debris of that shot down balloon off of the south carolina coast. and now, residents are forced to evacuate from that train derailment that is a massive inferno. that is what we are watching this hour. i m kristen fisher in for kate bolduan, and we are beginning with the story overseas. a power 7.8 magnitude earthquake has killed more than 2,300 people in turkey and syria, and the death toll is expected to rise significantly possibly into the tense of of thousands. and this is rescue crews frantically searching to survivors, but the efforts are hampered by big aftershocks. we begin with jomana karadsheh in istanbul, turkey, and bring us up to date with the frantic search for survivors. it is an absolutely devastating situation, kristen, and across the border as well, and we have seen the death toll continue to steadily rise over the past few hours where more than 2,300 people confirmed kill and more than 1,500 of them here in turkey and hundreds killed in syria, both in r
is restricting the air space off of the coast of south carolina where the u.s. military shot down a chinese spy balloon. the navy divers are working to recover debris scattered over seven miles of ocean. dianne gallagher is in a boat somewhere off of the coast. and dianne, where are you and what are you seeing? so, kristin, i am off of the coast of the myrtle beach area. i will get wayne to push over here, and there is the coastline of myrtle beach. you can recognize the surf building if you have been in this area, and so we are on the surfside of the myrtle beach area, and few miles away from where the perimeter has been set up around the recovery area, and i know this because we got to the perimeter and the coast guard cutters essentially told us that we had to leave.
among the dead as that number is rising. and so out of the biden administration, and expressing condolences and the deep sadness for loss of life, and what that they are doing with turkey is what exactly they need. we are looking for details, but the secretary of state is being very clear in saying that this is something commits support for the next few d days and the next few weeks and the next few months. really saying that the united states is going to be supporting turkey, and the tremendous humanitarian troops on the ground as they need support. and as we have been seeing that support is coming in from u.k. and japan and really all over the world. kristin. kylie atwood at the state department for us. thank you. and joining me now is
diplomatic mission, and china s response, this is a visit that we have not acknowledged, and it only came from washington. so that is another time line and explanation that we have to sort out. kristin. yes, mark stewart, thank you very much. joining me now is gregory meeks, congressman, the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you for joining me this morning. thank you for having me. yes. i d like to start by asking you about how the gang of eight may be briefed as early as tomorrow. senator schumer says that the full senate will receive a briefing next week, but do you know when the house as a whole will be briefed, and i am assuming that you want to be briefed? yes, i fully anticipate that brief coming the latter part of this week or early part of next week. as you have shown, the operation is now under way to obtain the
balloon. kristin, we did get the chance to see what may have been debris, and we saw people with the navy bringing stuff up, and a little bit north of myrtle beach last night, and our cameras captured it, and we asked the navy about it, but cnn has not been able to individually confirm that what we saw was a part of the balloon, but they are actively working on recovering in the ocean at the moment. dianne, a 20-mile perimeter around the recovery zone, and this is pretty big, and you got pretty close. thank you so much for bringing us this unique perspective off of the south carolina coast. so this morning, china admitting that a second balloon floating over latin america belongs to them. beijing saying that it drifted off of the coast by mistake. mark with more. kristin, when we are talking about the second balloon flying over columbia and costa rica, it