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Harrowing for emergency workers who have been on the job now since the early hours of the morning. >> and is it clear that emergency workers have been able to get to those areas that are most devastated? we were talking with a gentleman earlier who was talking about sort of the geography of chile which is a long and narrow country, with a road system that really has very few main arteries that allow rescue workers and the kind of emergency relief workers to get down south with all the destruction that's been done. we've seen bridges and highways that have been destroyed. >> uh-huh. that's righ...

And 4 normally wouldn't do anything. if a building has been structurally compromised, that can go down as well. how many aftershocks? upwards of six. the strongest i've seen 5.3. that occurred pretty shortly thereafter. what will happen over the next few days is the intensity and the frequency of the earthquakes will continue to diminish. so that in a week we're already doing a heck of a lot better. when you talk about a 7.3, it really lingers how much additional earth movement continues. this is the satellite loop in the last 12 to 24 hours. excellent to see here. i'm not expect anything issu...

It is nothing short of a major disaster. we have a lot of flooding, a lot of infrastructure damage. our tell communications system is partially down. our energy infrastructure is completely down. i tried to go around to certain critical areas, the hospitals, police force, first responders to make sure things were moving correctly, but certainly we still have a ways to go. although the tougher part of the winds have left, we still have heavy rains coming our way, which, as you know, represent the biggest dangerous. >> did at the end whole island is without power. how long is it going to take to...

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Notifying people through things that have worked over the ages, long before we had the technology of social media, where now everybody seems to be on twitter. we've got to start relying on the older technologies like good, old-fashioned phone calls, and weather radios. >> what are you hearing in terms of reports of damage? we're getting in at the 1:30 a.m. hour local time, an hour and a half ago, but a high school destroyed -- damaged, i should say, as well as a harbor master building along the coast destroyed. what are you hearing in terms of infrastructure damage? >> we are starting to hear ...