sam kiley is about 40 miles to the southeast of marrakech.r but also the efforts from the air to bring aid? >> reporter: well, you can see in this town the devastation. we got quite used to seeing the destruction in the village, but is this an urban area. here there is a shop still managing to keep going because the moroccans are showing unbelievable levels of resilience even in the face of the dangerous amount of mason frmasonry that threatens. in fact that building, it could come down on the people beneath it at anytime. but they are also trying to survive and helping each other out because they are getting aid from private donors, the tents some of them supplied by the government. but most coming from private donors. and that is something that has been a serious problem for these moroccan victims of the earthquake, biggest earthquake in 120 years. but up in those mountains, that is where the problems are most acute. that is why they have dumped aid out of the back of aircraft very often. because some of the villages are on slopes and they

sam kiley, cnn. >> sam kiley, thank you so much for bringing us that report.are in need right now. if you're in a position to lend a helping hand, you can find out more about how to help folks in morocco at cnn.com/impact. jim. >>> massachusetts home left standing alone on its foundation as you can see there, the rest of the property around it washed away in catastrophic flooding overnight. nearly a foot of rain fell overnight in the town just 40 miles north of boston. the town's mayor said there were so many rescues they have lost count of how many. right now, evacuations have been ordered for some people living in low-lying areas. emergency management officials say a dam that had been scheduled to be replaced is now prompting further concerns. cnn's meteorologist chad myers is tracking the story from the cnn weather center. chad, goodness, another day where we describe unusual amounts of rainfall leading to flooding. one 200-year event. we're seeing these every couple weeks. explain what happened and what's going to happen next? >> for this town, they had a

cnn's sam kiley joins us from marrakesh. how are things going now?well, we're in the medina, the old city of marrakesh, jim, and as you can see here we've got an ancient building, probably many hundreds of years old. an entire side has fallen away. indeed, i'm standing on it in this narrow street down below. and this is a pattern we've seen not everywhere but all too frequently for this city that has absolutely no history that anybody can think of that would mean that this was a city that was ever in danger of suffering an earthquake. it's not a place like san francisco, l.a., where people live with the fear, the permanent fear of living on a shifting tectonic plates. look at that building beside me. somebody's bedroom torn away, the walls to it exposing their lives. and it's reminiscent to some of the scenes in places hit by missiles, ukraine, ripping apart side in this natural violence that has gripped this country and elsewhere things are much worse particularly in the foothills of the atlas mountains some 50 miles away from here. jim, there are v

more from sam kiley. or the . >> reporter: ukraine dismissed it as a pathetic attempt at retaliation, russian bombardment of the port city of odesodesa. two warehouse workers were killed, and an ban doned hotel smashed. but for this, it was routine -- kyiv claims to have killed the commander of the black sea fleet, admiral viktor sokolov. ukraine says it also killed another 33 russian officers in the missile strike against the fleet headquarters in sevastopol on friday. ukrainians have targeted senior russian offices often using intelligence from nato. and specialist units have been tasked by kyiv with these killings. they are aimed at zapping morale and undermining command systems. cnn has no independent confirmation of ukraine's claim to have killed the admiral, but it would be its biggest success in this campaign. and part of an ongoing effort to break through russia's defense lines to ultimately strike at crimea. they have included earlier attacks on putin's navy and a bridge to russia itself. first b

sam kiley, cnn, -- >> dozens of residents -- are now finally receiving some long awaited aid.have been damaged or destroyed by debris. rescuers from several other countries are also assisting on the ground. they have not yet received an official request for assistance. >> the conversations are ongoing, we have counterparts -- close conservator with u.s. essay idea has been in conservation with provide yet to receive official request but we are standing ready to provide all of the assistance we can when we get the request. >> french president emmanuel macron tuesday reiterated -- meantime south korea said today $2 million in aid relief to the disaster. still to come here on cnn, the latest breaking news, north korea's kim jong-un now in eastern russia meeting vladimir putin, touring a -- with talks of a possible arms deal in the works. live reporter, the very, latest you will see it here on cnn. >> ♪ fastsigns. make your statement. your record label isaking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly deliver

