. this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world i m rosemary church, we continue tracking breaking news out of the middle east this hour where major earthquake killed hundreds of people in syria and turkey and the death toll is rising. syrian state media report at least 237 people have died in syria and more than 600 injured an unknown number could be trapped under rubble. we got this video earlier of a rescuer carrying an injured child away from the rubble of a damaged building. the white helmets rescue group known as the syrian self-defense declared the north western part of syria a disaster area, dozens of buildings collapsed that both country, turkey s vice president said at least 284 died in southern turkey and more than 23 hon injured, emergency workers asking for silence to hear possible cries for help from people trapped under the rubble. the governor of istanbul said nearly 1,000 search and rescue
the state s governor ron desantis, warned that many residents could lose electricity, and said that 25,000 utility workers were on standby, with another 30,000 headed to the state. if you are in a evacuation drain and you have been directed to evacuate a low lying area on the big band region now is the time to do it stop if you wait much longer by the time we get further into tonight the weather will get nasty and nasty and we are looking at an of the eye wall arriving sometime tomorrow morning. you really got to go now. now is the time. you don t, if you stay and hunker down tonight, it s going to be too nasty tomorrow morning to be able to do it. as hurricane idalia intensifies to a category 2 and is set to reach category 4, our news reporter azadeh moshiri takes us through the meaning of the hurricane scale.
the north. so what is the problem obviously in this sense we ll rebuild the structures and will build them presumably if there is funds to make sure they can with stand an earthquake of this magnitude but for the most part these buildings are not able to do that. that s biggest thing, takes a lot of money to do that, really outside of parts of japan some parts of china, california, of course, has a lot of earthquake resistant structures but even some of the best ones aren t going to be that effective against 7.8 magnitude. we talk in weather a lot about hurricane resistant structures and you have the hurricane scale that goes from one to five. you can build it to with stand category 3, category 4. when the wind get 150, 160 miles an hour like we ve seen with hurricanes in recent years, you can t build to that. it s not cost effective at all. and it s really just impossible
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