other residents left to run for cover. translator: we were on the eighth floor with my 4-year-old son. we first ran to the corridor, and then down the fire staircase to get outside. reporter: as you can see, this building sustained some pretty substantial damage, and the drone attack went on for several hours last night, with the drones hovering over the city center and ukrainian air defenses frantically trying to take them down. ukraine s military says it shot down 29 of the 31 uavs the russians sent. kyiv s mayor vitali klitschko comforting his citizens, and telling me western air defense systems kept many people here safe. if we didn t have our defense, modern defense from our partners we have much worse situation in our hometown. more destroy the buildings and it will be more civilians killed. reporter: but russia has already threatened massive retaliation after the drone attack on moscow, leaving people in kyiv and elsewhere bracing for what could be worse to com
video campaign offering russians a secure way to safely share secrets about the war in ukraine. inside that strategy, next. and the critical meeting in the next 60 minutes between president biden and kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling. what we just learned from an influential member of congress. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments for us. let s start at the white house where against backdrop of a slightly nervous wall street, that high level, high stakes meeting is about to get underway with the full faith and credit of the u.s. at stake. monica alba joins us with more. so, monica, what is the white house saying ahead of this meeting? well, much like last week when we were in this exact position, chris, when the president had invited the top congressional leaders to come to the oval office for this meeting, remember that white house officials lowered expectations, saying there wouldn t be a major breakthrough as a result of this meeting. we ar
air raid sirens and fresh destruction. president vladimir zelenskyy pleading with g 7 nations for more weapons during emergency talks on the deadly russian bombardment. also tonight, the u.s. justice department is urging the u.s. supreme court to stay out of the dispute over classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. we ll break down the new federal response to the trump team that was filed just a short while ago. and a baltimore man walks free after 23 years in prison. prosecutors dropping murder and all other charges against him after he was featured on a popular crime podcast and cleared by dna testing. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in ukraine where valid p vladimir putin s assault on the city is taking a deadly toll. fred pleitgen is on the scene for us in kyiv. reporter: as the russian military continues to fire barrages of missiles at ukraine eng
pivotal midterm elections. in a little over 24 hours results will begin pouring in, with huge implications for the direction of the country and the future of the biden agenda. also tonight, two election exclusives. cnn sits down with republican leader kevin mccarthy to preview his plans if the gop wins the house. and speaker nancy pelosi opens up to anderson cooper in her first interview since the brutal hammer attack on her husband paul. cnn reporters and kr correspondents are on the campaign trail covering key races, the house and senate and governor s mansions across the country as well. all are at stake. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first let s go to cnn s kate baldwin standing by just outside of philadelphia. control of the senate could come down to pennsylvania. both mehmet oz and john fetterman are spending the final hours getting out their closing messages. what s the lat
shed light on why this happened. we re also not showing any faces in the frame. in addition to three guests who will be joining us shortly, all experts in aviation and crash investigations, they will be weighing in on what they see in this video. because whatever brought the flight down on approach yesterday to nepal s second largest city likely happened or became unstoppable in those seconds that you ll see. 72 people were above the twin engine european made airliner, at least 68 are known to have died. now, the last video is difficult to watch. the plane in the sky. we should warn you again so is this video inside the plane. the view is out the left side of the aircraft. you see the wings trailing edge. the back side of the wing as the plane starts to bank to the left. in a moment you ll see a white flash where we do an edit. then the plane levels momentarily and then just a few seconds later, it all goes wrong and the plane banking again drops. take a look. we have live re