now it's just 40%, pessimism takes the lead at 59%. way up from 37%. but, guys, i have a reason for optimism because american workers who get a paid holiday just 15% for new year's eve but how about new year's day? 90% of us get a paid holiday. there is some pessimism in the world but at least we won't have to work, most of us, on new year's day. >> do you know what makes me optimistic. >> what makes you optimistic? >> harry's face every day at the end of the show. >> happy birthday to my mom. we are not going to reveal how old she is but she birthed me, grew me up. i love you so much. >> a big 21st birthday. >> happy birthday. >> and "cnn news central" starts -- let me look at the clock -- right now. ♪ ♪

the largest russian air attack on ukraine since the war started nearly two years ago, and it is still under way. dozens of people are dead and injured. we have breaking developments just coming in. plus disqualified from one sting on another. maine joining colorado in booting donald trump from the ballot as blue california says he will be on theirs. the unprecedented ballot battles that keep coming for the former president. and a huge rogue wave sweeps over more than a dods people in southern california. look at that. floods, road closures and worse and more so still be on the way. sara and kate are both elsewhere today, i'm john berman alongside danny freeman. this is "cnn news central." ♪ this morning the ukraine air

force said another missile attack by russia was under way just hours after wave after wave of air strikes on ukraine overnight. at least 18 people were killed, dozens more injured in russia's biggest air attack since the war began. ukrainian officials say russia fired over 150 missiles and drones on all regions from all directions, hitting kyiv in the capital, kharkiv in the north and zaporizhzhia and odesa in the south. ukraine says they were able to shoot down most of the missiles and drones, but cnn's helena lynn is in kyiv this morning. you, as i understand it, witnessed somd of these attacks there so tell us, what are you seeing? >> reporter: hello, danny. in the morning we were in an area where a business building was hit, it was not being used, so partly destroyed, but no people inside. also from the other side of the street there was a metro station that was also hit. it was -- the main entrance was

closed, people could still access it from another site and the metro was already working. right now we are not very far from that area but actually in a place where there is some warehouses and these warehouses behind me was actually hit during this attack. let me just take you inside and show you what actually -- the destruction that is inside because, you know, the warehouse was hit, it caught fire. when we arrived here the smoke was still very visible from the outside. right now we can still see smoke in the inside. the smell is actually also strong and for some time we couldn't access the inside of the warehouse because firefighters were still trying to stabilize so nothing could actually fall. we now have permission to enter. as you can see, you know, there is -- the structure is

completely destroyed, the roof of the warehouse is totally destroyed and we are actually walking most of the time on shattered glass, on fragments of the warehouse, but also of the equipment that was inside. i was speaking with the general manager of the company, which is actually a german company working in ukraine, and he was telling me there is only electro technical equipment here, there's no weapons, and it's now mostly destroyed. so the warehouse is destroyed, he will have to look for a new one. what is inside they are trying to understand whether or not they can still recover something. now estimating also the costs of the destruction. the company is still going to continue working in ukraine, that's at least what he was telling me, but, you know, it's very difficult right now to recover from all this loss. there was no one inside the warehouse when the attack

happened, it was in the early hours in the morning, but speaking with a firefighter, at least -- i mean, two people asked for -- to be assisted by the emergency services because this was the main warehouse that was hit, but there's also other buildings around. so two people needed to be assisted by the emergency services. as i was telling you, firefighters are still here, work is still being done in this warehouse. there's still a lot of smoke and the smell is really strong, but as you were saying not only kyiv was hit, which was very unexpected, you know, sirens have been going off in the capital for almost every day, but it was -- no one was expecting this size of destruction, but also other cities in ukraine. and this shows the scale of the attack of last night and this morning. >> helena, just the scale of that destruction, pretty incomprehensible. please stay safe and thank you for bringing us that report.

