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The Race to Rescue Earthquake Victims in Asia

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

An earthquake with an epicenter in Myanmar devastates Southeast Asia. Officials in Greenland and Denmark react to a controversial visit from Vice President JD Vance, as President Trump questions whether he’s limited to two terms in office. And a growing movement of “biohackers” are implanting themselves with small pieces of technology, from magnets to microchips.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Monday, March 31st. There are hundreds dead, and that's just in the places authorities know about.

0:06.6

We start here.

0:10.9

A powerful earthquake royal Southeast Asia.

0:14.9

Many buildings have been flattened. Entire roads there buckled.

0:19.5

Reporters can't get inside the most devastated country, so what about rescue workers?

0:24.9

President Trump doesn't seem to think he's limited to two terms in office.

0:28.9

They're going to try and amend the Constitution. There's already efforts to do that.

0:32.1

It's not the only question emerging about White House power. Our team traveled with the

0:36.1

vice president to Greenland.

0:38.1

And lots of implants have gone mainstream, but what about microchips under your skin?

0:43.4

Hey, ABC News, let me show you what a body can do.

0:47.3

Inside the growing movement to hack the human body.

0:52.5

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milkey.

1:00.6

When you think of Southeast Asia, chances are you might think of the beaches in Thailand,

1:06.8

the wetlands of Vietnam, the tropical jungles of Cambodia. Well, the country of Myanmar has all of those features.

1:13.4

It sits between Thailand and India and China.

1:16.0

And if you travel from Myanmar's steamy coastlines further north,

1:20.1

it actually becomes very mountainous.

1:22.4

This is the home of the eastern Himalayas,

1:24.3

with peaks higher than anything we've got in the contiguous U.S.

1:27.7

and fault lines that are still capable of cataclysmic power.

1:31.3

The catastrophic earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand, the death toll approaching 2000.

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