sam kiley, thank you.et's bring in the head of communications with the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies. really appreciate you joining us. first off, i know you have been talking to the volunteers there on the ground, helping with the rescue efforts. have you heard of very many rescues that have been happening? >> good morning. thank you for having us, first of all. please, let me express my sincere condolences to the moroccan people and those who lost their loved ones and wish a speedy recovery to the injured. as a federation of red cross and red crescent societies we work with the moroccan red crescent. we had the chance to be in contact with our volunteers there on the ground. so they were, as you know, that volunteers are working with the local communities to provide them the services, the first-aid and they were helping the public. it's a strong earthquake, and nowadays, i just had a call with them. they are organizing the moroccan red crescent, mobilizing all their

cnn senior international correspondent sam kiley has just arrived. icka, i think the first thing to say is that this is a nation that has been stunned by these earthquakes, particularly here in marrakech, because this is a city that doesn't have any memory at all of earthquakes, let alone one that has killed 13 people here in this city, but some 1,300 or more around the rest of the country. this is an ancient minerettet, the outside of an ancient mosque in the square, and you can see how the top of it has literally been shaken less and where the outer walls are marked, we've been driving around and seen a lot of those have been kind of snapped off. some of them have been there for many hundreds of years. if we look closer, you can see extraordinary scenes where you've got a crushed vehicle that has been hit by debris, and then just beyond it, tourists and other people enjoying a cup of coffee. a very sort of strange atmosphere that has gripped this city. elsewhere in the country, the disaster picture is very much more dramatic. there are whole village

sam kiley, stay safe. we really appreciate it.oining us now, carmen moreno, a humanitarian worker vacationing in morocco. thank you very much for joining us. first off, what did you go through when this earthquake struck? >> thanks for having me. this is just crazy. i just, the previous that happened earlier this year in syria, i was working for that and i was taking a break, coming on vacations with may brother and friends and all of a sudden, we were arriving at the airport and we felt this, and at the beginning, i didn't think it was an earthquake. i thought maybe it is just a plane crashing or something because we were at the parking lot of the airport in open space, thank god. that's why we were lucky and safe. then i heard this people screaming and the lights were off inside the infrastructure of the airport and the building. i saw this earlier and i realized it was an earthquake but honestly, i didn't think it was this hard, this high magnitude. we were in open space. we did not have any building nearby. and i said okay. it

to get more details now from cnn's sam kiley in marrakesh. >> reporter: morocco's king mohammad has declared three days of national mourning here in marrakesh, and that is because his country has been completely devastated by an extraordinary earthquake, totally unexpected in cities like this, marrakesh. this has been the scene here in the medina, the most ancient part of this ancient city. here, a building clearly ripped away by this earthquake. but the scenes have been even worse in the interior of the country, where one woman who was trapped for some 12 hours was pulled from rubble in a remote village. now, there are 13 people dead here in marrakesh. across the country, more than 1,300 people have died. and the authorities here expect those numbers to climb with some rapidity. the problem, though, is getting out into the areas that are worst affected. the epicenter is about 45 miles south of marrakesh, but the areas that have been really badly devastated according to the local authorities have been villages in the foothills of the atlas mountains. these are villages that areal photos have

sam kiley reports from morocco where crews are struggling to get crucial aid. >> reporter: here the royalnse to the earthquake that has already killed some 2,500 people. a similar number have been gravely injured so 2,500 people across the country gravely injured. the problem in this location at asni at the bottom of the atlas mountains is that people will be coming down off those mountains seeking urgent medical since and this is a highly sophisticated hospital deployed around the world to the democratic republic of the congo, to jordan and elsewhere to deal with emergencies internationally, but here they're dealing with emergencies locally obviously but they've got radiologist, they've got laboratories, they've got operating theaters, they've got pharmacological tents and they've even got psychiatric help is here. and ultimately though the real problem is for the rescue services up in those mountains where the needs are gravest because the roads up there have been cut, helicopters are being sent in to deliver aid to try to pick up patients to try to do assessments, to try to figure out

