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all five former memphis police officers charged in connection with the death of tyre nichols pleading not guilty at their arraignment today. this is the first time they've been seen together since the release of the video of nichols violent death. one defendant's attorney says his client, quote, was doing his job. meanwhile the da says his office is reviewing as many as 100 cases related to that scorpion unit, the tactical force that all five officers were a part of. it was designed to cut down on crime. it has of course since then
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been shut down. thanks for joining us. ac 360 begins now. good evening. we begin tonight with a 360 exclusive, inside the fighting in ukraine from a perspective that's never been shown before. the view from inside a ukrainian combat helicopter flying at treetop level and sometimes below the tree line, under constant threat from ground fire and fighters above. flying these choppers is one of the most dangerous jobs in this war, and with russia beginning a new offensive, it could soon get even riskier. cnn's sam kiley has the story. >> reporter: the target is russian troops. a hard bank left and a dive, and flares to distract heat seeker missiles. a pair of ukrainian helicopters on an assault against russian forces close to backwards. >> there are russian aircraft waiting on the border. we should be careful when we go. we should fly very low.
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to prevent our recognition. >> reporter: below, trenches, and east ukrainian villages smashed by war. back from this sortie, this forward base is secret, as low- profile as possible. the m.i.a. helicopters are refueled and rearmed. they expect to fly at least three sorties a day. >> when you took off this morning, were you frightened? >> why? >> well, because the russians want to kill you. >> we don't have any other choice than to fight russians. >> reporter: that's not an option here. >> this soviet era helicopter is about 30 years old.
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the threat against it is extreme, and as a result of that, we are having to fly quite literally below the height of trees, climbing and dipping with every piece of woodland that we pass. >> reporter: built as transport aircraft, they are most vulnerable when they climb to shoot their rockets. diving for cover to 20 feet above the ground is also perilous. a change in sound indicates a tree strike by the helicopter's blades. back at base the blades are swapped quickly. ukraine doesn't have aircraft to spare. nor pilots. surrogate skippers the chopper that hit the trees. he tells me in december, a very close friend of mine died. a lot of people i knew, friends have already died, unfortunately. it is very painful and i'm very
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upset, and i cannot move on. he went on, we need new attack helicopters, new jets. unfortunately, our equipment is old and its range is very small, and it's inaccurate. a year into fighting russia's invasion, ukraine is still asking for more advanced helicopters and jets. so far the response from her allies has been, sorry, but no. and so they fight on here with what they've got . >> sam kiley joins us now from eastern ukraine. that's incredible. what was it like in that helicopter? i mean the idea that you are flying below the tree line, that the rotor of the helicopter actually hit a tree, it's extraordinary the risk that these pilots are taking. >> it is extraordinary risk. it's a real david and goliath,
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if one needed one of those comparisons in ukraine, that would be it. these ancient helicopters are sort of soviet equivalent of a blackhawk, but a very old and ancient blackhawk transport helicopter fitted with these rocket pods and sent into battle, fearful of fighter jets, of surface to air missiles, of ground fire. when we were on that aircraft i could have almost leaned out the window and touched the stubble of the trees of the field passing below me. so it really is extremely high risk. they have taken pretty heavy casualties, particularly at the beginning of the war, before they could organize themselves. the other thing i think is important to note here, by fluke, entirely by fluke, a lot of these veteran pilots have been flying recently, in the last 15 to 20 years, on peacekeeping missions with the united nations in africa. so they got a lot of hours. they've got a lot of hours in areas of conflict like the democratic republic of the
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congo and sierra leone, mozambique and elsewhere. and as a consequence of that, they are very highly skilled and they are all paired with much younger pilots. but one of the younger pilots i spoke to, who has been flying just a few years, this year alone, anderson, he counted to 100 combat sorties and then stopped bothering. >> incredible. sam kiley, thank you for that report. really extraordinary. cnn analyst general hurdling, are those helicopters even designed for that? >> they are, anderson. those rmi 17 helicopters, i think. i just picked it up on the film as sam was doing his report, and what they are flying is what's called map of the earth. all combat aircraft do that. they try and stay as low as possible to avoid any kind of radar signatures, and there is that up and down map of the
