casting ballots for one of nine people running for mayor, but it could be weeks before we find out who wins. growing fears in east palestine, ohio. the head of the epa is there now taking questions directly from residents who say they will caught in a political fight. the gang of eight getting its first briefing on classified documents. found at the properties of joe biden, donald trump and mike pence. what they will and won t be able to find out. and a rare live report from inside russian occupied crimea. a critical area russia annexed back in 2014. ukraine s president says the war will not end until his country gets it back. our nbc reporters are across the globe following all of the latest developments. we start with nbc s chief international correspondent, keir simmons, in crimea. you re the first western journalist to enter since the invasion. talk to us about what you re seeing and finds out. reporter: there s a lot of talk about crimea, that russia and ukraine will
with you. i am anne-marie green. breaking overnight, ukraine said russia launched a new wave of missile and join attacks in the country. air raid sirens willed across the nation, as officials warned people to take cover in shelters during the morning rush hour. ukraine said it shot down 15 missiles fired towards the capital of kyiv. the attack came hours after president biden reversed course, and announced plans to send 31 m1 abrams battle tanks to ukraine. germany also said it is sending tanks. now it could take months for the u.s. to deliver its tanks and train ukrainian troops on how to use them. jarred hill is in new york, i will have more on all of this. good morning, jarred. good morning, anne-marie. one called this an american expedition to the battalion, a punching force. but let s talk about the timing. u.s. officials say they believe russia will try to go on the offensive in the spring, and that the tanks will help ukraine not only defend itself then, but also ret
bakhmut in ukraine. and the reason this matters, jake, is because the fight for bakhmut, as has become the case with much of the war in ukraine, has become a war of attrition that military and intelligence officials increasingly say is really likely to turn on access to artillery ammunition, which side is able to sustain its supply of artillery ammunition the longest. one senior western intelligence official that i spoke to earlier today said in bakhmut alone, the two sides are spending up to multiple thousands of rounds of ammunition a day, which is just staggering. so what north korea is doing here is really helping wagner, and by extension the russian side, perpetuate this fight in bakhmut that our sources say has left this part of ukraine looking like they re done. will the weapons and ammunition from north korea make a difference in ukraine? not necessarily from a broader strategic perspective. the fight in bakhmut specifically is not seen, even if russia is able to
second-guessing. legal, economic and political over his plan to cancel some student loan debt. in the details of our plan we re working hard not only on loan forgiveness, but fixing a broken system. rain submerges entire towns in the south. flash flood fuel a life-or-death scramble to stay alive. we got everybody out, and that s the most important thing. everybody is safe. we got the staff and residents out. we can replace the stuff. the people are out. that s a good thing. up first, the legal back and forth over what stays secret from the mar-a-lago affidavit. we just passed a 12:00 noon deadline for the justice department lawyers to submit redactions to a federal judge. let s get straight to cnn s kaittelyn polantz. w when can we expect to learn what s going to happen in this case? when is the question. it s quite possible we don t see anything today out of the court as this process moves forward on this affidavit, what s going to be confidential there and what s
Any better. Craig, thank you. Thank you. And thanks very much to all of you for joining us, dont forget, you can watch out front any time, anywhere. Just go to cnngo, a. C. 360 s. T. A. R. T. Starts right now. And good evening, thank you for joining us. Were waiting to hear from fbi director james comey whos going to speak at a dinner for the Intelligence Community. Well bring you those answers to questions live when they happen. Earlier today, the top two members, the Senate Intelligence committee spoke to reporters in advance of their first public hearing tomorrow into all things russia. And while its obviously too soon to draw any conclusions as to the shape of their investigations, the shape its going to take, its hard to miss the sharp contrast between todays rollout between straight
forward, devoid of policy, a train wreck over on the house side. Both the house and the Senate Intelligence committees are supposed to investigate russian meddling in the last election as well as poli