what a story to start our day. thanks, andy. thanks for joining us. i m john avlon. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. so glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. there s a lot going on on this monday, december 18th. happening right now defense secretary lloyd austin is back in israel, his visit part of the international pressure campaign for israel to change its tactics in gaza and restart the truce talks, pressure growing after the killing of three hostages by soldiers. republican front runner donald trump using darker more extreme rhetoric in that final sprint, the white house slamming trump for what it calls fascist rhetoric. right now storms gusting up the east coast and the travel delays it could cause this holiday week. cnn this morning starts right now. we begin with defense secretary lloyd austin meeting right now with israel s defense min minister. pressure is growing on israel to change its tactics
Strategic ports reni izmail in the odessa region thundered and in the kharkov region they hit an armored plant in the khmelnitsky region at the airfield in starokonstantinov, but it flared up brightest at night, lvov. The footage taken by a copter shows the area of the destruction of an industrial warehouse with ammunition and how the room was burning, the fire was localized after a few hours, according to some calculations by the enemy side, the Russian Armed forces released the maximum amount of dough for the entire conflict. Active work and at the front Ukrainian Military personnel with their arms raised coming out of cover with their hands without weapons, he throws off his bulletproof vest and surrenders, his colleagues follow him and his colleagues on the network disperse footage of how a group of matchmaking criminos decided to surrender the ukrainian soldiers themselves got in touch with the russian fighters, laid down their arms, and this is a video from the dpr ti
They are followed by him and colleagues in the network disperse footage, like a group of criminal matchmakers, decided to surrender. The soldiers in isa themselves got in touch with the russian fighters and laid down their arms, and this is a video from the dpr klescheevka of the body of the militants, the city of the two hundredths. Our soldiers once again show what outcome the kiev regime is dooming its fighters to. Here they are suffering huge losses. Even under the whistling of enemy shells, our fighters grin and answer the barrel, howitzers of redhot shells. The artillerymen of the group of troops bring the guns and load them here in the kupyansk direction. The west was defeated by oporniks with militants and armored vehicles. This tool and the family call its name. Maria works well, helps and the gun shoots accurately. Very powerful. And in the krasnaya limansk direction the air is already rising ka52 from speed 250 km h. The pilots enter the combat course with the utmost precisi
Weapons on the front line and in depth the positions of the formation of the armed forces of armenia, their longterm firing points, as well as combat assets and military objects, the shelling system, are disabled positions of the Azerbaijani Army by formations of the armed forces of armenia in the karabakh region, the continuation of mining of our territories, carrying out work on engineering improvement of combat positions , as well as the increase in the number of trenches and dugouts in recent months has become the reason for an even greater increase in tension, mentioned in the message, Azerbaijan Ministry of defense, khajaly region and the village of red bazaar, in the direction of which the attack was carried out, located in nagornokarabakh. According to baku, there are combat positions there armenian army, only yerevan claims that there are no armed forces of armenia in this territory, as previously in azerbaijani official communications and the media the false statement continu
Got wrong ahead. Welcome to the future everyone. I am elizabeth klinge. Shaina i am shaina humphries. One thing the film may be wrong about is the cubs winning the world series. Metinka, lot of cubs fans may not be optimistic right now, but the weather is on our side. Metinka that will take your mind off of it. 65 degrees. Up the road in ames, much cooler, 49. We are talking about rain along that cold front. The rain this morning across nebraska. The showers hold together by later on this morning, we have showers in southwest iowa arriving. Highs will be warm in central and southern iowa, into the 70s again. It will start to feel like typical late october. Shaina developing overnight a suspect and a Des Moines Police officer crashing at northeast 51st court and northeast 30th place, that is just north of Copper Creek Golf Course in Pleasant Hill. This is video from the scene there. Police were pursuing a motorcycle around 2 am when the around 2 00 a. M. When the driver lost control her