in terms of their ability to win, the first step in winning is believing that you can win. and so they believe that we can win, we believe that they can win if they have the right equipment, the right support. and we re going to do everything we can, continue to do everything we can to ensure that that gets there. we re seeing that when it comes to russia s war aims, russia is failing, ukraine is succeeding. we don t know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin is on the scene. the british ministry of defense said that russia has made minor advances in its push to take over the east. the uk also found that russia has, quote, yet to achieve a significant breakthrough. but if vladimir putin s forces continue to destroy more ukrainian buildings and lives. cnn just learning of a gas explosion in a government building in the luhansk region. officials say no one there survived
says his country is ready for the battle but desperately in need of more fire power. translator: we think this will be a new wave of this war. we don t know how much russian weaponry there will be. but we understand there will be many times more than there is now. it all depends on how fast we will be helped by the united states. translator: to be honest, whether we will be able to survive depends on this. new overnight, russian forces have shelled another railway station in eastern ukraine. ukrainian rail officials are not providing a specific location on this. we are told no one was injured. but five locomotives, tracks, and power lines needed for evacuations were damaged. new satellite images from maxar technologies behind me. you can see this eight-mile-long russian military convoy consisting of armored vehicles and trucks with towed artillery and support equipment. let me show you where that is on the map. you can see kharkiv. it is east of this. it s in this are
last night heated debates across the country the economy, crime, voting rights, now remember here, the senate is split 50-50 so every competitive race is crucial. cnn s political correspondent abby phillips joins us now. the senate and the big picture here. yeah, victor and erica, look, this is going to be a very close midterm cycle and every single race counts, here s why, take a look at where the balance of power stands here in the senate in terms of these are the races that are competitive in this cycle, look over here, just three seats, three seats are rated ass to-ups, that mean that are favored democrats likely to be in the democrat column or lean democratic and 20 are leaning toward the republican column likely or solidly republican and that s why you re seeing such focus on just a few of these races, let s talk about some of them, these are the three cnn rates as our toss-ups in the senate. the georgia race, incumbent senator raphael warnock going up against hersc
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attacked on stage and rushed to the hospital. and disturbing new testimony in vanessa bryant s lawsuit against l.a. county. how gruesome photos of kobe bryant s body were shared at a cocktail party. new day starts right now. we are thrilled you re starting your weekend with us. it s saturday, august 13th. good morning. good morning. thrilled to see you. feels like it s been a while. how have you been? been good. no complaints. we begin with details on what led the fbi to execute this unprecedented search warrant on former president trump s home. according to court documents unsealed friday, investigators removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago including some material that was marked as top secret/sci, that stands for sensitive compartmented information. those documents are only supposed to be viewed at a secure government location. the unsealed search warrant also identifies three potential crimes, potential being the key word here that the justice