program in prison tonight, his health failing. his lawyers saying he s been poisoned. and morgues in china oesh flowing full of people who were sick from covid. the government is saying, though, they re not covid deaths. why? we re live in beijing tonight with a special report. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight putin calls it a war. for the first time vladimir putin using the word war to describe his brutal invasion of ukraine. for ten months it s been called a special operation. in fact the word war has been banned. and then today hours after zelenskyy visited with biden in washington, putin said this. translator: our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict but on the contrary to end this war we have been and will continue to strive for this. war. the word war is not semantics for putin. calling this a war, which again has not been allowed. it s been banned. it has serious implications because it allows putin to
wow. thanks so much to you for joining us. ac 360 begins now. the forecast? wretched. the timing? even worse. once in a generation winter storm and this one they say is going to be very, very dangerous. i m in for anderson, john berman here. already nearly half the country s population is shivering under wind chill alerts or has seen temperatures drop as much as 70 degrees overnight. this is sioux falls, south dakota. you know it s cold there when the falls at sioux falls stop falling. because they re frozen solid. you know how widespread the big chill could get when places as far south as tallahassee in florida are forecasting lows in the low 20s. if that weren t enough we re seeing countless blizzard warnings, flood watches, wind and ice advisories and of course thousands of flight cancellations. nearly 2400 already today. more than 2,000 for tomorrow. all of this smack dab in the middle of the christmas travel rush. it s not just snow. it is wind and cold as part o
it is noon eastern, 9:00 pacific. i m sarah sider in in for the lab tpous fredricka. we begin this hour with bad news. it is blanketing the united states. at least 15 people have been killed due to the icy weather across multiple states. you re looking at a crash there. new york state police are warning people to stay off the roads amid white-out were conditions. they say search and rescue obviously hard to move about is moving extra slow due to the blizzards. new york governor kathy hochul said first responders may not be able to reach you if you need help. it is absolutely dangerous for anyone to be on the roads. and that includes our emergency vehicles. so our national guard, our first responders, our ambulances, our fire trucks are all getting stuck in the snow as well. in fact,, almost every fire truck in the city of buffalo is stranded. it is stuck in snow. right now more than 100 million people are under wind chill alerts. the arctic blast extending from montana do
i asked the worker outside of this hospital did a lot of people die here? yes. every day, he responds. i ask is it all because of covid? yes. people with underlying conditions, he says. china is now going through the painful reopening the rest of the world has already gone through. but it s not sharing the same data. the ghast now says it is narrowing the definite nation of covid-19 deaths only to patients who died of respiratory failure directly caused by the virus. people we spoke to at the crematoriums may have said their loved ones died of covid but their deaths and so many others won t be counted in the official tally. one of the people i spoke to at the crematorium said where his friend was was too crowded. his body was left on the
who died of respiratory failure directly caused by the virus. people we spoke to at the crematoriums may have said their loved ones died of covid but their deaths and so many others won t be counted in the official tally. it is no surprise that state media is ignoring the scenes we ve shown in the story. for much of the pandemic chinese state tv was showing america s overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums repeatedly. the message was look at china s low death toll in comparison, proof that china s system is superior. even after reopening china still claiming the death toll is low, that less than ten people have died of covid this month in total. so amid skepticism over the number the government says it has changed the way it counts covid deaths. their method goes against the world health organization guidelines and will severely under estimate the true death toll. thank you very much. incredible images. the car lines with dead bodies.