To the us, and made his way to the Demilitarized Zone which separates the two koreas before running to the northern side. Pyongyang has now claimed private king was driven to come to north korea because of inhuman maltreatment and Racial Discrimination while serving in the us army. And the State News Agency goes on to claim that private king has admitted to crossing illegally, and has asked for refuge in the north. It is the first time north korea has knowledge detaining the soldier. The claims have not been verified, and in a Press Briefing the white house has urged people to be mindful of where the statement was made when considering its validity. We when considering its validity. Would caution everyo consider we would caution everyone to consider the source here. That is incredibly important as we are killing the report. We cant verify the comments that are being attributed to private king obviously. We remain focused on his safe return for the past several weeks and we are working
World. Im Kim Brunhuber on cnn newsroom. This is a very, very dangerous and significant storm. Southern california braces for catastrophic flooding as Hurricane Hilary is expected to make impact as a rare Tropical Storm. The first such storm in the state in decades. Searchers still are looking for victims of the wildfires on maui. Wildfires sweeping through british coullcolombia. There is extensive damage in colona. Announcer live in cnn news center, this is cnn newsroom with Kim Brunhuber. A large portion of Southern California is under a State Of Emergency and bracing for the impact of Hurricane Hilary. Historic storm is now a category 1 strength with maximum winds of around 85 miles an hour. Its expected to make landfall in the coming hours on mexicos baja, california, peninsula. Forecasters warn it will bring catastrophic and life threatening flooding. Californias governor has w warned. Please listen to emergency personnel. Take serious flash floods, lightning, possibility of torna
Why race is an ever present source of tension in Donald Trumps georgia case. The Super Bowl Ad that made a lot of people that actually holds a big clue about whom rfk junior has picked as his running mate. A very good day from the new center here in los angeles. We have some Breaking News out of russia where polls are closing in one hour and the last of three days of voting in the countrys president ial election. Putin all but certain to win a fifth term. The pallet featuring three ll other talking candidates who, by the way, publicly support his policies. Earlier today, voters heating one of the last public messages from the late Opposition Leader Alexi Novotny by showing up en masse at Polling Stations to e protest the election. Joining me now is keir simmons from moscow. What has voting been like a cross russia today and are the crackdowns, unrest . Taken away . Its really split here in russia right now. We are here at any Election Night event that you can see is in full swing as th
Through an agreed route through the black sea, it then announces a humanitarian corridor without any kind of acknowledgement from russia, which has continued to target commercial vessels. Yet we have a cargo ship leave the Port Of Odessa this morning. It had been trapped there since before the invasion, and it continues to make its way south towards turkey. There are some in the insurance and Shipping Industry that are rightfully nervous about this because russia enjoys quite a lot of dominance on the southern ukrainian coast. It uses its vessels to blockade ukrainian ports. And yet this vessel seems to have made its way through. More could follow but there is a big if here on whether russia decides to leave the vessels alone and it is a big if because it continues to strike ukrainian ports with drone strikes. Earlier, i spoke with john allen, a retired Us Marine Corps Four Star General and former commander of the Nato International Security Assistance force, about that bbc reporting a
Second, but he was in a thing called the civil war. You can understand that. Andrew jackson was really, really treated badly. In fact, his wife died during the process. A lot of people said she died because of the way they were treated. I mean, she was heartbroken and broken in so many other ways. I heard that for years. And i look now, even last night i was saying it. I said, Andrew Jackson or anybody else, when you think of the fake things, nobody has been treated like trump in terms of badly. No, thats true. Thats true. Thats definitely true. There is some truth to that, willie geist. Its hard for me not to also look at the person asking the questions. I mean, are you kidding me . These networks floating trumps lies. Im not going to make fun of it or anything, but it is creating a whole level of lies that people are swallowing whole because they think thats news. They think those are facts. Thats the part thats sad. I mean, its pathetic that donald trump parallels himself to Abraham