to identify and send portable bridges, so that some of the places that remote that lost their bridges will be able to be reconnected to the country. while life is getting back to normal in santiago in the north, the central and southern regions of chile are facing a lack of food and water. nearly every store in the city of concepcion has been vandalized. in near while talca, carl penhaul visited a food warehouse. reporter: this is one of the main streets in the coastal town of talcahuano, and i want to show you what happened here. it was not just the earthquake that caused the problem, but that did as some inhabitants say damaged the houses, but it was hit by a tsunami and two, the inhabitants say, and that has brought thick sludge down into the streets. inches of the stuff. but now, take a look at this. this is a sardine boat.
there doing a lot of news. not getting it right now. all of that is linking to you, we re bringing to you at cnn.com today along with all the latest photos, latest tweets, messages from you. if you re in a position to safely take pictures wherever you are in a region, whether you ve been struck already or you re concerned you will be struck later today. send them to ireport.com. we go through a lot of steps before we show them on tv. if you have them, keep them coming. rob and betty, i m going to keep jumping in with the latest images throughout the day including those that are difficult to look at as we see the destruction there in chile. josh, try to get a few more from talca. the usgs highlight cities that are most populated and give them reference points to the epicenter and it s the most populated city closest to the epicenter and a couple of pictures you showed certainly were devastating. so that will give us an idea of the power and dig deeper with that. appreciate it. cnn d
this was a continuous highway, appears to be ripped apart right there. you have cars that have been turned upside down, are covered in some rubble. i m going to flash you through a few more of these photos right here. this was a home inside santiago, this entire street filled with rubble. you can t even really tell that it was a street at one point. now we re over in talca. this is a historic hotel, all these pictures from the ap. this is a tourist here taking a shot you can see of what used to be a hotel sign right there. that area completely destroyed. a few more pictures here, some showing destroyed car, destroyed homes, in some cases what appear to be stretcher, people being lifted out. we don t know the conditions on all of them. another thing that s happening online that s really big is a lot of people are really concerned about their relatives today. i spoke earlier with one woman. i want you to hear what she told me because i have an update for you. here s what she said. we h