at this hour, we will go back to south carolina where we are watching a second day of alex murdaugh testing for the second day taking the stand in his own defense and the second day of cross-examinationment and the chief prosecutor is really getting into it, and grilling him about his drug addiction and the alleged financial crime and long list of lies. we go back into the courtroom right now. i don t. did i have a conversation with paul about cash yes, about cash and some problem with his friend going down there, and did you have a conversation with him prior to that? as i sit here today, i don t recall that, but i don t i don t think so. when you first arrived in golf cart, where did you pull up to? i pulled up right where maggie was. which is where? she was standing in the spot where she could see in between the chicken coop and the storage room of the kennels. where the dogs were back up in those planted pines behind the kennels to the left of the chicke
what she said about a white colleague s black son and why her partial resignation may not by enough to quiet her critics. plus, one of the most inconvenient and important cancer screenings, what a new study says about how well colonoscopies works. welcome to the lead. i m in for jake tapper. russia as bombarded ukraine can more than 80 missiles in eight regions. monday s was the most intense stretch of bombing. russia is clearly targeting civilian infrastructure, walkways, water and power stations, even a playground hit. so far 11 people have died, dozens more injured. putin says it is revenge for this, a saturday morning attack on the bridge that connects russia to crimea. the explosion was a strategic attack, its dependence on rail. and for putin, it s personal. he made it a point to drive across this bridge when it opened back in 2018. the attack came just a day after his 7 0th birthday. frederik pleitgen has this report. reporter: it was in the middle of monday mor
the world, i am allison caustic . ahead on cnn newsroom, relief still days away for many southwest customers as we enter day eight of the airline meltdown. i talked to an aviation expert about the federal ramifications there plus we have a live report on a deadly fire at a casino in cambodia. that has left seven people that. pope francis says pope benedict is very sick and asks for everyone s prayers, the latest from the vatican. we begin with what ukrainian officials are calling a massive missile attack on cities across the country. ukrainian air force says russia is attacking from various directions with air and sea- based cruise missiles. joins us from kia, what is the latest and what are you hearing? well, what we are hearing from ukrainian officials is that at least 120 missiles have been fired so far today from russia to ukraine, hitting basically every major metropolitan area in the country, including, of course kia, where we are just a few minutes ago, a distant
where he faces a possible life sentence and in ukraine, resistance forces are on the offensive as some analysts say the military s fighting capabilities are running out. we ll take you live to kyiv. but we begin with our top story right now, unfolding across the country, a travel nightmare for millions of people trying to get home after the christmas holiday as a monstrous winter storm barrels east. right now, more than 2800 flights have been cancelled. that s today alone leaving frustrated travelers strand ed i airport terminals. southwest will operate just one-third of its scheduled flights in the coming days representative from the pilot association says the airline s scheduling system is partly to blame. the death toll has climbed to 63 nationwide after this brutal storm blanketed parts of western new york with as much as four feet of snow and brought powerful wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour with more snow in the forecast, tishls fear the deet death toll could cont
plus, thousands of travelers stranded this afternoon with southwest airlines at the center of a hot mess. 70% of their scheduled flights canceled we ve got the nightmare situation for folks trying to get home after the holidays and what the biden administration is saying about it in just the last couple of hours. we ll also take you live to one of the hardest hit areas in the destructive holiday winter storm where they are just starting to dig out even with driving bans still in effect in some spots. and donald trump s tax returns could be made public at some point. i m hallie jackson in washington, d.c. with you on this tuesday afternoon and we re starting with the uncertainty over what could happen with title 42 as we await a decision from the supreme court we know the biden administration wants this to be lifted, but they don t want the rug pulled out from them overnight. josh is live at the white house with this story. the issue with this, right, is that many people thi