i m whitny wild. cnn this morning starts right now. morning, everyone. we re glad you re with us. it s thursday, december 29th. don is off this week. and ukraine is our lead story. under attack. more than 120 russian missiles launched at ukraine overnight. 90% of lviv this morning is without power. we ll take you to crane. here in the united states, thousands of air travelers are struggling to find their way home still. one major airport is launching an investigation into the meltdown at southwest airlines. and the death toll is rising once again in buffalo. the city s mayor now coming under fire for handling of that recovery and the storm. a new migrant processing center is going up in el paso, despite a supreme court decision to keep title 42 in place. we begin this hour with ukraine. president zelenskyy s adviser says russia has launched more than 120 missiles at the country. it happened overnight. a top official in odesa is calling it a massive missile attack in
wrongs. president biden wipes out federal marijuana possession convictions. what that means for the effort to decriminalize marijuana nationwide. we have a series of serial murders occurring. people are scared to come out. police in california on the hunt for a killer. the one characteristic they are asking the community to zero in on as the search for the suspect continues. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, october 8th. good morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we start this morning in eastern europe. at least three people have been reported dead in a huge explosion that crippled europe s largest bridge and pair lased a key supply route for russia s war in ukrainian. that blast crippled the only bridge linking russia to the annexed territory of crimea. the kerch bridge is a huge symbol for the kremlin and the attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. let s get to fred pleitgen. russia blamed the explosion on ukraini
russian soldiers calling putin s invasion a, quote, absolute hell. a six-month exclusive investigation by the reporter who exposed the russians behind alexei navalny s poisoning. wait until you see what he is going to show you tonight. he is one of the republican s biggest targets, a top democrat in charge of getting democrats elected. and now he could be taken down by someone who is not a household name, yet. and american teacher mark vogel was sentenced to 14 years in russia for marijuana possession. he s now believed to be on his way to a secret russian penal colony where he will be subjected to hard labor. his sister anne is my guest. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a new and bigger threat to the united states from putin. top official with russia s foreign ministry tonight warning that american commercial satellites could be a target because of america s aid for ukraine. it is a direct threat from russia to the united s
new numbers on the unprecedented number of migrants along the u.s./mexico border. i ll talk to an official from one border city about what s going on and what they need. and new audio into outfront of putin s forces turning on each other as there are reports of a strike on a military base deep inside russia. let s go outfront. good evening. i m sara sidner in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, worst winter storm ever. that s from new york officials describing this christmas weekend blizzard that pummelled areas upstate. and the death toll is rising, at least 27 deaths across the region now being blamed on the storm, surpassing the death toll from a historic blizzard 45 years ago. it was just a horrible situation, the worst storm i ve ever seen. it s the first time any of us can remember situations where we felt truly helpless. the blizzard burying buffalo and other parts of upstate new york under more than 4 feet of snow. and the region still bracing for even m
own party if donald trump becomes the republican nominee in 2024. we re going to tell you how she plans to fight to keep the former president of the and now people in iran and around the world are demanding answers. and prepare for impact. nasa getting ready to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid. we ll explain what nas s s doing here. good morning, everyone. it is sunday, september 25th, the start of a wonderful week, trying to channel some of that positive boris energy. thanks for waking up with us. hi, boris. good morning, amra. it s all a if a sad. but woo this morning all of florida is watching what s happening in the caribbean as strop. the latest forecast shows it s growing to a category four hurricane over the gulf of mexico before making landfall somewhere in florida. you don t know exactly where it s going to hit at this point. yesterday florida governor ron desantis extending an emergency order to include the entire state and president biden declaring an e