awesome. damian lillard like he does, coming through in the clutch to beat the pacers tyrese halburton. it was extra special for lillard. went to college in utah at weber state, wore his school jersey for the competition. so he was really pleased he was able to come through and win that three-point competition. the all-star game, team lebron versus team giannis. see it all on tnt at 6:00 evening. i m taken by mcclung. the reaction from people was priceless. he looks like somebody i used to kappy off of math class in high school. he doesn t look like a slam dunk champion. incredible. thank you so much. that s what makes it awesome. what are they supposed to look like? the next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. and good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. good morning. i m boris sanchez. former president jimmy carter is receiving hospice care at his home in georgia. what we know about his condition and what his family is sayi
get a briefing on china while members of congress are holding hearings demanding answers about the u.s. response to that spy balloon that floated across the u.s. we ll talk to congressman gregory meeks who attended a house briefing on the matter earlier this morning. president biden is back on the road today heading to a key battleground state to sell his agenda, and he s doubling down on accusations that some republicans want to cut medicare and social security. and migrant crossing borders are up. they re up 700%, but not through the southern border. we ll explain. we begin with devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria where the staggering death toll is now more than 19,000 as workers are going through ruins in hopes of finding more survivors. i want to warn you that the following footage is disturbing, but it is the reality. the reality that people are facing today. right now dozens of unidentified bodies are laying out on the ground in a makeshift morgue in souther
federal government. plus, in the next 30 minutes, president biden takes his political fight to florida, home to his biggest potential rivals. and devastation in syria and turkey, almost unimaginable as the death toll closes in on 20,000. we re live in turkey where one of our reporters just witnessed an incredible rescue. but we start with some explosive moments in those hearings we just mentioned, both democratic and republican lawmakers going hard at the biden administration and its officials for not doing something sooner about that chinese surveillance balloon. the truth is i got a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state. by the administration s logic, we would allow the chinese to fly surveillance balloons over the pentagon or other sensitive sites near populated areas. as an alaskan, i am so angry. i want to use other words, but i m not going to. i want to bring in nbc s ryan nobles who s on capitol hill and michael crowley as the diplomatic c
right now, two separate senate committees are drilling into u.s. and china relations. in the wake of that chinese spy balloon entering the u.s. just last hour senator jon tester made the stakes abundantly clear. china s a real threat and one we need to take seriously, which is exactly why we re here today. house members this morning receiving a classified briefing on the balloon ahead of a vote scheduled just a few minutes from now to condemn china s use of a spy craft. senators are set to receive an all members briefing of their own in about 30 minutes. all of this happening as the state department is revealing fresh details about china s surveillance program this morning. and just what the balloon hovering over the u.s. was capable of. in a few moments, i ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to china max baucus about what we can learn and the very real threat posed by china. plus, fading hopes for survival, days after devastating earthquakes rocked turkey and syria. the
some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s the majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i ll give you a copy. i ll give you a copy of the proposal. good morning, everyone. welcome to capitol hill to the balcony here. listen, it was very interesting watching. i was asking kaitlin as that was playing, have you been as a white house correspondent to the state of the union. you say you are always at the white house. yeah. and you have been watching them. i don t know if i have ever seen one like that, to have that reaction. i remember the you lie moment with president barack obama, but i don t know if i remember one like that. i think what s so different in those two moments is the reaction. when the lie moment happened, everyone was stunned. last night it was feisty. almost expected. yeah. the president trying to cut through all of the noise and heckling from republicans. did he get his message acr