appreciate it. joining me now is retired brigadier general mark him mitt, the former political secretary of state for political and military affairs. general, on the read you can see where the russians have made gains. it s increased a little bit over the last two days, but not too much. how do you think ukrainians should be fighting this battle? well, we seem to be focused on no-fly zone, bringing in mig aircraft, trying to fight the russians like the russians fight them. one thought would be to go to your own strength, look at where they re having success. they re having tremendous success, as jim sciutto said, with those javelins. we ve given them the best rifles in the world, what we call a man cannon. they ve got all these molotov cocktail for city fighting. this is warfare they re good at, partisan warfare. don t fight the convention fight the way the russians are.
called him mitt. so he he s definitely cautious about getting too personal or letting people in too close. when it gets down to the final moments of polling, i mean obviously they think this is significant. the the sort of style versus substance. how significant do we think it is going to be? how significant does the romney camp think it is going to be n. they think it will help at the margins. don t think it will be a game changer by any stretch. the there is some risk also in in being too macabre. too depressing in telling these stories. romney, i watched him now on the trail retell the same humanizing stories about half a dozen times. and he s he s changing the way he does it. this is an evolving strategy and will see if it works and like you just said, the curious about that. how does he change give me an example how he changes and telling the story? does he seem to be getting more comfortable with it?
a radiologic tech. that s when the licensing board started investigating him will after an incident in a hospital in arizona. they are speak viewed interviewe and he told the licensing board i looked in and found dave lying on his back in the bathroom stall. i looked in the toilet and spotted a 5 cc syringe and needle floating in the water. the label was blue and he said i m going to jail. while this arizona board was investigating him, he voluntarily surrendered his license and he wrote a letter to the board saying, i m surrend surrendering my arizona license at will beuse i don t have the resources nor money to fight the accusations. and willing to wait to be eligible for reinstated in through three years. later that very same month, he went on to work in hospitals in philadelphia, kansas, georgia, and then new hampshire. an expert? so-called drug diversion says it s all too common that a health professional will be investigated in one state and then leave to go work in ano
brit, mitt romney. now i toss over to fredricka whitfield, and good day to you whitfield, and good day to you all. captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. in this hour, mitt romney manages to make headlines with foot in mouth mments that offended the british prime minister and the mayor of london and other stories that we are following and right to it. people are mopping up and assess ing the damage in parts of the northeast today and a series of severe storms swept through communities in new jersey and pennsylvania and new york and the storms left hundreds of thousands of customers without power. a brooklyn man was killed after lightning hit a church causing a scaffold to fall on him. a falling tree crushed a pennsylvania woman s car. i was coming home from the grocery store and the sky was pitch black and next thing you know the back door swinging open and my son is yelling from the front of the house, get ou
i ll have the weather on both sides of the pond. cnn newsroom starts right now. and good morning to you. happy friday. thank you for joining us. i m carol costello. we begin with new details on a man who is accused of being a serial infector of hepatitis c. david kwiatkowsky is accused of infecting many people. one hospital fired him for drug abuse two years ago. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is in boston with more. good morning, elizabeth. reporter: carol, let me tell you when what happened in arizona. cnn has learned that david kwiatkowsky was working at a hospital in arizona when his fellow employees found him passed out in the men s locker room. they found syringes on his person. he was in possession of syringes. they took him to the emergency room to treat him. when they tested him, he tested positi for cocaine and marijuana, and that hospital did report him to arizona authorities. legal authorities, law enforcement i should say. now, of course,