well, kate, troubling this morning, two separate explosi explosions. one far to the west of where i m standing at a police standpoint seems to have been caused by an explosive device and here near where i m standing in do innocence and kramatorsk. we understand from a spokesperson for the ukrainian military a grenade was fired blowing up a helicopter there. despite the fact that no one was injured in either incident we are still seeing an area here extraordinary close to open conflict. tensions flaring in ukraine as the region teeters on the brink of war. bloody, fiery crashes erupting as the ukrainian military moves to reclaim cities taken by pro-russian militants, killing five of them, they say, and destroying three checkpoints around the eastern soun of slaviansk. they say it as a direct threat to russia warning of immediate
ukraine in donetsk. that s a flashpoint. what s the latest there? reporter: wolf, the concern is now ukrainian officials announced what they refer to as the second phase of their anti-terror operation. that will involve encircling the flashpoint of the unrest in the town of slovyansk. could that result in casualties, further conflict? we heard of explosions today an an airfield near there. of course, as you mentioned these violations of ukrainian airspace by russian aircraft given there are 40,000 troops across the border. extremely high levels of volatility here and really let s look at what things have picked up simply today. tensions flaring in ukraine as the region teeters on the brink of war. bloody, fiery clashes e ruptsing as the ukrainian military moves to reclaim cities taken by pro-russian militants killing five of them, they say, and destroying three checkpoints around the eastern town of
actually appeared in the video. norad began tracking santa in 1955 when a newspaper listed the wrong number for children to call santa, so they ended up calling norad s predecessor, the continental air defense command. now thousands of volunteers work at the command center every christmas eve to answer phone calls from all those curious kids wanting to know where santa is. jon: if the internet had been there when i was a kid, i would have said, cool! reporter: yeah, i m sure. i think kids will think it s cool. i m going to explain to, you know addison this year that it s to keep santa safe. jenna: that s a nice addition to the story. jon: simple enough. julie, thank you. jenna: wow, what a controversy over santa. well, tensions flaring over china s controversial air defense zone. speaking of fighter jets, a progress report by president biden s trip to beijing and a look at what could happen next. also, the mustang at 50. ford debuting the latest model
anything. we will not hear anything once we close the door. this cell phone video shows jose serano daring people to get off the plane this after the flight headed for north carolina didn t even let passengers on board until 4:00 then the plane was stuck behind 20 planes to takeoff then it turned around to refuel. tensions flaring over delay after delay passengers refused to take off with him on board. cops had to step in and remove him for questioning and the flight was canceled about 7 hours after it was originally scheduled to take off. it is now 47 after the hour. tsa agents responsible for keeping you save in the skies. who is checking up on them? shocking reports coming up. a city de criminalizes marijuana. if cops can t charge people does
laura: in the impact segment tonight, tensions flaring on capitol hill? we have every detail up to the minute and we will bring it to you. but, now, one man who is bucking his own party on capitol hill steve king, congressman from iowa, is going to vote no on the boehner plan. and we re waiting for that vote. congressman, how are you? you could miss the vote. maybe i will keep you here a little longer than i thought. maybe i will convert you, laura and you will send me back down there. laura: here is what i want you to explain to me. how do you propose by defeating the boehner bill, that you are going to get further down the road toward the goal that i think so many of us share, which is to shrink this government to get this debt under control. how will defeating boehner get. cut cap and balance. john boehner says that is our plan and we are sticking to it and had that been laid out or left on the table. we would balanced budget amendment. if it was clear that the votes aren t