UN procuring 10,000 body bags as Venezuela death toll continues to rise

Frustrations are rising in Venezuela as the death toll from last week's powerful twin earthquakes continues to go up, while the search for survivors grows more desperate

Fewer people are being pulled from collapsed buildings, and survivors say help is too slow

National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez says the confirmed death toll has reached 1,719, with more than 5,000 injured and nearly 16,000 displaced

Among the dead are three Americans, according to U.S. officials, while 12 more Americans remain missing

Venezuela's latest government tally shows nearly 200 buildings completely flattened and several hundred more severely damaged

Experts told Reuters the disaster was likely made worse by years of poor building code enforcement, weak licensing practices, and infrastructure neglect

And as they've yet to excavate many of the collapsed buildings, the United Nations coordinator in Venezuela says organization is preparing for the death toll to rise significantly

At least 2,500 structures affected, most of which fully collapsed. So we are definitely looking at a number that is higher than the one already reported

I can give you a proxy indicator. we are procuring, and this is something that has been agreed with the authorities here, 10,000

body bags. Meanwhile, relatives of the more than 100 Venezuelans deported by the U.S. government

just hours before the quakes are searching for their loved ones after a hotel they were staying

in, which was in the hardest hit state of La Guayra, collapsed. Officials say some of the 146

deportees, which included 19 women and seven children, made it out, but many remain trapped

under the rubble