been destroyed. also the new images of the underwater pipeline connecting russia to germany that we know had been destroyed, now we see it, after powerful explosions. was it russian sabotage? and what nato has warned if it was. britt clennett in ukraine tonight. reporter: tonight, russia launching a devastating new wave of missile and drone strikes, cutting power and water to hundreds of thousands of ukrainians. video circulating online showing a massive explosion at a thermal power plant in dnipro. president zelenskyy saying nearly a third of ukraine s power stations have been destroyed, causing massive blackouts , urging his people to conserve energy. the attacks on energy infrastructure, designed to cripple the country ahead of the brutal winter freeze. desperation growing in recently-liberated towns in the kharkiv region, where the russians have used a scorched earth policy. 9-year-old artem and his grandmother iryna cooking outside on an open fire. no gas, no electricity.
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have the benefit of professionals and technicians from all over the country. so we re grateful for that. right now we are in, you know, deep discussions with federal leadership, whether it s the epa, fema, or our congressional delegation that we are having intense kdiscussions about how e fund the fix. so, you know, there s a briefing that i have every monday with the team that is on the ground here, and invariably i speak with someone that has some agency with respect to this issue every single day. and fixing it is one thing, but who should be held accountable for the crisis? well, this is a set of accumulated challenges that have happened over the better part of 40 years. i shared i moved to jackson my personal experience is i moved here in 88. in 89, a winter freeze left the system debilitated, left the city without water pressure.
gun legislation in the state of texas, the follow from that horrific tragedy? i think that falls under the category of him, voters not seeing him as particularly good at his job. the winter freeze is probably the best example of that. right, yes. there is something different, almost a political but more devastating to a candidate, when people may agree with you politically, think okay, ideologically implicitly than the other guy, they are just bad at your job. for greg abbott, the winter freeze, what happened in uvalde, a couple other incidents, they ve made more and more people think this guy just doesn t belong here. i m curious to hear what you think about the presidents speech from thursday night in philly. kind of fighting for the soul of this country, addressing maga republicans head on. let s play a bit of it, and then we ll talk. do we have? it there is no question that
i can t imagine doing it myself. how are you making it through this crisis? we re making it day by day. it s extremely different. we were dealing with this just less than a year ago during the winter freeze. so, that winter freeze kind of helped me to prepare for what s happening right now. and it s dev sastating as a fatr because, you know, we re the providers for the family. and right now, we are just crippled because we have no control of what s happening on the outside of the home. so, i can only control what s happening on the inside, just trying to be as prepeared as possible. and that s what we re doing right now. hey, kehinde, i understand before this most recent emergency, you started getting bottled water for your family because the boil water advisories come more frequent, last so long, that now you re paying the water bill and you ve