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Finding survivors alive diminishes. many have been forced to abandon their homes due to the high risk of damage and injury. this is footage that was filmed earlier today. this is filmed by a drone and it surrounds 100 km from the epicentre of monday's 7.8 magnitude tremor. several tremors with a magnitude between 11.2 and 4.8 have several tremors with a magnitude between 4.2 and 4.8 have been felt in the area. you can just simply see many of the buildings which are still standing are actually leaning really dangerously and obviously there are concerns that they will topple, that they will fall...

Now, these first three days are crucial. it is what and rescue efforts called the golden period, in which the chances are highest of finding survivors beneath the rubble, like right behind me. and for the next three months, the president has declared the devastated area a national disaster area. norah? >> norah: chris livesay, right there on the scene, thank you so much. back here at home, we are awaiting president biden and his big state of the union address. it is the first to a divided congress. the president tonight will say he has created more jobs in two years than any president has any ...

Disaster area, the necessary plans are being made to prepare hotels which have already closed due to the winter season, does the victims. bets had been prepared for this and italian region alone. the quakes have brought other hazards too. this is a port fire at iskenderun which has shut down operations and forced freight liners to divert vessels to other ports. here's our middle east correspondent anna foster in kharamanmaras — one of the hardest hit areas of the country — just a short while ago. well, as you get closer and closer to the epicentre to where we are now, the worst affected ar...

>> very difficult as for us. we need help. we need the international community to do something, to help us, to support us. it's a disaster area. we need help from everyone to save our people. >> so that rescue worker right there, we're going to speak to him in just a moment. we're also working on some live pictures for you from turkey. but first, we're going to go to jomana karadsheh in istanbul. good morning. this earthquake was so powerful, the tremors were felt thousands of miles away in greenland. >> it was so powerful. a 7.8 pmagnitude, don. the turkish president describing this as the la...

Rescue efforts even more grueling. tens of thousands of wounded crowd into hospitals, children shake from the freezing temperatures and the trauma. as the death toll balloons. around the epicenter, little has been spared. gaziantep's historic castle now in ruins. the president of turkey is calling it his country's worst disaster in 80 years. on the border with syria, it's a region riddled with fault lines and civil war. after more than a decade of dodging bombs and gunfire, the white helmet volunteers must once again pull small survivors from the rubble. >> we need the international community ...