Maniacs. Normally thats a brian thing. The fact that all of you. Ainsley its a team thing. Steve lawrence, we are trying to be accurate. Brian we do a lot of space things with countdowns now. Steve thats all. Brian by the Way Guess whose heater is on . Ainsley its cold in here. Exceptionally cold in here today. Brian. Take your jacket off and wear the gronk thing. [laughter] brian gronk is Coming Up. Ainsley gronk is Coming Up. The heater is staying on. Steve it is on friday the 13th. Ainsley i will turn it my direction. Brian thank you. Steve in politics, clarifies in Pennsylvania Today as the Battleground Blitz continues as Donald Trump heads to nevada after announcing this new major policy. We will end all taxes on overtime. Do you know what that means . [cheers] think of that. Lawrence ha. Ainsley they loved it. More attempts across the world to restrict free speech online. Could that happen here under Kamala Harris . If you as act as a megaphoner misinformation. If you dont police
president trump. i don t know how that will go. that s what s happening. bill: the story is about to get interesting. dana: the new york times reporting desantis made the come heents on a call with donors. here is what he said. quote, you have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing. biden, trump and me. i think of those 3, 2 have a chance to get elected president. biden and me. based on all the data in the swing states, not great for the former president and probably insur mountable because people aren t going to change their view of him, end quote. that sets us off in a new direction. you start and tell us where you think we are. dana: next week you are also going to see tim scott officially get into the race and there could be others, chris christie is letting it be known he might as well. yesterday the governor of north dakota is thinking of getting in, chris sununu and glenn youngkin is suggesting he might get in. which tells
the president meeting with ukrainian counterpart in what is being described as a defiant display of western solidarity. white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president and reports tonight from warsaw, poland. good evening, peter. bret, if president biden stuck to his schedule he would still be in washington, d.c. right now. but, instead, he is here in warsaw after a daring dip into a war zone. and he is looking ahead to a big speech tomorrow where we do expect him to call out vladimir putin by name. putin s war of conquest is failing. but it s ongoing. so the president is committing 500 million more dollars in equipment for the fight against putin. thought he could outlast us. i don t think he is thinking that right now. the u.s. gave russia a heads up, president biden would be visiting ukraine but to keep the trip clandestine the president was driven in a white toyota suv instead of the customary black suburban and traveled with a much smaller
the world. i m whitney wild. the death toll from that huge winter storm keeps rising. it is now up to 62 deaths across 11 states. of those by far the greatest share were in erie county, new york, where at least 37 people died. a horrible storm with too many deaths. we know without the work of these first responders and others, more people would have died. first responders are still checking on callers they couldn t reach in buffalo which was buried under nearly 52 inches of snow. overnight buffalo lifted a driving ban. cnn s miguel marquez has more on the digout. reporter: buffalo digging out. officials here responding to criticism they should have done more. 35-mile-an-hour wind gusts for three hours straight with less than a quarter mile visibility. monique alexander died in the storm on christmas eve. a buffalo native who had been through many snowstorms here thought this one was the same. we were waiting for her to come home. i knew something was wrong right a
i m whitny wild. cnn this morning starts right now. morning, everyone. we re glad you re with us. it s thursday, december 29th. don is off this week. and ukraine is our lead story. under attack. more than 120 russian missiles launched at ukraine overnight. 90% of lviv this morning is without power. we ll take you to crane. here in the united states, thousands of air travelers are struggling to find their way home still. one major airport is launching an investigation into the meltdown at southwest airlines. and the death toll is rising once again in buffalo. the city s mayor now coming under fire for handling of that recovery and the storm. a new migrant processing center is going up in el paso, despite a supreme court decision to keep title 42 in place. we begin this hour with ukraine. president zelenskyy s adviser says russia has launched more than 120 missiles at the country. it happened overnight. a top official in odesa is calling it a massive missile attack in