-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. good morning. >> good morning to you, alina. >> it's monday, october 24th. >> there's definitely something wrong with my seat. see this? >> yes, there is. >> right. >> christina and carol are off this morning. welcome to "american morning." his is a very strange seating situation but we have a lot of news to cover. we will fix that momentarily. a mounting situation in eastern tuck u turkey. a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake, worst to hit the country in a decade killed 260 people, 1,300 hurt and cold temperatures making it hard to find those when the ground began to shake yesterday. diana magnay is with us. >> reporter: hi, ali. as you shared, freezing temperatures overnight made the search and rescue efforts extremely difficult. we've just been to hospital across the road and the problem there is, of course, that that building was, it is pretty much impossible to use anymore. they were having to treat all the injured outside yet in the courtyard, and around the back of the hospital today you have a horrific sight, relatives comes to identify the corporations, people in body bags and a lot of people in desperate situations there right now. so the injured who are still being pulled out, those who are alive, are having to be transported to larger hospitals across the van province and further afield. this is where the difficulties lie right now as well as restoring water and electricity to this region. generally houses are safe for people to return to given the earthquakes continue to happen there, ali. >> diana, you're talking about the tents coming in, giving shelter from immediate exposure. you've taken off your vest you had on earlier. it gets very cold at night. apparently when the sun goes down the temperature drops precipitously and that is another problem they're going to have to deal with. >> reporter: absolutely. it is freezing at night. but people here are very scared, and they don't want to return to their houses for obvious reasons. during the day, as you say, it is quite warm, but at night temperatures drop a great deal, but people here are used to it. they do have the clothing required. there are a lot of those drawn into the region, abouter er be johnjohn said they can cope with the situation on their own. you see machinery here. a large number of search and rescue teams. they're all out here in force helping with this massive effort and of course, the red cross bringing in 6,000 tents for the villagers in a nearby area in this town tonight so they can have shelter. of course, the cold is a factor. ali? >> diana, thanks very much. we're stay on top of the story with you in turkey. diana magnay. the story we're following very closely this morning, libyans are free at last from the one-man rule of moammar gadhafi. the national transitional council which formerly declared the country's celebration set off the wild celebrations across libya. people firing guns, waving flags to mark the historic day. a two-year transition to democracy was announced. meantime, new questions about exactly how moammar gadhafi died. video of his final moments showing a bloody gadhafi roughed up by his captors and showing congratulating men they say shot gadhafi. it not clear if he was killed in the cross fire or shot execution style. history is also being made right next door to libya in tunisia where the so-called arab spring began. a big turnout in tunisia's national election. more than 90% of national voters went to the polls, they are saying. erecting an assembly to write a new constitution. this is the first this the longtime d longtime dictator was tossed out. a warning from hillary clinton, don't get bold ideas about iraq. virtually all u.s. troops will be leaving iraq by the end of the year. there is mounting concern that iran will try to exploit that and expand its reach in the region. that would be a serious miscalculation, according to the secretary of state. >> in addition to a very significant diplomatic presence in iraq, which will tear much of the responsibility for dealing with an independent sovereign democratic iraq, we have bases in neighboring countries. we have our nato ally in turkey. we have a lot of presence in that region. so no one, most particularly iran, should miscalculate about our continuing commitment to and with the iraqis going forward. >> no surprise the plan for a rapid withdrawal for troops from iraq has republicans up in arms. listen to senators john mccain and lindsay graham, both served on the senate armed committees and insist the obama administration is making a big mistake. >> there was never really serious negotiations between the administration and the iraqis. they could have clearly made an arrangement for u.s. troops. yes, i'm here in the region, and, yes, it is viewed in the region as victory for the iranians. >> not being able to close the deal in iraq is a very serious mistake. celebrating leaving with no troops behind is a serious mistake. ended iraq poorly, fumbled the ball inside definite, i hope i'm wrong about what happened in iraq, but they're dancing in the streets in tehran. >> the fact we have many military bases in the region will not deter iran trying to detain iraq. an attack isn't linked to one group but it comes a day after the u.s. embassy in kenya warned of an eminent terror threat. islamic militants said they would retaliate after others were sent into somalia to fight them. stay away from kenya. violence escalated in recent week. and iranian plotting the murder of the saudi ambassador to the united states will be extradited to the united states. a second plan in the plot is still at large. new questions about whether the pilot behind the controls in a deadly 2009 plane crash near buffalo, new york, could handle the plane he was flying. lawyers for the victims' families released e-mails fr sc air that they call question the pilot's ability. more on the story, deb feyerick. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you have to remember this plane crash actually was moments from landing. some of the families were waiting at the airport for the plane to arrive, but we're learning now that six months before the crash, supervisors for colgan air were reviewing pilots they felt were ready to fly colgan's new flight of q-400 planes and when the captain's name came up, the e-mails show up, serious misgivings. how about renslow? there's something in the back of my mind. yes, you're correct. renslow had a problem upgrading. then the vice president of operations complies, anyone who does not reach the mins, mini m minimums, is not ready to handle the q400. it was revealed the captain never received hands-on experience with the safety system in the q400 called a stick psher activating to prevent the plane in strawing. he was certified but failed five pilot tests three before he got to colgan though he did not disclose that to the airlines. colgan's parent company says only after being fully satisfied that captain renslow was ready to transition to the q400 aircraft was he allowed to begin q400 training. the ntsb ultimately found that the crash was pilot error, and so captain renslow was at fault. families, some of whom were waiting at the airport, say the e-mail suggests, supports their allegations that colgan air did not adequate he train renslow. again, they were so close, and because of icy conditions, it appears that renslow had the plane on automatic. it should have been on manual, and rather than push back on the stick in order to right the plane, he was supposed to actually push forward. he did not do that, and that's when it went into a spin. >> and that exacerbated the situation and doomed the airliner. deb feyerick. thank you. we will be speaking to a lawyer for five of the victims' families that filed a lawsuit later on this morning. deb feyerick, thank you so much. also, major election calendar drama settled. nevada voted to shift the date of its republican caucus to february 4th. this after threats of candidates boycotting the state. nevada initially moved its contest to mid-january in hopes to play a big early role in choosing the nominee. that jumbled the entire caucus calendar and risked violating national party rule. we'll talk about that later in the show. meanwhile, president obama heads to las vegas pushing new rules for underwater homeowners to refinance and avoid foreclosure and holding three fund-raisers during a three-state tour of the west, dropping by los angeles and on wednesday announce changes to make it easier tore college students to repay their loans. world series tied at two games apiece. the texas rangers beat the st. louis cardinals 4-0. the catcher for the rangers the star, a three-run homer in the sixth inning. derrick holland pitched for eight-plus innings. game five in st. louis. and crossing the streets before last night's game, the rangers josh hamilton and cards lance berkman went across the street in full uniform to cowboys stadium to help with the coin toss during the dallas cowboys and st. louis ramses game. both st. louis teams were losers yesterday. coming up, new surveillance captures a mystery person coming out of the woods. could be a break in the search for baby lisa. the missouri girl who went missing earlier in the month. and gabrielle giffords is taking another big step's in her recovery. more in the next phase a potentially grueling one, in her miraculous recovery. we're back after this. life insurance companies treat you like a policy, not a person. instead of getting to know you they simply assign you a number. aviva is here to change all that. we're bringing humanity back to insurance and putting people before policies. aviva life insurance and annuities. we are building insurance around you. 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