hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states, and all around the, world i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, the window for miracles is closing in turkey and syria s quake zone, as search and rescue efforts will soon become a recovery mission. plus, this is a blue collar to rebuild america. after the state of the union address, president biden takes this economic message on the road, and later, a massive military parade in north korea that highlighted numerous ballistic missiles thought to be capable of hitting the united states. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. it is 10 am across turkey and syria where the death toll from the worst earthquake in a century has climbed to nearly 16,000. in northern syria, there are huge mountains of rubble where residential buildings once stood. damascus as close to 300,000 people have been forced from their homes, and that is only in the parts of syria under government co
you are in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reid in washington. jim acosta is off. a major move today in an attempt to halt a global banking crisis. switzerland s largest banking group ubs just agreed to buy its rival credit suisse in an emergency rescue bid. the purchase is aimed at halting investor panic brought on by two sudden u.s. bank failures this month. the deal comes after shares of the ailing bank lost 25% over the last week. even an emergency loan from the swiss national bank failed to stop the fallout. cnn reporter anna stewart will join us in just a moment, and cnn global economic analyst, rana foroohar joins us now. all right, rana, can you explain to us this deal? yeah, absolutely. so a little bit of con context. credit suisse has been a troubled bank for some time. so this, you know, this is a bank that over the last couple of years has had any number of crises. it s been considered weak in the marketplace. even late last year, it was having its own problems to
formula and we are up the creek if they don t come and plow us. just thinking about this. can we send them some baby formula please. we are glad you are with us. back to back coast-to-coast winter storms spreading misery and growing more dire and as you heard baby formula is running out. piles and piles of dirt dug up and east palestine in ohio. where is it being shipped to? we will take it their life. an american shot and killed and we have our live report from jerusalem. we begin this hour with the dangers back to back winter storms wreaking havoc from california to new england, nearly 50,000,000 people under winter weather alert north east. out west the situation is going dire. a live look in san bernardino where another barrage of heavy snow has left community stranded. residents running out of gas and baby formula. the sheriff says food and grocery supplies have reached critically low measures. let s come back to new york. athena jones is tracking this where it s n
derailment in east palestine, ohio, that added chemicals. but now there s fear onsite, but also where the waste from all the chemicals, where that s headed. governor of indiana is pushing back against shipments of contaminated materials headed to his state. roseville, indiana is one of four designated facilities. and the only one in ohio. last week, they prompted the epa to look elsewhere. the mayor of east palestine gave this response a short time ago. i definitely think we re on a good path. there s definitely say lot of questions that still remain to be answered. as far as people from the other states, they knew the facilities were in their states. and i understand their concern, but at the same time, it s governed by the federal epa. so, therefore, you know, it should be safe for all of the citizens there. east palestine s mayor met with epa administrator michael regan who is on his third visit to the disaster zone. cnn s miguel marquez joins us from east palestine.
attacks on u.s. citizens are unacceptable. we think our mexican and u.s. law enforcement efforts to find these innocent victims, the task force is to ensure justice is done. do you know how many people currently working going about their lives will lose their jobs some. inflation is extremely high and it is hurting the working people of this country badly. he is constantly pointing to china as a critical competitor to the u.s. why w we need a more comprehensive approach to mitigate these threats. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, march 8. 9 3:00 a.m. in eastern texas and matamoros where authorities are working to learn more about the deaths of two of the four americans kidnapped last week. all four were found tuesday. a man is in custody in connection with the kidnappings, but officials vice president said if he is tied to a criminal group. the white house condemned the kidnappings. attacks on u.