The Pac-12 may need to commit to conference expansion first before achieving its compensation target in a new media rights deal, sources with knowledge of the situation tell CBS Sports. In an effort to return to 12 members following the departures of USC and UCLA, the Pac-12 has focused its efforts on evaluating San Diego State and SMU.
Pac-12 commissioner Georgia Kliavkoff has already toured San Diego State, CBS Sports previously learned. He is planning to visit SMU on Wednesday, according to Brett McMurphy.
The Pac-12’s next media rights deal will be heavily reliant on a digital streaming partner. Significantly more than half of each season’s Pac-12 football games will be primarily available via streaming as part of the conference’s next rights deal, sources tell CBS Sports.
Such a ratio is unprecedented for a Power Five conference and for whichever streaming giant becomes the first to more fully embrace college sports. The move would likely upset Pac-12 coaches, athletic directors and administrators who rely on widespread visibility for their games via linear (cable) and network platforms for everything from athletic recruitment to university enrollment.
The Pac-12 has long suffered from substandard distribution resulting after deciding to go with the standalone, wholly owned Pac-12 Networks. A heavy streaming deal would further limit the conference’s visibility.
The next Pac-12 deal is expected to be split between a streaming service and ESPN. With the Pac-12 seemingly unable to reach its compensation target — believed to be approximately $30 million to $35 million per program annually — it appears to be urgent for the conference to expand as a condition of completing a deal in the monetary range it seeks.
Conferences that find themselves in this situation typically negotiate a new rights deal prior to completing a separate deal for expansion. That order establishes value for existing conference members prior to adding new members.
It is not known whether San Diego State or SMU — two Group of Five schools — would receive full media rights shares if the Pac-12 chooses them for expansion. Adding the programs would increase annual Pac-12 game inventory 20{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} from 75games per season to 90.
Which streaming giant is in the lead to ultimately carry Pac-12 games is unknown. Amazon was successful last season with its NFL “Thursday Night Football” package. Apple recently signed a 10-year contract with MLS. However, neither platform has shown much interest in college sports to this point. (Industry experts project most major sports will be viewed on streaming in coming years.)
The Pac-12 is only major conference to not yet renew its media rights this cycle. Critics say the league missed its most lucrative window as negotiations drag on.
Not helping matters is that far more lucrative properties are coming available, including UFC, NASCAR, NBA and WWE, the latter of which is seeking a sale to a content provider. .
Despite the loss of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC, the Big 12 was able to sign a deal late last year that was worth more than its prior contract. The current Pac-12 contract with Fox and ESPN, which expires on July 1, 2024, is valued at approximately $21 million per school not including revenue from the NCAA Tournament, College Football Playoff or bowl games.
ESPN is believed to be interested in the Pac-12 because of the “fourth window” — games that begin after 10 p.m. ET. The network would have a hole in college football broadcast day beginning in 2024 if it does not pick up some Pac-12 games. It already missed out on getting a piece of the Big Ten deal signed with CBS, Fox and NBC.
San Diego State makes sense in Pac-12 expansion. There already is a hole in Southern California given the Pac-12 has lost USC and UCLA to the Big Ten.
The addition of SMU would be non-contiguous (not bordering a state with a Pac-12 school) with the university 820 miles from Colorado, the league’s closest program. However, in at least some small way, SMU might establish a recruiting foothold for the Pac-12 in Texas.
Urgent rescue mission underway in Turkey and Syria for survivors
‘These are not quick recoveries,’ Doctors Without Borders director says of Syria
Getting aid to devastated parts of Syria damaged by Monday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake will be a major effort, with the situation complicated by large numbers of people displaced by war, the director of Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
“This is going to be a major, major lift for the international aid community,” Avril Benoît said on MSNBC.
At least 2,150 of the more than 7,000 people killed by the earthquakes were in Syria, which has suffered more than a decade of civil war. United Nations officials said that even before the earthquakes, nearly 70{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} of the population needed humanitarian assistance.
Millions have been displaced and are living outside, which raises the chance of infection, and the hospital system needs to be rebuilt, Benoît said.
“Already, we are concerned that it will be in the news today and forgotten in a short number of days,” Benoît said.
“These are not quick recoveries, and we know from all our experience of being on the ground that the management of the medical needs will be quite important,” she said.
State Department: ‘Many nationalities’ likely affected by earthquakes
Residents of many different countries are likely to be among those affected by the devastating earthquakes that have killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria, a State Department official said Tuesday.
No Americans are confirmed to have been killed, but State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that could change as more becomes known.
“I think we’re all realistic,” Price said. “We’re all very sober about the implications of this and the fact that many countries, many nationalities are likely to be implicated, just given the massive toll and destruction.”
U.S. consular officials have been in touch with the American citizen community in the region.
More than 7,000 people in Turkey and Syria have been killed, officials in the two countries have said, and the number could grow.
U.N. pledges $25 million to ‘kick start’ humanitarian effort
The United Nations’ office of humanitarian affairs released $25 million Tuesday in what it said was an effort to help “kick start” the response in the wake of powerful earthquakes that have killed thousands in Turkey and Syria.
The money is being released as more than 7,000 people have been confirmed dead in the two countries after Monday’s early-morning 7.8-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in Turkey, followed by a 7.5-magnitude aftershock.
“As the people in the region deal with the devastating consequences of this tragedy, we want to tell them that they are not alone,” Martin Griffiths, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said in a statement.
Other countries have also pledged aid, including $10 million by Australia. Countries around the world have sent rescue teams.
In Syria, where at least 2,150 people have died, according to officials and aid groups, the situation was already dire after more than a decade of civil war.
Nearly 70{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} of the population needed humanitarian assistance before the earthquakes, U.N. humanitarian coordinators for Syria and the Syrian crisis said in a joint statement.
Satellite images appear to show extent of damage in Turkey
Satellite photos taken Tuesday of areas in southwest Turkey appear to show the level of damage the earthquakes inflicted.
The photos, collected by Maxar Technologies, are compared against images of the same area from October.
“While clouds and poor weather continue to affect some of the area, our images today of the Turkish cities of Islahiye, Nurdagi and Duzici reveal significant damage to many buildings and infrastructure,” Maxar said in a statement.
Satellite images of Islahiye, Turkey, on Oct. 4 and on Tuesday. Maxar
The company said it will continue to monitor the region for more information and images.
King Charles says he’s ‘profoundly saddened’ over damage
King Charles said Tuesday that he and his wife, Camilla, are “profoundly saddened” by the devastation.
“I can only begin to imagine the scale of suffering and loss as a result of these dreadful tragedies and I particularly wanted to convey our deepest and most heartfelt sympathy to the families of all those who have lost their loved ones,” he said in a statement on behalf of both of them.
The monarchy does not control the United Kingdom’s governmental response. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spoken directly with the Turkish president to coordinate support. Sunak confirmed that a search and rescue team of 77 people has been deployed to Turkey to assist in recovery efforts.
Erdoğan speaks with leaders in U.K. and Germany about support
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had calls Tuesday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Scholz offered condolences to Erdoğan over the tragic circumstances after the quakes, his office said in a release. He also pledged “extensive support” to Erdoğan.
A spokesperson for Sunak said he and Erdoğan spoke about the concerning humanitarian situation. Sunak pledged his “steadfast support” to Turkey and immediate assistance Tuesday.
“The Prime Minister confirmed that a 77-strong British search and rescue team arrived in Gaziantep today with specialist equipment and dogs, in response to a request from the Turkish government, and will immediately start work assisting with the rescue effort,” the spokesperson said.
Earthquake death toll soars to 7,266
The death toll in Monday’s massive earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria climbed to 7,266 Tuesday, according to officials in both countries.
In Turkey, at least 5,434 people were killed and 22,168 others were injured, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said. About 8,000 people have been rescued from the rubble.
In Syria, at least 812 people were killed and 1,832 more were injured, the Health Ministry said.
At least 1,020 people have died and 2,400 were injured in Syria’s rebel-held areas, according to the White Helmets.
A woman weeps Tuesday as she stands beside the body of a victim in Hatay, Turkey.Bulent Kilic / AFP – Getty Images
Newborn with umbilical cord intact is rescued from Syria rubble, but mother dies, a relative says
A newborn was rescued in Syria after a woman reportedly gave birth and became trapped in rubble following the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
Monday’s quake flattened the family’s home in Aleppo, a cousin told Agence France-Presse.
“We heard a voice while we were digging,” said the cousin, Khalil al-Suwadi. “We cleared the dust and found the baby with the umbilical cord, so we cut it, and my cousin took her to hospital.”
NBC News has not been able to independently verify the information.
The baby’s mother and father, four siblings and an aunt were killed, the cousin said, according to AFP.
Read the full story here.
Death toll rises to at least 6,376
Julianne McShane and Lawahez Jabari
The death toll has risen to at least 6,376 people.
This includes 4,544 dead in Turkey, where at least 22,168 are injured; 812 dead in Syria, where at least 1,832 are injured; and 1,020 dead in Syria’s rebel-held territories, where more than 2,400 are injured.
Members of the Syria Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, transport a casualty Tuesday from the rubble of buildings in Azmarin in Syria’s rebel-held northwestern Idlib province. Omar Haj Kadour / AFP – Getty Images
Turkish malls, mosques and stadiums offer shelter
Hundreds of thousands of people in Turkey have taken refuge in government shelters and private businesses.
Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said Tuesday that an estimated 338,000 people have gone to government shelters or hotels in the earthquake aftermath. People have also gathered at shopping malls, mosques, stadiums and community centers for shelter and basic needs.
Photo: Trapped man waits for rescue in Turkey
A man trapped in rubble reacts Tuesday as debris is removed to rescue him in Hatay, Turkey.Bulent Kilic / AFP – Getty Images
Earthquake damage suspends U.N. aid to Syria
Roads used to bring aid across the Turkish border into northern Syria have been damaged badly enough to pause United Nations aid to the region, according to Sanjana Quazi, deputy head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ regional office for the Syrian crisis.
“Hatay province, where the border and the U.N. hub are, is very badly affected,” she said. “We are looking at alternative routes.”
Earthquakes damage historic sites and antiquities in Turkey and Syria
From a castle in Gaziantep to a citadel in Aleppo, as rescuers search desperately for survivors after the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, concerns were also growing Tuesday for some of the region’s most cherished historic sites.
UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency, said in a statement that it was carrying out a survey of the affected areas and discovered many of the sites had either been damaged or collapsed completely.
The ancient Syrian city of Aleppo, where towers and walls have survived ancient and modern wars, has been badly affected. The city’s famous Citadel, a World Heritage Site, was damaged; it had only recently been repaired following the fierce street fighting of the battle for Aleppo in 2012, part of the long-running and still ongoing civil war in the country.
In Turkey, UNESCO said several buildings in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır in the country’s southeast had collapsed, raising fears for the Diyarbakır Fortress and the Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape, another World Heritage Site.
Aleppo’s ancient Citadel on Monday. AFP – Getty Images
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Ukraine to send search and rescue team of 87 people to Turkey
The Associated Press and Julianne McShane
War-ravaged Ukraine will send an 87-strong search and rescue team to Turkey to “help eliminate the consequences” of the earthquake.
“Ukrainian specialists have relevant experience in overcoming the consequences of natural disasters and will arrive in the affected regions as soon as possible. They will help with the whole range of work on the recovery from the earthquake,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement.
In a tweet, he said Ukraine was also sending equipment to affected regions in Turkey.
Death tolls rises to 5,261
The total number of those killed in the natural disaster has climbed to 5,261, according to updated information provided by both Turkish and Syrian authorities.
The total number of those dead in Syria comes to 1,712, according to the Syrian Health Ministry and the White Helmets. More than 3,700 have been injured in the country.
