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delivered cash prizes. >> the first time i won hq trivia, it was 8 cents and i was so excited about that 8 cents, i was bragging about it to everyone i knew. i won it a few times. i would imagine my collective winnings as probably somewhere around $6. >> i play twice a days hq trivia. total winnings, $10,000. >> the number of live players skyrocketed from a few hundred to 1 million, to more than 2 million a day in just a matter of months. >> for a moment it was pure nirvana. >> reporter: but as quickly as the phenomenon exploded, it all came crashing down. >> the timeline of hq seems very short lived. i remember thinking that this was going to be the future of gaming, the future of companies making money. it was just the perfect way to get people to connect and engage with something.
trivia." total winnings,$10,000. >> reporter: the number of live players skyrocketing from a few hundred to one million to more than two million a day in just a matter of months. >> for a moment it was pure nirvana. >> reporter: but as quickly as the phenomenon exploded -- >> you're our big winner tonight baby! >> reporter: it all came crashing down. >> the timeline of ""hq" seems very short lived. i remember thinking this was going to be the future of gaming, the future of companies making money. it was the perfect way to get people to connect and engage with something. >> reporter: the new cnn film "glitch" reveals the behind-the-scenes drama and tragedy. >> 34-year-old colin krull was pro-noupsed dead -- >> reporter: that led to the app's downfall. >> it got so popular. that might be part of the reason why the game was always crashing. >> the way technology firms approach operations is ready, fire, aim. and if there's a little
labor day weekend, he gets his drug dealer curtis smith to shoot him in the head. said he couldn't go on because it would all come crashing down and he had a big life insurance policy. when alex is at financial collapse, he doesn't go kill somebody else, he tries to end it himself. this is a natural response. you don't want anybody to do it. but people kill themselves from being exposed. they don't kill their wife they have adore, son, the apple of his eye as some people have said. that's not -- that's not -- that is -- i don't have the adjective for that it is so outlandish. i don't have a word for it.
have killed people he loved the most in the world. there's no evidence that he would do that. we do have evidence of what he would do, and did do and he gets this drug dealer to shoot him in the head. so he couldn't go on. it was all going to come crashing down, and he had a big life insurance policy. so when alex is at financial collapse, he doesn't go kill somebody else. he tries to end it himself. >> laura, what did you make of this moment, essentially saying, listen, going out and getting yourself killed and collecting on that life insurance policy, that actually is quote unquote more sane than going and killing your wife and your son because you are in financial distress, that's their argument. >> i think it's effective to attack the theory of motive. it's never hung together in an intuitive way.
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there are desperate calls for humanitarian help. at that scene tonight, the desperate effort after yet another apartment building came crashing down, this time because of aftershocks. we are told an apartment building just came down here. reports of a 5.0 aftershock here. it is the second wave of terror here in the earthquake zone. the tremors, the aftershocks felt in so many communities here, buildings already lined with deep cracks from the earthquake and this one just came down. the search and rescue team is already here, filling buckets with debris and sending them out, p up concrete by hand, hoping to get to anyone who might be inside. first responders stand at the ready with gurneys. >> they tell me this building came down less than an hour ago in one of the many aftershocks being felt throughout this region. you can see they're trying to lift a giant piece of concrete here to search beneath it to see
the u.s. navy search for the remnants of that chinese spy balloon shot down by an f-22 off the coast of south carolina. a closer look tonight before it was brought down, that technology bay below it. how did it maneuver, how did it communicate? what we've learned here tonight. and of course, the moment a missile from an f-22 jet bringing that balloon tonight. tonight, the trained navy team looking for clues in the water, the debris field, we're told, is more than 15 football fields wide. they're using unmanned, underwater vehicles to defect if there were any explosives on that balloon. tonight, china insisting it was a weather balloon, saying the shooting was an indiscriminate action on the part of the u.s. here's our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the military covering a vast expansion of ocean, 15 football fields by 15 football fields wide, looking for pieces of that chinese spy balloon. the balloon brought down over the weekend by a missile fired
listen for survivors, and then this moment right here, a toddler pulled out alive. we have just learned that president biden has talked with turkey's president erdogan and the u.s. and dozens of other countries are pledging immediate help tonight. abc's marcus moore leading us off in istanbul, and we warn you, the images are very difficult. >> reporter: tonight, the most powerful earthquake to hit turkey in 10 0 years striking in the middle of night. videos showing the moment that 7.8 mall any tuesday quake hit. can you hear the shaking. and see power flashes. this town plunged into darkness. the danger persisting through the day. clouds of debris billowing into the street. this building collapses. the region rocked by at least 75 aftershocks. first responders on the scene of this collapsed building when the one next to it comes crashing down, too. this reporter covering the
information out of it before we destroy it. we didn't know, for example, could it have contained something within the balloon other than helium that could have posed a threat to us? do we know if it has any kind of biological component to it. you want to ask those questions and just completely correct about this in terms of what the chinese may or may not do in the future, but we need to find out as much information from this particular balloon as we can to make sure we put the chinese on notice come again another time and we're not going to be asking questions. we know what to do. right here i think it was important to find out what kind of information were they gathering. were we able to intercept it, and i know that we can take it down, and i think we can take it down in a fairly responsible fashion, so it just doesn't come crashing down. we have the capability to help move it down. if the chinese can move it from china, we can move it from here, and i'm confident we can take it down. >> congressman kinzinger, how
could it have contained something within the balloon other than helium that could have posed a threat to us. do we know if it has any kind of biological component to it. so you want to ask those questions, and i think they were completely correct about this in terms of what the chinese may or may not do in the future. we need to find out as much information about this balloon we can to make sure we put chinese on notice, come again another time, and we know what to do. right here i think was really important to find out what kind of information were they gathering, were we able to intercept it, and i know we can take it down, and i think we can take it down in a fairly responsible fashion so it doesn't come crashing down. we have the capability to help move it down. if the chinese can move it from china, we can move it from here, and i'm confident we can take it down. >> how would one bringt down? it's not just a balloon that