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Crews race to find survivors in mountains of rubble after Venezuela earthquakes

PBS NewsHour June 26, 2026 4 views
Crews race to find survivors in mountains of rubble after Venezuela earthquakes

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Nick Schifrin
Nick Schifrin
Sonia Kopelev
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Zeba Warsi
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The race to save lives in Venezuela is becoming a race against time. Rescue crews are digging through mountains of rubble, searching for survivors believed to be trapped after two powerful quakes struck just seconds apart. More than 900 people are confirmed dead and tens of thousands remain missing. Nick Schifrin reports.
Nick Schifrin is PBS News Hour’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent and serves as the host of Compass Points from PBS News.
Zeba Warsi is a foreign affairs producer, based in Washington DC. She's a Columbia Journalism School graduate with an M.A. in Political journalism. She was one of the leading members of the NewsHour team that won the 2024 Peabody award for News for our coverage of the war in Gaza and Israel.
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