states, canada and around the world, i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. president biden is at home in delaware after a campaign swing to three western states. ahead, why he says this year s mid-term elections are the most important in decades. plus, chinese leader xi says they will take taiwan by force. a live report from beijing plus reaction from taipei. elon musk changes his mind when it comes to offering peace for ukraine. we ll look at the decision and huge implications in the war against russia. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with ken brunhuber. > . president biden has just wrapped up a rare four-day campaign tour across the west costa head of the critical mid-term elections. much is at stake as it tries to hold on in congress and win key local and state elections. biden s approval is low across polls fueling worries that it could weigh down the party at the ballot box. stumping alongside the most vulnerable candidates. the pre
investigating how the suspect, allegedly armed with a homemade gun, was able to get so close. bob woodruff in tokyo. back here at home, dangerous heat alerts across much of the u.s. a large wildfire exploding at yosemite national park. red-flag warnings in the west, and tracking severe storms and possible tornadoes into tomorrow. elon musk s twitter battle. 24 hours after saying he s terminating the $44 billion deal, will the court have the final decision? news tonight about that much anticipated testimony from former president trump s white house counsel pat cipollone. what we re learning about what he told the january 6th committee behind closed doors. shark patrols on high alert along america s beaches. two recent shark attacks involving life guards off new york. the warning to everyone going into the water. chaos on the streets of sri lanka. the president and prime minster both vowing to resign amid violent protests. tens of thousands storming the presidential r
i was asleep and woken up by an explosion. everything started to shake. i looked out of the window. i live in the neighboring building where there was less damage. it felt strange the damage was so minor. not minor. any explosion is scary. but it sounded worse than it looked. it seemed like the whole mall exploded. i looked online and saw the damage. and we came and had a look from here. no casualties or serious damage according to the mayor of moscow. they shot down 11, he says, drones, over that region. but a house and ammunition depot were destroyed there. this is the third time we ve seen an ammunition depot hit. what is the latest on put p s ef putin s exports on russia s grain.
some other kind of role. it s not clear. the president says 220 of 300,000 troops have been called up so far though that is very, very controversial in that country. of course, there have been protests and thousands of people heading for the exits as well. this attack comes the same day as an attack on the oil facility in belgorod. one of ten oil tanks on this site were hit leading to a large fire. this plume of smoke that you see there in the sky. this is really not unusual as of late. on friday you had russia using its missile defense system to shoot down what it said was incoming fire from the ukrainian side. on thursday you had an ammunition depot hit in the belgorod region. you also had an apartment building that was hit by some debris. now the russians say that this was debris left over from it
a ukrainian official saying an ammunition depot hit in russian-occupied eastern ukraine. the u.s. now pledging four more himars rocket systems, which allow the ukrainians to strike behind enemy lines. and for the first time, the u.s. also promising precision-guided shells for u.s.-supplied howitzers. the munitions can hit targets further away with deadly precision. today a girl guided out of the rubble in video from officials in the city of kharkiv. russia s destruction across this country, unrelenting. near kyiv, the largest plane in the world trashed when russia invaded. the antonov an-225, only one of its kind ever built. but tonight, amid the carnage, a ray of light. we ve seen classified evidence that the project to rebuild this aircraft is already underway.