good morning, reena. >> reporter: good morning, martha. it has been a desperate attempt to try and save lives. at least 240 people have been killed, and thousands believed to be injured. workers have been working through the night to try and rescue anyone that they possibly can. there is this video, take a look, of one man being pulled out of the rubble. there are at least four cases like this that a turkish television was able to film. their worry also is that the aftershocks will continue. u.s. scientists said there were over 100 in the past ten hours, so there is still a fear and uncertainty that there might be more to come, martha. martha: what about the controversy over aid that turkey rejected? >> reporter: well, there are countries like the u.s., france, even israel, which has a very frosty relationship with turkey, have all offered aid, israel is very good at these international rescue and recovery efforts, so there was a lot of questioning as to why they would not allow these countries to come in to help when these people are buri