Ukraine. A group of armed men have now taken over the key government building in the regional capital of crimea and have raised the russian flag. This is raising fears that russia may step in and into ukraine. Lets go to our correspondent Barbara Starr. Right now forces are active along the border with ukraine. Is there real serious fear russia could potentially cross the line into ukraine . Well, wolf, lets get right to defense secretary chuck hagel because there is an extraordinary optic out there. Earlier today at nato headquarters in brussels secretary hagel issued a warning to moscow. And how many years has it been since a u. S. Defense secretary had to do that . I want you to listen to what he had to say. Im closely watching russias military exercises along the ukrainian border, which they announced as you know yesterday. I expect russia to be transparent about these activities. And i urge them not to take any steps that could be misinterpreted or lead to m miscalculation during
This is cnn breaking news. All right. Welcome back. This is the cnn newsroom. Im fredricka whitfield. Thanks for watching. Well following breaking news on bill cosby. A little more than an hour ago a judge declared as mistrial in cosbys case. It happened when the jury came to the judge after just one hour of deliberations this morning telling the judge they were hopelessly deadlocked and unable to agree on a unanimous verdict. Youre seeing pictures of bill cosby earlier today. The comedian had been charged with three counts of aggravate the indecent assault and despite the outcome the prosecution now vowing to retry the case. Cnn is following the story for us right now. We heard from the District Attorney kevin steele who said while theyre going to reassess, hes also vowing they will retry this case. Right. He had a lot of comments saying this is an important case and thats why it does need to be retried. You know, it speaks for a lot of the cases out there, a lot of cases out there an
Been greatly reduced, but he remains in Critical Condition with substantial damage from a gunshot wound. What lies ahead. And north korean brutality. U. S. Officials are trying to learn just what happened to american student Otto Warmbier who was returned home in an unresponsive state after nearly a year and a half in north korean detention. What horrors did he suffer . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. Two years to the day after he entered the president ial race, donald trump drops another bombshell that may turn out to mark a milestone in his presidency. The president tweeted today, and im quoting. I am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. A white house source says the president was referring to Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who also hired special counsel Robert Mueller. The Justice Department confirms that rosenstein is prepared to recuse himself, if necessary, given his role in the firing
When recalling Sept. 30, 2022, Frank Holiday remembers playing basketball with his welding students at North Point High School in Waldorf. Suddenly, everything stopped.