. a warm welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. just ahead on cnn newsroom we are sadly now into the window where so many of the ambulances will likely be taking people who perished. i hate to disappoint you, but the biden economic plan is working. this is a blue collar blueprint to rebuild america. responsible nation would have put out some kind of statement saying head s up, this is heading your way. just want to let you know. it is thursday, february 9. in turkey and syria, the death toll is now more than 16,000. rescue crews are getting desperate to find survivors. in northern syria, there are mountains of rubble. officials in damascus say close to 300,000 people have been forced from their homes. this video shows a crew working to clear debris despite limited resources. and white helmets are digging mass graves for the victims. the syrian government wants international sanctions lifted so
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- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. disney ceo bob iger has announced a new plan to cut $5.5 billion in expenses across the company and streamline its operations in the coming years. that includes cutting about 7,000 jobs roughly 3% of disney s entire global staff. all of disney s media content will be housed up one der umbrella dubbed disney entertainment. and he also says that they will have a drive to make streaming
lifetime. it is the scale of it is unbelievable and the piles of rubble don t even look like rubble, they look like sand. it looks like everything just broke. sometimes we re hearing that some of these buildings got both earthquakes. so like half of it crumbled and then the other half turned to dust after that. so it has been quite a lot for these people. and we re also trying to figure out the situation with helping syria, which is not easy right now due to the circumstances to actually get aid in there. so right now we re limited to only supplying turkey, but we ll find ways to help syria too. michael kaponi, thank you very much indeed. incredible work. against odds of course. if you want to help the victims, visit global empowerment mission.org and also cnn.com/impact. initial report on a suspected chinese spy balloon