there are a lot of people, tanks, vehicles and techics, but we fight in our land and protect our family. it doesn t matter how they fight. we fight like lions and they won t win. reporter: the russians are making good targets by sticking to the treads, in some cases just running out of gas and sitting there. ukrainians are making good use of the thousands of anti-tank weapons shipped into the country. the head of the defense intelligence agency told congress he had underestimated the ukrainians. i questioned their will to fight. that was a bad assessment on my part because they have fought bravely and honorably and are doing the right thing. reporter: the russians have also lost an estimated 15 to 20 aircraft and 20 to 25 helicopters. most of them hit by missiles fired from the ground. they re trying to make up for it by doubling down on fire power, much of it indiscriminate.
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they want to at this point zblcht you write, the u.s. needs a more robust approach to cases like these. i want to know what that looks like. based on your own experience, when the u.s. treads lightly, what message does that send? first i think we have to come out vociferously and say these people are being held unjustly. in the case of brittney griner, there is still a lot of information to be gathered. and i don t think the u.s. government has made the indication she s necessarily a wrongful detainee. when that happens, first of all, i want to change the vocabulary on this. wrongful detainee means hostage. it means someone who s being held as leverage against united states and its interests. i think the short-term response needs to be one that actually raises stakes for bilateral relationships between the u.s. and the countries that are doing this, whether it s russia, iran, china, venezuela, or even some
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seeing significant weakening. doesn t mean we won t get more damage but we ear no longer seeing the extreme damage like today. where do we go from here, the treads? tornadoes overnight are a possibility. a tornado watch until 6:00 a.m. in the morning from the western panhandle of florida, southern alabama, southern mississippi and a section here of northeastern louisiana so tornadoes are one threat and then the rainfall is a huge issue, so the rainfall risk. this map shows you where we have a moderate risk into nashville and kentucky and all the way to tupelo and hattiesburg and then the high risk of flash flooding in the new orleans area so the rainfall is the big problem out there from here on out. we have about 20, now we re town to 14 million people in flash flood watches. where you see mat reason colors, that s where there s flash flood warnings and there s the levee of being overtopped south of new orleans. that s not like a dire situation. the water is coming over the levee of a