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>> now, santos was completely denying the allegations. he also was making a reference to the fact that this prospective staffer who is a former reporter made some audiotapes, recorded conversations with santos and then leaked them. but this is just the latest serious allegation in a long string of allegations against the embattled congressman. >> a long string that keeps on getting longer. melanie, thank you. it is the top of the hour. just a short time ago the pentagon defended the president's choice to delay shooting town a suspected spy balloon from china. a fight jet brought it...

good morning, everyone. welcome to c"cnn this morning." i'm amara walker. >> and i'm boris sanchez. president biden ordering the military to shoot down an unidentified object off the coast of alaska. what pentagon officials are saying about it and the key differences between this object and that chinese balloon that was shot down last week. and also a moment of hope amid the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria, more than 24,000 people killed, but amid the loss after days trapped under the rubble, a teenager found alive. we'll have the incredible story along with the footage....

search teams desperately digging through the earthquake rubble and praying for miracles. plus former vice president subpoenaed, what could mike pence tell the special counsel about trump and january 6. and the fight over america's social safety net, both sides ignoring the cold hard truth, not touching it is not an option. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "early start." and we begin with the earthquake disaster in turkey and syria where they are clinging to hope that survivors can still be found alive but that hope fading with each passing h...

Spenc pence's legal team. president biden intends to run for a second term but he was asked what is stopping him. >> just not ready to make it. >> the president is expected to formally announce a 2024 run sometime in the weeks and months ahead. "state of the union" was seen by many of a preview of biden's campaign message. as the fbi collects the debris from the chinese spy balloon, sources say that u.s. intelligence officials believe the order to send it into american air space was given without the knowledge of president xi jinping. let's bring in kristie lu stout live in hong kong. so t...

And that is a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. >> so pretty remarkable admission there that the u.s. military had awareness gaps that allowed these chinese balloons to transit the united states basically completely un dedetec. and only after the intelligence community was able to do its own review after the fact were the patterns of the balloons able to be detected. so moving forward the military will have to do work to figure out how these balloons can be detected in realtime in the future because not only is it just important in terms of preventing the balloons being able to ...