top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with the new reporting of the chinese surveillance balloon, and the state department is confirming that this device was capable of monitoring u.s. communications. that is likely one of the new details that lawmakers are learning this morning. the biden administration is giving classified briefings on the issue on capitol hill a short time ago, and we will give you more of what we are learning in a moment, and with reclosely following what is happening in europe. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the european allies to step up the assistance and talking about specifically what they could do in his mind game-changers. fresh off of the sales pitch in wisconsin, president biden is headed to florida to expect to drive home his pledge in particular to protect social security and medicare, and we will have more on that message from the white house ahead. first of all to nat
hello, everyone. at this hour, trying to cling to hope as rescue and recovery efforts continue in turkey and syria and the death toll continues to climb. plus, new details out today of what that chinese spy balloon may have been capable of. a member of congress who was just briefed on the incident is our guest. and north korea is showing off the military arsenal a very big way as kim jong-un s daughter is stepping out into the spotlight. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan, and the images coming out of turkey and syria continue to boggle the mind of how widespread and just complete the devastation is just building after building pancaked and freezing temperatures the of course challenging every effort to find survivor and yet still moments of hope. a mother and two sons were just rescued alive today after being under the rubble for more than 70 hours, and the death toll is still rising passing 17,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of people without a place
hello, i m abby phillip in washington. president biden is taking the fight to republicans in florida and that s a state that s been tilting more and more toward the gop. it s also home to two of biden s potential 2024 rivals, donald trump and ron desantis. not to mention, biden s latest foil, republican senator rick scott. it is scott s recent proposal to sunset federal programs that biden has been hammering all week and in a few minutes he ll try to keep the pressure on with remarks focused on bolstering social security and medicare. cnn s priscilla alvarez is there in tampa ahead of the speech. so, priscilla, i don t think many people expected that joe biden and rick scott would be the first big political matchup of the year but the white house is very much leaning into it. reporter: it is front and center, abby. not only that, this is the second stop that biden is making after the state of the union this week. as he mentioned, biden is driving his message home that he is
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promising them they will get the help they need and that rolling fork he said rolling stone. he meant rolling fork. good to be with you. i m katy tur we ll go to our big story today. donald trump is expected to surrender to the manhattan d.a. on tuesday he s already been calling for protest and now marjorie taylor greene is promising to show up who else is coming we have details on what new york city is doing to make sure it s not january 6th. what kind of case will this be two sources familiar with the indictment tell nbc donald trump is facing about 30 counts related to document fraud. the indictment is under seal lawyers are wondering whether d.a. alvin bragg is on solid ground we explore the tricky legal theory there are also questions about whether a hush money payment from seven years ago to a porn store might set a bad prez cedet we ll ask that to our experts. after tuesday everything changes, not least of which the 2024 race. what happens if a criminal trial goes he