i'm carl assman welcome to the program the death toll for a major earthquake that triggered a tsunami on the indonesian island of civil way sea as presents and bore than eight hundred the country's vice president has warned the number could soar into the thousands all spittles are struggling to cope with the injured and barge parts of the city of palu are in ruins. combing through the rubble for victims and survivors. medical care food and clean water are in short supply the areas hardest hit. residents have been looting damaged shops. witnesses describe the moment the seven point five magnitude earthquake struck and when the quake hit i was doing my shopping suddenly everything went dark and the walls started falling around us it was horrible. most confirmed deaths so far from the city of palo a provincial capital on sulawesi island but reports remain sparse from outlying areas such as dongarra a region close to the earthquake's epicenter and home to some three hundred thousand people. we're expecting a rise in the number of dead even though we would hope the figures remain the same