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
approving an ironic request from last year s anti-disaster preparedness to bobby jindal to pay for state troops, the pentagon expects full reimbursement from the state of louisiana. the white house pushing back against criticism it has not done enough responding to the oil spill. the associated press asking in a rare moment of bipartisanship, quote, will this be obama s katrina? press secretary gibbs calling the notion we haven t been there from the get-go badly uninformed, adding more than 1800 people died in katrina. senior adviser axelrod calling the criticism business as usual. this is always the case in washington, that whenever something like this happens the political speculation sets in. but the truth of the matter is we have the coast guard on the scene almost immediately after this accident. the deputy secretary of the interior was on the ground the next day and we ve been