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Syria as well. here in turkey i can tell you authorities are now in this response stage right now trying to get all sorts of support teams from the country's disaster management agency deployed to the region to deal with the search and rescue operations. of course very, very difficult and challenging time for them. this happening right in the middle of this winter storm where a lot of parts of southeastern turkey have been impacted by this snowstorm. this also happening overnight where you would have a lot of people in bed, in their homes when this earthquake struck. so we're going to have to ...

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There's -- there are they say dozens of casualties so far and they're saying hundreds of people trapped underneath the rubble. so this -- early hours still, laila, and this seems to be a really really devastating earthquake here in turkey and neighboring syria that is in no way equipped to deal with this sort of natural disaster. >> and as you've been reporting so extensively since this story broke, jomana, the emergency response, of course turkey mobilizing everything that it has. but in terms of accessing the affected areas do we know how easy or how difficult it is for these disaster teams ...

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Malatiya we're getting reports of at least 23 people killed according to the governor there. 420 people injured. 140 buildings destroyed. and as we mentioned earlier, the turkish authorities saying their top priority right now of course is the search and rescue operation. they are mobilizing all their resources to deal with this search and rescue operation. it's 7:13 in the morning here. it's been just over three hours since this earthquake hit. and already we are seeing an indication of how devastating this earthquake has been. this country is no stranger to earthquakes. it has dealt with man...