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rocked two countries. more than 2,200 are dead in turkey and syria. thousands more injured. we've got the latest details. a new republican criticism this morning of how the biden administration handled the suspected chinese spy balloon drifting for days over the u.s. before the military shot it down over the weekend. all this as president biden red december to address the nation tomorrow. a huge night for a star-packed grammy awards. that's bad bunny. we'll tell you who made history. we begin with that breaking news, a deadly catastrophe unfolding right now in tour key and syria. two powerful and devastating earthquakes striking jurs hours apart. 7.92 earth kwair quake near the

city of gaziantep in turkey. that number only expected to rise as the tremors toppled buildings across the region. take a look at this moment. look at this. this whole building just comes down in the city just outside the epicenter collapsing in a matter of seconds. bystanders fleeing the scene. with more than 9,000 people injured, emergency crews are searching for survivors. live in turkish television, a reporter rescued a child during an aftershock. his family escaped. crews are urgently calling on the international community for help. >> many families now are under the rubble. our teams tried to save them, trying to save the people, to save all the people from under

the rubble, but it's very difficult task fours. we need help from everyone to save our people. >> joining us is mark kay who serves as the policy advocacy and communications director at the international rescue committee. thank you for being with us. what do we know about this crisis? it's been so widespread and so massive. >> this earthquake has been absolutely catastrophic in both ter key and northern syria. it doesn't show a regard for borders. what we've seen is thousands of people being displaced. we've seen many, many buildings simply collapsing under the weight of the shock waves. a presence in northern syria of over a thousand staff who have become survivors themselves.

they woke up at 4:00 a.m. to hear buildings collapsing around them, making sure their families are safe. the next few hours, the next few days are going to be absolutely integral to see how many more people succumb to the injuries. >> mark, at this early point in rescue and recovery efforts, what do crews on the ground in these communities need? >> to put it simply, they need resources. they need people. they need money. they need equipment. we've already seen quite a few states showing remarkable solidarity with the heroes on the ground, the search and rescue groups who are literally pulling people out of the rubble as we speak. several states have responded and said that they will be sending people to turkey. for those in northern syria, we would say they need not be forgotten as well. we appreciate it's a complex

operating environment. the fact is, those in northern syria are some of the most vulnerable people in the region. they are mainly women and girls, children who have sometimes been displaced as many as 20 times since the syrian conflict began in 2012. these people really don't have the means to be able to survive. many of them already dependent on humanitarian aid in order to get their health care or make sure they've got enough food on the table. we're really calling on the international community to step up and make sure that it's responding both in southern turkey but also northern syria to make sure more lives are not lost needlessly. >> 7.8 and 7.6 magnitude in turkey and syria, mark, i know there must be hundreds, if not thousands of aftershocks. it's so critical. we're talking about the freezing

temperatures sweeping that area. it's critical that folks are able to get out there and search for people who may be under the rubble still alive. mark, i think i lost you. are you there? we lost mark. i want to thank mark for being with us this morning. you can see there the president has just stated he's directed his teams to provide any and all needed assistance after the earthquake. this is massive. as i say, these are two back-to-back monster earthquakes. you can just imagine the hundreds if not thousands of aftershocks that are going through that entire region. people are saving lives as we speak, but it is so, so difficult. we'll of course be very closely monitoring this still evolving crisis. turning to the ongoing efforts to rekof the suspected surveillance balloon that the

biden administration shot down off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. an f-22 fighter jet shot down the balloon on saturday a week after u.s. officials first detected it going over alaska. u.s. military and law enforcement personnel are combing an area of about seven nat call miles. here is new footage possibly showing the balloon's debris. joining us is nbc's george solace in myrtle beach, south carolina. also with us, amiral james stavridis. george, what more can you tell us about the recovery efforts right now? >> reporter: good morning, jose. we know navy divers and recovery ships are out there in the motion trying to get more of that debris and possibly equipment that was attached to that balloon. the warning from officials here in the carolinas is, if some of that debris starts to wash onshore, to remind the people and the tourists not to touch

