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and to our viewers thanks so much for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, breaking news. president biden says aid to ukraine is open-ended. he says putin has already lost ukraine. his new video into outfront shows one of america s most powerful munitions in action on the front line as putin is now threatening prisoner who s won t fight in his invasion. red flags for trump. the former president struggling to raise money for his re-election campaign. former supporters with deep pockets are now looking to back somebody else. this is a report that you will see first here outfront tonight. plus, santos response to romney, telling him he doesn t belong in congress. he makes it all about romney s religion. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. president biden in one of his most definitive statements to date moments ago making it clear the united states aid will continue to pour into uk
ukraine officials say la s 23 confirmed that. in the city and mitchell slammed into that apartment building, they were sleeping in. and in dnipro, also reported killed, russia routinely denies they are targeting civilians with a list of noncombatants killed is a long one, and tonight as they continue to be clear, that list is likely to grow, cnn s team is there, as some of the dead were found. with us last night, joining us about the attached have been recording how does today compared today through out this work lacks reporter: the numbers are always terrifying, not the worst we have seen since the war has began but after weeks of not months or less of missile attacks like this, in terms of their intensity. the numbers they tell are much more intimate and horrifying where they have had an apartment block, families who knew each other and under that rubble tonight, firefighters are still looking for a boy and girl that parents are trying to reach their children for but ge
congress is back in session. but rather than being in washington, house speaker kevin mccarthy is taking his battle to wall street , the list of demands he now has for democrats as the high stakes fight heats up new reporting coming in from the mass shooting at a sweet 16 party in alabama, at least four people killed 28. others, many of them teenagers injured. police are now saying about this investigation. moments from now the most powerful rocket ever built is expected to launch into space. the mission eventually take people to mars. these major stories and more coming in right here to cnn news, central. we begin with the rocket launch and just about 20 minutes, the spacex starship is set to take off the rocket is nearly 400 ft . tall and has 33 engines and this launch will mark spacex s first attempt to launch the fully assembled starship vehicle . after years of testing. it s the first step in elon musk s vision to send humans back to the moon and mars. it s also somethin
hello, everyone. at this hour, trying to cling to hope as rescue and recovery efforts continue in turkey and syria and the death toll continues to climb. plus, new details out today of what that chinese spy balloon may have been capable of. a member of congress who was just briefed on the incident is our guest. and north korea is showing off the military arsenal a very big way as kim jong-un s daughter is stepping out into the spotlight. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan, and the images coming out of turkey and syria continue to boggle the mind of how widespread and just complete the devastation is just building after building pancaked and freezing temperatures the of course challenging every effort to find survivor and yet still moments of hope. a mother and two sons were just rescued alive today after being under the rubble for more than 70 hours, and the death toll is still rising passing 17,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of people without a place