i mean, the situation there is there aren t words. the devastating. there are no words i don t know if it would describe it. you think about how many people died. 17,000 people. think about that. good morning, everyone. we re so glad you could join us. we hate to start your day with terrible news. but what you were just witnessing, was a miraculous rescue, children pulled from the rubble days after a catastrophic earthquake. but time is running out to find survivors. we ll take you live to this disaster zone. the staggering death toll just keeps soaring in turkey and syria. also, this overnight, senator john fetterman is back in the hospital. doctors are making sure he didn t suffer another stroke. we ll bring you the latest. president biden is going on a cross country blitz after his state of the union address. the next stop is florida. we re going to speak to the state s republican senator rick scott. he is the gop leader president biden accused of wanting to cut
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
hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with u. not your average balloon. u.s. officials sharing new information and they say, yes, china was spying. its balloon part of a surveillance op and scooping up communications snooping on locations in the united states, plus, the president s dual purpose road show. watch me, joe biden says, when asked if he s too old for a second term and today in florida, a state donald trump won twice, the president will warn seniors republicans want to gut social security and medicare. republicans say that s a lie and duct tape and bailing wire. congress gets new behind-the-scenes evidence of how southwest sputtered stranding thousands over christmas direct from its pilots union. up first, though for us a big new download of information on the chinese balloon. that courtesy of classified congressional briefings. american defense officials and the fbi. briefers telling l
he was released from a county jail on bail last night. but i m sure his lawyers are going to have a lot of questions because clearly, he had a constitutional right to be there to report the story. of course, waiting for more details in terms of what happened here. i just wonder, at no point in this time line did no one say this seems excessive standing there reporting and i was watching newsnation at the time. he was in the middle of a report and said we ve just been asked to stop reporting and i m stopping and then this happens. again, from what we could hear he was just being told he was being too loud. yeah. jason, thank you. it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m bianna golodryga. aim victor blackwell. the chinese spy balloon recovered in the atlantic, these are new pictures handed over by the bureau. officials say understanding its components could be important pieces of evidence for future criminal charges that could be brought. moments ago the s
more than 20,000 20,000 lives lost since monday s horrific earthquake. the lead starts right now. screams of joy amid the horror a mother and daughter found alive. coming up the miracle rescues. cnn is on the ground as crews climb through earthquake rubble in syria and turkey. and president biden takes his state of the union road show to rival rich florida and challenges a republican senator on his clear proposal to sunset all programs including social security and medicare. but first new images from the fbi as investigators begin to analyze that downed chinese spy balloon recovered from the atlantic ocean. and lawmakers begin to learn just how sophisticated the surveillance equipment onboard was. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. and we start with the world lead and new information about the chinese spy balloon shot done. it started analyzing the first pieces of its balloon, and senior officials say those parts could be used as evidence in a future possible crimin