air raid sirens and fresh destruction. president vladimir zelenskyy pleading with g 7 nations for more weapons during emergency talks on the deadly russian bombardment. also tonight, the u.s. justice department is urging the u.s. supreme court to stay out of the dispute over classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. we ll break down the new federal response to the trump team that was filed just a short while ago. and a baltimore man walks free after 23 years in prison. prosecutors dropping murder and all other charges against him after he was featured on a popular crime podcast and cleared by dna testing. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in ukraine where valid p vladimir putin s assault on the city is taking a deadly toll. fred pleitgen is on the scene for us in kyiv. reporter: as the russian military continues to fire barrages of missiles at ukraine eng
with police last week. what are you learning about that? reporter: that s right, the fbi acknowledges that it flew these surveillance that it provided these surveillance planes to the city of baltimore s police department. here s a statement from the fbi saying during the recent unrest the fbi provided aircraft to baltimore police for the purpose of providing aerial imagery of possible criminal activity. they added, wolf that they were not monitoring any first amendment activity. the aclu had asked the fbi to provide an explanation for these planes and that s why the fbi responded, wolf. evan, thank you. coming up a member of north korea s inner circle speaking exclusively with cnn. he says his country has a long-range missile that can hit the united states mainland. and the latest threat from a top isis terrorist telling the united states quote, you ain t seen nothing yet. the real question that needs to be asked is what is it that we can do that is impactful?
around oklahoma city. we re also following, look at these ominous pictures coming in from oklahoma city right now, we ll stay on top of this story. we re also following what s going on in baltimore right now where the mayor is asking the justice department to conduct a civil rights investigation of the city s police department. we re back with our analyst. sunny, in addition to surveillance in baltimore, surveillance flights have been going on. they were flown over st. louis. what is this all about? you know my understanding i m not sure about the spy planes over baltimore. but my understanding in terms of this request, this new request, of the justice department wolf bottom line is the mayor had already asked for what is called a collaborative review from the justice department. that basically means that the justice department would come in give some suggestions, and the office of the mayor and the police department could decide
not in the way we saw in the last decade 150,000 troops in mechanized vehicles. but some combat enablers like the logistics experts, like the intelligence experts who are there now, are going to have to stay there. 4,000 u.s. troop there is now. how many more troops do you think the u.s. needs to send there? that s a question for our commanders. that s a question of professional military judgment. civilian leaders set the goals. they recommend specific strategies. here s the sad fact, wolf. in 2011 our commanders asked for about 15,000 troops to stay on the ground. the president denied that request. we now from 4,000. we may be at the end of this administration in a situation where we have more troops on the ground than we would have had if he d just stayed the course in 2011. i have to take a quick commercial break. we have more to discuss. you you remember nuri al maliki the prime minister at the time didn t want to give the u.s. the assurances that those american troops woul
or was he trying to work out what the parameters of the aircraft is? so yes, it certainly looks like it was a rehearsal. it certainly looks like he was practicing. but we certainly don t know for sure that that s what he was doing. he may actually have had a failed attempt. miles, why weren t air traffic controllers alerted to the selected altitude being decreased to 100 feet several times? isn t there some way this can be flagged? generally speaking, not, wolf. there are some air traffic control facilities that have the capability of actually reading through the transponder exactly the knob turn to get some indication that the crew received the instructions correctly. it s actually kind of rare. but it is possible. and it does occur in europe on some occasions and it is possible that he might have been checking to see if that particular sector of air traffic