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cnn this morning starts right now. [ clapping ] >> that was a woman waving to the crowd rescued after 92 hours in rubble. her mother pulled out just a short time later. good morning, everyone. these are just a few miraculous earthquake stories coming out. the truth is that hope for survivors is fading fast. families in syria and turkey bracing for the inevitable. they may never be reunited with their loved ones as the death toll nears 22,000. >> former vice president mike pence subpoenaed in the special

counsel overseeing mr. trump's role in the insurrection. will he invoke executive pruf le doctor privilege. >> and what he said about desantis and donald trump and more. >> we're going to go to syria. hope is turning into dispair. the death toll topped 22,000. rescues shifting to recovery four days after the catastrophic earthquake. families facing a grim reality they will likely never see their loved ones alive again. we've seen desperate heart broken family members join the search and dig throughout wreckage with their own bare hands including this man who says he lost 30 relatives in the quake. >> translator: we were talking about 30 people. not one or two. we're still digging to retrieve them. we only retrieved ten bodies. the other 20 remain under the

rubble. we have been digging for ten days without sleep. it's heartbreaking. it's too sad. children, babies and women. all gone. >> on top of all the death and destruction is the growing humanitarian crisis. thousands of people are homeless in the freezing cold with little food, water and medicine. >> to show you the scope, right, what this destruction looks like, what took 20,000 plus lives, you need the context what things looked like before and what normal used to be. so this is a mosque before the earthquake in turkey. used to look like this. this is what it looks like now. completely decimated. look at the side by side images. i want to show you a street from before. here it is. on a normal day. here it is after the earthquake. and here it is side by side. barely recognizable. wh you put the images side by side. these are satellite images of

nick paton walsh and our reporters in there. this is the stadium before the earthquake. this is after. that stadium is full of white aid tents. so many buildings around it completely flattened. here it is side by side. the magnitude of the tragedy, we have dponcorrespondents on the ground. let's go to nick paton walsh where helicopters are flying in patients. what are you seeing. >> extraordinary sense urgency. endless turkish navy helicopters picking up here. urgently injured individuals. a girl, as young as 3. and a 2-year-old sis -- a 2-month-old sister, we believe. the whereabouts of their mother unknown. time increasingly running out. and here's what we saw across the vast but devastated city yesterday and last night.

>> reporter: 80 hours in and any sign of hope will do. rescuers rush in. p t these buildings first three floors collapsed down but the upper floors are upright. and an 8-year-old is inside possibly alive. by the time they get her to the ambulance though, it's clear they were too late. her mother outside only able to watch her everything vanish. my little one, she says. don't take her. don't let her get lost. the streets are chilling patchwork of what's left standing. crowds and rescuers thinking they heard someone alive.

demanding silence so they can listen again. down here is the rescuers say alert, responsive. a syrian refugee. the building next to him barely hanging on at an angle. their work desperately wishing quicker. across the city, hell landed. this man guarding his neighbor's books with his father-in-law next to the body of his mother-in-law. he gestures behind him to where he once lived. it's hard to get your head around how inhabitable a city this city has become so fast f every street you walk down has a scene like this. and the roads out, they're jammed full of people trying to get away to safety. the buildings still could collapse and the roads in, rescuers, people even trying to get their possessions back. and those who stayed, lining

every part of the green space you can find with tents to try to stay warm. the trees perhaps in just enough space away from buildings that could crumble. new world for children smiling. neither oblivious nor somehow shaken too hard. dusk and the smoke of fire settles with the dust to choke the streets. but back where we were an hour earlier, there has been relief. ahmed was saved. pulled out from the hole. his family perhaps still inside. the medics keep asking him, did you hear any signs of life from them? no, he says. they say, he cannot wait for them. he must be treated after 86 hours entombed. the weight of grief even as he is saved. his friends were pulled from the rubble. i've been given life again, he

says. i saw death before my eyes. i saw my own grave. the same twist of fate here. there have been noises deep inside the bottom of what was once an apartment block. first out comes one man, age 21. the frantic work of medics here suggesting he did not make it. i think the impossibility of hope someone could emerge alive from the wreckage that is driving this large crowd of rescuers. most intense work done by hand right at the front of the rubble there. out comes a 4-year-old boy named elpaslan rescuers said. alive. seemed trying teen take off his oxygen mask. his father who follows shortly does not seem to move.