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earth under undulating terrain. but they are firing rocket pods, and rocket pods are not precision weapons. they are somewhat the artillery of the air, so it's difficult to really get a target strike with that, unless you are literally pointing at the target. you can see as a helicopter was flying over the terrain, and as they just fired their rockets, they're really aiming toward an area, for an area fire versus a precise target. >> so what would more advanced aircraft, advanced helicopters, or gunships or aircraft -- what would that allow ukrainian forces to do that they can't? >> well, in some cases certainly the advanced western- styl e aircraft, sam mentioned the blackhawk, i kind of chafed a little when he said they are ancient because they are not ancient. they are actually pretty new in the army's inventory, but it would allow them more
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transport. it would give them guns on the side, the same kind of rocket pods. what i think the pilots are talking about are more the attack helicopters like apaches or even cobras. those are extremely expensive, very technologically advanced. takes a whole lot of training and a whole lot of maintenance. but they fire precision weapons from the aircraft, and they can be tank killers from literally almost up to 12 kilometers away. >> the training on that, how long does that take? >> there's been talk a lot about the f-16s. you would probably have to put as much time in an apache helicopter as you would for an f-16. and there's a lot of language saying we need to give them the f-16. the spokesman for the ukrainian air force just said last week that it would take ukrainian pilots a couple of weeks to just learn how to fly fighter jets, but about six months to really master how to fight the aircraft. about about the same for the apache helicopter, because they are so technologically advanced.
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they have heads of displays on their helmets themselves. it takes two pilots, and it would just really take a very long training time, besides being extremely expensive. >> we have new details now on a stunning report we brought you earlier this week. the report details the transportation of as many as 6000 children from occupied parts of ukraine to a network of camps across russia and occupied crimea, according to the report by the yale humanitarian research lab. some kids have been given weapons training, many have undergone forms of indoctrination or reeducation. some were sent to foster families in russia or put a for russian adoption. in fact they are stolen from ukraine. tonight the official epicenter of this program, more about her. her title sounds like something that george orwell might've come up with, presidential commissioner for children's rights. cnn's melissa bell has more. >> reporter: she claims to be the savior of ukrainian children. demure, devout, and devoted, she says, to welcoming orphaned
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or abandoned children of war to the motherland . but this is no humanitarian adoption program. russia's children's rights commissioner is in fact in charge of something far more sinister. according to both the american and european governments, and a new report by yale university, thousands of ukrainian children have been forcibly deported to russia. >> maria biloba is basically the point person at the kremlin level for this entire program. >> so these children are essentially being held hostage? >> yes. >> reporter: the one in charge is herself a 38-year-old mother of at least 10, including five adopted children, and her work takes her all the way into the occupied territories. >> this time we came to mariupol itself. we will do everything for the children and teenagers here.
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>> reporter: from her telegram channel to russian propaganda videos, the deportations are no secret, yet the children are totally beyond the reach of either their families or ukrainian authorities. >> some of those children are very small, we see in the propaganda video that seven, six months, four years, those children just do not remember where are they from, who are their parents. >> reporter: and once across the border, there is no contact, anyway. summer adopted by russian families, others are taken to what are billed as summer camps. in fact, reeducation centers and that you turning ukrainian children into russian citizens. >> translator: unfortunately we see that these children were brought up in a completely different culture, and they did not watch the same films our
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children watched. they did not study history as our children did. >> reporter: but ukrainian lawyers fighting for the return of the children fear that those already adopted may be lost for good. >> during this process of adoption, parents can change all personal data. names, surnames, date of birth, and they think that some children were transferred to russia without documents. >> reporter: among those already adopted is a young boy from mariupol, by maria herself. at first she says he sang the ukrainian national anthem. now he's a good boy. as she told vladimir putin himself this week. >> translator: did you adopt a child from mariupol yourself? >> translator: yes, thanks to you. 15 years old. now i know what it means to be a mother of a child from don bass. it's difficult but we definitely love each other. >> melissa bell joins us now. this is really just sickening.
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according to gail's nathaniel raymond, who you talked to, this is a program designed by russia for its own audience. could you talk about why that would be? what is the benefit to them? >> that's right. it's all about propaganda, really, anderson, when you look at it. this is about speaking to the russian people. of course for us from the outside, it's incredibly chilling, as you say. these are children, after all, who are being used as ponds and find themselves on the wrong side of the border. for the russian authorities this is threefold, according to nathaniel raymond. this is about first of all turning those ukrainian children into russian citizens. it is also, though, about convincing the russian public that this is a humanitarian effort. this is after all what the invasion was about. of course the third reason he says is that these children turned then into these kind of ponds that can be exchanged, p.o.w.s, if you like. they can be used as leverage and bargained over.
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>> international law is clear on the matter of children being deported across borders. >> that's right. crystal-clear, anderson. it is simply not allowed. in fact, some of the first trials of the nuremberg trials at the end of the occupation in the second world war were precisely on this matter, because international law is crystal clear. you cannot move children across borders. you cannot take them from one country to another, and for very important reasons that we as parents understand. they are vulnerable and it simply cannot be done. what nathaniel raymond was saying was that this is particularly chilling. here is the team of war crimes investigators. usually he says they look at the dead. this time they're looking at the living, and not just the living, but the youngest, the most vulnerable of all. and that of course is the most chilling thing about this. and that is of course why it's
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being done. it's not just about the children and we can only imagine what these children are going through. it is not just about the parents and families, and we can only imagine what it is for them. some of them have had to go and retrieve their children, going all the way through russia to try to get them back from these camps. in the end, it is also about the fact that these children are about the future of ukraine, and this is the points. it is very deliberate strategy trying to deprive one country of its future. >> that woman having adopted a child from mariupol, which is a city decimated by russian forces, and we all saw the bombing of the theater there that had people in it. we saw what they did to mariupol. it's incredible. melissa bell, i appreciate it. coming up next, newly released emails and messages from inside fox news revealing what network executives and their on-air host knew about the 2020 election lie while promoting that same lie to viewers. and later tonight, cnn's dr. sanjay gupta with american volunteers in turkey, providing life-saving care at a makeshift field hospitital in the quake e zone. ys been at our core. as every action coununts, we are committed to buildining vehicles that contain an average of 40%% recycled materials.
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viewership, those executives and those on-air people perpetuated those same lies, lies that according to the filing even fox chairman rupert murdoch called, quote, really crazy stuff. more now from cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: immediately after joe biden's 2020 victory, fox news hosts were unabashed in promoting the false declarations that the election had been stolen from donald trump. >> electronic voting machines didn't allow people to vote, apparently, and that, whatever you think of it, the cause of it, it shakes people's faith in the system. that is an actual threat to democracy. >> i can actually tell you tonight it will be impossible to ever know the true, fair, accurate election results. >> reporter: but tonight a new court filing shows that in private, fox host tucker carlson, laura ingram and sean hannity were brutally ridiculing the claims of election fraud and the people
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who were making them. their private messages, in a legal filing that's part of dominion voting systems $1.6 billion lawsuit against fox news. one person they insulted, trump campaign lawyer sidney powell, a vociferous election lie promoter. >> what we are really dealing with here, and uncovering more by the day, is the massive influence of communist money through venezuela, cuba, and likely china. >> reporter: in one text revealed in the court filing, tucker carlson texted laura ingram, saying, quote, sidney powell's line, i caught her, it's insane. ingram responded, quote, sydney is a complete nut, no one will work with her. ditto with rudy, a reference to rudy giuliani and his postelection claims. >> there was a plan from a centralized place to execute these various acts of voter fraud. >> reporter: and other messages, sean hannity said giuliani was, quote, acting like an insane person. ingram described giuliani as an idiot. folks corporation chairman rupert murdoch said it was really bad that giuliani was advising from. >> this tells you a lot about fox news's internal machinations. it tells you that they have one
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version of the world that they keep to themselves and another version of the world that they broadcast to their viewers. the two are entirely incompatible. >> reporter: fox kept promoting election denialism. in one instance a fox reporter did a fact check on election lies. tucker carlson texted sean hannity, saying, quote, please her fired, seriously, what the f. he goes on, i'm actually shocked. it needs to stop immediately, like tonight. it's measurably hurting the company. why did fox keep pushing election denial on the air? the findings in the dominion suit suggest that fox executives were worried about losing viewers to newsmax, a smaller, conservative channel that was constantly selling election denial. trump himself, furious that fox had called arizona for biden, had encouraged his followers to switch to newsmax. >> since 2002, fox news has basically been the preeminent ratings champion in cable news,
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and you see here the moment they see any sign that might be slipping away, it's panic. >> reporter: but the dominion filings also say that when van president trump tried to call into fox on january 6th, the day his supporters attacked the capitol, fox executives refused to put trump on the air. fox news denies dominion's claims in the lawsuit and says it's proud of its 2020 election coverage. fox says these new court filings contain cherry picked quotes that lacked context. in a statement fox accused dominion of generating noise and confusion and said the core of this case remains freedom of speech and freedom of the press. >> brian todd, appreciate it. joining us now is mary and frank's. she teaches law at the university of miami with focus on the first and second amendment. given the communication from fox news personalities and management privately dismissing the former president's voter fraud claims while promoting them on air, dominion's repeated emails over the course of i think weeks or months , two
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executives and on-air talent and producers informing them that what they were saying was not true. does dominion's case to you meet the legal standard of actual malice? >> it certainly seems really compelling. what these documents show is that we are looking for evidence of actual malice, which in regular person terms is just knowing or having strong doubts about whether something is true and deciding to pursu e the amplification anyway. these documents are showing that multiple people, higher- ups at fox, really did know that these things were false. not just that they doubted it, but they absolutely knew that they were false and nonetheless decided to continue to promote that narrative. >> what sticks out to you as the most damning evidence here? >> it's really hard to pick, in
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some ways, because what you have is so many accounts of so many various people at fox who are speaking amongst themselves and talking about how they know these things are false, how they know that their audience is wanting something that is a comforting narrative, but has no basis in reality, and how because they are eager to do the bidding of a failed president, and because they're eager to make sure that they continue to have this marketshare, that they're going to do it anyway. that they're not going to care about the truth, that they're not going to care about freedom of expression, that they're going to care mostly about profits and market share. >> fox news reveals they were merely reporting on something that was newsworthy and much of the voter fraud conversations happened on opinion shows, which aren't a forum for actual facts. do you think there's any merit to that argument? >> there's a real fine line sometimes between newsworthiness and defamation, but newsworthiness is something along the lines of reporting on the controversy. the president is making these
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allegations. responsible media outlet is going to talk about the sourcing for those allegations, the evidence for those allegations. they don't present them as though they were true, or know contrary narrative. they wouldn't simply just try to amplify them as if they were true. so it may be newsworthy that the president was making those allegations, but that doesn't mean you simply give unfiltered access and amplification to those claims when they have no basis in fact. >> do you think this case will go to a jury trial or do you think there's a chance it could get settled? >> it's possible at this stage that there will be a summary judgment. it's hard to predict what will happen. the stakes of this case are really high, not just in terms of the outcome of this lawsuit, but in terms of ethical standards and whether or not news media outlets can really say and hide behind claims like the first amendment when they are deliberately deceiving their audiences for profit. >> it's just fascinating to see these internal documents and these conversations between these on-air people. what do voters in south carolina think about their former governor entering the presidential race, taking on the former president, and what if their current senatoror tim scott gets in as well? we went to the palmetto state
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there soon could be another south carolina republican in addition to nikki haley seeking the 2024 presidential nomination. tim scott, the party's only black senator may launch his own campaign. he's kicked off what a team is calling a national listening tour and is expected to speak next week in the early primary state of iowa. just last night he was keynote speaker in charleston. our gary tuchman was there and also talked with voters. >> reporter: a packed ballroom with many of south carolina's
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republican movers and shakers. >> i'm retired. i used to be a banker. i made other people rich. >> reporter: this is the city and county of charleston, south carolina. the occasion, the fifth annual black history month banquet sponsored i the county republican party. the keynote speaker, south carolina republican u.s. senator tim scott. >> my story is the american story. >> reporter: ann scott's story could soon include running for president. >> i am running for president of the united states of america! >> reporter: his fellow south carolinian, former governor nikki haley, already is. these republicans in the palmetto state are enjoying the attention. >> we were definitely a trump state and i think people still have a great deal of feeling for him, but then there's baby nikki. she decided she's going to run and there's a lot of passion for her, too. >> reporter: lyrica poskey is a republican charleston county council member. >> it makes you feel pride because both of them are legitimate contenders, and you
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could imagine either of them being president. >> reporter: and indeed, a number of republicans we talked to hear are ready to commit to one of their fellow south carolinian's. >> i love tim scott. i feel like he's got our best interest at heart. >> that's true. >> reporter: but not necessarily at the top of the ticket. >> if you could set your own ticket, who would you vote for for president? >> desantis and haley would be vice president. or desantis and tim scott would be vice president. >> my suspicion is that the one that will be electable will be desantis. >> reporter: but mark knapp, a longtime charlestonian, still things donald trump can win and is ready to vote for him again. >> i don't know if nikki has really got what it takes to deal with the swamp. >> what about tim scott? he announced he's running for president. >> i like tim a lot but i
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haven't seen the demeanor i think it's going to take to wrestle those scalawags in washington. >> reporter: there are some democrats who came to this gala to celebrate black history month, but most everyone else we talked to did vote for donald trump twice. however, we met quite a few who are looking for a fresh face. >> would you vote for trump again? >> trump is divisive. he continues to play divisive politics cards and he hasn't grown up since. >> i don't think i'm on the side of leaning towards where we've been. i'm more focused on leaders presenting new opportunities and where we can go from here. >> does that mean you are not leaning towards voting for donald trump? >> that would be my personal preference, yes. >> reporter: not surprisingly at this early stage, the majority of people we talked to said they are not sure who they will vote for yet. >> i've been a republican since 1988 when i was a freshman in college, so i'm very dedicated to the party. >> but you don't know which republican you like this year? >> too soon. >> reporter: that's where the chair of this county's republican party maurice washington wants to hear. he wants this campaign to be a
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competition, not a coronation. >> this is not going to be let's part the sea and allow the former president to walk through. >> gary joins us now from charleston. during senator scott's speech did he raise the possibility of running? >> senator scott did not mention the presidential race during his speech, anderson. but before the speech he held a short session with journalist, local journalists. not admitted were the national journalists, a reporter from the post and courier which is the daily newspaper here in charleston asked the question will he endorse nikki haley. his response to her was, quote, next question. also the papers is a question was asked to him, what would lead him to go into the presidential race, and his
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answer to that was, quote, i'm not going to dodge your question but i'm also not going to answer it. there you are. >> which is an answer in and of itself. now from former republican congressman adam kinzinger, now cnn political commentator. certainly seems like some republicans are ready to move on from the former president. do you think they actually want to move on from trumpism? >> that's a good question, and i think what's interesting right now, so nikki haley, and by the way, i'm actually personally a tim scott fan. i know him personally. he's a good man. but nikki haley, she has an opportunity to distinguish yourself. let's just take the issue of ukraine. donald trump has been very clear he would cut off aid to ukraine. ron desantis really hasn't said anything about ukraine, and nikki haley could be -- keep in mind most republicans still support us supporting ukraine in that war, but she's kind of avoided that issue. she's going out of her way to not distinguish yourself from donald trump, and i personally think that means, a, she may be just making a play for vice president. but the other thing, i think it means -- i think missing the
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opportunity to be different, because you have to distinguish yourself from trumpism. so i think there's going to be a lot of people in the republican party still that like trump or trumpism, but i think there's a real opportunity for a person to come forward and present an optimistic, hopeful scenario for the future. >> how tarnished she by her association with the former president? back in 2015-2016, she was supporting marco rubio. she was saying some very tough things about then candidate donald trump. obviously she went to work for him, ultimately. >> that's like 99% of republicans out there have that same thing, so i think, in her case, i think what's done damage to her when it comes to trump is the fact that she has been for him and against him, then for him, then against him. wasn't going to run and is now running. so like donald trump, they already don't trust her. those that don't like donald trum p don't trust her.
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she has an opportunity to distant yourself. as far as being involved in the administration, she actually did a really good job, i think, as u.n. ambassador. i don't think being in the administration is necessarily going to taint her. it's been her yes and no, hot and cold on donald trump. >> how formidable do you think tim scott would be? >> i'll tell you, since i even met tim scott in 2011. i was elected with him in the house. i always had in my mind, this guy is at least going to make a solid run for the presidency and probably be president. most people may know his name. they don't know his story. wants his story gets out there, it's really breathtaking. his whole life is breathtaking. and i think he's always been my kind of dark horse candidate in this race, that i think nobody was talking about until fairly recently. but i see in this not a great comparison, but kind of bill clinton in '92, who came out of nowhere and ended up rocketing to the top. >> they're already, nikki haley, tim scott, mike pompeo, it seems like there are already a fair number of people in getting close to running in one form or another. it seems like there's going to be -- do we risk -- is there
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the risk of a huge field that then benefits the former president? >> there is a huge risk, huge risk. just like 20 sexting happened, it really can happen again now. it's a big worry for republicans. >> adam kinzinger, appreciate your time. after the devastating earthquake in turkey destroyed thousands of buildings including hospitals, doctors being forced to get creative as they tend to survivors. >> just to give you idea, we are in a tent in the middle of a parking lot outside the hospital in a quake zone and they're doing orthopedic surgery here. >> we'll have more on ththese remarkable operatitions next. ♪ find the perfect vacation rental for r you booking.cocom, booking. yeah. as someone living with type 2 diabetes, i want to keep it real and talk about some risks. with type 2 diabetes you have up to 4 times greater risk of stroke, heart atck, or death. ev at your a1c goal, you're still at risk ...which if ignored could bring you here... ...may put you in onof those...
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tonight, with the death toll in turkey and syria at now more than 43,000, turkeys vice president says there are less than 200 search and rescue operations ongoing in the country. despite this, stories of rescues are emerging. a 45-year-old man was found alive today after 278 hours under the rubble. another challenge is surfacing. turkish officials today said at least 90,000 buildings are either collapsed or ready to be demolished. some of the destroyed holdings include hospitals, and that forcing doctors to get innovative. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is in turkey with more.
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>> reporter: you are watching an operation on 35-year-old haas ondo share. he has two fractures in his femur. these doctors are working intently to stabilize the bone. just watching this, you probably can't tell where this operation is actually taking place. >> just to give you an idea, we are in a tent in the middle of a parking lot outside the hospital, in a quake zone, and they are doing orthopedic surgery here. >> is that dr. gooped a? >> yes it is. >> this is dr. greg dilworth, an orthopedic surgeon from indiana who flew over as soon as he heard about the earthquake. right now dr. helmers is worried about bleeding, so over here, in another part of the tent, they have found hassan's brother to be a match and have him hooked up and quickly donating. a true blood brother. in the middle of a natural disaster, you do whatever it takes to save a life .
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>> what would've happened to someone like you if you didn't have this operation? >> i've worked in places before where people like this don't have the operation, they lay at home, languish. some of them would get bedsores, blood clots, pneumonia, and maybe die from that. >> reporter: before the earthquake, hassan would've likely gotten his operation here at this hospital in the talkie a, in southern turkey. it's still standing on the outside, yes, but completely wrecked inside, no longer functional. >> this hospital is destroyed, so there's no other place to seek care. not just the broken bones and the crush injuries, it's about these patients also. a real challenge. >> reporter: this is the team from samaritan's purse. elliott tenpenny is an e.r. doctor from north carolina. >> we have had aftershocks, 4.0, 5.0, and it sways the tents back and forth and knock
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things over, but nothing major. >> so all the work you need to do can still be done. >> absolutely. >> reporter: over just 36 hours they put up all these tent flaps, set up jimmy nader's, even brought their own water purifiers. >> we use this machine here, it's a reverse osmosis machine. it will allow us to get it from anywhere including the ocean and do desalination if we want to. >> and you just keep it in these bladders. >> these look full, so this is a constant process. >> reporter: all of this so they are able to give the best care to their patients, like when-year-old mammoth. his mother glued to his side, telling us her story through a translator. >> what was happening to him ? >> he couldn't breathe anymore, not properly. >> reporter: she thought he had the flu the past few days, but things got worse this morning, maybe from the fumes. as many people have been doing, they were burning plastic to
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stay warm. the diagnosis, bronchitis and asthma, so severe he was put on anesthetic gases to open up his airways and keep him alive. hassan is alive as well, recovering with his brother's blood providing sustenance. care plus prayers is giving these patients hope and an entire community devastated with loss a lifeline. >> and sunday joins me now from his temple. how is the one-year-old suffering from bronchitis and asthma doing now? >> he's doing well, anderson. i have some photographs just this morning. i don't know if you can see those but he's doing well. they were holding hip, making sure his airways stay open. they flew him to a donna to a large trauma hospital to care for him and he's expected to make a good recovery. it's really interesting. they were giving him ketamine and anesthetic gases
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essentially to try and keep his airways open. he was a real risk of having significant respiratory distress. that's something they were able to do in those tents, as you saw. >> that's incredible. the hospital that's destroyed on the inside, it looks huge. how long can samaritan's purse stay to help ? >> we wanted to show you those hospitals because i think people don't always have an idea like what we're talking about here in terms of the scale of loss. that was an 1100 bed hospital, so provided a lot of care for this huge region. the hospital i work at in a big city in the states, fewer than 1000 beds. these are big hospitals here in turkey. they realize they've got to not only provide acute care at samaritan's purse but probably chronic care at least four months to come.
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i am evan and washington and this is cnn peer. spec the prosecution rested its case in the double murder trial of alec murdoch. their last witness to give a detailed minute by minute timeline from the night of the murders, some of his testimony conflicts with statements made by murdoch. >> this is going to be the full timeline. >> special agent peter analyzed cell phone data from phones belonging to the victims and alec murdoch as well as gps data recovered from their cars. he presented a timeline to the jury from the night of the murders. >> at 8:44 28 mac:55, what does it reflect? >> you can hear alex, maggie and
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-- in the background. >> a key piece of video that witnesses say puts alec murdoch at the scene just before prosecutors say paul and his mother were killed. >> what time to paul and maggie's bones go silent forever? >> 8:49. >> minutes after the murders were believed to have occurred, alex murdochs phone showed more steps taken then at any other point that evening. >> he is a busy guy right there. >> the witness says cell phone data also shows someone moved maggie murdochs phone minutes after she died. >> at 9 06 -- spec orientation mode from portrait to orientation sideways. >> alec murdoch left the house that night around that same time to go visit his mother.
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gps data from his car shows on his drive, he slowed down right around the spot where his wife's phone was found in the woods the following day. >> after passing that location as the defendant's vehicle started to accelerate >> it does. >> radomski tells the jury data shows that murdoch arrived at his mother's house at -- and left at 9:43 p.m. >> roughly 20 minutes. >> murdoch had told investigators that he was at his mother's house for about an hour but this gps data shows he was there for just about 21 minutes. his mother caretaker testified earlier that he stopped by for about 15-20 minutes. cell phone data showed murdoch arrived back home at the murder scene just before calling 911 at 1006 p.m. >> this shows the suburban arriving at the kennels.
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>> from the moment the suburban arrived at the kennels, how long did it take for that 911 call to be made? >> less than 20 seconds. >> murdoch told investigators he tried to turn his son over and check the pulse on both paul and maggie all before calling 911. >> if the person had seen the bodies already, do you believe that is an unreasonably short period of time to inspect and call 911? >> i am here to testify on this data, not hypothetical. >> randy joins me from south carolina. it is fascinating to me what they can figure out. the steps that he took right afterward. it is incredible. >> yes. it was a minute by minute timeline and the jury really needed to hear it.
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they have heard so much evidence but at one point where they point out that alec murdoch's car had slowed down around the very same spot where maggie's phone was found, the prosecution seemed to want to suggest to the jury that maybe alec murdoch took her phone from the murder scene and then slowed down at that very spot to perhaps toss it out the window and they also pointed out on his way back home, he was driving really fast reaching 81 miles per hour faster than he had driven all day. the prosecution again seeming to want to suggest perhaps he was in some rush. >> the hbo max documentary series the murdoch dynasty which is really quite incredible starts this sunday night at eight p.m. eastern right here on cnn and has a lot of detail and video that you have never seen before probably. did he or didn't he? tiger woods attempt to make the
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