00:00...about this earthquake in Venezuela.
00:02I had an opportunity to talk earlier this morning with Delcio Rodriguez, the acting president.
00:06We're obviously awaiting the...
00:08We're already deploying search and rescue teams from Fairfax County, Virginia, and Los Angeles.
00:13There'll be some others we'll add.
00:15That's their most immediate need right now, is search and rescue efforts.
00:18They have much of collapsed buildings, and so they'll need a lot of help in terms of digging through that.
00:23The airport there is badly damaged, so we'll have to rely on the Department of War to deploy assets there.
00:28And then we're also helping them with some overhead imagery, especially in coastal areas where they don't have full visibility
00:34over what the damage has been and what the impact has been.
00:36Those are the acute, like, short-term needs over the next 48 to 72 hours,
00:40because in search and rescue, you're trying to get to people while you can still save their lives.
00:44They're buried under rubble.
00:46And other countries are responding as well.
00:48The Qataris have already offered assistance, as we spoke to them earlier today as well.
00:52El Salvador has stepped up, and multiple countries around the region, including Chile,
00:56and others have reached out to us to communicate and get that happening.
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