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Days, and also the curfew being extended, from sunrise to sunset -- sunset to sunrise, now being extended to noon. in the town of concepcion, and the president says that has finally nipped the looting and crime and arson in the bud and now, need to get back to moving forward and saving lives. bill: with respect to the wide geography are you hearing of rescue operations, are they rescuing people and tapping and making contact with communications. >> reporter: they are, yes. they are hearing the t...

Of magnitude 5 or greater since the earthquake, 14 of them just today. it is important to note that the president of chile has been accepting international aid that field hospitals and rescue workers are especially welcome. im ann curry reporting from santiago, chile. now back to you, lawrence. >> ann curry in santiago, thank you. the quake was so powerful it actually moved the earth off its axis by three inches. coming up, well talk to a seismologist about whether even bigger earthquakes are co...

Dead." she cant contain a grief that mirrors a nations. there have been 128 after shocks of magnitude 5 or greater since the earthquake, 14 just today. it is important to note that the president of chile has been accepting international aid that field hospitals and rescue workers are especially welcome. im ann curry reporting from santiago, chile. now back to you, lawrence. >> ann curry in santiago. thank you. the quake was so powerful it actually moved the earth off its axis by three inches. co...

There have been 128 after shocks of magnitude 5 or greater since the earthquake, 14 yuft today. it is important to note that the president of chile has been accepting international aid that field hospitals and rescue workers are especially welcome. now back to you, lawrence, ann curry reporting from santiago, chile. >> thank you. the quake was so powerful it actually moved the earth off its axis by three inches. coming up, well talk to a seismologist about whether even bigger earthquakes are com...

Went in a kind of a wave he described. he said here its much more straight forward shaking. he says that that tends not to damage buildings so much, but he points it all to the strenuous building codes that have been put in place. that didnt work for this 15-story building. this is a new building, in fact, and it simply fell on its side. >> unbelievable. karl penhaul for us in chile, thank you. the ground continues to shake in chile making it dangerous for rescue workers. also a huge challenge...

Sometimes we have to turn off our truck because the noise, the live capabilities have been hampering rescue workers in their ability to actually hear tapping noises, possibly from survivors there in the rubble. but this a rescue attempt around an apartment building in concepcion. we hear possibly, maybe up to 50 people might be trapped in there. carl penhall definitely said they know at least three people are in there. they did hear some tapping in the past couple of hours. well let you know how...

Earthquake in chile, our reporter, karl penhaul is there -- i have no idea who that is, but i will find out. and rescue workers trying to get in a apartment building, they heard tapping. this is another side of the apartment where we were. they heard tapping and they are trying to get inside to see if anybody is still alive and pull them out. its a rescue effort in progress. we are tracking it live with karl penhaul. so is iran building a bomb? thats what we are looking at this week. give us a...

Agent turned suicide bomber. officers died in afghanistan. the jordanian man was a target but the others were, quote, a gift from god. seaworld is still trying to figure out why the 12,000 pound animal attacked the trainer. they re-opened the shows over the weekend. seaworld held a memorial for the trainer before the show in orlando. and a man wandered off the beaten path, and he was able to use his cell phone to call for help. rescue workers say if he did not have that he probably would hav...

This orange-looking building has collapsed. its tipped over and is now on its side. in fact, all the balconies that would normally be looking outward are face down in the ground. thats where the biggest impact has been and the most bodies have been found. they brought in a crane and they are trying to approach from the top but at the same time the bulk of of the rescue workers are in this massive crack taking place between the 9th and 10th floor. you can see how the building split when it topple...

Rescue workers are continuing to search, but they say this death toll is probably going to rise. lets get to greg talcott in london for us. it looks like france and its near neighbors were the hard itself hit, talk about how bad this has been. >> reporter: very hard hit, jane. the storm brushed through here pretty badly, but it hit the atlantic coast of france, spain and portugal with a wallop. winds reached 130 miles an hour, the waves were as high as 30 feet, and casualties now at 62, there ar...