Life limping back to normal

YUSHU, Qinghai - As truckloads of food, water and tents poured in amid inclement weather, a state of relative normalcy has begun to return to Gyegu, the epicenter of a powerful tremor last Wednesday that has left 1944 people dead and 216 missing in Qinghai province.

Vendors returned to the streets for the first time since the 7.1 magnitude earthquake - China's strongest in nearly two years - which reduced nearly 90 percent of buildings to rubble.

Dispelling the gloom briefly was news of two miracle rescues.