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That you see there. officials haven't been able to reach some areas, the hard est hit areas outside of palu. overall nearly 2 1/2 million people were affected by this disaster. this according to estimates and survivors are becoming even more desperate for aid. margie siragar joins us now. margie is the emergency response director for world vision and joins us from jakarta. thank you so much for your time. to get a sense first of all of how your crews are getting into this area, given the damage infrastructure, how difficult is it? >> well, we do have already 38 staff in palu before the earth...

Assessments, clean up debris and hang new lines. i do ask that everyone have patience. this is going to take some time to restore. and in some circumstances it will be a situation about rebuilding. hurricane force winds can significantly damage infrastructure. those crews are still down there right now, getting a sense of what is going on the ground. with power out, that pretty much drives everything. there may be impacts on local waste water treatment facilities. most of those facilities should have generator and fuel supplies for a number of days. however, it is a priority. once it's safe to...

Having the difficult task of gathering intelligence. it just is a basic principle. >> there's a lot at stake. the terrorists can be right once. we have to be right all the time. >> exactly right. the collection the united states is conducting is not what we're seeing china and north korea doing. we're not engaging in cyber espionage to damage infrastructure. we're trying to protect national security and inform policymakers. but i will add one thing here, i'm a little uncomfortable with the cell phone collection against angela merkel and i think that shouldn't have been done and that's going to...