Aftermath of the Italian Earthquake
HILL: A race against the clock in Italy after a massive earthquake levels towns. It's now been 36 hours since a powerful quake struck. And the critical window to find anyone under the ruble alive is closing. The death toll stands at 241. So there are some moments of joy. Survivors freed. A ten-year-old girl you see trapped here for more than 17 hours. You can see there as she clings with a rescuer bringing her to safety. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen is in one of the hardest hit towns.</s>FREDRIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Racing against time as a series of aftershocks continue to shake central Italy. Rescue workers scrambling for a second day to find survivors after a devastating 6.2 magnitude earthquake. Amid the rubble blanketing the town of Amatrice, 90 miles northeast of Rome, signs of life. "Are you able to breathe," the rescue worker asks. The desperate answer, "only a bit." A little girl, found alive under piles of broken concrete. Those rescuers saw a tiny foot, then a leg. In the video, a man seems to be talking to the girl, as someone repeatedly says the name, "Julia." Moments later, covered in gray dust, they pull her out. Joined by bystanders, the Italian Red Cross ratcheting up rescue efforts, as they face the threat of continued tremors.</s>BARBIE NADU, CNN (ph): The problem, of course, until now, has been access.</s>PLEITGEN: CNN's Barbie Nadu was broadcasting live from nearby Saleto (ph), with rescue workers on the roof of a damaged home, suddenly there's a roar.</s>NADU: Geez.</s>PLEITGEN: The earthquake's epicenter surrounded by mountains and historic brick buildings, causing a deadly combination of landslides and easily collapsible homes. Before and after photos from Google Earth show a town reduced to rubble.</s>EMMA TUCKER, BRITISH SURVIVOR: The house was trembling, shaking. It got more and more intense. It felt like someone had put a bulldozer into the house to try to knock it down.</s>PLEITGEN: And, Erica, one of the things that's making that race against time that the authorities are in right now even more difficult is the aftershocks that we continue to feel here, especially right here in the epicenter of Amatrice. It was only about an hour ago that we had a massive aftershock here in this town. Actually, another building in the town collapsed after that. And, of course, in a lot of these buildings, a lot of the rescue workers are at work. So they were all scrambling to safety. But, of course, all of that reduces the chance to find survivors here in the rubble, in what is already this race against time as they believe the window to be able to survive, if a building is collapsed on you and by some chance you got into some sort of pocket or some sort of crevasse is about 72 hours. We're now 36 hours back. So time really is running out.</s>HILL: Fred Pleitgen for us this morning. Fred, thank you. For ways you can help quick victims, visit cnn.com/impact. Still to come, it is supposed to help stop the spread of Zika. Now a controversial pesticide being sprayed right here in the U.S., though, is raising new fears.