search teams desperately digging through the earthquake rubble and praying for miracles. plus former vice president subpoenaed, what could mike pence tell the special counsel about trump and january 6. and the fight over america s social safety net, both sides ignoring the cold hard truth, not touching it is not an option. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. and we begin with the earthquake disaster in turkey and syria where they are clinging to hope that survivors can still be found alive but that hope fading with each passing hour. but there are miraculous stories. overnight two teenage sisters were pulled from the rubble. and the staggers death toll now approaching 22,000, the number of injured in these two countries near 80,000. and salma abdelaziz is live in istanbul. and the story of the sisters is a heartwarming story amid all the tragedy. and now a secondary tragedy, many are forced in to the freezing cold. what i
military leadership including high level leaders in the air force. we know investigations are under way. and we ve also been closely monitoring beijing s ever-changing messaging and its strategy about communicating about the balloon. initially it 1kexpressed regret but then the rhetoric hardened after the balloon was shot town, accusing the u.s. of o overreacting.town, accusing the u.s. of overreacting. and now bay i didn t think is tryi beijing is trying to deflect away toward america s security practices.i didn t think is beijing is trying to deflect away toward america s security practices. state run tab employed says that t tabloid is saying that it is ridiculous for a country to use a balloon it play up the china threat and confusing the public is unlikely to succeed. and beijing of course continues to insist that this was a
leno and what went on with him and conan. that s not where they re supposed to be in terms of their positioning of kind of the armchair critic or commentary for america. i agree that for david letterman, he would be very happy to forgo those ratings points as you say. it would have been gossip, t tabloid. i think it was an embarrassment for cbs news. joe halderman was angry because he thought his live-in girlfriend had somehow taken up with dave again. the audience certainly seems to have moved on. could you argue that this all actually helped dave by making him appear more, i don t know, human? i think you could argue that. these things happen and it s how you react to them and deal with