i think there is a reason to go forward. also you do have tim scott who maybe wants to run for president, this could be an opportunity for him to step up and show some leadership. >> thank you. >> well, we look forward. >> like i said, if biden had switched on everything and wasn't able to give a good speech tonight, going to have to spit a bunch of nonsense i would say. he's got good stuff to say, you will be happy. tune in. >> truth, like having a shared reality and what facts are, because we've been truth challenged. >> i think that there is a shared reality you can talk about a lot of the stuff he got done was bipartisan. it doesn't have to be a negative partisan speech. he can brag on the other party for helping him in the past and talk about how they can go forward together. this should be a good speech tonight. >> van jones, thank you very much. kaitlan, we will see you tonight and tomorrow, so make some room, squish the chairs over for us there. >> i'm warning you, it's a tight

squeeze on the balcony on capitol hill so get ready. >> and it looks chilly. thanks, kaitlan. thank you everyone for watching, we appreciate it. have a great day. we will see you later on tonight for the state of the union. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. good tuesday morning, i'm erica hill. >> and i'm jim sciutto. right now just a heartbreaking reality in turkey and syria, international aid rushing in as the death toll from that powerful earthquake and its aftershocks rises to more than 5,000. 24 hours or so after the earthquake hit, rescuers they are still managing to pull some survivors from the rubble. in one instance in turkey a child that had been trapped in a collapsed building crawled out of the debris into the hands of first responders.

[ speaking non-english ] >> that poor little child. numerous aftershocks have rattled the region, many people too scared to stay inside their homes, understandably so. they've been forced to sleep on the streets in freezing temperatures. look at that scene there. the weather conditions have further complicated rescue efforts. cnn is near the epicenter, we will take you there in just a moment. also tonight president biden set to deliver his second state of the union address, this time of course he will do that to a divided congress. the white house previewing a speech in which the president is expected to call for bipartisanship as he tests his reelection message. we are also learning more about who is set to join the first lady to object as invited guests for tonight's address. we want to begin this hour with the aftermath of that massive earthquake that destroyed parts of turkey and syria.

becky anderson is in turkey, near the epicenter. these pictures we are seeing are horrific. i would imagine it is only worse when you see it in-person. >> reporter: thank you very much. yes, we are in a suburb of gaziantep. what you can see behind me is a building that is completely collapsed. as we've been watching what they are doing is getting ready for what they hope is an extraction, but unfortunately there were 15 people in this building, they've been able to rescue three, the other 12 remain inside as we understand it and they are very concerned now that they may not be pulling anybody further out alive, but the hope does remain. it's 36 hours after the original earthquake struck of course, it was 4:30 in the morning, bitterly cold here as it is now

and so these teams have been working around the clock. the fear is, of course, hypot hypothermia, these people have effectively frozen to death if that's the case, but, as i say, there is still some hope. so you can see that there is a digger now and let me open up the shot for you, the digger is going in, it is in that position there that they believe that they may -- just may have some sign of life. so obviously the work is painstaking, it is slow and for those here including the mother of one child who is believed to be under that rubble, it is absolutely heartbreaking. >> oh, my lord. becky, you're saying a mother is out there waiting for news of her child? >> reporter: correct.

the lady is just behind the yellow ribbon here from the police and i'm not going to intrude on her at the moment, but it's the lady in the black and gray scarf there, she's just been showing a picture of her son or daughter to the authorities here so that they would allow her to go through the police corden. so she is waiting patiently. i will just see if i can get shavel to just put in here so you can actually see. there are people hopping to help with an extraction if indeed that is what we get here. apologies. please carry on. >> not at all, becky, it's got to be delicate work, right, because you want to get folks out but you also don't want to disturb the rubble and cause it to collapse further i imagine.

