good thursday morning i m erika hill. i m jim sciutto. happening right now, house lawmakers on capitol hill receiving a closed door classified briefing on the chinese surveillance balloon. this as cnn has new reporting on when u.s. officials were first warned about the threat. all of it sparking sharp criticism on defense and intelligence officials who were not aware of the depth of that threat. live on capitol hill with the latest. plus, incredible stories of survival out of turkey, including an infant pulled from the rubble after 58 hours, small signs of hope there. rescue workers among so many things facing freezing temperatures, lack of water and power. the death toll hard to imagine. now surpassing 17,000. cnn is on the scene. back here in the u.s. on the road again today. cue the 2024 election music. president biden headed to florida, where he is expected to drive home his pledge to protect social security and medicare. we have a preview of the trip ahead. we want
the beer college baseball season. andy we call it hot dogs. you might miss a whole inning now. all right, andy scholes. thank you. this morning continues right now. this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone. poppy is off this morning. we are here. we have a lot of breaking news for you. some major updates that are happening after russia has arrested an american journalist and accused him of spying. we re going to take you live to moscow. we ll have that in two army helicopters crashing in kentucky. the military is reporting several casualties, and we re expecting to get an update just a short time from now. evacuations underway at this moment in minnesota after a train that was loaded with ethanol derailed. and caught fire. start this morning with the major breaking news out of russia that we are following where a reporter for the wall street journal has been arrested . russia is now commenting on this, arresting this reporter and accusing him of espionage. the russia
trump administration failed. and tonight, his message to americans and now a divided congress. this is what we are watching this hour. we want to welcome the viewers here in the united states and around the world. at this hour, i m kate bolduan. let s start with the urgent search for survivors at that huge earthquake in turkey and syria. the death toll is over 5,000 people killed and that number is to rise. the pictures of the reality of the aftermath of the quake are devastating. thousands of buildings collapsed, and the weather is making already challenging rescue efforts just that much harder, and add to that, the dissional reality that some of the places were in crisis. take northwest syria for example with more than 4 million people were already relying on humanitarian assistance there. there have been moments of light in the heartbreaking images. this video is showing a small girl being rescued after crawling out of a collapsed building. you can just imagine. we go to
powerful. at the same time, the layers who have been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker. that s the iron law of the universe. true things prevail. the new york times reports the redacted text messages were even worse than ones revealed in the court filings and there was one message that was particularly offensive which added to the concern at the top of the company. that s from the times reporting this morning. we don t know what the message was. but just yesterday the wall street journal reported carlson called a senior fox news executive the c word, the same word he used to describe sidney powell who was a regular guest on fox news. here is how one of carlson s former producers who is now suing fox news described the culture of that show behind the scenes. woman were objectified. it was a game. it was a sport. female politicians who came on the show were mocked. there were debates about who they d rather sleep with. c word all the time. joini
, all members of netanyahu s own party, suggests halting the controversial reforms. let s now go to journalist elliott godkin. he s in television for us, elliot. it looks like these demonstrations are growing their building. what are the what are the protesters want? they want an end to this judicial overhaul . jim that s what they ve been calling for. for the past three months or so. they ve been protesting and that s what they want even more now that the defense minister has lost his job because he became the first minister to come out. from this government to call for a pause in this judicial overhaul. and as you say other ministers are also saying that they would potentially support a pause to and they may not seem like a large number of ministers. but it s important to remember that prime minister benjamin netanyahu s coalition government has 64 out of 120 seats in the knesset. it only takes five of presumably members of his party because ultrareligious parties and the m