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jets to ukraine. we start with the devastating earthquakes which have rocked southern turkey and northern syria and are now known to have killed more than 11,700 people. turkey's president erdogan has been defending his government's response to the disaster on a visit to some of the worst—affected areas. we'll have more on that shortly. but first, with the search operations ongoing in the rubble of collapsed buildings, dramatic pictures continue to emerge of rescues in both countries. cheering. this was the moment that rescuers hauled a boy onto a stretcher — moments after he was...

Dealing with a population of a million people. there is a lack of supplies and aid kind of on every single level. medical centres are overrun. there is a lack of medical equipment as well. on our part, we are also facing a lack of tools and equipment to properly respond to this. something like diesel fuel or fuel to power our digging equipment and our ambulances and our cars. so a dire need for life—saving aid supplies — and as we heard earlier, the syrian government is appealing for international help. some countries have responded — planes have been arriving in damascus and aleppo load...

Very rare moments of hope. this young syrian boy called ahmed was rescued by members of the white helmets injandaris — he'd survived under the debris for two days. and then cheers went up when this boy and his family were saved from a demolished building in the village of bisnia. but like i say, rare moments of hope. but despite their best efforts, rescue crews are suffering from the lack of manpower and supplies, here's oubadah alwan from the white helmets rescue group. we are talking about a group of 3000 people working on the ground dealing with a population of 4 million people. there is ...

Missing miner in northeast idaho. he's believed trapped about 6,000 feet under ground in a mine called lucky friday near mullan. part of the roof collapsed friday. a second miner escaped unharmed. special digging equipment is helping the rescue efforts. the condition of the miner remains unknown. a nashville church held a special service today for a missing nursing student. 20-year-old holly bobo disappeared from her tennessee home last week. police say her brother last saw her being led into the woods by a man dressed in camouflage. the pastor today said attendance was down mostly because t...

Do you have a sense that this has been a cost issue? that they haven't been staffing properly because of cost? >> some people might look at it as a cost issue because of the fact that at some airports on the midnight shift there would only be one air traffic controller. but the faa says that staffing levels really depend on the number of airplanes coming in to land. so really that's not an issue. >> so if it's a smaller airport. >> again, they have implemented a new rule to have two controllers in those towers. >> all right. we'll see where it goes. sandra endo out of washington, thank you so ...