here it s agony of waiting. a father who is trying to find out whether his two sons are still alive in the rubble. before we talked to him he found out that they had found one of his sons dead and trying to bring him out now. you get a real sense from all the people standing here waiting to find out news about loved ones in these numerous buildings that have collapsed as they see pieces of their lives, furniture, bits and pieces and all they want to know is that their loved ones are safe. they re using sound checks, dogs, hundreds of rescue workers mobilized to van where i am and 200 more than 200 people killed in both. that is the death toll as we know it now. it could well rise, of course, as the search goes on. monita? all right, diana, thank you very much for that. we ll continue to check in with diana for the very latest out of turkey. that is the top story from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning f
a shocking praise from a conservative radio host, and you will hear her side of the story. and will this surveillance tape bring police any closer to solving a missing case in missouri? a live report on the hunt for baby lisa. those stories and much, much more, right here, right now on cnn. it is almost dawn in the middle east, and when the sun comes up, it will show cities and villages in the eastern part of turkey pulverized by a major earthquake. rescue workers are racing nonstop through the night to reach the victims buried under dozens of collapsed building in the city of van. we know that at least 217 people did not make it out alive. that death toll is expected to keep rising. we have a reporter on the scene and spoke us to by phone about the extremely difficult circumstances facing the rescuers and survivors. people are really scared. there are buildings the maybe ten buildings that are damaged or collapsed and some of them are state hospitals, so the injure
are reported to have collapsed, including a university dormitory. rescue efforts must compete with frequently strong aftershocks. so far, at least 138 deaths have been confirmed, many more injured. this part of the world is prone to killer earthquakes. a 7.6 quake hit western turkey a dozen years ago. at that time, 17,000 people were killed. cnn crews are now at the site of today s devastating damage. nefsen joins us by phone. can you see anything, or get a s sense of what s going on there? reporter: the situation is not good, as you mentioned, and this is one of the biggest earthquakes in the last 100 years of the turkish history. so one of the eastern cities of turkey, van, was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake about 12 hours ago, and after that, there have been more than 20 aftershocks. each magnitude around 4. so people are really scared. and in central van, there are 10 buildings, maybe, 10 buildings, which are damaged or collapsed, and some of them are state hospitals
you can see why. homes entirely underwater in some cases. molly line joins us from kingston where the susquehanna river is rapidly swelling. molly? reporter: that s right. we re in kingston, one of the lucky communities in this whole thing. they have the good fortune of having a great big steel barricade that s holding back the river. it s over the market street bridge, this is an old, historical bridge built in 1929, and this is what s causing so much trouble, the the big monster of this flooding event. many, many towns along the edge of this river that do not have the good fortune of having dikes or a barricade have been flooded. people returning to flooded-out homes, and hopefully they ll be able to do that soon because this water is, fortunately, receding. we have watched it come down a foot and a half to two feet since we ve been here this morning. they re going to have to check the integrity of bridges like this one. megyn? megyn: molly, thank you.
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