the world, i am allison caustic . ahead on cnn newsroom, relief still days away for many southwest customers as we enter day eight of the airline meltdown. i talked to an aviation expert about the federal ramifications there plus we have a live report on a deadly fire at a casino in cambodia. that has left seven people that. pope francis says pope benedict is very sick and asks for everyone s prayers, the latest from the vatican. we begin with what ukrainian officials are calling a massive missile attack on cities across the country. ukrainian air force says russia is attacking from various directions with air and sea- based cruise missiles. joins us from kia, what is the latest and what are you hearing? well, what we are hearing from ukrainian officials is that at least 120 missiles have been fired so far today from russia to ukraine, hitting basically every major metropolitan area in the country, including, of course kia, where we are just a few minutes ago, a distant
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would have been very busy. rescue workers also tell our teams over in thailand when they arrived pretty much the fire engulfed the building already, coming out overnight and scenes of the dark night sky, bright orange and tense flames rising upwards, and also i think that we have to point out that this is really a race against time, it is a situation like this, people also lost their lives through smoke inhalation, this is something that creeps through every crevice in the building, it is absolutely people came out this morning, this black acrid smoke rising to see what was happening and you can imagine all of the smoke really pushing out any sense of positivity this morning. these are where the pictures were in southeast asia.
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so far, we don t know exactly what caused it, but rescue workers who have been on site since it started in a lower restaurant, then spread from there and having look at the building, it is pretty impressive, i think many of you are familiar with the layout do you are used to make hotel. you know that 700 were rescued, that is a number of people that may have been in the building. they have already been taken to hospitals, to put it in context even though this hotel, the grand diamond hotel is in the town, which is just over the border in cambodia from thailand, most of the people who go there to gamble our from thailand, it is a popular for those making their way to the reef, which is where the beautiful temples of angkor wat are. it is a big transit town, very important business town as well, in terms of the trade between in cambodia, i wanted to give you the context, you can imagine this hotel
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