bret: the death toll from a massive earthquake that shook turkey and syria today continues to climb. it stand injured. the world health organization estimates the death toll could climb exponentially. countlessbodies are believed to be under the rubble and some survivors have been texting or tweeting out calls for help from underneath the debris. today in southern turkey, a second earthquake or aftershock 7.6 within 12 hours of that first quake. correspondent alex hogan has the story. it s turkey s biggest earthquake in nearly 100 years as rescue teams there and in northern syria search through mountains of rubble for survivors. thousands are dead and missing or wounded. more than 20 countries, including the u.s. pledging support. the president authorized an immediate u.s. response in addition to the u.s. personnel currently on the ground. this hospital s plead for international aid. the situation is too bad. we need urgent help. millions of people throughout the
collecting over his state. james clyburn on the impact this is having on the president s big state of the union speech tomorrow. republican senator tom tillis on bipartisan calls for the administration to get tough on china and fast. it is all straight ahead. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with lucas tomlinson at the white house. hi, lucas. hi, neil. the white house press briefing just wrapped up and karine jean-pierre says things will china will continue to be calm despite u.s. forces shooting down a chinese spy craft. this was not the first brush with the chinese spy craft recently. four months ago, the same type of spy balloon crash landed in the pacific off of the coast of hawaii. mike waltz said the pentagon called them to tell them about other instances recently by these spy craft. what we were told is there were multiple incursions over florida, one over texas and separate reporting that we have not been able to ask about over hawaii and guam. so what we
simple questions. when did you learn about this spy balloon? why weren t we notified? why wasn t action taken sooner? could have easily been brought down over the state of montana. we have rural landscapes without endangering anyone. the decision was made not to do it. in fact, neil, initially i was told that the balloon would be taken out of the sky within the hour. then it didn t happen. who made that decision and why? neil: governor, i don t want to go through privacy issues. did the president ever talk to you? did you ever since get a chance to talk to the president? the governors had a call with representatives of the department of defense and the white house. there s no direct correspondence with the president. we asked some simple questions. i asked a simple question, when did it enter our airspace.
we look at the map. it seems to be growing. do you see this as a growing initiative? i do. and then the governor cox and i put out what i would call a best practices note in our nga capacities a couple weeks ago because each of utah, new jersey has taken steps. and i worry about it at two levels. one is the care and preserving of private data in this whole balloon craziness. underscores the fact when you are dealing with the chinese be careful with the data. bret: you mentioned the spy craft. montana s governor spoke out about how he didn t get a lot of briefing from the federal government. take a listen. we re just senator tester, myself, the entire delegation in montana are asking some very simple questions. when did you learn about this spy balloon? why weren t we notified? why wasn t action taken sooner?