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.
coll collapsed, there livelihoods. and temperature readings 5 degrees below normal. this is the vicinity where that earthquake took place. raining but a cold rain. there s no place to be but down in the place you don t know where the aftershocks are going to shake. some of those buildings are compromised and they could collapse. all right, here are the tectonic plates i was talking about. essentially, these are always shifting. there are always earthquakes somewhere in this region being reported but this one happened to be a major earthquake and devastating. this is devastating, one in the record books, we ll remember february 2023 for this massive violent earthquake that took place in south central turkey that has interrupted so many people s lives but not just in turkey, in israel, in jordan, in