sam kiley joins us from morocco. i think perhaps you saw the ceiling above you giving way just a touch. how are things where you're at? >> reporter: well, jim, you put your finger on what everybody here is most afraid of here in the medina in the old city of marrakech. an environment that certainly not in living memory and for many people, not even in the history books has any recollection of being worried about an earthquake. here you have the direct results of it. it is the collapse of a roof, that blank space there is the night sky above it. you have a roof, a floor, two ceilings, all collapsed down on to the ground here where i'm standing. if you look at these buildings, we're in these very narrow streets, these very, very narrow streets. all of these buildings have enormous cracks down the side. the concern obviously is, if any of these cracks give way as a result of future tremors, then the death toll here in marrakech, which is at least 13, possibly higher, is certain to go up. elsewhere in the country, the sc

cnn's sam kiley is in the hardest hit area and joins us now. sam, what was it like today?nk, was an extraordinary day for us in that we started the day here in as the, where there is now a military camp to treat people who have been injured in this earthquake. it's a very efficient military camp, but not very far up into those atlas mountains that you mentioned. there are villages that have been completely obliterated and they're getting no help. this is what one look like. >> the houses here have been destroyed. there is 21 who died here. >> 21? >> mohammed is a law student and he grew up in -- >> so, you know the people who died? >> everyone hurt is somebody i know. it's not a big village, but everyone knows each other here. >> does it break your heart? >> yeah, it's so bad. you see the people here that this house, to the people here are dead. and the second house, three. we have one house here, one house there, all the family is dead. so it's -- i don't know what they will say. it's a bad night. >> a very bad night. >> yeah. >> staggering. >> this is what remains of 120

cnn's sam kiley joins us from marrakesh. i understand it's about 9:00 p.m. there. how are the recovery efforts going? >> reporter: jim, i'm in the medina of marrakesh here in the old city, that is. this is a very, very ancient city. and you can see the remains, glorious remains of its past, and now here is much of its present. this devastating earthquake killed 13 people here in marrakesh. mostly here in the medina because the city is ancient, and it is very tightly packed. there are buildings here that if there's another quake that are riddled already by cracks, it could come down. elsewhere in the country things have been even worse, jim, with 13 people, as i say, killed near marrakesh. 1,300 as you reported there across the country. that figure is expected to climb because in the foothills of the atlas mountains where the devastation was most keenly felt, there are whole villages that have been destroyed, utterly flattened. we've seen that in pictures coming in from the authorities and from the local media. it's those areas that the government is desperately try

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sam kiley has more. >> painstaking and dangerous.rawl into the underground bowls of southern turkey. taken ill with intestinal bleeding, mark dickey has already had six units of blood sent to him nearly three and a half thousand feet down. turkish officials say saving mark dickey could take days. a rescue caver himself, mark dickey must know the challenges of getting to the surface. >> it is complete dark in the cave, except for whatever light people bring in. it is also a very cold cave, it is 4 to 6 degrees celsius. that means that you have to work hard to stay warm. >> he's at base camp home, although able to pull for an out, he'll need to be helped and stretchered through way points that speak for themselves. through desperado, and burrowing through --, tested beyond the limits and into the light. >> there is a lot of water in this cave. a lot of it is dripping, but some of it is in pools they have to go through. some of it is spraying off rock walls. so the rescuers are getting fairly wet. and mark will get pretty wet also. >> 1

