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hello. im abby philip in washington. a desperate search is under way for survivors after a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck turkey and syria. the death toll is now more than 2500 and aid from across the world is pouring in. the aftermath of this is catastrophic. this was the strongest earthquake to hit that area in more than 100 years, and it struck while nearly everyone was asleep. hundreds of people this hour are still believed to be trapped. massive high rises reduced to rub...

a weather emergency right now. millions are under threat. multiple tornadoes touching down in the last few hours, carving huge paths of destruction. police in missouri are now reporting multiple injuries and multiple fatalities. preview of how nasty the legal battle could get. the former president unleashes on the judge the charges democrats even republicans against him. as he now faces 34 felony counts for falsifying business records. theres a new mayor in chi-town promises chicagos p...

millions are under active alerts . were tracking this and much more right here. on cnn news, central. breaking news. were getting our first look at the destruction left behind after a tornado touched down in missouri overnight. taking a look now at aerial footage of some of the damage left behind in glen allen officials say several people are dead and injured and the danger not over yet today more than 85 million americans are facing the threat of severe storms. cnns derek van dam is t...

Israeli according to the israeli military. Hamas took to the air, and infiltrated the Country Southern Border by both land and sea. These really military says that unknown number of civilians and soldiers have been taken hostage by the group. It is an assault the likes of which the country has not seen in decades. Following saturday mornings attack, Prime Minister management at a guy, vowed, quote, mighty vengeance, instead the country was now in a state of war. Israel has already responded by l...

Theoretically they could have conducted that operation off of alaska. by this time the president hadnt been briefed yet. >> that raises such an important question. the biden administration says that previous balloons have flown over the u.s. before, but the trump administration may not have been aware. how is that possible? the department of defense not have known and then not briefed the president at the time? >> so there are a lot of things that could have happened. were playing a dpeguessing ...

Done over the past eight weeks. how do they do it? >> i dont think they will be able to do it to be honest with you. i think their performance as just mentioned clearly shows that they really havent applied the lessons learned. there has been some improvement in their performance. but the ability to conduct the type of military operations that would be necessary to get that land bridge up and running so to speak, they simply have not shown that they have the capability to pull that type of opera...

Seems to be more certainty about it, and intelligence officials are rarely, if ever, going to tell us why they feel the certainty and it tends to be they have more specific information that might lead them to believe vladimir putin has made a decision. we are still hearing they are not 100% he has made a decision or not, and putin has been known to make a decision at the last minute and its plausible he could turn the entire operation off, and again, thats not something we are hearing as much of...

I think certainly things are in motion, but the question is whether it can all be pulled back and whether the president of russia is still able to call this operation off. i think that possibility must logically still exist, and therefore i think its absolutely vital that we have a path of dialogue and reason. you know, you just cannot see how this makes sense for russia. imagine the invasion of ukraine, a country of 45 million people, second biggest country in europe geographically, apart from ...

Say their plan is to evacuate a thousands people a day from that kabul airport. from what you have seen and the chaos, will that be possible? >> reporter: its difficult to imagine how they could achieve a goal like that without some sort of cooperation from the taliban, oddly, and some kind of agreement the taliban will allow the very people who have been assisting the afghan government. we saw today utter chaos. i think it will be hard to pull that operation off. when they first announced the i...

Proportionate to what happened. >> the president would not be able undertake a strike without first understanding, digesting, considering, wrestling with the potential casualties. this is not what happened. the story that the president has told, the story that has continued to change. we learned yesterday planes were not in the air. we also learned yesterday that he was, in fact, briefed on potential casualties before this. by the way, it wasnt by a general as he told chuck todd yesterday. so we...