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

By — Nick Schifrin Nick Schifrin By — Sonia Kopelev Sonia Kopelev By — Zeba Warsi Zeba Warsi Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/crews-race-to-find-survivors-in-mountains-of-rubble-after-venezuela-earthquakes Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Audio 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. Listen to this Segment By — Nick Schifrin Nick Schifrin Nick Schifrin is PBS News Hour’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent and serves as the host of Compass Points from PBS News. @nickschifrin By — Sonia Kopelev Sonia Kopelev By — Zeba Warsi Zeba Warsi 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. @Zebaism