vowing to forcefully protect u. s citizens as his administration cast blame on iran and seeks to punish its proxies. also tonight, former white house chief of staff mark meadows is under orders to testify along with other top x trump aides. in the january 6th criminal investigation. it s another win for the special counsel after forcing trump s lawyer to face a grand jury today, and north korea threatens to unleash a giant radioactive tsunami as it claims to test a nuclear capable underwater drone. kim jong un ramping up his dangerous taunts. as we re learning more about human rights abuses on his watch , welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world is on assignment. i m alex marquardt york in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news and let s get right to that breaking news out of syria, u. s forces targeted with rocket fire tonight by suspected iranian backed fighters. this comes after a deadly drone attack on americans and retaliatory airs
news. classified documents found from biden s time as vice president. what were they doing in a private office? the attorney general now asking a u.s. attorney to investigate. also breaking this hour, a major development in the doj s investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we are learning that special counsel jack smith s team has subpoenaed trump s former attorney rudy giuliani and more on what smith is zeroing in on. this is reporting that you will hear first outfront. and new audio revealing the dire state of russia s hospitals full of injured soldiers. an intercepted call that wasn t meant to ever be heard by you. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. and outfront tonight, the breaking news. classified documents from biden s time as vice president have been found at one of his private offices in washington d.c. this is according to a source. the documents were found by president biden s attorneys last fall, and then turne
world. i m bianca nobilo. max foster has the day off on assignment. just ahead on cnn newsroom. the first time it s ever happened. i ve never seen this. the misery continues across the state of california as a parade of storms brings additional rainfall and flood threats across the entire state. attorneys for president biden appear to have taken immediate and proper action to notify the national archives. this is no question a political gift to donald trump and a political gift to the republicans. he s on surveillance at that time. lied to investigators about his whereabouts surrounding the disappearance of his wife, anna walsh. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s tuesday, january 10th. 9 a.m. here in london. 1 a.m. on the u.s. west coast where much of southern california is being pounded by heavy rain, deadly flooding and mudslides. around 34 million people across the state are under a flood watch and thousands have
drone. north korean state media says the mission of this weapon is to quote make a super scale radioactive tsunami to destroy enemy warships and ports. it claims this drone traveled underwater for nearly 60 hours, then detonated warhead and blew up a mock enemy ports. some analysts are skeptical of the real capability of this weapon. there s a lot we don t understand about how they re controlling this weapon, whether it s pre programmed or whether they re actively maneuvering this thing underwater and panda says this drone would likely be vulnerable to being destroyed by the u. s and south korean navies before it flushes out to sea. but he says it could still be a threat. there is nothing preventing north korea from in principle, putting a nuclear device on an underwater vehicle like this and detonating it, they could use it against massed formations of surface warships in testing. an underwater drone takes a page from vladimir putin s playbook. russia claims to have developed a submar
china loses 90% of the amphibious fleet and 52 major surface warships and the air force loses more than 160 combat aircraft. crucial to this outcome is the stockpile of precision guided munitions. taiwan would need more u.s. supply anti-ship missiles which may be in short supply because these missiles have been sent to ukraine. the u.s. needs its own long range anti-ship missiles and this supply is one of the big risks. it runs out within typically the first couple of days. and when that runs out, then the united states has to use shorter range munitions. they can be effective. it increases losses and increases risk. reporter: china has the world s largest navy with about 340 ships and submarines compared to nearly 300 for the u.s. sh china s army has 100 active service duty members and the third largest air force in the world. the key to avoiding conflict is