89 hours in the rubble. both tore a world part but found enough mercy to spare its youngest. now continuing here as the stream of ambulances pull up alongside the helicopter lands and have to delay takeoff because yet another individual frail, some of them jufd pst pu from the wreckage load on to the helicopter and taken to hospitals around turkey. and the large question here what are they going to do with the increasing numbers of dead to be cared for here? that number rising and the great urgency of treatment and the slim number of survivors being pulled out still. don? >> nick paton walsh, thank you. appreciate that. kaitlan? also this morning, volunteers say hundreds of thousands of people are homeless.

they have no place to go after that earthquake. we're live near a camp of the survivors that find themselves in this situation. what are they saying to you? what is next for them? >> kaitlan, just absolutely heartbreaking wherever you turn. story of so much loss and people now left in is this situation where they can only think about surviving today. they don't know what they're going to do next. just explain where we are, we are in one of the hardest hit provinces here in turkey. everywhere around the city you see so much destruction. so many lives lost. people who are now starting to come to terms with the fact that they're never going to see their loved ones again. then you have survivors, people that survived the earthquake but left with nothing. and they end up in places like

this. these mini tent cities that the government has set up. hundreds of families at this one here. you can see behind me, you got these piles of clothes, shoes, blankets. we've been seeing children, mothers, fathers, coming through and just looking through these piles trying to find shoes that fit for kids. warm clothes, blankets. then on the other side here, you've got the turkish military distributing basic food, water, diapers for the kids. and the needs are enormous here. and we've seen volunteers coming in, kaitlan, from all across the country. we sfopoke to a young man. he came from istanbul. he doesn't know what he's going to do but he says i'm here to help.

this is one of the government's priorities. provide shelter, feed people right now. but then you've also got the trauma. we've had people walking up to us and crying. one woman just came up and said i lost my sister. and she's like i have no mother and father. she was everything to me. now i lost my sister and just started crying. so, i mean, you can imagine how many more stories like this are happening across this country right now. hundreds of thousands if not millions. >> just to think about how they're grappling with the loss of a sister, loved one and now they have nowhere go, no home, no clothes, no food. i appreciate you being there. thank you. let's go to our colleague. she is live in istanbul at an aid distribution center. we saw you yesterday and stunned at the scale. that is a hangar. it's a huge aid operation.

this is a mammoth task to get help out to those people. i showed one operation yesterday unpacking boxes. let me show you another. they're clapping. the reason why they are clapping is because every time they pack one of these trucks, that is a sense of accomplishment. they know they have been able to help families on the front. these trucks just, look inside. they're going to close the doors. it's going drive 12 hours to the front lines. every volunteer feels so proud. everything inside this truck, everything going to the front lines is from turks to turks. think about the basics. think about the basics that you need when you are packing this charity. they have two million individual donations. i'm just going to keep walking you through. i want you to see the amount of

stuff they have. there are mattresses, boxes of water, diapers for babies, heating equipment. hundreds of volunteers here. hundreds of people who feel like they have to get everything as quickly as they k once the trucks go out, they could make a difference as early as tonight. >> thank you for being there, again. and to all of those people behind you clearly working around the clock. >> the scale is unbelievable. we have up to where it ranks as far as deadliest earthquakes. number seven. but still, the death toll is still climbing. when you think about it, we saw the other day it was 13,000, 15,000, and i said imagine if that was in the united states or europe or -- we remember what happened in haiti. enistanbul, turkey, syria. we still don't know. >> also just to look at the aid

