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welcome to the programme. the united nations says thousands of children may be among the dead, buried in the rubble, after the earthquakes and aftershocks that hit turkey and north west syria. the known death toll now stands at 7,200. an international rescue effort is underway. and sorely needed. there are still thousands of collapsed buildings to search. turkish journalists say they are getting voice messages and live locators from people still trapped under the rubble. president erdogan today declared a three month state of emergency in 10 provinces. across the whole region that is 23m people. and the challenges they face are enormous the power has been disrupted, the roads damaged, the weather is freezing. they are appalling conditions for rescue teams in turkey, but imagine how much more difficult it must be across the border in north west syria. there is no safe route in for the aid. most of the work in rebel held areas, is being done by the white helmets, who are expe ....
obviously, tensions are already high between the two nations over involvement in ukraine. senior correspondent mike tobin is in kyiv tonight with the latest on this. good evening, mike. good evening, bret. a brazen violation of international law. that s the way the state department describes this contact between a u.s. drone and two russian fighter jets that ended with the u.s. drone being ditched in the black sea. the pentagon says for a half hour this morning two russian su-27 fighter jets harassed a u.s. mq 9 reaper drone in international fuel space. dumped fuel on it and pass sod close struck one of the propellers dropping it down into the southwest of crimea. this is the first contact of this sort since the height of the cold war. this incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. russian defense ministry denies that the jet impacted the u.s. drone and says the drone was headed in the direction of russia with its t ....
frustrated after more airline chaos. the faa grounded all u.s. flights for about 90 minutes because of an outage of a system that sends critical safety messages to pilots. there are now more than 1,200 cancellations, 7900 flight delays. it s been less than two weeks since southwest s meltdown. flights have been gradually taking off. at this hour, it s not known what caused the system s failure according to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he says there s no sign it was terror related. there was an issue with irre irregularities with the messages. we have to figure out why it happened. why it wasn t stopped from being disrupted and the original source of the errors. when there s an issue in the faa that needs looked at, we ll own it. same as we ask airlines to own their companies and operations. we re at the world s largest airport, atlanta s hartsfield-jackson. what s the situation at this hour? reporter: flight operations have resumed as normal for the ....
this storm will only continue to intensify. if you want to leave, as the governor has said, now is your last chance. we cannot send first responders into harm s way because you decided not to leave. 155 mile per hour winds. that is what hurricane ian is now producing as it bears down on florida s coast. i m john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington. this is cnn s special live coverage of a storm that is getting more powerful by the minute. the national hurricane center just reported it had a plane flying through the center of this storm measuring sustained winds, sustained of 155 miles per hour. that is just 2 miles per hour short of a category 5 storm and it could still strengthen before it makes impact over the next few hours. expected to make landfall, direct landfall southwest of where i am south of where i am near the fort myers area. the wind speed just one of the major concerns here. the storm surge, which the wind speed only exa ....
resign and a growing number of republicans after he lied about his background. speaker mccarthy asked today what will he do about santos? how he answered. damar hamlin now out of the hospital. what is the next step in his road to recovery? the new severe weather threat taking aim in california after storms left 18 dead. the stabbing rampage at a paris train station. was it a terrorist act? russian forces gaining ground in eastern ukraine as putin makes major military shake up. and the sudden death of an iconic rock guitarist. remembering the legendary jeff beck. good evening, everyone. this is what it looked like over the u.s. just before we came on the air tonight. aviation flight aware displaying planes currently in flight. this evening s busy skies and sharp contrast to what we were seeing 12 hours ago. after an early morning faa computer failure left departing domestic flights stuck at the gate across the country. the outage of the critical notification ....