and meet the football coach born with no arms or legs honored with the prestigious award. who says i can t? nobody. yeah! his message this morning. good thursday morning, everyone. thanks for joining us. we begin with the line of storms now swirling in the gulf of mexico. forecasters say the storm system could become a hurricane as early as tomorrow and flooding is a major concern. that system has already triggered this waterspout that touched down on lake pontchartrain. the big question now is whether the post-katrina $14 billion upgrade to the levees around new orleans completed less than a year ago will hold up. abc s trevor ault begins our coverage. trevor, good morning. reporter: good morning, janai and kenneth. this very well could be an early start to the hurricane season for the gulf. some areas like in new orleans have seen well over half a foot of rain and that s only from round one in this series of storms. this morning parts of new orleans underwater. he
can respond. as everybody here in this room knows and those watching online and tv know on november 25th russian forces opened fire and seized three ukrainian naval ships attempting to travel. waters ukraine, russia legally share. six members were injured and all 24 of them were detained and are still in russian custody. this attack marks significant escalation in russia s war against ukraine. it is the first time the kremlin has overtly used its armed forces against ukraine. several western countries, the european union and nato have condemned russia s aggression against ukraine but a comprehensive response has yet to take shape. we re gathering at a pretty important time on the heels of a nato formal minister discussion in brussels on this issue. but we also gather when there is a time of intense debate here in washington. there s a current debate happening inside the executive branch up on capitol hill about these events, about our response. and our intention today is to h
to end the war. and support we need a footballer who ended a decade of dominance and. welcome to the program the director of the u.s. central intelligence agency will now brief senate leaders on the killing of a saudi journalist jamal khashoggi the wall street journal is reporting that gina hospitals due to speak about the murder on tuesday she did not take part in a jump of ministration briefing on she s death last week where john hendren joins us live now from washington d.c. john so why is hospital suddenly now appearing before the senate when she was reportedly prevented from doing so last week. daryn this is the trump administration backing down in a standoff with the u.s. senate last week as you noted there was a briefing by the defense secretary jim matheson mike pompei all the secretary of state to members of the senate this was a closed door briefing and in that they said there was no smoking gun linking the crown prince of saudi arabia muhammad bin so mom to that ki
injured and all 24 of them were detained and are still in russian custody. this attack mark specific significant escalation in russia s war against ukraine. it is the first time the club ct has overtly used its armed forces against ukraine pics of a western country, the european union and nato have condemned the crimmins aggression against ukraine but a comprehensive response has yet to take shape. we are gathering in a pretty important time on the heels of a foreign minister discussion in brussels and some of this issue but we also gather when there s a time of intense debate in washington, a current debate happening inside the executive branch up on capitol hill about these events, about our response and our intention to do is hope informed that conversation into shape these decisions. our panelists will surely touch on a response that most take suit at russia s government is going to take this seriously. experts you hear from today and many others in atlantic council famil
to happen. as long as the assaults continue, we re going to continue to supply military assistance. and directly responding to the russian regime. he says the kremlin is desperate and the invasion is so far an abject failure. that a day after vladimir putin tries to rattle the west. putin says russia has to ability to respond lightning fast to any entefr vengs against his army. today ukraine s east facing constant russian shelling. at least four killed after russian artillery targeted a hospital. the sound of ukrainian pushback right there. a fiery blast hits near a tv tower and disrupts russian propaganda. today the united nations secretary general meets with ukraine s president. that after an up close look at bucha and irpin, two sites of russian war crimes. they call the invasion evil an an absurdity. also today s ukraine s prosecutor general naming ten of suspected war crimes. they have suspected 1100 bodies of civilians dead. bucha s coroner here is describing the ev