delivered units of blood and administered transfusions according to the italian cave and alpine service, reaching depths over 4,000 feet, it's turkey's third deepest, a labyrinth of passes and water quill philled kavsh. a friend of dickey's says it makes the cave one of the world's toughest to traverse. >> it's at the top of the

matt bradley, nbc news, southern turkey. >>> happening tonight, a traffic alert to warn you about on highway 101 in the south bay. the southbound direction of 101 at moffett in mountain view closed starting at 9:00 tonight. drivers can look for the detour at north shoreline boulevard. they can exit the freeway there, go to west middlefield road and re-enter 101 at moffett boulevard. caltrans cruis replacing a support beam. that stretch of highway closed through 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. >>> all right. we're going to turn back now to the american red cross. talking about a major shortfall of blood donations this summer. even california seeing a shortage, and then in hopes of helping that critical need are bay area proud, our blood drive, happening today for the seventh year in a row and the man at the helm of it all, "today in the bay"s garvin thomas who joins us live from san jose hosting the blood drive once again. such a great thing to do. and other than saving lives people get, i think, like, a gift card of some sort and treats made by your own wife. >> reporter: yes. treats mad

nbc's matt bradley reports. >> reporter: security foot amg showing the rumbling, the shaking, and thenhe streaming, as an earthquake struck morocco. moroccans are now struggling to reach survivors thought to be buried beneath rubble. it's the most powerful quake to hit there in 100 years. "we saw things falling from above like dishes. we were unable to sit or stand, then we fled outside. the earthquake was very strong." the military reporting more than 2,000 people killed, another 2,000 injured. the numbers have been climbing all day and will continue to grow as first responders pulled more bodies from ruined homes. "we ran outside, but a wall fell on my head." adam parsons is on the ground in morocco. >> we're still very concerned about what could happen. here is a good example of nervousness. this restaurant was badly damaged by the earthquake, but it only actually collapsed hours and hours later. >> reporter: the quake struck in the mountains before midnight. this video of the first tremor shows people fleeing cafes in panic, and barely escaping falling debris. "we went to sleep. af

nbc's matt bradley has more. >> tonight, high in the atlas mountains, glimmers of hope.king it out alive after it was powerful quake hit morocco in a century. this man, clutching his two daughters, other two children killed. these were the horrifying moments when this massive, 6. 8 magnitude quake struck on friday night, sending customers pulling out of a restaurant, buildings crashing down. this man managed to escape just before the roof caved in. here in the middle of a performance, a wedding band feels the rattling and rushes out. we traveled to one of the hardest areas in the country said. you can smell the death here. between 90 and 100 people were killed in this village along. and they are no longer looking for survivors. >> she says that this is for bedroom here. for members of her family were killed in the earthquake. she says everyone was taken out right now they're looking for things, they're looking for identity cards and other things they need. in mountain villages like this, the construction materials are remaining. and when faced with a quid like, this they

nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley joins us now live from turkey. matt thank you for getting us started this morning. what is the latest that you can tell us about the rescue efforts? >> yes, the rescue effort is continuing in place, where local authorities in the military are doing their best to dig survivors out of wreckage and rubble. this truck in the high atlas mountains, about 50 miles away from the historic city of marrakech. where the city itself, the old town, did get some damage, though this earthquakes those tremors were felt all across the countries. this was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake as you mentioned. according to the u.s. geological survey, that would make it the most powerful earthquake to obstruct morocco in the last 123 years. now also according to the u.s. geological survey, a lot of the homes in this area are really just inadequate to face things like this tremor. you mentioned how this is a rare event. there are earthquakes in this region. but this is a particularly powerful one. but most of the population lives in homes that are

joining us is nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley.tle more about the criticism for the rescue effort. what are people saying? >> reporter: when i spoke with people in the high atlas mountains, we heard them. they weren't all that critical of the government, but still, you know, we didn't see much of a government presence. we saw the entire day one military ambulance, that was really it. this was a hard hit village where something like 90 to 100 people had been killed. they were burying the dead on their own, putting up tents on their own, and i saw one man going in and taking lumber from one of the destroyed houses to prop up the tent housing his family and others. there doesn't seem like there was much of a government presence. people in this area, warned all of that critical, but the fact is that aid has been slow. there hasn't been much of a presence, and i think that people are getting increasingly angry. but they really, the feeling that i was getting is that they weren't expecting much from the government to begin with. most of

