a helicopter crash in ukraine killing top officials and some children. the maga king who falsely claimed fraud said he s the one behind the attacks. george santos qualified to serve on two house committees even though no one s sure what his real qualifications are. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with this breaking news. tragedy in ukraine. devastating helicopter crash. the chopper plunged to the ground near a kindergarten. the crash killing ukraine s interior minister and leadership team and killing some children on the ground being taken to the kindergarten by their parents. cnn s clarissa ward live on the ground. what more do we know about this rapidly developing story? reporter: well, christine, as if ukraine hasn t experienced enough horror and enough tragedy. this morning e s events are tru devastating. you can see the area behind me where the helicopter crashed in. the latest informatio
denver gets hit tonight. the midwest in the path. 16 states now from colorado all the way to new york now on alert. and where is the snow in philadelphia and new york city this year? ginger zee is here tonight. this evening, the video for the first time after the deadly halloween terror attack in new york city that horrified the country. eight dead. the defendant now on trial and what we learned today. president biden, the oval office meeting, and the questions over classified documents. and tonight, what we ve learned about fbi agents and the search at president biden s home. why they didn t monitor biden s attorneys. cecilia vega at the white house. the deadly plane crash. video tonight of the final moments. all 72 onboard killed in nepal. what happened one minute before the plane was supposed to land? the war in ukraine tonight. the death toll rising from the russian missile strike targeting an apartment building in dnipro. and what we ve now learned about ukrainians ri
the midwest in the path. 16 states now from colorado all the way to new york now on alert. and where is the snow in philadelphia and new york city this year? ginger zee is here tonight. this evening, the video for the first time after the deadly halloween terror attack in new york city that horrified the country. eight dead. the defendant now on trial and what we learned today. president biden, the oval office meeting and the questions over classified documents. and tonight, what we ve learned about fbi agents and the search at president biden s home. why they didn t monitor biden s attorneys. cecilia vega at the white house. the deadly plane crash. video tonight of the final moments. all 72 onboard killed in nepal. what happened one minute before the plane was supposed to land? the war in ukraine tonight. the death toll rising from the russian missile strike targeting an apartment building in dnipro. and what we ve now learned about ukrainians right here in the u.s.
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
again today. passengers missing some of life s most important events. at this point, because i cannot get there, michael is there without a bride. it is hard to get married without your bride there. the word i can say is devastated. i don t know how else to explain how we re all feeling right now. more on the company s new apologies and the changes they re making ahead. let begin in ukraine. ben wedeman is live there in kyiv and, ben, your team could hear explosions on the ground and you ve seen the damage firsthand. walk us through your experience in the last couple of hours? reporter: well, we heard around 9:00 in the morning, jessica, several loud explosions and later we went to the scene of where apparently some of the debris of those rockets fell. now according to the mayor of kyiv, 16 missiles were fired in the direction of the capital. but all of them were intercepted by the air defenses. however debris fell in several locations. the first location was a house