hello, everyone. at this hour, trying to cling to hope as rescue and recovery efforts continue in turkey and syria and the death toll continues to climb. plus, new details out today of what that chinese spy balloon may have been capable of. a member of congress who was just briefed on the incident is our guest. and north korea is showing off the military arsenal a very big way as kim jong-un s daughter is stepping out into the spotlight. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan, and the images coming out of turkey and syria continue to boggle the mind of how widespread and just complete the devastation is just building after building pancaked and freezing temperatures the of course challenging every effort to find survivor and yet still moments of hope. a mother and two sons were just rescued alive today after being under the rubble for more than 70 hours, and the death toll is still rising passing 17,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of people without a place
closer. neighbors, friends, relatives and bystanders are all joining together in the freezing cold to pray, hope, wish for a miracle. until finally, almost 56 hours on, contact was made with one of them in the rubble. but it still took many more hours to free them. omar says while his uncle and two cousins is survived with no injuries, his aunt did not make it. it is that i know they would do the same if we were in the same situation. reporter: one family s story giving hope to a grieving country. becky anderson, gaziantep. absolutely, thank you, becky. more details coming up for us, more details are coming out today about that chinese spy balloon. the biden administration now reports that surveillance
hello, everyone. at this hour, trying to cling to hope as rescue and recovery efforts continue in turkey and syria and the death toll continues to climb. plus, new details out today of what that chinese spy balloon may have been capable of. a member of congress who was just briefed on the incident is our guest. and north korea is showing off the military arsenal a very big way as kim jong-un s daughter is stepping out into the spotlight. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan, and the images coming out of turkey and syria continue to boggle the mind of how widespread and just complete the devastation is just building after building pancaked and freezing temperatures the of course challenging every effort to find survivor and yet still moments of hope.
under the rubble. and also another excitement of two little boys and their mother being pulled alive. that joy was heeded across the country, and they have been playing the images of the two boys here repeatedly on the local television. we know one other family, a mother and her 6-year-old child pulled out after a 20-hour rescue ordeal, and that is the thing to point out here, kate. in the case of the rescues, these were the people identified alive yesterday. it is a matter of time, and the length of time it requires to pull them carefully out of the rubble and rebar. it is unlikely unfortunately that more survivors are going to be found now four days into this crisis. hope is absolutely fading. these rescue efforts are unfortunately soon going to become recovery efforts, and whatever hope people did have,