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Trying to eke out a life above the rubble for the millions who seem to still be in the ruins of this once thriving, bustling city, so much bigger since refugees moved here from syria. and we got a sense just in the last hours, anderson, actually of how things can deteriorate here. a false rumor started where we were that a dam nearby had broken. that caused mass panic. everybody piling into their cars, trying to drive out of here. it turned out, of course, to be incorrect, and then some local men were chasing other men who they believe were thieves who had perhaps used that brief panic to try ...

Describe or even how to deal with. i mean those of us who worked in the region, my office was based in gaziantep. two of my staff were in hatay. one of them was visiting her family. they barely got out alive. their apartment is flattened. my country manager ran out with his children as he said the walls were crumbling around him. i mean my stomach fell. i felt physically ill. and, you know, right now we've been trying to scramble to get aid into not just that area but also as you were mentioning there, across the border into syria with very little resources because our organization, like so ma...

Machinery that was already in-country. they died because the resources simply weren't there. that influx of international teams we saw coming into turkey, which is extraordinary, that's not what you see inside syria. there you see local groups like the white helmets and residents trying to dig through rubble with their bare hands to cope with an apocalyptic scene at this stage. and still aid is not getting across that border the way it needs to. and let's face it. every single humanitarian appeal for syria, from the day that the revolution, then war broke out there, every single humanitarian a...

That's inside syria, i mean, that's just nonexistent right now. >> yeah, that was going to be my next question. we don't really know just how bad things are there. i mean, some groups are getting their now. >> some groups are barely getting there now, anderson. i think the u.n. sent over a handful of trucks through the one border crossing that u.n. aid can actually legally in theory go through. that border was shut down for the first few days, and it caused such fury and anguish inside syria because people died, and they died because they didn't have the heavy machinery they needed. they died ...

I mean, my stomach fell. i felt physically ill. and, you know, right now we've been trying to scramble to get aid into not just that area but also as you were mentioning there, across the border into syria with very little resources because our organization, like so many others who would normally be responding to this, using our staff on the ground, well, our staff are now survivors and victims of what has taken place. we managed to get one truck out tonight. i've got more boxes waiting to go in the next 24 hours. i'm heading down there myself. but this is of a scale that i don't think any cou...