hello, everyone, tlahank yo for joining me, i m fredricka whitfield. recovery efforts underway offer the south carolina coastline following the take down of a suspected chinese spy balloon on saturday. the u.s. military blasting the balloon out of the sky after it drifts over the atlantic near myrtle beach. president biden saying that he ordered the military on wednesday to take the balloon down as soon as possible. and now efforts are underway to recover the debris and analyze it to find out what it may have been doing as it drifted across the u.s. over the last few days. meanwhile china is accusing the u.s. of overreacing and expr expressing strong dissatisfaction and the balloons destruction. from all angles to the capital to the coast where the balloon was shot down. let s begin with dianne gallagher where she is live in surfside beach where recovery efforts is underway. what is being located and discovered? reporter: so, fred, we re in the surfside myrtle beach area
it is 5:00 a.m. and with daylight will come more of a sense of damage and countless homes have been destroyed. but in the middle of all that devastation, we re often seeing inspiring scenes like this, a local reporter saving ae iing ad nurse who was pleading for help. he had to carry theoryher to sa his back. pawleys island, the storm washed parts of the pier away. authorities are still assessings damage and working to restore power. and brian todd is in naples, florida with a closer look at the damage there. nothing left. zero. the full extent of hurricane ian s destruction now coming fully into view. aerial damage assessments showing coastal florida neighborhoods with roofing tore off, homes flattened, house either flooded or wiped out. some buildings with nothing left but the concrete slab. remote lotions locations cut of the mainland. these images showing how hard sanibel was hit. only way to access that is either by sea or by air. reporter: so far more than 700
once again. [ sound [ sound of gunfire ] explosions heard across kyiv amid reports of kamikaze drone strikes throughout the city. three people were killed including a six-month pregnant woman. involving drones and cruise missiles that were once again targeting critical infrastructure. as russia s escalation continues, both russia and nato are set to hold separate long planned exercises of nuclear forces. we re covering all of the angle this is morning. let s begin with clarissa ward live in kyiv. i know you spoke with the mayor this morning. what is the latest on the ground there and what did he tell you? reporter: so, bianna, the death toll here in the capital has now risen to at least four people dead. 19 were successfully rescued from a residential building that was hit. we visited the scene of that building earlier. we spoke to the mayor. he said it is quite clear that russia is targeting civilians and also crucially civilian infrastructure. heating, electricity, power,
Rest there. Are fears the death toll will continue to rise as Emergency Crews Dig through the rubble of collapsed buildings but many are holding out hope theme find people looichd under that debris. Those who survived are now coping with trauma. Many sleeping outdoors after losing homes, others with a place to live rest tate to return home worried that there could be aftershocks at their homes could collapse. Morocco king has instructed officials to set up inter minimum Material Commission to provide relief. We get details now from cnns sam kylie. King mohammed has declared three days of National Mourning because his country has been completely devastated by an extraordinary earthquake totally unexpected in cities like this, marrakech. This has been the scene in the medina the most ancient part of the city a building ripped away by this earthquake but the scenes have been even worse in the interior of the country where one woman who was trapped for some 12 whurs pulled from rubble in a
guess no one knows whether u.s. intelligence or military were able to discern what that balloon was doing. it is just publicly it hasn t been revealed and they ascertain that it was a threat or a a national security threat and thereby justifies the approach. we don t know all of that. but isn t that a possibility? we don t know. we don t know that. but we have a long history when these happen, intelligence agencies and government inflate the threat and tell us there is vi vital danger that there wasn t. this is same intelligence agencies told us saddam hussein had nuke weapons. anybody said you could get much more and better images using spy satellites. the chinese have sent these kind of balloons up in the past. there are there is a question