Indonesia Disasters; Boko Haram Threatens to Kill Schoolgirl
HOWELL: More than a week after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Indonesia, the hope of finding survivors is fading. Rescue teams are still searching for more than 1,000 people who are missing. But they are mostly bringing back bodies. Officials say more than 1,500 people have died and that --</s>HOWELL: -- that number will likely rise as information from remote areas continues to trickle in. Joining me now from Palu, Indonesia, Wahyu Widayanto. Wahyu is with CARE Indonesia's emergency response, the coordinator. We appreciate your time today, Wahyu. First of all, tell us about the difficulty of getting out to those remote areas and, of course, finding people who may still be missing. Do you hear me here on the phone? Are you with us?</s>WAHYU WIDAYANTO, CARE INDONESIA EMERGENCY RESPONSE COORDINATOR: Yes, hello, George.</s>HOWELL: Thank you again for taking time with us. We are looking at images of what seems to be so many people in this area where they are searching for people who could be missing. Talk to us, if you would, just about the difficulty of getting out to those remote areas.</s>WIDAYANTO: First of all</s>HOWELL: Wahyu, again, we're looking at this image, these live images right now from Palu, Indonesia, where it is 4:46 pm . And again, what we're seeing, so that you understand it, we're seeing so many people who are all together in what seems to be an area where they are searching -- still searching for survivors. What is the mood of people there? Just given what everyone has gone through, how are people dealing with this so many days on?</s>WIDAYANTO: Yes, yes. Some people still are</s>HOWELL: Still with you, yes. Go ahead and continue. We may be having some technical issues with Wahyu Widayanto's phone. But again, what he has explained to us is that the search continues there and it will certainly take some time, an extended amount of time, certainly many, many more weeks, possibly months to reach out to those rural areas and find people who are still missing and the continue to recover bodies. We again appreciate Wahyu Widayanto, who joined us on the phone from CARE Indonesia. And, of course, if you would like to help victims who were affected by this earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia, you can find help at a link at cnn.com/impact. That is where you can find again links to organizations that you can trust that are working on relief efforts there. In Nigeria, the parents of a kidnapped schoolgirl tell CNN that the terror group Boko Haram is threatening to kill their daughter if its demands are not met. Our Farai Sevenzo has the disturbing details from Nairobi.</s>FARAI SEVENZO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There are real concerns in Northeast Nigeria about the fate of 15-year-old Leah Sharibu, who was abducted along with 100 other of her schoolmates from the Government Girls' Science and Technological College up in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria. Over the last couple days, Leah's parents, Nathan and Rebecca Sharibu, have issued a desperate plea for the government of Nigeria to try to do everything they can to bring their daughter back. They say that the militants have threatened to kill Leah this October if their demands are not met. No one has been privy to them but we know that, in the past, they usually involve money, exchanging of money and the freeing of captured Boko Haram insurgents. Now we don't know what stage these negotiations are at. And we do know that October, no firm fixed date but October is when reportedly the Boko Haram militants have said that they will kill 15-year-old Leah. And President Buhari is very keen to be seen to be on the side of those who are aching for better security up in the northeast of Nigeria. He tweeted in the last couple of days, "Toady I spoke with Ms. Rebecca Sharibu to reiterate our determination to bring her daughter, Leah, back home safely." And of course he says we will do everything we can to bring them back. There are over 1,000 kids that have been taken --</s>SEVENZO: -- by Boko Haram since 2013. And remember also, April 2014, 200 girls taken from Chibok. About 93 of those still remain missing. But the fate of Leah no one quite knows what will happen to her -- Farai Sevenzo, CNN, Nairobi.</s>HOWELL: Farai, thank you for that reporting. You're watching NEWSROOM. We'll be right back.