one billion us dollars. hello and welcome to bbc news. russian and ukrainian forces are still fighting in the streets of bakhmut which russia has been trying to capture for several months. the deputy mayor of the city has told the bbc that the 4,000 civilians still living there out of an original population of 75,000 have no gas, electricity or water. thousands of russian troops have died trying to take the eastern city. if it falls, it would be the first russian victory of note in more than six months. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports from kyiv. this is bakhmut, or at least what s left of it, after some of the fiercest fighting since russia invaded ukraine. for more than six months, as the bbc has reported, ukrainian forces have held off a ferocious onslaught. but now russian commandos are growing increasingly confident, including the leader of the mercenaries known as the wagner group, which have been at the heart of the assault. translation: we ha
we might have an answer as we go looking today. good morning, it s wednesday. i m bill hemmer. dana: this is dana perino. a story like this with a new development every day insures the next day you ll talk about it again. the justice department reportedly considered sending agents to monitor the search of the president s home but according to the wall street journal officials decided not to in order to avoid complicating the investigation. bill: that s what we re told. the search was left to the president s lawyers and that revelation inspiring this headline in the new york post. nothing to seize here. dana: the post is on a role this week. it has put the white house on damage controller. reporters aren t buying their i have been forthcoming and clear about being prudent from here. guys, you guys can ask me this 100 times, 200 times if you wish. why is it the matter of this white house counsel to deal with documents from two administrations ago? we re not talk
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area the snowball effect can t keep up to connect crews to aircraft. julie: mike tobin is following this from chicago international airport. there are some reasons to be a little bit optimistic or have some optimism. the ugly visual the island of misfit bags is gone. doesn t mean all bags are reunited with their owners or made it to the proper city and moved to storage and people are showing up to baggage help at midway airport being sent to the storage longer where someone takes a ticket and attempts to locate bags. some of the bags are in the wrong city. when you look at cancellations across the nation, domestic flights, 2400 cancellations. of those 2300 are southwest. they still have a mess. move a day forward and the southwest cancellations drop to 39. is that an extension of the fact that southwest has already canceled 2/3 of their flight? hard to tell now. one thing you can tell for sure there are still people stuck away from their destinations, renting cars and pay
city and north towns from 4:00 a.m. today through 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. the city of buffalo is impasseible in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondary and side streets haven t been touched yet. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long-storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. julie: adam is in the fox weather center. the snow particularly in western new york. it is unbearable. you see a lot of cold stretched across the entire country as we still see feels-like temperatures in new york city at 12 degrees. six degrees in columbus, still back across the northern plains in the negatives. some spots as low as negative 30 again this morning and then the deep cold settled well down south across the country where most folks even across texas are waking up for temperatures below freezing. 23 degrees in atlanta and it stretches as far down across much of the state of florida