deadly u.s. wildfire in a century. new questions are emerging about the emergency response there. a chaotic smash-and-grab caught on camera but was anybody caught by police? i m john berman with kate baldwin and sarah sidner, we are the anchors of cnn cnn news central which starts now. welcome to unchartered territory once again. right now a grand jury is meeting in georgia. and moments ago, we have now learned that former georgia state senator is inside the courthouse right now to offer her grand jury testimony. things are happening right now. tomorrow, willis is expected to call two more witnesses to testify as she s laying out her case to charge a dozen people. overnight reporting into cnn, willis has text messages and emails directly linking trump s inner circle to the breach of the voting system in georgia which is part of this overall investigation right now. paula reid is outside of the courthouse. what is the latest we re learning about the state senator who is
down outside the city, and blamed ukraine for the attack. an adviser to president volodymyr zelensky has denied any ukrainian responsibility. mykhailo podolyak was asked about the strikes while appearing on a breakfast television show. we have nothing to do with this, he said, but added that kyiv is watching with pleasure and forecast an increasing number of attacks . moscow is more than a70 km from ukraine. in moscow, our russia editor steve rosenberg heard the explosions. well, at 6:21; this morning ijotted down the time i heard an explosion in the distance and the windows of my home shook. than half an hour later, i heard another explosion. and i checked on social media and there was a lot of chat, a lot of discussion from muscovites and people living just outside the capital, who d heard blasts, too. very quickly, it became apparent there had been some kind of drone attack. and that was confirmed pretty quickly by the moscow mayor, sergey sobyanin, who said there h
than half an hour later, i heard another explosion. and i checked on social media and there was a lot of chat, a lot of discussion from muscovites and people living just outside the capital, who d heard blasts, too. very quickly, it became apparent there had been some kind of drone attack. and that was confirmed pretty quickly by the moscow mayor, sergey sobyanin, who said there had been a drone attack. he said that several buildings in the capital had received minor damage. he said there were no serious injuries. and then the governor of moscow region so the area just outside the city he also confirmed there had been a drone attack and said that russian air defences had shot down several drones. how many drones are we talking about here? well, the russian defence ministry a short while ago issued a statement, saying there had been what it called a terrorist drone attack , organised by the ukrainian authorities on moscow. it said that eight drones were used in this attac
president biden ordered to down the object. is it a fair take away the pentagon regrets not taking down the first balloon before crossing across the u.s.? i can tell you the president doesn t regret the way we handled the first balloon. the general area would be just off the very, very northeastern part of alaska. it was an object, let me just clarify, i m not classifying it as a balloon. it s an object and we re trying to learn more from it. laura: kirby s confusing, incomplete and inconvenient act of the object is par for the course. no one knows what to believe. if you love watching car racing, you know that it is never pretty when this happens. unfortunately for us, when biden s wheels come off, it s america that breaks apart. more than any other week than the deadly afghanistan withdraw, this past one has been one where things seem to be karineing out of control. if biden thought that sending an f22 to shoot down that spy balloon was going to help course correct, h