president. he also mentioned the cuban missile crisis. so clearly that is on his mind, the event from the 1960s. in talking to officials, they say the president wasn t necessarily reflecting any change in intelligence about the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons, but clearly this is a scenario weighing on the president and something officials have been watching with escalating concern over the last several months. it did receive some blowback from the french president emmanuel macron. he said we should be talking with prudence when it comes to nuclear weapons. listen to what the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre talked about yesterday. reporter: talking about nuclear weapons is irresponsible. there s no way to use them without unintended consequences. it cannot happen. we won t be intimidated by
sinking happy birthday mr. president. let s take a look at what all this means to the ongoing conflict and what we know about the explosion. reporter: this is deeply symbolic, the marilyn monroe rendition you heard there because yesterday was vladimir putin s 70th birthday. there had always been thoughts ukrainian officials might have been trying t ining ining to al. a truck was driven across and was essentially the symbol of russia s ambitions toward taking ukraine when it illegally annexed crimea in 2014. what do we know that happened overnight? certainly i thinker about agrees that two of the road carriages road lanes across that bridge have now partially collapsed, are likely uncrossable, and
the white house in the meantime is defending and clarifying president biden s start warning. the kmernlts he made at a private fund-raiser seemed to have caught some off guard. kevin liptak in wilmington, delaware. what do we know? we know some presidents speak off the cuff. they feet more comfortable in these intimate settings such as fund-raisers. reporter: i think the comments caught a lot of people caught off guard because it s so hard to hear any world leader let alone an american president talk so starkly about nuclear weapons. to read you a little of what he said, i don t think that s any such thing as the ability to easily use a tactile weapon and not end up with armageddon. that word armageddon not something you re used to or want to be hearing from the american
cnn s bill weir with more. reporter: when hurricane ian brought gusts over 150 miles an hour, much of the power grid in its path did not stand a chance. look at that. and thanks to 2 feet of rain, even communities miles from the storm surge could not escape life-altering floods. but even as white caps ripped across the lake in anthony grande s back yard, he was chilled out in front of the tv. that s one of the things i said to my wife while sitting there watching tv, i don t have any fear right now. reporter: anthony and the 2,000 families around him never lost power and did not flood because they live in babcock ranch, a community about 15 miles from fort myers which is 100% solar powered. i even held on to my generator, not knowing what was really going to happen. my wife was like, get rid of it.
no, i m not getting rid of it until we go through the test. and this was the test. reporter: this was the test? this was the test. reporter: and you could get rid of the generator. i did, i gave it to a friend. reporter: and jennifer with a phd in civil engineering she helped design this place. i looked at the house and the finished road elevation and i mentally was crunching numbers because i was like, this is going to be bad. reporter: and it was. but they re interconnected lakes and protected wetlands saved them from flooding. and the 700,000 solar panels and their 150 megawatt array all had. i thought they the solar panels would turn into projectiles. but you didn t lose any? that s the thing, you