survivors. their cries for help can be heard through the rubble. we need help. we need the international community to do something, to help us, to support us. survivors being pulled from the wreckage including this toddler. i ll speak with a u.n. official about the recovery effort. also this morning, tensions flaerg with china as the u.s. rushes to collect the debris from that spy balloon. china calling it a clear overreaction. the fallout from that hanging over president biden one day out from his second state of the union address. what we know about tomorrow s high stakes speech. we re going to begin with those massive deadly earthquakes rocking turkey and syria. p nbc news foreign correspondent meagan fitzgerald has the latest on the damage. i m joined by senior communications adviser and spokesperson for the u.n. high commissioner for the refugee office for middle east and north africa. the images coming out of the region are horrifying. children being pulled from
ground should that debris wash onshore. take a glimpse. not a chunk of it home. the white house says the u.s. was able to mitigate. do you think china was able to gather some intelligence? well, lindsey, perhaps, and i think we re going to have there s going to have to be a forensic analysis of some of the debris. more than likely the intelligence community and the pentagon did collect quite a bit from our own exquisite collection of what the balloon was doing. there s also reports that we were able to jam in essence the length that the balloon had perhaps back to beijing. but in the grand menu of what china does in terms of espionage activities. this balloon is probably 200th on the list. they have a massive espionage campaign that includes sophisticated spy satellites. certainly human intelligence. fbi director chris wray says every several hours they open the counterintelligence investigation. is something like this able to gather intelligence that a satellite can t because
suspected piece of debris wash ashore half a world away. is this finally the piece of physical evidence they have been waiting for for last 16 months. they have been waiting for over 500 days to what happened to the plane. according to malaysian authorities, they have to wait a few days more. this is the front page of today s malaysian star newspaper. the cover says mh-370, answer in two days. that s what we are hearing from the prime minister of malaysia. it will take up to two days for malaysian authorities along with french authorities to be able to examine that piece of suspected wreckage and figure out whether or not the origins date back and go back to mh-370. in the meantime we are hearing from the families of the passengers. they were able to speak to an
some of them they are not ready to fly out here to reunion just yet. they have had their hopes dashed so many times, but one family member says if this does turn out to be a piece of mh370, they finally have a tangible piece of evidence that their loved ones are, indeed presumed dead. i ll take it robin. great to have you on reunion island. the discovery of the debris comes after 16 months of nonstop search efforts for the missing airliner largely focused here off the western coast of australia. so how could debris wash from here thousands of miles away all the way here to reunion island? we are joined now from kuala lumpur on this exhaustive search. all the efforts since the plane vanished 500 days ago. andrew? reporter: well, it is an
it s a much different story in sendai. a lot of the videotape we have been rolling throughout the morning. when you see the water rolling through the farmland, that s we believe sendai where you see homes and debris wash together side. now we await the word on what happens in the u.s. bill, good morning to you. we are watching hawaii, watching the west coast, your reaction to what has been a horrific scene so far. horrific and no doubt this will be historic. this is as you reported the largest earthquake in modern history in japan. it s one of the five largest earthquakes to have occurred in modern history. and it s obviously produced a large tsunami on the coast of japan.