>> reporter: absolutely. you're absolutely right. you can see both the crane here and this digger has been here, we've been told, for hours and hours now and -- but, yeah, i mean, it is just a really, really delicate operation. it starts and it stops and the rescue workers, the search and rescue workers on the top will then give that digger operator instruction and then they'll start again. >> are they carrying someone out there? it's hard to tell. >> it looks as if they may be. >> beck yes, as we're watching this, too, and as we wait to learn what is happening there, i know there's also concern for those rescue workers and just the integrity of what is left of that structure and even the pile

that they are on, that they have to take into consideration, becky. >> reporter: you're absolutely right. we've just been as you can see it's clear there is nothing left of this building. i mean, this was a seven-story building. you can see the building next door as i understand it it was a very similar structure. so there is nothing safe or robust about what is left. the building, there are five or six buildings that have partially collapsed on this stretch and we've been just on a watch on another building and three floors of which have completely collapsed, four remain. there were 24 people in that building, they've saved four alive, a 3-year-old, a 7-year-old and two adults. 20 remain. what we've just been learning about the building just next to this one is that they are concerned now that the four stories that remain will collapse in the hours to come. so you're absolutely right to

point out. i mean, this is -- this is not just hard and heartbreaking work for these search and rescue men and women who are here, but it is extremely dangerous work as well. there are already search and rescue teams from other countries here in country, we travel with the uae's team here to gaziantep overnight. the kazakhstan team is just down the road here. i can't see whether there's any other international teams involved. but, i mean, these search and rescue workers locally are extremely stretched. i mean, gaziantep is actually not as badly affected given where it is, it's only, you know, 10, 12, 15 miles from the actual epicenter of this quake and it hasn't actually been as affected as perhaps you might have expected, but there are towns, villages in this area where there is enormous

devastation. we have not been able to get to yet and others haven't been able to reach. so, yeah, i mean, the search and rescue workers are extremely stretched, the conditions are extremely dangerous. i hazard to guess many of these people would not have slept for 36 hours. it's plus 1 degrees out here at the moment, it will be minus 6 as soon as the sun goes down effectively and there are many, many people here in blankets, they clearly haven't been able to go home, people are being accommodated in mosques, in schools, structures that have survived, but, yeah, it's a heartbreaking situation i have to say. >> well, that poor mother, we will be thinking about her and hope that somehow there's good news amidst all the mess. becky anderson with us there. we will certainly come back for an update. >> this earthquake particularly devastating for syria which has suffered through more than a

decade of civil war. most of the relief and recovery services in northern syria are provided by nongovernmental organizations and through other humanitarian aid. those lengths are difficult and vulnerable. >> joining us now is dr. hatem, a pediatrician in northwest syria. doctor, we appreciate you taking the time to join us. we know how tough this situation is. can you give us a sense this morning when it comes to this area of syria, many of the public hospitals, the health clinics were closed or at best partially functioning prior to this devastating earthquake. what do you need this morning? >> hello. thank you very much. the hospital in north syria, it is more than our ability to treat. we were trying to treat patients

injured, but we don't have enough equipment, enough medicine and our hospital did have the ability to receive a huge number of patients who were injured. syrian hospital in north syria now needs everything. they need -- to come and help in the syrian hospital, they need also medication and need also teams to come and rescue people who are underneath the house rubble. there are many, many people that are still under rubble and we don't know the number of missed people, missed family. most of the injured who come to the hospital are children, which

their injuries are severe and can't treat them well. we are trying our best, but it is more than our ability to deal with. >> i wonder, doctor, given all the ongoing fighting there in northern syria, you've got the seen yan government, russian forces, rebel forces. is aid able to get through all that to where it's needed? >> absolutely not because as you nknow -- the ability of hospitas and medics are weak and they can't deal because of the need of medication and hospitals. the facility in north syria in the last few years the hospitals, there are not enough to treat the huge number of people who are coming now to our

