hello everyone and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning at a sunday, february 18 time. amara walker, i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining us. here s what we re watching for you this morning. i m lynda fight to get them ammunition. they need past president biden doubles down on his commitment to get aid to ukraine. he lays blame for the delay directly on congress. what he said to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy during a phone call, donald trump hit the campaign fain trail for the first time since being ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties in the new york civil fraud trial. and he did not hold back his response and how he s now raising money as the fines add up. i am happy to be alive, but i don t want to be the product of a fraud. a really uncomfortable discovery, in a case of what lawyers call fertility fraud after doctors accused of secretly using his own sperm to impregnate patients evacuation orders have been issued for pa
temperatures expected overnight. well, in the west, mudslides ahead of another hard-hitting atmospheric river. 27 million people are under flood watches. our weather team timing it all out. also tonight, a house obliterated by a catastrophic explosion as firefighters responded to reports of a gas leak. one firefighter, killed. 12 other people, taken to the hospital. the blast was felt blocks away, what we ve learned about the fallen firefighter and what homeowners should do when they smell gas. former president donald trump sounding off after being hit with fines totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, vowing to appeal. nikki haley facing an uphill battle in her home state with just a week to go until the south carolina primary, saying it s time for a new generation of conservative leadership. outrage growing around the world over the death of alexei navalny, one of vladimir putin s fiercest critics. hundreds arrested in russia as memorials to navalny grow. the oppo
i like watching the puddles gather rain. -hey, your mom and i procreated to that song. oh, ew! i think you ve said enough. why don t we just switch to xfinity like everyone else? then you would know what year it was. i know what year it is. tonight on three 60, there is breaking news. a drone commander in the terrorist group lane for killing american troops and jordan is killed by an american drone strike in baghdad. also tonight, how a tough border deal that republicans demanded and a conservative obligate negotiated finally died, today. the massively use. keeping them honest. later, the high stakes tomorrow, especially for chief justice john roberts, as the supreme court takes up the question of keeping the former president of the ballot under the 14th amendment. good evening, thank you for joining us. we begin with the breaking news. the second and what president biden has said would be ongoing reprisals for the drone attack on american forces in jordan, which wounded
from new york city police on the beating of two officers near a migrant shelter in times square. this caught the attention of the entire nation because of the concerns about crime and migrants in our city and we understand that we will likely get some news details about some of the most guilty among those who were the attackers who are still out there somewhere on the loose. now sources tell fox that some of the suspects that were arrested and released with no bail may be headed to the california-mexico border. who can forget this suspect flipping off the media as he was set free. quite a message to the city and the country. former new york republican congressman and candidate for governor, lee zeldin is standing by. first to c.b. cotton live at one police plaza in lower manhattan. hi, c.b. hi, martha. investigators are trying to figure out whether the migrant men suspected in this attack on two nypd officers are linked to a larger theft ring, which was busted overnight.
viewers in the u.s. and all around the world. it is just past 10:00 in the morning and syria and iraq, where the impact of the american bombardment of 85 targets is being assessed. and joe biden is making something clear, this is just the start. retaliation for the deaths of three americans and jordan and a drone attack will go on. where? when? we don t yet know. this is video, from what appears to be one of those strikes in iraq early, saturday morning, local time. the mayor of this city says the strikes it houses used for weapons storage. the pentagon says u.s. bombers hit 85 individual targets in iraq and syria, the u.s. says they had locations used by iran backed militias and iran s own revolutionary guard. the video you just saw comes from al qaeda in iraq, on the border, with syria. an iraqi military spokesman says the attacks violated iraq s sovereignty. the white house says iraq was notified in advance. u.s. president, joe biden issued this statement. the united