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(NECN/ABC) - The injured, the dying, the dazed, and the frightened. Hundreds of thousands of
survivors in China's Sichuan province can now do little more than wait
wait for medicine, wait for food, wait to be rescued.

While more aftershocks and more rain keep adding to their misery.
The Chinese government has dispatched 50,000 troops from the People's
Liberation Army to carry in supplies and carry out the dead and injured. But even they are being hampered by bad weather.

There are estimates of over 3.5million homes and structures
Destroyed.

The official death toll has already passed 13,000 but will certainly go much
higher. Chinese media report nearly 20,000 people were buried in just one
area of Sichuan.

In the county of Beichuan at least 1000 students and teachers were buried
under a school building and at least 8000 people died in that same town.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has been the very public face of the government
in this crisis visiting site after site in the hard hit area.

Grabbing a bull horn he tells the people to "Stay calm, Be Confident, Be
Courageous". Wen is determined to send a strong message that the Chinese
government is in control and doing its best. But even he often seems close to
tears.

In fact, we have seen many aid workers sobbing as they search for survivors
in the rubble of towns and villages. Only 86 days before the Olympics...