social media. cnn s jomana karachi went to the main thoroughfare of the trafficking in somaliland and finds out just how easy it is to buy a cheetah online. reporter: barely a couple of weeks old, this animal is clearly in desperate need of his mother. but this orphan cheetah is one of the lucky ones, rescued from the illegal wildlife trade. across the horn of africa, if the mothers aren t killed, the cubs are snatched from them. smuggled in cramped crates and cardboard boxes. by the time they get to this shelter, they re barely alive. according to the cheetah conservation fund, some 300 cubs are smuggled out of this region every year, and for every one that makes it into captivity, another three die on the way. that valley down there is becoming known as the cheetah supermarket. that s because many of the trafficked cheetahs are being
it s hard. her grandmother devastated. did she suffer? did any of those people suffer? that s where i m having a lot of might nightmares about. . one, was there a watchman on duty when the fire erupted? the certificate of inspection requires it. the role of that person is exactly that, to rove and check on the safety of the area that they have been placed in charge of. reporter: in an email response, they said a crewman was in that space one half before the fire. pending case cannot say anymore. when asked to clarify if he went one half hour, he did not reply. he and his wife have taken preemptive legal action seeking
it came up, up, higher and higher until here. this is over 20 feet high, and it stayed this high for 50 hours. he said it was 50 hours of pure torture. little aid has reached this area, and many places the only road in is blocked or underwater. as they wait for government assistance, some residents like marilyn ling in the town of high rock have taken it upon themselves to organize a relief effort, distributing supplies donated by friends and family. staying busy, she tells us, keeps her from reliving the horror of the storm. i have no words to say how bad. maybe one in ten houses is standing. reporter: there is silence in these hard hit towns. the stench of death in the air
population, and from that each one of them do carry a different genetic code. this one is a male. reporter: every cub gets microchipped. their dna is recorded. without a mother, they have to be taught how to hunt and survive in the wild. it takes sometimes months to try to get one cheetah to get on its feet. reporter: a soon to be vet is their main caregiver. i love them so much. i don t even see my mom once a week. she lives over there. reporter: according to marker, there are only about 300 adults in unprotected areas in the horn of africa. if you do your math, the math kind of shows that it s only going to be a matter of a couple years that we re not going to have any cheetahs in this region left. reporter: many have already been lost to conflict with humans. somaliland wildlife authorities are busting traffickers. it s illegal here along with
on the west coast of the united states in california, investigators are slowly coming up with answers after a tragic fire last week, a fire that killed 34 people on a dive poet. salvage efforts to raise that sunken boat are still set to resume on monday. cnn s paul very cammon reports. reporter: smoke inhalation, not burns, is the likely cause of 34 deaths above the ill-fated dive boat conception. the belief is that the victims died and that the burn damage to the victims was postmortem not antiy mortgage em. ali kurtz, the only crew member who did not survive, was sleeping in the bunk room with passengers.