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hello. i'm abby philip in washington. a desperate search is under way for survivors after a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck turkey and syria. the death toll is now more than 2500 and aid from across the world is pouring in. the aftermath of this is catastrophic. this was the strongest earthquake to hit that area in more than 100 years, and it struck while nearly everyone was asleep. hundreds of people this hour are still believed to be trapped. massive high rises reduced to rubble, as more than 50 aftershocks some as strong as 7.5 magnitude, make matters even worse for rescue crews. one survivor capturing this horrific moment that the building collapsed. floor after floor falling as people run from a massive debris cloud. nearby, another collapse.

look at this. and video of dramatic rescues are also coming in. this child pulled from the wreckage. crews are now hoping to uncover more miracles in the rubble. cnn's scott mcclain will lead us off here. scott, a massive rescue effort is under way now. what more are you learning about how that is going? >> miracles is a good way to describe it there, abby. the rescue crews across the entire region are battling an endless number of challenges, chief among them is darkness and frigid temperatures. they are hovering in the 40s, low 40s at the moment but overnight they will get down to around freezing. tomorrow, thursday, they will be below freezing. time is of the essence here because people are not going to be able to survive in the conditions for very long. they are also dealing with aftershocks, huge earthquakes. one was a 7.5 magnitude,

stronger than the earthquake that took place in 1999 and killed 17,000 people in northwestern turkey. i also want show you video that lays bear the human suffering on the ground. this is a video from northwestern syria where a father outside of aleppo is handed his infant baby son's body from the rubble. listen. [ speaking non-english ] >> of course you don't needed to speak the language to understand the pain that that man is feeling at that moment. but as you mentioned, there are also miraculous rescues taking place. i'll show you another one, also from syria, where a boy who seems like he's about 5 or 6 years old, also near aleppo, is

pulled out from under a huge slab of concrete and rebar. this is pretty miraculous they can actually get to him without badly injuring him and yet they do. you hear the boy crying there as they put him on a stretcher. the rescue workers asked the guys to make way and then put him on a stretcher and you hear the boy crying. surely that is exactly what they wanted to hear there. signs that this boy, after his ordeal of hours and hours trapped under the rubble, is, in fact, alive. clearly not all of these stories have happy endings. we're seeing footage from hospitals inside syria, not far from the turkish border, one shows frankly children in not very good condition here, lying on stretchers, parents pleading with them to to be conscious. we're also seeing the bodies wrapped up of children on the floor in the hospital because

there simply is not enough room for everyone and the reality is that the red crescent has warned that there are real concerns about the medical situation in northwest syria, given the fact that there has been war there for a decade. there are sanctions on the government and the infrastructure of that country has been absolutely decimated. one other thing to mention, the turkish authorities say there are 2800 buildings that have been damaged across the country. there are lun drenz, maybe thousands more on the syrian side of the border and that gives you some indication, given that this happened in the overnight hours when most people are sleeping, of how high the death toll may yet still rise. abby? >> scott, as you pointed out, this is a region that has already been going through quite a lot of suffering, due to war over the years, and this added on top of it is really tragic. scott mcclain, thank you so much for that. let's get to more on this with susan huff, a seismologist for the u.s. geological survey.

thank you for being here. this was the strongest earthquake to be recorded in turkey in more than 100 years. did anyone in your line of work know that something like this was coming? >> no, there weren't any predictions that it was going to had happen on any given day or even any given decade, but it's been known for a long time that turkey is one of the most active earthquake zones in the world, and so it was very much foreseeable, even though it wasn't predicted per se. >> there have been aftershocks, as scott mentioned in his report, measuring up to a 7.5 magnitude, that's larger than even some recent earthquakes they've had in recent years. how common is it to see such powerful aftershocks and for the people who are still trying to pick up their lives who have survived, are they out of the woods for similarly powerful shocks in the coming hours or days? >> well, 7.5 was larger than the

largest aftershock typically. that's only on average, so to see a.5 after 7.8, isn't unheard of at all. it's not likely that there's going to be another aftershock that big, but with a 7.8 main shock, you can have magnitude 6, 6.5 aftershocks and that's as big as the northridge earthquake. if one happens to hit close to a population center they very much are a continuing concern. >> and i don't know if you can see these images, we're seeing high rise buildings toppling and being complete devastation really in some of these densely populated areas, in this part of the world, do you think that better infrastructure could have prevented more destruction and death here?

