top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. president biden is making his way to wisconsin. taking his post state of the union message to the battleground state. just after setting the stage for the 2020 for re-election bid. the president is calling for union in bipartisanship. despite what we heard from the number of house republicans, the president is vowing to finish the job. fighting for the sake of fighting, power for the sake of fire power. that is my vision and so is many of yours. you rebuild the backbone of america. america s middle class and to unite the country. we have been sent here to finish a job for millions of americans that are not on medicare. including young people that need this insulin to stay alive. let s finish the job. we want to have the best educated workforce, let s finish the job. one police officers and police departments violate the public trust, they must be held accountable. do something. let s kick things off today at the white house.
hello, everyone. i m bianna golodryga. welcome to cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. president biden is taking his state of the union pitch on the road. right now he s speaking in the battleground state of wisconsin focusing on his administration s effort to boost manufacturing in america. this is part of a two-day swing. biden is also going to tampa, florida, to reinforce last night s message which is seen as a preview of his expected 2024 re-election campaign. cnn s phil mattingly joins us now. so what more do we expect to hear from the president today? i know he s feeling good from that speech last night. i don t think white house officials could be happier in the wake of the speech last night, not because they feel like they delivered on the extensive remarks they spent months probing and in the off-the-cuff moments he had with republicans back and forth where they felt the president demonstrated a level of vigor they wanted him to show but als
cnn this morning starts right now. this is the aftermath of what we reported yesterday, our breaking news. good morning. there are countless people still trapped under those piles of rubble and screaming out for help across turkey and syria. the staggering death toll topping 5,000 after the catastrophic earthquake. we ll take you live to the disaster zone and the massive rescue operation under way. and live on capitol hill this morning where tonight president biden is going to deliver his first state of the union address since republicans took control of the house. it s a major moment and he will use it to make his sales pitch for the re-election campaign he s expected to launch soon. we ll have a full preview of what to expect in tonight s state of the union. cnn has new and exclusive reporting a chinese spy balloon flew across florida when donald trump was president, but did his administration know? and we ll take you live to ohio for a closer look at the tense an
i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. we re hours away from president biden s state of the union address tonight, his first to a divided congress. instead of nancy pelosi over the president s left shoulder, it will be speaker kevin mccarthy. the speech is expected to draw the largest television audience for the president this year. americans will hear biden lay out why he believes the state of the union is strong as he said last week. he s expected to talk about lowering inflation, improving infrastructure and getting past the worst of the pandemic. he s also expected to talk about america s stand against china. of course just days after an american fighter jet shot down one of its supply balloons. the president will likely increase the urgency for congress to act on policing reform and an adult weapons band. all of it will be a test run for his re-election bid. phil mattingly is with us now. what more should we expect from the president tonight? you know, vict
hello and welcome. we begin in turkey. dozens of people have been killed across turkey and northern syria after a major earthquake struck in the early hours of monday morning. the epicentre was in gaziantep provice close to the turkish border with syria. strong tremors were felt across the region. the quake was recorded at a magnitude of 7.8 and at a relatively shallow depth of ten kilometres. reports have been coming in of many collapsed buildings. azadeh moshiri is our news reporter. she has been following the story since we initially got use. ~ . , . use. when it had the epicentre of gaziantep use. when it had the epicentre of gaziantep it use. when it had the epicentre of gaziantep it was use. when it had the epicentre of gaziantep it was around - use. when it had the epicentre of gaziantep it was around for| of gaziantep it was around for 15 a. m. of gaziantep it was around for 15 a.m. localtime of gaziantep it was around for 15 a.m. local time in turkey. hours lat