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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...

An 8.6 magnitude earthquake occurred 62 miles off the coast of Sumatra on April 11th, 2012. Along with being severe by any measure, in one way it was the largest earthquake in observed human history; it originated within the plate rather than at a plate boundary.

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 accomplis...

Roads are blocked, there's traffic jams and even at the airports they look like -- we have some video of hatay airport where the runway has been torn up by the earthquake there, well beyond just a crack in the earth. it is something totally different there. on the syrian side of the border, frankly, their aid efforts coming internationally will be complicated by sanctions and by war, not to mention the fact that the red crescent says that it has serious concerns about the health system's ability to cope at this moment. john? >> delivering more than sober news for us. you'll stay on top of this...

Critical coming days. >> you have eyes on the ground in a part of the world most of us can't see anymore because of the dysfunction the war, the violence, government dysfunction in syria on that side of this. is there hospital, medical, food and supply infrastructure in place, or is that years of dysfunction and devastation and tragedy going to make this even worse? >> well, we know that these kind of crises within crises are affecting people and ordinary people who are doing everything they can to survive, and so having this earthquake come on top of the years of conflict and all of the econo...