00:00Venezuela has been rocked by its biggest and strongest earthquakes in more than a century,
00:05with two powerful quakes striking less than a minute apart, leaving a trail of devastation
00:10across the country. The death toll continues to climb, hundreds have been injured, and rescue
00:15crews are still searching through the rubble. Officials warn the full scale of the disaster
00:19may not be known for days. For more on the devastation, the massive rescue effort,
00:24and how the U.S. is responding, let's bring in the New York Post's deputy managing editor,
00:28Michael Zinni. This is really, it's hard to overstate how terrible this looks right now in
00:33Venezuela. As with a lot of natural disasters in countries that especially have poor infrastructure,
00:43we really do not yet know the full extent of the damage. These earthquakes happen quite far away
00:50from Caracas. We've seen a lot of devastation there in the capital, but we're hearing that it's much
01:00worse farther away, closer to the epicenter. This is especially exacerbated by the decades of
01:09the decades of hollowing out of public resources, emergency response, as the state basically squandered
01:19money during the socialist regime of Maduro. And then obviously the Trump administration snatched him
01:28in a daring raid earlier this year. And President Trump says that, you know, the U.S. more or less
01:37overseas the country. So the U.S. has promised a significant amount of aid in the aftermath of
01:47these earthquakes. We can tell you for starters that our two, America's two most trained search and
01:57rescue units, which are called USA01 and USA02, based in Virginia and in Los Angeles, are prepping to
02:08fly out shortly to deploy over there with rescue equipment and also sniffer dogs to try to find
02:18people buried under the rubble and rescue them. The Secretary of State has also spoken out. Marco Rubio
02:25said that has basically pledged a whole of government effort to help Venezuela recover from this devastation,
02:35but it's going to be some time before we have any clear indication of just how bad it is.
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