appreciate it. >> what images there, the still smoldering wreckage of the air strikes still going on in parts of that country. major new developments this morning in the courts and on the campaign trail. overnight maine became the second state to remove donald trump from a primary ballot because of the 14th amendment ban on insurrectionists. the secretary of state shenna bellows who made the call spoke with me moments after the decision and told me ultimately me would defer to the u.s. supreme court if the cases get there. >> the united states supreme court is the ultimate interpreter. ideally they will rule and they haven't yet, but certainly should they rule we will abide by their ruling. >> so maine was not the only state to act overnight. donald trump's name was added to california's certified list of candidates by the state's secretary of state who is a democrat there, by the way, despite pressure to bar trump. now, a decision from oregon

could come anytime now. cnn's katelyn polantz is watching all of this. it seems like i'm talking to you a lot lately because a lot is going on here. >> there is, john. there is a lot of states where there are challenges on donald trump's eligibility to be on the ballot and now we have two states, colorado and maine, coming to the conclusion that he is not eligible because he engaged in insurrection, that's the finding of the colorado supreme court, the highest court in that kateth state and then maine's secretary of state. one of the things that is happening here is it's not over. that is quite clear. even with this definitive ruling from the secretary of state, shenna bellows, last night out of maine and from colorado's supreme court, there are going to be additional court challenges. there's already a petition before the u.s. supreme court asking the supreme court, the nine justices, to look at what colorado is doing and determine whether that is something they

can even do, to remove someone from the primary ballot. one of the things in that supreme court petition, the colorado republican party warned the u.s. supreme court, watch out. this is going to be picking up steam. it's going to create chaos. there's going to be other states that follow this. shenna bellows did say yesterday in her ruling that she acknowledged what was happening in colorado, looked at some of the things that that court had determined, and even if the supreme court steps in, she did not feel that she should be making a judgment call based on what could happen potentially at the supreme court. that the possibility did not relieve her of her responsibility of acting here and making a call. and so in maine it may go to the state courts next. the u.s. supreme court we are still waiting to see exactly what they may do to sort out what should be the law across the land, or will states continue to make decision by decision on what to do with donald trump and his name for

primary ballots in 2024. >> look, it will be really interesting to see if more states join this list along with colorado and maine before the u.s. supreme court gets directly involved. katelyn polantz, we know you are staying on it, perhaps we will talk to you soon about oregon. thank you. >> perhaps. this morning a new exclusive look at the dramatic lengths trump's inner circle took leading up to january 6th. a series of recordings and emails now exposing the haphazard plan to get fake electors to d.c. before the 2020 election was certified and this all comes after fake elector certificates got stuck in the mail. cnn's marshall cohen has the exclusive details. what are we learning from these new recordings? >> good morning, danny. we've known bits and pieces of that story before, but now we're getting the full picture and it comes from ken chesebro who in many ways was the architect of this fake electors plot. cnn has obtained recordings of his recent interview with michigan investigators and hundreds of emails that he

turned over there. they reveal that last minute scramble on the eve of january 6th to get those fake certificates to d.c. here is chesebro in his own words describing what happened when a trump campaign officials realized that the ballots from two key states, michigan and wisconsin, were actually stuck in the mail. >> the general counsel of the trump campaign is freaked out that roman reported that the michigan votes are still in the sorting facility at michigan, which doesn't look like they're going to get to pence in time. so the general counsel of the campaign was alarmed and was charter -- they didn't have to charter a jet but they did commercial. yeah, this is a high-level decision to get the michigan and wisconsin votes there. and they had to enlist, you know, a u.s. senator to try to expedite it to get it -- get it to pence in time.

