trump administration failed. and tonight, his message to americans and now a divided congress. this is what we are watching this hour. we want to welcome the viewers here in the united states and around the world. at this hour, i m kate bolduan. let s start with the urgent search for survivors at that huge earthquake in turkey and syria. the death toll is over 5,000 people killed and that number is to rise. the pictures of the reality of the aftermath of the quake are devastating. thousands of buildings collapsed, and the weather is making already challenging rescue efforts just that much harder, and add to that, the dissional reality that some of the places were in crisis. take northwest syria for example with more than 4 million people were already relying on humanitarian assistance there. there have been moments of light in the heartbreaking images. this video is showing a small girl being rescued after crawling out of a collapsed building. you can just imagine. we go to
Opening statements begin on monday. And according to the judge, quote, this trial is starting. So long we have been using the word erosion on trumps institutions and americas faith in them f. This weeks spectacle showed us any, the term erosion the flow of water, slow and steady, might be under stating the immediate danger. We should think of the harm done to the structure of our democracy like a tidal wave, Flash Flooding possible. Try as we might to board up the windows to be kept from being swept away there is damage more and more every second. Some jurors so frightened or intimidated from doing their basic civic duty that some were moved to tears in the courthouse as they were today for fear of retaliation. You can see it in the way the disgraced president lies in the case and the way everyone is in if. He conditioned his followers to Distrust Anything and everything outside the sealed mega bubble. The Executive Director of protect democracy described it to us like this. I think pe
Duty. We should applaud them for doing that. What do you make of what is about to happen on Monday Morn Something Judge Merchan today saying to trumps legal team, enough, we can not relitigate every pretrial motion we start monday . I think we will start monday. I think it will be a day. I will be camped out in line for hours waiting to get in. I think, but i think in terms of the trial itself it is going to be routine. You are going to hear opening arguments from both sides, the witnesses will be called. The jury will be there to, you know, take notes and understand what is going on and i do thank this judge is running a tight ship. The trial itself it is not going to be, you know, having the kind of fireworks that maybe we would have expect give what led up to now what do you think it does to someone like trump who does not stand producing his own show. He will find a way
there have been moments of light in the heartbreaking images. this video is showing a small girl being rescued after crawling out of a collapsed building. you can just imagine. we go to becky anderson standing by in turkey. becky, how are things going there now? well, this is a search and rescue operation, and which i hate to say it, but it is still good news, because they are still behind me and in buildings up and down this road still hoping to find survivors of this massive earthquake. 4:30 in the morning, remember, monday morn, it was bitterly cold, and this entire area shook for some 20 seconds. the building behind me was 10 stories include ing car part, a it has completely collapsed, kate. the search and rescue team currently on this side still
plus, no interest until january 2024. ends monday. turn around. put your hands on top of your head. drop down to your knees. keep your hand on top of your head. you understand me? yes, i do. the scene that played out in front of the todd and rachel winkler home in the airpark that monday morn, february 27, 2012, grew more bizarre by the moment. as neighbor marion cockrell watched the police surround todd, he saw something quite incomprehensible. they handcuffed him and took him off and we didn t know what was going on. todd, under arrest? charged with murder for killing rachel. what about her lover, the man with all the guns? no, it was todd in handcuffs. the investigators disappeared into the house and found a bloody crime scene. and rachel winkler, dead in her baby s bedroom. they found the couple s three young children safe and sound across the street at a neighbor s house.