hello, and everyone, welcome to cnn newsroom. right now there is a desperate search and rescue operation under way across turkey and syria after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through the two countries before dawn. the death toll now tops 2,700 and will like will keep rising as crews dig through the rubble. more than 120 aftershocks hit after the earthquake, including one almost as powerful as the earthquake itself. buildings crumbled to the ground. people feared trapped inside. others having to run for their lives. rescuers having to reach those who are stuck under piles of concrete and debris, like this boy in northern syria. you can just make him out buried under the wreckage. thankfully he was pulled the safety. rescuers also pulling this little girl from the debris in another syrian city. the u.s. and other countries are offering whatever help they can. and president biden said he has directed his team to provide any and all assistance immediately. cnn s juman
retroactive, so if these buildings were built before the current codes come into place, it just doesn t play. same thing is true everywhere else as well. we know we have buildings that are going to collapse, but that doesn t make them disappear. could be it s either too old a building, that something in the modern code didn t take something into advance. the engineers are going to be in there trying to understand that. there s also the possibility that the designs were not followed or the construction of sub standard, and that s going to require an investigation to determine why the buildings performed as badly as they did. turkey s a large countrying but last year the urban environment minister said 7 million homes were at risk of an earthquake. does that sound normal to you? yes. i mean, it s a dense country. they have a lot of earthquake faults. and the big issue, is how close are you to how big the earthquake is? if you re 100 miles away, it s