00:05Go, go, go, go! Stop!
00:12To the people.
00:16Those who really want to help, who have been working hard since yesterday, don't let them do it!
00:22Campaigning politically during a tragedy.
00:24Our children have been volunteering for three days and they took them away.
00:27Well, where did they leave them? Why did they kick them out of here, huh?
00:32So they wouldn't see the reality that the government is doing nothing for the people to say it's them, to
00:38say it's them who are here.
00:40They aren't doing anything. That's for show. That's for the cameras.
00:45That is for Delphi Rodriguez and Jorge Rodriguez.
00:48Enough is enough of campaigning on a tragedy like the one we are living through.
00:52They left us helpless to show off to the people at the march.
00:55Yes, they are there. But here, when we need them to use pick and shovel, they are not there.
01:00Oh, no, miss. Your hands will get stained. I don't know. Leave, please. Just leave. Damn it.
01:24Tonight, Venezuela is in mourning and in a desperate race against time.
01:29At least 920 people are confirmed dead, more than 3,300 others are injured, and tens of thousands remain missing
01:39after a pair of catastrophic earthquakes tore through the country's most populated regions earlier this week.
01:56Officials have warned bluntly that the death toll is expected to rise, possibly by a significant margin, as search and
02:03rescue teams continue to pull bodies and survivors from the ruins.
02:07It began on Wednesday evening local time. A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck, powerful enough on its own to cause
02:16widespread devastation.
02:17But within seconds, a second, even stronger quake followed, a magnitude 7.5 main shock that seismologists are calling the
02:26most powerful to hit Venezuela in over a century.
02:29The ground barely had time to stop shaking before buildings began to collapse in the capital, Caracas, and in the
02:37northern coastal region of La Guayra, one of the country's most densely populated corridors, entire structures pancaked into rubble.
02:46Roads buckled. Utilities went dark.
02:48ashiquity went dark.
02:58Communications in some areas were severed entirely, which experts say is partly why the missing persons count is so staggeringly
03:06high.
03:07Many people are simply out of contact, not necessarily buried.
03:12Hospitals across the affected zones are reported to be at capacity and beyond it,
03:17with patients arriving in critical condition and in some cases without any vital signs.
03:23Venezuela's health minister confirmed around 235 deaths at hospital facilities alone as of Thursday,
03:31with the true toll climbing rapidly as recovery crews reach more areas.
03:35Perhaps the most haunting figure in all of this, the missing.
03:40Independent tracking, including civilian-run databases and opposition-linked websites,
03:45has logged upwards of 50,000 people reported unaccounted for.
03:50Officials caution that number includes duplicates and people simply cut off by power and communications failures,
03:57but even accounting for that, authorities concede hundreds remain confirmed trapped under debris,
04:04with rescuers still working to reach them.
04:06International aid and specialist rescue teams are now arriving or have been mobilized,
04:12with several countries pledging emergency support.
04:15The situation on the ground remains fluid,
04:18and the numbers we have now will almost certainly look different a few hours later.
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