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Rescuers Rush to Help Victims of Peru Quake

An 8.0-magnitude earthquake shook Peru on Wednesday evening.

Giorgio Ferrario, head of Regional Delegation in South America for the Red Cross and Red Crescent, has teams in the area surveying the damage and participating in search and rescue missions.

He talks with Robert Siegel.

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