LATAKIA, Syria - Ibrahim Zakaria lost track of time drifting into and out of consciousness while trapped for nearly five days in the rubble of his home
while criticism grows that government response has been slow. but against all odds, survivors continue to be saved under extraordinarily challenging conditions. look at this video of a mother and her 10-day-old baby being rescued this morning after 90 hours under rubble. let s bring in nbc s kelly cobiella who is in turkey for us. i know you ve been at a mosque that s doubling as a shelter for quake victims. most of them are syrian refugees. what are you hearing? reporter: yeah, chris, these are people who lost everything when they left syria because of the civilian. they ve lived here in turkey, some for a few years, some for a decade, and they re now losing everything once again. one family of ten told me that their house was broken, that it was destroyed. others are simply too afraid to go back to their homes, which may or may not be damaged. they re not sure yet. take a listen to a little bit of
these quake victims quickly. you are as you ve been in this distribution center where they re working furiously. what are you seeing there? reporter: we re at this massive hangar that they ve just turned, as you can see, i m going to start walking you through it, into this distribution center. there are hundreds of volunteers here. they ve formed a human chain and are passing down boxes. they received two million individual donations, and they are working furiously. each of those boxes is packed with the basics for those families, diapers, food, water, sanitation kits, mattresses, and then they take these boxes rights down these human chains that you re seeing here, passing them down, passing them down, and loading them straight up into these trucks here that are going go right to that affected area. they re going to drive straight to those fronts lines. we have four trucks lined up here, four different trucks being loaded up at the same time. all of these humans working as
The Department of Social Welfare and Development, through its Field Offices, continues the distribution of relief items, and cash assistance (under the