mishandled classified documents. we ll see if he s singing the same tune after what the fbi found at mar-a-lago. and russian shelling shutting down another reactor at the biggest nuclear plant in europe. is it safe and should the world be worried? it is a big disappointment on the launch pad in dpla flo florida. nasa pulling the plug on the scheduled launch of the unmanned artemis one rocket. engineers could not fix a liquid hydrogen like in time for liftoff and that s the second time this week technical issues forced nasa to scrub the launch. nasa officials say it will be several weeks. we do not launch until we think it s right. and these teams have labored over that and that is the conclusion that they came to. so i look at this as a part of our space program of which safety is the top of the list. the goal of the artemis program is return humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ultimately, take them to mars. police in mississippi arrest
worst drought in 1,200 years. we ll drive this lake down to elevation 1,000. that is 100 feet above dead pool, and you re at the bottom of the martina glass. prosecutors now have less than one week to submit proposed redactions to the judge so he can decide what might be released publicly. i think judge rinehart is going to protect the identity of confidential informants. even as his legal problems are mounting his hold on the republican party is tightening. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the day off, and you are in the cnn newsroom. we want to begin this hour in ukraine as it wrestles with the terrifying fear of a nuclear disaster. it is now almost six months to the day since russia launched its unprovoked invasion. new video from ukraine s ministry of defense right here says this is a successful strike destroying a rare russian radar complex in south eastern ukraine. ukraine is about to get more u.s. help in its fight against russia. the pent
4% of the dow is the worst we ve seen in two years. all hit hard because inflation remains stuck and no one can get it under control. an 8.3% annualized inflation rate. the core rate, that is without food and energy, also soaring more than 6.3%. this is the fourth 1,000 point sell-off for the dow just this year. again, this was a worse than expected inflation report. now the president is heralding this inflation reduction act that some people said is actually making the situation worse. because across the board, prices are going up. he s touting the prospect of eventually drug prices going down. even if he gets that and it s a herculean leap, it would be but a fraction of the overall costs that continue to soar. keep this in mind that with inflation running north of 8%, most food and related items are running at about double to sometimes triple that. whatever progress we ve seen on gasoline and related prices has done little to affect prices almost everywhere else. and then a
forecast models are putting florida in the bull eye s for a hurricane in days. this is what we re watching at this hour. thanks so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. putin s war on ukraine is where we do need to start at this hour. russia is staging referendums in four occupied areas of eastern ukraine beginning today. residents being forced to vote on whether the regions should become part of russia. the referendums are widely considered a complete sham of course but this is drawing global condemnation. ukraine s president zelenskyy is calling on russians now to revolt as putin is facing a growing decent from his people over his orders to mobilize 300,000 more soldiers. hundreds have been rounded up in anti war protests as we ve seen and more and more russians are trying to escape the draft and leave the country. cnn ben wedeman starts us off live from kharkiv on this referendum votes. what are you learning about how this will go? reporter: well, it s going, i think, a
also, trump attorney jim trusty joins us to talk about the parallels between what happened when hillary clinton was investigated for mishandling documents and the trump raid. the doj explains how many documents they have went through that breaking today. first up, back to school day for one of mine and probably many of years as well across this country. some covid restrictions are lingering around certain corners of the country and parents not happy about it. in our nation s capitol, some students now have a january deadline to get vaccinated or else they will not be allowed back to school. in philadelphia, there kids will start the year, there s some images of them, masked up once again with hope of relief from that in the near future. joining me now with the breaking news as everybody gets back to school, betsy devos. great to have you with us. obviously schools have suffered so much. students have suffered so much over the past several years. now we re doing to give it ano