matt bradley is in morocco. we have seen some amazing rescues. what are you seeing now?mazing rescues. the fact of the matter is, there hasn't been as many here as we have seen in other earthquakes. i spoke with you in turkey many february. that was an all earthquake. there were tens of thousands killed. here we are not seeing those numbers but we are not seeing drug out alive from rubble. it's a different situation. i asked ahead of one of the british rescue efforts why that is. they said they weren't finding that many living people under the rubble. he said it's a number of factors. one of the main factors is the construction and architecture here. these are older buildings and the thing you would see in turkey where it's more modern. when those buildings collapse -- yes, they were terribly constructed. but they had support. they were made with reinforced concrete. that created cavities under some of the wreckage where people -- not many, but enough people could survive for days at a time. we are not seeing that here. a lot of the structures are unreinforced, made from

matt bradley in london. good to see you. exactly. take care, buddy. >>> programming note.es of leguizamo does america at 4:00 following up with an encore presentation of when truth isn't truth. tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on social media. thank you for the privilege of your time. your time. >>> hey, everybody, good day. the disastrous debacle at burning man potentially coming to an end today as 70,000 stranden revelers may be getting word on when they can finally head home.

nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is in marrakesh, morocco for us. were in the atlas mountains earlier today, what did you see there? >> reporter: we were in a village where we're not seeing a race for survivors. people in this small village, they were about 90 to 100 people have been killed in this earthquake, and the folks there seemed resigned to the fact that everybody else who was under the rubble, if there was anybody under the rubble had died. it was a very sad scene, for the most part they said that everybody had been accounted for. the village was so small that they were able to do that kind of accounting and just decide that basically there were survivors and there were the dead. and in fact, the last dead had been buried only about an hour before we arrived. we did not see much in the way of government presence. the aid that we saw in various villages we visited was mostly according to the villagers from civil society groups. that's been a cause of some level of anger here, that the government has been largely absent, even though just yest

here's nbc news 1400 front matt bradley with more. >> that frenzied rescue effort is underway as the death toll and injury toll increases. it's already sky-high. we have heard in the last couple of hours, the death toll has now received 1000. the injuries have now exceeded 1200. those numbers are likely to increase in the coming hours and days as rescue workers actually take bodies out of the wreckage. that's what they're working on right now. you see a lot of destruction in the region, the high atlas mountains. the epicenter was about 50 miles away from the historic city of marrakech. and now we are seeing those workers struggling to get into the mountains, into some of those more remote villages, which are constructed by even more rudimentary materials, adobe, blacks and reinforced concrete. is the kind of thing that really just is not up to snuff when it comes to tremors of this size. there has already been a lot of damage in the more urban areas. this historic city of merrick's beloved. medina, the old city, a lot of winding alleyways. seeing plenty of destruction so far, and mos

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cnn's matt bradley has more. >> the death toll and injury toll increases it's already sky-high. we have heard over the past couple of hours that the death toll has exceeded 1000. the injuries have now exceeded 1200. those numbers are likely to increase in the coming hours and days as rescue workers actually take bodies out of the wreckage. that is what they working on right now the epicenter was about five and a mild way from the historic city americas. we see rescue workers struggling to get into the mountains, into those more remote villages, constrict about even more rheometry material. adobe blocks, and reinforced concrete. the kind of thing that just is not up to snuff when it comes to tremors of the size. there has already been a lot of damage or more urban areas. the historic city america, the beloved medina, the old city with lots of winding alleyways had seen plenty of discretion so far. most of it is intact but a lot of historic buildings have been badly, badly,. damaged the rescue effort is working. we have been seeing the military and local authorities trying to reac

going up in flames, killing more than 70 people, many of them children we get more tonight from matt bradley. >> reporter: you could hear the screams coming from inside the inferno. a fearsome fire engulching a five-story building in johannesburg, killing at least 74 people overnight, including 12 children. the building had been abandoned and was filled with an estimated 200 homeless squatters. witnesses say exits out of the building were blocked. the massive blaze forced some to do the unthinkable >> my in-law, she just hit the window and threw the daughter outside. >> reporter: tonight, the government facing fierce criticism >> it's a wakeup call for us to begin to address the situation of housing in the inner city >> reporter: the reforms will come too late for these homeless victims, for whom there is no place left to go but the streets, and now, nothing left to feel but despair. and tonight, south africa's president pledged to root out those criminal gangs that had taken control of that building, and to launch an investigation into exactly what caused that deadly fire lester >> matt, th

