good evening leah, begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right. now it is been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering turkey and syria. the number of that continues to rise from hundreds, to thousands, to tens of thousands. right now at least 21,000 people known to have been killed in other 78,000 insured. because, there is far less access to northern syria, the concern is the casualties there could be far worse. we are watching this play out right now from a distance, and from a distance it looks one way. but a close, is where the horror and heroism is. it is disaster is happening one person at a time. in this case, one little girl. we don t know her name, she has bought five years, old she was rescued after being trapped for 89 hours. two other girls a life waiting to be freed. small victories, one at a time, from a distance, small lifeboats on a sea of despair from up close the entire world. from a close as well a
small victories, one at a time, from a distance, small lifeboats on a sea of despair from up close the entire world. from a close as well as the losses come by one child one family person by person block by block, home by home, hour after hour, every moment of every day, now since monday morning. it women s loss one friend gone. one classmate missing, a patient to treat a mouth to feed and a family to shelter again and again. tonight, from a close, some of those stories, and we want to, when some of what you see is graphic. in the darkness, they search. matt and sometimes, they find them. a family crushed in what was once they are home. headlamps reveal a woman partially visible, laying on her side. she has no pulse.