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good thursday morning to you i m jim sciutto. the people of ohio awaiting the report on what led up to the devastating the toxic train derailment earlier this month. pete buttigieg is on the ground this morning as residents voice their anger and frustration in the cnn town hall last night. if you do not feel safe living in east palestine raise your hand. i don t know what the future holds for my town. i m 65 years old, a diabetic, heart disease, everything. now did you shorten my life now? i want to retire and enjoy it. you burned me. well, other story we re following this morning, alex murdaugh on trial for murdering his wife and youngest son. now a source tells cnn he is expected to take the stand to testify in his own defense. we ll take you to that courtroom live in a moment. and hundreds of thousands of people are without power this morning as a massive cross country winter storm ripped across several states. ahead the warning for new england and the ea ....
in friday s fighting, a russian missile destroyed a vital supply bridge into the city. bakhmut has seen intense fighting for weeks, as russia tries to claim a victory in eastern ukraine. cnn s melissa bell joins us now from kyiv. melissa, where do things stand? reporter: well, we ve just been hearing from the british ministry of defense, saying that they understand that ukrainian forces are under increasing pressure. that s what we re hearing from the ground, with one soldier on the ground telling us that they were essentially outmanned four to one. and this has been the story for the last few weeks. so russian forces sending in more and more men to try and take every trench, every defensive line, at huge cost to themselves, first and foremost. there is also ukrainians, will there is a lack of ammunition compared to what the russians have, and they are trying to capture bakhmut, but yes, for the time being, this town still stands with his four and a half thousand civi ....
i m amara walker. i m paula reed in for boris sanchez. you re live in the cnn newsroom. this morning, more than a million people are without power in the eastern united states, as a deadly storm system continues to move north. over the last 24 hours, at least 12 people were killed in multiple states, due to the severe weather that brought tornadoes and major flooding to parts of the south. the majority of those deaths were in kentucky. where hurricane force winds toppled trees and even toppled tractor-trailer trucks. in indiana, the high winds tore the roof off of a church. and in one town, a man says god saved his life, after a tornado swept through his property but left him and his home untouched. the back door started shaking. the house started shaking. and i could see nothing but white. we didn t have time to get anywhere. it was right on top of us, the house was shaking, and we were all close together, in the middle room of the house, still, but wow, this i ....
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 ou ....
deadly rampage. police say the suspect in the murder of a 38-year-old woman later returned to the scene and shot and killed a 24-year-old reporter who was covering the story before fatally shooting a 9-year-old child in a home nearby. for the journalists in orlando, it s a story that hits unbelievably close to home. this is every reporter s absolute worst nightmare. coming up, the details we re learning about the 19-year-old suspect and how the community is trying to make sense of this tragedy. plus, any second we expect to get our hands on the national transportation safety board s preliminary report on the ohio train derailment that led to the controlled burning of hazardous chemicals. it could offer new clues about what went wrong. there are still lingering questions about the health is and safety of the air and water. this land is everything to me. we have a stigma here that we re dirty, and it hurts everybody here. transportation secretary pete buttigie ....