hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. just ahead, aid groups around the world are rushing to help turkey and syria after monday s deadly earthquake. i ll speak with the head of the norwegian refugee council, about the efforts to help survivors. plus, parts of the southern u.s. are surveying damage after severe storms ripped through the area. we re live at the cnn weather center with the latest. and after surprise visits to the u.k. and france, the ukrainian president is headed to belgium where he s been invited to an e.u. summit. we re live in brussels and london, on zelensky s unannounced diplomatic tour of europe. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. the death toll from the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria has nearly doubled in just the past 24 hours. now, more than 16,000. president erdogan
some are members of the city s so-called scorpion unit scorpions answer street crimes operation to restore peace in our neighborhood. yesterday the memphis police department permanently disbanded that unit. eric we are also learning the five former officers will make their first court appearance on february 17 to be arraigned on murder charges for charles watson is live in memphis. charles, first off what can it tells the timetable for this arraignment? well, arthel, those arraignments will happen a few weeks from now as you mentioned on february 17. we are unsure whether that is normal timing for something like that barely reach out to a defense attorney who said it is a normal timeline for those arraignments considering five former memphis police officers taken into custody last week after a grand jury indicted them and freed after posting a bond that raised anywhere between $253,350,000 were getting this information just a day after the memphis police department announ
any moment now, president biden will pledge to add american battle tanks too. that prompts a dramatic warning from russia. red lines are a thing of the past. plus, he did it too. the president s allies see a classified discovery at mike pence s house as a political gift to defuse a three-week-long white house crisis. and retribution on capitol hill. the house speaker kevin mccarthy refuses to seat a pair of democrats on the house intelligence committee. next up an attempt to remove another democratic lightning rod from the panel that oversees foreign policy. eric swalwell would be in the private sector and can t get a security clearance there, we are not going to provide him with the secrets to america. hakeem jeffries has 200 other straight to the white house and the president of the united states. yesterday marked 11 months since russia s brutal full-scale invasion of ukraine. 11 months in which ukrainian people have showed putin and the world the full force of th
another potential presidential candidate. the news broke during our show yesterday, former president mike pence showed a batch of documents classified markings were found at his home in indiana last week. he medially handed them over to the doj. meanwhile, fox checked in with other past occupants of the white house. we got a quick response from the office of former george w. bush who said they checked but don t have any classified documents. the office of his successor former president obama is refusing to answer if there has even been a search. still, that is nothing compared to the stone wall and we have been getting from the current white house on the issue. after a special counselor is named president biden went to his house in wilmington. what was he doing in there? i will refer you to something relating to this case? i would prefer you to the white house counsel it. do you think the story was leaked by someone trying to bruise the president politically ahead
against top democrats for leading the trump impeachment by kicking them off the house intelligence committee while ignoring george santos campaign financial possible violations and false resume? we will have the latest tit for tat from capitol hill. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. president biden is about to announce a major shift in his policy for arming ukraine. he is sending advanced u.s. tanks that the pentagon has been insisting cannot be properly maintained on the battlefield. what s changed? we see the president walking into the roosevelt room. 11 months since russia s invasion of ukraine. 11 months in which ukrainian people have showed putin and the world the full force of their courage and the determination to live free. through every single step of this horrific war, the american people have been strong and unwavering in their support. democrats and republicans in congress have stood together. the united states worked with our allies and partners a