In Turkey, 3,549 people were killed and 22,168 injured as search and rescue teams continue their work, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday. More than 8,000 people have been rescued so far.
A soldier sits near a collapsed building Tuesday in Hatay, Turkey. Burak Kara / Getty Images
How to help those impacted by the earthquakes
As many as 23 million people, including around 1.4 million children, are likely to have been impacted by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, according to the World Health Organization.
For those who want to help the survivors of the disaster, which has left more than 5,000 people dead, there are several international humanitarian organizations seeking donations to fund their aid efforts.
Read more about how you can help here.
57 Palestinian refugees among those killed, officials say
The Palestinian Authority says 57 Palestinian refugees have died in the powerful quake in Turkey and Syria.
Officials said 14 were killed in Turkey and 43 in Syria, which for decades has hosted nearly half a million Palestinians in large refugee camps and remains one of the few Arab states to offer them almost full civil rights.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said several Palestinians are reported missing under collapsed buildings in the hard-hit al-Raml camp in western Syria.
Families sheltering in cars in freezing temperatures, survivor says
While aid efforts focused on rescuing those trapped under collapsed buildings, those who survived found themselves sheltering in cars, struggling to keep themselves fed, hydrated and warm in the freezing conditions.
“We have been on the streets since two days,” a distraught 31-year-old factory worker, Mesut Demir, told NBC News.
Demir said he has been staying inside his car with his wife and sons, ages 4 and 6, in the city of Gaziantep, not far from the epicenter of the first earthquake. He said other families in the area were doing the same.
When night falls, the parents let the two children sleep in the car while they take shelter outside and light a bonfire.
“We need tent, blankets, food, water but no one came to help us because the priority was the ones under the rubble,” he said.
Search and rescue efforts Tuesday in Gaziantep, Turkey.Adsiz Gunebakan / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Photo: Efforts to find survivors in Adana, Turkey
Emergency workers search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, on Tuesday.
Francisco Seco / AP
Thousands of emergency personnel and volunteers involved in aid work, Erdogan says
Thousands of emergency personnel from all over Turkey, as well as additional teams sent from abroad, have been mobilized to aid in the 10 provinces worst hit by the earthquakes, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.
“Our 53,317 car, recovery personnel and support personnel are working in the wreckage area, with additional teams coming from Turkey and abroad,” he said in a speech.
“This number is increasing with each passing hour,” he said. “Many more public officials, nongovernmental organizations and volunteers are also involved in aid works.”
An emergency rescue team member is comforted Tuesday by teammates after they found two bodies in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey.Francisco Seco / AP
All flags at NATO headquarters flown at half-staff
All flags at NATO headquarters are being flown at half-staff Tuesday, the alliance announced.
NATO shared a photo of the scene, saying it was being done “in solidarity with our Ally #Türkiye.”
Breaking down Turkey’s aid delivery by numbers
As Turkey reeled from the devastating earthquakes, the country’s disaster agency said Tuesday that it sent hundreds of thousands of humanitarian aid items from across the country to the severely affected areas.
This included:
300,000 blankets
41,504 family living tents
101,738 beds
148,482 pillow sheets
4,602 kitchen sets
3,761 heaters
Photos: Grieving father holds dead daughter’s hand amid wreckage
Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter, Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
Civilians searched for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings close to the quake’s epicenter, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southeast, followed by a 7.5-magnitude quake.
Turkey’s neighbors offer aid despite strained ties
Armenia’s foreign minister says his country has offered to help Syria and Turkey in their response to the deadly quake, despite difficult relations between Yerevan and Ankara.
Ararat Mirzoyan told reporters in Berlin on Tuesday that Armenia is prepared to send aid and rescue teams to both countries, but didn’t immediately say whether the offers had been accepted. He recalled that Armenia experienced a devastating earthquake in 1988 and required international assistance at the time.
Greece, which also has strained ties with neighbor Turkey, sent a team of rescuers and aid equipment Monday, and promised to provide more. “I believe I speak for all my colleagues in the Greek Parliament in expressing my deepest sorrow for the many victims of the very powerful earthquakes that have been hitting Turkey since yesterday morning,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Tuesday, addressing lawmakers who clapped when he announced that additional assistance was being prepared.
Pope Francis: ‘I continue to pray for those who have lost their lives’
Pope Francis shared condolences again Tuesday for the victims of the earthquakes, along with a hope that aid from the international community will help the people of Turkey and Syria.
“I continue to pray for those who have lost their lives, as well as the injured, family members, and rescuers,” he tweeted. “May our concrete aid sustain them in the midst of this appalling tragedy.”
U.N. aid to Syria hampered by earthquake damage, logistical issues
Mithil Aggarwal and Reuters
The supply of critical United Nations cross-border aid from Turkey to northwest Syria has been temporarily halted due to logistical issues, the world body said Tuesday.
“Some roads are broken, some are inaccessible. There are logistical issues that need to be worked through,” Madevi Sun-Suon, a spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told Reuters.
“We don’t have a clear picture of when it will resume,” she said.
Photo: Syrian women weep over bodies of earthquake victims
Syrian women mourn next to bodies lying on the back of a truck Tuesday in the town of Jandaris, as a search operation continues following a deadly earthquake.
Mohammed Al-Rifai / AFP – Getty Images
Israeli response team lands in Turkey
An Israeli response team arrived in Turkey on Tuesday, launching search and rescue operations in the country.
The team consists of almost 150 personnel, who will be aiding in rescue and medical operations, as well as delivery of aid, the Israeli military said in a tweet Monday.
Death toll rises to 5,151 as thousands rescued
The death toll has risen to at least 5,151, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announcing more deaths in affected areas across Turkey.
At least 3,549 people have now been confirmed dead in the country since Monday’s earthquakes, with at least 22,168 injured, he said Tuesday. At least 8,000 have been rescued from the rubble alive, he said in a speech.
