hello, everyone. at this hour, trying to cling to hope as rescue and recovery efforts continue in turkey and syria and the death toll continues to climb. plus, new details out today of what that chinese spy balloon may have been capable of. a member of congress who was just briefed on the incident is our guest. and north korea is showing off the military arsenal a very big way as kim jong-un s daughter is stepping out into the spotlight. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan, and the images coming out of turkey and syria continue to boggle the mind of how widespread and just complete the devastation is just building after building pancaked and freezing temperatures the of course challenging every effort to find survivor and yet still moments of hope. a mother and two sons were just rescued alive today after being under the rubble for more than 70 hours, and the death toll is still rising passing 17,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of people without a place
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bret: but, first, breaking tonight. house republicans are taking a microscope to the hunter biden scandal. the oversight committee grilling former twitter executives today about their censorship of the story in the new york post which many in the g.o.p. contended could have directly affected the 2020 election. the most pointed questions though aimed at the u.s. government influence into the censorship decisions. correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. we don t know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. emotions running high. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is embarrassment. front and center this new york post cover from october
contact my office, i ll give you a copy of the proposal. i ll give you president biden heckled during the state of the union and he seemed to enjoy it. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. president biden delivering his second state of the union address, the first before a newly divided congress. the president of the united states. the president called for unity telling republicans he wants to work together instead of fighting for the sake of fighting. still he was heckled more than once by some unruly house republicans. some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i m not sayings it is the majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office and i ll give you a copy, i ll give you a copy of the proposal. i m glad to see i tell you, i enjoy conversion. you know, it means if congress doesn t keep the programs the way they are, they will go away. i m not saying it is a majority of you, i m not even saying it
the restrictions claiming rescue teams have been using twitter to communicate. our reporter is in turkey, as the golden period for finding survivors rapidly comes to a close. reporter: a 5-year-old emerges from underneath the rubble in turkey s hard hit city. one of hundreds of young lives saved. but for too many, it was too late. in this town, they mourned one of the many who did not make it out alive with. the death toll rising by the hour, this is a race against time. how many are buried in this massive quake zone, nobody really knows. estimates in the tens of thousands. here, search and rescue crews work tirelessly around the clock, digging through a 14-story residential building where families lay asleeve when the earthquake hit. survivors have gathered at the site of the rescue mission, and in the bitter cold, they huddle around these fires. everyone with the story of the horror they survived. the shock, the trauma, the pain visible on every face. parents doing what t