bret: the death toll from a massive earthquake that shook turkey and syria today continues to climb. it stand injured. the world health organization estimates the death toll could climb exponentially. countlessbodies are believed to be under the rubble and some survivors have been texting or tweeting out calls for help from underneath the debris. today in southern turkey, a second earthquake or aftershock 7.6 within 12 hours of that first quake. correspondent alex hogan has the story. it s turkey s biggest earthquake in nearly 100 years as rescue teams there and in northern syria search through mountains of rubble for survivors. thousands are dead and missing or wounded. more than 20 countries, including the u.s. pledging support. the president authorized an immediate u.s. response in addition to the u.s. personnel currently on the ground. this hospital s plead for international aid. the situation is too bad. we need urgent help. millions of people throughout the
making this up to try to make the president look better as a result of this decision-making. but, moving forward, it s a deterrence nightmare. as congressman zinke said, if we can t handle a balloon incursion, what else can t we handle? bret: also it, does spike up the talk about tiktok. of course. bret: all the folks that say there is chinese spy craft balloon never phone that has tiktok. well, you know, after bolton and pompeo and everybody said, look, this did not happen in the trump years, the administration came up with a story to say, basically that they weren t lying because the balloons came over and nobody knew about it. they just managed to kind of sneak around florida and texas. and today, their explanation for those trump era balloons became squirrely. general vanherck the general of norad wouldn t give any explanation where those balloons were, what was going on. he only kind of confessed the mistake saying we literally
his achievement. i wanted to do it because i had the abilities to do it. so why not use those abilities to the greater good. jessica: he is already taking college level classes now. judge jeanine: good for him. greg: probably taller than me, too. all right. jessica: i wasn t going to go there. jesse: he would have shot down the balloon. greg: bret is up next. bret: i would like that kid on the panel. greg, thank you. g bret: good evening, welcome to washington. following two major stories u.s. military personnel are at this hour recovering the remains of a chinese spy craft, a spy balloon from the waters off the south carolina coast after it was shot down following a trip across the u.s. what we know so far and the political fallout from it all in just mommy s. but, first.
team. general v van healthcare said te balloon was carrying 1 to 2,000 pounds of equipment and possible explosives designed to self-detonate the balloon. the u.s. flew u.s. u2 spy planes as it flew across the u.s. specific authorities were granted to collect intelligence against the balloon. navy warships have recovered most of the surface debris from an area 15 football fields by 15 football fields in water that is about 47 feet deep. the call sign of the pilot who brought down the balloon was frank 01. his wing man was luke 01. frank luke was a world war i medal of honor recipient who shot down 17 german enemy surveillance balloons. bret? bret: jennifer griffin, live at the pentagon. thank you. now for the perspective from the white house and the critics on capitol hill. lucas tomlinson is live on the north lawn tonight. with that, good evening, lucas. bret, president biden returned to the white house late
fighter jet fired a single side winder missile at the chinese spy balloon which was six miles off the coast of south carolina. general glen van hurricane explained why he did not order the balloon shot down after it entered alaska. it was my assessment that this balloon did not present a mermt threat to north carolina. i will could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating hostile act or hostile intent. high altitude crossed into alaska january 28th. officials say it spent had minutes not hours over u.s. territorial waters neither islands off alaska and then crossed into canada. on tuesday, january 1st, the balloon entered the continental u.s. above idaho. the next day president biden gave the order to shoot it down when safe to do so after being briefed by his national security