Thousands of buildings have been leveled in an area stretching from Turkey's Mediterranean coast to deep in its interior nearly 500 kilometers away. The consensus is that you need to find people within the first three days and for the first quake, one and a half of those days have already elapsed. It was the biggest hit Turkey since 1999 and people were asleep for the most part which magnifies the number of casualties as buildings come down.
Amid unthinkable destruction and loss of life, we examine the factors that will frustrate relief efforts following earthquakes in an already troubled region. As President Joe Biden prepares to welcome a new chief of staff, we speak with the author who literally wrote the book on America’s second-most-powerful government job. And Argentina’s newest musical export repurposes an American genre born three decades ago.
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