>> a high-level decision. now, remember, danny, they needed to get these ballots to the floor of the house because they wanted mike pence to throw out biden's reelecters and replace them with trump's fake electors. in the end the campaign did not need to charter a jet, staffers booked last minute tickets on commercial flights on january 5th. once they got to d.c. there was a series of handoffs and cure years that included a meet up at the trump hotel and even help from senator ron johnson. the ballots eventually reached the capitol in time but pence's team said he didn't want them. he refused to go along with the plan. >> this reporting is wild just to get a look underneath the hood of all that was happening leading up to that day. marshall, tell me, how does this factor into jack smith's criminal case against trump? >> well, this whole episode is vaguely referenced in jack smith's indictment against trump. chesebro is an unindicted

co-conspirator in that case. some of the people involved in the last minute scramble, including the staffers on those flights have spoken to snit's team but it's not clear how many new details will factor into donald trump's trial which as you know is scheduled for march. danny? >> marshall cohen, great reporting. thank you very much. >> with us now tim heavy, the chief investigative counsel for the january 6th congressional committee. counsel, great to see you here. one quick we on marshall cohen and our team's fantastic reporting on kenneth chesebro. he seems to know a lot and be saying a lot. they noted that chesebro reached out to jack smith's team before he reached the plea deal in georgia and he hasn't heard back from jack smith's team, the federal prosecutors pressing this case. why might that be? >> yeah, good question, john. my guess is that chesebro's information, which is new, he asserted a fifth amendment privilege when we interviewed him, the select committee

interviewed him, will factor into the special counsel's investigation. the fake elector plot is part of the evidence that will be presented by the special counsel that bears directly upon the president's -- former president's intent to disrupt the joint session. so whether or not he's been interviewed at this point, my guess is that he will be and that he has information that will be useful to the special counsel. >> anything you see in that report, the cnn report, that creates new legal jeopardy for anyone involved here? >> i mean, we knew the core story that the rnc, the trump campaign, were together generating this submission of the fake electors and this was part of an orchestrated multistate plan to submit them to the joint session and to have them be considered by the vice president and the members on the floor. there's some new details, this is new sort of meat on the bones, chesebro's account of the sort of frenetic scramble to get them to the capitol on january

6th is new, but we knew that the rnc and the trump campaign were coordinating it and we knew that vice president pence ultimately refused to accept them. so, again, the core story is not new. >> let's talk about the 14th amendment, section 3, and the decision now from maine to follow the lead of colorado and say that donald trump can't be on the primary ballot there, as part of the decision the secretary of state in maine said that donald trump did engage in insurrection, as someone who was involved with the january 6th committee, how do you feel about that determination? >> yeah, look, we made the same determination, the select committee did, that the president's actions not just on january 6 but leading up to it incited insurrection. the factual basis for the secretary of state's opinion, the colorado supreme court's opinion have been in place for a while. the legal question is interesting and the supreme court generally steps in when there's a disagreement among lower courts, federal circuit courts or state superiorreme co.

this one seems ripe as to whether that provision applies to the president and whether he has had significant due diligence on that finding of insurrection. seems like the supreme court needs to take this case and on an expedited basis. >> you say the legal question, it's interesting, there's really a lot more than one legal question involved here. >> yeah. >> one, did the president engage in an insurrection which the january 6th committee says he did, and number two, can states decide here? what's the role of a state to decide whether a candidate or a person engaged in insurrection here, where do you see the supreme court weighing in, when and if they do? >> yeah, it's a good question. elections generally are the domain of state governments. they are run by individual state governments. that is the way our federalist system operates. but the interpretation of a constitutional provision, whether or not the section 3 of the 14th amendment itself executing or can be implemented

by state officials, that is an open legal question that the court will have to decide. again, i think given that we have had different interpretations of that legal question, that is exactly the kind of situation in which the court typically steps in. >> do you think when it comes down to it the court will decide one way or another whether they think donald trump engaged in insurrection or they look to find some other area here to weigh in and make their choice? >> well, the supreme court doesn't typically find facts, they rely upon facts that are adjudicated by lower courts. the colorado court, for example, had a trial judge find as packet fact that the president engaged in insurrection. the supreme court generally has law. the court may find that the factual finding was not the product of due process, the president didn't have a sufficient opportunity to challenge those facts. but, again, the supreme court is

not going to generally make findings of fact, they're going to defer to the findings of fact of lower courts and ensure that the process by which those facts were found was fair. >> it will be hugely interesting to see whether and how they approach this. tim, thank you for being with us, appreciate it. happy new year. >> thanks, john. you, too. all right. coming up next, nikki haley is in new hampshire this morning trying to bounce back from those comments she made about the civil war, but the tough questions just keep on coming, even from a 9-year-old. plus, monster swells on the california coastline and the threat is not over. oh, my god, look at that. today 40 foot waves are possible across the san francisco bay. plus a new surveillance video is providing an important clue in the fatal shootings of a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend. stay with us.