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u2 lead singer bono with them. for more on the message from tonight's speech keisha lance bot bottoms. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> first, biden, of course, will say the state of the union is strong tonight. according to a new abc news "washington post" poll, though, more than 6 in 10 americans say the president has not accomplished much during his administration, despite the passage of bills in the last congress. i wonder, how does he plan to change minds tonight? >> well, it's going to be important for the president to remind the american people of what has been accomplished. as you know, there's been a lot that's been done over the past two years from strengthening the economy to making sure that insulin prices are capped for seniors at $35. the toughest gun legislation in decades. so there's an entire list of things that have been accomplished but it's going to be important for the president

to remind the american people of those accomplishments and also to remind us that there's more work to be done. we have to finish the job. there's still so many additional things that the american people need to make their lives better and the president is going to make that case this evening to the american people and to congress. >> how, though, does he make that case credibly given that he no longer -- republicans now control -- democrats no longer control the house, they don't have the ability, they don't have the majorities to pass legislation like they did in the last congress so how does he plan to back those words with action? >> well, the president has made an entire career based upon getting things done in a bipartisan manner. we had significant legislation passed with the support of republicans in congress, so the president has not given up on that idea. good policy is good policy for the american people. so we know what we've been able to get done together, and the president is not going to give

up on the notion that we can't work across party lines if it's for the good of the american people. >> as you know this will be the first time you have a republican speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, behind the president for his state of the union. mccarthy has mentioned a few things, one thing he's asked is that the president no longer use the term extreme maga republicans in his speech. i wonder, does the president plan a con conciliatory message at all to republicans tonight to back up what you say now that he's willing to work with them going forward? >> well, again, the president wants to get things done in a bipartisan manner. he ran on that platform. he built an entire career in the senate getting things done in a bipartisan manner. he is the president so he has the choice to use whatever words he deems appropriate, but what i will say is that he has extended the olive branch to speaker

mccarthy, he's had him at the white house, he's extended the olive branch to republicans, we saw he and mitch mcconnell were in kentucky together. so the president wants to work together. the question is will republicans be able to work with this president to get things done. >> we're learning now in the wake of this chinese surveillance balloon and its shooting down that there were prior incursions, some of which the pentagon only discovering now looking at past data. will the president address tonight why the u.s. wasn't more prepared in advance for this surveillance balloon and it crossing the united states? >> well, i would disagree that we were not prepared. we identified the threat, the threat was shared with the american people and the president in consultation with national security advisers made the right decision to shoot the balloon down over the ocean so that we could gather as much information as we could. we also have heard from our national security advisers saying that the threat had been

diminished. and so what the president will stress is the need for us to have strong alliances across -- across the world. it's the reason the president talked so much about strengthening nato. we know how important that has been as we have seen the war in ukraine. so the president will continue to lean in on the fact that it's important that we be strong and that we be strong together. when you look at the threat that we've seen for china, it continues to remind people why it's important that we continue to maintain our strength on the world stage. >> well, we will be watching closely tonight. keisha lance bottoms, thanks so much for joining us from the white house. >> thank you. joining me now to dig a little deeper about the president's speech tonight, robert schlesinger a journalist and the author of "white house ghost: presidents and their speech writers" and seung min

kim. jim asking about how the president will reach across the aisle but out to the american people, right, with this message of bipartisanship. this is a challenge for any president who has lost the majority. we've seen how former presidents trump, obama and clinton dealt with it. what do you expect the message to be from president biden tonight? >> i think it's going to be a governing speech tonight. he's going to, as keisha lance bottoms just said, he's going to give the message of, hey, let's work together, let's get things done. he doesn't need to go farther than that because what he's doing is setting up this contrast for the court -- for the course of the year and leading into his reelection where he is the one extending his hand, he is the one reinforcing his profile as somebody willing to deal and then he puts the ball in the republicans' court i think fairly confident looking at

fi history that they are not going to return the deal -- not going to try to cut deals, they will send the year focusing on hunter biden's laptop. they will reinforce the contrast that biden is going to try to set up tonight. >> in terms of that contrast we have heard more and more the president using this term extreme maga republicans, which as jim just asked keisha lance bottoms about, she dodged a little bit but said the president can choose to use whatever words he deems appropriate. it's interesting that speaker mccarthy asked him not to use that language but we know he uses it because he wants to set up, right, he wants to make that differentiation. what is the sense that you're getting this morning, will he in the words of keisha lance bottoms use whatever words he deems appropriate and will those words be extreme maga republicans? >> whether that precise phrasing is in the state of the union, i think we are all kind of waiting to see, but certainly that contrast that he's been making since before the midterm

