More than 20,000, 20,000 lives lost since Monday's horrific earthquake.

The lead starts right now.

Screams of joy amid the horror, a mother and daughter are found alive, coming up the miracle

rescues and tragic discovery seen in is on the ground as crews climb through earthquake

rubble in Syria and Turkey and President Biden takes a state of the union road show to

rival rich Florida and challenges a Republican senator on his clear proposal to sunset all

federal programs including Social Security and Medicare.

But first, new images from the FBI as investigators begin to analyze that downed Chinese spy balloon

recovered from the Atlantic Ocean and lawmakers begin to learn just how sophisticated

the surveillance equipment on board was.

Welcome to the lead M. Jake Tapper and we start today with our world lead and a flurry

of new information about the Chinese spy balloon shot down by the United States.

Today, the FBI announced it has started analyzing the first pieces of the balloon at its lab

in Quantico, Virginia.

And senior officials say those parts could be used as evidence in a future possible criminal

case against groups linked to the Chinese military.

The Biden administration has determined the balloon was capable of monitoring U.S. communications

but sources say U.S. officials believe that the Chinese government did not have the opportunity

to gather much intelligence because the Chinese government stopped transmissions to the Chinese

mainland once the U.S. found out about the balloon.

House and Senate lawmakers were briefed on this spy balloon today including the president's

decision to let it fly across the country before shooting it down.

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