you are looking at live pictures of former south carolina governor nikki haley, she is hosting a town hall in concord, new hampshire, the capital of that state. new hampshire of course is the first primary state in the nation, a key voting state. nikki haley has spent the last few days in cleanup mode, which is not where she wants to be. she is still facing backlash from comments she made the other day where she avoided saying that slavery was the cause of the civil war. the morning after she said that she tried to clarify her stance, by saying of course she knows that slavery was at the root of the civil war and she blamed democrats for planting the question, however, the civil war was the civil war, whether or not democrats asked about it. cnn's eva mckend is molg nikki haley around the state of new hampshire and joins us this morning.

e eva. >> reporter: good morning, yeah, ambassador haley is about to address a crowd here in concord, she's just trying to move on from this as best that she can. her rivals, though, not making it easy because, you know, her indirect response to the civil war ecoquestion lends itself to lot of the concerns that the rivals address. maybe she will say one thing on abortion here in new hampshire that differs in iowa. chris christie really doubling down on that sentiment, he's campaigning here in new hampshire as well today. take a listen to what he told cnn this morning. >> this has been her whole campaign. she does not want to offend anyone. she won't tell the truth about donald trump. even though she knows that he was the cause of january 6th, she won't say it. even though she knows that he regularly lies, she won't say it. she was asked by a voter again in new hampshire would she categorically rule out being donald trump's vice president? and she won't answer the

question. these are simple questions to a smart woman and when she doesn't answer them, you have to believe she's been a slippery, slick politician. >> reporter: and so now this really all boils down to what the voters think. i can tell you that many new hampshire supporters of her are sympathetic to the -- her walk-back on this, her cleanup of this. one man telling me last night that he believes that the question on the civil war was posed to her to trip her up. another woman telling me that she's not concerned about the controversy, that she's really looking forward and interested in haley's policies on a number of matters and this does not rank high as a concern. another woman telling me that she feels as though female politicians are underestimated and she's proud to support haley in the primary. haley will have this last stop here in concord, she has a lot of enthusiasm on the ground

because she's joined by the popular governor here, chris sununu, and then she will head on to iowa for a slue of stops there. >> eva mckend in concord, new hampshire this, morning. keep us posted as the nikki haley event continues. >> we are joined by republican strategist and former rnc communications director doug high and washington correspondent for the "atlanta journal constitution" tia mitchell. day two of civil war fallout here. tia, i know you spoke with cnn as this was unfolding. haley has had some time to try to clean this up. from your perspective has she fixed this? >> well, you know, the word "fix" is doing a lot of work in your question and that's very subjective because i think there are some voters who probably weren't bothered by her comments to begin with, especially as she shifts back to iowa, but the concern that she raised, how she answered the question and what it says kind of about her

inclinations when it comes to topics of race, her inn cli ago na inn cli nations when it comes to voters that may owe fend hard right voters, those questions will going to linger. she was always either a distant third in most polls to be quite frankly, so did it help her move up? definitely not. but is it going to change the status of the race where she still, quite frankly, is fighting with florida governor ron desantis to trail donald trump by a lot doesn't seem like it changed that, either. >> well, doug, so that's what i've been trying to figure out after this whole discussion here. do you think that this could actually hurt or help her standing with the new hampshire republican primary voters? i guess will this potentially put her support in jeopardy? >> well, danny, i spent the last six days in north carolina for the holidays, so meaning outside of washington, d.c., and what i learned when i was home is what i learn every time i go outside of washington, d.c. or the

island of manhattan, the conversation outside of those two places is always different. what we talk about in washington and in new york is not what people talk about in north or south carolina, new hampshire or iowa or anywhere else in the rest of the country. look, it was a mistake. it was a bad answer by nikki haley. the republican party and the republican candidates have a real problem talking about obvious truths that joe biden won fair and square, that slavery was the root cause of the civil war, that duke basketball is evil but the sunrises in the east and that when your opponent is indicted you use it against them, but that's not the conversation that voters throughout the country are having. that's not where new hampshire voters are. so the problem for haley here isn't just what she said, yes, that's a problem, it's the timing and the time something problem for haley because we heard for weeks and weeks about her momentum. the reality is it wasn't there until the last week or two and where we saw a shift in the polls. that's the problem for haley now. she can pivot around there this,

we're not at new year's eve, much less new year's day, that's when new hampshire voters will be focused on this. if she has a sharp message and we know she has sharp elbows then she can do well. >> this is going to be far from the only surprise we see leading up to iowa and new hampshire. tia, desantis and christie, they have jumped on this. do you think that either of them, i guess, got this request he right after the fact? >> well, i mean, i think both of them were able to monday morning quarterback her answer and really drill down on why it was problematic. i think chris christie probably has a little bit more credibility on being a, quote, unquote, truth teller and that's what he's really focused on in attacking haley on her answer. we know that governor desantis has had his own problems with how he's spoken about issues of race and i don't think people are really convinced that in the moment the way nikki haley was

that ron desantis would have been so much better. you know, of course we will never know, but, again, i think chris christie comes across with a little bit more credibility, but, again, he's positioned himself as that truth teller. it's not helping necessarily him win any of the primaries, but it is giving him that status as someone who is willing to say the hard thing. >> all right. for both of you i want to turn to the other hard hitting question of the day yesterday, haley was also questioned by a 9-year-old. take a listen. >> so chris christie thinks that you are a flip-flopper on the donald trump issue and honestly i agree with him. you're basically the new john kerry, if you are john kerry from 2004. >> what's the question? >> so my question is how can you be -- how can you change your opinion like that in just eight years and will you pardon donald

trump? >> i would pardon trump. what's in the best interest of the country is not to have an 80-year-old man sitting in jail that continues to divide our country. >> all right. doug, how did that go for nikki haley? >> look, i think the comment is one that, again, political observers will wag at that you are the new john kerry, i don't think it will have much impact with new hampshire or iowa voters or caucusgoers in iowa, but this is an opportunity for haley. why would she pardon donald trump? because she thinks donald trump did something that was a pardonable offense and therefore he shouldn't be president. that he has these trials that will distract him and ultimately cause him to not be focused on joe biden. that's a message that republicans can beat donald trump on if they choose to use it. >> tia, i want to give you a quick last word just to respond to that 9-year-old's question. >> yeah, i think, number one, again, that she's been trying to make a general election message that she would be better against joe biden, but if you are

telling general election voters you would pardon donald trump, i think that might undercut that and also, again, that brings up when she answers these questions in that way it brings up other things such as there are a lot of 80-year-old men sitting in federal prisons right now on crimes that don't include, you know, possibly trying to dismantle our democracy and she's not speaking about them. >> tia mitchell, doug heye, thank you for your insight on another busy day of 2024 primary politics. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> i will tell you who was sweating during that was the advanced person who set up the q&a and thought it might be cute to call on a 9-year-old in the audience. that person soaked in sweat as that kid was asking that question. all right. the largest air attack since russia invaded ukraine nearly two years ago. president zelenskyy says that russia is using nearly every type of weapon. this is still ongoing. and does google owe you after it just settled a $5 billion lawsuit?

