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night that the president and first lady will head to puerto rico last night which was rocked by hurricane fiona -- 25 deaths in puerto rico have been connected to the storms. reuters reports that as of friday, 230,000 homes and businesses remain without power. fiona bore down five days after the anniversary of hurricane maria, which wreaked major havoc on the island before moving up the east coast. after puerto rico, the first couple will head to florida to examine the damage caused by hurricane ian. with wind speeds that top 155 miles per hour, tens of thousands of buildings were le...

of what's to come as we approach peak summer travel. the pressure the biden administration is now putting on the airlines. the dangerous new heat wave taking aim at much of the country, millions under heat alerts tonight. rob marciano standing by timing it out. the new warning from nato that the war in ukraine could drag on for years as american firepower makes it to the front lines. our team on the ground with a up-close look. will the heavy artillery make a difference in the war? the news out of italy, the oscar-winning film director detained after allegations of sexual assau...

The dismissal of Oleksii Reznikov signals a strategy shift. Mr reznikov led the Ministry Since before the start of russias full scale invasion in february of last year, winning praise for negotiations to secure allied weaponry and expanding ukraines army. But as ukraines government has ramped up investigations into corruption, mr reznikov has become the subject of increasing speculation over financial misconduct, though he has not been personally implicated. Meanwhile, on the battlefield, ukrainian generals claim that they have breached russias formidable first line of defences in the south, n...

Whit, because the forest service is calling this a national crisis, they are moving away from the way they've been fighting fires. they're moving away from so-called let it burn policy and now saying they're going to throw every available resource at fighting fires threatening communities or infrastructure. whit? >> all right, matt gutman for us tonight, thank you. next, more people caught in the air travel nightmare tonight. spirit airlines grounding 60% of its flights today. more than 1,000 cancellations in just four days. how spirit is explaining all of this tonight. here's abc's victor o...

Avoided that i don't know about that. >> did you make the right call? >> well, i think we did based on the circumstances that we knew at the time. >> reporter: some students unable to get home spent the night at area schools on tuesday. highways became impassable, leaving thousands stranded. governor deal is now calling the state's response ahead of the storm inadequate. he says he will work to make sure that this never happens again. >> we will be more aggressive. we will take those weather warnings more seriously. and there will be, as a consequence of that, probably more occasions in which ...