reporter: everybody is doing their sound checks. carl cameron, good job talking over it. kudos to carl. not easy to do at all. when somebody is yelling in your ear like that. forget about it. the president s second term is now officially underway. his inaugural address is coming tomorrow after he s sworn in for a second time during the big public ceremony we were just talking about. one of the top advisors said the president will shine a spotlight on the deep political divide we talked so much about which makes compromise very difficult in washington, dc. he s going to talk about tomorrow how our founding values and vision can still provide us, i think, a guiding pathway in a changing world. he s going to talk about our political system doesn t require us to resolve all ou our disput, our political difference, but it does require us to seek common ground when it can and should exist. he s going to make that point very strongly that people here in washington need to seek c
i do. i do. i had to actually shave off part of my chest so it wouldn t interfere with the accordion. i use baby powder. i use kevlar. the parody rock stars, you really live the rock star life. so true. no kidding. we have trucks. we have buses. sound checks. deli tray backstage with cheese cut into triangular shapes. everything a rock star needs. it s got to be tough on you, you are away from your family. but you go home every few weeks or days. they come visit. tomorrow my wife and daughter are visiting me. we try not to go more than two weeks without seeing each other. that s the hard part about being on the road. i have quality time through skype and face time on the laptop. your daughter is 8. she is. is it really cool for her to be the daughter of weird al
antigadhafi brigades. human rights watch is calling on the libyan national council to investigate this. conditions in syria are getting too dangerous for the u.s. ambassador. the state department has pulled ambassador robert ford out of syria citing what it calls credible threats against his personal safety. u.s. officials say an armed pro-government mob attack ford an some colleagues in an embassy convoy last month. ford has been an outspoken critic of the syrian government s violent crack dourn on protesters. u.s. officials say they don t know when it will be safe for ford to return to syria. a growing danger in the skies with more people on the ground shining hand-held lasers into airline cockpits. it usually happens while planes are taking off or landing. the most dangerous times for pilots to be distracted or even temporarily blinded. the faa reports more than 2,700 laser incidents so far this year. nearly ten times the number reported in 2005. there are new stiff pe
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. good morning. good morning to you, alina. it s monday, october 24th. there s definitely something wrong with my seat. see this? yes, there is. right. christina and carol are off this morning. welcome to american morning. his is a very strange seating situation but we have a lot of news to cover. we will fix that momentarily. a mounting situation in eastern tuck u turkey. a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake, worst to hit the country in a decade killed 260 people, 1,300 hurt and cold temperatures making it hard to find those when the ground began to shake yesterday. diana magnay is with us. reporter: hi, ali. as you shared, freezing temperatures overnight made the search and rescue efforts extremely difficult. we ve just been to hospital across the road and the problem there is, of course, that that building was, it is pretty much impossible to use anymore. they were having to treat all the injured outside y
here it s agony of waiting. a father who is trying to find out whether his two sons are still alive in the rubble. before we talked to him he found out that they had found one of his sons dead and trying to bring him out now. you get a real sense from all the people standing here waiting to find out news about loved ones in these numerous buildings that have collapsed as they see pieces of their lives, furniture, bits and pieces and all they want to know is that their loved ones are safe. they re using sound checks, dogs, hundreds of rescue workers mobilized to van where i am and 200 more than 200 people killed in both. that is the death toll as we know it now. it could well rise, of course, as the search goes on. monita? all right, diana, thank you very much for that. we ll continue to check in with diana for the very latest out of turkey. that is the top story from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning f