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♪ very good wednesday morning to you, i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm erica hill. happening right now, more than 4,500 civilians are stuck in the ukrainian city of bakhmut, this as russian forces launch a barrage of attacks on the fiercely contested area, president zelenskyy calling it the country's most difficult situation. as of now, though, ukrainian forces are still holding the line. cnn is on the ground in eastern ukraine and we will bring you the very latest. plus a political -- >> sorry, go ahead. >> it's all yours. >> plus a political shakeup in chicago. mayor lori lightfoot...

tonight. a big fat black face hoax. media attacks a little kid. another murder at a public school. humans winning the war against robots. plus, if you love your team like i do, you'll do whatever it takes. what do you think? i painted my face? >> why. >> to support the team. >> face paint is a part of fan culture. sometimes you see people paint their whole bodies. more die hard the fan base, more exuberant the look. in the 60s, chiefs games kicked off with american ride inning on horse back. horses name? war paint. then cancelled. now a blonde woman rides in on it and cancelled war p...

Cities led by black mayors, by the way. we also had some intra issue here between unions. paul vallas ran with the endorsement of the fop, the fraternal order of police, jim, that's the police union. brandon johnson, who is a paid staffer for the chicago teachers union, ran with the backing of the chicago teachers union. so you have in this backdrop two unions at odds with each other running in the background of this race. and that might not be true if we want to carry what happened in chicago too far. brandon johnson was bank rolled by millions of dollars from the chicago teachers union and i...

Mostly via zoom to try to convince developing countries that when russia or china call offering money or goods for this or that, not to side with the authoritarians but, instead, to team up with democracies like the u.s. and western europe. domestic headaches though remain at least a dozen cities led by democratic lawmakers, are setting homicide records and organized groups of criminals continue looting retail outlets as part of a wave of smash and grab robberies. officials here say they are using federal resources to monitor these activities that they call unacceptable and that they are direc...