any of it, leave it be, do not take it home. if you are messing with it, that could be interfering with a federal investigation. as you know, the pentagon says most of this debris fell in about 47 feet of water which should help with moving some of this debris fairly quickly, as they anticipated this falling in deeper water. they still haven't given an exact timeline. we were able to see ships off in the distance presumably beginning search and recovery efforts again. at this time of day, it's so bright out there. you may not be able to see the boats doing their work. right now it's a little colder here along the coast. you're not seeing as many people on the beach which is something that officials, of course, are welcoming if more of this debris starts to wash onshore. this has been the talk of the town, jose. a lot of people coming out yesterday when we first arrived, even in the pouring rain, hoping to catch a glimpse of the recovery. the message is, yes, spectate,

but don't mess with any of the debris. the department of defense is working with local law enforcement to recover as much debris as possible, any equipment to gain insight into those chinese spying capabilities. >> george solis, thank you. admiral stavridis, what can you tell us. >> you know the admiral will sat's the u.s. navy recovering that balloon and that debris. it will be quickly handed off to our wonderful cleanse community partners. they'll look for three big things, jose. number one, the technology itself. how sophisticated is this? was it able to connect directly to satellites? did it store information on board? number two, perhaps most importantly, we're going to try

to find out how much china was able to collect. the balloon passed over extremely sensitive sites. it's much lower than a satellite. how much intelligence did china get? that will be kind of a damage control assessment. third and finally, looking forward, you're going to see an effort made to kind of reverse engineer this in that how can we know about this sooner? when can we take it out? what more advanced capabilities might be added to this in the years ahead? how are we going to respond the next time? i'll close with this, jose, this won't be the last balloon in our adventure with china. >> i'm just wondering as you see these images of the balloon being taken out, i imagine one of the questions is how much guidance can a balloon like that actually have. is it just kind of going where the wind takes it?

does it have some kind of steering mechanism? >> we can speculate at this point. we'll know a lot more about that as the pieces of this thing get put together. don't forget, nasa, for example, was able to exhaustively reconstruct challenger which blew up at a much higher altitude and was scattered over thousands and thousands of miles. we'll learn, i think, some answers to those questions. my guess would be this had limited capability to maneuver because it's just a hard problem set to have an enormous determiningable like this and move it with real precision. i think we'll skoofr it had some capability, but it was also overmastered at times by the winds. i think it's going to end up being a bit of both, jose. >> admiral, the chinese government reacted by saying it was, quote, an obvious

overreaction. >> what do you make of that? >> it's preposterous, everyone in the country was following this thing. you can look up from where it tracked across our nation from the upper midwest, across kansas city, out through charleston south carolina where i am this weekend celebrating my mom's 93rd birthday. this was not a mysterious event. for china to say they didn't vie late our sovereignty and hide behind this, may, it's a weather balloon, is preposterous. final thought here, our sources who are collecting intelligence -- and we're very scrupulous in how we do this. but say a navy ship operating in international waters but close to china right now, they're going to want to be on even higher alert in case china tries to do something in response. bottom line, this is a chinese violation of our sovereignty.

our response was appropriate in every sense under international law. >> admiral, we also learned the pentagon is aware of three other incidents with a chinese balloon entering u.s. airspace under the trump administration. admiral, is there a problem with united states air defense? >> well, our air defense, by the way, is jointly run with our wonderful partners, the canadians. so this is norad, north american air defense. without getting into classified information, i'll simply say i'm quite confident we have a very good overarching architecture from satellites to surveillance aircraft, ground radar sites, all knitted together in colorado. we have a pretty good idea of what's passing over the united states. a lot of that is highly classified, but i think americans should take confidence in our ability to track what's in the skies above us. >> admiral james stavridis,

