hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim bruen herber. ahead on cnn newsroom. clinging to hope that survivors can still be found, trapped under the mountain of rubble in turkey and syria. well, the u.s. vice president, mike pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump. what we learned from his testimony. and, russia s new offensive appears to be getting underway in zaporizhzhia s energy infrastructure among the targets. it is ten a.m. across turkey and syria with the death toll from monday s earthquake has now risen to more than 21,000. the hopes are fading that rescuers can find any more survivors. this is the scene in southern turkey, emergency crews blow their whistles when they hear noises under debris that call for silence. but the destruction is immense, an entire neighborhood reduced to rubble under the thousands of families left homeless. many are sleeping in their cars or
a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the work. i m bianca nobilo from london. max foster has the day off. just ahead roads are damaged, people are dying. now is the time to explore all possible avenues to get aid and personnel into affected areas. special counsel jack smith has issued a subpoena to former vice president mike pence seeking documents and testimony in the january 6 investigation. president biden visited the state of florida on thursday where he sought to drive home the message that he wants to protect social security and medicare. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, february 10, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 12 noon in syria and turkey where the death toll from monday s earthquake has risen to nearly 22,000. and hopes are fading that rescuers can find anymore survivors. this the scene in southern turkey, emergency crews blow their whistles when they hear noises
search teams desperately digging through the earthquake rubble and praying for miracles. plus former vice president subpoenaed, what could mike pence tell the special counsel about trump and january 6. and the fight over america s social safety net, both sides ignoring the cold hard truth, not touching it is not an option. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. and we begin with the earthquake disaster in turkey and syria where they are clinging to hope that survivors can still be found alive but that hope fading with each passing hour. but there are miraculous stories. overnight two teenage sisters were pulled from the rubble. and the staggers death toll now approaching 22,000, the number of injured in these two countries near 80,000. and salma abdelaziz is live in istanbul. and the story of the sisters is a heartwarming story amid all the tragedy. and now a secondary tragedy, many are forced in to the freezing cold. what i
across the five continents. the balloon program run by china s military, officials say, in part, out of hainan province, the southernmost tip of china. china outraged of the shootdown, demanding the return of the remnants of the balloon. the u.s. refusing, instead sending the recovered pieces from the ocean to a fbi lab, where analysis has begun. so far, that includes the canopy wiring and some electronics. we have learned that the plane was carrying sophisticated electronics that are capable of surveillance of signals, like communications and orator. so far, what the fbi has collected has just been what was on the surface of the water off of south carolina. fbi officials say they have not yet seen the payload where most of the surveillance equipment would be. this is the first time that the fbi as investigated a spy balloon like this one, and officials say that they are analyzing the components for possible criminal charges. alex marquardt, cnn, washington.
intelligence on it. suddenly an official said it took a strange turn south towards the lower 48 states crossing into idaho on january 31 and eastward across the country. after it was decided to not shoot the balloon town over land, u2 spy planes were sent up to monitor it, the administration determining that the balloon was no longer sending information back to china sources say as the u.s. tried to block it from gathering more intelligence on sensitive u.s. military sites. this balloon a small part of a broader years long chinese balloon program whose fleet flew over 40 countries. the united states is not the only part of the program. reporter: the balloon program run by couhinese military. china outraged at the shootdown demanding the return of the remnants of the balloon.