mourning, beset by grief after the massacre that left 19 children and 2 teachers dead at an elementary school. amid the devastation we re also seeing an outpouring of support for the community. on saturday, you see them there, a long line of mourners waited to lay flowers at a memorial site that was set up outside the robb elementary school. 21 empty chairs placed outside a local business. one, of course, for each life lost during tuesday s deadly rampage. as the community and the nation reel from yet another mass shooting, outrage is growing over why a group of law enforcement officers waited so long to rush the gunman. cnn s adrienne broaddus is in uvalde with the latest. reporter: we have seen a mix of emotions. anger, frustration, and disappointment after that 911 call timeline became more clear. but folks have wrapped their arms around the folks of uvalde and its community. i ve seen lines like this. if you take a look, folks waiting to purchase concert tickets or rece
million times to turn migrants away from the u.s. border, they say they ll appeal it but was the resuming a big political gift to biden? let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, absolute evil, absolute stupidity, those are the exact words of ukraine s president volodomyr zelenskyy after a cultural center outside kharkiv destroyed by a missile, you can see the strike there, debris raining down. ukrainians driving by at the time of the strike later seen running for their lives as the cloud of black smoke rises behind them. and today s attack coming as ukraine s forces have been successful overall in pushing russian forces back, specifically from kharkiv, and tonight we have dramatic new body cam footage that shows the fierce fight taking place outside what is the second biggest city in ukraine. [ speaking in foreign language ] those battles that russia continues to lose is part of why putin s top commanders have been fired, because they ve be
top news in the united states and around the world. ahead this hour, stalled or just slow-going? russia s attacked in eastern the don t blame me it s not my fault approach to tackling high inflation as u.s. president joe biden claims soaring prices his top priority. and the w.h.o. calls out beijing for its zero-covid policy calling it unsustainable. time for a rethink. live from cn nrk center. this is cnn newsroom. three weeks now into russia s attacks in ukraine. by most downs, ukrainian force are mostly holding their ground. ukraine s second biggest city has been the scene of intense fighting, but according to zelenskyy, the russian occupiers are gradually being push out. amove which they say the likely to protect lines from russia as well as to prevent cross-border attacks. they say the country s armed forces are resisting on most fronts, and four more settlements are now under control. but it could lead to a dangerous new phase according to the director of nationa
benjamin netanyahu openly rejects american plans for postwar gaza. cnn has learned that donald trump contacted a former mar-a-lago employee who witnessed his alleged mishandling of classified documents, repeatedly calling him in the months before trump s criminal indictment. we re going to get reaction to cnn s exclusive new reporting from legendary journalist bob woodward and carl bernstein. . welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news tonight. president biden and president zelenskyy trying to present a united front here in washington as aid for ukraine right now hangs in the balance. our correspondents are standing by over at the white house, up on capitol hill, and in ukraine and in russia. first, cnn s senior white house correspondent, m.j. lee. what stood out to you from what we just heard from presidents biden and zelenskyy?
this morning starts right now. this breaking overnight, hunter biden is facing nine new criminal charges as federal investigators say he avoided paying $1.4 million in taxes, instead spending that money on an extravagant lifestyle, how high the political cost may be for his father. donald trump set to testify monday in his new york fraud trial after calling it a disgrace to america. why his own lawyer is telling him not to take the stand. plus, shots fired outside of a synagogue before the first night of hanukkah, what the suspect said just before he was arrested. cnn this morning starts right now. it is friday, we re so glad you re with us, i m poppy harlow, with phil mattingly in new york. the 2023 campaign trail is running through the courthouse or courthouses, hunter biden facing nine new federal criminal charges, accused of failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes, in 2016, through 2019. and instead spending his money on things like drugs, escorts, pornogr