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We know where earthquakes occur. we know there is a hazard to the u.s. and so the challenge is whats your quality of life afterwards, everything depenldz on what you do beforehand. >> david applegate, the senior advise for earthquake and geological hazards at the u.s. gee l geological survey, thank you for coming. we appreciates it. >> thanks so much. in haiti survivors are trying to regain any kind of normalcy and now learning how long the road to recovery will be there. the haitian governmen...

Of people have been reported missing. in the meantime an estimated 2 million people are homeless. there is major damage in the capital of santiago but the worst damage is 200 miles to the south in the city of concepcion which is 70 miles from the epicenter of the quake. some towns near there are almost obliterated. shaken by the quakes and slammed by tsunami waves. chiles president is promising deliveries of food and water and shelter for those living on the street and says chile welcomes intern...

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: good evening. im gwen ifill. the death toll topped 700 after one of the worlds most powerful earthquakes hit chile on saturday. >> woodruff: and im judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, aftershocks continue to rock the country. we get the latest from santiago and look at how this quake differs from the one that struck haiti in january. >> ifill: then, jeffrey brown examines the deal by insurance giant a.i.g. to sell its asi...

try to do it alone? well ask former dnc chair governor howard dean. but we are going to start with the powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck chile on saturday. the official death toll is now at least 708 but that number is expected to climb. at least half a million homes have been damaged or destroyed leaving some 2 million people homeless. rescuers are risking their own lives as they search for survivors in the unstable rubble because already there have been more than 90 aft...

Coming from it. this earthquake, to put it in contrast, this earthquake was released about 500 times more energy than the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck haiti, just a month earlier. >> incredible. >> david applegate. thank you for providing context on this story. >> sure thing. >> coming up, speaker nancy pelosi trying to wrangle up the votes to pass the presidents health care bill using perhaps reconciliation, does she even have the votes in the house among her own party? well discuss with ...

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live in the united states. for them and their families, news of the earthquake has been devastating. even harder than that is coping when you arent able to locate your missing loved one. united state yang has that story. >> i cannot get anybody on the phone. >> reporter: she can barely breathe as uncertainty and anxiety knock the wind out of her. >> i feel bad. i dont know. i dont know. i dont know. >> reporter: with business slow at her haitian restaurant on the west side, shes been f...

The central tower of washingtons national cathedral sustained damage in todays earthquake. no one was injured to the cathedral or its grounds. its been closed to visitors until further notice. and the floors of the u.s. capitol rotunda littered with paint chips and small pieces of plaster that fell from the ceiling of the capitol dome. its clear the capitol was hit hard. these images show the damage at a construction site in vienna, virginia, where a load of brings fell on a nearby car. in new...

Collapse. but you can get a lot of damage just caused by what we call nonstruck occural damage. bookcases falling over, light fixturing falling and were seeing lots of small damage. our initial estimate is, you know, very low probability of fatalities but in terms of economic losses it could add up. were estimating the economic losses could be on the order of $100 million or more than that. >> unbelievable. it is, i guess, a little bit comforting to know even you folks at the u.s. geological sur...