cnn's sam kiley is on the ground seeing the devastation, and hearing from the people in shock from theragedy unfolding all around them. >> reporter: another victim bu buried, returned to the earth that killed when it shook. more than 2,000 people have perished in the worst moroccan earthquake in over 100 years. most of the deaths were in villages in the atlas mountains where homes cracked and crumbled late on friday night. the pancaking of these buildings down the side streets here killed 2,500 people, and three or four are still believed to be buried in the rubble, and this is a pattern repeated throughout the province, and it is looking very often like an air strike, and the collapsing buildings here looking like holes as if they were hit by russian bombs in ukraine, but this is an all too natural disaster. at least three elderly people are entombed in their hotel room. and after the quake, the phone rang for an hour and a half until the battery died, too. >> i am here, too, because i have lost the best things in my life, my mother and father, i have lost here. >> reporter: his grief

sam kiley is there. sam, what is the very latest that you are seeing?> reporter: well, kate, the royal moroccan armed forces have established here i have to say a pretty impressive field hospital. they are specialists with interventions in the past, in congo, in jordan, in disasters around the world. none of them ever expected really to end up being deployed in a disaster of this scale in their own country, but that's exactly what's going on. there's even a gynecological unit here because there are people that are coming in from very long distances, a lot of them cut off completely, unable to use any kind of vehicular transport. coming down on foot or using donkeys and other traditional means of transport because the roads have been blocked by this massive earthquake. now the death toll is sitting at about 2,500, similar number of severely injured, but that death toll and we really don't know one way or another whether it will go shooting up because the moroccan authorities are still trying to get to the more remote areas using helicopters, again, mostl

are staying intense, with some being told they need to stay in makeshift cancer at least a week, sam kileyas more from one hard- hit town. >> reporter: people here in the foothills of the atlas mountains, have said when the earthquake struck and did this, they didn't so much feel the tremors, as feel that they were being caught up in some kind of war, that is exactly what it looks like, they didn't feel the ground shaking other than they said, they felt and heard the sound of explosions, explosions from within and without their own homes and explosions up in the hills. >> 25 people were killed in the town just about three kilometers, i am on a half or so from here, this is normally a tourist paradise, i just reformers but locals too, some of the victims still being left buried under the rubble because it's too dangerous to get them out, are actually moroccans up in the mountains enjoying the cooler temperatures in the summer. everybody were talking to complains the central government was nowhere to be see, in their own words, hope with the yellow tends offering temporary accommodation, for

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cnn's sam kiley is following all the new developments. >> reporter: ukraine dismissed this as a pathetic attempt at retaliation, a russian bom bombardment of the port city of odesa with drones and long-range missiles. two warehouse workers were killed, an abandoned hotel smashed in what could have been an almost routine attack by russia, but for this. kyiv now claims to have killed the commander of russia's black sea fleet, admiral victor sokolove. ukraine claims it cleared another 33 russian officers in a strike against the fleet headquarters in sevastopol on friday. ukrainians have targeted senior russian officers throughout this war, often using intelligence from nato, and specialist units have been tasked by kyiv with these killings. they're aimed at sapping morale and undermining command systems. cnn has no independent confirmation of ukraine's claim to have killed russia's admiadmiral, but it would be its biggest success in this campaign and part of the ongoing effort to break through russia's defense lines to ultimately strike at crimea. they include an attack on putin's navy and

and some have reached the epicenter, and sam kiley is there live on the ground. is is a mosque in one of the many villages that we have visited this morning. the villages, john, they are built and the top of the helix, and if you can imagine a series of steps going up into the mountains and it is as if a giant has runned down the steps and smashed village after village after village, and this village is utterly destroyed, and we have walked 1,000 feet higher, and came across a small farming hamlet where a 6-year-old child had been crushed at 11:00 friday night when the earthquake struck and her uncle still in the rubble, and her brother, and both of them in a tearful state. there are some aid levels coming in here, sbut it is mostly prie moroccans, because the military efforts are to reach the even further flung village, and even the villages that we have reached are on foot, and deeper into the mountains the situation is assumed to be more and more dire, but they are getting out there with the chinooks and other aerials to get there. >> and you can see these vill

