lockdown mentioned here on campus. but they have been pretty specific about encouraging people to stay indoors, make sure and not come outside, stuff like that. but there are people kind of walking around campus, buses running, stuff like that. so it gives you kind of the impression right now at least that the seriousness of this matter, for lack of a better term, has toned down just a little bit. thank you very much. i appreciate the live report. we ll keep your audience up to date on what s happening there. to the extreme heat, heat advisories are up in 15 different states spanning from southern california to north carolina. and many of those states including texas have been dealing with these blistering triple-digit temperatures for weeks now. in arkansas, forecasters are predicting that temperatures could top at 108 degrees. in phoenix, the temperatures are inching towards 100. it feels like the worst one so far. i ve been here 15 years. this is serious stuff. and i m gla
scary because there was no there were no buses running, there were no cars on the street. then there were a lot of sirens and a lot of choppers flying over. it felt like i was in a disaster movie. that was surreal. then all the the other thing is all the 7-elevens, all the convenience stores, the grocery stores, anything that sells food is closed. we have no way of buying food. this was my dinner six hours ago. a cup of noodles with an orange juice. that s all i had this is the next crisis that arises, getting resources, food, water, sanitation to the millions of people who are in the zone that s been affected by this historic and devastating earthquake. so ryan, thank you for that unbelievable footage. and telling us even just now as you said going through these tremors. we ll be back to you over the next days no doubt. and stay safe. find a place to stay that is going withstand any aftershocks that come. i will. thank you. we ll be back with more earthquake coverage in a
come bound this block! they are cleaning streets that are clean already and we have to do this on our own. if not, i have to stay here all day. i can t leave my car because people are behind me. sanitation is not doing their job. they have plow trucks stuck in the middle of small blocks. no buses running, no nothing. i mean, years ago, all this would have been done. i think that guy hit on it. we will talk with jacqui about it in a second but a different story in newark, new jersey, that s mayor corey booker digging his city out of the snow. apparently he s a tweet away. stranded residents are sending rescue requests via tweet. folks have been tweeting the mayor saying come get me out and he s been showing up and helping folks get out. we have gotten diapers to people, delivered food. one pregnant woman who was going
reporter: it s unbelievable. good luck, i know it s not your first time trying to get your car out today. it s actually my second. reporter: and he s not the only one. thousands upon thousands of people trying to dig out to go somewhere. needless to say, they re beyond frustrated. it s already done. look how clean that street is and they want to go and do it again. come down this block. you see what i mean? they re cleaning the streets that are clean already. and now we ve got to do this on our own. if not, i ll stay here all day. i can t leave my car there because there s people behind me. you see, beeping the horn. they don t want to get out and help. they ve got plow trucks in the middle of small blocks. no buses running, no nothing. i mean, years ago, all of this would have been done. reporter: that s the problem, i guess, that people are feeling
you for tuning in, we ll speak with you again no doubt. joining me on the phone, an nbc freelance reporter in santiago, chile. juan, i was just reading your note you sent to the nbc desk here with regard to the chaos. can you give us a visual perspective on the normalcy of things and yet where it doesn t go? because you re talking about buses running, and yet then they don t. it s amazing. we re talking 8.8 earthquake, there are buses still running as normal? no, at this time i am on the street and there are no buses. most of the gas stations are collapsed. the city itself seems to be normal, but there is extensive amount of damage in the old part of the city, which is because of the materials they were built with. most of the damage it could be also outside of santiago.