magnitude, which is just enormous, and it wasst followed hours later by an after shock that was 7.5. now, having such a huge quake like thatno followed in such quk secession by such an almost equally large quake which means anything significant damagely after the first shock, it came down in the after shock. in turkey alone they re saying there are more than 5,000 buildingsha collapsed across 14 different turkish cities. across the southern border of turkey into northern syria, thousands of n buildings collapsed there again as well. between turkey and syria, we are talking about a death toll alreadyt approaching 4,000 peoe killed with many, many more thousands people, injured. tonight, of course, is the horror of trying to rescue people trapped in the rubble and under collapsed buildings while also fully expecting that more damaged buildingse will contin to collapse while rescue efforts are under c way. both the survivors and rescuers are in grave peril now, and it is cold to
to collapse while rescue efforts are under c way. both the survivors and rescuers are in grave peril now, and it is cold tonight in this part of turkey and, soaria. the national security counsel announced tonighty that the united states is immediateliy deploying two experienced urban search and rescue teams.cu each of those is a team of 79 people. some they are shipping out immediately. itdi can t be soon enough. you may be old enough to remember that there was a devastating devastating earthquake in turkey in 1999. this was one of the biggest natural disasters of my er lifetime. that 1999 quake in turkey killed between 15 and 20,000 people. it was seen as a global level catastrophe. i have to tell you in magnitude that earthquake in i 1999 was smaller than the one that hit today. part of the problem with responding to this one today is
you might remember last month, a couple weeks ago we got this interview he did with a brazilian podcast. and in this podcast interview the congressman said that he had been mugged in the middle of fifth avenue in new york city in broad daylight and said the mugger ran off among other things with his shoes leaving him standing there in the middle of fifth avenue in his socks. he also said somebody had then tried to kill him because of that, he said an nypd police escort had to stand guard at his home because he had been the victim of attempted murder. and you know who am i to say? maybe. but think about it. if you were mugged in the middle of fifth avenue, if somebody tried to kill you, you would probably call the police, right? i mean, you must have called the police if the result was that a police officer got stationed outside your home. that doesn t just happen. after we found that interview and those statements by congressman santos we checked to see if he had ever filed a police re
santos decided to deal with that mugging in manhattan on his own, maybe he summoned that police escort with his mind. but we checked it out and doesn t seem to have gone down the way you might have expected. we ll be right back.