jane ferguson reports tonight from turkey. ne: more than a week after the deadly quake, there are still near miraculous reports of new survivors rescued. in one province, a 12-year-old boy pulled out a from under the rubble. and two brothers age eight and 15 also rescued after 181 hours. >> the rescue brothers are my brother's children. we bury our dead relatives today, but we have left all the pain behind after the rescue. >> but moments of hope are fading fast. the overwhelming story is one of massive loss, as rescuers in some areas start to call off their searches. experts say a week is reaching the limit of how long a human body can live without water. freezing temperatures make the chance of survival even slimmer. now, the focus is on providing food and homes to more than a million in temporary shelters. in this city, the slow response has frustrated survivors. >> this is the eighth day. from now on, we want psychological and financial help from the state. jane: today an independent business group estimated turkey's financ

for pbs news weekend, i'm jane ferguson in gazientep, turkey. there are reports that this afternoon the u.s. military has shot down another unidentified object, this time over lake huron. it's the fourth one to have be downed after entering north american airspace in just the past two weeks. meanwhile, in the wilds of the yukon, canadian recovery teams are searching for wreckage of the unidentified object that was shot down yesterday. and the u.s. military is still coing alaskan waters for debris from friday's shoot down. so far, there are few details about any of the aerial objects. u.s. and canadian leaders have offered varied descriptions. >> we have no further details about the object at this time, other than it appears to be a small cylindrical object. >> until they get that comprehensive anysis, however, we have to look at each balloon individually and see what. >> were these balloons friday and saturday night? >> they believe they were, yes, but much smaller than the -- than the first one. john: the white house says the objects shot down

special correspondent jane ferguson reports. tent city of gaziantep, life after the earthquakes is all but an endless struggle. hatice demir is battling cancer and now homelessness. learning to live with the bare minimum. >> i used to wake up in a warm room, but now i'm chasing gas stations running around looking for a sink to wash up. our opportunities are gone, our self-confidence is gone. jane: like her, a million turks are now witht a home. hundreds here stood in line in the cold for a shower. the public swimming pool has been turned into a sanitation center. efforts to find the living under the rubble have ended. now, a focus on the next stage -- rebuilding. yasir behrakci is picking up the pieces of his life. >> we cannot bring back the dead. but because we survived, we are trying to get out whatever is left. we have to live, we have no other choice. >> luckily, that mind shift and work is getting started. we were in adyaman, which as you know, is 60% to 70% destroyed. they are already clearing large plots of land to put c

jane ferguson is on the ground in turkey, and has our report. jane: a moment of light, surrounded by darkness. working overnight in malatya, turkey, rescuers pulled a man out from the rubble alive. voices shouting from under crumbled concrete are still waiting to be saved. an immense rescue operation is underway across turkey and syria. thousands of buildings were leveled. rescuers are now battling against time, hoping to reach those stuck below before it's too late. for many, that wait has already cost lives. >> my sister has four children. she has one sister-in-law, in laws, and nephews and nieces. they're all gone. they're all gone. if the rescuers had arrived yesterday, they would have been saved, but they did not come. jane: others have tried in vain to search for family and friends themselves while they wait for rescue teams. >> [translated] my uncle, his wife and his three children are here. we haven't been able to find them for two days. we've heard nothing, no news. the building collapsed after the earthquake and then a fire started 15 t

jane ferguson reports from southern turkey, where a province along with idlib province in syria are amonghe worst hit areas. jane: combing through the dust and debris continues. there were over 90 people inside this apartment complex when it collapsed. so far only two gravely wounded survivors have been found. periodically the rescue workers stop what they are doing, machinery is turned off, and everyone falls quiet and listens for the sound of survivors under their feet. what appears like a silent tribute to the dead is actually still hope for the living. but desperate relatives on the pavement nearby know that hope is fading. >> [indiscernible] jane: so a three-person family. have any of them beenulled from the rubble? >> it is very difficult to find life. jane: there is an unspoken for survivors is turning into the recovery of bodies. there are thousands of rescue workers like this across southern turkey, still digging to the rubble, determined to pull survivors from underneath collapsed buildings, but three days since the earthquake, the likelihood of finding anyone still alive dimini

