russia resorts to pictures of rubble to convince the public to get behind the war. the treasury department warning it has $39 billion left in cash as of tonight. yellen moves the dead ceiling deadline. an update to a story we told you about. $2 million and jail time after a chinese comedian made a comment about the communist party. wait until you see tonight. let s go out front. good evening. an aggressive strike. new video tshowing thick smoke what is believed to be a steel plant in mariupol. ukraine hit the city with two missiles. this is tactical but hugely symbolic in terms of a strike. this is where ukrainian troops were in the deadly standoff for russian forces for weeks last year. mariupol is even important staging ground for russian forces in southern ukraine. it s crucial. there s a flow of russian military convoys. a ukrainian strike changes the game. in russia, staid imte media is something new. i want to show you the drone video. this is from bakhmut. it is
with the plea deal she will likely get less. bill: thank you very much. dana: israeli military forces pounding hamas targets in southern gaza while expanding operations throughout the north. as we await a news briefing in tel aviv with defense secretary lloyd austin we have new details on a massive terror tunnel discovered on the northern edge of gaza a quarter mile from israel s border. i m dana perino. bill: how was the weekend? dana: great. bill: so was mine, so much going on. non-stop, right? are you tired yet? dana: i m great. i m great. just keep saying great and you ll be fine. bill: i m bill hemmer. hamas diverting millions of dollars meant for civilians to build hundreds of miles of tunnels that snake below gaza. some of those tunnels are big enough for trucks loaded with rocket launchers and other weapons with access points located near schools and hospitals and houses of worship. trey yengst live in tel aviv with more on the tunnels and the war with h
good evening. tomorrow, the man who many expected to give the former president s toughest primary challenge of 2024 makes it official. florida s governor, ron desantis, getting into the race, taking on his fellow floridian, launching the campaign in a streaming event with elon musk on twitter. his opponent s former favorite megaphone. which he used in 2016, of course, to pummel the rest of the republican field, including former florida senator, marco rubio, and floor jeb bush, who you turn first into a verbal punching bag, then a campaign punchline, and finally, a political footnote. in a moment randi kaye looks ahead to whether governor desantis will do any better against those kind of tactics. first, the kind of political waters he is about to jump into. in one way, they may appear promising for a republican candidate. the current president s job approval, now stands at 40%. a new cnn polling out late today. and with the debt ceiling crisis coming to a head, that same p
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. in texas, a manhunt is believed to be still under way for the accused killer wanted for a horrific shooting attack. this is 38-year-old francisco oropeza. he is a mexican national living north of houston in the town of cleveland. five people are dead, including an 8-year-old child. let s get the latest from cnn s ryan young. what more are you learning about what caused this shooting, ryan? it is just absolutely horrific these details we re hearing. troubling, horrific. some neighbors went next door and asked the man to stop shooting his gun from his porch. that s because they had a baby they wanted to get some sleep. the man was firing his gun over and over. at some point according to the sheriff, the man walked over with one of his guns that he had at the home and then started shooting. five people are dead, including an 8-year-old. there were two women who were trying to protect two other children that were i
heartbreaking images continuing to come out of turkey and syria this morning. rescuers there doing their best to dig through tons of debris hoping, looking for survivors after monday s massive 7.8 earthquake and the number of incredibly strong aftershocks. i wanted to warn you, and we have shown you them before, but the images that you are about to see are disturbing. as of this moment, at least 5,000 people that we know of have been killed, including this 15-year-old, and her father sitting distraught clutching her hand after she was crushed under layers of rubble. that poor man and little girl and did not survive with conditions brutal and stuck outside under freezing temperatures and waiting for some help to come. translator: i have two nephews in the wreckage behind me, and at 2:00 yesterday, building collapsed and hundreds more buildings like this, and thousands under the rubble, and the turkish authorities won t let them save us by our means, but they won t send any