biggest air attack on ukraine since the start of the invasion. and unprecedented number of drones and missiles fired a target all across the country. president biden s reaction here. we cannot let ukraine down. plus, a second state moving trump from the 2024 primary ballot, for now at least. maine s top election official barring the former president from running for office based on the insurrectionist band in the constitution. a monster wave hitting california s coast flooding, road closures, evacuation warnings. in ventura, more than a dozen onlookers were swept away by the surge you watch in this green. we are following these major developing stories, and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. today, president biden is once again calling on congress to urgently pass billions of dollars of new aid for ukraine. he is pointing to this. russia launching its largest air attack across ukraine since it invaded nearly two years ago. dozens of people are dead.
and nikki haley was asked a clear question, what was the cause of the united states civil war. hear what her answer did not include as she prepares to head back out on the campaign trail. and top cabinet secretaries say they had a productive meeting with mexico s president. we start this hour with donald trump s battle to stay on the ballot. it is playing out in multiple states and big decisions could be coming down at anytime. the colorado gop is now asking the supreme court to keep trump on the ballot, that of course after the state s top court ruled that he engaged in an insurrection and therefore disqualified. trump himself could still appeal. also at any moment we could hear from the secretary of state of maine. she s a democrat and could make the decision as soon as today. trump s lawyers are demanding that she recuse herself. they accuse her of having a personal bias against the former president. trump is coming off a legal victory in michigan, that state supreme c
there s no possible way he could do this on purpose. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. she was crying and crying. i said, what s wrong? and she says, that he s dead. we all wanted to believe that it was an accident. a dark house, a husband with a gun. a wife dead on the floor. make sure that she is still breathing. oh, i don t think she is, damn it. there was no question who killed her. the mystery was why. i hear the door squeaking. and i hear a grumbling. and i hear the dog rolling. how could you not tell that s your wife? it was dark. i did he just kept seeing it was an accident and he didn t do anything wrong. others disagreed. we never for a second believed that he didn t know who that was that he was threatening. was it a tragic mistake? he was broken. or cold-blooded murder? he has fits of emotion, they re only down in front of the detective. a room too dark to see. turn the light off. or a story too hard to believe?
an intruder. their home so deep in the woods now shrouded in a mystery even deeper. police had suspects. i remember kelley not wanting to be home alone. they also had a problem. why would this guy go up and kill this woman? her family had questions of their own. something is not right here. something is wrong. and then someone remembered a phone call and a fib. i pulled out my phone. i m like that s strange. a killer living two lives. it hurts when you thought you knew was all a lie. hello and welcome to dateline. kelley and tom clayton seemingly happy life together came to an abrupt end when she was found brutally murdered. investigators set out to uncover the truth, finding stories of bestral and betrayal and a witness who may have seen everything, the clayton s daughter, charlie. in this case, not everything was what it seemed. here with the house in the woods is andrea canning. these ones are not fun to do. finally he found it. down a secluded driv
for now, democratic opponent. i m paula ramos in for ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. democratic secretary of state now becomes the first election official to take action unilaterally. in the 30-page decision, she didn t come to that conclusion lightly. writing, quote, i outlined people that no secretary of state has ever deprived presidential candidate of ballot access based on section three of the 14th amendment. i m also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engage in insurrection. bells issued her ruling after a bipartisan group of former lawmakers challenge promised free position on the ballot and you should know that she s deposit decision but peeling the court. which trump said in the tens of. i ll also on thursday, california secretary of state chose to include trump s name on the list of candidates certified too run in the states presidential primary, despite a call for her not to do so from the state lieutenant governor. those decisio