what is clear, ukraine s fight on russian soil is having effect. but can it really have an effect to sort of put political pain on putin? that seems unlikely. ukraine maybe need to puncture a bit of the propaganda that everything is going well in the war, but if you re in moscow, it s not going to deflate the message from putin and the kremlin. why? because he still controls the narratives. the strikes are relatively small, not big casualties. it s structure damage so far, so it s not going to this time, i think, not going to put a course correction the way that putin is fighting the war. it may even bring about a level of more specific retribution, but perhaps not just abstract li hitten zelenskyy s hometown. maybe there would be intent
impacting airlines staff and bands of relentless severe weather lashing the country from coast to coast. 11 million in the south at risk of hail, powerful winds and possible tornados by tomorrow like what may have touched down in alabama after it tore through the region. we ve got a lot of structure damage we ve got windows blown out. we ve got roofs that are in the middle of the street. reporter: and a massive winter storm is making its way east, expected to dump several inches of snow from denver to detroit, right in time for the holiday weekend. a guarantee that this year s travel nightmare is also next year s steve patterson, nbc news and we ll be right back in 60 seconds with what president biden told vladimir putin during their critical phone call today.
night than when you have been with us before. what is the situation tonight at your hospital? well, lawrence, you know, we have taken a couple of punches to the gut. we were dealing with covid, of course, for the past couple of months, and that has been exhausting for our nurses and our doctors and hospitals have been very full along with most every hospital in louisiana. and about the last thing in the world that we needed was a category four hurricane, but, you know, here it is. we have been locked down since early yesterday morning about 6:00 a.m. we brought in a crew of doctors and nurses and other health care professionals, and we locked the doors and we literally rode this thing out. we had substantial structure damage to our hospital. we had some water on the ground floor, some water coming through the roof on some upper floors.