cnn this morning starts right now. this is the aftermath of what we reported yesterday, our breaking news. good morning. there are countless people still trapped under those piles of rubble and screaming out for help across turkey and syria. the staggering death toll topping 5,000 after the catastrophic earthquake. we ll take you live to the disaster zone and the massive rescue operation under way. and live on capitol hill this morning where tonight president biden is going to deliver his first state of the union address since republicans took control of the house. it s a major moment and he will use it to make his sales pitch for the re-election campaign he s expected to launch soon. we ll have a full preview of what to expect in tonight s state of the union. cnn has new and exclusive reporting a chinese spy balloon flew across florida when donald trump was president, but did his administration know? and we ll take you live to ohio for a closer look at the tense an
good morning. time it running out to find survivors in the rubble of the deadly quake, the one that s taken nearly 5,000 lives so far in turkey and syria. cnn is there. madam speaker, the president of the united states. [ applause ] we re live on capitol hill where tonight president biden will deliver his state of the union address. what he ll focus on and who will be in attendance. the spy balloon from china, new cnn reporting reveals why the trump administration apparently didn t notice spy balloons over the united states during their term. new this morning, ukraine hints at the ability to strike russian territory. another significant escalation in the nearly year-old war. also here on capitol hill today, a hearing into the nationwide travel issues, including the near miss between a fedex plane and southwest flight that came within 100 feet of disaster. cnn this morning starts right now. we are going to begin in turkey and syria where countless people are st
trump administration failed. and tonight, his message to americans and now a divided congress. this is what we are watching this hour. we want to welcome the viewers here in the united states and around the world. at this hour, i m kate bolduan. let s start with the urgent search for survivors at that huge earthquake in turkey and syria. the death toll is over 5,000 people killed and that number is to rise. the pictures of the reality of the aftermath of the quake are devastating. thousands of buildings collapsed, and the weather is making already challenging rescue efforts just that much harder, and add to that, the dissional reality that some of the places were in crisis. take northwest syria for example with more than 4 million people were already relying on humanitarian assistance there. there have been moments of light in the heartbreaking images. this video is showing a small girl being rescued after crawling out of a collapsed building. you can just imagine. we go to
hello, everybody. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us. 6,000 plus dead. 6,000 plus. grief running over turkey and syria. hope, too, running out as rescue crews continue to look for thousands still lost in the rubble of a monster earthquake. plus, tonight, the president tells the country what he s done and where he wants to go advisers promise a classic joe biden speech. out but his state of the union collides with challenges and implications of a newly divided washington. plus, briefing, congress getting a briefing on the chinese balloon. and raises questions why the pentagon was so slow to shoot down that suspected spy in the sky. up first, a dramatic harrowing race to find survivors it s barely 24 hours after a massive earthquake hit turkey and syria. already again, more than 6,000 are dead. and the aftershocks still creating treacherous conditions for rescuers trying to reach those tr
i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. we re hours away from president biden s state of the union address tonight, his first to a divided congress. instead of nancy pelosi over the president s left shoulder, it will be speaker kevin mccarthy. the speech is expected to draw the largest television audience for the president this year. americans will hear biden lay out why he believes the state of the union is strong as he said last week. he s expected to talk about lowering inflation, improving infrastructure and getting past the worst of the pandemic. he s also expected to talk about america s stand against china. of course just days after an american fighter jet shot down one of its supply balloons. the president will likely increase the urgency for congress to act on policing reform and an adult weapons band. all of it will be a test run for his re-election bid. phil mattingly is with us now. what more should we expect from the president tonight? you know, vict