let's get some more details now from cnn's sam kiley in m marr marrakech. >> i'm here in the old citylorious remains of its past and now, here is much of its present. this devastating earthquake killed 13 people here in marrakech. mostly here in the medina, because the city is ancient, and it is very tightly packed. there are buildings here that, if there's another quake, that are ridden already by cracks, that could come down. but elsewhere in the country, things have been even worse, because in the foothills of the atlas mountains, where the devastation was most keenly felt, there are whole villages that have been destroyed. utterly flattened. we've seen that in pictures coming into us from the authorities and from the local media. and those areas the government is desperately trying to get to. the king of morocco has declared three days of national mourning. the whole country has been mobilized to try to cope with this, but it is coming at a time when there have been serious aftershocks, particularly south of the city. if you look up through here, this is a building that has collap

cnn's sam kiley is in the hardest-hit area, joins us now. sam, what was it like today?today, i think, was an extraordinary day for us in that we started the day here, where there is military camp to treat people who have been injured in this earthquake. it's a very efficient military camp, not very far into the atlas mountains you mentioned, there are villages that have been completely obliterated and are getting no help. this is what one looked like. >> 21 died here. >> 21? >> yeah. >> reporter: mohommad is a law student and he grew up here. >> you know the people who died? >> everyone here. it's not a big village. everyone know each other here. >> it must break your heart. >> it's so bad. you see these people here that this house, two or three person here is dead. and this house, we have one house there, one house there. all the family is dead. so, it's -- i don't know. i don't know what to say. ee it's a bad night. >> a very bad night. >> yeah. >> staggering. >> reporter: this is what remains of 120 homes. mohommad knows every house that was and who died in them. >>

sam kiley is "outfront" tonight. ukraine dealing russia a serious psychological blow by taking out this admirable. russia is not denying this tonight. >> reporter: it's interesting that the russians are not denying it, isn't it, erin. and we've seen the ukrainian campaign of attacking very deliberately the command and control structures. by that i mean the people really at the top of the russian military effort now for more than 18 months, often with nato assistance. but the russians, at least by ukrainian standards, are hitting back. this is how it unfolded. ukraine strikes back. kyiv now claims to have killed the commander of russian's black sea fleet, admirable viktor sokolov. ukraine says it also killed another 33 russian officers in the missile strike against the fleet headquarters in sevastopol on friday. the kremlin has not commented, but struck with violence against ukraine's black sea port odesa, killing two warehouse workers and destroying an abandoned hotel. the ukrainians have targeted senior russian offi

. >> sam kiley, thank you to you and your team on the ground.t back to you soon. >>> well, this morning, hurricane lee rapidly reintensifying to a major hurricane over unusually warm ocean waters. the storm has strengthened back to a category 3 on sunday with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. now it's expected to ramp up to a category 4 later today. lee is expected to slowdown considerably and spend the next several days sending hazardous beach conditions, as it inches closer to the east coast. forecasters warn the dangerous high surf and life-threatening rip currents as the storm moves up the atlantic. >>> happening now, hawaii's youngest and most active volcano is erupting again after nearly three months of quiet. authorities raising kilauea's alert level from watch to warning. lava have been spewing from the fissures at the crater's base, but right now the activity is confined to the park. right now, concerns are volcanic gas and delicate strands of volcanic gas that can float downwind and cause eye and skin irritation. >>> nikki

. >> sam kiley is in marrakech. >> reporter: morocco's king mohammad has declared three days of national mourning in mare ka cus marrakech because his country has been devastated by an extraordinary earthquake. medina the most ancient part of this ancient city, here a building clearly ripped away by this earthquake. the scenes have been even worse in the interior of the country where one woman who was trapped for some 12 hours was pulled from rubble in a remote village. now there are 13 people dead here in marrakech. across the country, over 1,300 have died, and the authorities here expect those numbers to climb with some rapidity. the problem is getting out into the areas that are worst affected, the epicenter about 45 miles south of marrakech. the areas that have been really badly devastated, according to local authorities, are villages in the foothills of the atlas mountains. these are villages that aerial photographs have already shown have been completely flattened with one or two houses remaining looking as if they've been built on scree. that scree, that rubble, was once villages