tv Anderson Cooper 360 CNN February 17, 2023 9:00pm-10:00pm PST
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>> 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 tree top level and sometimes below the treeline under constant threat from ground fire and fighters above, flying these choppers is one of the most dangerous jobs in this war and russia beginning a new offensive, it could soon get race keyer. sam kylie has more. >> the target is russian troops.
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a hard bank left and a dive. and layers to did distract heat seeker missiles. a pair of ukrainian helicopters on an assault against russian forces close to bakmut. >> around the border, we should be careful. we should fly very low altitude to prevent our recognition. >> below trenches, and east ukrainian villages smashed by war. back from this sorti, this forward base is secret, as low profile as possible. the mi8 helicopters are refueled and rearmed. they expect to fly at least
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3sortis 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 the russians. if you're frightened, you should stay at home. >> that's not an option here. this soviet era helicopter is about 30-years-old. the threat against it is extreme and as a result of that, we're are gone to fly quite literally below the night of trees, climbing and dipping with every piece of woodland that we pass. >> built as transport aircraft, they're most vulnerable when they climb to shoot their rocket. diving for cover to 20 feet above the ground is also perilless. a change in sound states a tree strike by the helicopter's
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blades. back at base, the blades are swapped quickly. ukraine doesn't have aircraft to spare. nor pilots. he skip powers chopper that hits 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's very painful and i'm very 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.
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>> sam kylie joins us from eastern ukraine. sam, that's incredible. what was it like in that helicopter? i mean, the idea that you're flying below the treeline, that the rotor of the helicopter actually hit a tree, i mean, it's extraordinary, the risk that these pilots are taking. >> it is extraordinary risk. it's a real david and goliath if one needed one of those comparison in his ukraine, that would be it. these are ancient helicopters, sort of soviet equivalent of a black hawk, but a very old and ancient black hawk transport helicopter fitted with these rocket pods, and sent into battle, fearful of fighter jets, of surface-to-air missiles, of ground fire. i mean, when we were on that aircraft, i could have almost lent out the window and touched the stubble of the trees -- of the fields passing below me. so it really is extremely high risk. they have taken pretty heavy
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casualties, particularly at the beginning of the war, before they could organize themselves. the other thing i think it's important to note here, by fluke, entirely by fluke, a lot of these veteran pilots have been flying recently in the last 15, 20 years on a peacekeeping mission with the united nations in africa. so they've got a lot of hours. they've got a lot of hours in areas of conflict like the democratic republic of the congo and sierra leone, liberia, mow sack beak, and elsewhere. as a consequents of that, they're pretty -- very, very highly skilled and they're 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 sortis and stopped bothering. >> incredible. sam kylie, thank you for that report, really extraordinary. cnn military analyst, mark hurtling joins us now. are those helicopters even designed for that? >> they are, anderson.
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those are mi17 helicopters, i think. i just picked it up on the film as sam was doing his report. and what they're 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 nap of the earth undulating terrain. they're firing rocket pods, and rocket pods are not precision weapons. they're somewhat the artillery of the air. it's difficult to get a target strike with that unless you're literally pointing at the target. and you can see as the 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 advance aircraft, advanced helicopters or, you know, gunships or aircraft, what would that allow ukrainian forces to do that they can't? >> well, in some cases,
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certainly the advance western style aircraft, sam mentioned the black hawk. i kind of chased a little, but when he said they're ancient, because they are not ancient. they're actually pretty new in the army's inventory, but it would allow them more transport. it would give them guns on the side, the same kind of rocket pod. 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 thehe aircraft and they can be tank killers from literally almost up to 12 kilometers away. >> but the train okay that, how long does that take? >> it's a mess. you know, 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
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saying we need to give them the f-16. yri-inad said last week it would take ukrainian pilots a couple would effects to just learn how to fly that fighter jet, but about six months to really master how to fight the aircraft. that's about the same for an apache helicopter, because they are so technologically advanced. they have heads up displays on their helmets themselves. takes two pilots, and it would just really take a very long training time, besides being extremely expensive. >> yeah. general, appreciate it. new details on a stunning report we brought you earlier this week of the report details the transportation of as many as 6,000 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 undergoing forms of indoctrination or reeducation. some sent to foster families in russia or put up for russian
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adoption. in effect, they're stolen from ukraine. tonight the russian official at the center of this program, more about her. her title sounds like something that george orwell might have come up with: presidential commissioner for children's rights. melissa bell was more. >> she claims to be the savior of ukrainian children. >> demure, devout, and devoted, she says, to welcoming orphaned 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 lalova-bulova is the point person at the kremlin level for this entire program. >> and so these children are
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essentially being held hostage? >> yes. >> the woman in charge is herself a 38-year-old mother of at least ten, including five adopted children, and her work takes her all the way into the occupied territories. >> this time, we came to maripol itself. we will do everything for the children and teenagers who are here. >> from lavolava-bulova's propaganda channels, the deportation are his no secret. but the children are beyond the reach of their families or ukrainian authorities. >> some of those children are small. we see on the video of russian that, you know, seven, six months, four years, those children just do not remember where are they from, who are their parents? >> and once across the border, there is no contact anyway. some are adopted by russian families.
