top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with the new reporting of the chinese surveillance balloon, and the state department is confirming that this device was capable of monitoring u.s. communications. that is likely one of the new details that lawmakers are learning this morning. the biden administration is giving classified briefings on the issue on capitol hill a short time ago, and we will give you more of what we are learning in a moment, and with reclosely following what is happening in europe. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the european allies to step up the assistance and talking about specifically what they could do in his mind game-changers. fresh off of the sales pitch in wisconsin, president biden is headed to florida to expect to drive home his pledge in particular to protect social security and medicare, and we will have more on that message from the white house ahead. first of all to nat
get a briefing on china while members of congress are holding hearings demanding answers about the u.s. response to that spy balloon that floated across the u.s. we ll talk to congressman gregory meeks who attended a house briefing on the matter earlier this morning. president biden is back on the road today heading to a key battleground state to sell his agenda, and he s doubling down on accusations that some republicans want to cut medicare and social security. and migrant crossing borders are up. they re up 700%, but not through the southern border. we ll explain. we begin with devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria where the staggering death toll is now more than 19,000 as workers are going through ruins in hopes of finding more survivors. i want to warn you that the following footage is disturbing, but it is the reality. the reality that people are facing today. right now dozens of unidentified bodies are laying out on the ground in a makeshift morgue in souther
I dont know what was achieved over the last six plus hours. None of the Witnesses Today were fact witnesses. None were involved in the investigation into the alleged activities in the first place. Whats more, none of the witnesses testified today of direct knowledge of what republicans have been claiming about joe biden. Whether its smoke today, we got more smoke. Thats fox news host neal cavuto with the same assessment that came out of yesterdays Impeachment Hearing and came out hearings before, about the inquiry into hunter biden and how joe biden got so fabulously wealthy off his crack addict son. Yeah. Lots of luck, fellas. Okay. As House Republicans failed to produce evidence linking the president to his sons business dealings, were going to have a lot more from that hearing. On capitol hill, it may take a miracle to stop a Government Shutdown right now. Were going to have the latest on any lastditch efforts to fund the government before sundays deadline and were going to show you
See you in half an hour. Tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. The deadly noreaster. Snow still falling in places. And the nightmare. The drivers stranded. The 20car pileup on the George Washington bridge. Drivers stuck for so long, authorities pounding on windows to wake them up. And chaos at airports. Passengers still waiting and another system coming. New threat in california, the smokefilled air now closing schools. The bay bridge vanishing behind it. And a new and Staggering Number doubling tonight. 600 people now unaccounted for. President trumps answers to robert mueller. What we learned tonight. New surveillance this evening. The 49ers football fan, an army vet who had been in the stands with his girlfriend and vanishing. His car still there. The colorado father who
begged for his wife and children to come home even though Authorities Say he had already killed them. His girlfriend, breaking silence. What she noticed not long before. Black friday, the one st
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