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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Thousands Dead In Morocco Earthquake

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Rescue crews are searching through the rubble of isolated communities in Morocco's Atlas Mountain range after a six point eight magnitude earthquake hit the country last Friday. Nearly three thousand are dead and thousands more are spending cold nights sleeping outside worried about aftershocks. Various countries are offering aid and current help is slow to reach areas because many roads remain inaccessible. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with FOX's Trey Yingst, reporting from the village of Talat N'Yaaqoub in the Atlas Mountain region of Morocco, about the scenes on the ground and the current rescue and recovery efforts. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Jimmy Fella. I'm Rachel Campostuffy. I'm Wilkane and this is the Fox News rundown.

0:08.4

Tuesday, September 12, 2023. I'm Evan Brown. Thousands are dead in Morocco and earthquake is to blame,

0:16.4

but so is the impoverished conditions where homes are turned to rubble and whole towns are forced

0:22.4

to live in tents and the rainy season is coming. There isn't much left of this area. The

0:27.8

count of villages leading deep into the high out of mountains. The closer you get to the epicenter,

0:32.9

the more they look like they've been reduced to death. This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.

0:57.8

Listen now by going to Fox News podcasts dot com. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake and a series of

1:04.1

aftershocks starting last week centered near Morocco's city of Marrakesh has left that region

1:10.0

in utter devastation and in plenty of disarray. Morocco's government appears to be ill-equipped

1:15.0

to handle the emerging humanitarian problems. Foreign aid and help from non-profit groups is

1:20.8

supporting the effort, but it isn't holy enough. Outside the city, rural villages both small

1:26.4

and poor have seen homes made of mud bricks turned to dust. The 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook

1:33.4

Morocco Friday evening and many of the homes in the high atlas mountains where we are reporting from

1:38.8

right now are built with mud brick and straw. Fox's tray yinxed is in a small village in the

1:45.6

high atlas mountains of Morocco outside of Marrakesh. It's an area that has foundations that are not

1:53.2

stable that are not built to withstand earthquakes and it's part of the reason that so many people

1:59.8

were killed because their homes were swept away by rock falling from cliff size and from some of

2:06.7

these mountain tops. You can hear it's a bit windy where I am. We are at a mountain peak that the

2:12.8

Moroccan military has turned into a base to evacuate injured civilians that are found under the

2:18.8

rubble. And also to supply aid, the many remote communities that live so far off the grid,

2:26.4

they have no way now to get into major cities because the roads are blocked by rubble and free.

2:32.0

That obviously makes things a lot more difficult. It's never easy to conduct things like

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