very good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. happening right now, more than 4,500 civilians are stuck in the ukrainian city of bakhmut, this as russian forces launch a barrage of attacks on the fiercely contested area, president zelenskyy calling it the country s most difficult situation. as of now, though, ukrainian forces are still holding the line. cnn is on the ground in eastern ukraine and we will bring you the very latest. plus a political sorry, go ahead. it s all yours. plus a political shakeup in chicago. mayor lori lightfoot the first mayor in 40 years to lose an election bid in that city as concerns about crime and public safety rattle voters. we re also watching the alex murdaugh murder trial. take a look at this, aerial images from southern california where a winter storm has already dumped feet of snow, that s southern california, another 12 to 24 inches expected today. we do begin, though, in ukraine where 48 children
Arctic ice naturally shrinks in summer and freezes over again in the winter but now ice is melting more in the summer and freezing back smaller in the winter.
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and all the learning signs as they put robotic cameras under these glaciers and seeing how they re melting from the bottom and from inside out. it really is another red blinking red light at the bottom of the planet. meanwhile, the top of the world, the arctic melting twice as fast as the rest of the planet, all adding up to some pain. the way you describe it there, forcibly rearranging coastal cities. that s what we need to prepare for with ocean rise. let s hope folks hear those warnings. bill weir, good to have you there. travel safe. well, we ve been talking about this sort of crazy winter we ve been having in the u.s. as jim noted in some areas, much warmer than usual. then you have southern california, which is expected to get hit again today with a whole lot of snow. this latest winter hit with these back to back storms, parts of the golden state as you know at this point already buried under more than 6 feet of snow. that storm system is now moving across the southwest an