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right here we showed you about here, you can see it hit a hospital and a shopping mall, smoldering wreckage in that city. and this is just one of the cities that was hit. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says that his country was hit with almost every type of weaponry, it includes drones and missiles, airborne attacks across the entire country and, again, this is still going on. let's bring in cnn's nic robertson to get a sense of what is still happening and why, nic. >> reporter: you've got these missile attacks, cruise missile attacks in sumy in the north and ukrainians thought that they could see this potentially coming earlier this afternoon because they noticed that some of the attack bombers that carry these missile systems had taken off to the north of ukraine so they were monitoring that. i think it's super instruct tick if you deconstruct what happened last night and try to see the

plays that russia put in to try to defeat the air defenses across ukraine which ukraine hugely depends on the situates and european countries for funding them, providing them and giving them the munitions they need. the russians started off with 36 drones coming from the north, the southeast and the west, which ukrainian officials said they're kind of used to that. but then at about 3:00 a.m. the russians launched 18 strategic bombers, and so for several hours after that the ukrainians are monitoring these strategic bombers that carry multiple cruise missiles. they're monitoring those and in that same time the russians launch long-range bombers, they launch eight cruise missiles at ukraine, they launch mig 35s which launch hypersonic missiles at different targets in ukraine, they also fired surface to air missiles, radar-seeking missiles, and then after all of those had impacted, those 18 strategic bombers i was talking about launched 90 -- 90 cruise

missiles at ukraine. so what the russians are trying to do is probe and find weaknesses in ukraine's air defense and 158 missiles all together ukraine shoots down 114. that means 44 got through and that's why we're seeing such a high casualty toll, john. >> it's not just again, volodymyr zelenskyy says almost every type of weapon used as you noted. it's not just the types of swep ens it's the sequencing. we have video over the capital of kyiv where you can see, yes, the ukrainian air defense is working but it can't save them from everything. so what happens, nick, if this continues? >> reporter: yeah, the ammunition supplies that the ukrainians have will get de depleted and of course we know from front line commanders that they have to calculate and hold back reserves of ammunition because they don't know when the money is coming. they know that the united states is sitting on tens of billions of dollars in funding for the

war, the european union ball kd over christmas at providing $55 billion of aid over the next four years so the ukrainians have to think about conserving ammunition. they have to look when the strikes come over how many they can afford to take down, how many raids will come in the coming days? putin is on the run up to the elections the electricity grid network in ukraine was hugely damaged last year and is not back up properly working. for the ukrainians another winter of freezing conditions without heating, without water, without lighting. that's realistic. we don't know what putin's next step will be to amp this up even more or take a pause. >> yeah, a cold, difficult winter and it's just beginning. nic robertson, thank you very much. danny? all right. take a look at this video right here. onlookers were completely taken offguard by gigantic waves, look at that, that's wild, hitting the coast of california. those people luckily are okay but the threat is not over

today. stay with us.

on our radar this morning, google has settled a class action lawsuit accusing the tech giant of secretly tracking users who were in incognito mode. the plaintiffs claimed google's cookies and apps let the search engine morton users who thought they were browsing privately. details of the settlement have not been made public. and to this now, an oxford, ohio, police officer seen on video punching a miami university football player is now on administrative leave

while the incident is being investigated. i will give you a warning, you may find the video you are about to see disturbing. this happened during an arrest outside a bar in november. police say there was an altercation after johnson allegedly assaulted the bar manager and then refused to leave. oxford police say when they arrived johnson resisted and was pinned to the ground and you see right there when an officer is seen punching johnson multiple times. johnson says he's innocent and denies the police account of what happened. he pleaded not guilty to resisting arrest and assault. a top french chef has quit his job in southwestern france following hazing allegations. according to french newspaper reports a young assistant was tied naked to a chair in front of chef at the restaurant. he gave a statement to a cnn affiliate calling the allegations against him defamatory and false. an investigation is under way.

