good morning, everyone. we start with really serious news this morning. there is devastation happening. the staggering death toll keeps rising in turkey and syria after a catastrophic earthquake. 1300 people are now reported dead and a powerful after shock. it just hit just moments ago. we ll go live to istanbul for the latest on this frantic search. and new fallout from the downing of a chinese spy balloon. president biden is preparing to deliver his second state of the union address. a train loaded with hazardous materials derailing in ohio. thousands of people ordered to evacuate. now a battle is under way to keep that toxic wreckage from exploding. we re going to begin with this. devastating earthquake in turkey and syria. it struck before dawn and collapsed buildings while people were asleep in their beds. just moments ago, just got word of a powerful 7.5 magnitude after shock. there you can see people digging through the rubble. more than 1300 people now reported
including a 7.5 within the last hour. we ll continue to follow. as we monitor that, we have new reporting this morning about what is happening in washington as democratic party leaders say that president biden may still be the ticket for 2024 even if they re not passionate about him. this after the president and vice president turned out for the democratic national committee meeting in the critical battleground state of pennsylvania. that is just ahead of president biden s expected state of the union address on tuesday. what are they saying about how they re viewing what that 2024 ticket could look sflik. i was in philadelphia for that meeting of the democratic national committee. those are the state party chairs, the most involved party operatives. they say, look, they re so happy with what biden has gotten done. really satisfied with a sense of calm that he brought to a lot of things in washington and in the party overall.
now. and the county sheriff has also added there are toxic chemicals pouring out of that train. people that don t leave that area, they could be in danger and arrested because of that evacuation order that is in place, especially if they have kids in their home. yeah. all right. thank you so much for monitoring this, gabe cohen. this morning, an escalating diplomatic crisis after the u.s. military shot down the spy balloon that drift add cross the country. of drivers are on a mission to salvage the spy equipment from the balloon. the president worked to determine what this means for america s relationship for beijing moving forward. we have more on this. where do we stand on recovering the balloon? yeah. that recovery effort is well under way, don. good morning. a navy team was spotted at this
2024. you don t beat somebody with nobody. i think the democratic party is totally set to kind of settle for joe biden. to cakaitlan s point, he was asked about that on abc. and he was so critical in biden getting the nomination last time around. and i just wonder what you think that s is important. those who boosted biden when he needed it most means this time around. you know, i look at names that i know the democrats who have thought about, you know, there is a group of democrats that want to be president like all of the ones in the senate. well said. yeah. and, you know, every elected official. i think every single one of them that looked at it decided it is because political suicide to run a primary against him. somebody will in the end just because incredible way to get attention. for some that are in the house the way dennis used to.