squeeze on the balcony on capitol hill so get ready. and it looks chilly. thanks, kaitlan. thank you everyone for watching, we appreciate it. have a great day. we will see you later on tonight for the state of the union. cnn newsroom starts right now. good tuesday morning, i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. right now just a heartbreaking reality in turkey and syria, international aid rushing in as the death toll from that powerful earthquake and its aftershocks rises to more than 5,000. 24 hours or so after the earthquake hit, rescuers they are still managing to pull some survivors from the rubble. in one instance in turkey a child that had been trapped in a collapsed building crawled out of the debris into the hands of first responders. [ speaking non-english ] that poor little child. numerous aftershocks have rattled the region, many people too scared to stay inside their homes, understandably so. they ve been forced to sleep on the streets in freezing temperatu
president biden is ready to deal with the fall out. president biden: no, we made it clear to china what we re going to do and they understand our position, they will not back off, we did the right thing. this is reality. ashley: the airship flew over several military bases, weighed nearly 2000 pounds and was 200 feet high. mike pompeo now criticizing the biden administration for allowing something so dangerous to stay in our skies for a week. the chinese may have been able to blow this thing up themselves. imagine if you knew that and the chinese could decide where to drop this thing, they didn t understand risk. brooke: the white house is defending their claim previous airships flew over the united states during the trump administration. how is it possible this administration discovered three previous baknow balloons, but trump officials didn t know it was happening? we have talked about this before, about how the when it when the prc government balloons tran
at this hour. the u.s. navy is racing to recover the debris from the chinese spycraft miles off the coast of south carolina. on the screen right now, our first look at what those divers are now pulling out of the ocean and at the balloon itself, so take those new images in. john: it went down in relatively shallow water, about 50 feet deep. biggest challenges are currents and water temperature which is only this time of year about 53°. sandra: in a moment, we will be speaking to retired navy seal commander sears about what they are recovering and what the navy is doing about it. john: bryan llenas is off a boat close to the recovery effort. how is it looking from where you are, bryan? the weather has gotten better since the weekend, incredible conditions on the water, great for a salvage operation underway. you are looking live at our fox news drone showing you the military ships that are over the debris field said to be 15 by 15 football fields wide. right now this
his speech writers use rhetoric like that because ever since donald trump s election it s been effective but now the democrats have embraced total government, now that they re arresting their chief political opponents, rivals and advisers does the rhetoric work still? in 2023 how to be americans respond to authoritarianism who pretend to be fighting it? do you get it? if you get a moment go on youtube like i did today and look at some of the comments on joe biden s speech from yesterday. they re all negative. some are very funny. for example. it s nice that he was able to have every person that ever showed up at one of his rallies fed into a 3 minute video said one viewer. another quote, i wish youtube would turn back on the dislike vote count and set another that we might see 81 million votes. get it? all in? the video got fewer than 400,000 views. that is not much. that is not very good for a presidential candidate who happens to be president of the united states. this coul
memorable state of the unions in the past. welcome back. we begin this hour with the breaking news in turkey and syria where tens of thousands of emergency workers continuing the frantic search for survivors from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake responsible for killing more than 5,000 people already. more than 23,000 people have been injured. turkey s president erdogan saying that ten cities within his country are disaster zones and declaing a three-month state of emergency. countries pledge their support. matt bradley is in turkey. turkish officials say they have made 8,000 rescues. what are you seeing there today? reporter: yeah, we have not seen anyone taken out alive from this building, one of 6,000 here in turkey that the government says have been completely levelled by those twin earthquakes, some of the most devastating, most powerful this region has ever seen. this neighborhood is reeling from this event, even though this appears to be one of the only buildi