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others are taken to what are billed as summer camps. in fact, reeducation centers aimed at turning ukrainian children into russian citizens. >> unfortunately, we see that these children were brought up in a completely different culture and they did not watch the same films our children watched. they did not study history as our children did. >> but ukrainian lawyers fighting for the return of the children fear that there's already adopted, maybe 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 that transfer to russia without documents. >> among those already adopted is a young boy from mariopol by maria lalova-bulova herself. at first she says he sang the ukrainian national anthem. now he's a good boy.
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as she told vladmir putin himself this week. >> did you adopt a child from mariapol yourself? >> yes, thanks to you. 15-years-old. now i know what it means to be a mother of a child from dunbas. it's difficult, but we definitely love each other. >> this is really just sickening. according to yale's nathaniel raymond, who you talked to, this is a program designed by russia for its own audience. can you just 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. now, of course for us from the outside, it's incredibly chilling, as you say. these are children, after all, who are being used as pawns 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
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into russian citizens. it is also, though, about convincing the russian public that this was a humanitarian effort. this is what the invasion was about. the third reason, he says, is that these children turned then into these kind of pawns that can be exchanged, pow's, if you like. they can be used at leverage and bargained over. >> and international law is clear on the matter of childrenn being deported across borders. >> that's right. crystal clear, anderson. in fact, some of the first trials of the nuremberg trials at the end of the nazi occupation were on this matter. international law is crystal career clear. you cannot move children across boarders. you cannot take them from one country to another and for very important reasons that we as parents understand. they are vulnerable an d it simply cannot be done. and what nathaniel raymond was saying is this was particularly chilling. here is a team of war crimes
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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. that is, of course, why it's being done. it's not just about the children, and we can only imagine what these children are going through. little not just about the parents and the families. and we can only imagine what it is for them. some of them have had to go and retrieve their children, going through russia, all the way through russia to try and 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 point. it is very deliberate strategy of trying to deprive one country of its future. >> and that woman having adopted a child from mariapol, decimated by russian forces. we saw the bombing of the theater there that had people in it. we saw that they did. it's incredible. melissa bell, appreciate it. coming up next, newly released
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e-mails and messages from inside fox news revealing what network executives and their on-air hosts knew about the 2020 election lie, while promoting that same lie to viewers. and later tonight, cnn's dr. san jay gupta with american volunteers in turkey, providing care at a makeshift field hospital in the quake zone.
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to ever know the true, fair accurate election results. >> to want a new court filing shows that in private, fox host tucker carlson, laura ingram, and shawn hannity were brutally ridiculing thes claims of election fraud and the people making them. their private messages in a legal filing that's part of dominion voting system's 1. $6 billion lawsuit against fox news. one person they insulted, campaign lawyer sidney powell, 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. >> in one text revealed in the court filing, tucker carlson texted laura ingram saying,, quote, sidney powell is lying. i caught her. it's insane. ingram responded, quote, sidney is a complete nut. no one will work with her. ditto with rudy. a reference to trump lawyer rudy giuliani and his post election claims. >> there is a plan from a
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centralized place to execute these various acts of voter fraud. >> in other messages, shawn hannity said giuliani was acting lying an insane person. ingram described him as an i had lot. murdaugh said it was bad guiliana was advising trump. this tells you a lot about fox news internal machinations. it tells you they have one version of the world they keep to themselves and another they broadcast to their viewers. the two are entirely incompatible. in one instance, a fox reporter did a fact check on election lies. tucker carlson texted shawn hand at a saying please get 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 filings in the dominion suit
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suggest that fox executives were worried about losing viewers to news max, 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 news max. >> since 2002, fox news has basically been a preemiements ratings champion in cable news, and you see here the moment that they see any sign that might be slipping away, it's panic. >> but the dominion filings also say that when then president trump tried to call in to 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 lack context. in a statement, fox accused dominion of generating, quote, noise and confusion and says the core of this case remains freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
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anderson in. >> bryan todd, appreciate it. extraordinary. joining us nowow is marianne francs. she teaches law at the university of miami with folks on the first and second amendments. given the communications from fox news personalities privately dismissing the president's claims and promoting them on the air and dominion's repeat e-mails over weeks or months to executives and on-air talent and producers, informing them what they were saying was not true, does he do minion's case, to you, meet the legal standard of actual malice? >> it certainly seems really compelling. what these documents show, when we're looking for evidence of actual malice, which in regular person terms is really just knowing or having strong doubts about whether something is truee and deciding to pursue 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,,
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but they absolutely knew they were false and nonetheless decided toto promote that narrative. >> what sticks out to you as the most damming evidence here in. >> it's really hard to pick in 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 that 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 market share, 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, but they're going to care mostly about profits and, market share. >> fox news argues that they were merely reporting on something that was newsworthy and that 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 arguments?
