Structurally sound. United states, france and spain today pledging to send in crews to help morocco with Search And Rescue efforts. Rod sanchez is there for us tonight okita amateur Recovery Efforts in the rural villages outside of marrakesh . Well, alicia, we spent most of the day in the Mountain Village called east of the epicenter. We saw devastation. Theyre the narrow alleys of the Village Market filled with rubber rubble and debris. This was some 3000 people. Locals tell us that more than 40 were killed in the earthquake. That is more than 1 of the entire population. We met a father today, alicia, who lost not only his wife and his three daughters in his baby son, and he said to us through tears the is not know what hes living for any more at this point. His family as part of the growing National Death toll. Its over 2100 people who have now been killed in this earthquake. But despite all this heartbreak and all this news, the Rescue Effort continues and there been moments of joy
viewers what hurricane katrina when it made landfall along the gulf coast in the united states. we know the gulf coast was devastated. you know, not only because of the winds. we had the major storm surge. and we know that in new orleans those levees were breached, so that just added to the flooding. but if you remember all across the gulf coast of mississippi we saw devastation. we saw brick homes that were completely flattened. and so not only the winds but when you have that wall of water come through as well, it can be the same type of damage that we see from very strong tornadoes. and so that s why you don t want to be along the coast right now. i know as martin was saying people didn t have a lot of time to evacuate, but hopefully people are away from the coast and they are in a very, very sturdy building because we re going to be looking at damage similar to a very strong tornado right around that eye, wolf. patricia eventually is going to make some is going to hit texas i