As aftershocks continue to rock northwestern Turkey, relief crews work against the clock to save the thousands still believed to be trapped under the rubble. Meanwhile, thousands of residents displaced by the quake are sleeping in crowded streets.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: We begin our coverage of the rescue efforts in Turkey with an ITN report by Julian Manyon.

JULIAN MANYON: In the industrial city of Izmit, the sight of another body dragged from the rubble sets off hysterical grief; 3,300 corpses have so far been recovered here, but for these people the loss of their loved one is all that matters, and it's too much to bear.

Amid the mounting despair the miracles are still happening. This morning a three-year-old girl was pulled naked from the ruins. She had survived for more than three days without water when her Hungarian rescuers found her. The girl drank greedily. She was severely dehydrated but otherwise uninjured. Too young to understand the full horror of what had happened, she seemed to believe that she was recovering from illness. "I've been ill," she said. And the nurses did their best to soothe her.

Foreign rescue teams are now hard at work in Izmit, where many large apartment blocks collapsed like houses of cards. An American team is using sniffer dogs and electronic listening devices. Down the road the French make holes in the rubble to insert their microphones. Here, there is no sign of life. Southwest of Izmit the destruction stretches along the beautiful Anatolian coast. The earthquake caused carnage in peaceful towns and villages where many people from Istanbul normally spend their summers. At what used to be a resort complex an Israeli rescue team is now battling to save lives. So far, they have rescued two people and found a number of bodies.

In the resort town of Yalova, the football stadium has been turned into an emergency field hospital where helicopters swoop in and out. But here, as elsewhere, the number of survivors needing medical attention is dwindling. This man was injured trying to help the rescue operation. Those beneath the rubble are gradually losing the struggle for life. Yalova was a quiet place for comfortable retirement. Now, it's scarred by terrible swathes of destruction. The fear will not be easily forgotten. In Yalova, they're sleeping outdoors now in tented camps. In the last two days there have been faint aftershocks; people are praying that there are no more quakes.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: For more on the situation in Turkey we go to Istanbul to Frank Donaghue, chief executive officer for the Southeastern Pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross. He arrived in Turkey Wednesday to assess the damage and advise the Red Cross on what to do. Mr. Donaghue, where have you been today and what did you see?

FRANK DONAGHUE: Today was a pretty incredible day. I arrived in Izmit, which is the epicenter of the earthquake, and arrived there to a pretty big tremor, which, of course, creates all kinds of panic, buildings that are about to topple down, do, in fact, topple down, and people continue to get hurt. The situation here is dire. And then I moved on to Golcuk, which us not far from Izmit, but the situation there is incomprehensible. Literally they expect 10,000 people are caught in the buildings there, and the suffering, people laying in the streets, sleeping in the streets, haven't been in their homes. The sanitary conditions, the food is at a scarcity, as is water. The temperature's 100 degrees, and people are both afraid and deeply devastated by the loss of so many people.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Describe the hospitals in both cities.

FRANK DONAGHUE: In Izmit, where I visited most of the time, the hospital there. It is a very small hospital. It would be comparable to maybe two McDonalds joined together. It, in fact, had been hit and struck by the earthquake as well, and so the operating room was missing. They are actually doing surgery out on the street under a tent where everybody that passes by can all watch it. But the doctors there, I talked to them, they're truly stretched to the limit.

These folks have been working since last Tuesday around the clock. They told me in that very small hospital -- we would consider it a small clinic even -- that they had cared for 1,500 critical patients. The large hospital in Izmit, Elizabeth, is even a more tragic story. There, there were 260 patients before the facility virtually collapsed and was destroyed; 90 patients died and 15 physicians were killed that night. The disaster, the tragedy, is just mind boggling. The suffering is incredible.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Mr. Donaghue, there's been articles here -- there have been articles here about lack of coordination in the relief effort. What are you finding?

FRANK DONAGHUE: You know, I've been asked that question a lot today, and I don't think anyone, any organization, any country could respond to the fact that over ten to fifteen thousand buildings have collapsed. You need literally thousands of rescue workers to be on every one of those buildings and to look for the survivors. The situation is dire. I said to a doctor yesterday actually in that hospital that I mentioned outside of Izmit, the medical school, what did she think of the response of the government, and her answer to me was this -- she said, "Mr. Donaghue, those people are just like you and me; they've lost their wife, they've lost their children. And they're responding as best they possibly can in a very, very difficult situation."

