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 crimin
good evening leah, begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right. now it is been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering turkey and syria. the number of that continues to rise from hundreds, to thousands, to tens of thousands. right now at least 21,000 people known to have been killed in other 78,000 insured. because, there is far less access to northern syria, the concern is the casualties there could be far worse. we are watching this play out right now from a distance, and from a distance it looks one way. but a close, is where the horror and heroism is. it is disaster is happening one person at a time. in this case, one little girl. we don t know her name, she has bought five years, old she was rescued after being trapped for 89 hours. two other girls a life waiting to be freed. small victories, one at a time, from a distance, small lifeboats on a sea of despair from up close the entire world. from a close as well a
hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim bruen herber. ahead on cnn newsroom. clinging to hope that survivors can still be found, trapped under the mountain of rubble in turkey and syria. well, the u.s. vice president, mike pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump. what we learned from his testimony. and, russia s new offensive appears to be getting underway in zaporizhzhia s energy infrastructure among the targets. it is ten a.m. across turkey and syria with the death toll from monday s earthquake has now risen to more than 21,000. the hopes are fading that rescuers can find any more survivors. this is the scene in southern turkey, emergency crews blow their whistles when they hear noises under debris that call for silence. but the destruction is immense, an entire neighborhood reduced to rubble under the thousands of families left homeless. many are sleeping in their cars or
legislation after another series of deadly mass shootings of force the issue back to the top of its agenda. on wednesday, family and survivors from the racially motivated attack at a supermarket in buffalo, new york, as well as the robb elementary shooting in uvalde, texas, will participate in a hearing held by the committee on oversight and reform. among the speakers will be maya surrey oh, a robb elementary fourth grader who was trapped in one of the adjoining classrooms of the gunman attacked. she told cnn that she covered herself in her classmates blood and play dead for an hour until law enforcement finally brought an end to the attack. now, she will tell her story to the entire country. think about this for just a second, think about the trauma that has been inflicted on school children because of our inaction. think about how much we ve been active asking of young people across this country as the united states senate has continued to stall on passing any kind of legis
there are fresh tensions over gun laws in america after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a school shooting in texas. the republican state government governor was confronted by his democratic. excuse me. sit down. you are out of line, and an embarrassment. sit down. you are doing nothing. supermodel kate moss appears in the trial ofjohnny depp and amber heard and denies thatjohnny depp pushed her down the stairs. good evening. so the long awaited final report on lockdown parties from the senior civil servant sue gray has been published. it is not simply the extra detail we now have that is both revelatory and damning but what it says about a prevailing culture that allowed such behaviour to take place multiple examples of a lack of respect and poor treatment of security and cleaning staff, even an altercation breaking out and someone being sick. sue gray squarely blames political leaders and senior officials for allowing sixteen events to go ahead in breach of