bret: the death toll from a massive earthquake that shook turkey and syria today continues to climb. it stand injured. the world health organization estimates the death toll could climb exponentially. countlessbodies are believed to be under the rubble and some survivors have been texting or tweeting out calls for help from underneath the debris. today in southern turkey, a second earthquake or aftershock 7.6 within 12 hours of that first quake. correspondent alex hogan has the story. it s turkey s biggest earthquake in nearly 100 years as rescue teams there and in northern syria search through mountains of rubble for survivors. thousands are dead and missing or wounded. more than 20 countries, including the u.s. pledging support. the president authorized an immediate u.s. response in addition to the u.s. personnel currently on the ground. this hospital s plead for international aid. the situation is too bad. we need urgent help. millions of people throughout the
south carolina. the president just a little while ago says it was always his plan to take it out. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. they understand our position. we will not back off. we did the right thing. has it always been your view to shoot down a chinese spy balloon or only because it became public? oh, no it was always my position. once it came to the united states from canada i told them i wanted to shoot it down as soon as appropriate. they concluded, they concluded we should not shoot it down over land. they are not a serious threat and we should wait. greg: clearly this is his finest moment since corn pop. part of this scooped up and sent over to the fbi for further analysis and despite assuring the american people there was no threat the senior u.s. official says there may have been self detonating explosives off of the vessel. just like jessie s hair appeared republicans are reacting with usual pouncing. the message they were trying to
tonight jacqui line rake traveling with the president in ireland with white house capitol hill reaction as well david spunt be at the justice department. we begin with diswrerch griffin at the pentagon with our story. cyber reporters beat the fbi to the front door of the alleged leaker forcing the surveillance team to accelerator its plans for rearsz outside of the alleged leaker s family home in massachusetts late this afternoon alleged leaker identified as jack of the massachusetts air national guard. according to the air force promoted last july. worked as transport systems journey man. cybersecurity expert. that s how he gained access to some of the nation s biggest secrets. we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding classified and sensitive information. this was a deliberate criminal act. the washington post tracked down a member of the online chat group that teixeira led for the past few years. any claims that he is a russian operative or pro-russ
Thing okay, greg. Greg bye. Bret good evening. Im brett bay. Antiisrael protesters College Campuses clashing with Law Enforcement several locations again tonight this after police in new york forcibly evicted demonstrators from a Columbia University building overnight. New protests have begun at another new york school, an antiantisemitic, antiisrael protesters ucla in los angeles fought with projewish demonstrators who tried to tear down their encampment overnight. In the midst of all of this, very little from President Biden himself, his staff putting out statements answering questions about the president s relative silence on the issue. We begin tonight in los angeles with correspondent bill melugin at ucla. Good evening, bill. Bill bret, good evening to you. All classes here at ucla are canceled today after a night of violent clashes here on campus that went on for hours without any kind of Law Enforcement intervention and just moments ago, we heard from uclas chancellor who descri