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>> there's a real fine line sometimes because newsworthiness and defamation, but newsworthiness is something along the lines of reporting on the controversy. the president is making these 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 with no temporary 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 really 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 i hide behind climbs like
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the first amendment when they're deliberately deceiving their audience for his profit. >> it's just fatty that iting to see these -- fascinating to see these internal documents and these conversations between these on-air people. marianne francs, appreciate it. what do voters in south carolina thing about their former governor entering the presidential race? what if their current senator tim scott gets in there as welln gary tuckman went to the pakistan palmetto state to find out. that's aheadlipta ge. (♪) this electric feels different... because it's powered by the most potent source
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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 kicked off what his 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 at an event in charleston.. gary tuckman was also there and talked with voters. >> a packed ballroom with many of south carolina's republican movers and shakers. >> i'm retired. i used to be a banker. i made other people rich. >> this is the city and county of charleston, south carolina. ♪ >> the occasion? is black history month blank wet, sponsored by the republican party. the keynote speaker? south carolina senator tim scott. >> m y story is the american story. >> and scott's story could soon include running for president. >> i am running for president of
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the united states of america. >> fellow south carolinian, former governor nikki haley, already is. these republicans in the palmetto state are enjoying the attention. >> and we would definitely were a trump state and i think people still have a great deal of feeling for him, but then there's nikki. she decided she's going to run and there's a lot of passion for her, too. >> larry is a republican county member. >> both are legitimate contenders and you could imagine either being president. >> indeed, a number of republicans we talked to here are ready to commit to one of their fellow south carolinians. >> i love tim scott. i just feel like he's got our best interests at heart. >> that's true. >> but not necessarily on the top of the ticket. >> if you could set your own ticket, who would you vote for for president? >> did he santos and haley will be vice president or desantis
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and tim scott. >> i think the one electable is desantis. >> mark lamp still thinks donald trump can win and his ready to vote for him again. >> i don't know if envelop ikki has got what it takes to deal with the swamp. >> what about tim scott if he'ss running for president? >> i like tim a lot, but i haven't seen the demeanor i think it's going to take to wrestle those scallawags in washington. >> 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 twice 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 could go from here. >> does that mean that you're not leaning towards voting for
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donald trump? >> that would be my personal preference, yes. > not surprisingly at this early stage, the majority of people we talk to say 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 am very dedicate to the party. >> but you don't know which republican you like just yet? >> too soon. >> that's what the chair of this county's republican party, maurice washington wants to hear. he wants this campaign to be a competition, not a coronation. >> this is not going to be let's part the sea and allow former president to walk through. >> joining us 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 journalists, local journalists, not admitted were the national journalists. a reporter from the post and courier, the daily newspaper in charleston, asked a question on,
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will he endorse nikki haley? his response to her was, quote, next question? also, the paper says a question on was asked to him, what would lead him to go into the presidential race? and his 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. gary tuckman, thank you. adam kinzinger is senior political commentator. it seems like some republicans are ready to move on from the former president. do you think they want to move on from trumpism in. >> well, 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 herself. 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
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in mind, most republicans stilil support us supporting ukraine and that war, but she's kind of avoided that issue. she's going out of her way to not distinguish herself from donald trump, and d i personally think that means, a, she may be just making a play for vice president, but the other thing, b, i think it means that she's not -- i think she's missing the opportunities 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 the person to come forward and present an' at this mystic, hopeful scenario for the future. >> how tarnished is she by association with the former president? back in 2015, 2016, she was supporting marco rubio. she was saying tough things about then candidate donald trump. obviously she went to work for him ultimately. >> yeah. that's like 99% of republicans out there have that same thing.
