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Electric utility as well to make sure the power lines are clear. we operate over 4,000 miles of both distribution and transmission lines. so there s been a lot of work behind the scenes by the great men and women of the city of tallahassee to make sure that we are prepared as well as we possibly can be going into the storm, and then we re going to hunker down and once the storm moves through we will be prepared for restoration afterwards. but it is a concern. absolutely. well, listen, good luck to you, mayor daley, and the people of tallahassee, we wish you the best in these coming days. thank you. appreciate it. and we will be hearing shortly from the fema administrator in terms of federal, national preparations for this approaching storm. of course we ll bring you those updates and those comments as they come. brianna. in the meantime, the funeral of russian mercenary chief yevgeny prigozhin was held privately at a cemetery in st. petersburg today. prigozhin of course killed
Is, quote, not much cause for optimism. putin himself has been largely silent on the matter, but he was seen in public today for the first time since december. state television aired footage from his visit to a cemetery in st. petersburg as part of a world war ii remembrance. we will see what american diplomats and military leaders have to say in response to those comments from russia. we are expecting briefings from both the state department and the pentagon in the next few minutes. joining me now is richard engel from eastern ukraine and kelly o connell. kelly, first to you, this phone call is happening right now. has the white house given us any idea on what it plans or what the president plans to talk about? well, the white house has just told us really moments before we came out here that it is about to happen shortly. they had not previously confirmed that the original confirmations were coming from the ukraine side.
So what images they might have from us is from 40 years ago, which 40 years ago at this time, jimmy carter was president. i know later in the summer. a particular movie debuted called star wars. coincidental or not? i think we need to run that by nasa, neil. you may be on to something. neil: many people say i m on something. i just thought i would pass that along. you can t make it up. thanks very much. the timing of this in a day where we re so back and forth with each other. i want to give you an indication of the type of stuff we re fixated on in just a second. vice president pence, for example, visiting the cemetery in st. louis. i ll get to that. but this is far more democratic and getting past these divisions and insults that go back and forth. that s something that i want to explore with the second to last
virtual tie for the lead. what happened to newt gingrich nice guy? he vowed not to go negative in response to the other candidates attack ads, but that didn t stop gingrich from blasting ron paul. in an interview with cnn s wolf blitzer he said he wouldn t vote for paul. gingrich pointed to incendiary newsletters distributed under paul s name in the 80s and 90s. you look at his newsletters and then you look at his ads, his ads are about as accurate as his newsletters. now if he were to get the republican nomination. he won t. let s say he were. could you vote for him? no. amateur video out of syria is said to show defectors trying to ambush security forces in daraa. cnn cannot independently confirm this claim. observers from the arab league are now in the country for a second day to determine if the government has kept its promise to stop the bloody crackdown on its citizens. a league official tells cnn they have postponed trips to three cities today due to l