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X ed. The 231231 Space Shuttle columbia the final flight premieres tonight at nine on cnn good morning and thank you for staying with us. Its now about 70 m eastern here in our atlanta studios. Welcome back to cnn this morning, i did not really appreciate until i sat down next to allison this blouse is an eclipse. Bless her earrings as i saw the sun, i saw this side committed, yeah its every so many years. Eclipses but its a kind of because i was concerned about not having a tough glasses and she was so yes, bring us a pair and these are the ones that you need, right . The is, you approved one...

Heavy fighting in donetsk and in the luhansk regions of ukraine is keeping people would have been trapped there for weeks now from getting out. cnn's bed wedeman traveling to the front lines to talk to people hieding in basements to survive. >> russian forces continue to try to seize control of the town about an hour and a half drive from -- to the east of here. but they are running into stiff resistance from the ukrainian defenders. we were able to get to a vantage point overlooking the town and saw as artillery fell on all parts of the city. in the southern area controlled by the ukrainian f...

After the president revised the travel ban and removed iraq from the list. you remember of course that the president's original executive order was rolled out into chaos and confusion at airports across the nation protests endue sued and eventually a federal court blocked it but the new softer order makes clear that lawful permanent residents otherwise known as green card holders or those with a visa are excluded from the ban. we have a lot of angles to talk about on the story. we have them covered across the globe starting with cnn's internal correspond end bed wedeman in iraq. arwa day man i...

Let's go to the middle east where the israeli prime minister netanyahu is vowing to intensify attacks against militants in gaza. israel's president shimon peres says a ground offensive could start soon. in just the past day, israel's military says it targeted around 160 suspected terror sites in gaza, while 130 rockets were fired into israel by militants inside gaza. take a look at this. [ sirens ] [ speaking foreign language ] [ explosions ] >> this video shows an israeli wedding being interrupted by sirens and a rocket intercepted overhead by israel's iron dome anti-missile defense system. b...

Jim was saying it's easy to frame somebody as crazy or out of touch but how much of vladimir putin's actions make sense from his perspective, not to say they're appropriate in any way but what about them from his perspective may make sense and talking about that later on in the program. i want to check in with our bed wedeman on the ground in crimea and also with me throughout the hour tonight, former long-time cnn correspondent jill dougherty. she is at harvard kennedy school of government. let's start with you. what's the latest in crimea and what have you seen throughout the day? >> reporte...