we have correspondents live on the ground across the zast zozo disaster zone. we re going to speak to turkish basketball star and chef jose andres helping feed people as a humanitarian crisis unfolds. plus this where s mike pence? the special counsel is investigating donald trump and january 6. now they want to talk to mike pence. cnn is learning what he is seeking from the former vice president. also the district attorney in memphis says he is doing a deep dive into past incidents involving the five police officers charged with murdering tyre nichols. sfw we begin with the catastrophe in turkey and syria. the scope of the destruction is staggering. the pictures, devastating. the death toll, just growing. 21,000 so far, 719 people now confirmed dead after the devastating earthquake. thousands more are still missing, possibly dead or dying beneath the rubble. hope is running out to find any more survivors. the this morning four days after the quake, search teams rescue
earthquake. rescue workers still finding survivors in the rubble including a 10 day old baby after being trapped for almost 100 hours. we re live at the epicenter. we ll speak to chef jose andres who just arrived in turkey to provide some much needed relief to rescuers and survivors. back here at home, a twist in one of the investigations surrounding former president donald trump, a subpoena issued to his vice president mike pence. what this could say about the investigation. also, new, up close pictures of the chinese spy balloon that floated across the u.s. as we re learning more about its capabilities, lawmakers are demanding to know why it wasn t shot down earlier. plus, president biden addresses criticism about why the u.s. didn t take action sooner. what he said in an exclusive interview. and as we re gearing up for sunday s super bowl between the chiefs and the eagles, two quarterbacks are set to make history. and we have breaking news right now from the whit
Phase of this war on ukraine. Just today, President Putin has made overt Nuclear Threats against europe. I talk with the president of finland, who knows putin well. I also sat down with the president of south korea to ask about the threat from his neighbor to the north, who just declared itself a nuclear state. Also, hijabs burned, protests rage and chants of death to the dictator ring out in iran after a woman dies in Police Custody there. What will come of the demonstrations . I will ask an expert. But first, heres my take. Lets not play down what has happened this week. The leader of the Worlds Largest Nuclear Power publicly threatened to use Nuclear Weapons. In an address in moscow on wednesday, vladamir putin declared that russia would use all Weapons Systems available to us to defend the country. He emphasized it. This is not a bluff. It might be. Putins threat is an addon of traditional soviet doctrine. Now they contemplate scenarios which it could use Nuclear Weapons. But putin
all of the work you re doing there on the ground to help so many people in need. for more information about how you could help these victims of hurricane ian go to cnn.com/impact. and the next hour of cnn newsroom starts right now. ian s death toll in florida is rising today. could we get some help down here. we have need for gas. there are four boats that just arrived moments ago. this community is never ever seen this high of fluiding before. now we re going into day four without electricity, that is when you get to the life-threatening range. we have no power, no phone service, nothing. the building is ripped off of their foundations and swept backwards. should have there been a mandatory evacuation that came sooner. i wouldn t have changed anything. this storm was very unpredictable. there is a degree of personal responsibility. i think people got complacent. lyman was completely liberated. a phenomenal strategic victory for the ukrainians. thi
it is 5:00 a.m. and with daylight will come more of a sense of damage and countless homes have been destroyed. but in the middle of all that devastation, we re often seeing inspiring scenes like this, a local reporter saving ae iing ad nurse who was pleading for help. he had to carry theoryher to sa his back. pawleys island, the storm washed parts of the pier away. authorities are still assessings damage and working to restore power. and brian todd is in naples, florida with a closer look at the damage there. nothing left. zero. the full extent of hurricane ian s destruction now coming fully into view. aerial damage assessments showing coastal florida neighborhoods with roofing tore off, homes flattened, house either flooded or wiped out. some buildings with nothing left but the concrete slab. remote lotions locations cut of the mainland. these images showing how hard sanibel was hit. only way to access that is either by sea or by air. reporter: so far more than 700