good evening leah, begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right. now it is been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering turkey and syria. the number of that continues to rise from hundreds, to thousands, to tens of thousands. right now at least 21,000 people known to have been killed in other 78,000 insured. because, there is far less access to northern syria, the concern is the casualties there could be far worse. we are watching this play out right now from a distance, and from a distance it looks one way. but a close, is where the horror and heroism is. it is disaster is happening one person at a time. in this case, one little girl. we don t know her name, she has bought five years, old she was rescued after being trapped for 89 hours. two other girls a life waiting to be freed. small victories, one at a time, from a distance, small lifeboats on a sea of despair from up close the entire world. from a close as well a
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
that s the same type of aircraft and missile that shot down the chinese balloon off the coast of south carolina. one of the questions we asked at the pentagon briefing was if there was so much intelligence to gain by letting the previous balloon fly across the united states and being able to observe it, why was this one shot down so quickly especially when the senators were furious it wasn t shot down earlier. was the pentagon wbowing to political pressure. the decision to shoot it down before it entered into u.s. airspace, the pentagon bowing to pressure from the hill? we re going to judge each of these objects on its own merits. it entered into u.s. airspace on february 9th. we sent up aircraft to assess what it was. the decision was made that it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic. the president gave the order to take it down and we took it down. in the end this was shot down just a few miles over the water. that water frozen so it did essentially fall
that residence and one day after the former vice president was subpoenaed by special council jack smith in the investigation into former president trump s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. this hour, rick scott s bad week gets worse with republican leader mitch mcconnell slamming the florida senator s entitlement proposal that gave president biden all that political ammunition at the state of the union. miracles within the rubble. more survivors, including children, rescued four days after that 7.8 earthquake, as the numbers continue to skyrocket, 22,000 dead, more than 75,000 injured and millions left grieving over family members lost and decimated communities. thank you for joining us. i m ryan nobles in washington. andrea is on assignment. as we follow breaking news from indiana, where fbi agents are searching former vice president mike pence s home, a search agreed to by mr. pence after weeks of negotiations between his attorneys and federal off
downing street just down the road. but prime minister boris johnson will make a final speech before lustrous her era. we will bring all to you as it happens. good to have you with us, the u.s. justice department is considering its next move hours after losing a legal battle with former president donald trump. a federal judge appointed by trump granted his request for a so-called special master to review documents seized from mar-a-lago. a cnn s sara murray explains, the throws a wrench into the justice department s investigation into potentially mishandled materials. a judge today granted tom trump s request for a special master to review the materials the fbi seized from the extraordinary search at mar-a-lago. judge writing because of trump s role as a former president, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a lead of its own. a future indictment based on any degree of property that we are trying to do assault in a reputation ilham of a decidedly differen