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Quake, slammed chile and killed at least 800 people. the chilean army now going full speed on relief efforts in the hard-hit city of con concepcion, near the quake's epicenter. teams report they are assembly food baskets for survivors at the rate of 16,000 per hour. elsewhere in that city demolition crews have started knocking down buildings considered too damage to safe. newly released amateur video shows one chilean downtown a few days before the earthquake. that town now lies in ruins. teenagers are being credited with saving lifings there. the teens were drinking on the beach when they not...

Owe-debate this side of the equator lawlessness around con con concepcion. blame the government's slow response in getting relief response. in the government blames the earthquake and massively fractured road system. back to this fractured condo building. it actually did move and swayed within the last hour, causing all of the people, including many residents to run and flee in panic, turns out one of the firefighters that were upstairs trying to represent remove some personal items, obviously stopped, stepped rather on one of the weak spots causing the building to slightly sway. it is current...

Your wallet. when charges go up, up, up, your premiums go up, up, up. one reason we're paying so much in premiums is because of this medical waste. i see it coming out of my paycheck and we all see it. >> you get those bills or explanation of benefits. you should look at them closely and you never know. a lot of time there is waste that maybe we, be swept under the rug if we didn't check a little harder. very, very interesting investigation, elizabeth. thank you. >> thanks. 31 minutes past the hour and time for this morning's top stories. a catastrophe in chile. the post-earthquake scene in ...

Limited number of authorities went down on helicopters because it was the only way to get to the hardest hit areas near the epicenter and you know, just -- it's been -- people could get in by boat or helicopters but the airports are closed. roads are closed and bridges are out along the main highway going south but it's start to open up. airport has started receiving flights and there are some busses now heading down south. what normally takes about five hours is now taking 18 hours right now. >> conconcepcion is a mess. we just got word from the u.s. state department chile requested water, em...

Professor of the civil, architectural and environmental engineering at the university of texas is with us. thank you, ma'am. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> two completely different worlds, aren't they. >> absolutely. when you look how intensely devastated haiti was on a massive scale, it's less damage on that scale in chile but parts of chile will be as bad. >> the town of con concepcion is just off there and we read the island -- actually a seaside resort of pellahuge is washed away. the challenges are many in some levels. >> absolutely. we know that coastal areas can be greatly deva...