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
the world. i m whitney wild. the death toll from that huge winter storm keeps rising. it is now up to 62 deaths across 11 states. of those by far the greatest share were in erie county, new york, where at least 37 people died. a horrible storm with too many deaths. we know without the work of these first responders and others, more people would have died. first responders are still checking on callers they couldn t reach in buffalo which was buried under nearly 52 inches of snow. overnight buffalo lifted a driving ban. cnn s miguel marquez has more on the digout. reporter: buffalo digging out. officials here responding to criticism they should have done more. 35-mile-an-hour wind gusts for three hours straight with less than a quarter mile visibility. monique alexander died in the storm on christmas eve. a buffalo native who had been through many snowstorms here thought this one was the same. we were waiting for her to come home. i knew something was wrong right a
good morning to you. i m jessica dean in washington. jim sciutto is off today. we re following several major stories this morning. overnight ukraine rocked by a barrage of russian missiles. the defense minister saying it s the most massive missile attack since the invasion began in februariment we know power is out in several regions including parts of the capital kyiv. we ll be live on the ground ahead. plus, the u.s. reinstating covid tests for travelers coming from china as beijing drops its own restrictions despite an overwhelming surge in cases. a fresh apology from southwest airlines today, plus new steps the airline is taking to reimburse passengers whose holiday travel was ruined. still more than 2,300 southwest flights canceled today. we re told the scheduling nightmare could end as soon as tomorrow. let s begin this morning on the ground in ukraine. cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman is in kyiv. ben, you saw firsthand some of this damage. tell us
a batch of new transcripts. what did donald trump jr. tell the committee? plus, a message from moscow. nearly 70 missiles pierce the ukrainian sky in a massive attack. the target ukraine s energy grid. the objective to force war weary ukrainians to spend the holidays in the pitch black. and the united states revives a covid travel restriction for passengers traveling from china. that s what we re watching this hour. hello, everyone, i m amara walker in for kate bolduan. developing, the january 6th committee releasing deposition transcripts from 19 witnesses, many of them donald trump insiders. now, the list includes the former president s son donald trump jr., kimberly guilfoyle, the former fox anchor and trump jr. s girlfriend. stephanie grisham, alexa farah griffin, stephen miller, a former top adviser, christopher miller, the former acting defense lawyer and paula reid joining us with the latest. what did he tell the committee? a lot of news in this batch of transcri
committee dropping a brand-new batch of key testimony and for the first time we are now seeing interview transcripts from 19 additional witnesses and they include some of the closest people inside former president trump s inner circle. his son, donald trump jr., former fox news anchor kirsten gillibrand as w kimberly guile so let s get right to cnn s sara murray looking through all of these documents. sara, thousands of pages of transcripts. some we ve seen through the january 6th committee hearings and you ve been reading through donald trump jr. s transcripts. what are you finding in there? reporter: you know, this is obviously interesting because he s the former president s son, proximity to the former president and asking him about what was happening as the riot unfolded on january 6th and they re reading back text messages he exchanged with mark meadows. at one point don junior tells mark meadows, the former president trump, his dad has got to condemn this then says a