even as his legal problems are mounting his hold on the republican party is tightening. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off, and you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour in ukraine as it wrestles with a terrifying fear of a nuclear disaster. it is now almost six months to the day since russia launched its unprovoked invasion. new video from ukraine s ministry of defense right here says this is a successful strike destroying a rare russian radar complex in south eastern ukraine. ukraine is about to get more u.s. help in its fight against russia. the pentagon saying it ll now send another $775 million in aid. including ammunition for the high promobility artillery ro rockets, howwitzers and other ammunition plus dozens of drones and different vehicles. a lot of the fighting right now is centered in zaporizhzhia, right around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. ukraine says russia is launching attacks from there because ukraine wouldn t risk
in puerto rico, which was slammed by hurricane fiona nearly a week ago, there are still broken trees, roads damaged and widespread power outages. fiona continues to cause havoc. in canada, it made landfall in nova scotia at hurricane strength. homes on the coast just washed away. what can we expect? reporter: ian is expected to rapidly intensify over the upcoming days as it moves into the gulf of mexico where the environment is a little more conducive for development. we re losing that wind shear. it changes with height as it moves off to the west at 16 miles per hour. a lot more convection. a lot more organized as we are looking at satellite. as we notice a bit more of a center, we ll gain some clarity as to where this storm is expected to arrive on somewhere the coastline of florida. so currently sitting down in the caribbean, expected to take its track into the gulf of mexico by monday becoming a category 2 storm, with winds expected around 100 miles per hour. tuesday mo
and there s more. we are following for you this morning including ten people killed. more than a dozen injured in a series of stabbings in canada. the latest on the hunt for the two suspects. plus, state of emergency with northern georgia under water. meanwhile in california, record heat and wildfires. the climate challenges coming in to sharper focus this morning. tomorrow will mark an emotional day for uvalde parents and their children. students are going back to school for the first time since the tragedy at robb elementary. i ll speak with the state senator representing uvalde who has been trying to help the community heal. we begin with the 64 days until the midterm elections. president biden is about to kick off his first battleground blitz of the campaign season. this is a live look at joint base andrews where air force one is ready to take the president to milwaukee for the first stop of his very busy day. the president will deliver a speech celebrating labor day an
applies the the ukrainians were responsible. a claim that ukrainian authorities have denied one senior official saying we are not a criminal state. fred pleitgen is in moscow. where do things stand on this investigation? reporter: a lot of this is still very much a mystery. at such dazzling time in russia as you have russia s special military operation, as they call it, in ukraine, going on. so there were, of course, someone in the pretty high echelons in russia who believe that maybe the ukrainians might be behind all this. but right now, it still remains absolutely unclear. the latest from the investigation is that they say the explosive yield of that charge was the equivalent of about 400 grams of tnt. they say the bomb was placed inside the car. they ve recovered some parts and sent it in for a forensic investigation as well. still very much unclear who might be behind all this. here s what we re learning. reporter: a car engulfed in a massive fire ball on a highway o
children. wynn cooperated with terms of the bond up to this week. family members say she left the suicide note and disappeared. but that s just the beginning that this mystery the bounty hunter great dog the bounty hunter will join us in minutes with his expert opinion of first i have a chance to talk to savannah wynn the killers daughter moments ago. attack a look. savannah condolences to you, you ve been strong through this entire process if you would i want to go back to the day that you saw your mom dripping in blood, 12 and 15-year-old brother were there in the house. when your father was murdered did chef any indication that your mom may have done this? in the moment, not 100% just because of the shock. but once we heard her start talking and saying what happened and whatnot we all became pretty suspicious that she was the one that was responsible for it. just because it was the story didn t make sense. she kept changing her story. what did she tell you, did