trump administration failed. and tonight, his message to americans and now a divided congress. this is what we are watching this hour. we want to welcome the viewers here in the united states and around the world. at this hour, i m kate bolduan. let s start with the urgent search for survivors at that huge earthquake in turkey and syria. the death toll is over 5,000 people killed and that number is to rise. the pictures of the reality of the aftermath of the quake are devastating. thousands of buildings collapsed, and the weather is making already challenging rescue efforts just that much harder, and add to that, the dissional reality that some of the places were in crisis. take northwest syria for example with more than 4 million people were already relying on humanitarian assistance there. there have been moments of light in the heartbreaking images. this video is showing a small girl being rescued after crawling out of a collapsed building. you can just imagine. we go to
yes, the building totally collapsed, and it is like a total village from the map, there s a lot of casualties and injuries, and we are running four hospitals inside of northern syria, and the cases come to our hospitals are very horrible, and one of the hospitals is receiving a lot of injuries. we are distributing medications and consumables to the hospitals and the centers the, but the needs are beyond our capacities actually. yeah. i just wanted for reference for everyone, you fled syria in 2012, i believe, and now you are working for this humanitarian organization also trying to keep your family safe in all of this. what do people need most right now?
as big as that first quake. gaziantep has relatively new buildings, and to be honest, there are pockets that have been affected, and affected as badly has this one has, but it is what is happening to a certain subset outside of gaziantep outside of the area, because they have not got the search and rescue and personnel supplies into the areas where the buildings are older, and much less robust, and that is in turkey. finally, just, let s spare a thought for those in nort northwestern syria and aleppo and idlib, because we spoke to someone who had spoken to her sister in aleppo and she is in a mosque and she isrefuge,
trump administration failed. and tonight, his message to americans and now a divided congress. this is what we are watching this hour. we want to welcome the viewers here in the united states and around the world. at this hour, i m kate bolduan. let s start with the urgent search for survivors at that huge earthquake in turkey and syria. the death toll is over 5,000 people killed and that number is to rise. the pictures of the reality of the aftermath of the quake are devastating. thousands of buildings collapsed, and the weather is making already challenging rescue efforts just that much harder, and add to that, the dissional reality that some of the places were in crisis. take northwest syria for example with more than 4 million people were already relying on humanitarian assistance there.
them going. and thank you, becky. she is doing an amazing job to bring us story from the heartbreaking images of what the earthquakes have done in turkey and syria. talking more about this. joining me is the communications manager of the humanitarian aid group who provides health care in parts of syria, and he and his wife and children survived the earthquake in gaziantep, turkey, and thank you for jumping on to do this, and first of all, how are you and your family, and i know that you are safe, but where are you? tell me. thank you, kate. you have to tell a lot of the informations about the situation here in turkey and northern syria. now, we are safe, thanks god, in car. me, my wife and my four children. we escaped from the building, the building that has a lot of