00:00Georgia Maloney taking stock of the destruction.
00:04The Italian Prime Minister
00:05toured the town of Nechemi following a landslide that decimated the town's edge.
00:10Collapsing houses and forcing the evacuation of over 1,500 people.
00:15The affected area in the Sicilian town spans four kilometers.
00:20Cars and structures plummeted 20 meters off the cliff, while others remained permanent.
00:25They were perched precariously on the edge.
00:28Prime Minister Maloney met with local...
00:30...administrators and members of the Civil Protections in Qatania earlier on Wednesday after...
00:35...declaring a state of national emergency.
00:40The emergencies clearly concern the displaced people and the road network, which is part...
00:45...particularly compromised because two out of three roads are essentially unusable at the moment.
00:50The regional government have now set aside an initial one million euro...
00:55...though Sicilian officials estimated on Wednesday the overall damage at two billion euros.
01:00...in the US.
01:01We're all evacuees now.
01:02We need to...
01:03We need to...
01:05We need to get permission to take something.
01:07We need to get permission to take something.
01:10and we need treatment, what we can do.
01:15Italy's chief of civil protection Fabio
01:20Ciccioliano stated that he does not want to create false expectations for the citizens.
01:25of Nechemi, who he described as respectful and worthy of dignity.
01:30the house on the edge that appears to be intact is a house that can
01:35never be inhabited, nor can it be reached by firefighters to remove the contents of these
01:40houses.
01:41attention now turns to determining
01:45how much of the current red zone will need to be permanently delineated in order for reconstruction
01:50to begin.
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