UN pushes for $1B in funding for Turkish earthquake survivors

The United Nations has launched a $1 billion appeal to ensure humanitarian aid for 5.2 million survivors of the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria last week.

He said the Turkish appeal "was designed in very close cooperation with the government of Turkey, which is leading the relief efforts."

"This is the number they came up with for the focus on people who need the most humanitarian aid, most quickly, and where the U.N. can be most effective," Dujarric said. He said Turkey has "a very efficient search and rescue and humanitarian system."