i m paula reid. jim acosta has the day off. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with breaking news. the u.s. military has shot down another high-altitude object, this time over lake huron. this is according to aus u.s. official and a congressional source briefed on the matter. this would be the fourth object brought down by u.s. fighter jets in the past nine days. cnn s kylie atwood is at the state department. kylie, war you learning? that s right, paula. and the third object brought down in just the last three days. of course, we re learning that this high-altitude object was traveling and so the down over lake huron, north of michigan, in between michigan and canada. that is according to a u.s. official and a congressional source briefed on the matter. it appears that members of congress from michigan are learning more about this in conversations with the pentagon today. i want to read to you what congresswoman slotkin tweeted just in the last few hours or so, saying,
it is tuesday, december 27th. don is off. we are glad to be here. what a day. you got home okay yesterday. yeah. but airports are insane so i feel for people like that passenger there, on hold over six hours. unbelievable. plans unravelled for airlines. more than 60% of flights already canceled today. the death toll is rising in buffalo, new york, after a blizzard crippled the area and residents are still digging themselves out of the snowstorm this morning. we re live on the ground where officials say conditions remain dangerous. and china taking a big step reopening its borders after shutting out much of the world nearly three years. the other covid restrictions they plan to lose ahead, plus this i m not a criminal. not here. not abroad, in any jurisdiction in the world have i ever committed any crimes, but he is admitting to embellishes his resume. congressman santos is admitted to lying about parts of his past but will still take office next week, though. an
security detail tackling the suspect. a local resident in his 40s. the gun he used appears to have been handmade, a motive not known at this time. as brianna said abe was japan s longest serving prime minister and was still a towering figure in japanese and international politics. he had crucial working relationships with both president obama and president trump. this assassination causing shock waves around the world this morning. let s get right to cnn s blake essig who is in tokyo with the very latest. blake, what can you tell us? reporter: brianna, john, devastating news here in japan. doctors at nara medical university hospital have confirmed that japanese former japanese prime minister shinzo abe has died after being shot twice, once in his chst and once in his neck. doctors treating former prime minister said that his heart had actually stopped by the time that he reached the hospital, they said that he was bleeding profusely and that the bullet that killed abe w
president if, in fact, the democratic progressive party confirms they have won this election, which is expected to happen any moment now. and the presidential the presumptive president-elect also has been basically vilified by bei beijing. essentially what this means is that at the highest levels there will continue to be absolutely no dialogue at beijing s choice. beijing has chosen to essentially cut off dialogue with this ruling party. and now that it seems clear that in just any minute now the ruling party will likely declare victory in the presidential race and the excitement is so intense back there, the crowd, we had to step back this way to get a signal because the crowd is growing very quickly, but this is going to be a something that beijing will definitely respond to. intelligence officials that we have been speaking with here in the taiwanese capital say they do not expect an immediate response from beijing. frankly the weather on the
artificial intelligence, china is using that technology for an almost unbelievable program of propaganda. cnn s selina wang reports from bei beijing. hello, everyone. this is wolf news. i m alex. on first glance, these look like news anchors. the top leaders of china on second glance, you might notice something uncanny. the two heads of state and how their voices don t align with their mouth movements. that s because they aren t real people. they re deep fake avatars made with artificial intelligence. it s unclear who s behind this, but last year, pro-china bot accounts sent them out over twitter and facebook. this is the first time we ve seen footage of a fictitious person used in a politically motivated influence operation. this particular set of videos was promoted by an operation that we have been tracking since at least 2019. and routinely amplifies narratives that align with