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over the western united states. it may have come all the way from china. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. good evening, gill i can t believe. the pentagon says it has detected and been tracking for the past several days a chinese surveillance balloon that entered u.s. airspace and appears to have been sent bye bye jing to spy on sensitive sites in montana. one of three sites where the u.s. houses it s siloed nuclear weapons. nbc first reported the news. a senior u.s. defense official just briefed reporters on the balloon which is still hovering over the continental united states. adding the u.s. government has very high confidence that this surveillance balloon was sent by the peoples republic of china. the balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. instances of this kind of balloon activity hav ....
six killings in northern california, and at least one possible suspect. we want our communities to pay attention to how he walks. a lot of people are scared to come out at night. it s just scary, period. i m pamela brown in washington. and you are in the cnn newsroom. a massive bridge, the longest one in europe, is crippled in a millisecond, and it s very bad news for russia. look here. this is the exact moment that russian president vladimir putin suffered his latest blow in his unprovoked war against ukraine. the blast from an apparent truck bomb knocking out three of the four lanes of the bridge that links mainland russia to the crimean peninsula. it s annexed territory in the south. now a huge bottleneck chokes a critical supply route for putin s war in ukraine. now we should note, ukraine has not claimed responsibility for in attack, but it is most certainly at the very least celebrating it. ukraine quickly unveiled this commemorative postal stamp that it ....
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. thank you for sticking with me. i m sara sidner. we re now get a look at even more witness transcripts from the january 6th investigation, 19 to be exact. the january 6th committee released key interviews from members of former president donald trump s family and staff, and conversations with people involved in the state level effort to overturn the 2020 election. in one interview, donald trump jr. gave more context around texts that he sent to mark meadows about plans to keep his father in office days after the election that he lost, and trump lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there s a lot to go through, and there s a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is ....
strikes on ukraine. power facilities in key cities taking a direct hit and leaving residents in the dark and cold. also tonight, we re digging through a new batch of just released january 6th transcripts including testimony by donald trump jr. and we re getting new insight into melania trump s mistrust of her husband s inner circle. and the southwest airlines meltdown drags on now for an eighth day. with thousands more flights canceled. will southwest get back to a full schedule tomorrow as the company claims? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour in ukraine after one of the biggest russian missile assaults since the start of the russian invasion. let s go straight to the capital, kyiv. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is on the ground for us. ben, so what are you seeing and hearing over there? reporter: well, what we heard at about 9:00 this mor ....
and it s used to resupply russian forces. russia s government insists the damage was under control. ukraine is not claiming responsibility. but they are directly mocking russia. the ukrainian government s official twitter account, tweeting sick burn. also, a famous scene of titanic to show the bridge. ukraine sent a birthday greeting to vladimir putin, next to marilyn monroe, singing happy birthday to u.s. president john f. kennedy. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday, mr. president happy birthday to you fred is following this from kyiv. how are russia and ukraine reacting? well, both sides are essentially blaming each other. you say that the russians are saying it s the ukraine ons behind all of this. a senior official calling it c ukrainian vandals behind this. and figures in moscow making the same allegation. the ukrainians, this is an adviser saying they believe it might have been infighting within russian security services t ....