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
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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
medical trauma treatment at this hospital. we have a team inside checking with the hospital administration to see how much access we can get in the hospital. i can tell you, one of the things that is clearly present here there are a lot of young people, college aged students who are literally going block by block with shovels in hand and gloves and dust masks looking to do what they can to help. we ve talked to a number of them and they said basically they are not going to wait around for the government, that they are going to come out and help their fellow neighbor suffering and hurting. we just passed a large group in a truck heading to various parts of this particular neighborhood but there are a lot of young people and frustration here that we ve heard ut just in the few hours on the ground this morning about the government response to this. this was a monster earthquake, 7.1 and cruelly it occurred on a day they were a lot of folks around town were practicing earthquake response
people are about, helping people in crisis. while you were giving your report, i heard a dog barking a few times in the background. is that a search and rescue dog? do they have search and rescue dogs on hand? reporter: i don t see any dogs working the pile just yet, craig. there are people with their dogs. i think they re just household pets who are coming up and down the block. but i have not seen any dogs in the pile just yet. just a number of rescuers standing on that debris. i don t know what type of equipment they have, if they ve got audio equipment that will allow them to sort of penetrate deep into that rubble to hear any signs of life in that building, but they re going to keep going here. they ve been going since this essentially happened yesterday. we re coming up now on 23 hours and five minutes since this earthquake hit. obviously, the painful thing, a reminder for a lot of folks yesterday who were here in 1985, when they had that monster earthquake that killed nearly