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in friday's fighting, a russian missile destroyed a vital supply bridge into the city. bakhmut has seen intense fighting for weeks, as russia tries to claim a victory in eastern ukraine. cnn's melissa bell joins us now from kyiv. melissa, where do things stand? >> reporter: well, we've just been hearing from the british ministry of defense, saying that they understand that ukrainian forces are under increasing pressure. that's what we're hearing from the ground, with one soldier on the ground telling us that they were essentially outmanned four to one. and this has been the story for...

maine, new hampshire and massachusetts. we're finally starting to see things subside at this point. a lot of these areas have picked up a foot or more of snow. it's the snow combined with the wind, making travel very difficult. this wind could trigger more trees coming down and an increase of power outages and we already have plenty of those across that region. now we move from the east coast to the west coast where our next system is beginning to take shape. we're starting to see rain and snow showers across areas of washington state, oregon and northern california. that's going to ...

white. >> we didn't even have time to get anywhere. it was right on top of us. the house was shaking. we were all close together in the middle room of the house. wow. it's the craziest thing i've ever been involved in. >> more than 20 million people are under high wind alerts in the mid atlantic, northeast and western u.s. meteorologist alilison chinchar is keeping an eye on all of this. >> this storm is heading out into the open atlantic, hopefully giving folks a break 24 hours from now. we still have heavy bands of snow across maine, new hampshire. you're getting a little bit of wr...

hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i'm fredericka witfield. no now to turkey where the death toll from the earthquake has hit 25,000. time is running out to find other survivors. one senior u.n. official warns they are approaching the end of the search and rescue window. many of those who died are being buried in mass graves like this one in turkey. most of the survivors are left with nothing. cnn's nick payton walsh looks a some of the amazing rescue stories. >> reporter: increased desperation, cold, a lack of shelter, a government desperately doing all it can that s...

thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i'm fredericka witfield. we begin with the search for answers after the u.s. shot down what is described as an unidentified high altitude object. u.s. fighter jets taking it down after the coast of alaska friday. pentagon officials say they acted swiftly after the object about the size of a small car crossed into frozen territorial waters. it's the second time in less than a week that u.s. fighter jets have shot an object out of the sky following that chinese spy balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina last saturday. katie bo...