>> it's hard to sit from outside and comment. turkey has building codes, the degree to which they're enforced, i'm not really an expert on that. also, as building codes improve, there's a problem of older structures that weren't build to modern codes, so there's a lot to sort out. in general, we can engineer buildings to withstand even severe shaking. california where i'm from, we've had seismic provisions in the building codes going back 90 years after the 1933 long beach earthquake, so hopefully that's put us in a relatively good position for the future inches here. >> and as you noted, this is a part of the world that is at great risk for these kinds of earthquakes and hopefully, as they rebuild, will be able to do so in a way that would allow them to withstand this. thank you so much for joining us on all of that. >> thank you.

and right now, the fbi is analyzing wreckage from the suspected chinese spy balloon. an air space is restricted off the south carolina coast as the navy looks for more debris. a u.s. fighter jet shot down that balloon over the weekend in spectacular fashion. critics say that president biden waited too long to order the strike. the administration says, though, that it wanted to ensure that no americans were on the ground and were in danger if they took that balloon down and while the remnants of this chinese balloon are being scooped up in the ocean, beijing has admitted another one is flying over latin america right now and it is also theirs. we're covering the fallout from all of this with dianne gallagher off the coast of south carolina on a boat right now and with us at the white house is phil mattingly. i want to start with you, dianne. what can you tell us about this search effort? have you been able to see anything from your vantage point

off that south carolina coast? >> so abby, we went several miles office coast into the ocean really into the horizon there and we ran into the perimeter. that's something we knew that soon after the suspected chinese spy balloon was shot down by a missile on saturday, that the u.s. coast guard and the u.s. navy had begun forming a perimeter around that crash site. we're told that the debris is scattered around roughly mi7 miles, so this is a massive operation and we learned today when we came up on a coast guard ship that well the perimeter itself is roughly 20 nautical miles. the coast guard radioed our captain and said you can't go any further and you have to turn around. they followed us a little bit as we were heading back south which is what we're doing right now. we know they are using navy divers and potentially these unmanned vessels to lift this

structure up on to the salvage vessels so they can take the rest of everything they find up to quantico so that intelligence officials can analyze the debris they find. we also know they have talked about anything that may wash up on the shoreline, that in orry county, they told people do not take anything. do not try to sell anything. there's a phone number for them to call to report seeing information. they're asking people not to touch it and just report seeing something because they want to make sure they get every single bit of this. but we could not see the recovery operation even though we were right up at the perimeter, they have it set pretty far in we're told to make sure nobody can contaminate it or come in contact with any of that. >> yeah. as much of a fascination as this is, i'm sure to some people, it's probably best to leave that to the experts here. phil, i want to go to you now. this actual missile strike by all accounts was a success. they brought down that balloon. the question is, about what led

up to it and the white house seems to be playing defense to some extent right now. >> look, abby, you heard from republicans who made clear from the first time it was made public that this balloon was over the continental united states, that they believed the white house officials and the presidents should have signed off on it being shot down immediately over montana. officials have made clear the military leadership, secretary lloyd austin and mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff recommended do not do nap the scale in terms of the debris would have put civilians in the risk or at risk of being in harm's way and they recommended waiting until it was over open water for the shoot down, which is what you saw on saturday. there's also what we've heard from the administration, the fact that they believe that this has happened before, including in the last administration during the trump administration where at least three separate occasions, balloons were able to float over the continental united states. now white house officials have made clear they will brief former trump officials who say

they don't have knowledge of this if they request those briefings at some point in time. the recognition is this has become a political issue on a very political week with the president's state of the union coming up and white house officials believe both on the decision making in this process, they believe they made the right choices, particularly now as dianne is laying out, they believe they can collect a lot of the payload and information that was part of this because it landed in water and not on land, but also they have some pushback to the fact that this was not the first time this has happened, and it wasn't just in this administration when balloons floated across the continental united states. >> phil mattingly at the white house and dianne gallagher off the coast of south carolina, thank you, both. let's break all of this down even further with military analyst retired air force colonel cedric leighton. colonel, based on what we know about when this balloon entered u.s. air space, the path that it was taking, coming down from alaska through canada and down

into the united states, was there an open -- could it have been shot down earlier? >> i think so, abby, but there are certain things you have to consider when you look at this because for one thing, you've got this timeline here. norad detected this on the 28th of january. and the president wasn't briefed until tuesday the 31st. by that time a lot of paths had been crossed right there let's go to alaska where the first sightings occurred and there's some reporting that the balloon actually overflew shimya island here in the aleutians. this particular island has a radar station associated with it, so that would have been the first installation that the balloon would have been able to take a look at from a surveillance perspective. then the path was around this, going up the aleutians and possibly like this. we have an air force base right here. that air force base does have f-22s stationed right there, so

