support. remind us that freedom is priceless. it s worth fighting for for as long as it takes and that s how long we re going to be with you, mr. president, for as long as it takes. brian: all right. the visit coming just days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the russian invasion. steve: pleart in four days. peter doocy joins us with the latest. peter, as late as yesterday, the white house was saying no, absolutely he is not going to ukraine. he went to ukraine. peter: yes, we thought president biden was coming to warsaw except he popped up in a war zone taking a train from poland into the ukrainian capital and bringing with him a half a billion dollars in new security assistance. more javelins, air surveillance radars to help protect the american people from ariel bombardments. zelenskyy is speaking confidently about the perilous months ahead. this conversation brings us closer to the victory and we hope this year the 2023 will become aer i don t of victory thi
jets to ukraine. we start with the devastating earthquakes which have rocked southern turkey and northern syria and are now known to have killed more than 11,700 people. turkey s president erdogan has been defending his government s response to the disaster on a visit to some of the worst affected areas. we ll have more on that shortly. but first, with the search operations ongoing in the rubble of collapsed buildings, dramatic pictures continue to emerge of rescues in both countries. cheering. this was the moment that rescuers hauled a boy onto a stretcher moments after he was rescued from the rubble two days after the earthquake. there were also cheers ofjubilation at being able to save his life. there have been other glimmers of hope in an otherwise grim landscape of devastation and death. our correspondent, anna foster, has been in the village of karamanmaras. i was watching them take bodies out of here last night and again this morning. it is pulling aside all of this
on board a united plane, forcing it to turn around. multiple people injured. what officials say caused it. new images from the navy s recovery of the chinese spy balloon off the south carolina coast. the fbi examining the wreckage. what we re learning. the intensive assault on the ukrainian eastern city of bakhmut as russia prepares gnaw offensive. our richard engel on the ground. new evidence in the alex murdaugh trial. what his former law partner told the jury about murdaugh s alleged financial crimes. and the team of teachers that s inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and thank you for being with us. sadly, the number killed in that catastrophic earthquake hitting turkey and syria has more than doubled since we were with you last night. now topping a staggering 7,500 people. these are desperate hours where time is quickly running out for those still trapped in the rubble. silence in some cases the most effect
we ll be speaking to a disaster response expert live in the programme. the desperate search for survivors is continuing for a second night across a vast area of southern turkey and northern syria after two major earthquakes devastated the region on monday. at least six thousand people are known to have died, but with so many feared trapped under the rubble, the death toll will climb further. we ll be talking to an aid worker on the ground and will look at the scale of the devastation in just a moment. but first lets go through what happened. the first earthquake on sunday had a magnitude of 7.8, the epicentre was in turkey s gaziantep province. there have been almost 30 other shocks in the region, all powerful enough to magnify the damage. a second major earthquake struck 130km north of the first. rescue efforts continue across the region. this is the scene live. this is gaziantep, this is the live shot, it s just after ten in the evening locally. it s expected rescuers will
melugin and gillian. great it would have you in week two. and the dew points in delaware, and even some democrats are supporting investigation into classified materials. and we have lucas on the lawn of the white house. good afternoon, gillian. and they are he a they are curious why the president is at his summer house in delaware. and the president is going to the rehoboth home, does that have to do with classified documents found. it is relates to the documents, the president takes is seriously, i would reefer you to the white house counsel s office for any new developments coming from here and as relates specifically to the investigation, i would refer you to the department of justice. president biden first arrived in washington as a u.s. senator 50 years ago this month, when richard nixon was president. and and after days of ignoring reporters questions about his classified documents the president responded late this week. i think you re going to find there s