elections will certainly really figure prominently i think tonight. i think one of the more interesting points in jim's interview was whether the president will be conciliatory towards republicans. i think at the white house there isn't really a sense that they need to be conciliatory. after the midterms we were expecting a red wave, expecting democrats to lose both the house and the senate, obviously the losses in the house were much smaller than we had expected and they kept the senate. i think right now they want to extend some sort of an olive branch, they want to at least signal to republicans that they are willing to work together on things that can't get done in a divided congress but in terms of coming at them with a shellacking as former president obama said, i don't think that is the mood of the white house right now. >> robert, i was speaking with somebody yesterday who said, you know, if you look at this from a different lens it's more like in the midterms the center held, given that there wasn't this massive red wave, given that we

didn't see a major shift as we have seen in times past when a president's party lost the majority. how helpful is that for president biden moving into the speech tonight? >> potentially it's very helpful because the center is where he wants to situate himself and, you know, there is something of a playbook here looking back at clinton and obama and it is in brief in times of divided government be the party or be the politician that is able to occupy the center. the republicans especially the house republicans seem more interested in focusing on their hard core supporters rather than moving to the center and trying to be in that governing space where the swing voters are. >> seung min, as we look at what's happening tonight we know this is in many ways a test run for joe biden's 2024 pitch. new polling and reporting, though, as you know very well, finds that the enthusiasm among

democrats for president biden to go after a second term is low, i think we could say. is that influencing his message at all, these recent numbers and the recent polling? >> i think it's something that the white house certainly can't ignore and i think one of the pessimisms, you have the standard issues like his age and whatnot but another major issue is the economy and how lousy people feel about the economy right now despite some pretty promising metrics for the white house in terms of unemployment rates and jobs created, which is why the white house has to strike a balance and really be sensitive to the concerns and the sentiment of people who don't feel great about the economy, despite those metrics that have been good for the administration and reminding them about what the white house has done under president biden's time in office so far. i think they really have to -- they kind of run the risk of, you know, touting their own --

you know, touting their own accomplishments, economic accomplishments when the country feels bad about the economy. they are trying to strike a balance between reminding the public of what they've been able to do but being concerned about how families feel. >> good to have you both with us this morning. thank you. >> thank you. and of course a reminding join anderson cooper and jake tapper for live coverage of the state of the union, that begins tonight 8:00 eastern right here on cnn. >> we will be on top of it. still ahead, the latest zombie apocalypse hit "the last of us" asking if a fungus can set off a disastrous pandemic. dr. sanjay gupta here with a reality check coming up. this valentine's day, gigive the gift of shine. at zales, the diamond store.

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this just into cnn, a new united nations report predicts the number of deaths caused by ant microbial resistance could grow up to 10 million a year by 2050. that would be a massive jump from the 1.27 million who currently die from antimicrobial infections annually. >> bacteria can mutate, become resistant to antibiotics making infections, harder, possibly impossible to street. dr. sanjay gupta joins us know. this has been a concern for some time, overuse of antibiotics. how significant do you find this figure and do all of us need to change our behavior with an

anti-mike beels. >> prior to this pandemic if you would have asked people who live in that world what their biggest concern was it would be antimicrobial resistance, this idea of trying to keep up with the mutations we are seeing in these pathogens, we have anti-bakt reels, anti-fungals and it is challenging because of overuse, you kill a certain population of those pathogens but the ones that survive are resistant and start to propagate and grow. it's in humans we are overusing these anti-bite particulars, for example, but also in livestock, you are seeing a lot of that it there has well. that's what's i object tw i objecting -- contributing to it. there's been an attempt to curb but also this search for new antimicrobial options as well. it's a real dance that