theoretically they could have conducted that operation off of alaska. by this time the president hadn't been briefed yet. >> that raises such an important question. the biden administration says that previous balloons have flown over the u.s. before, but the trump administration may not have been aware. how is that possible? the department of defense not have known and then not briefed the president at the time? >> so there are a lot of things that could have happened. we're playing a dpeguessing gam here, abby. the fact remains that sometimes we don't recognize these kinds of platforms for what they are. the fact that they're using a balloon as their surveillance platform, takes you back to the civil war, even before that, and we don't think of people often using those kinds of technologies in the modern age. so that might be a failure of imagination on our part and might also mean that we're not

really perceiving the threat when it comes to how the chinese are using these instruments. >> let's talk about the fallout now. i mean, what are the capabilities that we as the united states has in terms of monitoring it and tracking it as it's making this path across the continental united states to prevent too much surveillance from happening while it's floating over land as it did over the last week? >> right. let's take a look first of all at the different altitudes that all of these platforms can fly at. the f-22, the plane that shot down the suspected chinese surveillance balloon flies at a maximum advertised ceiling of 55,000 feet. it can go higher because it was at about 58,000 when it shot the balloon down. but that gives you a basic idea. nasa flies at 100,000 feet for

their scientific balloons. we're getting into the stratosphere at this point in time. the problem is these types of devices cannot be picked up very easily in terms of radar traffic, so as things go floating through the united states, this basic path right here, which is what the balloon took, when it does that, it's not always possible for radar installations to pick these balloons up. so that's why we need to fine-tune radar. we also need to fine-tune the intelligence capabilities to recognize data streams that may be emanating from a balloon like this so we can figure out the command and control associated with it an then track it that way as well. >> colonel leighton, thank you for breaking all of that down as always. >> you bet. and now where does the u.s. relationship with china go from here? let's bring in cnn's global affairs analyst kim dozer to talk a little bit about the diplomatic side of this. so, kim, why would china make

this move at all? what were they trying to accomplish by provoking the united states in this way? >> that is what u.s. national security and intelligence officials are trying to figure out right now, and since china can be an opaque place to penetrate, that's going to leave some head scratching until they can get their hands on more of the debris in this 1500 or -- it's supposed to be 15 football fields by 15 football fields the debris they're scouring to see what kind of equipment was attached to that balloon and try to figure out did it definitely come from chinese military intelligence? there is a supposition that maybe this was pent to embarrass the biden administration ahead of the state of the union by sending something up that was so public it couldn't be ignored, but you could also surmise that

since previous balloon flights had been not really reacted to, not noticed publicly, that maybe china was pushing the boundaries. there's even analysis out there that the diplomatic side versus the military side within the chinese government are at odds and while the diplomats wanted to smooth things over, the military remains more hawkish and so they sent this balloon out to jettison any warming of relations. in either case, they're definitely going to be taking advantage of it, at least the hardliners within china. >> yeah. i mean, initially china seemed to apologize over and have insisted this is a civilian weather balloon, but now they have switched to veiled threats and said china reserves the right to use necessary means to deal with similar situations, and here's what democratic congressman jim himes said about that threat from china. >> i don't fear retaliation.

they're the aggressor. they flew a military asset over our sovereign territory. >> are you concerned about retaliation or at the very least escalation in this relationship? >> what i think u.s. military planners will have to think about is, what kind of aircraft they now fly into contested territories say in the south china sea, areas that the u.s. says are international waters that china claims as its own. what china could use this incident for now, no matter who intended it or if it was unintentional and a stray errant balloon, now when u.s. spy craft go into chinese territory, they will feel emboldened to shoot it down. you might remember back in 2001, a u.s. spy plane, among many spy planes that regularly did incursion over chinese air space, got knocked out of the sky by a chinese jet and the u.s. had to negotiate for the

release of the spy crew. that created the kind of public message that china might want to send to its allies in this war for influence with the u.s. that the u.s. is the aggressor and china is just trying to get along. >> yeah. i mean, kim, you raise such a grave and serious example there. thank you for all of that analysis. kim dozer, cnn global affairs analyst. and coming up next for us, they are facing grave danger or even death. the governor of ohio warning people living near a toxic derailed train that they must get out right now or face potential explosion of deadly shrapnel. plus, ukrainian fighters just started training on their newest weapons in the fight against russia. tanks coming from western allies. we'll take you there live. and the congressman who can't seem to stay out of trouble, is now accused of sexual harassment. what george santos is saying