I met with the governor in Izmit yesterday. And they're desperately trying to pull the pieces together with the military in place and helping the American military, as well as relief organizations like the American Red Cross sending more and more workers. I believe it's coming together. I can see a change in just the last 24 hours alone.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And so what are the key needs now?

FRANK DONAGHUE: Certainly ready-to-eat food. People need food; they need water; we need sanitary conditions; and we need temporary housing for these folks. Literally -- when I tell you, Elizabeth, thousands of people are sleeping on the streets, I'm not exaggerating. In the hotel that I happen to be in, a small hotel here in Istanbul, last night about 20 people were sleeping in the lobby who were guests of the hotel, local people who were afraid to go upstairs because of the tremors. And the parks, the medial strip of highways, the grass knolls around exit ramps and highways, all of them are full of people, have no place to go, and so temporary housing is certainly a critical need.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And Mr. Donaghue, describe the efforts that you're seeing by local people to take care of their own needs.

FRANK DONAGHUE: Well, let me just tell you one story today, and it's a small story, but I think it tells well. This community of 15 million people is responding in a most orderly way. I mean, there's no looting; there's no violence; people are aware of this incredible situation and they're dealing with the fact it can take you four hours to go five miles. But I had to grab a taxicab today to get to Izmit, and the man driving my cab pulled over at a bakery and he said, "Wait a minute, sir" -- got out of the car -- went into the bakery and said, "I want all the bread you have." He literally filled the trunk completely and the backseat up to the roof, paid for it out of his own money, and when we got to Izmit, he handed out the bread. So I think that shows the generosity and the kindness and the care of the folks here in Turkey toward their brothers and sisters who have been so desperately hurt by this disaster.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Do people still have hope that they'll find people alive, or is it getting to be too late for that?

FRANK DONAGHUE: Well, actually tonight there was another woman found, a 25-year-old woman was found in Golcuk. Today one of the most moving things -- right after that tremor -- and it was a very, very stressful morning -- I was standing doing an interview similar to this, and a few yards from me was a four-year-old girl who had been brought into the hospital an hour earlier, and as I was talking, she literally sat up in bed and began to talk to her mother, ask for juice, and within a half an hour this little child was really enjoying all the attention she was getting. So I don't think hope is lost. But clearly, with literally thousands, perhaps thirty-five thousand people still missing, and the time is ticking, the heat is incredible, the toll is going to rise dramatically.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And, Mr. Donaghue, what's the danger of epidemic?

FRANK DONAGHUE: Serious. There are no sanitary conditions in place yet. The water supply is scarce. I've seen people drinking off of water coming out of the street. It is a great concern. I've talked to a lot of the medical people here, and they're doing everything they can to control that, and I think certainly with both the military and non-government organizations responding, as the Red Cross is and others, we're going to see that getting under control as quickly as possible.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: So what would you say to people watching this show right now who want to know how they can help?

FRANK DONAGHUE: The most important thing is to help rebuild and help Turkey recover. The best way to do that is through financial contributions to organizations that are going to purchase the goods that are needed right here in Turkey. At the American Red Cross we have a policy; we don't send things in from America and send things in from far away. We buy things right here in the country affected, not only helping the people but also helping the economy, which is helping the people for the long-term. And so we ask people to contribute directly to the Red Cross by calling our 1-800-HELP-NOW number. I promise them that that money will get directly to help the people in Turkey in two ways: by helping them directly and by helping the economy.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Well, Frank Donaghue, good luck in the days ahead and thank you very much.

FRANK DONAGHUE: Thanks so much, Elizabeth.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And finally on the earthquake tonight, a rescue story from the town of Golcuk. Kwame Holman narrates.

KWAME HOLMAN: Survivors still were being pulled from the mountains of rubble today, giving rescuers hope more may be found --though time is running out.

SPOKESMAN: (speaking through interpreter) (French) We are certain that there isn't one but two survivors. So it's much more important now to go down very quickly.

KWAME HOLMAN: This French team struggled for seven hours to locate two people trapped for the last three days. They were found on what was the second floor of a seven-story apartment building. The lower floors were flattened by the quake, which struck early Tuesday morning.

The French team used sophisticated sonar detection equipment to transmit sound signals deep into the rubble. When they got a response, team members went down into the depths of the collapsed structure. Crawling through narrow spaces, they located a woman and passed her water. Both survivors were hauled out by rope and greeted with applause and cheers.

KWAME HOLMAN: The rescue team continued their search for someone they suspected was a child. An estimated thirty-five thousand people remain missing throughout Turkey.