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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...

Surveiler, i wonder? >> good morning, chris ttine. thanks for having me. it's a combination of all of the above. why it took so long to shoot this balloon down. look, i firmly believeful we had taken the shoot first and ask questions later approach today we could be asking questions why we failed to consider the ricks of lives and property on the ground. a legitimate concerner the fact of the matter is, once we zuved this balloon was in u.s. airspace, the first thing is to stop and think and figure out the best course of action. it's really important for people to understand when it was determ...