definitely had an impact on degrading and disrupting the activities of some of these groups. clearly they have decided to keep conducting those attacks. and now it s had lethal consequences for american troops. we will weigh a set of options. the president will respond appropriately. the attacks need to stop. what is the legal basis? the constitution, commander in chief, the self-defense of our troops. the president has authority that take the action he needs to protect our troops and facilities overseas under article 2. the president faces a great deal of political pressure here at home with the republicans, for example, calling for direct strikes on iran. does the president feel that pressure, and how much does that pressure weigh on his decision making? the pressure the president is feeling, if you want to call it that, is to make sure that we can continue to protect and defend our national security interests in the region. first and foremost, his mind is solidly,
lapping now, gut-wrenching images of homes and lives destroyed near the earthquake epner. cnn is on the scene as the death toll in turkey and syria soars above 12,000. also tonight, president biden is doubling down on a line of attack against republicans that prompted gop jeers during his state of the union address. he is taking the top themes on the road in key presidential battlegrounds. and ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy is now in ha included a stop in london, a visit with. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situati situation this hour a race against time in the earthquake zone as the window for finding survivors narrows and the death toll grows more catastrophic. cnn s nick paton walsh is in turkey right now. nick, tell us what you have been seeing and experiencing. reporter: yeah, it is sadly, wolf, around this time that it seems the race against time for survivors is slowly being lo
the wobble, i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you just ahead on cnn newsroom. a major earthquake has killed hundreds of people in syria and turkey. the strongest earthquake in 100 years or more of record keeping.h and rescue operations, of course, very, very difficult. how and when president joe biden was informed about the suspected chinese spy balloon. china s now accusing the u.s. of overreacting. in fact, it s not just the balloon. it s the message to send the world that we can do whatever we want and america can t stop us. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. this monday, february 6th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 12:00 p.m. in turkey, search and rescue crews are working desperately to find people trapped in a major earthquake that struck in the early hoursch this morning. turkey s vice president said as least 280 people have died. 2200 are injured. and thousands of rescue engineers are headed to the region.
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world. and these people in aleppo, idlib and other areas in the northwest affected by the earthquake on the syria side have already been so through much. so what we re doing with our teams, because we had already a substantial support operation for hospitals and clinics in the zone, is the distributions supporting in the operating rooms, supporting with all of the medical capacity and logistical capacity we can mobilize. how much more challenging is the relief effort in syria specifically after more than a decade of civil war? well, people, as i say, have suffered so much already. and the situation is that people are afraid to be in any sort of structure because of the aftershocks. so people are sleeping in their cars. they, like those in turkey, are exposed to the elements. it s cold. we have supported numerous hospital and clinic facilities