hello, and everyone, welcome to cnn newsroom. right now there is a desperate search and rescue operation under way across turkey and syria after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through the two countries before dawn. the death toll now tops 2,700 and will like will keep rising as crews dig through the rubble. more than 120 aftershocks hit after the earthquake, including one almost as powerful as the earthquake itself. buildings crumbled to the ground. people feared trapped inside. others having to run for their lives. rescuers having to reach those who are stuck under piles of concrete and debris, like this boy in northern syria. you can just make him out buried under the wreckage. thankfully he was pulled the safety. rescuers also pulling this little girl from the debris in another syrian city. the u.s. and other countries are offering whatever help they can. and president biden said he has directed his team to provide any and all assistance immediately. cnn s juman
either. it s happened once previously, and several times under the man that he replaced, former president trump. more on that in a moment. in this hour, federal crews are briefing for the seven mile radius where it fell, after being shot down by an f 22 fighter jet. the big question now, we are does this ordeal take the already strained relationship between the united states and china? beijing says they are reserving the right to respond. receiving an onslaught of monday morning quarterbacking by the gop. republicans quick to attack the president. taking down over the atlantic, it s really attacking the quarterback after the game is over. this mission should never been allowed, how late into january did they know that this high altitude balloon was not where it was headed. why didn t they take action at the time, and why did they not wait until wednesday or thursday to talk about this? are they equally upset by donald trump? of course not. despite bringing similar by
surveillance information they have on the ground and in the air. americans, certainly iowans are september cal that it was able to hover over air force bases and not gather any information and beam it back to communist china to be used against us. i think those are the questions we want serious answers to, but we have to make sure that there is a plan from the biden administration and our military to make sure this isn t allowed to happen again. what about the counterargument that during this time it was able to gather intelligence, that perhaps the balloon was transmitting back to china and thus being productive from an intelligence standpoint for the united states? i think it s highly concerning either way. we should not be allowing hem to execute an agenda across our country. the mission was allow to be completed going all the way to south carolina. you can t tell me with only a seven mile radius there wasn t a place they could have shot this down and continue to gatter the inte
either. it s happened once previously, and several times under the man that he replaced, former president trump. more on that in a moment. in this hour, federal crews are briefing for the seven mile radius where it fell, after being shot down by an f 22 fighter jet. the big question now, we are does this ordeal take the already strained relationship between the united states and china? beijing says they are reserving the right to respond. receiving an onslaught of monday morning quarterbacking by the gop. republicans quick to attack the president. taking down over the atlantic, it s really attacking the quarterback after the game is over. this mission should never been allowed, how late into january did they know that this high altitude balloon was not where
this missile for what it was meant for, which is carrying nuclear weapons. if you did that, just to give some factoids if you had area with a nuclear missile, everybody within a 1.2 mile race will be immediately killed. everybody within a seven mile radius will suffer third-degree burns and hundreds of thousands of severe radiation sickness and all that entails. this is not the kind of tactic that is possible to fight against. we know that russia holds the greatest nuclear arsenal out of all the countries. this is overt aggression. nato, the eu, the whole of the world committee is absolutely right to be alarmed every time he does. this he shown that he has no conscience about striking our schools, which is what s happening just now, but also, hospitals, maternity hospitals, places where women, children and men