Teams from California to Florida are helping Venezuelans rebound from devastating earthquakes that killed nearly 1,500 people, according to the latest death toll figures authorities announced on Saturday.
Search and rescue operations are entering their third full day, after Venezuelan officials estimated 1,430 were killed and 68,900 were missing Saturday morning, a significant spike from the 920 declared dead and 3,300 declared missing Friday. The pair of powerful earthquakes that shook Caracas on Wednesday evening had magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, making them among the strongest to rock the country in over a century.
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