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For them. there is no equipment in this place to help these people out and we couldnt do anything. i was -- i couldnt sleep. these cries are in my ear. i couldnt sleep at night. they are still in my ear. >> those cries. joining us now with the latest is nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley in turkey. matt, the situation very fluid, it is so critical now. >> reporter: very fluid, jose. i can tell you something very interesting just happened in the last ten minutes. behind me was a massive ...

"ive been here since yesterday. "im begging for help", he tells me. all the while, rescue workers passed by. still, they find survivors but they are few. this man hasjust been rescued. "i was 36 hours underground. "id lost all hope," he tells me. corpses crowd every pavement here. in a city where time is running out for the living, the dead must wait. quentin sommerville, bbc news, antakya. lets look in a little more detail at some of the areas exposed to the force of this earthquake. those shad...

>> reporter: absolutely. youre absolutely right. you can see both the crane here and this digger has been here, weve been told, for hours and hours now and -- but, yeah, i mean, it is just a really, really delicate operation. it starts and it stops and the rescue workers, the search and rescue workers on the top will then give that digger operator instruction and then theyll start again. >> are they carrying someone out there? its hard to tell. >> it looks as if they may be. >> beck yes, as were...

Just chatting to, a daughter was in this building, the last she knew she was under the second floor and what she was telling me was a rescue workers are down to the six floor and she was on the second floor and theres been absolutely no word. her mother has been up on night, waiting to hear anything but nothing at all and she was telling me how she is trying to tell her own grandchildren about what is happening. the women trapped in this building and two daughters in germany, visiting them for t...

This has mostly been taken over by professionals. there are young men waiting in line to be picked by authorities so they can climb on top of the rubble and again with their bare hands, try to assist some of the more professional rescue workers in removing some of this debris. there isnt a lot of hope here that theyre still going to find people alive, but there is news as you mentioned, syria and here in turkey, they still are finding people who are alive under this rubble and so thats one of th...

This is a ten story building behind me which came down due to the quick. what is happening at the moment is a very rare event happening across this region. to hear clearing the rubble away from this in the top of the wreckage and around six rescue workers trying to lift up parts of the rubble but it is precarious work because the rubble is very dangerous and of course, the concerns about whether or not there are people still alive under the wreckage here and the side street here and i was just s...

Earlier in the day there were people who were living pulled out and we are told tonight that there is hope that behind that building there could still be people living and it is an absolute race against the clock, harris, because it is freezing, subzero temperatures here when you factor in windchill factor and just about by tomorrow that is about the limit the rescue workers here think that anybody who could be trapped inside might be able to live. yes, this scene has been played out across this...

Experts are on their way. theyre bringing search dogs and thousands of pounds of search gear. matt bradley is live on the ground for us. we also have our sky news with us in a city thats been particularly hard hit. matt, ill start with you. >> reporter: that u.s. team, our understanding, is that theyre going to be landing here in southern turkey tomorrow morning. theyre coming just in time. we were here all day at the site of this mountain of debris left by a residential building that had collap...

>> bret: also breaking tonight the frantic race to find survivors amid the rubble in the freezing cold goes on in turkey. these are the latest satellite images of the devastation. thousands of people are dead and injured. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is in southern turkey tonight. >> it is a race against time and the bitter cold following mondays earthquakes 7200 are dead and that number is expected to rise. tens of thousands injured. but 8,000 have been saved. thanks to some...

Themselves up around a fire. weve seen some courage today, some daring and heard some strong emotions. take a look of what we saw and heard. >> heres the scene being played out all over turkey. the rescue workers desperately trying to find anybody still alive in the rubble of this apartment building. all the while, friends, family, loved ones watch and wait. >> people need help from other countries. >> what do you need? >> we need everything. >> how do you >> >> tired? >> sad. my uncle is dead. ...