so who s behind it? it comes as russia vows revenge for the cluster munitions the united states is now sending to ukraine. plus, trump running out the clock. why getting elected could be his best legal defense strategy. former trump white house attorney ty cobb is outfront. and if you can t beat him, join him. hear pga golf tour executives explain why they sold out to the saudis. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the two russian military giants dead tonight. one of them the most senior general to die in ukraine since the war began. lieutenant general oleg sokov killed on a strike on a russian military base in berdyansk. he was a rising star inside putin s military. back in 2021 picked to speak at a cadet ceremony that was attended by putin himself. and tonight it s not just him, the mystery is growing over why another top russian military figure was murdered, and this in broad daylight. this is a submarine commander shot multip
more than a month s worth of rain pounding down in just hours. these are the scenes in storm-battered new york, where officials say federal assistance has been offered. new hampshire, where flash flooding washed out roads, and vermont, where torrential rain has poured since sunday. it s hard to keep up when it s coming down so hard. reporter: in the state capitol, the winooski river flooded, and the wrightsville dam threatened to spill. city officials advising nearby residents to move to higher gro ground. don hancock watched his belongings float away. i ve been there many times to help people out, but i ve never lived this side of it. reporter: and he is not alone. across the country, one in one thousand year rain events are happening more an more. this kind of weather event is called that because it has a one in one thousandth, or 0.1% chance of happening in any one year. the national climate assessment says the climate crisis
seashore and russia is starting to heavily bomb with dropping the bombs from the planes, and the territory, and we are waiting for more and more powerful bombs. i want to ask you for that, because i wanted to play some of the recording that we played earlier. it was released by the security services of ukraine that says it is a russian ground commander about that steel factory there in marimariupol. we are expecting surprises from russia. what kind of surprises? three 1-ton surprises. and he is said to level everything from the ground. if true, you are talking about the places that you are laying out, and this is the last stronghold for the ukrainian troops and hundreds the of civilians taking shelter with them, and what is the reaction there to hearing that?
the donbas area, and this is a whole different level of fighting. we have reporters all across ukraine, and we want to start with jim sciutto who is there on the ground, and what are you learning this evening? that is right, kate. it is the early stages of russia s renewed focus, we should say on the east and the south, and i am told so far no, more russian advances there, and no ground gained so far, and really probing attacks, but that does not sort of foursquare what is going to happen next, because they have taken kyiv and the capital, and moved in other forces from russia, and this is becoming the new focus for now. getting more of the donbas and parts of what they have occupied since 2014, and we have to be clear here, they have already gained ground there just in the
gro ground. reporter: cnn cannot vouch for the authenticity, but they have received other intercepted traffic with russian soldiers killing and raping civilians, and military observers have noticed the a tendency of the russians to use unsecured communications in ukraine, a for now the russian forces are willingly bombing a plant in the southeast of mariupol that once employed 10,000 people. it is unclear how many ukrainian forces are at the site, but they are using the free fall rockets and bunker busting rockets, and there are some photos which cnn cannot verify, but there are women, and children who are staying underneath the facility holding out against the attacks, and the surrender that was issued to the ukrainian troops