heartbreaking images continuing to come out of turkey and syria this morning. rescuers there doing their best to dig through tons of debris hoping, looking for survivors after monday s massive 7.8 earthquake and the number of incredibly strong aftershocks. i wanted to warn you, and we have shown you them before, but the images that you are about to see are disturbing. as of this moment, at least 5,000 people that we know of have been killed, including this 15-year-old, and her father sitting distraught clutching her hand after she was crushed under layers of rubble. that poor man and little girl and did not survive with conditions brutal and stuck outside under freezing temperatures and waiting for some help to come. translator: i have two nephews in the wreckage behind me, and at 2:00 yesterday, building collapsed and hundreds more buildings like this, and thousands under the rubble, and the turkish authorities won t let them save us by our means, but they won t send any
hello. i m abby phillip in washington. right now, a desperate search for life, a race against time and an escalating death toll in turkey and syria. 41 hours have now passed since a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated the region. and experts say the critical rebuild to find people alive in this rubble is now closing. more than 6,300 people have died in this tragedy. and the scope of the destruction is must terrifying. take a look at these buildings. they among thousands that have collapsed but amid grave discoveries there is still hope that keeps crews growing. this little girl was rescued earlier today after being trapped for more than a day. cnn s nick paton walsh just filed this report from the region. reporter: in the town closest to the epicenter, two simultaneous rescue separations going on. in there, a 64-year-old woman, her son heard her voice, he says, this morning. and he thinks she s in fact still lying in the bed where she was when the earthquake st