00:02The death toll in Venezuela continues to climb this morning.
00:05Rescue crews are racing to find survivors after two powerful earthquakes hit,
00:09leaving widespread devastation across the country.
00:12Red Cross crews say the search is an around-the-clock operation,
00:16with many people still missing as rescuers dig through collapsed buildings.
00:20The latest official figures show 235 people have died, with more than 4,300 injured.
00:27Officials expect both numbers to continue going up.
00:30The international response is also growing.
00:33The United States has deployed search and rescue teams, military support, medical personnel, and humanitarian aid,
00:40while the United Nations and more than a dozen other countries are sending rescuers,
00:44supplies, financial assistance, and emergency relief.
00:47The back-to-back quakes, a 7.2 followed just 39 seconds later by a 7.5,
00:53are among the strongest to hit Venezuela in more than a century.
00:57The shaking was so powerful, it was felt more than a thousand miles away in Brazil's Amazon region.
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