efforts. remember yesterday when they were talking about digging throughout rubble. entirely a volunteer aid group. it's not all these officials able to help you dig through the rubble for your loved ones. it's become more of a recovery effort. it's volunteers going and searching through rubble for their peers. >> every time those folks providing helping with the aid, they're applauding. and then a palette goes out to help people. >> i want to show viewers this image. we haven't been able to show you a lot of syria. the u.n. just got aid in there yesterday. so this is an image from syria. this is actually an underground subterranean hospital. it is known as the cave. one of the doctors there told "the new york times," our hospital has always been filled with tragedy, of course, because of the decade long civil war. look at it now. he talked about a different enemy and that enemy being this earthquake. >> one of my friends alerted

know a charity that she's doing. it is part of our impact. >> you're watching and wondering how you can help all of these victims in turkey and syria, go to cnn.com/impact. we have a lot of vetted fundraisers there. they lost families and lively hoods and your friend also. >> she's a fund that goes -- she helps women. and it's focused on creating sustainable communities for the women and families to rebuild their lives to ensure that they have a path for recovery. there it is up on your screen. go to cnn.com/impact your world or turkish philanthropy funds. she's starting with the first $100,000 and trying to raise $500,000 to help the people there but especially women and children to be able to feed their families and take care of them. >> they need all the help they

can get. >> they certainly do. we're going to continue to cover it. this is a story that no one can cover like cnn. just the sheer scope of our network this is what we do. we're going to continue to cover it and bring the stories to you. in the meantime, we have to talk about what is happening in the united states. he ran for his life on january 6. now the special counsel investigating donald trump wants to talk to the former vice president mike pence as his probe escalates. plus, president biden took a big swipe at ron desantis in florida. what he said about someone that might be running against him in 2024. ♪ ♪

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world to overturn president biden's victory. something he couldn't legally do. we talked about some -- it is still notable that they have taken this big of a move to go and subpoena the former vice president. they want to talk to him about this. the special counsel is doing the documents probe and january 6 probe. on the documents front, they expect the doj to conduct a more thorough search of his home. >> which really annoyed pence's team. that got out there. that they were in discussions. further discussions about the home. >> they've been in discussions about he knew that they were going to want to talk to him. they've been talking about it since november, i think. >> that's -- maybe a bit of a contrarian view. i'm not surprised. i'm surprised we're in this moment. i'm not surprised they want to talk to mike pence since he was so close. >> isn't the subpoena surprising? >> no. >> it wasn't -- they were having talks to work it out, right?

>> sometimes people want to subpoena so then they're like i had to testify. i forced my hand. >> when i saw the news i wasn't surprised that he was subpoenaed. i'm surprised that we're in this moment as a country. you saw in that video, they were saying hang mike pence, it's jarring to me that moment happened. we had people going into the capitol. >> pence was the only person talking one-on-one with trump. but will he reveal what happened? he may not. i think it will be a fight. let's talk about president biden now. weighing in on potential opponents in the 2024 race for the white house. he says running against former president trump of florida, governor desantis would be the same thing. >> i have to wonder if you think there will be a difference between running against one or the other candidate. in terms of polarization. >> no, i don't think so. i think that they have a similar

modus operandi. but i really don't know. i never decided to run or not run based on the opponent. >> let's get to the place where that man right there and the president resides, the white house this morning. good morning to you, m.j. lee. our white house correspondent. m.j., president biden insisting he has not made the final decision whether to run again in 2024. although, according to john king, folks like you and kaitlan and everyone, it's kinds of a done deal. he's just not saying it. >> that's right. you know, don, there is just not going to be an announcement until there is an announcement. every expectation is that a run for a second term it coming. it's a matter of when that announcement is going to come. now that we are through with the state of the union, i think we're seeing just how quickly we are entering the 2024 cycle. i do want to play a sound of how the president responded last night when he was asked about the fact that there are plenty of democrats across the country who would like to see a candidate that is not him.

