Highs. And a former Trump Justice Department official who pushed bogus Election Fraud claims stonewalls the January 6th Select Committee. Jeffrey clarke refusing to answer questions for 90 minutes. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were standing by a house Infrastructure Vote promised by House Speaker nancy pelosi tonight after weeks and weeks of false starts and infighting. Final passage of the bipartisan bill would be a huge and hardfought victory for President Biden. But there is still Uncertainty Hanging over the vote and there is more work to do on the other the broader piece of the biden agenda. Our senior White House Correspondent Phil Mattingly and our congressional correspondent, jessica dean, are working this Break Historic for us. Jessica, things have been moving very fast. Give us the very latest on Speaker Pelosis plan to actually hold an Infrastructure Vote tonight, despite serious
Good morning. And welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, april 20th. Im jonathan lemire. Russia declared yesterday that the next phase of the war was under way in Eastern Ukraine, claiming it sames to, quote, liberate, the donbas region. British intelligence is saying that Russian Forces are still struggling. According to the uk, the Ukrainian Military continues to beat back russia, attempts to advance, even amid the increased shelling and strikes. British intelligence also says that russias inability to progress is impacted by the resilience of the Ukrainian Military and by the same environmental, logistical and technical challenges that have hindered russias forces. And they expect to be launched in the coming weeks. At least one killed and three others injured when a Russian Rocket hit the see of kramatorsk. And also rocked the Southern City of kyiv. This agency the state Emergency Service of ukraine yesterday said that russians heavily bombarded the city of luhansk, in the don
literal smoking gun in the murder of his wife and son? welcome on to our viewers around the world. i m christine romans. the search and rescue operation grows more grim in turkey and syria, more than 16,000 people have died in the earthquake there and hope is fading that rescuers will find survivors beneath the mountain of rubble. remarkably two women in turkey were found alive wednesday after 62 hours buried under a collapsed building. and in syria, a newborn baby was pulled from the rubble, her mother is believed to have died after giving birth. international search and rescue teams continue to arrive including some from the united states. salma abdelaziz is live in istanbul for us. there has been anger over the turkish government s response to the disaster. what are they saying now? reporter: we re now entering the fourth day after this powerful earthquake one of the most powerful earthquakes to strike this region in a century hit. and that means that window, that glimme
powerful quake that sent tremors across the entire region. the magnitude 7.8 quake struck before day break in southern turkey nearly the border with syria. the quake and aftershocks collapsing buildings. now a desperate search and rescue efforts under way to find people trapped in piles of rubble. cnn s scott mclean joins us from london. scott, this is one of the strongest quakes to hit turkey in a century, what do we know? reporter: that s right, this part of the turkey, christine, used to earthquakes but nothing like this. this happened in the middle of the night, so people were jolted out of bed with this terrifying shaking. they re finding themselves running out of their houses and apartment buildings into very cold weather. turkey is experiencing an unusual cold snap in that part of the country. andmalatya, they re working to get people of the rubble. with the cold weather, time of the essence, because people were not survive in this kind of cold. we re getting message