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Magnitude earthquake has yet to be realized, but here is what we know right now. at least 708 people lost their lives and the number of victims is expected to rise as search and recovery efforts continue. chile's government saying at least 1.5 million people affected and half a million homes are severely damaged. the u.s. geological survey finding at least 107 after shocks, with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater have brought child since the initial kuwait and one was nearly the same size as the 7.0 that hit haiti last month and the continued danger there, prompting the u.s. department earlier to u...

Back to our top story. rising death toll from that earthquake in chile. we understand now 708 people have died from that 8.8 magnitude quake and still they are trying to assess the damage. still trying to get to anyone that may be trapped in any of the buildings. however, officials are saying they believe that they can handle this kind of calamity because they have an infrastructure in place to deal with earthquakes of this magnitude. >> we learned in addition to the 708 in terms of the death toll, michelle bachelet, nation's president, came out and said look, we don't know in terms of the num...

>> 708. >> still they are rescuing people. >> there was a round of appla e applause. one man out of this collapsed building. this is really the nerve center if you will for all of this damage that we have been seeing. it's about 70 miles from the quake's epi center. this is an architect. this is from our partner network and this guy is talking to one of our reporters saying you know what? we have taken a close look at one of the buildings. of the 121 people they thought were inside the building, 48 people were still inside. 8 confirmed dead but 65 have walked out alive. we have had positive ne...

Man was seen coming out in his underwear. cnn's brooke baldwin is at our chile desk. brooke, you see some of the images there, revealed. he didn't know what to do. they were shaken out of their beds in the middle of the night when this huge earthquake hit. >> absolutely. you know that the pictures tell this story. think about that number for a moment. 708 people in terms of the death toll. we were hearing somewhere in the 400 mark, two, three hours ago. that's doubled so that's one number we are keeping our eye on as you mentioned president michelle bachelet. a lot of people are still missing....

Chalk on the board what the stock prices were. >> indeed. it's come a long way. >> that is it. thanks for joining us. have a great weekend. >> gregg: this is a fox news alert. death follow in chile more than doubling in the past few hours. hello, i'm gregg jarrett. >> julie: i'm julie banderas. rescuers are working frantically to find people that might be buried alive from the major earthquake, that quake measuring 8.8. 25 people have been pulled from a collapsed building and dozens more are still trapped. >> gregg: death toll jumping to 708 and that number will go up. nearly 90 strong aftersh...