Rescuers on the ground in Venezuela following earthquakes
Dana Marie McNicholl reports on the dire situation in Venezuela following two massive earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, with a death toll of 920 and more than 50,000 missing. Florida volunteers, particularly the Venezuelan community of Doral, are tirelessly collecting and packaging humanitarian aid. U.S. military forces from Southern Command, including search and rescue teams, also arrived on the ground to provide critical assistance.
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The wife of former MLB outfielder Gorkys Hernández was among those killed in the devastating earthquakes that ravaged Venezuela earlier in the week.
Hernandez made the heartbreaking revelation about Deisy Maria Tovar De Hernandez in an Instagram post on Saturday.
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Emergency services respond to the site of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela, June 24, 2026. (Reuters/Leonardo Fernández Viloria)
“Queen of my life, you are and you will be the most beautiful, the most beautiful, the most precious, the best woman in the world, who always looked in bad times for a way to get back up, you were and you are for me the most beautiful woman of my life,” he wrote in the message. “You will always be with me at all times and in every moment, fly high my princess my queen may God have you in his glory and guide me to move forward and raise our family, I love you rest in peace my daughter give strength to the love of my life, because we had a mission but here I am to fulfill it and you taught me to be strong at all times of life.”
Deisy was at the Eduards Hotel in La Guaira, Venezuela, with many family members of the Delfines de La Guaira players, as the team prepared to face the Tigres de Aragua in a Mexican baseball league competition, according to the New York Post.
San Francisco Giants center fielder Gorkys Hernandez runs to the dugout in the bottom of the eighth inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado on September 3, 2018. (Isaiah J. Downing/USA TODAY Sports)
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Hernández and his teammates rushed to the hotel after the match was suspended. He played seven years in the majors with the Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants and others.
Venezuela suffered back-to-back earthquakes of 7.2 and 7.5, which caused destruction across the country. More than 1,400 people are believed to have died and 68,900 others are missing.
There’s a pile of dead bodies there from last night. Newborn babies,” Mileidy Romero, who was among those searching Caraballeda for anyone trapped in the rubble. “At 8 p.m. (yesterday), there were people alive there, and they didn’t bother to rescue them. We located several bodies, and they didn’t help us recover them either. What are they waiting for? »
San Francisco Giants outfielder Gorkys Hernandez reacts after a hit during the fourth inning against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California on September 15, 2018. (Kiel Maddox/USA TODAY Sports)
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The natural disaster struck on Thursday and the search continues.
