also in the programme. president zelensky addresses the european parliament saying ukraine is fighting to protect europe s way of life president zelensky pleas for. we start with the devastation following monday s earthquakes in turkey and syria, where mass graves are being dug, as the death toll climbs rapidly. nearly 20,000 are known to have lost their lives. rescuers are continuing desperate attempts to find and free survivors, four days after the quakes hit. the world health organization has warned there could be a secondary disaster with survivors living on the streets with very little food and water and in freezing temperatures. our middle east correspondent anna foster is in gaziantep the epicentre of the biggest earthquake to hit the region on monday. this heavy machinery is starting to arrive mainly in the big cities like this one, it has to be said, when you think about the rural villages, towns that are as badly affected, it is so much harder to get the equip
watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, recovery efforts are underway after the u.s. military shot down a suspected spy balloon over the atlantic ocean. meanwhile beijing is warning it will use necessary steps in similar situations. could this push the u.s. toward a cold war with china or will both sides find a diplomatic solution? after days of suspected spying over the u.s. mainland, a chinese balloon was abruptly shot out of the sky on saturday by a u.s. fighter jet. the balloon was so high up when it was destroyed, the sound of the blast took several seconds to reach the ground. listen to this. and the shoot-down ended days of concern and speculation about the balloon s purpose. chinese insist it was a balloon. the u.s. is confident it was conducting a survey over the ocean and the u.s. issued a fighter jet with heat-seeking missile to destroy it. the debris landed in water that s about 47 feet
haven t seen a yet, but i don t anticipate a major initiative on the part of china providing weaponry to russia. if they did, would that be crossing the line for you, mister president? it would be the same line everyone would have crossed. in other words, we will post severe sanctions on anyone who has done it. meanwhile, a group of media organizations, including nbc news, have asked house speaker kevin mccarthy to share 44,000 hours of security footage from january 6th. and at the request comes after fox news host tucker carlson says he has been given access to the videos. democratic congressman j.d. raskin expressed a concern to msnbc of this video being named a public. we have security concerns about turning over the location of security cameras in the u.s. capital that that police used. we have concern about the could escape and evacuation routes that were used on that day. we don t want to just, you know, there are hands up and say we will let everything go. and
it. 25 states on alert, from the west to the midwest to the northeast. tonight, from minnesota to michigan to massachusetts, dealing with this first storm. and in california, the pileup. some areas with the first blizzard warning ever as the second storm is set to hit. rob marciano timing all of this out. the young up and coming tv reporter shot and killed. a 9-year-old girl shot and killed, as well. authorities say among five people shot in a shooting spree in orlando. tonight here, the body camera video showing the arrest of the suspect. the toxic train derailment, and tonight, the major news from federal investigators. the ntsb on what caused that train to derail. what they know already, what three sensors picked up before the toxic derailment. and when was the crew alerted to the possible danger? and transportation secretary pete buttigieg at the scene today, taking tough questions about why he didn t come sooner. how he answered. the war in ukraine, and tonight, on
that was part of a video posted on twitter this morning by ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy marking one year of war inside his country. we ll have much more coverage on this somber anniversary in just a moment. also ahead the latest on the train derailment disaster in ohio as federal investigators appear to have identified a cause for the crash. plus mike pence gives some legitmous criticism of another potential republican presidential candidate. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 24th. i m sam stein. i m in for jonathan lemire. we begin in europe where it s been exactly one year since russia launched its unjust war on ukraine. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy recognized the day writing, quote, on february 24th many us made a choice, not fleeing but facing, resisting and fighting and this year we remained invisible invincible, sorry. we know that 2023 will be the year of our victory. here in the united states the biden ad