a helicopter crash in ukraine killing top officials and some children. the maga king who falsely claimed fraud said he s the one behind the attacks. george santos qualified to serve on two house committees even though no one s sure what his real qualifications are. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with this breaking news. tragedy in ukraine. devastating helicopter crash. the chopper plunged to the ground near a kindergarten. the crash killing ukraine s interior minister and leadership team and killing some children on the ground being taken to the kindergarten by their parents. cnn s clarissa ward live on the ground. what more do we know about this rapidly developing story? reporter: well, christine, as if ukraine hasn t experienced enough horror and enough tragedy. this morning e s events are tru devastating. you can see the area behind me where the helicopter crashed in. the latest informatio
is a global challenge which we will continue to work with other countries in order to make that change on global warming. arsenal player pablo mari is among several injured in a stabbing in italy which left one person dead and in sweden, resesarchers say they re close to completing the first crash test dummy based on an average woman. space probes have witnessed a big impact crater being formed on mars the largest in the solar system ever caught in the act of excavation. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the world s richest man, elon musk, has completed his long running £38 billion takeover of the social media company, twitter. the entrepreuner tweeted the bird is freed, in an apparent reference to the deal closing. mr musk also posted a longer statement on twitter, saying he didn t buy the firm to make more money. i did it to try to help humanity, whom i love . there are reports that a number of senior executives have been sacked an
united states and around the world. i m max foster in london. just ahead. those extremists that he runs around with, they just want to stoke this racial violence. we re tired of it. you re so desperate to have a job, it s days graceful. what impact does it have on the psyche of the people of kyiv that there are kamikaze drones attacking your capitol. everyone is so angry. everyone wanted to defend their families and hometown. he was on a mission to kill. he was out hunting. the suspect rein of terror has come to an end. live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s the 18th. it s 3 minutes away from the critical mid terms who controls congress. it s now underway. the u.s. senate and governor. and the new cnn poll. and it s a generic. it s holding. it s held in the u.s. senate races. trump-backed republican j.d. vance. their opponents have divisive party leaders. they made the inflation crisis we ve been seeing over the last few months if he hadn t
the former president is stunning. now, think of the nearly of nonstoarp negative coverages trump s given by the regime reg media. so i m thinking to myself today, imagine what this poll might look likhis polle if the s were even a smidge fair. times and other new york times dalling data spells doompo for the democrats as well. in the generic ballot, b republicans now holdrepublic a r point lead over democrats. that s a five point swingptembe. toward the gop since september. it s devastating and perhapst of most significant. there s a lot of significant stuff in this pollf in. the biggest shift came from women who identified as independent voters in september. they favored democrats by 14s pn points. now, independent women backedo u republican by 18 points. i thought thatt was a typo, bu it s not on top of that. almost two thirds of americans 64%.eve are going in the wrong direction. sixty four percent now at this point, i think it s good to to remember where things lookre b
will kevin mccarthy be the speaker of the january 6th, 2024 that s a pretty i don t know if i would bet for him to last a year? i take that that in the opposite. i think i probably would, yes. given the fact that, in an hour, we are going to have the 14th vote, i mean i m not a betting lady but have a good weekend, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we are now just one hour away from the house of representatives coming back to the session at 10 pm eastern, this evening, to potentially end this now historically an embarrassing of the house. after four days, and 13 failed rounds of voting, republican leader kevin mccarthy has finally managed to move the needle, bringing all but six of his detractors to his side. mccarthy needs just two more opponents if that happens, he could win this thing he s already made some very good progress. we will come back tonight. i believe to finish this once and for all. but if he can t no