This is cnn Breaking News. Breaking news here on cnn. Iran set to release five american prisoners at any moment. Right now, a jet is on stand by to bring them from teheran to qatar. Under this deal, the u. S. Has unfrozen 6 billion in iranian money that is supposed to only be used for humanitarian purposes. The u. S. Is also releasing five iranians from prison, two of them are planning to stay in america. Becky, this has been months of negotiations to lead to this point. Where do things stand right now as you sit . Reporter well, it should be the end of what has been a years long nightmare for these five iranianamerican citizens who have been held in iran, and are due for release today, expected to be delivered to the airport at any time, mediating this deal over months, being a friendly nation between the u. S. And iran. No direct negotiations between washington and teheran. Once those hostages are on the flight and wheels are up, it is about a twohour flight to doha, here in qatar, a
had the search and rescue crews working around the clock, trying to find survivors. but so far, they have only been able to extract lifeless bodies, and tonight they have reached the lower floors, and so we are seeing them pulling more and more dead bodies. i can tell you, this is just devastating. for so many people who we have met out here, who have been searching for their loved ones, i mean they have been sitting out here in the freezing cold, not knowing whether they re going to find them, or not. it has been this agonizing waves of not knowing whether they should continue to, wait or begin to mourn. i think now this gut wrenching reality is really starting to sink in for so many people here. and, jomana, even people who are pulled out of the wreckage alive, they often then learn that they are the only ones from their families who have made it out, or they are the only ones from their families
machine here, four days, he s desperately been trying to get his parents out. our government helps, but it s not enough, obviously. so, we are trying to get our people by our own. and we need to. we need everyone who can come and help us. he tells us that he saw his mother s under the rubble. i am not able to reach. or she s there. i see her but i cannot touch her. i understand, my mother is dead. i m trying to get my mother. with every passing hour, for many, here the agonizing wait ends. as the gut wrenching reality sinks in. germany karachi, cnn, a scandalous, turkey. just a shattering scene there. let s head to a stumble on cnn salma abdelaziz. and salma, what is the latest there where you are in turkey and in syria as well?
are trying to get our people by our own. and we need you, we need everyone who can come and help us. reporter: he tells us he saw his mother s leg under the rubble. i am not able to reach her. she is there. i see her, but i cannot touch her. i understand my mother is dead. i am trying to get my mother. reporter: with every passing hour for many here the agonizing ends as the gut wrenching reality sinks in. just a short time ago the turkish government announcing the latest death toll making this now officially the second deadliest earthquake in the history of turkey since the 1939 earthquake that killed more than 30,000 people. but right now the fear is this death toll is continuing to
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