latest in rescue efforts in turkey and syria, following the deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake there. more than 23,000 people have been killed, including at least three americans. new video coming in from syria showing the extraordinary rescue of a young girl from the rubble of a destroyed home. this rescue comes as temperature remain below freezing across the region, and many survivors are without shelter. for more on all of this, and another amazing road rescue, we turn to nbc correspondent matt bradley in gaziantep, turkey. yes katie, it s been more than five days since a catastrophic earthquake followed by an almost as devastating aftershock struck this area right around turkey, and neighboring syria. i m in gaziantep right now, in front of the building like so many others where there was about 50 people, only 25, around 25, half of the bodies from here have been recovered, and of those casualties that
intelligence. i think that s what it was collecting and it looks like that pay load from what we are seeing is going to be recovered relatively intact. and i would argue that is a great thing from an intelligence perspective. however, i do think in terms of the timing, one of the things that they paid my interest is i believe it was on february 2nd. we signed a military agreement with the philippines which really expanded our military reach. somewhat close to taiwan and i am certain that that was not yet know well received by the chinese quite frankly. you know this could have been a reaction to that, although i don t see this as a reaction to that. interesting, all right alex knock russia and tracey walter, thank you so much for sharing your expertise and insight. we will see you again. and then meantime, other breaking news, the devastation in syria and turkey reaching a new grim milestone, at least 25,000 people are declared
dead. look at that number, it s remarkable. five days after that earthquake and its aftershocks rescue workers are still pulling people out alive. they are working around the clock and racing against time to find survivors, reality on the ground is pretty hard to imagine. many people have been forced to take shelter in a stadium turned shelter, desperately trying to escape freezing temperatures but the basic resources like food and water, they are hard to come by. let s go to nbc matt bradley who is joining us now from the epicenter there in turkey. you know, matt the death toll, the number jumping a few thousand today alone. do we have any sense of how many people are still unaccounted for? no, not really. i mean behind, me we understand that there is more than a dozen in this, building once the truck moves out of the way we are able to see. and this building, alone dozens who are unaccounted for. multiply this building times thousands, some 6000 falling buildings in turkey alone. p
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for populations in need. so people, we are getting out, i think, and we have more stocks that we re trying to move out. we have about 30,000 core relief items, kits that can be sent out and about 20,000 tents. the challenge is also to try and ensure that we have those stocks replenished as quickly as possible because there is an ongoing crisis, and on top of that we have these added needs. as we said, 5 million estimated homeless. thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us and thank you and all the folks who have been working in syria and continue to work in syria. as you say, some of them sleeping outside to do this great humanitarian work. we appreciate it. thank you. we ll hopefully talk to you again and check in and see how things are going in some days in the future. up next, the rift on the right over social security and medicare and the powerful