The race to find any survivors still holding on under the rubble is being made even more urgent by a cold snap.
— Widowed and homeless, Duaa Ghadban lost everything in a powerful earthquake, forcing her to take shelter in a camp for people displaced by war in Syria's northwest. The 7.8-magnitude quake early Mondayin Turkey and Syria and flattened entire blocks over residents in their sleep.
Two bodies were pulled out of the debris while our team was there, and there was another visible in the rubble. Rescuers said a teenage girl was still alive under the slabs of concrete. She managed to text a friend to let people know she was trapped. There has been unseasonable cold, with temperatures as much as 15 degrees lower than normal. The World Health Organization says the conditions are making the catastrophe even more lethal.
International search and rescue teams and relief supplies have started pouring in, including two teams from the U.S.U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake told CBS News that a couple American Blackhawk helicopters were flying missions to rescue people from the quake zone.
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