least eight and wounding dozens more. a new week, a monday. good morning, everybody. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. hello. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. this escalation is striking at a time when people overnight the destruction of the lone bridge connecting russia to crimea happened over the weekend. a key supply line for russia. vladimir putin targeted civilians. zelensky said russia is trying to wipe us off the face of the earth. they want to destroy our energy system and they are hopeless. the second target is people. they chose such a time, such goals in order to cause as much harm as possible. bill: check out the video here. one missile left a massive crater feet away from a children s playground. dana: the first major attack on kiev since june. 1 of 10 major cities targeted in the assault. bill: the white house trying to clean up president biden s remarks from last week on the russia nuclear threat. he said the u.s. was facing
what a story over the weekend. two teenagers were shot outside of new york congressman lee zeldin s long island home. one of the bullets hitting the congressman s fence. his twin daughters were inside doing homework at the time. they ran upstairs. closed themselves into a bathroom and called 911. the detectives now investigating this incident as gang related. zeldin, who has made rising crime one of his top campaign issues, boy did it come home for him over the course of this weekend. here he is earlier today. we get a phone call from our daughter, mckala, we hear our other daughter in the background crying. they were at the kitchen table doing homework. all of a sudden they hear multiple gunshots. they hear screaming. they run upstairs, lock themselves in the bathroom. this is day after day after day. the reality right now in this state is that new yorkers don t feel safe. that feeling of safety may be less common with numbers like this, violent crime in new york city up
headquarters in new york city. a failed candidate turned suspected gunman arrested in albuquerque, new mexico. and we just learned he will make his first appearance in court tomorrow afternoon. police say that when lawmakers wouldn t listen to his claims about election fraud, he put a plan in place to target their homes. epd essentially discovered what we had all feared. and what he suspected, these shootings were politically motivated. the latest details on the charges and how these attacks could serve as a warning for the rest of the country. plus a new call for doj and the sev so act now. and freeze george santos campaign funds so they can be returned to donors. that call kooming from another republican in his own state. and california as a cautionary tale for the country after unrelenting wild weather from coast to coast. the damage done by rain, snow, mud slides and why with all the precipitation in california does that state still have such a serious drought. w
the met has apologised to carrick s victims after it emerged he was allowed to stay in the police force despite allegations about him over many years. also this lunchtime. the drive by shooting in london that left six people injured a 22 year old man is arrested. investigators in nepal find the black box flight recorders of the plane that crashed yesterday killing at least 68 people. counting the cost of christmas. fears that some people got into so much debt over the festive period that it will take them years to pay the money back. and emma raducanu puts aside her injury worries and makes it through to the second round of the australian open. and coming up in sport on bbc news, on the day that the new england head coach steve borthwick announces his first six nations squad the former england boss eddiiejones becomes australia s new head coach. good afternoon. a serving metropolitan police officer has admitted he s a serial rapist who carried out sex attacks over almost tw