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evidence. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. russia s military said to be divided tonight over ukraine s stunning military offensive, retaking thousands of square miles from moscow s forces, which are now on the defensive in eastern and southern ukraine. cnn s senior international correspondent matthew chance has the latest for us. matthew, cnn s reporting that putin himself is giving directions to generals on the battlefield as russia s military appears increasingly divided on how to proceed with this war. tell us more of what you re learning. reporter: that s right, wolf. tonight another illustration of just how much intelligence u.s. authorities have, the u.s. intelligence has, on the thinking of what s going on inside the russian command structure. they re talking about intercepts that they ve sort of made available to cnn. we re reporting on that. about how there are disagreements ....
is a monster move again, and they have signaled that they are not done and project nag the interest rates are going to be going significantly higher from here, and the message that the fed is trying to convey is clear. they are serious about trying to get stubbornly high inflation back down, but the moves they are making here have lifted the interest rates to the highest level since 2008, and now the fed was late to this inflation fight. they did not start raising interest rates until earlier this years, and they have been forced to play catchup, and that has forced the interest rates to go rapidly higher, and we have not seen three straight moves of a percentage point and we have not seen anything like that since the modern era, and you have to go back to 1981, and this is not a perfect comparison, because that is before the fed publicly announced the fed moves, and what does it mean? it means the borrowing costs are higher, and interest rates and car loans and mortgag ....
there it is expected to explode into an intense, powerful category 4 storm. then ian will likely weaken a bit before charging ashore somewhere along florida s gulf coast. florida s governor saying the storm s massive size means the entire state, the whole state wail be impacted. and he has activated the florida national guard. cnn meteorologist tom seder has been tracking all this in the weather center. what is the latest? well, it continues to look a little disorganized, really. it is a tropical storm. it s not moving very quickly, alex. only at 12 miles per hour, but it s getting ready to enter some of the warmest water in the entire atlantic. higher elevations, winds are light, so once it starts to feed on those warm waters, all cylinders are going to be firing up. now, the last few frames of this animation if you look near the center here, so deep convection is starting to occur. this could be the beginning. we ve been watching this since last thursday off the coa ....
greg: you didn t think we could do it but there you are. months of hard work and hot tubbing but he s here. i m not proud of some of the things i had to do in that tub larry but i ll do what it takes. also side note al qaeda leader ayman al-zawahiri was killed. [cheers and applause] greg: you re sick. was just 51 years young, his remains will be cremated and spread over his already cream ated remains. and to think he just finished paying off his women s studies degree. we went to his family for comment. that s terrible, show the guy some respect. let s go to his real family. you know that s even worse. you know how those guys hate pork. it s the other white meat they despise. no wonder he became a terrorist. at least he didn t get into stripping because once the robe comes off it s just ankle socks. don t ask me how i know. so when i first heard the news i have to say i was a little confused. and, no, that s not a quote from the president. first, i had not heard tha ....
before getting to where it all stands tonight, i want you to hear from these witnesses, starting with this 11-year-old talking about the gunman coming into her classroom. it s graphic and difficult to hear, but it s important to hear it unfiltered. no matter where you stand on the issue of guns, this shouldn t be happening. we were just watching, and then she got and she went to lock the door. and he was in the hallway, and they made eye contact. and then she went back in the room and told us, go hide. and then we went to go hide behind my teacher s desk and behind the backpacks. and then he shot the little window. and then he went to the other classroom, and then he went there s a door between our classrooms, and he went to there and shot my teacher and told my teacher he shot her in the head. and then she shot some of my classmates. when i went to the backpacks, he shot my friend that was next to me, and i thought he was going to come back to the room. so, i g ....