>> do you know any polling accurate these days? you told me there is no way we were going to do well in this off year election. you told me i wouldn't win the general election. we did well. i feel good about where we are. >> this comment to me was incredibly telling. i think just actually one of the clearest signs he's, in fact, gearing up for a second term. president biden and top advisors have long been really sensitive to the fact that they have been underestimated. they were treated like underdogs. time and time again they had to prove skeptics and critics wrong. and this very much to me sounded like a president biden who is pretty eager to prove critics wrong again, don. >> look, i think it's first reelection speech was state of the union. that's just me. let's talk about the brazilian

president making his first white house visit since being elected again. how can these two repair relationship between the countries after really both seen democracies threatened? >> you know this is going to be raily fascinating visit and a really interesting bilateral meeting at that. these two men in so many ways have confronted similar dynamics in their respective countries. the rise of political extremism, right-wing efforts by protesters and their countries to overturn election results. we saw that on such clear display in brazil, obviously, some weeks ago. when supporters of the ex-president tried to storm government buildings. that event had such echos to what happened here in the united states on january 6. so u.s. officials do see that those are the kinds of themes that the two men will certainly talk about in this meeting this afternoon. and for president biden, this will be sort of like a turning of a chapter moment when it

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murdaugh. witness testimony resumes in the double murder trial of alex m murdaugh. randi kaye is in south carolina again this morning. states witnesses, prosecution witnesses put a dent in m murdaugh's story. what did you learn? >> some witnesses certainly for the state have placed alex murdaugh at the murder scene at the time of murders. this one witness that testified yesterday seemed to help the defense. told the jury he spoke to alex

murdaugh that night and sounded normal. listen. >> what time was that first call? >> it looks like it was at 9:11:00 p.m., incoming from his cell phone. >> his best friend, chris wilson, testifying that alex called him at 9:11:00 p.m. that would have been 20 minutes after prosecutors say alex's wife and son were killed. >> did he sound normal to you? >> sounded normal, yes, sir. >> normal is how he said alex sounded. wilson told alex he had to call him back later. >> what did he say? >> he said that's fine. no problem. >> that phone call could be key. prosecutors seem to be trying to show alex was allegedly trying to create an alibi after the murders. chris wilson said he called alex back at 9:20 p.m. and alex told him he was almost at his mom's house. alex fired up the car and left the property about 9:06:00 p.m.

that night. alex said he was napping before that and not with his family around the time they were killed. wilson said alex then sent him a text at 9:52 p.m. saying, call me if you're up. wilson testified he called alex back at 9. . 3:00 p.m. on the night in question to discuss a case. he said can we talk tomorrow? i said, sure, fine. >> reporter: that last phone call would have been just where he returned home, just before he says he found his wife and son bleeding. alex called 911 at 10:07:00 p.m. he said they were a loving family. >> do you agree that alex's number one priority was his family? >> it appeared that way to me. >> when i say family, i'm talking about maggie, paul, and buster. >> i also learned that alex

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last night patrick mahomes took home his second nfl mvp award. >> first, i want to thank god,

for giving me this platform and putting so many amazing people around me to help support this dream. >> that is patrick mahomes weighing in after he won ahead of sunday's super bowl. we took a closer look at the quarterbacks and how their fathers guided them and helped shape who they are today. we're live in glendale, arizona. rg 3 was the first person that brought this to my attention. this is something people should be talking about more, how they both have the influential fathers that helped shape the foundation for what we're going to see on sunday. i know you've been reporting on this. what have you learned about their stories? >> yeah. kaitlan, we often here media pointing out how star athletes have a rough upbringing, terrible family life. that same energy should be given to shed light on stars like jalen hurts and patrick mahomes who do have strong families and have dads that molded them into the inspiring young men we see today. >> i'm not the man i am on the

