strikes on ukraine. power facilities in key cities taking a direct hit and leaving residents in the dark and cold. also tonight, we re digging through a new batch of just released january 6th transcripts including testimony by donald trump jr. and we re getting new insight into melania trump s mistrust of her husband s inner circle. and the southwest airlines meltdown drags on now for an eighth day. with thousands more flights canceled. will southwest get back to a full schedule tomorrow as the company claims? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour in ukraine after one of the biggest russian missile assaults since the start of the russian invasion. let s go straight to the capital, kyiv. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is on the ground for us. ben, so what are you seeing and hearing over there? reporter: well, what we heard at about 9:00 this morning l
you can see behind me bc 17 globe master aircraft, an american military plane which arrived just after 5am this morning and you can fullyjust after 5am this morning and you can fully just catch a after 5am this morning and you can fullyjust catch a glimpse of the edge of the rov being loaded onto the aircraft. the company have made it at the gallon. the guernsey base but the equipment is injersey and they are deep sea mapping specialists. the company that made it is magellan. just last summer, they did a 3d scan of the wreck of they did a 3d scan of the wreck of the titanic so they got an lot of experience in sending cameras and remotely operated vehicles into difficult to reach areas in the hope is that this rov can play an important role in helping to find that missing submersible. we are expecting another two planes like this to arrive injersey later today to carry more equipment made by magellan and also to carry equipment
temperatures are expected to reach about 50, they said this afternoon that that s not as big of a concern right now. they think that the waterways will crest but that flooding won t be a major concern. either way the governor has ordered material and personnel to be in place just in case. sandbags and the like. in case there is any flooding that does arise. wolf? let s hope for the best. athena, thank you very, very much. athena jones in buffalo. just ahead, a questionable claim from a congressman-elect already under intense scrutiny. what the gop s george santos said about his mother and 9/11. plus new tension between beijing and washington as a chinese fighter jet intercepts an american military plane with what s being called, and i m quoting now, an unsafe maneuver. hey, it s ryan reynolds, owner of mint mobile.
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of sir martin broughton and sebastian coe, president of world athletics. chelsea have been allowed to continue operations under a special licence, but mr abramovich cannot profit from the sale. norwegian emergency services searching for survivors of an american military plane that crashed in northern norway say all four people on board have died. the osprey aircraft, belonging to the us marine corps, came down south of the coastal town of bodo. it had been taking part in a twice yearly nato military exercise called cold response. rescue attempts had been hindered by bad weather. search teams used snowmobiles and helicopters to find the wreckage. let s look at some of the day s other news. syria s president, bashar al assad, has briefly visited the united arab emirates. it s his first trip to another arab country since civil war broke out in his country in 2011. the united states said it was profoundly disappointed by the apparent attempt by the uae to legitimise president assad despite