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Be needed. world leaders already pledging and deploying rescue teams. the search and rescue will stretch on for days. hope remaining as long as possible. >> jomana, you have freezing temperatures, aftershocks continuing to hit the region. i mean, how hampered are these rescue efforts right now in turkey and syria? >> well, they are continuing, anderson, but as you can imagine, its nighttime here. its dark. this is definitely slowed down the search-and-rescue operations that have been ongoing now...

There was a bystander who dove into the water and did rescue a woman, though. it got national attention, that bystanders name was lenny skutnik and president reagan, the former hollywood actor with a bit of a flair for showmanship and his team saw an opportunity in that and two weeks later at the state of the union address, heres what happened. >> just two weeks ago in the midst of a terrible tragedy on the potomac, we saw again the spirit of american heroism at its finest. the heroism of dedica...

Underneath that wreckage, but just in the last ten minutes, this whole crowd, families, spectators, people who are waiting for news, other rescue workers, they all fell completely silent and actually knelt down on the ground. im trying to keep my voice low. we actually had them closer to this but we had to move away because we dont want to upset these people. we heard that there is actually now a russian team and you can see them -- some of them on top and on the lower portions of this mountain ...

Decades of conflict and war, this makes this conflict extremely more unprecedented in the white helmets and the rescue workers that are working there are definitely not equipped to deal with the tragedy of the moment. the equipped to deal with the tragedy of the moment-— the moment. the crossings into northwest _ the moment. the crossings into northwest syria _ the moment. the crossings into northwest syria subject - the moment. the crossings into northwest syria subject to - the moment. the c...

Assyria, fundraising, gathering materials trying to send what they can out there, including going out there themselves. earlier, our middle east correspondent tom bateman explained how the rescue effort in adana in southern turkey has been progressing. yeah, this was a ten story building behind me which came down in the initial quake. what is happening at the moment, and this is a very rare event compared to what is happening across the region, we have two diggers here clearing the rubble away f...

Between the syrian president bassar al ashads forces and rebel fighters, making rescue efforts even harder. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet, who has reported extensively from syria, has this report. a syrian village which vanished in minutes... ..besnia. its people are all thats left standing — those who survived. so many didnt, all along this area, next to turkey. still now many families are under the rubble. 0ur teams are trying to save them. it is very difficult task for u...

Rescue teams, things they were trying to desperately get here and when you do arrive you really do get a sense of the destruction and devastation. we are not talking about a single collapsed building. you can see some of the people behind me, these are their homes, they have nowhere to go, they are pulling out some of the furniture and burning it to try and keep warm. rescue workers are on top of these piles of rubble but there is just too much, there are too many collapsed buildings, there is t...

Six hours ago she fell silent. ive been here since yesterday, and begging for help, he tells me. all the while rescue workers passed by. still they find survivors but they are few for the he has just been rescued. i was 36 hours on the ground, i had lost all hope, he tells me. corpses crowd every pavement here for a city where time is running out for the living the dead must wait. quentin somerville, bbc news, in southern turkey. a global really flying to the

Rise. and you have rolling pictures right few on turkish television 24 hours of the search and rescue operations as families listing member after member that is missing. it is those families that turkish authorities are desperate to bring answers to. this is the critical window right now, this is the 24 to 48 hours after the earthquake where there is still a glimmer of hope that there might be survivors trapped under their homes. but these search and rescue operations face some major challenges....

Here i was just speaking to quite a few people wrapped in blankets, they have been up all night. some have been evacuated from this building, others from other buildings in this area. one of the women i was just chatting to, her daughter was in this building. the last she knew, she was on the second floor. she told me the rescue workers were on their way down to the sixth floor. she was on the second floor. there was absolutely no word. her mother has been up all night waiting to get anything, b...