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
season. i ll do what the medical experts advise me to do. and i m quite certain they re not going to advise me in the wrong direction when it has to do with his health. his health is the first, foremost and only priority. reporter: this was his second diagnosed concussion this season for tua tagovailoa, kaitlan. there s an overwhelming amount of former players on social media urging tua to take care of his body and mind, let them heal because his long term health is far more important. rg-3 saying he shouldn t play again this season. we ll see what he and the team decide. thanks for the update. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 29th. don is off this morning. we have a lot of news under way, especially coming out of ukraine where russia has launched a massive attack overnight. missile strikes hitting critical infrastructure injuring civilians. we re live at the scene of one of those strikes in a few moments. al
washington, d.c., and martha s vineyard. instead of working with us on solutions, republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props. what they re doing is simply wrong. it s unamerican. it s reckless. the white house says the migrants were misled about where they were being taken and what would be provided once they arrived. we get more from cnn s priscilla alvarez. reporter: dozens of migrants are set to spend the night on martha s vineyard, sent there by florida s governor ron desantis as part of his promise to send migrants to democratic cities. our message to them is we are not a sanctuary state. it s better to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures. reporter: on wednesday the republican governor sent 50 migrants all from venezuela on two privately chartered planes to martha s vineyard. every community in america should be sharing in the burdens. reporter:
Like to be on the white house staff. Got to watch twitter to see what people are going to do. You were in, you were around when the Colin Kaepernick protests were going on when he was playing for the 49ers. What did you think then about that . I fully supported his right to speak out. I thought he made some mistakes, some big mistakes early. He wore the socks. Remember the socks that were pigs in policemen ewan forps. He didnt have a clear message at first. But i supported his right to protest and i think what he did was really admirable. He went out and sought the advice of a man named nate boyer, a former player with a seahawks. A military veteran, who gave kaepernick the advice to kneel. He said in stead of sitting on the bench, kneel. Its also a sign of respect. If you think about you bow in front of somebody. And so this was the advice kaepernick sought out. He sort of refined his message, saying i thought things had made
more sense in terms of clarifying what he was protesting. I