the wobble, i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you just ahead on cnn newsroom. a major earthquake has killed hundreds of people in syria and turkey. the strongest earthquake in 100 years or more of record keeping.h and rescue operations, of course, very, very difficult. how and when president joe biden was informed about the suspected chinese spy balloon. china s now accusing the u.s. of overreacting. in fact, it s not just the balloon. it s the message to send the world that we can do whatever we want and america can t stop us. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. this monday, february 6th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 12:00 p.m. in turkey, search and rescue crews are working desperately to find people trapped in a major earthquake that struck in the early hoursch this morning. turkey s vice president said as least 280 people have died. 2200 are injured. and thousands of rescue engineers are headed to the region.
good monday morning. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. rescuers in turkey and syria are frantically searching for survivors at a earthquake struck the border this morning. that of course is one of the building that is the moment that you can see when the 9.2 earthquake struck this morning and it collapsed into rubble. more than 2,300 people have been reported dead. and the death toll continues to rise, and it is rising exponentially. in this video, the moment that a child was pulled from debris in northwest syria, and that region is also dealing with the impact of heavy brutal civil war there. one rescue there, and so many others feared for here. and now, the chinese surveillance balloon is shot down by an f-22 this weekend, and the pentagon is pushing back against china s threat to reserve the right to use necessary means for what it is calling the similar means around china, and we are told that the u.s. does not conduct similar flights around china, and we will have m
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lord, what a shocking moment there from turkey. good morning to you this monday, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. the death toll continues to rise after this catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck near the border of turkey and syria. more than 1,800 people are now reported dead, but there are concerns that that number could ultimately reach into the tens of thousands. at this hour desperate rescue operations underway. crews searching for survivors who may be trapped under piles of rubble. here you see this is the moment that a child you see in the arms there of that rescue worker, a child was pulled from debris this was in northwest syria, a region which of course already heavily impacted after years of a bloody civil war. in each city, in each village, across northwest sudan there are people under rubble. the number of trapped people under the rubble, it s countless up to now. we don t have exact number. countless. multiple powerful after shocks have al
wednesday. this balloon is going down. this balloon has been taken down and falling from the sky. ashley: but officials want to know why it took seven days for the biden administration to handle this. china has been for some time and will be the primary strategic adversary of the united states. a message they are trying to send the world we can do whatever we want in the america can t stop us. they should not have this encouragement in the united states. we have a real problem. this bible and has become testing president biden strength and unfortunately the president failed that test. griff: brooke singman has more exclusive reporting and kicks things off for us on this monday morning. hey, brooke. with the gang of eight will be meeting as her list tomorrow for the briefing on the chinese spy balloon floating across the mainland last week. navy divers are working to recover debris after air force after air force f-22 fighter jet shut down the balloon on the coas