squeeze on the balcony on capitol hill so get ready. and it looks chilly. thanks, kaitlan. thank you everyone for watching, we appreciate it. have a great day. we will see you later on tonight for the state of the union. cnn newsroom starts right now. good tuesday morning, i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. right now just a heartbreaking reality in turkey and syria, international aid rushing in as the death toll from that powerful earthquake and its aftershocks rises to more than 5,000. 24 hours or so after the earthquake hit, rescuers they are still managing to pull some survivors from the rubble. in one instance in turkey a child that had been trapped in a collapsed building crawled out of the debris into the hands of first responders. [ speaking non-english ] that poor little child. numerous aftershocks have rattled the region, many people too scared to stay inside their homes, understandably so. they ve been forced to sleep on the streets in freezing temperatu
world. ahead on cnn newsroom, all eyes are on the sky. we re tracking the suspected chinese spy balloon flying across the united states. we ll have a live report on what the chinese are say ing about this incident. officials are advising people to stay indoors. if you go outdoors, be advised that exposed skin can get frostbite in as little as a few minutes. more than 20 million americans for impact from what wou could be the biggest cold snap of the season with windchills in new hampshire reaching negative 100 degrees fahrenheit. president biden previewing his platform for a possible 2024 reelection bid. this as the u.s. releases a blockbuster jobs number report. the u.s. military believes a suspected chinese supply balloon will finally leave u.s. air space in a couple days, or it could be sooner. some weather models show the winds pushing it out over the atlantic as early as today. the pentagon has been close let tracking the large object and concluded it s carrying a
good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m a.m. a.m. a.m. ra walker. all eyes on the sky as this chinese sky balloon just continueses drifting. where it s expected to go and why the white house has not yet ruled out shooting it down. and a brutals blast of dangerously cold air is sweeping across the northeast right now. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below 0. where we re seeing the cold air and tell you when it s going to start to warm up. plus police in new jersey searching for the person who murdered a local councilwoman outside of her home. what local officials are saying about that case. plus the usda rolling out new changes for school lunches. the proposes they are changing, just ahead on cnn this morning. welcome to the weekend. saturday, february 4th, we reesht you joining us for a lot of you out there, it is freezing cold outside, yobd beyond treezing cold. we re going to get to that in a moment. we start with this balloo
becky anderson is in turkey, near the epicenter. these pictures we are seeing are horrific. i would imagine it is only worse when you see it in-person. reporter: thank you very much. yes, we are in a suburb of gaziantep. what you can see behind me is a building that is completely collapsed. as we ve been watching what they are doing is getting ready for what they hope is an extraction, but unfortunately there were 15 people in this building, they ve been able to rescue three, the other 12 remain inside as we understand it and they are very concerned now that they may not be pulling anybody further out alive, but the hope does remain. it s 36 hours after the original earthquake struck of course, it was 4:30 in the morning, bitterly cold here as it is now
idea that there are clearly gaps here in what the united states can detect in our air pace space because general van kirk, overseeing all the united states air space for us, he said that there are domain gaps that the u.s. military now has to address because clearly they are missing a lot because it is not only that balloon outlined in that air force report that they clearly missed and didn t discover until three years later, but also we re told that there were at least three other instances of these balloons transiting the u.s. while donald trump was president and, of course, now we are learning that former trump administration officials say they never knew about this and the administration says they re willing to brief them on this, but ultimately this is clearly something the military has to look at. are we clear on that question whether those prior incursions during the trump administration were only discovered recently, as opposed to as they happened? so the biden administrati