detained across russia for protesting president putin s partial mobilization of reservists to reinforce his troops fighting in ukraine. also a sharp rise in the demand for flights out of moscow. prices have doubled and tripled for one way fares, direct flights to places that do not require russian visas are sold out through friday at least. joining us now with this new reporting on russia s internal military strife, katy bowe, this is fascinating what you revealed from your sources. tell us about this division inside the russian military. yeah. so over the last ten days we have seen the ukrainians exceed all expectations with the counter offensive and put the russians on the defense in the northeast and south. there hasn t been a lot that russia has been able to do to counter these ukrainian advances. and part of the reason, my sources are telling me, is that the russian military is really divided internally over what the strategy should be here to push back on ukraine, w
camera. she did agree to speak with my partner cnn producer nora. you were in with mia and her mother, i want to make clear her mother was there the whole time. what did she tell you? the 11-year-old mia was in that fourth grade classroom that we have heard so much about with ms. garcia and ms. morales. they were watching lilo and stitch, it was the end of the school year, and she said one of her teachers got the email that there was a shooter in the building and went to the door and he was right there. they made eye contact. the shooter made eye contact with the teacher. with the teacher and he shot out the window in the door. and then mia says it just happened all so fast, he backed the teacher into the classroom and he made eye contact with the teacher, again, looked her right in the eye and said goodnight and then shot her and killed her. he said goodnight before he shot her. he said goodnight. then it happened pretty fast after that as well. he started open fir
Suspected of killing an american. Good morning from washington, with the beautiful sunrise behind me, republicans say they want this the president wants this country to go off the fiscal cliff, to have a sunset when it comes to our fiscal situation is that really whats going on here . Lawmakers are on vacation, so will anything get done in time . Lots of people on vacation, dana. A winter storm may be headed your way. For all of the people traveling, 93 million americans on trains, planes, and automobiles. What it means for your Holiday Travel plans. Good morning, welcome to starting point. Chilly in new york city. 7 00 in the morning. Im alina cho in new york. And im dana bash in washington. Monday, december 24th. Christmas eve. Starting point begins right now. And our starting point, a u. S. Contractor in kabul gunned down and killed this morning by a woman wearing an Afghan Police uniform. It happened inside kabuls police headquarters. The latest in a string of suspected green on bl
We begin the hour with a dose of irony. The president responding to his attorney generals plea to stop tweeting with a tweet. The president today picking and choosing the parts of William Barrs interview that he likes. Barr says a person never asked him to get involved in the roger stone case. The president said its his choice to make. The tweet acknowledges but doesnt respond to a very direct and very public message yesterday delivered on abc news. To have public statements and tweets made about the department, about our people in the department, our men and women here, cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job. I think its time to stop the tweeting about the department of justices criminal case. John harwood is at the white house for us. I dont know, weve been told the president wasnt exactly surprised by these comments from his attorney general. Reporter exactly. You know, weve been learning that there was a co
Homeland Security Preparedness quote said this is going to be the disaster that defines our generation. The secretary of health tells cnn, quote, we are a couple days away of being out of masks. We are buying gowns on ebay. We are in the middle of a dire situation, hospitals in the u. S. Are becoming overwhelmed as an emergency physician told cnn, the sickest patients are terrified. They are air hungry, dropping their oxygen and confused, distressed. We can never show that, but it is terrifying. What would a Zombie Apocalypse look like if we only had verbal description of zombies, but could never show them. In new york, the epicenter of the pap demic, medical potential to e professionals from elm hurst in queens telling cnn they are burstling at the scenes and workers are in a constant statement of paranoia. Erica hill, tell us more. Reporter yeah, there is much concern about what is happening at the hospital behind me now. On the upside, can i tell you the lines sneaking around the bu