highlights, and history. we are coming to you from times square in the heart of new york city, home to the famous ball drop which marks the beginning and end of every year. i m joe fryer. i m savannah sellers. for the next hour, we re looking back at the biggest stories of 2022. it started with the war in ukraine, a supreme court retirement, and that oscar slap that shook hollywood. it s ending with a tripledemic, looming recession fears, and the royal view uniting on the soccer field. along the way, there were celebrations, losses, and a lessons we can take into 2023. let s remember the year that was. the headlines that defined 2022 were seismic and historic. europe s largest armed conflict since world war ii free abortion not a manned. it supreme court station which overturned for decades of precedent. the death of a monarch who had reigned for 70 years. in its earliest days, 2022 seemed more like a copycat, limiting the worst qualities of the previous years
it is 5:00 a.m. and with daylight will come more of a sense of damage and countless homes have been destroyed. but in the middle of all that devastation, we re often seeing inspiring scenes like this, a local reporter saving ae iing ad nurse who was pleading for help. he had to carry theoryher to sa his back. pawleys island, the storm washed parts of the pier away. authorities are still assessings damage and working to restore power. and brian todd is in naples, florida with a closer look at the damage there. nothing left. zero. the full extent of hurricane ian s destruction now coming fully into view. aerial damage assessments showing coastal florida neighborhoods with roofing tore off, homes flattened, house either flooded or wiped out. some buildings with nothing left but the concrete slab. remote lotions locations cut of the mainland. these images showing how hard sanibel was hit. only way to access that is either by sea or by air. reporter: so far more than 700
right now. after a year s long legal battle, donald trump s tax returns are now public. the thousands of pages show that during the first and last years of his presidency, trump paid very little in federal income taxes, claiming huge losses to shave down his tax bill. we have experts ready to break down the six years of filings plus a member of the house ways and means committee into what went into the decision to make everything public and the precedence it sets going forward. we ve got more developments from the january 6th committee. another batch of deposition transcripts just dropped. among the interviews, rudy giuliani, jared kushner, and mick mulvaney, and what they said and how it all impacts the former president coming up a major break through in the quadruple idaho murder cacy a 28-year-old man has been taken into custody in connection with the case according to multiple law enforcement officials. what we know and what we could find out at today s news conferenc
down survivors. this as the remnants of the brutal storm cause dangerous high tides and flooding right now in virginia. also tonight, we ll bring you a cnn exclusive report from a key city just recaptured by ukrainian forces. ukraine s ambassador to the united states joins me this hour to discuss all the latest news from the war zone. and we re tracking very dramatic developments in the oath keepers seditious trial now underway after both sides deliver opening statements and witnesses begin testifying. prosecutors accusing the group of concocting an armed rebellion against american democracy. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with a rapidly growing death toll from hurricane ian. autho authorities now say at least 104 people were kill ed in the catastrophic storm and now officials in one county are under fire over the timing of evacuation orders. ca
i don t know much about the families background because my grandmother we called her oma always said there was nothing nice in her post war childhood. so she never spoke and i never asked, and my dad told me it was 1921. well, 11 of the biggest wars in the history of europe had just ended braced was almost destroyed. her parents died and she and her sisters and brothers survived street children scavenging for scraps and prowling for crumbs. and the 30 straggling the bell was polish border. and they were nearly half a 1000000 freezing orphans like them roamed the streets of poland, ukraine, and bella was introduced, inferno arrived ukrainian. joe caught isaac leaving the upcoming trouble. he drove his wagon into one remote village, off to another, picking up desperate, desolate children along the way, in order to save them. if not for him, my grandmother would probably no, said survives, if not for him, chances are i would not be yet. if not for him, it would be no story to te