that is where we find matt bradley who has that story for us. matt, take us through it. >> reporter: we're in southern turkey, just outside the mouth of the morca cave. there's a tent city that's been growing just behind me. we're seeing rescue workers and experts flown in from around the world. most of the teams that we're seeing here are hungarian, greek, and italian, trying to rescue this american explorer mark dickey, who's been trapped underground with a serious medical condition the last week. he's had gastrointestinal bleeding, not serious in a hospital or major city, almost routine. when you're trapped more than 3,000 feet underground, it is a very serious situation. as you can see, a logistical nightmare. getting equipment down there is a real problem because of all of these rescue workers, they have to be expert climbers, they have to basically drop themselves down a very steep cliff into the cave, and if they try to come back up, they have to climb up using ropes. and according to the rescue workers that i've been speaking to, that's t

and bases, matt, bradley is following the story for us from overseas. matt, welcome back. what more can you tell us about the destruction and the rescue effort underway? >> alex, this is a frenzied rescue effort. turkey, at the moment, covering a different story. i'm on my way to morocco. in just a couple of hours, turkey was the site of another devastating earthquake back in february. we spoke about this a moment ago. that was an issue where there were people who were taken out from under the rubble after five, six, seven days. i'm hoping that that is going to be the case in morocco. this is a situation where people are having trouble reaching some of the more remote regions in the high atlas mountains. this is where a lot of the devastation is thought to be because that is where the epicenter, is about 50 miles outside of that historic city of marrakech that you mentioned. so a lot of the streets, a lot of the roads that lead up into the mountains are of course damaged by the same earthquake that has damage so many homes and buildings and communities. so there is a delay

matt bradley in london, and nbc news meteorologist michelle grossman back with us., what have we seen from travelers, hoping to take advantage of the last weeks of summer? >> reporter: good afternoon to you, we have been plants here along interstate 40 in east tennessee. we are right next door to the great smokey mountains, which is the number one visited national park in the country. also dollywood just a few minutes away as well. so you have a lot of visitors trying to get out. they all have the same idea, so you can probably see behind me. basically the gridlock here, and right here in the foreground, this is a traffic actually trying to get out of the largest gas station in the world. you might have heard of it, bucky's. so we are told from some of the drivers here, it's taking roughly an hour just to get out of the gas station, and then once they get out, they're dealing with the inner state traffic as well. so this is a scene that's really playing out all across the country. roughly 100 million americans are getting behind the wheel. they drove to their holida

nbc's matt bradley joins us now.hat more can you tell us about this new video and what prigozhin was doing in the days leading up to his death? >> reporter: this came out yesterday, and in fact, what we're seeing here is prigozhin showing a high level of awareness about the imminent si of his own death. we know this. we have heard prigozhin being described as dead man walking. if there was anyone at all that was surprised that he was killed or died. the kremlin denies that they shot his plane ouch the air, it seems prigozhin would have been the least surprised. he said in the video, it was taken on a weekend in the second half of august. he was in africa, and he said for those wondering if i'm alive or dead or how much i'm paid, that everything is fine, and we can't verify when this video was taken. it seems if everything is true that he says in the description himself, it was probably taken a couple of days before he and senior members of the wagner group were killed in the plane crash or assassination, depending on

nbc's matt bradley has been following the latest developments from turkey. matt, what more can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: good morning, peter. this earthquake struck last night after 11:00 p.m. in the high atlas mountains. the epicenter was 50 miles from merrikesh. the numbers have been rising all morning and they will continue to rise as the week continues. we heard from the u.s. geological survey. this reached a 6.81 on the richter scale. according to the usgs, the population doesn't live in adequate housing to stave off the tremors. that is the reason we are likely to see the numbers increasing. the local authorities and military are trying their best to dig survivors out from underneath the rubble and local health officials said they have been begging the public to donate blood to help survivors. governments of the u.s. and france and world health organization and red cross have all said they will provide assistance if needed. guys. >> matt bradley with the latest in morocco. thank you. >>> now to the hurricane churning in the atlantic ocean.

