strikes on ukraine. power facilities in key cities taking a direct hit and leaving residents in the dark and cold. also tonight, we re digging through a new batch of just released january 6th transcripts including testimony by donald trump jr. and we re getting new insight into melania trump s mistrust of her husband s inner circle. and the southwest airlines meltdown drags on now for an eighth day. with thousands more flights canceled. will southwest get back to a full schedule tomorrow as the company claims? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour in ukraine after one of the biggest russian missile assaults since the start of the russian invasion. let s go straight to the capital, kyiv. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is on the ground for us. ben, so what are you seeing and hearing over there? reporter: well, what we heard at about 9:00 this morning l
normal. but what is still going on is assessing the number of dead. we got an update earlier today from the erie county executive. executive wide 39 deaths confirmed by the medical examiner. but park polencarz said that number is almost certain to rise. listen. there are additional bodies that have been received that are believed to be blizzard deaths but they do need to have an autopsy and additional work done including a 4-month-old who died on christmas day that the medical examiner s office is still trying to determine the death. reporter: so certainly the work of the medical examiner isn t over, and there are still large piles of snow around, and authorities have said there s still a chance they could find people in cars or people trapped under snow banks just because of how horrific this snow was. now, i can tell you there was some good news also earlier today, in part because of the melt that s already happened and the clearing that s already happened. but they were concer