fredricka whitfield and we begin with escalating tensions in the middle east. israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem. scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, fred, let me begin with you. what is the latest hi there, fredricka. well certainly it is still quite concerning here on the ground. i would say it s still very tense and very volatile situation as well. and of course, one of the main reasons for that is what you were just mentioning is those rocket attacks that
i don t drink coffee at all. tastes like a puddle. i can t do it. that s because you re not drinking it correctly. you have to prepare it a certain way and with creamers. that s not coffee anymore. no. all right. at least 23 people are dead after russia unleashed a deadly attack on ukrainian civilians. our cnn team is live at the scene where rescue efforts are continue this morning. more than 50,000 people have left sudan after fighting broke out there just a couple weeks ago, including hundreds of americans. one of them shares her story. millions are facing the threat of severe storms. where we could see those storms fire up today. we begin in ukraine, where the death toll from a russian strike on an apartment building is expected to rise. the attack killed almost two dozen people, including five children, and is believed to be the deadliest strike on civilians since january. it targeted more than ten apartment buildings and other civilian targets. but ukra
our thanks to wxyz for that. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we begin with this breaking news on the manhunt undway under way cleveland texas for the suspect accused of the shootings of five including an 8-year-old. ryan young isle toing all of this for us. what more are we learning about the suspect? troubling details on this. we ve been following this for hours. we ve been given a name. francisco orpeza is the name police are looking for at this point. they are still actively looking for him. this all started with a 911 call over a noise disturbance. apparently he was on his porch file firing a well. neighbors asked him to stop shootings. he went to the home and started shooting people execution style. listen to the sheriff early on in this investigation. when they got here, they found four people deceased inside of the residence. there was an 8-year-old that had been shot. everybody that was shot was shot fr
of snow preparing for more. we start in new york city. we were talking about this story. there is now a possible indication that former president trump could soon face criminal charges. now, this is not guaranteed. we should note that. the new york times is reporting that the man district attorney s office is signaling charges against trump are likely over the hub money payments to stormy daniels. prosecutors have offered trump a chance to testify next week before the grand jury hearing evidence in the case seeing some of his former closest allies go before them. such offers usually indicate an indictment is potentially likely. this case is not a slum dunk. it could pose a challenge for prosecutors. paula reid has been tracking this case with us all morning. we know that trump s attorneys have gone in and met with the district attorney, but the idea that he, himself, is going to go in and testify seems incredibly unlikely. it does seem incredibly unlikely. but over the
goes to the chinese island where that balloon was launched from what she found there dramatic video of an off-duty chicago police officer shooting and killing a man trying to rob her, right after she warned him she would kill him. i will kill you watch this fema finally arrives in ohio after that toxic train derailment, as we go inside one of the labs testing the county s well water is it safe plus, how these dogs are saving lives. can they find our correspondents buried in the snow? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening we begin with some sad news former president jimmy carter, the country s longest living president, is back at home in plains, georgia, tonight after a hospital stay. but he is now foregoing medical treatment and entering end-of-life hospice care we don t have much detail on the former president s health issues, but the 98-year-old has been in and out of the hospital in recent years and fought off cancer well int