thinking of a crew. thanks for joining us. i ll be back at 9:00 for a special edition of outfront. ac 360 starts now. good evening. we begin tonight with the search for survivors in turkey and northern syria after one of the strongest earthquakes on record struck the area at the worst time imaginable, early in the morning with most people at home . those are just two buildings, two of more than 5,600 that have collapsed in the quake, the aftershocks and the aftermath on the turkish side. already in turkey and syria, nearly 4,000 people are known to have died, according to turkish officials and syrian state media. the number has been climbing with each new update. nearly 19,000 more are said to be injured. a major international aid effort is gearing up, but the priority right now is search and rescue. take a look. this is video from cnn from a town close toward where the quake was centered. for the last several hours now, we ve been watching crews there trying to make
and the u.s. justice department issues a scathing report of the louisville police, finding a pattern of excessive force and racist conduct within the department. we ll bring you the disturbing results of the federal investigation launched after the killing of breonna taylor. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, russian mercenaries claim they have gained new ground in bakhmut, now a flashpoint in vladamir putin s war against ukraine. president volodymyr zelenskyy tells me his forces are vowing, vowing to stand strong, even as they acknowledge theeadvancing city. but first, to the war zone. melissa bell has the latest on the battle for bakhmut. reporter: bakhmut, now a place of horror and death. before the war, bakhmut was about life. its sculpted hedges and rose gardens regularly instagramed. a picture of peace. and one of the oldest cities in the donbas. its genteel facades buil
covid-19 pandemic. that s according to a newly updated classified intelligence report from the u.s. energy department. according to two sources energy officials have low confidence in this latest assessment. that means the information is either not reliable enough or it s too fragmented to know for sure. it only adds to this big divide within the u.s. government over whether the pandemic began in china 2019, as a result of a lab leak, or whether it emerged naturally. president biden specifically requested that the national labs which are part of the department of energy be brought into this assessment. because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here. we need to do extensive hearings. i hope our democratic colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. but this is a country that has no problem coming out and lying to the world. steven jiang live from beijing with the
heartbreaking images continuing to come out of turkey and syria this morning. rescuers there doing their best to dig through tons of debris hoping, looking for survivors after monday s massive 7.8 earthquake and the number of incredibly strong aftershocks. i wanted to warn you, and we have shown you them before, but the images that you are about to see are disturbing. as of this moment, at least 5,000 people that we know of have been killed, including this 15-year-old, and her father sitting distraught clutching her hand after she was crushed under layers of rubble. that poor man and little girl and did not survive with conditions brutal and stuck outside under freezing temperatures and waiting for some help to come. translator: i have two nephews in the wreckage behind me, and at 2:00 yesterday, building collapsed and hundreds more buildings like this, and thousands under the rubble, and the turkish authorities won t let them save us by our means, but they won t send any
hello, everybody. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us. 6,000 plus dead. 6,000 plus. grief running over turkey and syria. hope, too, running out as rescue crews continue to look for thousands still lost in the rubble of a monster earthquake. plus, tonight, the president tells the country what he s done and where he wants to go advisers promise a classic joe biden speech. out but his state of the union collides with challenges and implications of a newly divided washington. plus, briefing, congress getting a briefing on the chinese balloon. and raises questions why the pentagon was so slow to shoot down that suspected spy in the sky. up first, a dramatic harrowing race to find survivors it s barely 24 hours after a massive earthquake hit turkey and syria. already again, more than 6,000 are dead. and the aftershocks still creating treacherous conditions for rescuers trying to reach those tr