hurricane over the caribbean. we re live at the scene and with the forecast. we begin in ukraine where, for the second time within days, the city of zaporizhzhia is taking a deadly pounding from russian rockets. these are scenes of chaos after multiple rockets slammed into residential areas on saturday, reportedly killing at least 17 people. while further south, moscow is scrambling to get the bridge linking the occupied crimea with russia back up and running. a part of the bridge collapsed after a huge explosion and fire on saturday. now russia says repair work will be under way around the clock. some train and road traffic has already resumed, but drivers will go into the water divers, rather, will go into the water later today to see if the structure can still support trucks. scott mclean is keeping an eye on developments in ukraine including the deadly strike on zaporizhzhia. he joins us from london, scott? reporter: yeah, we don t have a ton of information about th
killed during a shooting at a military checkpoint, we will have the latest from jerusalem. announcer: live from the cnn center in, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia where residents are now urged to head to air raid shelters after a second deadly rocket strike within days. have a look here. these are scenes of the aftermath after multiple rockets slammed into residential areas saturday, reportedly killing at least 17 people. further south moscow is scrambling to get the bring linking the occupied crimea with russia back up and running, a part of the bridge collapsed after a huge explosion and fire saturday. now russia says repair work will be under way around the clock, some train and road traffic has already resumed but divers will go into the water later today to see if the structure can support trucks. ukraine isn t claiming responsibility for what happened but president zelenskyy made it clear he s far from feelin
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haven t seen. even when kim jong-un was launching missiles and tensions were reaching near crisis level back in 2017, he launched 23 missiles throughout the entire year. he has already surpassed that considerably in in terms of the number of tests this year and fired seven missiles just in the last two weeks. this is more than he has done since he came to power in 2011. and it raises a question, because north korea is not using these for propaganda. you are not seeing images on north korean state media like we normally would see, 24 years after the launch. that that says to me and analysts i m speaking with, these launches are for scientific knowledge and to prove a point, some believe, that he wants those to know his arsenal is there, capable. and even at a time of global conflict, he has weapons that he feels can, you know, stand on their own. obviously, some people think this is all a cry for attention. i think politics might have less to do with it in that there is a list
and it s used to resupply russian forces. russia s government insists the damage was under control. ukraine is not claiming responsibility. but they are directly mocking russia. the ukrainian government s official twitter account, tweeting sick burn. also, a famous scene of titanic to show the bridge. ukraine sent a birthday greeting to vladimir putin, next to marilyn monroe, singing happy birthday to u.s. president john f. kennedy. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday, mr. president happy birthday to you fred is following this from kyiv. how are russia and ukraine reacting? well, both sides are essentially blaming each other. you say that the russians are saying it s the ukraine ons behind all of this. a senior official calling it c ukrainian vandals behind this. and figures in moscow making the same allegation. the ukrainians, this is an adviser saying they believe it might have been infighting within russian security services that wa