jane ferguson reports from southern turkey, among the worst hit areas. >> the combing through the dustebris of mk apartment blocks continues in turkey. there were over 90 people inside this one when it collapsed in the early hours of monday morning. so far only two gravely wounded survivors have been found, locals tell us. periodically, the rescue workers stop what they are doing. machinery is turned off. and everyone falls quiet and listens, for the sound of survivors under their feet. what appears as though a silent tribute to the dead is actually still hope for the living. but desperate relatives waiting on the pavement nearby know that hope is fading. >> i have an aunt here, and then aunt's husband and then daughter. three persons inside here jane: so a three person family. have any othem been pulled from the rubble? >> no, we don't what is happening. they live in first floor but here 14 floors, so it's very difficult to find life there. jane: there is an unspoken understanding here that the search for survivors is turning into the recovery of bodies. there are thousands of rescue

jane ferguson reports from the capital of hog-tie -- hatay province.ondent: bodies gathered from the rubble are everywhere collected and labeled and stored industry. no buildingsre trusted anymore. fresh running water is too scarce for the religious rights of the dead, and older tradition of clean soil is now used to dignify the bodies. the heartbroken come to the cemetery to claim their loved ones. if here held out hope they would find their missing family members any other place, but still the grief comes it waves. gonah has seen 10 members of her extended family arrived in body bags. more are missing. >> i live in a separate building from some of the rest of my family. i went to look for my mother, my sister-in-law, cousins, aunts. we kw they did not make it outside. correspondent: her cousin lost a horrifying list of people. >> my mother, brother, wife, son, daughter. correspondent: he says he remembers a little of the day since monday's earthquake destroyed his home andis life. since then hundreds of thousands have had to grieve while homeless, de

that's where jane ferguson is tonight. >> 129 hours, almost unimaginable anyone would still be foundlive. but the unthinkable happened. five family members were pulled from the rubble this morning. then 30 miles away, 134 hours after the quake, a 16-year-old miraculously brought out of the rubble alive. 80 miles further up the road, another unlikely rescue. rescuers worked for hours to find her. with each minute that passes, seems like these are less and less likely. today president erdogan announced plans for what will happen to the millions who are now without homes. >> we will place earthquake survivors who want to go to other provinces in hotels, dormitories and public guest houses with an organized plan. we are currently vacating our universities once again until the summer season. they will continue with remote education. >> as people struggle to find the bare necessities, erdogan says the state of emergency he declared gives authorities the power to cck down on the looters. overnit a convoy of aid trucks crossed the border into hard-hit syria carrying blankets, foods, ter and

jane ferguson reports from near the quake's epicenter in turkiye, where little is left standing. y seems possible, but five days after the earthquake, some people are still alive under the wreckage. the noises are growing quieter. these spanish and turkish workers heard what sounds like someone deep in debris banging against the rocks. reaching them is painstaking and dangerous. seems like this are increasingly rare, however. at the neighbors house, the body of a newborn baby was born, its tiny frame wrapped in a blanket and placed on the sidewalk. a few streets over, a dead man's body is recovered in front of his family. >> people are being pulled out of the rubble stole, but many of them are not alive anymore. family members who have been waiting for a long time, watching tse efforts, finally have the devastating confirmation that their loved one are not under the rubble alive. kahranmanmaras city is close to the epicenter of the earthquake and the devastation is everywhere. we found this 19-year-old sitting on a bench next to a massive pile of rubble. underneath, his best frien

jane ferguson reports tonight from antakya, capital of hatay province in turkey. of hatay and neighborin idlib province in syria now lie in ruins. jane: bodies gathered from the rubble in antakya are everywhere, collected and labeled and stored in the street. no buildings are trusted anymore. fresh running water is too scarce for the religious rites of the dead. an older tradition of clean soil is now used here to dignify the bodies. the heartbroken come to the cemery to claim their loved ones. few here held out hope they would find their missing family members any other place. but, still, the grief comes in waves. gonul us has seen 10 members of her extended family arrive here in body bags. more are missing, she tells us. gonul: i live in a separate building from some of the rest of my family. i went to look for my mother, my sisters-in-law, cousins, aunts. we know that they didn't make it outside because they are missing. jane: her cousin ham saart lost a horrifying list of people dear to him. >> my mother, my brother, my wife, my son, my daughter. jane: still i