hello, i m abby phillip in washington. president biden is taking the fight to republicans in florida and that s a state that s been tilting more and more toward the gop. it s also home to two of biden s potential 2024 rivals, donald trump and ron desantis. not to mention, biden s latest foil, republican senator rick scott. it is scott s recent proposal to sunset federal programs that biden has been hammering all week and in a few minutes he ll try to keep the pressure on with remarks focused on bolstering social security and medicare. cnn s priscilla alvarez is there in tampa ahead of the speech. so, priscilla, i don t think many people expected that joe biden and rick scott would be the first big political matchup of the year but the white house is very much leaning into it. reporter: it is front and center, abby. not only that, this is the second stop that biden is making after the state of the union this week. as he mentioned, biden is driving his message home that he is
we begin with tragedy in nepal. at least 68 people are dead in the country s worst plane crash in 30 years. search and rescue teams were at the site and will be back there at daylight on monday. four people are still unaccounted for, and now the search for answers begins. this is apparently just moments before the crash. take a look at this. the plane rolling on its side while flying low over a populated area, and then this. we re following the story, and we re joined now. that video shows some really unusual movements by the plane just before it crashed. what more are you learning? quite a bit. you barely see such videos just before a plane crash, but that was caught on camera. we believe that is just moments before the plane crashed. now, according to officials, 68 bodies have been recovered. four yet to be recovered. and search efforts have stopped for the day. and they will resume monday morning local time in nepal. the prime minister has ordered a probe in nepal, and a
child all surviving several nights of subzero temperatures. here s becky anderson. reporter: a miraculous moment of survival. a father and his two sons, rescued, 76 hours after that massive earthquake struck turkey and syria on monday morning. omar is one of their cousins. he helped to dig them out. we are trying to reach them and we have contact with them. we had a call by mobile phone. reporter: more than 100 people lived inside according to the residents and it s omar s love for family that drove him to assist the rescuers sifting through the rubble. painstaking work, first the rescuers and volunteers must dig and then plead for silence to hear any sign of life. repeating the process until they get closer.
there, no doubt about that. and at least 40 people are still missing. amid the death and devastation, we re also seeing signs of perseverance and resolve like this. a small child helping to clean up after the strike, calmly dumping the debris into a pile as chaos continues around her. cnn s fred pleitgen is in dnipro for us. just an unbelievable level of devastation there. i know you have seen this scene time and again. what more can you tell us? yeah, i mean, jim, i think one way to describe it is almost apocalyptic scene on the ground here. i m going to get out of the way so you can see what s going on. you re absolutely right that the rescue effort is still going on. there are still rescuers sifting through the debris you see there. you are also seeing a lot of smoke rising up from the debris because it is still smoldering underneath. you re also absolutely correct to point out the ukrainians are saying they believe right now the chances of finding anyone still alive in there are
the heads of homeland security and fema are in the region today bringing with them the much-needed federal resources. mayfield, kentucky is seeing many so of the worst of the damage. a few buildings left standing in the town of roughly 10,000. rescuers sifting through a collapsed candle factory where more than 100 people were working and then that tornado came through an so far only 40 people have been rescued from that wreckage. and new video shows what s left of an amazon warehouse in edwardsville, illinois. at least six people died when the building collapsed during a violent tornado there. many more are feared dead in dawson springs, kentucky, a town of just 2,700 people. the governor saying this morning devastation is something his state has never seen before. it s going to take us time. i mean, you think you go door to door to check on people to see