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17 past the hour. new details on what president biden is expected to say in his second state of the union address. nbc reports the president is expected to use the primetime speech to make his pitch for re-election in 2024. a new poll finds that many democrats are not excited about the president running for a second term. the poll finds only 31% of democrats support biden being

renominated. twice as many democrats want to name someone else next year. on the republican side, 44% of republicans only want to renominate donald trump while 49% would rather see someone else nominated. with us to talk about this, nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli and nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. mike, what are we expected to hear from the president tomorrow night? >> reporter: as we know, the president is still at camp david after a weekend working with his senior aides an speech writers to try to nail down the draft of the state of the union speech. we're spending a lot of time reporting about what specifically is in it. the white house and these aides are thinking about who is watching. that's what's driving the decision making. first southbound the size of the audience, more than 38 million people watch the state of the union last year. this will be the biggest audience of the year that president biden has, especially before he kicks off his 2024 campaign. as our colleague peter nicholas

smartly wrote this weekend, that's three times the viewership for the clinching game of the world series last year. it's the fact there are a lot of people who will be watching the speech who haven't been following the day-to-day, ups and downs in washington. roughly 3 in 5 americans think president biden hasn't accomplished much in office. that's what the president first and foremost wants to address in his speech. talking about what he thinks is the most accomplished resumes a president has going into his re-election campaign in terms of big things accomplished than many predecessors. you'll hear a laundry list of what biden has done. we'll be seeing that as he's been traveling the country, talking about the infrastructure projects especially. also an effort to reconnect to the themes of his 2020 candidacy. yes, he'll talk a lot about the economy and rebuilding the backbone of the economy, the middle class, but also trying to unite the country.

this is something that he was talking about just friday night. i was in attendance as he spoke to members of the dnc. he said even to that partisan audience, that getting this country back together, unifying this country may have been one of the biggest challenges, the hardest parts of his term so far, but something he's determined to do. that's a big theme of the speech. >> the president does come to the state of the union with big wind in his back. good job numbers just last week. what can we expect the republicans to push back on? >> reporter: you and mike are right, setting the backdrop from the democratic and white house perspective. certainly for republicans, we're probably going to see them do what they did over the course of the election which is try to take advantage of the other economic pieces of this environment right now, talking about inflation and talking about the high cost of living. they have governor sarah huckabee sanders giving the republican rebuttal to this, she's a trailblazer in her own

right, the first female governor elected from the state of arkansas, a former press secretary to the trump administration, but also deep ties to the conservative movement after all the work she did for her father's time in politics. he was also a governor and presidential contender himself. governor sanders having a lot of information she can provide to the american public as a new messenger for the republican party as they try to rebut and frankly prebut the biden administration. it's talking about spending, talking about keeping costs down, while the president is going to make the point they were able to achieve many items on his policy bucket list during the first two years of his administration, republicans are going to be eager to remind of the price tag on those things. that's going to be important when we think about the ways they'll put forward their own

messaging. the fencing is back around the capitol. we're seeing heightened security here. the one difference the last time the president was here are the fact that there are no mags now going into the house chamber. that's different now that house control has changed from democrat to republican. although that's something that's been true in past states of the union, this will be the first time since january 6th that we see no mags around the house chamber. >> mike, i want to take you back to the meeting that you covered last week. in a major move, democrats are shaking up their primary calendar, starting with south carolina instead of iowa and new hampshire. how big of a move is this? >> reporter: this is really a huge move. we've seen efforts by states other than iowa and new hampshire to try to move up in the calendar, to try to take their lead-off roles they've held for decades away from them. they've often failed. they actually have always failed until this weekend. we saw really without much opposition other than from those two stet delegations, the dnc

ratified it. i now ali has updated her calendar as i have as well. one year from today we'll see nevada and new hampshire holding their primaries. that would be a few days after south carolina had that leadoff calendar. there are big ifs here. one, we know new hampshire has a state law that says they have to be first. we'll see what the secretary of state does in terms of moving their order ahead. the other big caveat is the republican party, the rnc is sticking with their primary calendar the way it is. they'll still see a lot of those -- not just donald trump but other candidates who want to challenge him for the nomination, heading to iowa and new hampshire. that was a big part of the argument from new hampshire. we need to have our lead-off role, still need to have a contest because republicans are sticking with it. the argument from democrats across the board was we need a calendar, early nomination process that represents our party and the base of that

party, african american voters. we'll see that right now with south carolina leading off. >> ali, there are new allegations against embattled new york congressman george santos. >> reporter: that's exactly right, jose. we saw over the weekend, a aide for santos coming forward to the ethics committee of sexual harassment and the way his potential employment was being adjudicated when he was on a volunteer status. the house ethics committee confirmed they got the complaint. they're not going to say much about it. it is yet another moment where santos is in the news cycle for a negative thing. his office is saying talk to counsel. we're probably not going to hear from him on this, at least not yet. >> mike memoli and ali vitali in washington, thank you both so much. several families in atlanta woke up this morning to find hateful anti-semitic pamphlets

