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Suitable accommodation is important for us, the red crescent has started accommodating thousands of people in tents, in northern syria and we want to ensure that people's basic needs are being met, food blankets, hygiene kits, emergency medicine for people who take them. we have also mobilised search and rescue teams from neighbouring countries and other places, we have the lebanese red cross search and rescue experts arriving in syria last night and early this morning so it's still very much the early response stage but we are planning for the next stage as well. i but we are planning for the...

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 ...

So how do state and federal officials even begin to help people understand what rebuilding is going to look like, what's it going to take? >> there is a process. we're still in the response stage. people are still being discovered and rescued, and of course the fatality rate will get higher as we know. we're in a 72-hour period where search and rescue is continuing and then you begin to fit it to recovery and that's a traumatic moment for communities because people that are lost are unlikely to be found. and this process now sort of shifts a little bit where there's a lot of community effort a...