while you were out last night? another dead satellite falling out of the sky, this one, we re told, the size of a minivan. we think it s crashed back to earth. we just don t know where. also, we re going to be heading to ft. bliss this morning where everybody is celebrating. you can imagine why. their loved ones are coming home from iraq for good in a few weeks. a special good morning to the men and women watching us on the american forces network all around the world, thank you for what you do. we are going to start with herman cain this morning, under fire from his republican rivals. this time for recent comments he made about abortion. and what a platform they had to take shots at him last night. a major gathering of christian conservatives in iowa. shannon travis is in des moines. reporter: a big night here in des moines, iowa. the iowa faith and freedom coalition, a gathering of 1,000 iowans, many of them christian evangelicals. six presidential candidates came to cour
word their husbands are coming home from iraq. how one army base is handling the news they have waited so long to hear. at this moment, somewhere overhead, an old broken satellite is plummeting to earth. no one s quite sure exactly where it will land. it s not the first time we faced a threat from space. experts say it won t be the last. earlier i spoke with the managing editor at space.com. he explained why we re likely to face this threat more often. this isn t the last one that s going to be coming down in a couple years in 2013, a u.s./japanese satellite will fall out of space. we just saw a huge nasa satellite fall last month. these are old. this one coming down tonight 21 years old. similar ages for the other ones. there s a lot of stuff, thousands of pieces of space, hundreds of dead satellites over the years that are going to have to be dealt with one way or another. when it comes back into the atmosphere, how big are the pieces expected to be, and do any of the
coming home from iraq. we ll show you how one army base is handling the news they have waited so long to hear. at this moment, somewhere overhead, an old broken satellite is plummeting to earth. no one s quite sure exactly where it will land. it s not the first time we faced a threat from space. experts say it won t be the last. earlier i spoke with tariq malec, managing editor at space.com. he explained why we re likely to face this threat more often. this isn t the last one that s going to be coming down. in a couple years, in 2013, a u.s./japanese satellite will fall out of space. and we just saw a huge nasa satellite fall last month. these are old. this one coming down tonight, 21 years old. similar ages for the other ones that are coming down now. there s a lot of stuff, thousands of pieces of space, hundreds of dead satellites over the years that are going to have to be dealt with one way or another. now, when it comes back into the atmosphere, how big are the pie
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are reported to have collapsed, including a university dormitory. rescue efforts must compete with frequently strong aftershocks. so far, at least 138 deaths have been confirmed, many more injured. this part of the world is prone to killer earthquakes. a 7.6 quake hit western turkey a dozen years ago. at that time, 17,000 people were killed. cnn crews are now at the site of today s devastating damage. nefsen joins us by phone. can you see anything, or get a s sense of what s going on there? reporter: the situation is not good, as you mentioned, and this is one of the biggest earthquakes in the last 100 years of the turkish history. so one of the eastern cities of turkey, van, was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake about 12 hours ago, and after that, there have been more than 20 aftershocks. each magnitude around 4. so people are really scared. and in central van, there are 10 buildings, maybe, 10 buildings, which are damaged or collapsed, and some of them are state hospitals