john? all right. this morning california is bracing for round two after a rogue wave tossed beachgoers down the street. the wave breached a barrier in ventura beach, look at that. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> it swept about 20 people 50 yards, eight had to be taken to the hospital. the national weather service issued coast at flooding and high surf warnings for much of the california coast today with waves of up to 40 feet possible in san francisco. some of these pictures are extraordinary. cnn's lucy kavanaugh is in manhattan beach, california. i hope tied to something, lucy. what are we expecting today? >> reporter: hey, john. well, we're seeing a beautiful sunrise but also these massive waves, some of them coming closer and closer so my producer will keep an eye out on our safety for us. the national weather service warning of dangerous surf as well as life-threatening rip currents. it's not just manhattan beach where we are, there are coastal

flood and high survey lerts all the way from the u.s./mexico border to the bay area and yesterday we saw these massive waves pummeling the coast. santa cruz county was particularly affected, parts of that were evacuated. there was a stunning footage of massive waves flooding over a restaurant there and i should note that that restaurant had actually been closed for remodels for months. it had just reopened. now closed again because of that damage. parts of santa cruz also expecting waves of up to 40 feet this weekend. onlookers from yesterday describing the terror. take a listen. >> it's a pure state of panic, to be honest, as far as the community goes because you know there's plenty out there that are not prepared. >> this wave just came seemingly out of nowhere. just this rush -- i mean, you saw it. it was 6, 8 feet deep. >> reporter: and crews in

ventura beach which was also affected yesterday had worked through the night to set up barriers to keep the water from going in further. you played that footage of the waves sweeping onlookers from yesterday and authorities are saying this is the perfect example of why people shouldn't risk it, don't go to the beach, don't try to get close to the waves to get that perfect selfie because the ocean might look -- well, actually, that looks pretty scary to me, but it might look fine but there's something, john, called sneaker waves which are waves that -- a swell that sneaks up on you, comes up much faster and rougher than you are expecting and it's no joke. it's serious stuff. you have to be careful and not get too close. >> these warnings are very real, the danger can be very serious. lucy kafanov, thank you for being there. make good choices. stay safe. still ahead, police in texas want to speak with these two people seen in this surveillance video right here as they investigate the fatal shootings of a teenager due to give birth any day and her boyfriend.

we will be right back.

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police in san antonio are now asking public for help to find two people seen on surveillance video near the site of where they found two people shot to death. we bring in correspondent whitney wild for the latest. whitney, what is standing out about the two people in the video? >> well, it is two things, danny. the first is that the video is taken a few days before the bodies were found, and the police believe that the bodies were in the location where they were found for a few days around and the time is concerning for the law enforcement, and now, the car, the kia optima, they believe it is belonging to one of the victims, matthew guerra, and they described it by law enforcement here, and the dark colored chevy silverado is

pulling up to this kia optima, and this is a few days before the bodies were found, and that car is found by one of the victims matthew guerra, and you can see the two drivers interacting. the video is not great, danny. the video is far away, and it is not great to make out, and this what they believe they see and why it is important. >> what we believe is something to wipe down to side of the car with, and we can't be 100% certain of, and that what we are studying in the video, and what we believe right now. >> so what they are seeing here is the driver of that chevy pickup truck seeming to wipe down the side of the kia optima and these are the two people of interest, and they are stopping short of suspects ands tos answ so december 22nd, savannah soto

was last said, and just 18 years old. then on the 23rd, she is missing an essential pregnancy, and at that time, those pregnancy appointments are very important. she missed that appointment for the unborn child, and that is very concerning and when the family reported her missing. then on the 22nd, that is when the bodies of matthew guerra and savannah soto were found. they are believed to have been killed by a contact wound to the head. that means that the firearm was placed directly on his head. that is a key piece of information here, danny, because it is affecting how police are viewing what the possibilities are here, and this is what the police said about that. >> so, there is a possibility that this could be a murder-suicide. that possibility exists, but

right now, we don't believe so, unless we get the information from the m.e. that would change our current course. >> danny, this is being investigated as a capital murder case, and urging the public to come forward. >> we hope that video helps. whitney wild, thank you so much. the supreme court is going to likely have to decide if donald trump is going to be able to stay on the ballot, and this is while we wait for another key of the 14th amendment, and dozens of people are dead in ukraine as russia is hitting the area with the largest air attack since the invasion began. we have new information coming in.

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