debris of that shot down balloon off of the south carolina coast. and now, residents are forced to evacuate from that train derailment that is a massive inferno. that is what we are watching this hour. i m kristen fisher in for kate bolduan, and we are beginning with the story overseas. a power 7.8 magnitude earthquake has killed more than 2,300 people in turkey and syria, and the death toll is expected to rise significantly possibly into the tense of of thousands. and this is rescue crews frantically searching to survivors, but the efforts are hampered by big aftershocks. we begin with jomana karadsheh in istanbul, turkey, and bring us up to date with the frantic search for survivors. it is an absolutely devastating situation, kristen, and across the border as well, and we have seen the death toll continue to steadily rise over the past few hours where more than 2,300 people confirmed kill and more than 1,500 of them here in turkey and hundreds killed in syria, both in r
they were balloon launches, but they were pieced together that they came to the edges of the coast, over islands and one over florida. but they did not do what this one did which is to transit the entire country. i don t know how anybody in china would have thought that it wouldn t have been noticed. and cnn has some new reporting out within the last hour that under president trump those three suspected chinese spy balloons flew over the u.s., but they were discovered after president biden took office and this is reporting coming from our natasha bertrand, and how is that possible? how could these balloons fly over the u.s., and they were not discovered until after president biden took office? it is a remarkable thing, because when you are thinking about it, it is hard to imagine that you could miss anything this big. now, maybe they thought that
flight into i am resting, i am digesting, i am detoxing, i am repairing. i came with a really bad headache, pretty achy and i was blown away by how i feel now. it s like night and day. the 40th annual albuquerque balloon fiesta is under way right now. thousands of people flock to see these hot air balloons, look at that. that is gorgeous. and i don t know why, somebody said there s a little disappointment in this yesterday. but apparently that was mother nature, low clouds, fog forced some of the balloons, in fact a lot of them apparently, to stay on the ground. several of the balloonist were able to launch before the fog set in. the favorite viewing time for the balloon launches and are at dawn and at night, because
another man wrote an open letter to the missing diplomat, begging him to come to south korea. what are president moon jae-in and his government doing to make it less hospitable? there s a suppression of activities. they are blocking balloon launches, efforts to reach out and get information. the second thing is they have cut off funding for defector-led ngos who are advocating for human rights. they have cut off all the funds. moon jae-in never talked about human rights in north korea. some say the south korean president is so eager to make peace he doesn t want to anger the north korean dictator over high profile defectors. he would like to see significant improvement in north/south relations and the reality is a defector, a high-ranking one is a black eye. it s awkward for the north koreans to handle. there s no evidence that the south koreans have cut back on security for north korean defectors.
sky and saw balloons state intelligence officers were carefully watching the balloons then they popped in flyers were scattered people were asked to turn them into authorities but some people put them in their pocket and i did too. that was when pocket realized for the first time what living in a country without oppression could actually mean. while most south koreans simply shrug off the threat from the north and go on with their daily lives activists like pox on hot approve of a cold war conflict just a few kilometers away. young viewers spock s regular balloon launches as a provocation and tries to shut them down with the tillery still pox on hack hopes to achieve his dream of a unified korea one day connell even though i come from a good background and had a comfortable life back then i don t think i could have been happy in the north in saw i learn to appreciate the value of freedoms this is why i became an activist