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Venezuela rescue efforts grow desperate as death toll rises and aftershock rattles country · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Venezuelans continued to search for loved ones trapped under debris
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  Speaker 1: and rubble caused by the devastating back to back earthquakes
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  Speaker 1: five days ago and today, the region experienced a four
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  Speaker 1: point six magnitude aftershock that rattled rescuers and residents in
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  Speaker 1: the disaster zone. The Venezuelan government estimates up to seventeen
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  Speaker 1: hundred people have died, but that number is expected to
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  Speaker 1: climb even higher. Stephanie Sai has our.
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  Speaker 2: Reports the gruff hands of rescuers cradle and newborn, seemingly
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  Speaker 2: oblivious to the ruins that surround him. Baby Juan was
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  Speaker 2: trapped beneath the concrete for thirty two hours. Mom is
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  Speaker 2: pulled out moments later and carried to an ambulance. The
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  Speaker 2: baby's robust cries a relief. Five days after the earthquakes struck,
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  Speaker 2: the search is on for miracles. The window for survivability
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  Speaker 2: without food or water is closing. But today rescuers pulled
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  Speaker 2: this tree, twenty one year old man from the rubble.
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  Speaker 2: Tens of thousands of Venezuelans are still missing. Anorrata is
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  Speaker 2: searching for her sister.
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  Speaker 3: Difficult, difficult, but looking forward, we must have faith.
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  Speaker 4: Never losing hope. I'm here. They said, there were signs
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  Speaker 4: of life, and I ran up here. I have faith.
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  Speaker 4: Until I see the body.
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  Speaker 2: I have faith. Vladimir Moreno said the family was able
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  Speaker 2: to reach his sister, who is believed trapped Hallo. This
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  Speaker 2: rescue crew from Turkey is using thermal imaging equipment to
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  Speaker 2: detect signs of life. Another team from the UK brought
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  Speaker 2: dogs to Laguira, the hardest hit state. They're specially trained
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  Speaker 2: search canines who can sniff out survivors. Last week's back
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  Speaker 2: to back earthquakes leveled entire of blocks in Laguira and
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  Speaker 2: damaged the country's internet national airport. Venezuelans have organized volunteers
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  Speaker 2: to help distribute food and other essentials, growing from a
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  Speaker 2: few hundred volunteers to now two thousand.
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  Speaker 4: Bacon as life loses its meaning, if we cannot help others,
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  Speaker 4: we should help those in need, because no one knows
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  Speaker 4: if one day it might be us who need help.
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  Speaker 4: The national hospitals we've seen numbers of being at over
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  Speaker 4: an eight hundred percent capacity.
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  Speaker 2: Raphael Garcia oversees the IRC's operations in Venezuela and Colombia.
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  Speaker 4: From our side, we're already working with partners on the ground, providing,
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  Speaker 4: for example, access to medical support through mobile teams. They
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  Speaker 4: are reporting and as you would expect in this kind
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  Speaker 4: of context, continue mass movement of people throughout the country.
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  Speaker 4: Out of the affected.
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  Speaker 2: Zones, tens of thousands are now homeless, sleeping in shelters.
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  Speaker 3: But the first thing I hope is they'll help me
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  Speaker 3: and give me a place to live, because it's very
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  Speaker 3: uncomfortable to be like this, sleeping bad, wanting to cook
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  Speaker 3: my meals, prepare my things, and have my own room.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm hoping for, that they'll help us and
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  Speaker 3: give us a place to live.
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  Speaker 2: For now, the focus is still on search and rescues.
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  Speaker 4: While the number of missing people is still on those
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  Speaker 4: levels of forty fifty thousand. You just need to keep
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  Speaker 4: bringing the resources as much as possible. Like I mentioned before,
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  Speaker 4: we're still in the clock. They haven't called off search
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  Speaker 4: and rescue operations.
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  Speaker 2: More than two dozen international rescue teams have arrived or
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  Speaker 2: heading to Venezuela. The US has pledged one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty million dollars worth of humanitarian assistance, overseen by a
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  Speaker 2: two star Marine general and American search and rescue teams.
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  Speaker 2: Including this group from Fairfax, Virginia, have been on the
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  Speaker 2: ground since last week. Two days ago, their expertise paid off.
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  Speaker 2: Out of the remains of a building, they pulled this
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  Speaker 2: baby out and thankfully it wouldn't stop crying for the
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  Speaker 2: PBS News Hour, I'm Stuckey signed.
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  Speaker 1: Late today, the US announced it's sending a military unit
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  Speaker 1: to Venezuela to assist key airports in facilitating humanitarian assistants.
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  Speaker 1: And we also learned that more than one hundred Venezuelans
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  Speaker 1: deported from the United States hours before the earthquake are
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  Speaker 1: reportedly missing after their hotel collapsed. According to Human Rights First,
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  Speaker 1: which monitors iced deportation flights, one hundred and forty six Venezuelans,
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  Speaker 1: including nineteen women and seven children, were transported to a
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  Speaker 1: hotel in Laquaida last Wednesday, just before the earthquake struck.
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  Speaker 3: Hey,