Designation reserved only for north korea, iran, cuba, and syria until now. It would be a Significant Development and a sea change in relations between two superpowers if that were to happen. We will take that to a Key Administration official in just a moment. Meanwhile, a new phase of this ruthless invasion has begun. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced to his nation tonight that Russian Forces have started the longexpected and expanded Battle For Donbas in the east of this country. He told cnn friday what happens in donbas could then set the course for the rest of the war. Russia has completed Regrouping Troops for this new major offensive, according to ukrainian officials. And although the fiercest battles are in the east and south, lviv here in the west, got hit by at least four different Missile Strikes today. You can see some video of one of those missiles as they streaked across the sky. Watch how fast it goes. Well have more in just a moment. Laura also has breaking develop
Our correspondents are standing by in ukraine with war refugees in estonia. We want to welcome our viewers from the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com we begin with russias escalating offensive in Eastern Ukraine as top ukrainian officials are confirming that the Battle For The Don Baas region has begun. Lets go right to our chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto in ukraine for us. He is reporting from lviv. President zelenskyy is now speaking out about this new phase of the war. Reporter thats right. U. S. Intelligence reported a major strategy shift by russia to stop focusing on its failed attempt on capture the capital kyiv and focus on the east and the south. Weve been seeing the forces move over the last couple of weeks. Now they are there. And now that battle, though it never quite stopped there, but that battle intensifying to a degree we have not seen before. And what is
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one down. three letters, out, ben duckett was followed by zak crawley. stuart broad s job was to survive. instead second ball he offered a catch to someone, anyone. no one. the evening under the lights ended with glares and a test match that s fascinatingly poised. patrick gearey, bbc news. we heard about storm otto earlier. let s look at the weather with louise lear. it did look lovely in aberdeen despite storm otto and that s because the storm has passed, i am pleased to say. but we had ferocious wind whipping up the sea this morning and gusts of wind widely across eastern scotland in excess of 80 miles an hour. notjust scotland, in the north of england and west yorkshire we had 75 mile an hour gusts as well. but storm otto is now pushing off to scandinavia. the isobars are opening up and the winds are fading but these weather fronts are fading but these weather fronts are producing cloud. it s a blustery afternoon. but there will be sunny spells as well as you can see in e
track. where dangerous hurricane ian is heading next. classrooms turned into bedrooms. we visit shelters and speak to families riding out the storm together. my main focus was getting them to safety. o donnell: and remembering legendary cbs newsman, bill plante, who covered more than half a century of history. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from tampa, florida. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. as we come on the air tonight, the state of florida is being pummeled by hurricane ian. the massive category 4 storm storm made landfall this afternoon with winds at 150 miles per hour. but at this hour, ian is still a dangerous category 3 hurricane. ian ian slammed ashore north of fort myers, with dangerous winds and catastrophic storm surge. tonight hurricane ian is dumping tremendous amounts of rain along the i-4 corridor. ian has already dropped 18 inches of rain. to get a better understan