continues. millions of people are dying as things stand right now. >> there's also -- i'm not sure if this falls with the antimicrobial category -- the hog series "the last of us." it folk sis on this threat of a fungal infection that can turn people into a zombie-like state. okay. what's the reality of something like this? is this type of fungus actually a threat to humans in 2023? >> no. you know, this is not a threat to humans. this is obviously a fiction show, although i did watch part of it as it's part of my homework for this assignment. it's a pretty good show. the show creators basically looked at the idea of a fungus actually creating mind-altering behaviors. they got the idea from the ant world where there is a fungus which can actually affect the way ants behave.

i think we have some video of this. i will talk you through this quickly. what happens is a fungus would infect this ant, the ant would be mind altered, go to some plant, dig itself in, as the fungus completely overtakes its body. if you can see in the center of the screen if you see this there's this thing growing out of the ant. that is the fungus now, the fungus is now leaving the dead ant's body turning into supports and those spores are infecting more ants. that is sometimes what happens with what's called a parasitic relationship. the whole goal of that pathogen, the fungus in this case, is to propagate itself and is using the ant as a vehicle to do so. that's how the show creators based this show. it does not happen in humans, thankfully, but that's where they got the idea. i will say it's interesting when you look at fungi specifically, if you look at one that is not a

pathogen and doesn't induce you but it can induce mind-altering behaviors, that's an example of what a pathogen could do in the body. >> that's gross. >> the ant thing, man, i'm not going to sleep tonight because of that. i mean, beyond the sci-fi perhaps exaggeration this have threat, mind control, et cetera, i mean, do fungi pose a different threat to humans in general. >> we talk a lot about viruses certainly over the last few years, we talk a lot about bacterial infections, i think fungi don't get as much attention. in some part understandably in the united states because if you look at the number of people who die from fungal infections it has been going up in part for the reasons we have just been talking about, but in 2021, 7,199 compared to 2019, 4,700. they are going up, but globally this is a big issue.

you have about 1.7 million people dying of fungal infections every year around the world. to give you some context, malaria kills between 400,000 and 500,000 people. it is a big deal around the world, typically impacts people who, a, don't have access to an anti-fungals. you do start to see fungals grow where they did not grow before. our body is 98.6 degrees, funguses can't live at that tour. as the climate has warmed they have started to adapt and they will adapt to the point where they can survive in a warmer climate such as the human body. >> so now the show is going to come true. >> i was going to say now another reason for me not to sleep tonight. >> there's things we can do about it. >> it is always so good to see you, sanjay.

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of high-altitude surveillance balloons in recent years. cnn reviewed an excerpt of a military intelligence report from last year that mentioned sightings in hawaii and florida. these dating to the trump presidency. cnn's natasha bertrand has been covering. so this appears to be a pattern here. do we know, are we learning more, i should say, about what degree of intelligence china was or we believe china was able to collect with these things? >> u.s. officials have been extremely vague about that, but what we know from this intelligence report that my colleague zach cohen obtained was that the administration was aware of these chinese balloons well before this incident of this past weekend, right? so what this report said was that in 2019 while donald trump was president there was a chinese surveillance balloon that made its way past hawaii, floated towards florida and then transited the continental u.s. that way and exited our air space. this balloon floated at around 65,000 people so similar to what we saw over the weekend. but i think, you know, this really just drives home this

idea that there are clearly gaps here in what the united states can detect in our air pace space because general van kirk, overseeing all the united states air space for us, he said that there are domain gaps that the u.s. military now has to address because clearly they are missing a lot because it is not only that balloon outlined in that air force report that they clearly missed and didn't discover until three years later, but also we're told that there were at least three other instances of these balloons transiting the u.s. while donald trump was president and, of course, now we are learning that former trump administration officials say they never knew about this and the administration says they're willing to brief them on this, but ultimately this is clearly something the military has to look at. >> are we clear on that question whether those prior incursions during the trump administration were only discovered recently, as opposed to as they happened? >> so the biden administration says that they discovered these during the beginning of the administration.

