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more than 20,000 20,000 lives lost since monday s horrific earthquake. the lead starts right now. screams of joy amid the horror a mother and daughter found alive. coming up the miracle rescues. cnn is on the ground as crews climb through earthquake rubble in syria and turkey. and president biden takes his state of the union road show to rival rich florida and challenges a republican senator on his clear proposal to sunset all programs including social security and medicare. but first new images from the fbi as investigators begin to analyze that downed chinese spy balloon recovered from the atlantic ocean. and lawmakers begin to learn just how sophisticated the surveillance equipment onboard was. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. and we start with the world lead and new information about the chinese spy balloon shot done. it started analyzing the first pieces of its balloon, and senior officials say those parts could be used as evidence in a future possible ....
Over its epic travel meltdown over the holidays. on top of hearing from angry customers who had flights canceled or luggage misplaced, today top southwest officials also answered to lawmakers who want to make sure this debacle never hpz again. cnn s gabe cohen has more now on today s hearing and a promise from southwest. let me be clear. we messed up. reporter: southwest s chief operating officer in the hot seat facing lawmakers over their december meltdown. i am deeply sorry. i humbly apologize. i apologize once again. it was a failure epiically from top to bottom. reporter: the pilots union says it sounded the alarm about southwest s flawed systems for years but were ignored. poor performance was condoned. excuses were made. processes atrophied. core values were forgotten. were didn t you do anything about it? thank you, senator. we were addressing part of those issues. obviously, it was unsuccessful with regard to some of the crew ....