field, off the field, the quarterback i am, the leader i am, i'm none of that without him. >> my dad, he means the world to me, man. he set an example for me of how you have to go through this business. >> patrick mahomes' dad had an 11 year major league baseball career and taught his son how to be a pro and how to persevere. >> he dealt with a lot of poz. he was in the mlb at an early age. he also battles for a long time. he kept following his dream and following his dream. he was able to make it to a world series. showed me no matter if you're not having success at that moment, you continue to follow your dreams, you'll make it. >> i just try to make sure that he knows, you know, in his corner. i'm going to be there. and as long as he goes out there and does the best he can, he'll never hear a gripe from me. >> hurts' dad was his high school football coach and jaylen has been learning about him sibs he was a ball boy for his dads' teams. >> it's a blessing to watch a

young man develop the passion for a sport and really, really worked hard at every level and every turn. >> what does dad mean to you? >> i feel like i'm a direct reflection of him and a spitting image of him in so many ways. i love him and respect him for how tough he was on me, how honest he was with me. and the man that he raised. >> the love and support these super bowl star quarterbacks received from dads is shaping them into great leaders in their own right, not just for their teams. mahomes is now a dad. father of two, leading, guiding, and while hurts isn't a dad, he is well aware of the influence he can have on the next generation. >> you don't really realize the impact you're doing until you reflect on it. i think to have the opportunities and be able to represent so many different people, something i definitely have on my heart when i'm playing. i will not forget where i am come from and i know there are kids out there watching. always kids out there watching.

>> powerful stuff. powerful stuff. patrick mahomes and jalen hurts finishing first and second in mvp voting. of all the players we spoke to, kaitlan, we asked them what makes these two young men special? the first thing they say, the very first thing is the way they lead. they have strong hearts and strong minds. they got the qualities from dad. >> i know. you just can't help but to root for them. and salute to their dads. that is truly an amazing story. i'm so glad you looked into that for us. thank you. >> i love that. thank you. ahead, lawyers in oklahoma in a race against time to save the life of a death row inmate before his execution date. the evidence they say proves his innocence. that is next. courageous performance. discover a new world of possibilities in the all-new lexus rx. never lose your edge.

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he was sentenced to death in the 1997 murder for hire kig killing of his boss. he always maintained innocence. his lawyers say they can prove it. we have this report. this is a collect call from -- >> richard. >> an incarcerated individual at oklahoma state penitentiary. >> once a week, the defense team for richard glosip connect on the phone. >> the one thing i want out of all this is to people know that i'm innocent. >> sometimes to catch up, other times to talk strategy on how to save the life of the oklahoma man on death row. what was the moment you saw something and you were just, wow? this guy is innocent? >> we've always been looking for sort of a smoking gun. and we have found pieces along the way that have sort of added all up to everything. >> it's hard to not feel emotionally attached to the case. but also to rich himself. you know?

it's an extraordinary burden to try to save another human being's life. >> reporter: he is staring down his ninth execution date. may 18th. it's the latest delay in a year's long string of reprieves and stays. this one coming at the order of oklahoma's newly elected attorney general who appointed a special counsel saying in a statement, circumstances surrounding this case necessitate a thorough review. >> it's the right thing to do, to give somebody a chance to do a deep dive. >> reporter: in an exclusive phone call, he said he just filled out paperwork for his last meal and burial plans when he got the news. >> it's really hard to describe the feeling. it's been so long. but we're fighting here. so all you can have is hope. i have a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel. >> reporter: the former motel manager is twice convicted of being the master mind in a murder for hire plot in the culling of his boss barry van trees in 1997. it was another employee justin

