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powerful quake that sent tremors across the entire region. the magnitude 7.8 quake struck before day break in southern turkey nearly the border with syria. the quake and aftershocks collapsing buildings. now a desperate search and rescue efforts under way to find people trapped in piles of rubble. cnn's scott mclean joins us from london. scott, this is one of the strongest quakes to hit turkey in a century, what do we know? >> reporter: that's right, this part of the turkey, christine, used to earthquakes but nothing like this. this happened in the middle of the night, so people were...

the wobble, i'm bianca nobilo. >> i'm max foster joining you just ahead on "cnn newsroom." a major earthquake has killed hundreds of people in syria and turkey. >> the strongest earthquake in 100 years or more of record keeping.h and rescue operations, of course, very, very difficult. >> how and when president joe biden was informed about the suspected chinese spy balloon. >> china's now accusing the u.s. of overreacting. in fact, it's not just the balloon. it's the message to send the world that we can do whatever we want and america can't stop us. ♪ live from london, this is ...

hello and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing the sad news day with us. a massive earthquake shakes turkey and syria leaving thousands dead, buildings toppled. fear now that more will die waiting for rescues that won't happen in time. plus, super power spy games, right now american investigators are searching for the records of that chinese balloon, the weekend shoot down off the carolina coast, punctuating a tense moment between washington and beijing. and president biden enters tomorrow's state of the union with plan to spotlight his...

welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in washington. new this hour. dramatic new details about the unidentified object shot down by fighter jets just miles off the coast of alaska yesterday. unlike the chinese spy balloon last saturday, this demanded more immediate action yesterday. officials say it was flying much lower at 40,000 feet making it a dangerous potential threat to civilian aircraft. now we are learning u.s. military pilots who approached the craft have given conflicting accounts of what they saw. this new report coming in from cnn national security reporter nata...

in georgia and lucas tomlinson outside the white house. but we start first with rich edson in harrisburg, pennsylvania, where all eyes are on the nail-biter race between fetterman and oz. rich, good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon, mike. this is a government union headquarters here in harrisburg, the capital city of pennsylvania, john fetterman just finished rallying supporters here, he's been highlighting union workers here, the union vote. of he was rallying with union officials and workers yesterday in the philadelphia area. he said at this rally here that he plans on conti...