Thanks you for joining us this hour.

We are continuing tonight to watch developments

in Turkey and in Syria.

The death toll there is just astonishingly high right now

from an absolutely huge earthquake

and an almost equally large aftershock that hit today.

The initial quake was centered in South Central Turkey.

That initial jolt hit between four and four 30 in the morning

so people were home in their beds.

That initial quake was a 7.8 magnitude which is just enormous.

And it was followed hours later by an aftershock

that was 7.5.

Now having such a huge quake like that

followed in such quick succession by such almost

an equally large quake means anything

that was significantly damaged but still standing

after the first shock, it came down in the aftershock.

In Turkey alone they're saying there are more than 5,000

buildings that have collapsed across 14 different Turkish cities.

Across the southern border of Turkey into northern Syria

there are again thousands of buildings collapsed there as well.

Between Turkey and Syria we are talking about a death toll

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