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now to the latest on a dangerous situation unfolding in ohio. people who are still within a one-mile radius of a fiery train der railment in the town of east palestine have been told to leave immediately. the governor's office says a burning rail car carrying hazardous chemicals is at risk of exploding, potentially sending deadly shrapnel up to a mile away. the governor activated the national guard to assist. the train derailed on friday night. so far no casualties have been reported. officials say air and water quality remains safe as of this moment. the cause of the derailment is under investigation. now to georgia and another incident of anti-semitic hate in the atlanta area. the "atlanta journal constitution" reports families in predominantly jewish neighborhoods in atlanta woke up on sunday morning to find anti-semitic flyers in their

driveways. as legislature considers a bill that would provide a state definition of anti-semitism. georgia governor brian kemp condemned the evidence saying this kind of hate has no place in our state. we will always condemn acts of anti-semitism. with us to talk more about this, "atlanta journal constitution" political reporter greg bluestein. you got one of these flyers at your home. in general terms, greg, what did they have to say? i think we just froze -- >> a despicable act. >> let me ask you again. let's try to re-establish. i'm sorry about this. greg, i think you heard my question. i want to thank you for being with us. so describe in general terms what it is that you received. >> they were filled with the most despicable attacks and

false tropes against the jewish community. it forced many families, including ours to confront head on with our children the fact that anti-semitism is still a sad fact of life. it was a very jarring moment for our community. >> these were -- these message, just horrible to see what we're showing on screen. they were in plastic bags. how widespread is this incident? >> we believe they targeted neighborhoods with significant jewish populations in the sandy springs area where there are thousands and thousands of jewish residents. it's the community i grew up in, that i call home. it's the heart of the jewish community here in metro atlanta. we're also encouraged by the outpouring of support. local leaders, law enforcement authorities, politicians, religious officials, they're all united to condemn the latest in the epidemic of anti-semitic

incidents. local police are investigating, and the governor has also offered state resources to delve into this. >> how big of a problem is anti-semitism in the area here? >> it's always been a sad fact of life. even when i was growing up going to a jewish school, i remember in the late 1980s going to my school and seeing swastikas brandished all over it. it's something my parents were forced to confront with me when i was just in first grade. it's not top of mind, though. this was a wake-up call to many in our community that anti-semitism is still alive and we need to unite our community and our allies to fight it. >> greg, tell me a little bit about that conversation. how do you talk about these horrendous things with your children? >> we decided not to show them the actual flyers. many in our neighborhood, which standing with us. it's amazing people scrawling on their driveways, we stand with

the jewish community, no place to hate. we talked to them, reminded them about the holocaust, we reminded them about years and years and decades and generations of anti-semitism. this was a reminder they have to deal with it as well. >> greg bluestein, appreciate your time. >> thank you. coming up, republicans slam president biden for not acting sooner to take down the chinese spy balloon flying over the u.s. we have the political blowback next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports. wish me l. mouth to mission control. we have a denture problem. over. roger that. with polident cleanser and polident adhesive refresh and secure for any close encounter. if your mouth could talk it would ask for polident and poligrip. ♪♪ ♪ a bunch of dead guys made up work, way back when. ♪ ♪ it's our turn now we'll make it up again. ♪

