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A week of reconstruction in Chile after the earthquake was marked by NBC's Mark Potter in the remote south, where both army and navy are finally delivering supplies. ABC's Jeffrey Kofman was in Santiago where a telethon fundraiser was about to go on air. Its guest of honor will be Bruno Sandoval, the subject of an iconic piece of photournalism. He was searching through the mudstrewn debris that was once his home when he found a splattered national flag. Sandoval retrieved it and cleaned it up and that famous photo was taken: "He is in every newspaper here, every magazine. TV programs closed with his image."
NBC followed up with George Lewis filing the domestic angle from the southern end of the San Andreas Fault in California's San Bernardino County. The Cajon Pass, "a vital California lifeline, carrying Interstate highway traffic, rail traffic, power, oil and natural gas supplies" would be cut off in a big earthquake. The probability that such a quake will happen before 2040 is 94%.
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