is a partial mobilization. putin also made an ominous pledge to use all means to, in his words, defend his country. translator: this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, independence and freedom will be ensured and those that try to black mail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. reporter: putin s rare national address comes amid a fierce counter offensive from ukraine s forces and the kremlin-backed push for referendums that could lead to moscow annexing occupied parts of ukraine. let s go to cnn s international security editor nick peyton walsh. nick, a partial mobilization. i mean, this sounds pretty drastic but could putin have gone even further? reporter: yes, certainly could have. this is not the mass mobilization which many during the 12-hour delay before the speech came out this morning were thinking might have been on the cards. he is, it seems,
fiona dealt a devastating blow to puerto rico. most of puerto rico without power this morning. it could be days before it is restored. many people there also have no running water. at least two deaths have been reported from the hurricane which dumped up to 30 inches of rain. emergency crews have rescued well over a thousand people including this woman who had to be carried to safety. many more may still be trapped in the flood waters. parts of the island, puerto rico we re talking about, are still struggling to recover from maria that made landfall five years ago today. let s go to layla santiago. what can you tell us? brianna, john, it has been continuing to rain this morning. these are the outer bands of fiona. we are in the northeastern part of the island, san juan. where a small portion of customers have actually had their power restored, but in the interior, in the southern part where we spent most of our time it s a different story. they are waking up without pow
of power. we begin in georgia where the only debate in the race has just wrapped up. it took place three days before voting begins. warnock won his seat in the 2020 election. warnock is a pastor. herschel walker running on a family values platform is currently involved in a scandal of pressuring the mother of one of his children to have an abortion. a week before the debate a former girlfriend made public accusations that you paid for an abortion and encouraged her to have another. this week you said the accusations are, quote, all lies. can you explain the circumstances around these claims. you have 60 seconds. that s a lie. i put it in a book. one thing about my life, i ve been very transparent. not like the senator. he s here things. at the same time, that s a law. on abortion, i m a christian. i believe in life. i tell people this. georgia is a state that respects life and i will be a senator that protects life. i say that was a lie and i m not backing down. we have s
suspect s vehicle. vicki and casey white fled, the pursuit ended with the crash you see there. the sheriff s office says vicki white sustained self-inflicted gun gunshot wounds. marshal, law enforcement saying the u.s. marshals task force intercepts the couple, actually collided with them to end the pursuit. can you talk about just how this search ended? yes, we developed information these suspects were in the area, and they were possibly staying at a local hotel. surveillance was establish on that facility. a short time later, vicki white came out of the hotel. she was wearing a wig. the two suspects got into a vehicle. the rolling surveillance continued. we asked for cystness and a short time lied later, there was a a chase, a vehicle chase and the suspect wrecked the car, rolled over. and we approached the vehicle to get the two suspect the out. we got casey white out. he immediately announced that his wife shot herself in the head and that he didn t do it. marshal,
Stretching from wichita down towards san angelo, texas, the particularly dangerous situation is the one that is for the north sliver of texas and includes much of oklahoma, including oklahoma city, and then goes up into wichita until 11 00 central time this evening, again, labeled that particularly dangerous situation for the possibility of violent long tornadoes that would be ef2 and strength or greater. We already have found a couple of Tornado Warnings that have been issued for the northern part of texas here as these storms start to respond to the daytime heat and fire up, we also have a batch of storms that have been on the decaying trend and a severe thunderstorm. Watch him parts of georgia. This is the threat. You can see that red bulls eye goes from Wichita Falls up towards wichita and then into springfield, missouri were intense tornadoes, baseballsized hail, and those damaging wind gusts or possible, and again, its that fear for the very strong tornadoes, some of the ones tha