welcome to bbc news. more now on the news that a massive earthquake has killed more than 500 people in turkey and syria, and i canjoin my colleague for more. welcome to all of you watching on pbs and around the globe. we are bringing you special coverage of breaking news this hour. a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck northern syria and also south eastern turkey. official figures say officialfigures say more official figures say more than 650 people have been killed, that figure will rise. the earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8 struckjust before dawn. the epicentre was in the turkish province of gaziantep. buildings collapsed, hundreds of miles away. there were also reports of many of the casualties in northern syria, across the border. the tremor was also felt in lebanon, gaza, jordan, cyprus and iraq. turkey has declared a state of emergency. syria s government, meanwhile, has also held an emergency meeting in order to decide how they will respond. witnesses from
A rare sight back to the bay area. Thats rain. We havent seen any for 15 days until last night. Showers stretched from the north bay to santa clara and you can see mill valley got soaked with 2 3 of an inch in less than three hours. And powerful winds have been snapping tree limbs and toppling signs and we will take a look at more damage from the storm coming up in just a few minutes. Last night, i thought there was an earthquake because everything was rattling. It was actually the wind outside. The wind and the hail blew just out of nowhere. If you go to our kpix and kcbs page, i was trying to get video of it but it was very difficult because it was so dark but nonetheless it came inside my car and then i was able to get i know, microphone is a little off this morning. We are all a little off at this time. It appears at this time we have moderate still moving across the bay area, primarily in the north bay. Mostly cloudy skies and, yes, we still have that possibility of hail. The wind
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