>> gotcha. >> essentially that the intelligence community was tasked with taking a closer look at these kinds of things because they discover something early on, there was a balloon sighting early on in the administration, and that the prior administration had not detected those. of course, that has caused some heartburn among trump administration officials who say that they would have seen this if it had occurred, but this is what the white house is saying today. >> understood. certainly much more to learn, natasha bertrand, thanks so much. just ahead here, what you would you pay to see nba history in person? some tickets going for $75,000 for tonight's lakers game. lebron james poised to break a big, big record. we're live in l.a. next. iet, the more choices, the better. that's why america's beverage companies are working togethther to deliver more great tasting options with less sugar or no sugar at all. in fact, today, nearly 60% of beverages soldld contain zero sugar. different sizes? check. clear calorie labels? just check. with so many options,

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this morning the epa is assessing levels in ohio as they are looking to detonate a volatile and toxic chemical. you can see the flames rising

there at the moment of the release of the cars carrying vinyl chloride which led to an evacuation zone at the still burning crash site. >> it is still burning as jim said, and the evacuation zone is still in place and jason carroll is in east palestine, ohio, and you are outside of that zone, i hope, my friend. what are you learning from the officials this morning? >> well, erica, no more controlled releases or breaches. that part of the operation is over. in fact, just a short while ago, we had our drone up over the site just to see what it was looking like out there. we saw some smoke there, but not much of anything else. state officials are calling the operation a success, and they explained in detail how it all went down. >> during that detonation, our crews that were out there did observe two of the cars did

flameorize, and i am very please and all of the partners are very pleased with what took place. the detonation went perfect, and we are to the point where the cars became safe. they were not safe prior to this. >> again, live drone footage to show you the scene here. this operation was done to prevent those rail cars from exploding on their own which would have created a catastrophic situation. so, in terms of the situation now, they are going to wait for the area to cool off and get the epa in there to test the air quality and once that is all done, then perhaps the evacuees can return home and investigators can continue to look at what caused all of this, and it is look like a faulty

axle could have been the culprit. guys, back to you. >> the explosion and the flames are amazing. jason carroll on the scene, thank you so much. well, the eyes of the sports world and frankly beyond are looking into the lakers' star lebron james who is looking to break the record of kareem abdul-jabbar, and so of course, everybody wants to know is it going to happen tonight, and also, how did you score this assignment, omar, because you won today. >> well, honestly, the jury is out on the last question, but i am here, and it is 36 points away at this point, and look, he is only averaging -- only, well, that a lot at the nba level, and he went for 46 at one game last month, so anything can happen tonight, but even lebron said it

is one of those records that you don't think it is going to be broken, and it is almost weird that he is the one who is poised to do it and for good rrngs because we are talking about more than 38,000 points at a level of what is now more than 20 seasons in the nba for lebron, and you ask if he is going to do it tonight, and a lot of people are banking on it, because the resale values are going for the hundreds in the way, way, way back, and if you want up front, it is up to $75,000 just to sit there and potentially watch history, and this is against a non-playoff team against the oklahoma city thunder on a tuesday night, and so people are coming not necessarily for the playoff implication or the competition, but here to see the potential history, and for those who are not here, they will bech wag on tnt, and if not here, he has another opportunity thursday. and i should mention over my

shoulder is kareem abdul-jabbar who is holding current record for points, and he made that milestone before lebron was born, and here with lebron the chance to break it. on that statute, it says that kareem is the all-time leader, and it may have to change after tonight. >> the sky hook, man. it was hard to stop it. history, but records are made to be broken. omar jimenez, thank you. and now, we will go back to the catastrophic earthquake in turkey which has killed more than 5,000 people, and many missing. we go amid those rescues. stay with us after t this quick break. behohold... all that talent! ♪ this is how we work now ♪ this week is your chance to try any - subway footlong for free. like the subway series menu. just buy any footlong in the app, and get one free. free monsters, free bosses, any footlong for free!

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