into those same places or similar functions in russia in order to prepare their ability to move on to the offense in belarus, one of their most significant railheads and road heads. and if they can influence places like that , they re going to make their life at least a little bit easier if they re able to move into the offense in the future. lieutenant colonel daryn. thank you very much for your insight. great as always, colonel. have a great night. kevin . thank you , chris . thank you . i just want to ask you why we have just about a minute left in this particular broadcast based on everything you re hearing from your sources, is this a more or less hopeful time for the folks in ukraine, in particular for the government? i know they re under siege. are they seeing enough improvement in the support that they re getting from around the globe give to feel like things are turning or no? well, i think every day
bring in a product, import a product, is upside down right now. we ve never seen this before. and it s delaying the delivery of products which usually take about five weeks to get from a factory overseas to your store shelf to ten or more. the way to think about it is, if you ve ever been to one of the big city airports and you see the taxis, and there s thousands of them, hundreds of them waiting to file into two lanes to pick up the passengers. that s sort of what it s like out in the harbor in los angeles. the railheads in chicago. and the warehouses over the country. everything is backing up right now. and this bottleneck means that you re having to make pretty strategic decisions about what toys to ship and sadly which ones to leave behind. we re weeks away from the holidays. but what s your advice for parents worried about getting gifts in time? the advice is simple. there s going to be lots of product you can buy in the
friends and didn t notice that meredith hadn t come home until the next morning, a back to work day. she would leave ella in my room and i would take care of her in the morning. i thought, ella isn t here. that was strange to me. i called her cell phone, it went straight to voice mail. i thought maybe she was at work. when did you become anxious? when i got to work, she worked with a good friend of ours. and the friend called me and said meredith didn t show up for work. and meredith is always at work. she is the first one at work. reliable meredith wasn t where she was supposed to be. julia called the sheriff s office. then she and some of meredith s other friends assembled a search party. maybe she twisted her ankle hiking and got stranded. they started with that note on the chalk board. we had a few ideas. we had books she had, places she highlighted and kind of just started driving. the friends split up, looking fer meredith s car at trailheads
for meredith s car at trailheads she d marked in her hiking guides. there were four of us in the car. we were trying to call park rangers, anybody that may have seen her car. then a friend of hers called her called us and said i found it. there was know on it. the car was in a parking area at the base of blood mountain. we just drove as fast as we could. we knew, just that sinking feeling when we first saw it. the friends raced up the blood mountain feeder path to the appalachian trail, but no trace of meredith or ella. so by night fall the search became all the more urgent as a cold front moved in and temperatures on blood mountain plunged below zero. at daybreak, thursday now, the friends were joined by deputies from the local sheriff s office. john kegel, just shy of retirement, was the agent in charge for the georgia bureau of investigation, the state s top cops. we received a request from a local agency to help with a missing hiker. the case of the hiker missing