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>> that's true. >> 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. >> right. >> like donald trump, they already don't trust her. those that don't like donald trump don't trust her. she has an opportunity too distinguish herself. as far as being involved with the administration, she actually did a really good job, i think, as you u.n. ambassador. i don't think being in the administration is going to taint her. it's been her yes and no, hot and cold for donald trump. >> how formidable do you think tim scott would be? >> i tell you, since i even met tim scott, 2011, i was elect 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. once his story gets out there, it's really breathtaking. his whole life is breathtaking. and is i think he's always been
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my kind of dark horse candidate in this race that i think nobody was talking about until fairly recently, but i see him as 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, i mean, nikki haley, tim scott, mike pompeo, bolton. it seems likike there's alreadya fair number of people, you know, in getting close to running in one form or another. it seems like there's going to be -- i mean, do we risk, is there the risk of a, you know, of a huge field that then benefits the former president? >> there's a huge risk, huge risk. just like 2016 happened, it really could happen again now. and it's a big worry for republicans. >> adam kinzinger, appreciate your time. thanks very much. >> you bet. >> still ahead, the devastating earthquake in turkey destroyed buildings and hospitals, doctors being forced to get creative as they tend to the survivors. >> just to give you an idea, we're in a tent in the middle of
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glowing a in the country. despite this, stories of rescues still emerging. an a 45-year-old man was found alive today after testimony hours under the rubble. another challenge is surfacing. turkish officials say today's at least 90,000 buildings either collapsed or are ready to be demolished. some of the destroyed buildings include hospitals and that's forcing doctors to get innovative. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is in turk way more. >> is you are watching an operation on 35 year old haason gochair. he has two fractures in his femur. these doctors are working intentsly 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're in a tent in the middle of a parking lot outside the hospital in a quake zone, and they're doing orthopedic surgery
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here. >> dr. gupta? >> yes, it is. >> oh, my gosh. good to see you. >> how are you doing? >> this is dr. greg helworth, an orthopedic surgeon who flew over. he's worried about bleeding. over here, in another part of the tent, they have foundd haason'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. >> what would have happened to somebody like him if he 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. >> before the earthquake, haason would have likely gotten his operation here at this hospital in atakia in southern turkey. it's still standing on the outside, yes, but completely
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wrecked inside. no longer functional. >> is this hospital is destroyed, so there's no other place to seek care. it's not just about the broken bones and the crush injuries. it's about these patients, also. supply chain is a real challenge. >> this is the team from samaritan's purse. elliott tenpenny is an er doctor from north carolina. >> we have had aftershocks, four, 5.0. it sways the tent back and forth and knocks things over. nothing major. all the work you need to do cann still be done? >> yeah, absolutely. >> over just 36 hours, they put up all these tent, set up generators, communication dishes, even brought their own water purifiers. >> is we use this machine here, it's a reverse osmosis machine. it allows to us get it from anywhere, including the ocean, and do desalination. >> and you keep it in these bladders? >> and these look full. this is a process constantlyly happening. >> all of this so they're able to give the best care to their patients.
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like 1-year-old mamet. his mother glued to his side, telling he is her story through a translator. >> what was happening to him? >> he cooperated breathe anymore. >> 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 stay warm. the diagnosis? bronchitis and asthma, so severe, he was put on anesthetic gases to open up his airways and keep him alive. haason 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. >> unjay joins me fridays tan
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bull. how is the 1-year-old suffering from bronchitis and asthma doin? >> he's doing well, anderson. in fact, we got photographs just this morning. i don't know if you cacan see those. he's doing well. they were holding him up, making sure his airway stayed open. they flu him to a large trauma hospital and he's expected to make a good recovery. they were giving him ketamine and anesthetic gases, essentially to try and keep his airways open. he was he was at real risk of having significant respiratory dispress. that's something they were able to do in those at the present time, as you saw. >> incredible. the hospital that's destroyed on the inside, it looks huge. how long can samaritan's purse stay to help? >> you know, we wanted to show you those hospitals, because i think people don't always have an idea of 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 of the hospital i work at, for example, in it a
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big city in the states, fewer than a thousand beds. so these are big hospitals here in turkey. they realize they've got to not only provide acute care, samaritan's purse, but probably chronic care, at least for months to come. we don't know how long they're going to be here. samaritan's purse has also been in ukraine, for example, doing similar sorts of work. they come at the behest of the government and they stay really as long as they're needed. all of those at the present time, all of those supplies, the generators, all that you just saw there, they leave here. they leave that as a footprint for people to use in the months and years to come. >> appreciate it. thanks so much. coming up, we have major developments in the double her derr trial of alex murdaugh. the prosecution rest being its case as an investigator led the most detailed timeline on the events of the murders. we have details on that ahead.
