Every second is important for saving lives every second.

Some people we are hitting their voices right now we cannot reach them.

Amar Salmou is among those searching for survivors of Monday's devastating earthquake

in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria.

He is in Syria near the Turkish border.

He's one of the white helmets, a group of volunteer first responders that operates there.

And he says what they need most right now in order to rescue more people is heavy machine

machinery.

We have a number of heavy vehicles but it's not enough to deal with around 200 buildings

on the ground.

It's so much.

You need heavy vehicles to raise the rubble to remove the rubble.

The destruction is widespread on both sides of the border.

At least 7,000 people are dead in both Syria and Turkey and some 20,000 more are injured.

Amar's Ruth Shurelok traveled to one of the worst hit Turkish cities in Takiya.

It's a city of around 400,000 people close to the border with Syria.

On the way we passed this huge fire at the port in the coast city and then around 20 miles

out of Takiya we started seeing this constant stream of ambulances, sirens, wailing, speeding

out of town.

At one building Ruth meets with Erin O'Brien, a freelance journalist who works for the

economist and together they speak with Hamide Mansorululu.

She is a woman in her 70s and she told Ruth and Erin that her son Sadat is trapped inside

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