and the republican war on abortion is ramping up. florida now the late toast sign a restrictive abortion bill as the gop looks to rally its base, but i want to know, how far is too far for voters? we ll tackle that and so much more coming up next. good saturday morning to you. i m katie phang. the first question i m asking this morning, can any country be prepared for what vladimir putin might do if he s backed into a corner with nowhere to go? the russian president suffered a massive humiliation this week when the flagship of its black sea fleet sank to the bottom. russia claims it was due to an explosion of ammunition on board but yesterday united states officials confirmed the ukrainians sunk the ship with two neptune missiles. a very public and historic failure for the russian navy, and another military defeat that putin likely never thought possible. it comes as president biden is ratcheting up u.s. military support for ukraine, but the kremlin certainly took notice s
alexis mcadams with the latest on the flooding at the chicago o hare international airport. we will start with lakawana, new york, hi, max. reporter: good afternoon, we are ways south of downtown buffalo and we are standing next to a gas station because this is one of the few places that people can go to to just warm up and get inside, get food, a lot of people actually spent the night at this gas station because they became stranded in blizzard conditions last night. we were one of those who got stranded in the blizzard conditions, completely white-out, you couldn t sigh in front of you. we had to honker down in the cars and spend the night in the cars, luckily we had full tanks and we were able to keep warm. shelter are open and police officers have been shuttling those folks to warming shelters. meanwhile, though, some services aren t available in parts of western new york and some parts of buffalo, emergency services just simply can t get out to people and unfortunately w
truck. we know several people were in that ambulance but none were patients. we don t know if fog played a role in this crash. a helicopter had trouble landing because of foggy conditions. chp cleared that accident, a different crash happened a short distance away. one person unfortunately died in that crash. that involved multiple vehicles including a big rig. let s go right to mike. that second crash only a half mile from the first one. the big concern there was a loss of life. as far as the drive to the bridge. here is our map of the day. and travel eastbound away from the bay bridge. at the overpass there, they had that crash and that closes the freeway. chp let us know you can get off the freeway. there will be a lot of congestion right there not heavily used right now. a light flow of traffic and is there a minor delay because of the scene. go slowly and carefully if you re heading hercules the rest of the east bay. or take heyway 4. i would suggest going over there
ecb president. he suggests the eurozone economy is likely to remain stagnant and the central bank stands ready to act. t speaking of central banks, here at home, the fed is launching a review of how it oversees the major banks. the review comes after a series of critical reports. the fed is asking its inspector general to help with the probe. andrew. we ve got stocks to watch this morning. a lot of stuff moving. gamestop earnings and revenue falling well short of estimates. the company blaming the late relief to be assassins creed unity game and slowing video game software sales. joseph kernen s family always usually haven t been big on that. but i read through the analyst report trying to figure out what happened. and there was worry that it was in digital, but it s older software. also, believe it or not, the west coast port situation is part of the forecast. the kernen family has no, no. it s strange that the west coast court situation would affect things.
so just, you know, facts matter, that s actually not true what he just said. it wasn t the president of ukraine who was saying negative things about the ambassador, it was actually president trump speaking to the president of ukraine speaking unfavorably of her on that now infamous july phone call, which would indicate he does know her or of her. today in her testimony, marie yovanovitch said the president was very familiar with her and her work in ukraine and said the deputy secretary of state who called her earlier this year said the president lost confidence in me, end quote. and added there had been concerted campaign against me and the department had been under pressure to remove me since december 2018. after almost ten hours of testimony, what are you learning about the ambassador s deposition, particularly what she told the committee about rudy giuliani? again, this is behind closed doors so information is hard to get. reporter: that s right, anderson. from what we