suitable accommodation is important for us, the red crescent has started accommodating thousands of people in tents, in northern syria and we want to ensure that people s basic needs are being met, food blankets, hygiene kits, emergency medicine for people who take them. we have also mobilised search and rescue teams from neighbouring countries and other places, we have the lebanese red cross search and rescue experts arriving in syria last night and early this morning so it s still very much the early response stage but we are planning for the next stage as well. i but we are planning for the next stage as well- but we are planning for the next stage as well. i guess it is hard to net those stage as well. i guess it is hard to get those supplies stage as well. i guess it is hard to get those supplies to stage as well. i guess it is hard to get those supplies to people - stage as well. i guess it is hard to . get those supplies to people because so many of the roads are blocked by
syria as well. here in turkey i can tell you authorities are now in this response stage right now trying to get all sorts of support teams from the country s disaster management agency deployed to the region to deal with the search and rescue operations. of course very, very difficult and challenging time for them. this happening right in the middle of this winter storm where a lot of parts of southeastern turkey have been impacted by this snowstorm. this also happening overnight where you would have a lot of people in bed, in their homes when this earthquake struck. so we re going to have to wait and see the extent of the damage, but i can tell you so far it is not looking good. turkish authorities mobilizing everything they ve got right now to deal with the aftermath of what we are hearing right now is the strongest earthquake to hit turkey since a 1939 earthquake
approach in that. first of all, we are now we are trying to contact initial response stage. after that, we are going to focus on some cash assistance, together with our government, of course we are complimenting the efforts of the government in containing the impact of the response. but long-term, we are going to of course we are going to focus we just lost kaan s feed there, thank you so much to kaan and the international red crescent. let s bring in the u.s. ambassador to turkey, former senator from arizona jeff flake. mr. ambassador, good to see you. what kind of help is the u.s. sending to turkey right now? well, i m pleased to report just in the last few hours, president biden spoke to president erdogan, secretary austin spoke to his counterpart,
so how do state and federal officials even begin to help people understand what rebuilding is going to look like, what s it going to take? there is a process. we re still in the response stage. people are still being discovered and rescued, and of course the fatality rate will get higher as we know. we re in a 72-hour period where search and rescue is continuing and then you begin to fit it to recovery and that s a traumatic moment for communities because people that are lost are unlikely to be found. and this process now sort of shifts a little bit where there s a lot of community effort and there s a focus primarily at the outset on speed of getting what we call essential functions or essential services in order. that is going to be supply chain, electricity, water, all the sort of basic stuff that
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