Volunteers Race To Save Trapped Survivors In Mexico City

Published September 21, 2017 at 12:06 PM EDT

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Rescue workers gather at Parque Mexico in the Condesa district the day after an earthquake on Sept. 20, 2017 in Mexico City. (Rafael S. Fabres/Getty Images)

Thousands of volunteers are racing to find survivors buried in the rubble after Tuesday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Mexico City and other communities to the south faced some of the worst damage, with the death toll in the hundreds.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson gets the latest on rescue and recovery efforts from KJZZ Mexico City bureau correspondent Jorge Valencia (@jorgeavalencia).