representatives have not gotten back as far as how they tried to clarify this obvious contradiction. very interesting to see what the explanation if one can even call it that is there. you know, there s also this separate story. hard to believe, because with each one it feels like a new low point but we also have been following closely this story of a veteran who says that george santos has accused george santos of stealing thousands of dollars that was raised to help the veteran s dog with a lifesaving surgery. that veteran speaking to cnn. what more are we learning? painful incident for the veteran and told of how the back and forth happened with george santos. george santos offered to set up a gofundme account for him to pay for some veterinary byes for his pit bull who needed a lifesaving operation and they raised $3,000 and the owner talks about these text messages and their correspondence how
they are waiting to rebuild, they are making progress. meanwhile, the threat still remains that russia will continue with this tactic, with the attacks on the civilian infrastructure. and the president said this week, if ukraine wants suffering to go away, they have to meet moscow s demands. there is no sign that ukraine is prepared to do that. clare sebastian in london, thank you so much. cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric leighton is joining us this morning. good morning, colonel. good morning, sara. let s start with the blackouts. having been in ukraine when it s really, really cold, there is nothing like the cold there. let s listen to nato secretary-general on putin s shifting strategy, nine months now into this invasion. what we re seeing now is that president putin is trying to weaponize winter. and byes indiscriminate,
and you were there on the one-year anniversary of your mother s death from covid. and then you hear shots ring out. can you tell me what happened? of course. we were actually getting ready to leave. it was about 11:50, something around that time. and my partner and i were getting ready to leave. and we were saying our good-byes to her and a friend that she had met just now because everyone, we re talkative, we like to make friends there. but we were saying good-bye. my back was turned to the front door. and we were in the bar area. and suddenly i just hear pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. and i started to turn to try and see what s going on, and i get hit in the shoulder, or, rather, upper left arm or, sorry, upper right arm. the bullet went in. i learned later that it
the third time he s done it. he s been upstaged by his teammate who any other year had an mvp season. he ll probably finish second behind aaron judge. mike trout is still pretty good. that is the longest of his career. and number 350 all time for trout. yesterday was the final day of the major league baseball regular season. and the postseason starts tomorrow. a reminder, it s a new format now. there are three wild card teams in each league. giving the top two seeds in the al and nl first round byes. astros, yankees, dodgers, braves. the wild card round is a best of three series, higher seed home for all three games. this is new. we got four baseball play-off games tomorrow, four more on saturday, it s the most wonderful time of the year. time now for the weather and let s go to meteorologist bill karins. how is it doing? jon, let me get your
comeback. to the right, ronald is there and the braves have won the east! folks, hug the mets fans in your life. the braves were 10 1/2 games back in june. now, they re n.l. east champs for the fifth straight season. atlanta has only spent four days in first place all year, but they got there when it counted. as for the new york mets, their collapse is historic. it s tied for the third largest blown division lead in baseball history. atlanta s win also now settles the playoff picture. there it is, folks, look at that beautiful bracket. the dodgers and brave top seeds in the national league. the astros, number one seed in the a.l., yankees, those two teams will have first round byes. the extended playoffs mean there are now eight wildcard teams between the two leagues. the first playoff games are friday with the tampa bay rays and the mariners, and phillies