the team had to basically go through one building that was still standing, tunnel through the wall of that building and then out through that wall into the wall of the collapsed building, and then effectively mine a small tunnel to where they could hear two people tapping. dr malcolm russell is one of four medics on the uk international search and rescue team. sometimes people are still pulled from the rubble alive, you know, eight or nine days later. they tend to be more extreme cases. so at some point, inevitably, we will probably move or the whole operation will move more towards recovery. it took 20 hours to find and rescue two people in this building, which had collapsed in what s known as pancaking. the work is slow and it s gradual. first they found and helped a woman.
team. sometimes people are still pulled from the rubble alive, you know, eight or nine days later. they tend to be more extreme cases. so at some point, inevitably, we will probably move or the whole operation will move more towards recovery. it took 20 hours to find and rescue two people in this building, which had collapsed in what s known as pancaking. the work is slow and it s gradual. first they found and helped a woman. then a boy. but, with him, it was even harder to extricate. ali, make your way out here because you are going to be needed out here.
to everyone s relief, she s alive unconscious. thanks to the rescuers who know how to reach the light at the end of every tunnel. matt bradley, nbc news, turkey. unbelievable. thank you, matt, for that. joining us now is ayham taha from the international humanitarian organization care. thank you so much for joining us on this. i m sure you just saw some of that report. we are seeing so many images these, miraculous images of people being pulled from the rubble alive. five, six days now after this earthquake. what is your experience been like so far? thank you very much. i wish you are doing well. as you just described. i would tell you that this report is touching by the reality on the ground is still even worse and more painful. i think if you look at these
years in this region. nbc news correspondent matt bradley joins me now from the epicenter there in turkey. that, you have done extraordinarily great reporting. you have reduced me to tears a couple times as you have reported on people that have been pulled out of the rubble alive, a baby was one of them. when is the last use time you saw someone being pulled out alive. actually, i can tell you that. we saw that last night, it not only was this something that we saw, someone being pulled alive. it was nearly five days after those tremors. that s not where i was. that was in the city of that is about to our drive, we are in the company of an american search and rescue team. they were actually from fairfax county, virginia near my hometown. and they were there to assist, they actually take the lead. it was the turks who are taking the lead. what made this interesting and not just because it was nearly five days since that initial
pulled out of rubble alive, up to seven days after the other quakes. we re now more than four days out of this quake. has your team found anyone alive today? no, not today. we re still working and doing those wide area searches that your reporter said, everywhere you go around this city, there are search and rescue teams working, and us among them. so we re working and trying to find those places where victims may be deeply entombed inside the structures so we can yuse or heavy breaching and breaking concrete tools to rescue these victims. john, how do you do this job and stay hopeful amidst all this devastation? it s certainly difficult sometimes, but we were sent here to do a job and that job was to help people as best we can. and so we certainly have seen victims, you know, that have been rescued several days beyond the current time we have, so