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They've been displaced time and time again by more than a decade of war. they're now homeless once again. we were sleeping under the trees, but it was so cold they came here. she begs the international communities to send shelters. we just want tents, she said. i wish we had died with everyone else so we don't go through this, she says. we survived only to live this misery and agony. they have nowhere left to run. many trapped in idlib. she says they escaped the fighter jets and the air strikes. she says we came here and the earthquake followed us. she says death follows syrians everywhere. >>...

Ou out, she tells us. we heard people screaming get us out, get us out. then they went quiet. they all died. two days later they pulled a little boy and girl, their dead bodies were still warm. others made it after hours of this painstaking rescue, little ahmed was pulled out alive. the white helmet heroes of syria's war did all they can to save as many as they can. they urgently appeal for international support. >> they didn't send anything. they didn't respond. they let the people here down, and now the people here in syria know that now they are forgotten. jake, a short time ago, the united...

Deal with a disaster of this magnitude oopsz. >> we lost a lot of patients because of shortages of medical supplies. if we had them, we could have had many more lives. >> reporter: this was the scene last monday and in other facilities run by the syrian-american medical society. >> this is the biggest disaster we ever had. we dealt with war injuries but never had to deal with this many casualties at once. >> reporter: the people of this devastated land cried for help, but no help came. aid to rebel-held northwest syria is tied in politics and at the mercy of a regime so cruel even at a time li...

To the rapid escalation in the use of u.s. force? >> this isn't reactive to the chinese spy balloon in the sense that there was political pressure, we're going to work to quickly take down any aircraft over our airspace -- >> these were decisions based purely and simply on what was in the best interest of the american people. >> reporter: all as they tamp down theories of extraterrestrial or alien forces. >> there is no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. >> reporter: jake, the officials say the recovery process for the chinese spy balloon is still un...

Aerial phenomenon and assesses them scientifically with as much intelligence data as well as data from military personnel and assess what it is. in the last two years they've assessed over 300 aerial phenomenon. about half of them were determined to be balloons or balloon-like devices. a couple dozen were determined to be drones. some were just birds or bags in the air and other debris. there's still about 170 that are still not determined. so the assessment is really important. the military has said that these balloons they've shot down they did not believe to be creating any risk to the unit...