hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m max foster in london. bianca is off for the week. just ahead on cnn newsroom. the shifting narrative from the white house on defense now referring all questions to the justice department. everyone was just astounded that it took this long. that period there is what is now going to be an issue for the pres president. a difficult search and rescue operation forcing emergency workers to use ropes and cranes. four investigators from france arriving at the site today, this tuesday, as the search still goes on for two more of those victims. he is now saying he always had questions about george santos s resume. a big question has become what did gop leaders know about george santos and when did they know it? announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, january 17th, the a.m. here in london, 4 a.m. in washington
deadliest russian attacks since the invasion. at least 40 people killed in a cruise missile strike on an apartment building right in the center of the ukrainian city of dnipro. dozens more are injured or still missing and officials warn the death toll could climb. new developments in the classified document scandal looming over the white house. sources tell cnn that additional searches are possible and locations connected to president biden, who sources say is growing increasingly frustrated with the saga. we re also following the disaster right now in california, as another round of storms lashes the state. officials now bracing for more flooding and mudslides, as weeks of violent weather take a deadly toll. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. this is the situation room, special report. our top story tonight, ukraine counting bodies as it clears the rubble from one of the deadliest russian attacks since the invasio
trump electors. we are going to hear from four witnesses this afternoon, including the secretary of state for georgia, brad raffensperger and his chief operating officer, gabriel sterling, big public figures in the wake of the november election in 2020. the committee says it s going to show evidence that former president trump put undue pressure on legislatures to try to put forward alternative slates and electors. for president trump, the strategy did not work, legislatures did not go along with it. you see betty thompson taking it there, much of the questioning will be handled by california congressman adam schiff as he questions the witnesses and makes the majority of the presentation. liz cheney there seated to betty thompson s left-hand side, adam schiff on the right-hand side. we expect the hearing will last at least a couple of hours. let s pause now while chairman thompson gavels in today s hearing. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the u
he was able to fire thousands of shots, dozens of volleys, that s what they are saying, he had high-powered weapons to do that. the s.w.a.t. team didn t actually enter the room for 72 minutes but they are saying after nine or 11 minutes, the gunfire stopped. it was deemed nothing more than a barricade, that s why the eight s.w.a.t. team waited so long. the understanding is after that nine to 11 minutes, the gunman turned the weapon on himself. he had three cameras in the room, we ve been talking about this all day long. what we didn t know his two of the cameras were outside in the hall including one that that was actually hooked up to way service car from the hotel. the third camera was inside the hotel room but it was on the peephole looking down the hallway. there are a port saying this guy tried to film himself not true. all he was concerned about where the police officers and the teams coming down that hallway. he wanted to be notified of
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Biden s home up in wilmington, delaware but the white house and secret service say those logs simply don t exist. the white house counsel s office noting that as has been the case with previous presidents, that the president s personal residence is personal. they don t keep tabs of who is coming and going from there. but this all comes as there are growing questions from this administration, not just about the handling of those classified documents but also for how they ve revealed a lot of this information to the public. one of the president s top allies, former alabama senator doug jones telling our colleagues here that in many ways it s an unforced error, that they were not fully offering a complete picture of what exactly was known as the news came out over the past week. certainly these are questions that will continue to face this white house in the coming months. one of the things that the special counsel rob herr is going to have to do is establish with the biden team whether