foregoing medical treatment and deciding instead to receive hospice care at his home. we will take a look at the 98-year-old s health and reaction coming in from around the world. plus top diplomats from the u.s. and china meeting after the shoot down of that suspected spy balloon. live in munich and tokyo to help repair strained relations. and secretary blinken on his way to turkey to assess the damage of the deadly earthquake. we will take to you istanbul for a preview of his upcoming trip. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. on this sunday morning across the united states people from georgia, across the u.s. and around the world are praying for peace and comfort for former u.s. president jimmy carter. a statement from the carter center reads in part, after a series of short hospital stays, former u.s. president jimmy carter has decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of add
bianca is off for today, but just ahead on cnn newsroom i ve heard another tornado warning, it s like never ending today. this is an early wake -up cal for people living on the southern plains. everyone wants this constam nation gone from the community. the town is rallying around each other and i think we re all on the same page for the first time in two weeks. the chinese were very, very slow in alerting the world to it. i m not entirely surprised. the chinese have mishandled covid at every step of the way. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, february the 27th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 3:00 a.m. in the central u.s. where a powerful storm system is battering parts of oklahoma, kansas and texas with tornadoes, damaging winds and large hail. at least nine tornadoes have been through so much, seven in oklahoma, two in kansas. there are reports of widespread damage. downed power line and debris blocking
By cnn s nada bashir in istanbul, the blame game is in full motion now, nada. reporter: it really is max. and there is growing pressure on the turkish government when it comes to the devastating earthquake. so far 188 people arrested but more than 600 people have now been identified as potential suspects in allegations of construction negligence. and there has been some backlash against the government reports of construction amnesties being offer in the past, to those constructers, contractors who are building these apartment building, tall buildings in an an unsafe manner and notal following the building codes. the government says their fully examining these allegations and admitting there are lessons to be learned from this. thousands of and thousands of people have lost their homes, lost their loved ones and everything. and providing solace for tens of
I myself went to one polling station here in lagos on saturday on election day. the military was forced to intervene, because what people called thugs turned up and started beating voters, throwing chairs at them. and also attempted to cut up the votes that had already been cast. so, these are the issues that really they must answer. but above all, dwyoung people a very angry. they say there s right-wing going on and we have not confirmed and they believe the election may be stolen. max. stephanie besari. ahead, now israel s military is responding to chaos. plus, the death toll in turkey from this month s devastating earthquake continues to rise. we ll go live to istanbul for an update. try bounce lasting fresh.
The ground in turkey, i m joined by cnn s nada bashir in istanbul. as i said, the secretary of state will be there to, among other things, offer aid, which is obviously so desperately needed. reporter: yeah, absolutely, kim, it is hugely needed and secretary blinken s visit today will underscore that support from the international community that we have seen being funneled into turkey over the last week so or where we have seen that huge ground swell of support in response to the earthquake. secretary blinken departing munich, expecting to have a tour of a province heavily hit by the earthquake where there are house st thousand us of people left homeless because of the earthquake and he will later visit an aid distribution center. there are thousands of volunteers, thousands of rescue personnel on the ground across the southeast still working around the clock both in support of that search and rescue effort