In Syria, at least 812 people were dead, with at least 1,449 injured, according to the Ministry of Health. In Syrian rebel-held territories, more than 790 were killed and more than 2,200 injured, according to the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defense and medical group that operates in opposition-held areas.
Photo: Plumes of smoke rise over Turkish port city
A large fire that broke out in a section of a port was raging for a second day in the earthquake-stricken town of Iskenderun, southern Turkey, on Tuesday.
Serdar Ozsoy / AP
Iranian aircraft carrying critical humanitarian aid arrives in Syria
Mithil Aggarwal and Lawahez Jabari
An Iranian aircraft carrying tons of emergency aid arrived in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday.
“This plane carries the first batches of humanitarian aid provided by the Islamic Republic of Iran, with 45 tons of humanitarian aid on board,” said the Iranian ambassador to Syria, Mahdi Sobhani, according to the state news agency SANA.
The supplies included blankets, tents, medicines, food items and other critical supplies, he said.
Beyond magnitude: A shallow earthquake hammered Turkey
Monday morning’s earthquake ruptured on a shallow fault line just over 11 miles beneath the Earth’s surface, making it one of the most consequential and damaging earthquakes in recent history.
Earthquakes can originate at various depths beneath the Earth’s surface — even hundreds of miles deep. Consequences on the surface can depend on how close the shaking is.
“Turkey is extremely earthquake-prone, but this is probably the largest earthquake in Turkey in several hundred years,” said Harold Tobin, the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network and a professor in the University of Washington department of Earth and space sciences.
Read the full story here.
Turkey declares a state of emergency in the affected areas
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a state of emergency in the affected areas after quakes that left more than 5,000 dead and thousands more injured.
“We are declaring 10 cities impacted by the earthquake zone,” he said in statement Tuesday, adding that the emergency will last for three months.
Photo: A devastated Turkish woman sits near a collapsed building
A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings on the outskirts of Osmaniye city in southern Turkey, on Tuesday.
Khalil Hamra / AP
Baby and mother reportedly rescued after 29 hours under a collapsed building
A woman and her baby were rescued in the southern Turkish region of Hatay after being stuck for around 29 hours in the rubble of a collapsed building, the state news agency Anadolu reported.
The video posted by the Anadolu Agency showed rescuers pulling out the crying baby followed by the mother. They were then attended to by medics.
An ancient Turkish city contends with rubble and terror
Gaziantep, an ancient Turkish city badly damaged by the massive earthquake, was paralyzed Monday by widespread destruction — and by panic, survivors told NBC News.
While rescue teams were pulling the living and the dead from the wreckage, government tourism official Resat Taman was trying to beat back unfounded and rapidly spreading rumors that yet another quake was about to strike, as the city continued to be rocked by aftershocks.
“Everybody says next earthquake is coming and it will be so bad,” Taman said. “And this is really horrifying. Because it is not safe information and everybody is in a panic now because of this stupid information.”
Read the full story here.
Photo: Watching and waiting amid Aleppo’s ruined buildings
People watch as rescue teams search for victims and survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in the government-held northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday.
Louai Beshara / AFP – Getty Images
Missing soccer star rescued from rubble
Christian Atsu, a Ghanaian national soccer star who was believed to be trapped under the rubble in Turkey, has been pulled out alive, according to Ghana’s national soccer federation.
“We’ve received some positive news that Christian Atsu has been successfully rescued from the rubble of the collapsed building and is receiving treatment,” it said in a tweet. “Let’s continue to pray for Christian.”
Atsu, who formerly played for the English soccer clubs Chelsea, Everton and Newcastle United, now plays for Turkish club Hatayspor. His condition is unknown.
Photo: Woman distraught during search for survivors in Turkey
A woman cries during the search for survivors in the rubble of buildings in Kahramanmaras, Turkey on Tuesday.
Ilyas Akengin / AFP – Getty Images
‘The city is flat, there is no solid building’, Hatay volunteer says
Hatay, a southern Turkish region a few miles away from the epicenter of the first earthquake, was in complete ruins with snow-covered roads blocking key aid supplies and thousands still stuck in the rubble, a volunteer who was in central Hatay told NBC News.
“God damn it, there are tens of thousands of buildings that haven’t been reached yet,” said the 25-year-old university student, Tugay Khraman. “The city is flat, there is no solid building,” he said.
Earthquake survivors wait for news of their loved ones, believed to be trapped under collapsed building in Iskenderun, Turkey, on Tuesday. Burak Kara / Getty Images
Volunteers from across the country like Khraman, who traveled from western Turkey on Monday, were distributing food supplies, and aiding in search and rescue operations. But even those who survived were far from safe, he said, as there was no electricity or water supply.
“People who survived the earthquake will also die from hypothermia,” he added.
Thousands of children and families at risk, UNICEF warns
With many homes destroyed in the earthquakes, families will be displaced and exposed to the elements at a time of the year when temperatures regularly drop below freezing and snow and freezing rain are common, UNICEF has warned.
It warned that schools, hospitals and other educational and medical facilities are likely to have been damaged or destroyed by the quakes, further impacting children. “Potential damage to roads and critical infrastructure will also complicate search and rescue efforts and the wider humanitarian response,” it said.
“The images we’re seeing out of Syria and Türkiye are heart-wrenching,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said. “That the initial earthquake happened so early in the morning, when many children were fast asleep, made it even more dangerous, and the aftershocks bring continuing risks.”
Photo: Four children from the same family die in Syria quake
The bodies of four children from one Syrian family lie wrapped in sheets Monday in the town of Jandaris, following a deadly earthquake.
Rami Al Sayed / AFP – Getty Images
South Korea and Japan extend their condolences to Turkey
Japanese and South Korean leaders expressed their condolences to Turkey, drawing historical links to tragedies in their own nations.
“Like Turkey, Japan has also experienced serious damage from earthquakes many times, and in past disasters as well, Japan and Turkey have provided support for each other,” Prime Minister Kishida Fumio told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, according to a statement.