nbc's matt bradley is live for us from marrakech, and i guess we're now nearing a week since the quake the ground, matt, when it comes to aid and to government response? >> yeah, i mean, one of the things that i was seeing when we were going up into the mountains were foreign search and rescue organizations who were up there, the ones who were allowed in by the moroccan government. we spoke with a british firefighter who was there with his team. there are a lot of efforts and mor rock -- are letting in some foreign help. it took days for government officials to reach them, and the aid, the food, the tents, that was from the local government officials, not from the central national government. so there was a lot of frustration there. you know a lot of people there are so isolated in these mountainous areas. life was hard before the earthquake. now there's added frustration. folks are saying, yes, it's hard to access these places. the same earthquake that toppled houses and wiped away almost entire village, also damaged roadways and made it very difficult for aid to reach some of these r

s matt bradley is following the story for us overseas. welcome. we have this 1960 earthquake, that one killed thousands. here's the thing, that one registered 5.8. this one was significantly stronger. what can you tell us about the destruction and rescue efforts underway? >> it is a frenzied effort. they're trying to, just as they did when i was back, here where i'm still in turkey, back in february. they are trying to uncover what could be thousands of people buried underneath that rubble. thousands of survivors. that's why it's such a desperate effort. one of the differences here is that some of the architecture in morocco, and especially in the rural areas, in the atlas mountains, and in the high atlas mountains, it's really rudimentary. it's basically made of adobe blocks or an reinforced concrete, as you can imagine. a. just crumbles. a lot of people are wondering whether or not rescue workers are able to reach some of those remote areas. whether or not the devastation is going to be even worse than imagined right now. the fact is they went w

and matt bradley is on the ground in morocco.ics and rescue teams trying to focus right now? >> reporter: yeah, they are trying to focus on some of the more remote areas that they haven't touched yet, and those are places where there is thinking that possibly there are bodies. but i spoke with a british rescue worker and he said that there is a lot of frustration and they really aren't seeing the same kind of dynamic that we were seeing back in february in turkey where six, seven days later they were recovering survivors from beneath the rubble. here is what he told me. when it comes to finding survivors, what are the challenges you are facing? >> challenges we found this locating survivors is that many of the sites we've been to, the collapse has been total. so based on recent events such as the turkey earthquake, what we found is is that we have what we call survivable voids, gaps where people can survive until we reach them. some of the sites here, they have been a total collapse so unfortunately, we haven't had that opportuni

joining me now, matt bradley. what more do we know about this advance? how significant is it?ugh? is this just sort of the ukrainians advancing a little bit and kind of breaching this one line in one specific place? the fact is it can be both. we are hearing from u.s. officials and others saying this is a breakthrough. mostly on the symbolic level. you mentioned the three different lines. the first one named after a russian general. this is a line essentially just sort of land mines. after that, there's antitank placements. that should be hard to get through. this third line is trench warfare. that will be regular russian soldiers who will be inhabiting those trends. that will be the hardest line to breach. we're talking about a modest achievement. but the importance of this, again, symbolic. it goes to slow the ukrainians can breach this line because the russians have had months to put up formidable defenses all along this massive sprawling front line that goes from the southwest of the country all the way up to the northeast. now, the fact that they can get through, it could

nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is in turkey tracking the rescue. >> reporter: so we're in southern turkey just outside of the mouth of the cave and you can see there is something of a tent city that has been growing just behind me. we're seeing rescue workers and experts flown in from around the world, and most of the teams that we're seeing here are hungarian, greek, and italian. all of them coming here, trying their best to rescue this american explorer mark dickey, trapped underground with a very serious medical condition for most of the last week. has had gastrointestinal bleeding and that is not necessarily a serious condition if you're at a hospital in a major city, it is almost routine, but when you're trapped more than 3,000 feet under ground, it is a very serious situation and as you can see, a logistical nightmare, getting equipment down there is a real problem, because of all of these rescue workers, they have to be expert climbers, they have to be basically drop themselves down, a very steep cliff, into the cave, and if they try to come back up, they have to cl

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nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley has the latest on the devastation and the beginning of aught out on stretchers, somehow making it out alive after the most powerful earthquake in a century. this man clutching his daughters, as others were killed. this massive 6.8 magnitude quake struck, buildings crashing down. this man escaped before the roof caved in. here in the middle of a performance, a wedding band feels this rattling and rushes out. we traveled to one of the hardest hit areas in the countryside. you can smell the death here. between 90 and 100 people were killed in this village alone. they're no longer looking for survivors. she says this is her bedroom right here. four members of hanan's family were killed in the earthquake. she says everybody was taken out. right now, they're looking for their identity cards and other things they need. in mountain villages like this, construction materials are rudimentary. faced with a magnitude earthquake like this, they didn't stand a chance. the remaining homes are sometimes so fragile, aid helicopters caused further damage. mo