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CNN Live At Daybreak

Iran Quake

Aired January 02, 2004 - 05:10   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's been a week since that devastating earthquake virtually wiped out the ancient city of Bam and killed some 30,000 people. More than a thousand children are now orphans.
CNN's Kasra Naji joins us live from Bam -- good morning, Kasra.

KASRA NAJI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.

Tens of thousands of survivors of this earthquake spent another night out in the open, their seventh night, and the authorities here are very concerned about that.

Behind me, what you can see, we are standing on the corner of a central street in Bam. There's, the street is standing, but the houses around it are completely demolished and people, as you can see, live under these tents, tens of thousands of them.

Aid relief is getting through and one indication of that I wanted to show you. Behind me here is a mobile bakery unit which is producing bread and distributing them free of charge. The owner was, or the manager, I should say, was telling me that the flour is given by the authorities. But the machinery, the oven, is his own and he has this bakery shop in the north of the country. He decided to put it at the back of a truck and bring it here to do his bit for the people of Bam. And he's been producing some 3,000 loaves so far of this flat Persian bread. And yesterday he told -- today he told me that yesterday he produced up to 8,000 loaves of bread.

So, this is typical of the kind of relief efforts that are going on here to help the survivors of this earthquake -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Kasra Naji reporting live from Bam, Iran this morning.

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Aired January 2, 2004 - 05:10   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's been a week since that devastating earthquake virtually wiped out the ancient city of Bam and killed some 30,000 people. More than a thousand children are now orphans.
CNN's Kasra Naji joins us live from Bam -- good morning, Kasra.

KASRA NAJI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.

Tens of thousands of survivors of this earthquake spent another night out in the open, their seventh night, and the authorities here are very concerned about that.

Behind me, what you can see, we are standing on the corner of a central street in Bam. There's, the street is standing, but the houses around it are completely demolished and people, as you can see, live under these tents, tens of thousands of them.

Aid relief is getting through and one indication of that I wanted to show you. Behind me here is a mobile bakery unit which is producing bread and distributing them free of charge. The owner was, or the manager, I should say, was telling me that the flour is given by the authorities. But the machinery, the oven, is his own and he has this bakery shop in the north of the country. He decided to put it at the back of a truck and bring it here to do his bit for the people of Bam. And he's been producing some 3,000 loaves so far of this flat Persian bread. And yesterday he told -- today he told me that yesterday he produced up to 8,000 loaves of bread.

So, this is typical of the kind of relief efforts that are going on here to help the survivors of this earthquake -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Kasra Naji reporting live from Bam, Iran this morning.

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