1:48 pm PDT: At a State Department briefing earlier today, USAID Ambassador Raj Shah said the federal government has "two urban search-and-rescue units on their way, both are units with 72 individuals, people who have significant training and significant equipment and technical capacity to conduct search and rescue in urban settings, to drill through and clear as much as is possible rubble in order to try and identify individuals that can be saved and continue with th

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