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schumer announced all senators will receive a briefing on the balloon next week. in an exclusive interview, house intelligence chair mike turner criticized the biden administration for a lack of urgency in shooting down the balloon. >> clearly the president taking it down over the atlantic is sort of like the quarterback sort of tackling the quarterback after the game is over. the satellite had completed its mission. this should never have been allowed to enter the united states and never should have been allowed to complete its mission. >> joining us now, nbc's ryan nobles on capitol hill, peter baker "new york times" chief white house correspondent. >> they all want more information, republican or democrat. they're expected to get some briefing on exactly what happened and the white house's decision making at some point this week. there is a clear difference between the way democrats are reacting and the way republicans are reacting. democrats like the senate majority leader chuck schumer applauding president biden's

decision to allow the balloon to make its way across the united states so the u.s. could gather intelligence and information about the way china was conducting the surveillance and waiting until it was in a safe space to take it down. on the other side of the aisle, republicans are very critical that the balloon ever even made it into american airspace and argue it should have been brought down in a safe manner as soon as the united states knew it was there. a lot of this comes against the backdrop of a lack of information from leaders, both republican and democrat. they want to know more about this particular incident and what it means in a more whole some fashion about how the chinese are using technology like this to spy on the united states. they're hoping to get those answers later this week. we should see even more criticism particularly from republicans once those briefings take place. jose. >> ryan nobles on capitol hill, thank you so much. peter, how do you see the backlash over the balloon playing out in the next couple

days or weeks? is this something we're going to be seeing from republicans going forward for some time? >> reporter: absolutely. they're going to use this as an example of how president biden is weak and he's not adequately defending the country on national security. of course, let's remember we're told by federal officials at least that they had managed to do something to jam, in effect, the chinese balloon from sending any information it was recovering. so the fact that it was still traveling over the united states, if that's the case, may not have made any difference whatsoever for the chinese. of course, the american military was telling us they did not want to shoot it down over any kind of territory, any kind of land where it might have created casualty on the ground. remember, this was a large craft, the size of three buses is how they described the main part of the craft. shoot it down over a populated area, you risk damage on the

ground. a lot of republicans are asking how come you couldn't have done it earlier. with the official telling us it doesn't make a difference if the chinese are unable to retrieve the information from the balloon because of whatever jamming was being done by the american side. >> i'm wondering, peter, what is the message that the chinese are sending? >> reporter: that's a great question. they knew secretary of state blinken was heading their way for an important meeting. they had, in fact, seemed to be on a path toward at least a somewhat more productive dialogue with the biden administration, and then for this to happen, of course, that's blown that up. that's sort of put any notion of a better relationship to the side certainly for weeks, if not months to come. it makes you wonder why they would take that risk knowing this could have happened, knowing the americans could have detected it. even if it didn't become public, that that would be something that would be provocation. it's also possible people will ask the question whether there

were elements of the chinese government that did this intentionally to try to detract from diplomatic efforts. we don't know enough about how the chinese government works internally to raise that question. it raises questions why they would do it now given that meeting coming up, even though they've done this before according to the pentagon. >> it's important to state according to the pentagon that china flew at least three balloons over the u.s. during the trump administration. does that show a pattern? >> reporter: obviously this is the technique right now. the three flights over the united states during the trump administration, one prior during the biden administration. none of them was as long lasting as this. they skirted the american territory we're told in a shorter period of time. we don't know whether that means, therefore, it was too quick an entry into airspace over the united states to act on it. certainly neither the trump administiden administration disclosed these

flights until now. they didn't disclose this one until people over in manhattan noticed it flying overhead. basically it seems like this was a cat and mouse game between chinese and american intelligence agencies going on for a while that they chose not to make public. that's a question you'll hear both democrats and republicans ask on the hill. >> yeah. i'm wondering if there were also balloons over and over latin america as well. that's something we have to be looking out for. the president issued this tweet of him preparing for the state of the union tomorrow night. there you see the notebook, some cookies and coffee possibly. what are you going to be looking out for tomorrow? >> look, this is the first state of the union that the president has delivered in this new era of divided government. instead of having two democrats behind him and a vice president and speaker of the house, he'll have a republican speaker behind him, a republican house majority

leader in front of him. the large legislative action he's enjoyed over the last two years is over. they're not going to agree to that in the house. you'll hear him talk about ways to move forward on a bipartisan level. the question is whether the republicans will find a way to meet him there. no incentive on the republican side to look for bipartisan compromises. to the extent there are any moves to agree with president biden even on things like raising the debt ceiling or spending bills which are necessary to pass, that is a dangerous moment for speaker mccarthy because he has a narrow majority and any uprising on his political right could cost him in the speakership. peter baker, thank you for your time. up next, two big reasons why gas prices are on their way up again. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports."

