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announcer: from nbc world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. entire towns in ecuador have been reduced to piles of rubble. as the nation s president said today, buildings can be rebuilt. the priority is finding survivors. officials say the earthquake saturday evening killed at least 246 people and injured more than 2,500 with a magnitude of 7.8. it was the strongest earthquake to hit ecuador since 1979. we are in the capital of quito. reporter: the most powerful earthquake to rock ecuador in decades. a magnitude of 7.8. killing more than 200. injuring well over 1,000 and leaving many missing. i need to find my baby, says vanessa santos. it s been five hours since she disappeared. all they re telling me is that my family is buried. 100 miles outside of the nation s capital of quito, the frantic search for survivors is growing even more desperate every hour. a crowd trying to save this driver of this car, only to reali ....
on the coast of ecuador. the president of ecuador says at least 246 are dead. many more are hurt. hundreds of buildings are destroyed. crews are searching for survivors. it hit last night, a magnitude 7.8, the strongest to hit ecuador since 1979. more than 135 aftershocks followed. we begin here tonight with manuel bojorquez. reporter: with the daylight residents saw for the first time the full extent of the damage. near the epicenter in the pacific town of pedernales rescuers dug through crumbled concrete only to find lifeless bodies. the quake also claimed lives about 85 miles south in the coastal city of manta where today, shaken residents surveyed the widespread damage. this desperate worker tried digging with his bare hands to find survivors. three are alive and a girl is dead, he said. last night, onlookers cheered as this teenager was pulled from a crushed hotel in the city. this appears to be the moment the quake hit. customers in this store in quito panicke ....
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