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. the prosecution rested its case today in the double murder trial of disgraced former south carolina attorney alex murdaugh. their last witness a state investigator who gave a detailed minute-by-minute timeline from the night of the murders and some of his testimony conflicts with statements made by murdaugh. our randi kaye was in the courtroom today and has details. >> this is going to be the full
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timeline. >> reporter: special agent peter radovsky analyzed cell phone data from phones belonging to the victims and alex murdaugh as well as gps data recovered from their cars. he presented a timeline to the jury from the night of the murders. >> and then at 8:44:55 what does it reflect on paul's phone? >> you can hear alex, maggie and paul in the background. >> reporter: ruddouchlt fski testified about a key piece of video extracted from paul murdaugh's cell phone that witnesses say puts alex murdaugh at the scene just before prosecutors say paul and his mother were killed. >> what time did paul and maggie's phones go silent forever? >> 8:49 is when their phones went silence forever. >> reporter: rudofski told the jury minutes after the murders are believed to have occurred alex murdaugh's showed more steps taken than at any other point that evening. >> 283 steps. >> he was a busy guy right then,
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wasn't he? >> it appears. >> reporter: the witness says cell phone data also shows someone moved maggie murdaugh's phone minutes after she died. >> at 9:06.12 what happens? >> maggie murdaugh's phone implements orientation change from portrait to orientation sideways. >> reporter: according to earlier testimony alex murdaugh left the house that night around that same time, 9:06 p.m., to go visit his mother. 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 did the defendant's vehicle start to accelerate? >> it does. >> reporter: rudofski also told the jury data shows murdaugh arrived at his mother's house 9: 2 p.m. and left there at 9:43 p.m. >> roughly a 20-minute period? >> roughly 20 minutes.
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correct. >> reporter: that's key because murdaugh had told investigators in an interview played in court this week 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's caretaker also testified earlier that he stopped by for about 15 to 20 minutes. cell phone data shows murdaugh arrived back home at the murder scene just before calling 911 at 10:06 p.m. >> this is showing the suburban arriving at the kennels. 10:05.57 p.m. >> and 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. >> reporter: remember, murdaugh told investigators he tried to turn his son over a couple of times and check the pulse on both paul and maggie, all before calling 911. >> if the person getting out of the car had seen the bodies already, already knew something was horribly wrong, do you believe that that is an
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unreasonably short period of time to inspect and call 911? >> i'm here to testify on this data, not the hypothetical. >> randi joins me now from south carolina. it is fascinating to me what they can figure out with this gps data. i mean, the steps that he took right afterward, the slowing down of the car. it's incredible. >> reporter: yeah. it was a minute-by-minute timeline. and the jury really needed to hear it to put everything just in order for them because they've heard so much evidence. but anderson, that one point where they point out that alex murdaugh's car had slowed down around the very same spot where maggie murdaugh's phone was found the next day in the woods, the prosecution seem to want toe suggest to the jury that maybe alex murdaugh took her phone from the murder scene and slowed down at that very spot to perhaps toss it out the window. and they also pointed out that on his way home back to moselle, the properties where the murders happened, he was driving really, really fast, reaching 81 miles per hour at one point, faster
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than he'd driven all day, and these are dark windy roads, there are a lot of deer. the prosecution again seeming to want to suggest that perhaps he was in some rush to get home, anderson. >> it's fascinating. randi kaye, appreciate it. thank you. quick programming note. the hbo max documentary series "low country: the murdaugh dynasty," which if you haven't seen it it's really quite incredible, starts this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. it's got a lot of detail and video that you've never seen before probably. coming up, did he or didn't he? tiger woods attempted to make the cut almost two years after the accident that nearly cost him his leg. an update next. noooo... noooo... nooooo... quick, the quicker picker upper! when you gotta get it done, just one sheet is all you need. because one sheet of bounty absorbs more than theirs, so you can use less. i'll hold onto that. get the job done with one. bounty, the quicker picker upper.
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tonight tiger woods all but certain to make cut. that is making it to the weekend at the genesis invitational in los angeles. it's his first start of the year, his first tournament since last summer and his first time back at the tournament he hosts two years after the car crash not far from there that left him badly injured and away from the sport that he loves and dominated for so many years. that's it for us. the news continues. erin burnett "outfront" starts now. "outfront" next, new cnn exclusive reporting. the u.s. about to put russian intelligence services on notice. this is russia's best hope for winning on the battlefield appears to be crumblin
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