with anderson cooper airs next. thanks for joining us. i ll see you back here next weekend. have a good one. welcome to the whole story. tonight, we take you into a world that few people get to see up close. the world of superyachts. private boats, some longer than a football field. they can cost hundreds of millions of dollars and there are plenty of buyers. since the pandemic, more people are building and buying them. business is reportedly booming. they ve become status symbols for the super rich. their impact on the environment and the oceanis is a topic of debat. the u.s. has seized some superyachts of russia s elite and now, your tax dollars are being spent to keep them in shape. alisyn takes inside this world of superyachts and the first stop, the monaco yacht shohow. this is monaco. land of the ultra a wealthy. and dottining the harbrbor l li crowown jewel rs s are the e wo largest supeperyachts. that s no o surprise c consider thisis is the richest cocountry t
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why he s taking the risk talking to cnn s christiane amanpour in an interview be behind bars. new details about mitch mcconnell, treated for a concussion in a d.c. hospital now after a fall. i m jake tapper. we begin with putin s brutal war on kroukraine. strikes reaching nearly every corner from kyiv to lviv, the worst russian barrage since january, punctuated by a variety of russian missiles, including six rare hyper sonic missiles, eluding air defenses. officials say in total, 84 missiles were launched. at least 11 people in ukraine were killed. russia claims the strike was retaliation for what it calls terrorist actions by ukraine in a western russian town last week. cnn cannot independently verify russia s claims or confirm evidence of such an attack. for the sixth time, renewed fears of a nuclear catastrophe. europe s largest nuclear power plant in zaporizhzhia shelled, forced to run on backup power. cnn s ivan watson is on the ground in ukraine s capital for us, wher
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