i guess the implications of that incredible as well. will ripley, thank you so much. from taipei tonight. thanks to all of you for join us. see you back here at 9:00. ac 360 starts now. good evening. we begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right now. it has been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering turkey and syria. the number of dead continues to rise from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands. right now, at least 21,000 people are known to have been killed. another 78,000 injured. because there is far less access to northern syria, the concern is that the casualties there could be far, far worse. we are watching this play out right now from a distance. and from a distance, it looks one way. but up close is where the horror and the heroism is. this disaster is happening one person at a time. in this case, one little girl. we don t know her name. she is about 5 years old. she was rescued after being trapped
headlamps reveal a woman partially visible laying on her side. she has no pulse. a hand frantically waves in the rubble, a man alive. the baby buried next to him, a 2-month-old girl is not. feet away, they move the woman s arm and find a toddler named humada she was protecting. his eyes closed, no sign of life. they pick away the concrete, but then [ crying ] reporter: the cry of life .