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good monday morning. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. rescuers in turkey and syria are frantically searching for survivors at a earthquake struck the border this morning. that of course is one of the building that is the moment that you can see when the 9.2 earthquake struck this morning and it collapsed into rubble. more than 2,300 people have been reported dead. and the death toll continues to rise, and it is rising exponentially. in this video, the moment that a child was pulled from debris in northwest syria, and that region is also dealing with the impact of heavy brutal civil war there. one rescue there, and so many others feared for here. and now, the chinese surveillance balloon is shot down by an f-22 this weekend, and the pentagon is pushing back against china s threat to reserve the right to use necessary means for what it is calling the similar means around china, and we are told that the u.s. does not conduct similar flights around china, and we will ....
chinese spy balloon and when they realized they must tell the president about it. this comes as u.s. navy divers and other military personnel are scouring the ocean floor off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. and we re getting new video in to cnn. a resident in south carolina shot this and said he believes it could be debris from the balloon. to be clear, cnn cannot independently verify whether or not this is, in fact, debris from that chinese spy balloon. we re reaching out to the navy for comment. in the meantime, republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. cnn s alex marquardt joins us now with more. alex, you re learning more about this timing, when it came down to the decision-making that was taking place inside the biden administration. we heard the president stating to reporters emphatically yesterday that he made this call on wednesday that the balloon be shot down as soon as it was safe to do so. but the ....
fiery train crash in ohio. thousands forced to evacuate as flames shoot up to the sky the smoke traveling into the next state with fears it may be carrying toxins. primary challenge. the democratic party votes to make south carolina the first primary. how new hampshire and iowa are fighting back. and dramatic rescue at sea a boat flipped over by huge waves off of oregon. how the coast guard saved the man onboard and the bizarre back story that got him there announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening for at least five days a chinese spy balloon has been traveling over the united states it was spotted in montana and kansas and today over the carolinas. this afternoon its journey ended in dramatic fashion. this is the moment u.s. fighter jets took it out there we go they got it boom! and then witnesses watched it slowly plummet down into the ocean. the operation required shutting down commercial air traffic from at least three d ....
The U.S. military spent $1.6 million to $2 million last month to shoot down three unidentified, high-altitude objects over North America, with half of that spent on the mission over Lake Huron in Michigan. ....
Officials said the objects did not pose any security threats, but so little was known about them that Pentagon officials were ruling nothing out not even UFOs. ....