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
little amo aged 8 is inside, possibly alive. by the time they get her to the ambulance, though, it s clear they were too late. her mother, outside, only able to watch her everything vanish. my little one, she says. don t take her. don t let her get lost. antakya s streets a chilling patchwork of what s left standing and what s not left. in its ruins anxious crowds of rescuers and locals thinking they heard someone alive. demanding silence so they can listen again. down here is ahmed, the he rescuers say, alert, responsive, a syrian refugee. the building next to him barely hanging on at an angle. their work desperately wishing it were quicker. across the city hell has landed. this man guarding his neighbor s books with his father-in-law next to the body of his mother-in-law. he gestures behind him to where he once lived. it s kind of hard to get your head around just how inhabitable a city of this size has become so fast. literally every street you walk down has a scene li
and leading this hour new incredible rescues almost 90 hours now since monday s devastating earthquake shook turkey and syria. we show you some of the scenes coming out of syria. a mother and her 6-year-old daughter found alive in a chanced house. in another scene you can see heavy concrete slabs on top of rescuers as they pull a young man out of the rubble. in another crews cradle a child known only now as baby helen, found alive 68 hours after monday s earthquake. cnn s nick paton-walsh starts us off now from an takia, turkey right near the syrian border where these heart-gripping rescues also come as we learn of a staggering loss of life. more than 21,000 people now killed. reporter: rescuers rush in. these buildings first three floors have collapsed down but left their upper floors upright.