especially supply vendors who are getting jackhammered by rising inflation, especially the cost of gas. i remember when gas was $2.50 a gallon. it s kind of like hard to fill up your tank for just $40 now. today at ramstein we ve been watching service members put together these pallets. 1.5 million eight-ounce bottles of infant formula. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom. and we are following several major stories for you this hour on the saturday night. happening now, two u.s. military planes are set to leave germany in the next few hours loaded with supplies to help ease america s baby formula crisis. and then extreme weather across america. residents in michigan are picking up the pieces after a devastating tornado while more than half the country bakes in record heat. also tonight, tiger woods has just dropped out of the pga championship following his worst ever score at the tournament. and a group of social media big hitters have a messag
the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target, the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer. but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall in come down. police weren t going to help. and he called for instructions. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow. over and over again. finally one official told him simply, moscow is silent. and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. he finds himself in the basements at a furnace shoveling documents as he hears demonstrations
Christmas. a special day. a special edition, you know. it s a familiar flavor. to be honest with you, jilaf rice is one dish i may have every night while here. it s so good. the all new episode of nomad with carlton mccoy airs tomorrow night at 10:00. i m pamela brown, see you again tomorrow night.. the following is a cnn special report. december 5th, 1989, it was a cold night in dredsen, east germany and it would change the course of vladimir putin s life.