sneed who admitted to killing him. he received a life sentence in exchange for his testimony accusing glosip of coming up with the plan. he always maintained his innocence. >> it's one of the scariest things you have to go through in life. i mean, especially if you're an innocent person. to know that they're going to take your life for something you had nothing to do with. >> reporter: last year a bipartisan group of 34 state lawmakers hired international law firm reid smith to conduct an independent investigation into the case. the effort led by republican state representative kevin mcdougal who vowed to repeal the death penalty in oklahoma if he is executed. >> our lawmakers who in the past have not been able to say that they're against death row because it's not the republican thing to do, a lot of them have now come out and saying, hey, we really need to look at this because what's happened to richard glossip is not right. we need to make sure that in oklahoma our death penalty

process is pure and that it's just. >> reporter: at the conclusion of reed smith's 300-page report, an investigator announced no reasonable juror hearing the complete record would have convicted richard glossip of first-degree murder. the findings went before the oklahoma criminal court of appeals last fall but requests for a new hearing were denied. >> so these are documents we brought back from the attorney general's office. >> reporter: since the report's release, his team say they have uncovered even more evidence proving his innocence. including paperwork showing sneed tried multiple times to recant his testimony. >> he said there is something i need to clean up. >> right. right. >> what do you think it was? >> that was shocking to me when i saw the papers. that we always suspected that justice co justin sneed wanted to tell the truth. but from those papers we could tell even though he was trying to, his lawyer at the time, gina walker, was telling him don't do

it. >> reporter: the oklahoma county public defender's office declined to comment. what you are asking for? >> bottom line is, glossip needs a new trial. one where all the evidence is presented to a jury. en that guy looking at this, this independent counsel, has a chance to look at all of it and then he will talk to the attorney general and they'll figure out what is right thing to do in this case. so i have to be hopeful at this moment. >> reporter: behind bars, glossip write poetry. he got married and he praise. >> you've been through this so many times. it's still scary. it's always scary until they open this door and let me go. >> excellent reporting. thank you very much. the person who actually committed the murder admitted to it because of his testimony against glossip got life in prison. glossip who no one denews was not in the room during the murder is on death row and about to be executed. is that justice? >> listen, i don't think richard

glossip's defense thinks it's justice. if if you see that story, they are uncovering evidence still. this man has been screaming innocence for 26 years. it wasn't until he said let's listen. let's take a look into this. and also change in power in oklahoma, we're going to give you more documents. they got some last summer. that's how long they've been waiting to get the paperwork on their hands. is it justice? who knows? here's one thing i want to point out. the paralegal team says it's safe space to say they're prigt, but maybe we should start listening. >> they're asking for a new truly to take a look the anew evidence. so where does this go from here? >> it's unclear. this is unprecedented in oklahoma that the a.g. appointed this special counsel. he could bring in the governor. he could make a decision to bring this to the lower courts, the district courts, they also have a petition, an appeal into

the supreme court about what the criminal court decided just last fall. it's very unclear. it's important to note that the a.g. did this whole process of pointing the special prosecutor with after talking and consulting with the family, we lu actually reached out to the van trees family. they didn't want to comment. >> i've been struck following this case for a few years now. how many conservatives, very conservative republican law makers are screaming that glossip needs a new trial. you need to look at this new evidence. people very pro capital punishment are saying, don't do this. i wonder what you make of that and the fact that there has been new evidence during this delay. >> yeah, people's whose elections are jeopardized. don knight is doing it pro bono. these are people that firmly believe he should be set free. as far as the bipartisan effort here, it's so interesting, especially in such a rich red

state. there is progress. you're in a cell for 30 days before you're executed and just have a book and a blanket. you have 24-hour surveillance. you watch mock executions. they tell what you is going to happen to you. that used to be 30 days ahead of your execution date in oklahoma. now it's seven. there are minor changes. this case is so big in that state. we'll see what happens out of it. >> thank you. don? >> thank you, poppy. hope is fading in the search for survivors of the devastating earthquake that rocked turkey and syria. chef jose andres is there and will join us live. but with upwork... with upwork the hiring process is fast and flexible. behold... all that talent! ♪ this is how we work now ♪ my asthma felt anything but normal. a blood test helped show my asthma is driven by eosinophils, which nucala helps reduce.

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