Good evening. We begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right now.

It has been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering

Turkey in Syria. The number of dead continues to rise from hundreds to thousands to tens

of thousands. Right now at least 21,000 people are known to have been killed another 78,000

injured. Because there's far less access to northern Syria, the concern is that the

casualties there could be far, far worse. We are watching this play out right now from a distance,

and from a distance it looks one way. But up close is where the horror and the heroism is.

This disaster is happening one person at a time. In this case one little girl. We don't know her name.

She's about five years old. She was rescued after being trapped for 89 hours. Two other girls

alive waiting to be freed. Small victories one at a time from a distance. Small lifeboats on a sea

of despair. From up close the entire world. From up close to the losses come by once. One child,

one family, person by person, block by block, home by home. Hour after hour every moment of every day

now since Monday morning. When women's loss, one friend gone. One classmate missing. A patient to

treat a mouth to feed a family to shelter again and again. Tonight from up close some of those

stories and we want to warn you some of what you see is graphic. In the darkness they search

and sometimes they find them a family crush and what was once their home.

Headlands reveal a woman partially visible laying on her side.

She has no pulse.

A hand frantically waves in the rubble. A man alive. The baby buried next to him. A two-month-old girl

is not. Feed away they move the woman's arm and find a toddler named Hamuda. She was protecting.

His eyes closed no sign of life. They pick away the concrete but then the cry of life.

God is great when rescuer cries. In another building another child is pinned beneath collapsed

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