russian-backed forces in ukraine. in his first television interview, along with his fiancee right here on outfront. and a nasa spacecraft crashing into an asteroid. you are going to see it here live. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. up in flames. ukraine taking out crucial russian artillery as it pushes russian forces further back into retreat. this is video from ukraine s military. the air assault taking out russian vehicles including a tank. we re getting graphic video of ukraine s counter-offensive. we re told that this video we re showing you now is from eastern ukraine. you can see the road here absolutely littered with burnt out tanks and bodies of what appear to be russian soldiers. ukraine s punishing pushback costing putin at home, possibly threatening the one thing he cares about most, his power. the outrage over his decision to summon at least, at least 300,000 more troops to fight is now turning to violence inside russia. let me show you th
polls in a snap election. we re live in rome with a look at the deepening political divide in the country. and nasa will test out a mission that sounds straight out of a hollywood movie, a spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid s moon. a look at the upcoming mission. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we are expecting an update at any moment from the national hurricane center with the latest forecast track of tropical storm ian which could be the first major hurricane to hit florida in four years. we begin in eastern canada where hundreds of thousand right side still without power. fiona is now a post tropical cyclone and continues to move through the region. hurricane force winds battered the maritimes as the storm made landfall saturday, the strongest storm on record to hit dan da s atlantic coast, huge waves battered the coastline causing severe flooding. police posted photos of destruction saying condition
good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the horror. ukraine s ministry of defense releasing these jarring and grotesque images. this is before and after. the soldier here is ukrainian. the image on the left is him taken during the siege of the azostal steel plant. that is when they were hunkered down not getting the full food and water that they needed. but there he was fighting. and on the right four months later, that is him now, starved, deformed. it is not even possible to imagine what happened to that man. and yet that picture is the reality. it is how russia is treating human beings. and you can t look the other way when you see that. it comes as putin has taken the war to a whole new level today running a sham election in parts of ukraine that are kind of under russian control. i ll show you the ballot. it reads just one question. the wording varies depending on the region. are you in favor of seceding from ukraine and joining the russian federation? and dow
and a key figure they would like to hear from. mary bruce with late reporting. the war in ukraine. and tonight, nato s largest expansion in decades. president biden and nato leaders formally inviting finland and sweden to join the alliance. and tonight, the u.s. now increasing military commitments in europe including a permanent presence now in poland. vladimir putin is responding tonight. cecilia vega traveling with the president. we re also learning about the two american veterans captured while fighting for ukraine. tonight, russian state tv releasing new video, both americans appearing to be prompted to make certain statements. and what one of the families back here at home is now saying about the state department. what they re being told about negotiations for their release. also back here at home tonight, the death toll climbing in what is already the deadliest migrant smuggling incident ever here in the u.s. what authorities are now saying about the suspected dri
that was mr. giuliani. he said, we have lots of theories. we just don t have the evidence. and i don t know if that was a gaffe or maybe he didn t think through what he said. i said, what would you have me do? and he said, just do it and let the court sort it out. but rusty bowers, the arizona speaker of the house and other election officials were not just facing pressure from the trump team. many also endured harassment and in some cases actual violence from people in their states who believed trump s election lies. listen to this tape from the michigan secretary of state, jocelyn benson. 45 minutes later, we started to hear the noises outside my home, and that s my stomach sunk. i thought, it s me. and then it s just, we don t know what s going the uncertainty of that was what was the fear. like, are they coming with guns? are they going to attack my house? i am in here with my kid. i m trying to put him to bed. so it was that was the scariest moment, just not k