which hasn t seen this type of attack since the early stages of the war. civilians were forced to move underground of local subway stations as they await incoming strikes. kyiv s mayor says there will be emergency power outages across the city. russia s vladimir putin says this morning s barrage was direct retaliation for that attack on a critical bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. putin blaming ukraine for the aing ta. ukraine has not taken responsibility. this morning, president zelenskyy saying russia is trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth. the general assembly will begin over the illegal annexation over ukrainian territories. caliperry live in kyiv, general mcofry. cal. let me start with you. it was a very, very intense couple of hours. what s the latest on the ground there? reporter: so it was the height of rush hour. 8:15 in the morning, eight hours ago, when we heard a series of explosions. you couldn t mistake them for anything
an explosion on a critical bridge linking russia to the annexed crimean peninsula, crippling a key supply route for russia. here at home, republican leaders doubling down on their support for embattled senate candidate, herschel walker, with two top gop senators heading there to campaign with the former football star tomorrow. and fresh reaction to remarks from tommy tuberville. they want crime because they want to take over what you got. they want to control what you have. they want reparation because they think the people that do the crime are owed that. good day. as russia unleashes a barrage of deadly strikes across ukraine including kyiv, lviv and other cities. the explosions injurying civilians and infrastructure. people forced to take shelter in a key subway station. this for retaliation for damaging the only bridge connecting to crimea. a bridge to important to putin, he personally drove across it when it opened. on russian state tv today, putin saying he had la
parts of occupied ukraine. ukraine responding by applying to join nato and the deadly attack on a humanitarian convo dozens killed. the historic moment as justice ketanji brown jackson makes her supreme court debut. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from ft. myers beach, florida. good evening. landfall once again. and a third day of its deadly and destructive assault on the u.s., hurricane ian made landfall once again near georgetown, south carolina, as a category 1 storm pounding coastal communities with 85-mile-a-hour winds. myrtle beach swamped rescue operations under way. the storm blowing a shrimp boat on to the beach. part of a pier in pawley s island was torn apart. while parts of histoc
six killings in northern california, and at least one possible suspect. we want our communities to pay attention to how he walks. a lot of people are scared to come out at night. it s just scary, period. i m pamela brown in washington. and you are in the cnn newsroom. a massive bridge, the longest one in europe, is crippled in a millisecond, and it s very bad news for russia. look here. this is the exact moment that russian president vladimir putin suffered his latest blow in his unprovoked war against ukraine. the blast from an apparent truck bomb knocking out three of the four lanes of the bridge that links mainland russia to the crimean peninsula. it s annexed territory in the south. now a huge bottleneck chokes a critical supply route for putin s war in ukraine. now we should note, ukraine has not claimed responsibility for in attack, but it is most certainly at the very least celebrating it. ukraine quickly unveiled this commemorative postal stamp that it will
this is all we had. we lost everything. we re with not one single thing. everything gone. tens of thousands of floridians will sleep in shelters tonight following the devastation of hurricane ian, which has now made landfall in south carolina. also tonight, putin s illegal annexation. he s unhinged, and he s dangerous. so how should the world respond? plus, the supreme court welcomes justice ketanji brown jackson ahead of what is expected to be another perilous term. it s about damn time we have a discussion about the right-wing freakout over lizzo and james madison s crystal flute. we begin tonight with hurricane ian. once again making landfall. this time on the coast of south carolina as a category 1 hurricane, the first to strike the state since 2016. the storm now a post tropical cyclone is expected to move across the carolinas tonight into tomorrow morning. the national hurricane center is warning of life-threatening storm surge and severe flooding. just take a