hello, welcome to cnn newsroom. we begin with this monster winter storm. its core is hovering over the great lakes, and its trailing arctic air is causing power outages and dangerous travel conditions two days before christmas. life-threatening windchills have permeated all the way to the gulf coast, over 70 million americans are experiencing below freezing temperatures, that includes the entire state of texas. this video s from kentucky where the governor has just confirmed three people have died as a result of this storm. and this from our affiliate whbq in memphis, tennessee, their high today, 16 degrees. it s usually around 52 this time of year. the city s enforcing rolling blackouts to reduce the strain on their power fwrid. and damaging winds grid. and damaging winds have knocked out power to a million customers nationwide. and look at this the storm system causing heavy flooding in parts of new england. just a harrowing sight for a region expected to hit freezing
killed during a shooting at a military checkpoint, we will have the latest from jerusalem. announcer: live from the cnn center in, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia where residents are now urged to head to air raid shelters after a second deadly rocket strike within days. have a look here. these are scenes of the aftermath after multiple rockets slammed into residential areas saturday, reportedly killing at least 17 people. further south moscow is scrambling to get the bring linking the occupied crimea with russia back up and running, a part of the bridge collapsed after a huge explosion and fire saturday. now russia says repair work will be under way around the clock, some train and road traffic has already resumed but divers will go into the water later today to see if the structure can support trucks. ukraine isn t claiming responsibility for what happened but president zelenskyy made it clear he s far from feelin
authorities have been urging peoples to stay inside and stay off of those roads, we are talking about some of the vehicles that are out there and still attempting to lead. they asked people to hunker down and get to that high ground. they have made city parking garage is available for people to park their ground cars on higher grounds until the storm passes. a lot of those are full, they were absolutely packed to the gables last night. sandbags have been handed out. at this point in time, the city has done what they could to prepare and it is these next couple of hours that they have asked people to really stay put, stay safe, and then let the first responders, do it they are work and to not get in the way. that is the big goal, it is the next couple of hours, the high tide, the surge, the water that is coming down that it is an greatest. kayleigh. kayleigh: the last time south carolina sought make landfall was 2016 with hurricane matthew. what a resident saying with that i
explosions seen across russia s capital from the russian kamikaze drone strike. at least four people were killed in kyiv, including a pregnant woman. a ukrainian official says they were able to shoot down most of the drones. like this one. caught on dramatic police body cam video. the words for beldograv written on the drone. here s what she saw there. reporter: i think you can see behind me, this is an ongoing rescue effort, this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from the air. we also saw another elderly woman being rescued from the rubble, actually from the balcony on the neighbors building. if we sort of look around at just how chaotic this scene is. there are dozens and dozens of paramedics, firemen, rescue workers. officials say at least 19 people were rescued from that building alone. let s start our coverage with fred pleitgen in ukraine. fred, earlier, you were at a power plant that was targeted by the russians.
category 4 storm leaving a huge path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, rescue crews have been busy trying to get people who decided to ride out the storm to try and save them. they re stranded now by rising flood waters and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida. at this hour, it still has more to go. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, september 29th. joe is off this morning. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. without power this morning, first light this morning will begin to show the damage in florida. that s right. that s when we re going to start to see the story of what happened last night, what happened overnight. tropical storm now ian downgraded from a category 1 hurricane. in just the last hour, but still wreaking havoc across florida as it made landfall as a