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.
from politics to netflix s potential tactic to crack down on past words. we are going to break down the biggest news of the week as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle i can t even get my name out. maybe because i m excited to share the fantastic jobs report that we heard about this morning the u.s. economy added more than half 1 million jobs in the month of january, bringing the unemployment rate down to its lowest point since 1969. and taking a whole lot of experts by complete surprise. numbers will be coming out shortly, we re expecting one 88 to 200,000. wow, wow! whoever took over, congratulations. 500 in 17,000. 517,000. non farmed pay roles, a blast off of a number it came as no surprise that president biden pointed to the jobs report as evidence that his economic strategy is working. president then took that energy to philadelphia where he and vice president harris spent the day talking about their administration s acc
clean up the aviation industry? we get airborne to find out. we start in the us where the central bank has raised the cost of borrowing to its highest level in m years as it tries to rein in soaring prices. the federal reserve hiked its benchmark rate by three quarters of a percentage point to a range of between 3% and 3.75%. the feds chair, jerome powell, warned there were more rises to come, but said there is no painless way to get inflation under control. households and businesses here in the uk are also braced for more expensive borrowing with the bank of england widely expected to announce a hefty rate rise in the next few hours. more on that in a moment. first, let s hearfrom our us business correspondent michelle fleury in new york. the message from the federal reserve unmistakable, we are here to fight inflation, this is the first time us central bank has raised interest rates and smudged in response to prices rising at the fastest pace for four decades, prices r
they included the three year old twins, ema and yuly. they were captured with other relatives when hamas set fire to their home. they were freed with their mother, sharon, but theirfather is believed to remain in gaza. also released were brother and sister erez and sahar kalderon. their relative spoke about his relief as he waited to see them again. i m finding that it s difficult to go from a state of endless anxiety about their fate, to a state of relief and joy. i believe it will take time. this is an exciting and heart feeling moment, but we also understand that it is the beginning of a difficult rehabilitation process for sahar and erez, who are still young and have been through an unbearable experience. the truce between israel and hamas allowed the return of dozens of hostages but dozens more are still in captivity. over 150 of our hostages men, women, children, babies over 150 other hostages men, women, children, babies who s taking care of them? who is hold
county official with a post erased in which he shared a t-shirt blaming china for the coronavirus saying the suspects in the shooting just had a bad day. he does claim it was not racially motivated. i spoke with investigators that, yes, he understood the gravity of it and was pretty much fed up, at the end of his rope and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. this was a really bad day for the victims too. today, celebrities are speaking out. testifying on capitol hill after speaking to nbc. this man targeted places where asian-americans were working. you don t have to peal the layers back far. i ll speak to activist coming up and with president biden and vice president harris. the president has addressed the shootings on wednesday. i know americans are very concerned. as you know, i ve been speaking about brutality against asian-americans for months and i thinks it very, very trouble some. joining me now from atlanta, nbc news correspon