“We stand ready to assist Turkiye, a brotherhood forged in blood during the Korean War, in any way possible.” South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol wrote on Twitter.
Pakistan PM to visit Turkey and offer support
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to Turkey’s capital, Ankara, on Wednesday, Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said Tuesday on Twitter.
“24 hours after the devastating earthquake hit Turkiye & Syria, scenes of death & destruction are mind numbing,” Sharif said in a separate tweet Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the South Asian country also sent dozens of disaster relief personnel and aid equipment which arrived in Turkey on Tuesday, the Pakistani air force said in a tweet.
Photo: Woman pulled from the rubble in southern Turkey
Rescue workers carry a woman out of the debris of a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, on Tuesday.
Ismsail Coskun / AP
White Helmets ‘unable to respond to the full scale of the disaster’ in Syria
Mithil Aggarwal and Lawahez Jabari
In Syria, members of the White Helmets are struggling to cope with the sheer scale of the disaster, the organization said in a statement Tuesday.
“Great efforts are being made by our teams, but they are unable to respond to the full scale of the disaster. Hundreds remain trapped under the rubble,” the team of search and rescue responders officially known as Syria Civil Defence said in a statement.
In a separate statement, it said that more than 200 buildings had been completely destroyed, with tens of thousands cracked.
Some 23 million people likely affected by quakes, WHO warns
Some 23 million people, including 1.4 million children, across Turkey and Syria were likely affected by Monday’s earthquake and its aftershocks, according to the World Health Organization.
The WHO said it was dispatching emergency supplies, including trauma and emergency surgical kits, to the region as it activated a network of emergency medical teams.
“It’s now a race against time,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Every minute, every hour that passes, the chances of finding survivors alive diminishes.”
Photo: L.A. County firefighters deployed to Turkey
Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department prepare for deployment in Pacoima, California, on Monday after being activated by USAID, the U.S. government aid agency, to go to Turkey to assist with earthquake recovery efforts.
Allison Dinner / EPA via Shutterstock
China offers almost $6 million in aid to Turkey and Syria
Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his condolences to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said late Monday.
“Xi Jinping expressed his shock learning of the strong earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, which caused heavy casualties and property losses,” the ministry said in a statement.
China will also provide 40 million yuan ($5.9 million) in relief aid to Turkey, the state news agency Xinhua said Tuesday, adding that an additional aid of $200,000 will be provided to Turkey and Syria each by China’s Red Cross.
Photo: Turkish mosque destroyed by earthquake
The Yeni mosque destroyed by an earthquake in Malatya, Turkey, on Monday.
APThe Yeni Mosque in 2016.Alamy Stock Photo
Freezing weather complicates search for survivors
As search and rescue teams race to pull survivors from the rubble amid continuing aftershocks, freezing weather and snow have been further complicating the search.
In Malatya, a city in the eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, rescue teams searched for survivors in below-freezing weather Tuesday.
Hakan Burak Altunoz / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Photo: Dust rises from the rubble as search intensifies in Turkey
Emergency teams search for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, southern Turkey, on Tuesday.
Hussein Malla / AP
India’s aid team and relief equipment arrive in Turkey
India’s first dispatch of its aid team arrived in Turkey on Tuesday morning, with a second supply en route, officials said.
More than 50 search and rescue personnel, as well as dog squads, relief equipment and medicines had been sent, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar wrote on Twitter.
“India continues to support the people of Türkiye in their hour of need,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said on Twitter.
Photo: Search continues amid port fire in Iskenderun, Turkey
A woman searches for victims at the site of a collapsed building as plumes of black smoke rise in the Turkish port city of Iskenderun on Tuesday.
Erdem Sahin / EPA via Shutterstock
Search and rescue efforts continue as death toll soars past 5,000
Search and rescue efforts continued in Turkey and Syria on Tuesday following Monday’s devastating earthquakes as the death toll continued to climb, soaring past 5,000.
In Turkey, at least 3,419 people were killed, the country’s vice president said in an update. In Syria, the death toll in government-held areas climbed to 812, according to the Ministry of Health. Meanwhile, at least 790 died in the country’s rebel-held territories, according to the White Helmets.
That takes the total to at least 5,021 killed across Turkey and Syria, with thousands more injured and many still buried beneath the rubble.
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REALTORS shall not knowingly or recklessly make false or misleading statements about other real estate professionals, their businesses, or their business practices. (Amended 1/12)
Imagine you’re working with an agent or broker, either within your own brokerage or across the negotiating table. The two of you don’t see eye to eye, and you simply can’t stand the sight of this person. Now, you’re at happy hour, clutching onto anyone who’ll listen to talk about your dislike of this other Realtor and speculating on what nefarious misdeeds they’re (probably) up to.
Congratulations. You may have just violated the Realtor Code of Ethics. Article 15 lays out a comprehensive list of ways in which you must refrain from attacking the character or business practices of another Realtor.
Some of the specifics include:
Not initiating false or misleading statements about another Realtor, their business or their business practices (15-2)
Not passing on gossip that’s false or misleading about another Realtor, their business or their business practices (15-2)
Not posting false or misleading statements about another Realtor, their business or their business practices on social media nor passing them along in writing (via email or text, for example) (15-2)
Correcting false or misleading statements you’ve made in person or in writing once you’ve found out that they’re false or misleading (15-3)
You may think of Article 15 as being primarily about making statements to clients or potential clients about a competitor, and much of the case law pertains to this. However, the Article does not specify that, and much of the shit-talking that Realtors frequently engage in, whether in the office or socially, constitutes a potential violation.
There are many ways to run afoul of Article 15
While this part of the Code of Ethics isn’t more important than any other, it’s the one that we have the most control over — because we can control running our mouths. Furthermore, it impacts the reputation of the industry by undermining the professional reputation of both the speaker and the subject.
