it or didn t make a? are still missing? so, yes, we have a couple of people that were still looking for from our congregation. minister historical church and lahaina was destroyed. she shared this image of the church before the wildfire. this is what it looks like now. utter destruction everywhere. our hearts going out to everyone dealing with that tragedy right now as they continue the search and recovery efforts. our thanks to dana griffin for that report. we re gonna have much more on the situation on the ground in hawaii coming up. we do have new developments though in some police forces. drones increase in the big east to help fight crime. controversy around privacy and surveillance concerns. here s nbc s with an inside look at how one southern california police department is using drones. and i in the sky. helping police de-escalate gun confrontations, catch drug dealers, and put away violent
rescue workers scrambling to find survivors, and kramatorsk residents enraged that once more their city had come under russian attack. utter destruction, two missiles striking kramatorsk in eastern ukraine, one slamming into the city center. the strike took place at precisely 7:32 in the evening. we don t know what it was that struck, but it was clearly a very large missile, given the level of damage here. now, right behind me was a very popular restaurant. and given the time of the strike, there were probably many people inside. a witness inside the restaurant says it was crammed with people when the missile struck. he saw rescuers pulling dozens of people out. slabs of concrete collapsing at the center of the restaurant.
the ukrainians were just picking off one by one. utter destruction. so, the ukrainians don t want to repeat that mistake. so they re waiting for the good weather so they can spread their forces out, get those vehicles off the road and attack again where they want to. we re also hearing today from the russian ambassador, russia s ambassador to britain. he s been talking to the bbc and sort of saying, the effect of the west is escalating things and that this escalation is risking levels not seen before. what do you read into that? well, it s the same story that they ve been repeating since right after the invasion stalled. their invasion stalled last year. you know, they want to take advantage of this situation where they think they still retain some type of military power in ukraine. and they do. but they also want to
needing to get on with it, really, i suppose, before winter starts coming around the corner. you suppose, before winter starts coming around the corner. around the corner. you are exactly riuht. around the corner. you are exactly right- the around the corner. you are exactly right. the weather around the corner. you are exactly right. the weather plays around the corner. you are exactly right. the weather plays a - around the corner. you are exactly right. the weather plays a critical. right. the weather plays a critical role in all offence of operations. further ukrainians to have attacked some point say three weeks ago when the ground was still very muddy, from the rains, and the thaw from their winter, your tracked vehicles, even your wheeled vehicles, they road phone. and when they are road bound they become nothing more than targets. if you think back to what we saw in late february, and early march of last year, when the mark russians were advancing on keefe, those long co
mariupol is even important staging ground for russian forces in southern ukraine. it s crucial. there s a flow of russian military convoys. a ukrainian strike changes the game. in russia, staid imte media is something new. i want to show you the drone video. this is from bakhmut. it is what bakhmut is. you watch every night. you know that this is a hell zone. in russia, to show this destruction is quite a different propaganda tape. h they are showing this. utter destruction. the reason this is different is you remember what we saw in mariupol. putin was there in march to tout victory. look at this. the buildings and what they put out, intact, lights on, people