Good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. Im victor blackwell. Im amara walker. Thank you for sharing a part of your morning us with. Another after shock in morocco. The Death Toll Climbs to 2,000 people. We are going to have the latest on the Search And Rescue efforts. Pennsylvania authorities confirm a new sighting of escaped inmate danelo cavalcante. We will tell you what were learning about how he has changed his appearance. All eyes on iowa. President ial candidate donald trump and Governor Ron Desantis Crisscross Paths in the hawkeye state. The latest from the campaign trail. We begin with reports of a 3. 9 after shock in morocco. Now, two days after fridays major earthquake in that african nation, more than 2,000 people have been killed. Nearly 2,000 have been injured in this 6. 8 magnitude quake. It is the countrys deadliest earthquake in decades. Those numbers are expected to rise as rescuers dig through the rubble. Relief efforts are arriving slowly to some of the most re
Another aftershock. Search crewing working through rubble after an earthquake rocked the country. We have the latest. And danelo cavalcante, the fugitive spotted on surveillance and changed his appearance. An incredible moment. American tennis player coco gauff becomes a grand slam champion. We have the highlights. We begin this morning with reports of a 3. 9 aftershock in morocco. This comes two days after fridays major earthquake in the north africa nation. More than 2,000 people were killed. Nearly 2,000 injured in the 6. 8 quake. It is the countrys deadliest earthquake in decades, and those numbers are expected to rise as rescuers dig through the rubble. Relief efforts are arriving slowly to some of the most remote areas. Drone footage shows the scope of the damage. Look at this. Entire villages flattened. Homes and buildings, just piles of clay and brick. Earlier a person was pulled from under a collapsed building and carried to safety. This is one of the rescues rear seeing acros
Injured, many in critical condition. Emergency team shall combing there the rubble using picks, shovels and their bear hands to search for life. Those that did not survive the disaster, theyre already laid to rest as it tradition. And to honor them, morocco will observe three days of mourning. The disaster has affected more than 300,000 people in marrakech and surrounding areas. Locals say thetys World Heritage old city of madinah has seen extensive damage. People talk about the buildings that collapsed. Its, it happens just down this route too, and when you go, like, further and further, theres a lot of damage that happened to a lot of buildings, some of them are mosques, some houses. A lot of communities got hurt. One of the poorest areas in the city, and those people need help like food, water, blankets, or whatever, whatever you can help the royal morocco an Armed Service are mobilized to get support from evacuations to supplies. Moroccos king declared three days of National Mourni
Rest there. Are fears the death toll will continue to rise as Emergency Crews Dig through the rubble of collapsed buildings but many are holding out hope theme find people looichd under that debris. Those who survived are now coping with trauma. Many sleeping outdoors after losing homes, others with a place to live rest tate to return home worried that there could be aftershocks at their homes could collapse. Morocco king has instructed officials to set up inter minimum Material Commission to provide relief. We get details now from cnns sam kylie. King mohammed has declared three days of National Mourning because his country has been completely devastated by an extraordinary earthquake totally unexpected in cities like this, marrakech. This has been the scene in the medina the most ancient part of the city a building ripped away by this earthquake but the scenes have been even worse in the interior of the country where one woman who was trapped for some 12 whurs pulled from rubble in a
Candidates make their way through the crowd. So what they are doing right now is that they are both seated inside the stadium. They are, indeed, watching the Football Game, trying to take part in the spectacle of all of this. The undercurrent of all of this is their rivalry, the president ial politics rivalry. Desantis is seated in the crowd with iowas popular republican governor, donald trump is seated inside a stadium box. Now ahead of entering this particular stadium, what we saw is more of the sort of rubbing elbows with the students, trying to pose for the best president ial picture in this caucus state. They were tailgating, donald trump was at a Tailgating Party at a fraternity where he was signing footballs, he was throwing footballs. He even flipped some burgers. And as he walked around the stadium and walked into the stadium, he was greeted by very loud cheering. Desantis, same thing. Also trying to tailgate, meet with people. He had a number of Campaign Stops ahead of coming