Massive Attack in Pakistan; China's Tainted Milk
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back, everyone. I'm Don Lemon. Here are some of the stories we are following for you today here on CNN. An incredible scene in Wisconsin, look at that. It's a helicopter crashed through the roof of this house this morning killing the two people onboard the helicopter. But a family of five inside survived unharmed. In Arkansas, six children are in state custody as part of an abuse and child pornography investigation of Evangelist Tony Alamo. The controversial minister's compound was raided last night. And congressional leaders they hope to pass the $700 billion financial bailout by the end of this week; maybe some news at the beginning of the week as well. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says congressional action needs to be "clean and quick." Turning now to news overseas; all kinds of major new developments to tell you about. To Pakistan first. We're getting our first glimpses of a massive suicide truck bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. You are seeing the weapon there; you're seeing the beginning of the attack. The weapon of course was the truck. It's bigger and deadlier than we have ever thought since this happened. At least 50 people now confirmed dead; more than 260 wounded. Here is CNN Reza Sayah with much more.</s>REZA SAYAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The men walking up to this burning truck don't know it but the vehicle is packed with 600 kilo grams, 1,500 pounds of explosives. Minutes later the truck explodes killing scores and destroying the Islamabad Marriott in what government officials call the worst blast in Pakistan history. This video is the first look at the powerful truck bomb that rocked Islamabad. Hotel surveillance cameras captured the dramatic pictures moments before the explosion. The video shows a large white truck crashing into the hotel's steel gate. It is unable to get through. Then a small fire starts in the engine block and quickly spreads. Security personnel run back and forth. One guard tries to put out the fire but gives up. Moments later the video stops. That's when investigators say the blast knocked the camera out. The morning after countless cameras captured the aftermath; the impact of the explosion leaving behind a crater more than two stories deep and nearly 60 feet or 18 meters across. The asphalt covered street is now a massive hole in the ground.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: According to the statistical data available with us for the last seven years when this thing started, this is the biggest attack, volume wise. The quantity of explosives which have been used it is bigger than the others.</s>SAYAH: Around the Marriott no matter what direction you look you saw some jaw dropping scenes. Here is one of them. Let's see if we can zoom in there. Those cars lined up there, they are not supposed to be sitting up on a curb. Before the blast they were sitting on the street next to the curb but the force of the blast so strong it lifted these cars up, dropped them back up on the curb. All five floors of the Marriott were burned and destroyed.</s>RODOLPHO CAMACHO, HOTEL GUEST: You hear your ears and your head kind of getting a pounding.</s>SAYAH: Rodolpho Camacho in room 547 saw all his belongings go up in smoke. But the Colombian-born U.S. citizen was just glad he got out alive.</s>CAMACHO: You think you are prepared for these things and you are not really. We were lucky to find somebody that got us an exit road.</s>SAYAH: Dozens of others were not so lucky. Among them the Czech Ambassador to Pakistan and two active military duty U.S. citizens assigned to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad.</s>GHULAM PANJWANI, FOCUS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE: Something like this has not happened in Islamabad history.</s>SAYAH: Ghulam Panjwani brought his search and rescue team to look for survivors on Sunday. All his crews found were more bodies.</s>PANJWANI: We came here to save lives. Unfortunately, we were not able to do that, but that's a regret that you always have and we'll live with that.</s>SAYAH: What Pakistanis will also have to live with are militants carrying out more aggressive and sophisticated attacks, willing to strike anywhere, any time. Reza Sayah, CNN, Islamabad.</s>LEMON: Also tonight, two major power shakeups in two nations. A new coalition government is in the works at Israel after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert formally handed in his resignation. Olmert has been plagued by allegations of corruption. Former minister Tzipi Livni is now trying to put together a new government meeting with potential coalition partners. It is not set in stone that Livni will take over but she is the leading candidate after winning a party primary election last week. And in South Africa, long time President Thabo Mbeki says he plans to quit. But he's not saying when he'll actually leave office. The African National Congress Party had asked Mbeki to leave before his term was up after allegations he interfered in a corruption case against political rival Jacob Zuma. Zuma is now expected to run for the presidency. Mbeki has been in office nearly a decade after replacing Nelson Mandela. China's tainted milk outbreak is more widespread than initially reported. The Health Ministry now reports nearly 13,000 infants and children have been sickened by milk powder suspected of being contaminated with a toxic chemical. That's more than twice the number of children than previously reported. One suspected case has surfaced in Hong Kong, the first outside of the Mainland China. At least four deaths have been reported there. A tough message from a Georgia school system, if your kids don't go to school you better be prepared to go to jail. We'll explain.