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prosecutors differing on how to proceed? or is pomerantz right that trump got special consideration because he's a former president? >> i think you touched right on it saying there's a difference of opinion. you see this all the time in workplaces around the country but prosecutor's offices around the country. let's be clear, mark pomerantz in this book makes a compelling case for charging former president trump with a crime. there's a few problems that get glossed over, frankly, in the 60 minutes interview. so much of this attention on alvin bragg the current district attorney, but doesn't talk about cyrus vance, the former district attorney who had the case going back to 2019. if there was such a groundswell of support for charging it, why didn't they do it back then? there's a lot of blame to go around here. two, an important point, if you read the book, there wasn't clear consensus, i believe, in the office as to whether to

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this training is taking place. n nic, how soon could the tanks make their way to the front lines? how long will the training take? >> i think the training is going to be shortened as much as possible because the ukrainians are desperate to get them to the front lines. i've been speaking with the tank crews from the danish leopard 2 tanks, the danish government hasn't decided if it's going to send leopard 2 tanks along with the germans doing it, the portuguese and others, the polish as well, but they all train very much in a similar way, and what this tank commander was telling us is, it takes about two weeks to get a crew ready to move the vehicle around, two months to get them sort of familiar enough to really use it effectively in battle, not get it blown up quickly, but to actually use it with other tanks on an operation with infantry, which is what the ukrainians want to do, punch

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new week, new controversy for republican congressman george santos. a man who tried to get a job in santos' office claims that freshman lawmaker made an unwanted sexual advance last month, and santos denies the claim, but his accuser says he filed a police report and a house ethics complaint. sunlen serfaty is joining me on this. first came santos' lies and more lies and now this. what can you tell us about this accusation? >> these accusations, abby, come from a man named derek myers, and he said this took place last month on january 25th. he said he was alone with the congressman in his congressional office, and he says at one point the congressman came over to him, put his hand on his leg,

put his hand on his groin, and then invited him over to his house that evening, and that's when myers says he pushed the congressman's hand back and left the office. now, at the time myers was not an official employee in santos' office. he says he was working in a volunteer capacity, he was waiting for formal paperwork to go through, finalizing a formal job from the office. now notably five days after the incident, myers says that he received a call from santos' office questioning him more about his background, specifically his time as a journalist, and then it was then, a few days later, myers said his job offer was rescinded by the congressman's office. up on capitol hill a few hours ago, the congressman, for the first time, responded to claims of these allegations, and he said to cnn that these allegations are 100% false. >> can you talk to me about

derek myers and his alleging you made unwanted sexual -- >> it's comical. >> do you deny the claim against you? >> of course i deny the claim against me. let me make it clear, if there was remote, any part of that that were true, he should have led with that and not begged for a job we decided to pull from him for being accused of doing exactly what he did to us. >> just a followup, so you categorically deny -- >> 100%. >> and santos there seems to be referring to a time where myers last year was charged with wire tapping when he published audio from a source in a courtroom. and this allegation, as you said, he has filed a house ethics complaint and police report. >> sun lin serfaty, thank you. the pentagon is sharing some brand new information about that suspected chinese spy balloon as the navy continues searching for

debris in the atlantic ocean. cnn's natasha bertrand you here for us. natasha, we're learning a little bit more about just how valuable that debris could be. what are you hearing? >> that's exactly right. so the commander of northcom briefed reporters and saying the delay in shooting down the balloon allowed the u.s. to collect very significant intelligence about what was actually inside of it, and the reason they were able to do that, actually, is because they were granted -- the military was granted specific authorizations by the u.s. government to collect intelligence on this object which is not something they would normally be able to do on something within the united states. they were granted specific and special authorizations to do so. in that kind of two-day, three-day delay as it transited over the continental u.s. they were able to collect important information about how this balloon works. interestingly, we're learning more about what the debris field actually looks like from this balloon that was shot down on

saturday, and we are told that "uss path find are" a survey ship, is on-site and mapping that out rooun right now and th debris field is 15 football fields by 15 football fields. they're still going through this recovery operation and they have not given us any details yet on what they have actually been able to recover intact from this balloon. of course that is going to be really key in terms of what they are able to recover and then send to a lab to analyze and what they can find out anything more about china's surveillance program here. abby? >> yeah. this is a huge piece of that puzzle. now that it's down, what information can we learn about what china's intent was? natasha bertrand, thank you for that update. coming up next for us, stevie, quincy and jay-z, they have a lot of them, but beyonce has more than all of them. coming up next, queen bey's history making night at the grammys and the one big prize that's still missing from her trophy case.

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