happening now, mass destruction in more than 3,400 people dead after a powerful earthquake, and dozens of after o armageddon. stand by for new reporting on the catastrophes in turkey and syria as rescuers search for survivors and the death toll keeps rising and rising. also tonight, u.s. officials reveal new information on the size, cape abilities and the vae of the downed balloon. amid rising u.s./china tensions, and as president biden faces new international emergencies, he s also engaged in last-minute preparations for his state of the union address. we ll tell you what the president just said about his prime time speech to congress and the nation a little over 24 hours from now. welcome to our viewers here in the united states, and around the world, i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. let s get right to the unfolding earthquake disasters in turkey and syria and its truly devastating toll. cnn s jomana karadsheh is in istanbul. one of the most powerful quakes t
thanks, the training program has now already started, also getting underway in germany. now, that is a very important tank, because little it is one of the most numerous tanks in the wider nato armory. the training on the abrams tanks that the united states are also donating is somewhere off, because they ve got to soars those vehicles. but the idea is that the people that are getting that training will get the training on american tanks and then be able to operate with the ones given to ukraine later on. but they re not the strategic weapons that zelenskyy, the president here is asking for. he wants long range missiles. he wants jets, because there have been reports, and take them with a pinch of salt, wolf, because they come from ukrainian intelligence. they are suggesting a significant mobilization, perhaps, within russian territory. perhaps a new wave of mobilizations. but certainly there are reports of troop buildups along a very long front here in the south, as well as the ea