the voters think it is time to ditch. biden making the case for re-election with qualifications of being an old fart and knowing a lot of stuff. a new poll shows the president s approval rating at just 36%, a new all time low. democrats don t want the guy either, 58% would rather vote for somebody else. and hemorrhaging support from black hispanic women and he s losing to republican rivals donald trump and to a lesser extent, ron desantis. it s a brutal bunch of numbers, right george? this is brutal for president biden. absolutely george. you talked about the record low approval rating is six points down since february and it goes deep into the party. i was told i couldn t send the poll out until after midnight. they are fragmented and should concern them. that is not a good number for president biden. two thirds of people say he s not sharp enough to be president. he knows just who to blame. all they have heard is negative news for three years. everything is nega
good morning, everyone. we start with really serious news this morning. there is devastation happening. the staggering death toll keeps rising in turkey and syria after a catastrophic earthquake. 1300 people are now reported dead and a powerful after shock. it just hit just moments ago. we ll go live to istanbul for the latest on this frantic search. and new fallout from the downing of a chinese spy balloon. president biden is preparing to deliver his second state of the union address. a train loaded with hazardous materials derailing in ohio. thousands of people ordered to evacuate. now a battle is under way to keep that toxic wreckage from exploding. we re going to begin with this. devastating earthquake in turkey and syria. it struck before dawn and collapsed buildings while people were asleep in their beds. just moments ago, just got word of a powerful 7.5 magnitude after shock. there you can see people digging through the rubble. more than 1300 people now reported
critical issues like taiwan and uk. a surprise among democrats to lower drug prices and address climate change. we re going to discuss with democratic senator brian schatz from hawaii. also new this hour, a u.s. prisoner swap proposal to bring wnba brittney griner and businessman paul whelan home from russia. what moscow is saying, ahead. we begin this hour with the state of the american economy. a short time ago the government reported economic activity fell by 0.9% between april and june. that s the second straight quarter it has fallen. moments ago president biden issued a statement on the report saying, in part, it s no surprise the economy is slowing down as the federal reserve acts to bring down inflation. but even as we face historic global challenges, we are on the right path and we will come through this transition stronger and more secure. also this morning, we learned that 256,000 people filed first-time unemployment claims last week. that s a slight decrease
everything going for him and it had to work out perfectly. are they going to be able to pull that off again? i mean, if he s at 36% now, with a summer of high gas prices, the economy, bank records that are about to explode and spring offensive in ukraine that could go side ways and title 42 ending, it could only go lower. i had a dream last night, i often don t tell people my dreams, but this is so good i have to share. i had a dream on saturday night, the elders of the democratic party sat joe biden down and wheeled him out in front of the american people and said it is time to go. i m not going to read into it anything more than that. i always had a dream i could dunk. but this is a powerful and symbolic dream. the fact that he said he s honorable after denying responsibility for the ill
side ways and then moving back. unlike when we have the ring of fire, when we have the plates and sometimes plates will go up and plates will go down causing the tsunamis, this is more of a sliding back and forth. why that matters is because the buildings don t want to go back and forth. and then the secondary waves can begin to go up and down as well. there is the strike where the heaviest damage will be right now from the initial from the initial quake. the new quake is far enough away from the first quake, about 60 miles, that we ll see more damage in other areas as well. two plates collide here. this is one of the areas that we expect this type of scenario. it hasn t happened in a long time, especially not a 7.8. and we talked about the weather and reported just in about how this very, very cold temperatures around 40. we ll see snow in the forecast, especially where the new earthquake was. it s a much higher elevation. almost 2,000 feet higher in