years thinking about the medal that never was, congratulations on a well deserved honor, erin burnett up front starts now. . . . next russian going broke, a russian old guard close to putin with a warning tonight, one of hardest fought battles oh. war and we ll go live to the ground alex murdaugh vowing to appeal life sentence for murdering his wife and son says he s innocent, a brand new picture and jim gordon, the fbi and doj for playing politics, major signs his case could be falling apart good evening, up fronts, russia running out of cash, it s an aston issuing prediction. he s warning his country could run out of money as soon as next year, quote, there will be no money already next year, we need foreign investors. here s the thing, he s in a position to know he s an old guard, close to putin many years and loyal to him, long been sanctioned by the u.s. most recently because of the war in ukraine but it s not a long thing, it s a long-time relationship. in fa
white. we didn t even have time to get anywhere. it was right on top of us. the house was shaking. we were all close together in the middle room of the house. wow. it s the craziest thing i ve ever been involved in. more than 20 million people are under high wind alerts in the mid atlantic, northeast and western u.s. meteorologist alilison chinchar is keeping an eye on all of this. this storm is heading out into the open atlantic, hopefully giving folks a break 24 hours from now. we still have heavy bands of snow across maine, new hampshire. you re getting a little bit of wraparound in upstate new york, places like watertown new york continuing to see snow. when you factor in the snow and wind component, it can lead to whiteout conditions. travel going to be very dicey in some spots. even farther south away from the snow, you still have wind advisories in place, looking at wind gusts of 50 to 60 miles per hour. that could lead to trees down and additional power outages.
interior department. it acknowledged that charging fossil fuel companies less in royalty fees to krill would likely mean greater energy security, but the memo recommended keeping those fees high to fight climate change. let s go to lucas tomlinson live at the white house with the very latest. lucas. reporter: some are all called this leaked memo a negligent discharge. now, earlier on fox we had lawmakers from both sides of the aisle who shared hair opinions about this leaked memo from the biden administration. they have an agenda, and that agenda is the green new deal agenda. and it doesn t involve oil, it doesn t involve gas, it involves batteries and the things that we depend on from china. we need to make sure that we re moving as aggressively and rapidly as we can towards energy independence and renewable energies all actually. reporter: all at the same time. reporter: it shows the biden administration recommending higher royalty piece on oil and gas permits d
world. wolf blitzer is off today, i m brianna keilar, and you are in the the situation room. let s go right to ukraine, as we follow the pivotal ballots for bakhmut, and growing concerns it could fall to the russians very soon. melissa bell has our report from the war zone. reporter: bakhmut still stands, says the ukrainian military out of sight any sign of life driven underground. what is like life for the civilians, for the soldiers? what life? what, what life? you know, the soldiers are doing their work, which is quite and civilians are trying to survive. there s no water, there is no electricity. reporter: this was bakhmut in august when the siege had just begun. this is bakhmut seven months on. the city is empty, people are afraid to go . empty, people are afraid to go out. every day new destruction. it s better not to go outside writing dr. elena from inside the town. cnn met her and other nurses on christmas eve, not quite happier times, but certain l
of bakhmut, the east ukrainian city which has been the focus of extensive fighting in recent weeks. the former uk prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to a parliamentary committee later this month, who are looking into whether he lied to parliament. it relates to the parties which he participated in during the covid lockdown, and the statements which he subsequently made to parliament about them. it comes as conservative mps express anger that the partygate investigator, sue gray, has been offered a job with the opposition labour party, as sir keir starmer s chief of staff. a short while ago, we heard from mrjohnson. when i knew they could probably be contradicted by dozens and dozens of officials. but why on earth would i have done that? it simply doesn t make sense. i believed that what we were doing was within the rules. that s why i said what i said in the chamber. it was my honest belief at the time and that s why i thank the committee, but i don t think the