hello, i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. and i m bianna golodryga. a tragic discovery in the search for the four americans abducted in mexico. two of them were found dead and two are pack on u.s. soil. they were all found in a medical clinic in a boerder town. one of the two survives is injured. the group was traveling from south carolina so one of them could undergo a medical procedure. authorities say a group of unidentified men shot at the victims vehicles and took them away. investigators believe the americans were targeted by a mexican cartel that likely mistook them for haitian drug smugglers. diane dgallagher is in south carolina, kylie atwood is monitoring the situation from the state department. diane, let s start with you and what we re learning about the victims and what happened. reporter: victor, i m in lake city, south carolina, which family says is where three of the four americans who were abducted grew up here together. they describe them
rocked two countries. more than 2,200 are dead in turkey and syria. thousands more injured. we ve got the latest details. a new republican criticism this morning of how the biden administration handled the suspected chinese spy balloon drifting for days over the u.s. before the military shot it down over the weekend. all this as president biden red december to address the nation tomorrow. a huge night for a star-packed grammy awards. that s bad bunny. we ll tell you who made history. we begin with that breaking news, a deadly catastrophe unfolding right now in tour key and syria. two powerful and devastating earthquakes striking jurs hours apart. 7.92 earth kwair quake near the city of gaziantep in turkey. that number only expected to rise as the tremors toppled buildings across the region. take a look at this moment. look at this. this whole building just comes down in the city just outside the epicenter collapsing in a matter of seconds. bystanders fleeing the scene
good to be with you, i m kay katy tur, the chinese spy balloon is still hanging over the white house. why they didn t know about it sooner and what the u.s. was able to gather about the balloon while it was still in the air. the gang of eight is waiting for a full briefing. the white house has offered one and it s expected to get on the schedule next week. house intel chair republican mike turner said the balloon exposed a weakness at the top. clearly this was an attempt by china to gather information to defeat our command and control of our sensitive missile defense and nuclear weapon sites and that certainly is an urgency that this administration does not recognize. i ll know the answer to that question this week when we actually get briefed on the decision making process about when and how to take down the balloon. there s an awful lot of people like me coming to absolutely rock solid conclusions based on very few facts. none of us know what the decision making process
Sticks, please. There are colonies of hippies springing up in most american cities. Its all related. The psychedelics and the war, the protesting. Im planning on having a good time as long as i can. Smoke pot with your kids and then youll understand why the kids are happier. Its a giant lovein. People should be uninhibited in their sexual expression. You cannot ignore it, a change in morality. Theyre fascist. They dont like hippies and they dont like the things we do. We do have to maintain law, order, and decency on the streets. What were thinking about is a peaceful planet. Were not thinking about anything else. They are trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. Fors america in the early 60s, it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. Things were kind of at a standstill. The Baseline Culture was materialism and also the feeling that the culture itself didnt honor the human spirit
we ll have much more on the suspected spy balloon in a moment, but first this breaking news just coming in. the man who led pakistan at the start of america s declared war on terror and the conflict in neighboring afghanistan has died. he died after a prolonged illness according to a statement from pakistan s military. he was in dubai where he lived for several years in self-imposed exile. musharraf was 79 years old. you re now about to see and hear i think we re going to you re now about to see and hear the dramatic moment a u.s. sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that caused such havoc last week. here it is. it happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. the balloon was so high up at nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers that it took a few seconds for the shock wave to reach the ground. china issued a stern protest afterward accusing the u.s. of overreacting. beijing insists it was a civilian research balloon that blew of