women com welcome to our vi the united states and around the world. we begin with the race to find survivors in turkey and syria more than 24 hours after an earthquake that has killed more than 5,000 in the two countries. the 7.8 magnitude quake and its powerful aftershocks collapsing more than 5,000 buildings. aftershocks are still creating treacherous conditions for rescuers who are trying to reach victims trapped. a massive international rescue effort now under way. and salma abdelaziz is live for us in istanbul. unfortunately the death toll is expected to rise. reporter: it is expected to ric rise. and you have rolling pictures right few on turkish television 24 hours of the search and rescue operations as families listing member after member that is missing. it is those families that turkish authorities are desperate to bring answers to. this is the critical window right now, this is the 24 to 48 hours after the earthquake where there is still a glimmer of hope that th
plus more firepower for ukraine, the u.s. about to approve longer range missiles to counter russians on the battlefield. and too cold for school, classes in big cities like boston and buffalo canceled with the coldest windchills since the 1980s about to take hold. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. right now chinese spies could be watching you from above from a high altitude spy balloon. the pentagon says they have been tracking this balloon about the size of three buss for days. people on the ground in montana at any didn t know what to make of it at first. there is the moon. all right. and then there is that. what planet is that? that sighting raises two big questions, what is it doing here and what does the biden administration plan to to about it. we get more from oren liebermann at the pentagon. reporter: for several days now the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance balloon over northern u.s.,
deadly accidents, scrubbed flights and an ice storm creating chaos. and a woman in oregon kidnapped and tortured and the suspect found dead. and first republican ready to officially take on donald trump and it is not ron desantis. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. an ice storm is wreaking havoc on the roads in at least eight states from texas to west virginia. that crash was in memphis. the national weather service urging everyone to avoid driving if possible. two people have died in texas accidents as sleet piled on top of ice makes roads very slick. vehicles backed up at at least ten miles down in texas highway on monday, flight aware says more than 1300 flights are already canceled today. the freezing rain still threatening parts of the south and central u.s. for at least another day. cnn s chad myers is here with the forecast. the video just tells the story. the roads are icy. where are we seeing the hardest hit
world you re watching cnn newsroom and i ll i m rosemary church, just ahead, president biden preach as message of justice, while republicans demand answer over his handling of classified documents. a desperate act by an american detained in iran, his employee to the u.s. president ahead in a live report. and tragedy marks what should have been a celebration at the university of georgia. what we know about the accident that claimed the lives of a football player and a staff member. . live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for joining us, republican lawmakers are ramping up the pressure on u.s. president joe biden over his handling of classified documents, chairman of the house oversight committee has asked the white house for visitor logs from the president s delaware home several classified items have been found, james connor said he wants mr. biden s case to be treated just like the probe involving donald trump and his own handling of
right now on early start, the temporary truce between israel and hamas has been extended by two days. could it go even longer? plus israel has received the list of hostages that could be released today. how many and how soon. and lawyers reveal the final witness at donald trump s civil fraud trial, the former president himself will take the stand last in new york. good day to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is 5:00 a.m. in washington, noon in gaza where israel and hamas have reached a deal to extend the four day truce that began last friday by an additional two days. in order to extend the pause hamas has committed to releasing another 20 women and children over the next two days. we would of course hope to see the pause extended further and that will depend upon hamas continuing to release hostages. monday hamas freed another 11 hostages mostly women and children, all israeli dual citizens, none of them american. so 69 host