harrowing for emergency workers who have been on the job now since the early hours of the morning. >> and is it clear that emergency workers have been able to get to those areas that are most devastated? we were talking with a gentleman earlier who was talking about sort of the geography of chile which is a long and narrow country, with a road system that really has very few main arteries that allow rescue workers and the kind of emergency relief workers to get down south with all the destruction that's been done. we've seen bridges and highways that have been destroyed. >> uh-huh. that's right. there are major highways and if a major highway goes out n some cases it's difficult to get to another city, which is why they've cut public transit between cities, buss and trains have been stopped and so forth. people have been asked to sit tight until they can really get a handle on the infrastructure damage, particularly connecting