Crews work through night after avalanche hits hotel in Italy

Friday, January 20, 2017

FARINDOLA, Italy -- Rescue crews who reached the four-star mountain resort on skis found only eerie silence Thursday after a huge avalanche flattened the Hotel Rigopiano, trapping more than 30 people inside.

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