search teams desperately digging through the earthquake rubble and praying for miracles. plus former vice president subpoenaed, what could mike pence tell the special counsel about trump and january 6. and the fight over america s social safety net, both sides ignoring the cold hard truth, not touching it is not an option. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. and we begin with the earthquake disaster in turkey and syria where they are clinging to hope that survivors can still be found alive but that hope fading with each passing hour. but there are miraculous stories. overnight two teenage sisters were pulled from the rubble. and the staggers death toll now approaching 22,000, the number of injured in these two countries near 80,000. and salma abdelaziz is live in istanbul. and the story of the sisters is a heartwarming story amid all the tragedy. and now a secondary tragedy, many are forced in to the freezing cold. what i
we are six days from a shut down, as well as the house speaker who says he has a plan to stop it. we continue to wait for the actual details to be released. that could come at anytime now. plus, as donald trump prepares to speak in new hampshire this hour, his son, don jr., prepared for another trip to the witness stand. this time for the defense. that is his father s fraud trial. big developments in new york city as the fbi conference gates eric adams devices for a fundraising investigation. latest of that coming up as well. democrats, reason to celebrate this weekend. pulling off multiple victories in the ballot box in several states, we talk to one of the big winners and look at what it means for election year 20 24th. that is coming up as well. we begin with this ticking clock in washington, there is now six days left for congress to pass the funding bill or see the federal government shutdown. we are now awaiting this full resolution, proposed by house speaker johnson, t