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Ritual. yesterday, this man was rescued nearly 11 days after being buried under the rubble and southwest turkey. his first concern as he lay on a stretcher after surviving for 261 hours, how his mother is doing? here he is speaking on the phone to a relative asking about his mother and the rest of his family. his relative responded, everyone is good, brother, we are all waiting for you. over 46,000 people have that died across both countries, but that staggering number is expected to grow for two reasons, one, syria has been slow to report its death figures, and the syrian government, mired in...

John adornment korean ceo of when it -- mercy corps, that is facilitating release efforts in syria. it's good to see you again. thank you for your time. describe the situation on the ground in syria begin what you're hearing. >> the situation on the ground is dire, and that's because they are coming to an already dire situation. before the earthquake, we were delivering humanitarian assistance in syria due to the decades long conflict that you mentioned, so you're already dealing with a population where the infrastructure has already been quite weekend and damaged in terms of building quality....

Ocean temperatures there along that big ben region. we'll have a lot to discuss over the next couple of days. >> there's a huge gap there. hopefully that closes very soon. thank you for that. so the white house is of course getting track of ian and pledging full federal support ahead of the storm. as you were saying, priscilla, the white house has issued an emergency declaration. what more do we know. >> reporter: that's right. this is a storm at. as the strm approaches, what that means is that and coordinate release efforts and produce intense fal ebiden of

There is not access to those funds are you there. it is foreign funds which run this country prior to the 15th of august and the public health care system is almost entirely funded by money which came from overseas and with all that stopping what happened in this country is people have been pushed into poverty, the health care system in many areas is collapsing and those hospitals are having to deal with have been injured in the earthquake as well and well humanitarian agencies are on the ground, how much can they stretch? they have already been stretched trying to provide to millions of peopl...

Of houthi rebels of tightly held territory including the capital sanaa earlier this week. saudi arabia intercepted a missile targeting riyadh. they said the blockade was to stop shipments to the houthis. it comes as they accuse iran of supporting. but the blockade has impacted release efforts in yemen, making an already dire situation even worse in one dove world's poorest countries where more than half to population is reliant on aid. with its health sector on the verge of collapse and a devastated water and sanitation system, the largest ever reported cholera outbreak hit yemen this year. ot...