happening now, another child s body found in the rubble of a ukrainian residential apartment building as the death toll from a powerful russian missile attack rises. this hour i ll ask key white house official john kirby about new u.s. and western military aid to ukraine and whether it s enough. also tonight the white house is ramping up its damage control as the crisis over classified documents intensifies. the biden team defending its delayed and incomplete release of information while accusing republicans of fake outrage. and the husband of a messing massachusetts woman is now charged with murdering his wife. we re breaking down the new evidence in this very high profile case as it takes a dramatic turn. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with the growing carnage from russia s attack on an apartment building in ukraine, one of the single deadliest strikes of vladimir putin
Imprint. Com. Imprint for certain cnn breaking news hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im Alex Marquardt live in washington with our continuing cnn breaking News Coverage of iran is unprecedented strike inside israel overnight. It is noon in israel, the country getting back to normal following that historic never before seen attack by iran against israel. Take a listen those are the israeli airraid sirens that Israeli Citizens to become all too accustomed to in the past six months with the war between israel and hamas but those were not hamas rockets flying it. Israel, those were iranian drones, ballistic and Cruise Missiles. The Israeli Military saying that more than 300 of those projectiles were fired at israel well over the course of five hours. But the idf says that the vast majority, almost all of 99 were shot down. The few that did get through those formidable American Allied and israeli air defenses all across the region. And in
lies. what we learned over the weekend is that george santos george santos lies were known to speaker mccarthy, to congressman chair stefanik who were helpful to his campaign. and the big question that i have is whether what did they know and when did they know it, as the famous saying goes. how much did they know about george santos? and how much did they try to cover up his lies from the voters in the third district of new york? the new democratic house leader hakeem jeffries, congressman, he joined me in the situation room last night. he said democrats democrats will also need to look how to tighten up their own opposition research process. does your party share at least some of the blame for allowing george santos to get elected? i think all of these things are important to examine, you
also in a moment we ll hear from former supreme allied commander of nato forces. peter, did president biden watch this happen in real time? reporter: the white house said that he did, that he was in the situation room last night. they said he was monitoring it in real time, so it s unclear exactly how much of it he could see in real camera terms and how much of it he and the vice president and others were able to hear about. they were there throughout the entire affair until u.s. troops were off the ground. before he left, he said, god bless our troops. as it relates to those u.s. special operations operations, operators on the ground there, we re learning new details tact way this all played out. as we heard from john kirby moments ago, they had drilled on this, they had been focused on this effort with rehearsals and with planning that dated back months. president biden was shown a tabletop model of that safe house back in december, and ult
it is what they do. there is understanding on both sides. the u.s. did not give the russians specific details but basically said we are going to be operating in this area. you ve got to stay away. don t get involved. just stay away. and apparently they did, the operation went down as laid out by the white house. kate? thank you so much for your reporting on this. let s go now to the white house where president biden, vice president harris and the national security team were in the situation room last night. here s a photo from that watching the operation unfolding. cnn s john harwood live at the white house for us. john, what are you picking up? reporter: fascinating parallels to what transpired in 2011 when the united states took out osama bin laden when joe biden was vice president, barack obama was president. we remember the tense photo from the situation room as they watched in realtime. in that case, they didn t bomb bin laden s facility because they were not sure that he was