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Syria as well. here in turkey i can tell you authorities are now in this response stage right now trying to get all sorts of support teams from the countrys disaster management agency deployed to the region to deal with the search and rescue operations. of course very, very difficult and challenging time for them. this happening right in the middle of this winter storm where a lot of parts of southeastern turkey have been impacted by this snowstorm. this also happening overnight where you would ...

Spy balloon after it was shot down over the weekend. earlier, cnn spotted naval authorities unloading objects from boats close to the site where the balloon went down. and nearby, a resident filmed uniformed men inspecting white material on a boat. cnn cant confirm if it was debris. u.s. officials believe the chinese balloon was used for surveillance, and they grew concern when it moved toward the mainland u.s. and hovered over missile sites. beijing insists it was a civilian research vessel tha...

Theres -- there are they say dozens of casualties so far and theyre saying hundreds of people trapped underneath the rubble. so this -- early hours still, laila, and this seems to be a really really devastating earthquake here in turkey and neighboring syria that is in no way equipped to deal with this sort of natural disaster. >> and as youve been reporting so extensively since this story broke, jomana, the emergency response, of course turkey mobilizing everything that it has. but in terms of ...

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Malatiya were getting reports of at least 23 people killed according to the governor there. 420 people injured. 140 buildings destroyed. and as we mentioned earlier, the turkish authorities saying their top priority right now of course is the search and rescue operation. they are mobilizing all their resources to deal with this search and rescue operation. its 7:13 in the morning here. its been just over three hours since this earthquake hit. and already we are seeing an indication of how devast...

Country. rachel: he makes such a great point. it is eye-opening for us to see. we know what the chinese are up to. instructive as citizens to see how the leaders respond. if this is how theyre responding to such an obvious thing we could shoot down, send a message back, dont ever come over our airspace again. our citizens see this, youre sending a message on all levels to our allies as well. that you know, were not going to put up with this stuff from china. it is instructive on a lot of levels....

The giant chinese balloon that had been floating over the united states has been shot down by an american fighterjet, off the coast of south carolina. the balloon, which the us says was being used to spy on military sites, appeared to plummet straight into the sea. china says it was a weather observation device which strayed off course. tim allman reports. for days now, all eyes have been on the solitary object floating serenely through us airspace. was it a harmless weather balloon, or a spy in...

Determine when it was safe to do so. president biden: and on wednesday when i was briefed the own the balloon i or thed the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible doubt h without doing any damage to anyone on the ground. they decided best time to do it in water 12-mile limit. >> reporter: airspace in sovereign territory extends 12 nautical heels off the coast. china maintained this was not obvious spy tool but a weather balloon that juan dered off course. they called it an attack unmanned...

So i think the president made a very clear and decisive decision in asking the military to take it out as soon as possible, and they advised that the best time to do it was when it was over water. >> let me just ask you one quick follow-up question to some of this reporting that this may have occurred -- appears to have occurred during the trump administration as well. we just didnt know about it. it sounds as though maybe lawmakers werent told about it, and there might have been national securi...

And that was our challenge, and we had to do that by introducing undercover agents and officers and also by surveillance techniques, and eventually that led to a wiretap, a title 3 interception, and lastly but not least, of course, the search warrants we served on all of their facilities. >> fascinating stuff. all right. were going to be watching tonight. kurt mackenzie, thank you very much and great work on your part. we appreciate it. be sure to tune in. the all-new cnn film "american pain" pr...