the honoree jumped into action when the devastating earthquake hit turkey and syria. cnn s anderson cooper has her story. i need syringes. it is frantic leading up to a mission. this bag is ready to go. you can have the right equipment, the right medication. we have enough for hundreds of patients. we re going to be sleeping in a tent, eating mres. this is not going to be a good time. three days after the earthquake, theresa landed in turkey. she and her team soon headed to hatai province. i m here, we re doing mobile clinics and all the people are living here in these tents now because the buildings are falling down or about to fall down. we go street to street to street and we stop at these tent cities, we re seeing earthquake injury, lacerations.
7:00 and 8:00, and 9:00 p.m. in london here on cnn. turkey has begun rebuilding homes after this month s catastrophic earthquake, just ahead, while some engineers say the government is moving too fast. we ll have a live report from turkey when we come back. please stay with us. barcode beat conductor. go betty! let s be more than o our allergies! zeize the day. withth zyrtec. introducing the new sleep number climate0 smart bed. only smart bed in the world that actively cools, warms, and effortlessly responds to both of you. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. proven quality sleep. only from sleep number.
some criticism coming has been centered around the potential for strong aftershocks following that earthquake three weeks ago. we saw one, 6.3 magnitude on monday, and turkey has continued to see these aftershocks, at a lower scale, for the last almost three weeks now. so there is a significant amount of concern here. but of course with elections looming, president aerdogan s government is under mounting pressure to provide a long-term solution to this issue, 100,000 people living in tents and we visited those idp camps in antakya, many of the families that we spoke to still haven t given a tent. they are still waiting to have that temporary accommodation. some families sleeping on the street and i have to say it gets quite cold at night, many of them with young children, others have been put up in other temporary including a cruise ship. but these are all short-term solutions. and it is going to take months if not years for the turkish government to be able to rebuild