In addition, Article 15 is probably the one that everyone has violated at one time or another. Whether you’ve told a “funny” story at a dinner party about what a friend-of-a-friend (incorrectly) said about an agent or you’ve hurled misleading accusations at a broker when leaving their brokerage, you’ve been in violation.
Remember, this is about more than agent-on-agent crime. It’s also brokers talking about the “weak link” in their brokerage. It’s team leaders complaining and speculating about an annoying team member. It’s agents who spread rumors about higher-ups in their organization out of a sense of grievance.
“Another issue we commonly see that agents aren’t always aware of is that many of the real estate portals out there are also Realtor members. We’ve all heard complaints about the portals, but these negative comments are Article 15 violations ever since the portals have become brokerages,” managing broker of California at Side and a local professional standards chair, Casey McLoed says.
What does it mean to be a professional under Article 15?
Everybody has personal preferences. Maybe there’s someone in your brokerage who just irritates you or someone you hate sitting across from at the closing table. Maybe there’s a big-time Realtor in your market who you feel has taken money out of your pocket.
You’re allowed to dislike that person. You’re allowed to say they’re ugly or a bad dresser, whether to their face or behind their back. What you’re not allowed to do is falsely call them dishonest. Call them uncommitted to their job or their clients. Call them crooked or inept. All of these speak to their business and business practices.
Addressing it the right way
If you think someone has acted in a way that’s dishonest or that they’ve done something that’s against the law or the Code of Ethics, there are ways to address that.
File a complaint with their broker or with the Board of Realtors. If you wouldn’t take that step, if you couldn’t substantiate your allegations to that degree, you have no business passing that gossip along.
NAR provides extensive resources regarding the process for filing a complaint as well as the subsequent arbitration process. Before you run your mouth, check it out here.
One place Article 15 takes a beating is when a disgruntled agent is leaving a brokerage. They may take that as a free pass to say terrible things about the broker, the brokerage or the agents they worked with.
Resist this temptation.
If you have an issue with your broker or another agent, reach out to them directly. If it’s personal, address it — or get over it. If it’s professional, find out the process for filing a complaint or what internal process exists to address your concerns.
Most of all, be honest with yourself about the root of your problem.
Are you mad that the other agent is more successful than you are? Are you resentful that your production is down this year? Are you having personal problems that are making you overly sensitive and angry — then bleeding over into your professional perceptions?
Consider how trash-talking makes you look
Most of all, think about how talking this way makes you look:
Think about how you look when you’ve had one too many and can’t stop talking.
Think about what it says when you’re sending texts and emails around blasting another Realtor, especially if your allegations are demonstrably untrue.
Think about the impact on your reputation if that Realtor decides to invoke Article 15 and file a complaint against you for your words and actions.
In the moment, you may think that you are justified, but playing the victim or being a gossip-monger will never make you look good. Consider whether broadcasting your personal grievance is going to be worse for you or the object of your wrath.
“Being heated or upset over a situation is something we all experience whether personally or professionally, McLoed said. “We all know that very regrettable statements or actions can be made in these situations as well. But you need to keep your composure in those scenarios.”
McLoed tells agents to open an email — address it to themselves — write out their complaint or whatever thoughts they have, and then leave that email as a draft and wait a day before returning to it.
“Now imagine this message sitting in front of the tribunal at an ethics hearing, or worse, projected up on the wall in a courtroom, then ask yourself: ‘Do I really want to say this? Do I really want my colleagues, my peers to see me communicate in this way?’” McLoed said.
“The answer is no. You vented, but only to yourself, you’ve had time to cool down. Delete the draft, and continue on in a professional manner.”
If you think you’ve been the victim of an Article 15 violation
On the other side of the coin, if you have been the subject of an Article 15 violation, you may be considering filing a complaint. Talk to your manager first to find out if you have recourse within your brokerage and to determine what the process looks like.
Talk to the representative at your local association, as well. Find out what evidence you’d need to prove your claim, and make sure you have it. You don’t want to file a grievance and then find out that you can’t make your charges stick.
Before you go through channels, you may want to explore other options, like a cease-and-desist letter from your attorney. In addition, if you have proof that the violation has had a material impact on your business and earnings, you may choose to seek legal recourse and compensation.
According to Sandra Miller, president of Engel & Völkers Santa Monica and a member of the professional standards committee, presiding officer, ethics advocate and mediator for the Greater Los Angeles Association of Realtors: “Agents should be held accountable for inappropriate behavior, and the only way to ensure that they are is to file an ethics complaint. Do not be afraid of the process, most of the country has adopted the usage of an ethics advocate who can walk you through the process. Call your local Association Professional Standards Administrator, and they will walk you through the process.”
Troy Palmquist is the founder and broker of DOORA Properties in Southern California. Follow him on Instagram or connect with him on LinkedIn.
Kelly Craft explained to an audience final 7 days that 1 of her 1st acts in office if she is elected as governor this 12 months will be to “dismantle” the Kentucky Section of Training.
The audio of Craft, who is running in a crowded discipline of candidates in the Republican primary, was presented by American Bridge 21st Century, a national Democratic PAC that sent a tracker to history her at her Feb. 2 campaign function in Versailles. Her campaign later confirmed the audio.
“I will explain to you that just one of the extremely 1st parts of action as governor, the Kentucky Department of Education will be dismantled,” Craft stated, adopted by applause from the viewers.
Soon after the applause, Craft additional: “We need to revamp this full division.” She did not share particulars about what she would like to improve.
Afterwards at the event past week, Craft doubled down with the exact wording, saying “we have to hold the Kentucky Division of Education accountable, and the only way to do that is to dismantle it through a piece of legislation and to begin more than.”
Toni Konz Tatman, a spokesperson for KDE, reported the department is not below the handle of the governor’s workplace, so Craft would not have the authority to dismantle the company if elected.
“No one can conceal that our recent Point out Board of Instruction and Division of Schooling are a mess ― pushing woke agendas in our educational facilities,” Craft explained Monday in an emailed assertion from a spokesperson. “I’ll dismantle our existing board and start out above. I’ll empower dad and mom, send additional methods to the classroom, and finish the woke nonsense getting pushed in our educational facilities.”