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but up from a month ago. it's part of a rising trend over the last couple weeks. it comes just ahead of the president's state of the union address in which he's likely to focus on the economy. joining me is marissa parra. what explains this increase? >> reporter: jose, good morning. just when everyone was talking about the prices of eggs, the price of gas rears its ugly head. when you take a look at the national gas average price right now in comparison to a month ago, you'll see it's roughly 18 cents more than it was. this is typically a time when those prices have fallen for several years, there's less demand. also the winter gas blend is generally cheaper to produce. so why the rise by time when it's supposed to be lower? well, an industry expert tells us it's due to two main reasons. >> the arctic cold blast that hit much of the country actually

repaired refineries all the way from areas like colorado into texas. it diminished their ability to produce as much gasoline, so that started a domino effect that pushed prices up. shortly thereafter, china after three years of covid zero policy announced that they're going to be reopening their economy. that very quickly had the effect of boosting gasoline and oil demand pushing oil prices up. >> reporter: so remember, we have refineries in need of maintenance, and of course all of this happening during this ongoing war between russia and ukraine. we already know what a strain that's put on gas prices. who could forget the price of gas last summer, at its peak $5 a gallon. as we're just about a day from the state of the union address from president biden, this is probably going to come up. this is something he talked about in the dnc winter meeting in philadelphia. it felt like a mini state of the union address. gas prices lower than they were

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56 past the hour, historic night at the 65th gram my awards. puerto rican sensation bad bunny opened the show with an all spanish act. he made history with the first spanish language lp to be nominated for album of year. he lost that category. beyonce broke the record for most career grammy wins ever taking home four statues last night. that brings her all-time total to 32. sam smith and kim petras won best duo group pop performance for unholy. petras becomes the first transgender woman to win a gram my in that category.

she won the grammy for best audio book narration and story telling recording and harry styles shocked at his win. he took home the night's top prize, album of the year for harry's house. by the way, speaking of beyonce, tickets to her first tour since 2016 go on sale this afternoon putting ticketmaster to the test. the company under scrutiies after after it was overwhelmed during sales for taylor swift's tour last year resulting in a congressional hearing. ticketmaster warning that demand for beyonce's first round of presale registration 800 % higher than the number of tickets available. joining us now nbc's jacob ward. what does ticketmaster say it's doing differently this time around? >> at this point they say they have a technical fix to the problem. they are not going to be dumping all the tickets onto the open market as they did with taylor swift, which resulted in

catastrophe and a senate committee hearing. they say they're going to be releasing these in several waves. we're going to see the first round of people who had basically preregistered for a special club and won a special lottery. they get a shot at tickets today. that in theory is the technical fix to this. the reputational harm to ticketmaster keeps going. as you'll recall, the big word on everybody's lips during that senate committee hearing was the word monopoly. here's how senator ted cruz asked various witnesses. >> i in your judgment is ticketmaster a monopoly. >> yes, without a doubt. >> it's certainly acting like a monopoly. >> all of that sentiment will explain why it is that that senate committee then tweeted at ticketmaster when they announced the beyonce sales we'll be watching, everyone will be watching to see whether or not these tickets go forward the way they're supposed to and if there are the kinds of fan troubles

there were last time, you can imagine that washington will probably get involved again, jose. >> jacob ward thank you so very much. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm josé diaz-balart. you can always reach me on twitter and instagram at jd baa balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey rogers picks up with more news right now. good monday morning, i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc world headquarters in new york. we're following an intense morning on the international stage. the dire emergency in turkey and syria after two massive earthquakes shocked the region. a magnitude 7.8 earthquake followed by a 7.6 quake, the first one more powerful than two dozen hiroshima bombs. 2,000 people are confirmed dead and that number continues to rise dramatically. search and rescue crews are

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