outfront next, russian bride offers $3500 to anyone who will put their life on the line as a new report shows putin to be launching an all out air assault. russian forces are gathering this evening. outfront investigation. tracking down chinese factory that make spy balloons belonging to chinese entities that tout their military capabilities. one executive even pointing to it flying over the united states on a map. wait till you see it. congresswoman angie craig speaks out. a stranger followed her into the elevator, punched her, tried to get in her apartment, she fought back. she s my guest. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. $3500 for your life. that s what city aligned with russia is now offering men who sign up to fight putin s war. this is it. this is the decree. it is a decree signed by the leaders of a city aligned with russia right over the border in kazakhstan. it establishes a lump sum payment to mobilize citizens as well as person who voluntarily express t
for their country will prevail. democracies over the world will stand guard for our freedom today, tomorrow and forever. president joe biden delivering a powerful message to vladimir putin and all of eastern europe marking one year of war in ukraine. we ll have more on his speech in warsaw in just a moment. back here at home we re learning more about the special grand jury that investigated the potential 2020 election interference by former president donald trump and his allies. plus we ll have the latest on the efforts to cleanup an environmental disaster in ohio as federal and state officials take action against the rail company at the center. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, february 22nd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. today president joe biden wraps up a historic trip to eastern europe. last night he gave a speech in warsaw, poland marking one year since the russian invasion of ukraine. it followed monday s s
to weapons and military. this place that you are looking at right now, the presidential palace, this is the same location where president biden gave a speech last year, one month into russia s invasion into ukraine. he gave a speech talking about what he believed the broader implications were, not just for ukraine or russia, or for eastern europe, but really for the entire wrorld, but there wa a moment at the end of the speech, a comment he made that got everyone s attention. this was the moment. ukraine will never be a victory for russia. people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness. we will have a different future, a brighter future rooted in democracy and principle, hope and light, of decency and dignity, with freedom of possibilities. for god s sake, this man cannot remain in power. it was a moment that captured headlines worldwide. ambassador taylor, you watched that moment as well. you know as well as i do, the ambassador had to come out and say the
i guess the implications of that incredible as well. will ripley, thank you so much. from taipei tonight. thanks to all of you for join us. see you back here at 9:00. ac 360 starts now. good evening. we begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right now. it has been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering turkey and syria. the number of dead continues to rise from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands. right now, at least 21,000 people are known to have been killed. another 78,000 injured. because there is far less access to northern syria, the concern is that the casualties there could be far, far worse. we are watching this play out right now from a distance. and from a distance, it looks one way. but up close is where the horror and the heroism is. this disaster is happening one person at a time. in this case, one little girl. we don t know her name. she is about 5 years old. she was rescued after being trapped
that s the same type of aircraft and missile that shot down the chinese balloon off the coast of south carolina. one of the questions we asked at the pentagon briefing was if there was so much intelligence to gain by letting the previous balloon fly across the united states and being able to observe it, why was this one shot down so quickly especially when the senators were furious it wasn t shot down earlier. was the pentagon wbowing to political pressure. the decision to shoot it down before it entered into u.s. airspace, the pentagon bowing to pressure from the hill? we re going to judge each of these objects on its own merits. it entered into u.s. airspace on february 9th. we sent up aircraft to assess what it was. the decision was made that it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic. the president gave the order to take it down and we took it down. in the end this was shot down just a few miles over the water. that water frozen so it did essentially fall