The Craft campaign later issued a statement confirming she wishes to dismantle equally the board and office, replacing them with folks “who empower mother and father and will make certain instructors educate the ABC’s not the CRT’s.”
At the party very last week, Craft ongoing on to say, “when I appoint persons to the point out college board, I want people persons to be Senate verified.”
The governor appoints users of the Kentucky Board of Training, and they will have to be verified by the Senate by the end of the up coming legislative session. If an appointee is not confirmed, they can no for a longer period be on the board and the governor ought to select a person else.
A 2021 legislation prohibits Kentucky governors from reorganizing the Kentucky Board of Education on their own through an executive purchase, like how Gov. Andy Beshear did on his inauguration day in 2019. Most of the current board members’ terms expire in April 2024.
“They need to have to be verified,” Craft continued. “We all deserve to know who the governor is appointing to make decisions based on the curriculum for our small children and the upcoming of our young children.”
The names of appointees are often shared by media shops soon immediately after the governor’s place of work announces the appointment. The names of present-day KBE associates are also publicly accessible.
Even though KBE is liable for overseeing Kentucky’s public college process, district superintendents — not the board — determine what curriculum their schools use.
Craft also dinged the Kentucky Office of Schooling for allegedly “discouraging instructors from having relationships with the mother and father.”
“Who does that damage the most? It hurts our young children,” Craft ongoing.
That is not a coverage of KDE’s, Tatman verified. “We are not genuinely guaranteed wherever that’s coming from,” Tatman stated.
Tatman mentioned KDE has additional than 1,000 workers, with 385 dependent in Frankfort and 698 utilized at the Kentucky School for the Deaf, Kentucky School for the Blind and spot know-how centers.
Somerset Mayor Alan Keck, who is also managing for governor as a Republican, issued a crucial statement right after the PAC tweeted out a six-second clip of Craft vowing to dismantle the division if she will take office environment.
Stating that the community training technique has flaws that require to be reformed, Keck additional: “But to advise, as it seems Kelly Craft has, that dismantling this technique is the solution to its challenges is not leadership at all.”
“I’ll put in the operate as governor together with Kentucky teachers and administrators to make our schooling technique one particular of the ideal in The usa.”
Reach Olivia Krauth at okrauth@courierjournal.com and on Twitter at @oliviakrauth. Get to reporter Joe Sonka at jsonka@courierjournal.com and stick to him on Twitter at @joesonka.
There is no scarcity of digital channels these days for individuals to interact with each individual other, either at get the job done or at enjoy. But travel managers (and their appointed journey administration businesses) can however wrestle to uncover the most efficient medium to communicate with travellers and travel arrangers.
“The technological innovation that vacation groups have to interact with their travellers hasn’t genuinely progressed at the similar level as systems like Slack,” suggests Adam Kerr, founder and CEO of Tripism. “One of our shoppers stated to me: ‘We have two kinds of traveller engagement. One particular is to deliver an email to 60,000 workers. The other is to adhere a PDF on the intranet where by no one particular will go through it’.”
Travel professionals have to be much more bold now, according to Mark Cuschieri, world head of travel at UBS. “Some travellers are operating from property, some in the office,” he says. “How do you get your concept across? It’s not just through one particular interaction asset. If you want to extend your achieve, you are heading to have to use a number of channels.”
Electronic mail alone will not slash it, Cuschieri insists. “We connect with an electronic mail a tweemail right here,” he claims.
Kerr’s shopper was presumably exaggerating for impact when expressing the only alternatives were being electronic mail or intranet. Other possibilities have been about for a even though. One particular illustration is contextual mobile messages, which are sent to travellers at the suitable point of their journey – a reminder when their flight lands to take the practice fairly than a taxi from the airport to the city centre, for example.
“If you time them properly, you are not only heading to make the traveller joyful, you’re going to conserve funds,” claims Andy Menkes, founder and CEO of Partnership Vacation Consulting.
Contextual messaging is a typical aspect of cell apps provided by TMCs and other folks. However, these are travel-particular channels, not the a lot more standard communication platforms travellers use each working day. Some persons believe that requirements to modify.
“We have acquired that travellers want journey technologies to be exactly where they are at their desk or on the transfer,” states Katie Skitterall, team commercial director for ATPI, the multinational TMC. “The the greater part of our clients are in Microsoft Teams – or Slack if you are in the US – and WhatsApp in their personalized lives.
“Often you have received to go outside the house where by you are in purchase to e book or talk with your TMC. Other TMCs are striving to do it with their have chat functionality, which is a bit of a transform-off simply because you really don’t want to go somewhere else you want to be exactly where you are all the time.”
It is a philosophy that extends beyond communication. Concluding that many enterprises are, in Skitterall’s terms, “Microsoft houses”, ATPI is performing on a system to combine much of its client technological innovation into Microsoft, beginning with profile, itinerary, invoice and approval instruments pilots in excess of the future several months.
ATPI’s existence on Teams is previously up and jogging. One client employing the channel alongside electronic mail is the digital sports activities content and media group DAZN. “Teams is a chat functionality,” states worldwide travel supervisor Kim Trenter. “It’s great for a rapid problem since people today are not in the office environment that substantially any additional when they may well question you over the water cooler.”
Teams is an enterprise comms platform but ATPI believes in partaking by personal channels too, specially for personnel arranging their vacation exterior standard performing hours. Appropriately, ATPI now communicates through WhatsApp too.
Any time you are pushing individually identifiable details or enterprise proprietary info, you probably have to get approval from corporate safety
Trenter loves the concept. “In some marketplaces like India and Brazil we previously connect in just the business by way of WhatsApp,” she states. “I know a couple of firms which have rolled out WhatsApp with their TMC and discovered that actually prosperous, so with any luck , we’ll be doing that about the upcoming quarter. ATPI presently has the capacity to do it. It is just a concern of creating guaranteed our protection staff can approve it.”
