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Our correspondent, Hugo Preza, reporting from La Guaira, gives us a detailed account of the recovery process and the severe impact on some areas of this state following the devastating earthquakes that occurred in late June.

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00:00or solidarity with all the Venezuelan people and all those lives that they are lost.
00:06But let's go to see two weeks later how is the situation right now.
00:10In communication with us is Hugo Presa.
00:13Hugo, good afternoon.
00:15How is the situation two weeks after those two powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela?
00:25Hello, Carlos. Good afternoon.
00:27It's a pleasure to be here.
00:30From Caracas, Venezuela.
00:33As you were saying, it's 15 days since the earthquake that devastated a big part of this country.
00:43At this time of the afternoon, the earth was striking, leaving important damages.
01:20What else can I say?
01:21Precisely at the coast zone in this country, specifically at three collapsed buildings, people are being looked for, people that
01:36might be alive.
01:37Apparently, there is one building where there might be a child alive.
01:44And some other people might be trapped in Katia Lamar, where rescue and searching activities continue.
01:58Rescuers do not rest.
02:01Rescuers do not rest.
02:01Rescuers that have come from different countries of the world continue working.
02:07It's a tireless job from police officers, institutions of the state, civilian rescuers that are working on every single activity.
02:23From rescue to the remote area.
02:26Rescuers do not rest.
02:29From rescue to the remote of the world.
02:31There is a treatment of different activities looking to help people.
02:41the number of fatalities has augmented that we can count due to the remotion of trouble
02:52the last figure reaches 3,685 deceased during the last 12 hours there are no rescued people
03:28856 buildings have collapsed and eighty-six 794 families are receiving medical attention
03:38the president yesterday had a meeting with a committee of assessment regarding the risk level
03:49of every single building in the zone so they can start a the activity of the reconstruction
04:06of houses the temporary camps continue working offering help and support to the affected people
04:22carlos ugo thank you very much ugo press uh communication with us telesur as you can see
04:29we're moving all the correspondent from different countries ugo usually is in el salvador and now
04:35is covering that disaster thing in venezuela thank you very much ugo
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