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a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton. ahead on "cnn newsroom," the u.s. and canada authorized the takedown of a third high-altitude object in recent days, but just what was it? even as the death toll in syria and turkey climbs, officials are looking for answers. why did so many buildings crumble? ukraine says it shot down 20 drones from iran during a russian attack. ahead, a live report from kyiv. >> live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with paula newton. >> so it happened again. for the third time in a week, a u.s. fighter jet has shot down an object over north american air space. the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, says the latest
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object violated canadian air space and was taken down by a u.s. f-22 fighter jet over the yukon in the northwest of canada. mr. trudeau and u.s. president joe biden authorized the strike by the country's shared air defense organization, norad. we'll hear more from canada's defense minister. >> it appears to be a small, cylindrical object and smaller than the one that was downed off the coast of north carolina. there is no reason to believe that the impact of the object in canadian territory is of any public concern. >> cnn's natasha bertron has been following this story from washington. >> reporter: president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau jointly authorized the shoot-down of an unidentified object that was flying over northern canada saturday. the shoot-down was the third time in a week that u.s. fighter jets were scrambled to shoot down an object that had entered
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u.s. air space. the object shot down saturday over canada had first been spotted over alaska friday night, according to the pentagon, and it was ultimately shot down by u.s. fighter jets over canada after being observed for 24 hours. u.s. and canadian officials say it is still not clear what the object is, but the incident does come one day after the white house and pentagon revealed president biden ordered another unidentified flying object shot down on friday off the coast of alaska. sources told cnn for that object, some pilots sent up to investigate reported their aircraft centers had been impacted and others said it was not clear how the object was propelling itself. the canadian comes exactly one week after the u.s. military, also on biden's orders, shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. it is not clear whether the object shot down saturday over canada is related to the chinese balloon or the object downed on friday, but u.s. officials said on saturday that the fbi will be helping to recover and analyze the debris in all three
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incidents to try to get a better sense for what these objects were and what they are actually capable of. natasha bertran, cnn, washington. >> cnn transportation analyst mary scavo joins us. we heard from the canadian defense minister saying it was the first instance of norad downing an object in canadian air space. her point was that we shouldn't underestimate the importance of this. how do you parse that? >> well, i agree completely. it's very important that we actually have to down objects in our air space. but probably more important than that is we're dining objects and we really don't know and haven't identified what they were yet. and depending upon which briefing you review, some of them say they did enter our air space before we were actually aware of them entering the united states air space, which
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is of great concern. i'm up here working in alaska, obviously it's hugely important to american defense. there's tremendous military presence. in anchorage yesterday and today, for example there were air aawac reconnaissance planes up. the skies were full, a lot of military aircraft coming and going. you know, you can't really overestimate the value of the alaskan defense system and american defense system in alaska. so it's very important on all of those fronts. and you know, the description of the object and the fact that the pilots couldn't really describe it is not surprising. the weather has been rather poor here in alaska and the area around anchorage. we've had heavy, heavy snowfall. more unusually cold and heavy weather. the skies have been very cloudy. so the fact that the pilots really couldn't see the objects too well is not surprising.
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>> we did have a description from the defense minister. she said it was cylindrical, flying at about 40,000 feet. she said that's one of the reasons they shot it down because it could be a threat to civilian aircraft. what do you make of the descriptions? >> you know, the descriptions, cylindrical, and i think one of the pentagon briefings they were careful to say, it's not a balloon. but what they did not say is that did not mean it was not an airship, meaning it could be one of several categories. it could be a dirigible, it could be a form of an old zeppelin that the united states and many other countries have recently had interest in rigid-wall dirigibles. in other words, a balloon-like structure which would be cylindrical. and could move, of course, in the jet stream. i notice the pilot said they couldn't see how it was being propelled. well, you can still move through the jet stream, it's possible to have some measure of control by altering your altitude if you
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find -- if it's possible for whoever's operating to sense the winds, you can raise or lower your altitude to try to capture different directional winds. it's really early to say what it is. but it does sound like some form of a rigid dirigible. an airship other than a balloon, in other words. >> okay, that guess us some clues. they're out there right now, the canadian armed forces, and they will also involve the united states government on this in terms of trying to track down the debris and obviously bringing it in for forensic investigation. i mean, from what you've heard so far, is there a logical explanation for this that would diverge from the first balloon that was shot down? meaning it's something innocuous or something totally different? >> it could be something totally different entirely, or it could be trying -- this is a bad pun, but different trial balloons. we obviously, you know, identified and got and shot down
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the first one at 60,000 feet. and these are at different altitudes. so perhaps these are also different efforts to see what we detect, when the united states and canada detects it, how easy it is to evade detection, and how -- this is a very important lesson for norad, the united states, and canada -- if it's true that they came into our air space before we were able to detect them, that's important, a very important learning lesson for the united states but also for whoever, whatever country is sending up these trial airships, these aircraft. so yes, i mean, could be trying different types of airships to see what's detectable and what's not. >> as you point out, they could be probing things just to see what the defenses are like. >> right. >> and you know, both secretary austin and anita annan, the canadian defense minister, made a point of saying there needs to be a new surveillance
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architecture up there in the north. mary scalvo, thanks so much. >> thank you. six days after the powerful earthquake that destroyed parts of turkey and syria, the death toll from the disaster has risen now to a staggering 28,000 people. most of the deaths have been reported in turkey where crews are racing to find survivors as hopes unfortunately begin to fade. on saturday, they managed to rescue a few more people who had been trapped for more than 130 hours. those who survive are now relying on aid from around the world, and soon they could receive additional support from an anonymous pakistani man in the united states who, according to reports, has donated $30 million to victims in turkey and syria. cnn's nada bashir joins from us stul to bring us up to date on this. we were talking about that very generous donation.
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yet the true scope of the earthquake is coming into focus. have relief efforts been more robust in the last few days? >> reporter: look, we've certainly seen an outpouring of support from the international community and that aid that has been funneling through turkey to the areas most in need in istanbul. we've seen a huge outpouring of support from turkey people. two ships organized and coordinated by the mayor of istanbul departing this city carrying aid, carrying beds for those who have lost their homes, as well as crucial medical care on body for those who have been aced. there has really been a huge outpouring of humanitarian assistance. that has been less robust in northwestern syria where there has been a huge struggle to get aid across the border, both in terms of the logistics of actually getting things across the turkish border and from
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within syria, the diplomatic struggles of getting any aid delivered to damascus onwards to rebel-held territories in the northwest. the u.n. says they have managed to get at least 22 aid trucks across the border. that is set to continue. as the death toll continues to climb and as the days continue to pass by, hope there will be any survivors is beginning to dwindle. we are still hearing remarkable stories of survivors being rescued, take a look. a call for silence. a moment of desperate hope. then cheers of relief. a woman rescued from beneath the rubble after 132 hours. but in turkey, the search and rescue effort is quickly turning into a recovery effort.
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here the grief is overwhelming. a gut-wrenching scene reflected across the expansive quake zone. not least in northwestern syria. the u.n. says at least 22 aid trucks were finally able to make it across the turkish border on saturday. but despite the arrival of vital humanitarian assistance, even the white helmets who have been central to syria's rescue effort say they've lost all hope of finding any more survivors. six days on and the death toll continues to climb. as turkish president erdogan announces the latest death toll, authorities are looking for answers. turkey state news agency says officials have already arrested a number of individuals believed to be responsible for the construction of now-destroyed buildings. as a multi-region investigation continues into allegations of
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negligence. meanwhile, reports of looting and criminal activity have forced some international search and rescue teams to suspend their operations in turkey. president erdogan vowing to hand out tough penalties. but for some, grief is turning to anger. with questions now mounting over whether enough was done by the government to prepare for the very worst. paula, while hope is certainly fading across turkey and northwestern syria, we are still hearing remarkable, miraculous stories of people being rescued. today, a man rescued, and more hope other survivors could be found. >> the stories of people with their bare hands just continuing to dig. nada, before i get you do, what more are you learning? it's understandable people are angry, but what more are you
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learning about possible negligence here? >> the turkish government has been very clear and firm in its responses. they say they are carrying out an investigation, a multi-region investigation across those ten provinces into allegations of possible negligence within the construction industry with regards to those buildings that are now being destroyed as a result of that earthquake. the government has appointed more than 200 public prosecutors to oversee this investigation. authorities, according to state media, say they've already arrested a number of individuals they believe to have been involved in the construction of these buildings. they are continuing that investigation in the city of adana, desperately hit by this earthquake. at least 62 detention orders have been issued. >> okay, we'll continue to follow that angle of the story. nada bashir in istanbul, thank you. syrians and turks wait on foreign aid. the humanitarian group direct relief is sending medical
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supplies and other vital items to the quake zone from california. mike valerio reports from santa barbara. >> reporter: standing in the middle of 15 metric tons of emergency supplies that are bound from here in santa barbara, california, all the way to turkey and syria. so we'll show you what we have on my left. disaster supplies for doctors, first responders. each pallet weighing about 151 kilograms. to my right, these are for families, for people who are living in football stadiums or what's left of them in tent cities. we actually unpacked a few of these pallets to show you what's inside. these are inside the white pallets. doctors, first responders. if you look in here, this compartment for dressing wounds, bandages, all you could possibly need in such a horrific disaster zone. then we have over-the-counter medication, cleaning supplies, even in this pocket here, for taking blood pressure, anything first responders could need. this is the family packs that we
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have in orange packets. hairbrushes, toothpaste, in addition to i would say a dozen other items. we spoke with the ceo of this organization, direct relief, a couple of hours ago. he told us when these items are loaded, he's not just shipping freight. he's thinking about each and every human face, individual, who will benefit from these items. >> i try to give myself a moment to just think of what it means for people i don't know, having a sense of, this is a life-altering event. a life-ending event for many people. so after that, then you just -- it kicks into gear. >> reporter: this is the packing in process. we're in southern california, so what's going to happen, all of these supplies by monday will be loaded onto a nonstop flight from los angeles international airport, l.a.x., to istanbul. it will take about four days for all these supplies to reach the disaster zone. just to show you what else we
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have here, acres and acres of square footage just covering this part of santa barbara. before this disaster, there were supplies that were being sent to syria for the cholera outbreak. also in january when we had atmospheric river after atmospheric river there were supplies that were being sent up and down the coast of california. so of course even though we're 11,000 kilometers away from the disaster zone, people said that if this happened here in this seismically active region of the world, the rest of the international community would have our backs too. if you are looking for information how to help earthquake survivors go to cnn.com/impact. you'll find a list of organizations working on rescue and relief efforts. ukrainian air defenses take on iranian-made drones targeting the power grid. according to ukraine, many drones end up on the losing side of that battle.
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the ukrainian capital could be getting a break from power cuts. they've been a new normal for months as russian strikes pummel the city and sometimes forced residents to shelter in the subway. ukraine's energy company says the capital and at least two other regions could avoid power cuts altogether on sunday. mea meantime, ukraine is claiming success in taking on drones in the latest assault saying many drones fell victim to ukraine's air defenses. we're joined by david mckenzie from kyiv. this is tough work for ukraine's air defenses, especially with the barrages that keep coming. yet they do seem to be up to the task. what more are you learning about what transpired? >> when you look at those first drones that came in several months ago, it is a very different scenario now. the air defenses of ukraine appear to be very effective, according to the ukrainian
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officials, at downing these iranian-made drones they say, downed into friday and saturday. you mentioned the power outages and the fact that kyiv and the region won't have, according to the energy company, power outages today. these two things are connected. because the air defenses appear to be stopping the major destruction of the civilian energy infrastructure of the country despite the efforts of russian forces and missile strikes trying to take them out. so it speaks to the success of the air defense systems, both in terms of mobile teams and fixed positions bringing down these aerial attacks on this country. bus it does come in the context of a very big or at least significant uptick in heavy fighting in the eastern part of this front. >> when we talk about that heavy fighting in the eastern front, i mean, certainly we've known it for weeks. ukraine is bracing for more
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grueling fighting. and yet also wondering when and how a renewed russian onslaught might play out. >> reporter: you've seen probing attacks. very -- attacks that have taken a lot of casualties, according to both ukrainians and united kingdom defense intelligence. around bakhmut and the donetsk axis, as ukrainian officials call it, you've seen these very intense fighting. thermobaric weapons, potentially, by russians, used in that small town, in the east, as well as russian forces taking heavy losses as they try to probe the defenses and even try to remove some of the mines that are heavily placed in that area to stop a russian advance. you haven't seen yet this major push by the russian forces. possibly they are unable to do that. but the expectation is, as huge
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buildup of russian forces have come into that zone in recent weeks, according to intelligence officials and ukrainian officials, that there could be a significant uptick in the fighting and a possible russian offensive as we move out of the winter. it's too early to tell at this point, but it's clear that this is heavily attritional fighting with major losses on both the russian and, at least according to uk defense intelligence, on the ukrainian side as well. >> yes, some of the numbers, tens of thousands on both sides that have been uttered, are staggering. david mckenzie in kyiv, appreciate it. the eu is banning imports of russian diesel and setting a $100 barrel price cap on sales of fuel elsewhere. it's the latest attempt to choke off the kremlin's ability to pay for the war in ukraine. cnn's clare sebastian has our story. >> reporter: this is likely one of the last shipments of russian diesel to europe.
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40,000 tons arriving in northern germany last month. russian diesel imports to the eu hit a record in december as the continent raced to build up supplies. >> we have put in place the strongest sanctions ever. >> reporter: three months after an eu embargo on seaborne crude oil from russia, along with a price cap mechanism designed to allow non-eu countries to keep buying it under a certain price. the same thing is now happening with refined oil product. in russia's case, the biggest are diesel, fuel oil, and napka, a product used in making plastics. >> the aim is to stabilize global energy prices and reduce russian revenues. >> reporter: in terms of that first goal, so far so good. crude oil prices have not shot up since those december sanctions. this may be harder with oil products. take diesel, for example. russia is one of the world's biggest exporters of diesel. last year, 63% of those exports
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within to eu countries. when it comes to crude oil, russia has been selling a lot of barrels that used to go to europe to india and china. the problem with diesel and other oil products is china and india are big exporters themselves. >> russia has to look elsewhere. places like africa, parts of the middle east, will be able to absorb some russian diesel and oil products but not the volumes europe has traditionally take to. russia will have to and is offering big discounts to find buyers and cover additional costs of cargo moving much longer distances. >> reporter: diesel prices have fallen slightly since summer peaks partly because of those russian discounts. experts say the price of nonrussian diesel will likely rise over the next few months as current stocks rub out and chinese demand rises, making the market much more competitive.
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what about that second goal? >> reduce russian revenues? >> i think overall this will hurt russia. i think it will be selling less and i think they'll be having to offer really heavy discounts. but the more the global prices go up, the more revenue it will still be securing. >> reporter: it will take several months, experts say, to tell if this delicate operation has worked. trying to punish a top energy producer and refiner without causing a painful ripple effect through global markets. it's happened again. a u.s. fighter jet shot down an unidentified object on saturday, this time over canada. we are following all the developments and the reaction. china's suspected spy balloon, and now those other unidentified objects, flying in air space that's becoming the new battlefield for the world's superpowers. we'll have a very interesting look right after the break.
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internet customers. so boost your bottom line by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities. we have more now on our top story. u.s. president joe biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau authorized a fighter jet to shoot down an undend fight object over northern canada saturday. this is the third time in a week a u.s. jet shot down an object over north american air space. mr. trudeau says the latest object violated canada's air space. the object was cylindrical and smaller than the suspected chinese balloon estimate down last week according to canada's minister of national defense. it's not clear if the incidents are related. cnn's arlette saenz is at the white house with more on this
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developing story. >> reporter: president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau took a very rare step on saturday and jointly authorized the shooting down of an unidentified object over northern canada. this marks the third time in just the last week where the u.s. has had to shoot down an aerial object over north america. according to the pentagon, norad first detected this latest object on friday evening over alaska as they monitored it they saw it crossed into canadian air space. the president and canadian prime minister spoke and decided to follow the advice of their military officials and decided to authorize shooting it down. it was at that time that canadian and american fighter jets, through norad, worked together to try to take down this object with ultimately an american f-22 shooting it down. this follows just one day prior on friday when president biden had ordered the shooting-down of another unidentified, unmanned object near the coast of alaska.
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and just one week prior to that ordered the shooting-down of that suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of the carolinas. now, the white house still and pentagon still have many questions to answer relating to these last two unidentified objects, including the scope, the size, the origin, and what exactly the purpose was. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. >> these latest unidentified objects and china's suspected spy balloon were discovered flying in a space above the earth that's not only used by airplanes or satellites, for that matter. cnn's will ripley explains, this is near space, and it's becoming the new frontier for spying and settling conflicts. >> reporter: china's new superpower battlefield, 12 to 60 miles above the earth. too low for satellites. too high for most jets. the stratosphere, or as china calls it, near space. in 2018, the chinese military's
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official newspaper said near space has become a new battlefield in modern warfare. more than a decade ago, felix baumgartner's freefall jump from near space captivated the world. and may have caught the attention of chinese president xi jinping. as early as 2014, he ordered china's air force to speed up air and space integration and sharpen their offensive and defensive capabilities. he prioritized development of hypersonic weapons, solar-powered drones, and high altitude balloons all designed for near-spaceflight in the stratosphere's thin air. china's not alone. the u.s. and others are jumping into the near-space race. back in 2012, a cnn camera captured the view from 100,000 feet on a high-altitude weather balloon. china's suspected spy plan which the pentagon claims was carrying
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high-resolution cameras and electronic monitoring equipment coop captured crystal clear images of highly sensitive areas and monitored military communications. in some ways outperforming china's advanced spy satellites. >> when you have something at 70,000, 100,000 feet, you can see the horizon over 300 miles away, something you can't do from aircraft. you can do that from satellite but it's expensive to get up there, you can't change or fix it once it's there. >> reporter: navy divers are combing the waters off the carolina coast so the fbi can piece together the debris of what china calls a civilian weather balloon. unlike these weather balloons launched by hand from cape canaveral, florida, the chinese balloon was massive, some 200 feet tall with a 90-foot possibly solar-powered payload the size of three city buses. a source familiar with congressional briefings on the
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balloon said some components had english writing. it's not clear if they were made in america or another western country. will ripley, cnn, taipei. another big story we're following, the death toll in turkey and syria has risen to more than 28,000 people. most of the fatalities are in turkey where rescue efforts continue around the clock. workers are holding out hope they'll find more survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings. turkish authorities say they're detaining people they say are responsible for constructing some of those buildings. in one city, prosecutors have reportedly ordered the detention of at least 62 people. earlier i spoke about all of this with cassidy johnson, professor of urbanism and disaster risk reduction at university college, london. i asked her about the collapsed buildings and why the
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destruction was so profound. listen. >> this was not seen for over 100 years in the region. it was a huge earthquake. it was also a very low-depth earthquake. so the ground movement was huge. but yet still, we see all these buildings, thousands of buildings that have completely collapsed in the earthquake, in the first or second earthquake. so this is a real cause for concern. you can imagine you might see buildings that are cracked, buildings that have caught on fire,ing that are damaged. this complete collapse is shocking. >> when you say shocking, do you think it has something to do with the structural integrity? especially given that you've worked in turkey before. >> yeah, i mean -- i started working in turkey after the earthquakes in 1999. and i can see that it's so sad to see a replay of a lot of the footage that we saw in 1999 or even worse. i think turkey's done a lot to
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try to improve some building construction quality. it has very good earthquake codes now, earthquake building codes. buildings that are built legally and has followed codes should be able to withstand an earthquake. and not kill people. so the issue is, while i have so many buildings fallen down, some of them could have been buildings that were built prior to earthquake building codes that came out in the late '90s. and then they've probably gone through strengthening programs. they could be older buildings. they could also be -- i think that's why we're seeing these arrests, buildings that have been built under the building codes, legal buildings, yet they've still fallen down. and this is a real cause for concern, because these buildings probably haven't followed the building code, and therefore the builders have been negligent.
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you could ask, what is the government's role in this? the government has done a lot in terms to oversee -- especially istanbul and where the earthquakes were in 1999, to oversee better construction, to improve the existing structures, to take down buildings that are unsafe and to replace them and to build safer buildings. but i think in the southeast, perhaps this kind of building culture where we just put up buildings quickly, try to make money from putting up an apartment building, and less concern about earthquake safety perhaps is what's pervaded the system there. >> at a great human toll at this point in time. in terms of your experience around the world, is it possible for buildings to withstand this kind of a quake? we were talking about the magnitude. you also pointed out it was also shallow. how robust do building codes have to be, and are you optimistic that turkey this time will learn and implement that
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expertise? >> i think -- i was trying to ask this question. i've been attending seminars with earthquake engineers in japan, for example, this week. talking to turkish engineers. and, i mean, i don't think we exactly have this answer, was the code robust enough to withstand all the damage from this earthquake? i think that remains to be seen, and there will be investigations to see that. but i think that, yes, buildings can be built to withstand earthquakes like this. of course, in japan and in turkey, you have large earthquakes and they do withstand. there's a difference that earthquakes are much more deeper. they can be up to 700 kilometers deep. this is a very shallow earthquake, a lot more movement here. but i think that the point is, buildings can be made to withstand that. they may be damaged, but this kind of pancake collapse that you see that's killed so many
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people in this tragic way, in my view, is avoidable. a second child has died from the car ramming attack in east jerusalem bringing the death toll to three. trauma teams tried this vain to save the life of an 8-year-old boy critically injured in the attack at a bus stop. his 6-year-old brother also died. israeli police describe it as a terror attack. the father remains hospitalized. just ahead, new developments in the ongoing federal investigation into the handling of classified documents. we'll have a report from washington. also ahead, chile is getting international help to fight its deadly wildfires. we'll have the latest from there. it went from gabe. to gretta. to gabby. to grandndma. then, gertrude found something for it.
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more classified documents, a laptop, and testimony under oath. some of the new twists and turns in the saga enveloping former president donald trump and vice president mike pence. cnn's zachary cohen brings us up to date from washington. >> reporter: major developments on the classified documents front. both for former president donald trump and former vice president mike pence. for trump, cnn has learned his legal team has handed over more classified documents to federal prosecutors in recent months, suggesting this drawn-out effort to get classified material back from the former president is continuing all as the special counsel criminal investigation is ongoing. trump's team turned over this additional material in december and january, several months after mar-a-lago was searched by the fbi and including not just classified documents but a laptop belonging to one of trump's aides. at the same time, cnn is learning one of trump's attorneys appeared to have a federal grand jury as part of the special counsel investigation into the former
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president's handling of sensitive records and prosecutors asked him what happened in the lead-up to the fbi's august search of mar-a-lago and about his conversations with trump directly. meanwhile, the fbi searched pence's home friday. an additional document with classified markings was found there as well. the fact that investigators located an additional classified document at pence's house after it was searched by his own lawyers will likely prolong the justice department's review of the issue. these investigations into trump and pence could complicate their political futures as both look towards 2024. they'll want to wrap up these reviews as soon as possible. new zealand is bracing as cyclone gabrielle starts to bear down, expecting pounding winds and damaging waves to the north and south islands. should areas could get up to 11 inches of rainfall.
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that's 300 millimeters, which could trigger landslides. new zealand has already canceled a number of domestic and international flights, and this storm comes just two weeks after record flooding devastated the region. you'll remember those kinds of scenes. auckland had more rain in one day than it usually gets in an entire summer season. at least two people have been killed and hundreds of homes destroyed in chile. now it's getting international help to fight the massive and destructive wildfires. michael holmes has our report. >> reporter: help from a heavy hitter. a dc-10 tanker plane sent by the u.s. dumps tens of thousands of liters of water over wildfires in chile. it's part of an international effort to extinguish the raging flames which have spread in the south and central parts of theb 300,000 hectares of land.
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the operations backing up 6,000 firefighters on the ground, many of whom are volunteers, as well as hundreds of emergency workers from countries around the world. despite all the human power, hot temperatures combined with dry forested land are creating tinder box conditions. one man says he was spraying down his property with a hose when the fires quickly encircled him. he says he took shelter in a clay oven for over an hour before his is family could save him. >> translator: i got in with a chainsaw. a dog and a chick were inside. i threw myself face down on the floor. >> reporter: at least two dozen people have been killed. over 1,200 homes destroyed, leaving many residents living in tenths or shelters. more than 2,000 people have been injured, and there are health warnings because of the smoke. then there is the emotional toll. >> translator: my daughters tell me not to worry, that we'll all get by. but it's painful because it was years of sacrifice.
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>> reporter: soldiers have begun patrolling the streets at night, enforcing a midnight to 5:00 a.m. curfew in many of the affected areas. the government says it is to prevent theft and looting. chile has so far arrested more than two dozen people with possible links to the fires. michael holmes, cnn. just ahead, the biggest game of the year in american football right around the corner. we'll have a preview of sunday's super bowl, which will be historic in more ways than one. works hard at hour one and twice as hard when you take it again the next day. so betty can be the... barcode e beat conductor. ♪ go betty! ♪ let's bebe more than our allergies! zeize e the day. with zyrtec.
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- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. ♪ are you ready? it's super bowl sunday, and history will be made both on the field and in the skies above super bowl lvii. it will be an all-women team of u.s. navy pilots during the annual pregame flyover. they'll be commemorating 50 years of women flying in the navy. it was 1973 when the first class of female pilots began flight training school . the flyover happens at the
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crescendo of the star-spangled banner which will be sung by country superstar chris stapleton. as we were saying we're obviously a few hours away. super bowl lvii will be held in gle glendale, arizona. the kansas city chiefs will play the philadelphia eagles for national football league supremacy. here is andy scholes, luck why i g guy, he's in arizona. >> reporter: less than 24 hours away from super bowl lvii between the philadelphia eagles and kansas city chiefs. what a game this is setting up to be. no matter what, we are going to see history on sunday. for the first time ever, two black quarterbacks are going to square off against each other in this super bowl. patrick mahomes trying to join an exclusive club and become the fifth quarterback to win two super bowls before turning 28. jalen hurts is trying to win one for the eagles in just his second full season as a starter. both quarterbacks are well aware what's at stake on sunday.
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>> i know what it feels like to win the super bowl now. and to lose the super bowl. and winning it, even though i didn't play my best game, i came through when it counted and was able to win it. the loss, i left everything out there, but you lose, that feeling in the locker room after is a terrible feeling. you're so close to your ultimate prize. you take motivation from that and try to do everything you can to make sure that you have that winning feeling. that's one you can have forever as well. >> when you play games like this, kobe, m.j., they talk about it all the time, you play games like this, it's about the details. it's about eliminating external factors. things that don't matter. focusing on what's important. i feel like all year, that's kind of been my mentality going into every game. focusing on what's in front of me, focusing on what's in front of us as a team. just attacking it. >> reporter: earlier in the week, patrick mahomes was named the mvp of the league for the second time in his career. but that may be bad luck. an mvp has not won the super
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bowl since kurt warner did it way back in 1999. nine players since kurt warner have gone to the big game as mvp, and they have all lost. but if anyone can break that streak, it's patrick mahomes. we'll find out on sunday. >> our thanks to andy scholes. i'm paula newton. i want to thank you for your company. kim brunhuber picks things up from here. you are watching "cnn newsroom."
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