Engagement is not just about chat, even so. It also involves supplying expertise resources this kind of as vacation policy, insurance plan specifics and directions for new workers. DAZN residences all this details on Microsoft collaborative system SharePoint, even though other corporations generally do so on their standard employee intranets.
Tripism’s Kerr argues all these kinds of platforms are way too static and inadequately configured to the individual requires of traveller engagement. At the identical time, he suggests, engagement has turn out to be a a lot more intricate, specialised job for two factors. The to start with is that there is a ton much more to interact about than a decade back: sustainability and wellbeing, for illustration. The next is that companies ordinarily have much additional travel companions.
Kerr also observes the development for enterprises to go to professional platforms for other business features, these kinds of as Workday for HR and Coupa for procurement. He introduced Tripism to fill the gap he describes. “We imagine traveller information and engagement has grow to be so advanced and sophisticated that you now need a specialist platform,” he says.
Tripism purchasers consist of Barclays, Nike, Oracle and, curiously, Microsoft, perhaps reinforcing the position that traveller engagement requires far more than a blend of Groups, e-mail and SharePoint. The Tripism offering incorporates customised content this sort of as positive aspects and promotions summaries for the client’s most well-liked suppliers, plus location and vacation programme facts and suggestions from travellers, like hotel evaluations and travel strategies, as effectively as surveys of their excursion knowledge.
“Every time another person returns from vacation they get a concept asking them to charge every single section of their journey,” says Cuschieri, a Tripism buyer. “If there was an situation, an automatic electronic mail goes to the respective regional head and we act upon it within just 24 several hours. That is what our travellers like: they know that they will often get a reaction. We are equipped to measure the functionality of every single part of the journey and we know where we possibly have pain factors.”
Supplied that UBS runs Tripism alongside other details resources such as its agency mobile app, an apparent chance with deploying many platforms, such as 1 solely for traveller engagement, is fragmentation and inconsistency. Therefore, Cuschieri warns, a key need for a effective omnichannel method is good interconnectivity.
“From any asset you can go to someplace else,” he says. “If you are on Tripism and have to have to know what our vacation plan is, you can go to our journey plan. Our online reserving tool also has the means to ping again to all our portals. We replicate our messaging or we drive individuals concerning the platforms, so anywhere you are you can constantly get to where you need to have, whether or not it is to make a scheduling, appear at our resort programme, make a evaluate or chat to an agent. This does make it a lot a lot more complicated but there is no 1 system we feel will suffice.”
A further very important multi-system thought is protection. “Any time you are pushing personally identifiable information and facts or enterprise proprietary facts, you probably have to get approval from company safety,” states Menkes. “The minute a PNR is up in the ether it is good sport except it is guarded.”
Skitterall suggests suitable precautions can be taken. For instance, ATPI would not take photos from travellers of their passports on WhatsApp. Instead, it would mail a url to a protected web page exactly where the image could be uploaded.
But most likely the most critical suggestions of all, appropriately ample for an engagement tactic, is to interact with stakeholders about that strategy ahead of embarking on it. “It sounds seriously primary but I just check with journey bookers and vital travellers what kind of communication they want as a substitute of giving them what I believe they want,” claims Trenter.
For now the solution to Trenter’s query is Groups and WhatsApp, but what following? TikTok and Snapchat anyone? “Why not?” suggests Skitterall, adding that it is only a make any difference of time just before the generation which utilizes this sort of platforms turn into business travellers by themselves. “All these up-and-coming social platforms – we’re going to want to be there,” she claims.
Harry Styles experienced a night time to keep in mind. Not only did he take home two Grammy Awards on Sunday evening, but he also served up some of the ceremony’s most talked-about outfits.
The previous A person Route star began the night in a plunging technicolor jumpsuit that revealed a collection of butterfly and fowl tattoos on his otherwise bare upper body. The vibrant harlequin sample was brought to lifestyle by Swarovski crystals, though the legs of the sparkling garment flared out in excess of a pair of white boots.
Harry Variations in a rainbow-coloured harlequin jumpsuit by Egonlab and Swarovski. Credit rating: Amy Sussman/Getty Visuals
Even though Types typically opts for red-carpet looks — and without a doubt jumpsuits — by Italian label Gucci, this just one was intended by Egonlab, an rising French manufacturer regarded for its genderless creations.
The outfit divided social media, with comments ranging from “he can pretty much dress in anything at all” to “appears to be like he forgot the jacket.” Some others dubbed the look an illustration of “clowncore,” while the singer also drew comparisons — the two favorable and disparaging — to two of Britain’s most flamboyant pop icons: Elton John and David Bowie.
Jumpsuits have turn into a little something of a signature glance for Models, who consistently wore them on phase through his Enjoy On Tour. It was no shock, hence, that he experienced a next a single all set for his much-anticipated Grammys efficiency.
Harry Styles in jumpsuit quantity two as he performs “As it Was.” Credit: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Using the stage for a rendition of strike track “As It Was” (which you may possibly bear in mind showcased a online video of the singer donning a — you guessed it — sequined purple jumpsuit), the star opted for a considerably less revealing, even though no significantly less exuberant, selection.
The overall performance drew a standing ovation from Taylor Swift, and his silver fringed structure gained plaudits online, too, although Twitter customers also when compared it to a embellished Xmas tree and a pair of metallic fringe curtains.
Harry Kinds accepts the Very best Pop Vocal Album award for “Harry’s House.” Credit: JC Olivera/WireImage/Getty Pictures
Variations, who is recognized for daring and gender-fluid manner, opted for a little something a lot more official to collect his awards. Getting the stage to scoop up the coveted Album of the 12 months and Greatest Pop Vocal Album for “Harry’s Residence,” he appeared dapper in a cropped white accommodate jacket and wide-legged tan-colored trousers.
Even then, he couldn’t assistance but deliver some sparkle to the outfit in a shimmering reduced-lower top.
