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russian air attack on ukraine since the invasion nearly two years ago, and just a short time ago, we have new reports of russian missiles falling in the northern city of suemi, and this is in the attacks of the east, and zaporizhzhia in the west, and then all of the way to the capital kyiv, and then all of the way to deknee ndenip aro an see the new casualty count is where there are at least 26 dead at this point, and over 100 injured at this point. the president volodymyr zelenskyy says they are being hit with every weapon from drones to cruise missiles to

heavy bombardments across the entire country. a short time ago we heard from cnn portugal helene on the ground. >> we were seeing a building that was not being used and hit and partially destroyed, and also from the other side of the street, there was a metro station that was also hit. it was the access from the other side where the metro was working. right now, we are not far from that area, but actually, we are in a place where there is some warehouses, and these warehouses behind me were hit in these attacks. let me 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 very visible from the outside. right now, we can still see

smoke on the inside. the smell is also strong. and for some time, we could not access the inside of the warehouse, because firefighters will still try to stabilize so that nothing could fall. we have permission to enter. as you can see, there is, you know, the structure is completely destroyed. the roof of the warehouse is totally destroyed. we are actually walking most of the time on shattered glasses on fragments of the warehouse, and also on the equipment on the inside. i was speaking to the general manager of the company that is actually a german company working in ukraine, and he was telling me that there is only electrotechnical equipment here, and no weapons. it is now mostly destroyed. so the warehouse is destroyed here, and they will have to look

for a new one inside, and they will have to decide whether or not they will have to weigh the cost of the destruction. the company is still going to continue working in ukraine, and that is what he was telling me, but, you know, it is very difficult right now to recover from all this loss. there is no one inside of the warehouse when the attack happened. it was in early hours of the morning, but speaking with the firefighters, at least, i mean, two people asked for it to be assisted by the emergency services, because this is the main warehouse in kyiv, but there is also other buildings around, and two other people had to be assisted by the emergency services. firefighters are still here, and work is still being done in this warehouse. there is still a lot of smoke, and the smell is strong, and as you were saying not only kyiv

where it is unexpected and going off in the capital everyday, and no one was expecting this size of the destruction, but also other citizens in ukraine showing scale of the attack last night and this morning. >> our thanks to helena lins inside of the smoldering smoke there inside of the warehouse in kyiv. >> and now, bringing in our moscow bureau chief jill dougherty, and this is the largest attack since the full scale invasion began, and what do you believe is the purpose of these attacks? >> well, danny, you could say that the russians were responding to the singing of the sink of the ship in the black sea the other day, and that is bigger, but this is much bigger, but it is actually not totally unexpected because over the past

few months many people who are watching situation predicted that russia was saving up armaments and saving up what they could to prepare for a gigantic blitz in the winter as it did last year hitting infrastructure, energy, et cetera. this is almost, i'd have to say wanton destruction at this point. on the russian tv, they are essentially gloating over this. you have the situation when you have bombing like this, and it is very destructive and not only to the infrastructure but to emotions of the people who are in ukraine right now. imagine being hit entirely across the country. winter is here. it is the middle of the holidays and it gives people, and it can terrorize people into feeling that it is never going to end. if they are looking at the united states, they can see the congress stalled and giving any type of aid.

so it is pretty serious situation, and i think that right now the russians are trying to destroy the will of the ukrainian people. >> well, jill, i am also curious on your take on this, because the latest brush came only a few days after the "new york times" reported that putin was quietly considering a cease-fire, and is this latest attack suggest that it is far from reality? >> well, there is a lot of debate about that, and i personally think that he is not, which is not to say that if the circumstances changed and remember in march, he is up for re-election, and he might switch gears and he might want to be mr. putin the peacemaker and let's do a deal, and right now, what they are doing is that he has turned the country into a wartime economy. that is essentially what it is. and i don't think that he has any intention of stopping, and there is a lot of, let's say,

desire to show the ukrainians that they cannot win this, to try to show them that. and show that russia is strong, and putin needs that internationally, but he needs it domestically to show that the war he started in his estimation, he is going to come out in some fashion winning it, whether he is going to spin it or whatever, but i don't think that he is going to stop. >> jill, the ukrainian foreign ministry is saying that russian troops are fighting ukrainian women, elderly and civilians and the crimes they have committed in ukraine are the revenge for the inability to turn the tide of the battle in the fight against the ukrainian defense forces, and i wanted to ask you if you agree with the assessment? >> well, it is a little hyperbolic, i think, but what they are saying is that if you are looking at the targets that the russians hit across the entire country of ukraine, they hit civilian targets. and now, the russians are saying

that we don't hit civilian targets, but it is quite obvious they did. so, i think that in cold sober terms, yes, they are attacking civilians and attacking women and children, and you can see the results from our reporter there, you know, in kyiv and in other places in ukraine. >> jill dougherty, thank you so much for giving context to the stunning developments overnight. appreciate it. >> all right. so will oregon deliver donald trump the third primary ballot blow, and a decision could come any time as soon as this morning. late last night maine became the second state behind colorado to bar trump from the primary ballot and this is after the secretary of state shenna bellows decided that he participated in the insurrectionist. and now, joining us is the special counsel for the trump's

first impeachment, and ambassador, thank you for joining us. we have had a few times to talk about this, and so i want to focus on new territory here, and it has to do with the decision with the maine secretary of state who says, yes, she believes that donald trump committed insurrection, and yes, she believes she has the power to ban him from the primary, and in fact, has the responsibility. so we have talked about the 14th amendment, and section 3 says that no person shall hold office who has participated in insurrection or given aid or comfort to anyone who has parti participated. and section 5 is the congress shall have the power of the provisions of this article, and the secretary of maine is not the congress, and so why does she have the power and the responsibility to do this? >> john, because there is one word missing from section 5 --

only. it does not say only the congress shall have the responsibility. it is well understood that both with the 14th amendment and other parts of the constitution, unless there is the key limiting language only that it is a concurrent responsibility on a federal and state government officials to enforce the constitution, it is common sense, john. we wouldn't say that a state official has no obligation to follow the first amendment, and that a state official is free to restrict the speech of a person in the united states, and we don't say that the 14th amendment section 3 is off limits for secretaries of state, but it is not the whole story, because the other piece of the puzzle is that the secretary of state has to have some

authorization within their state law to take the next specific step of ruling somebody ineligible. some states give that authorization to people in office like the secretary of state. that is what secretary bellows found that she had that power under state law, and so then she went with it, and she disqualified trump. >> all right. so if you are 100% convinced that it is not an issue with section 5, because it does not say only congress shall have sway here, and if and when the supreme court does get to weigh in here, where do you think they might have problems with what colorado and maine have done? >> there are no 100% convictions

of the first impressions with the supreme court, so although i think it is wrong, personally, having looked at the law and the facts and the history, they could say, hmm, norm, we disagree with you. we think that, even though that word only is not there, we are going to read it in, and say that this is a congressional responsibility. that is one off-ramp for the supreme court. a second off-ramp is the one that was taken by the lower court in colorado, and again, i disagree, but the lower court found that donald trump was an insurrectionist, and because the 14th amendment section 3 doesn't specifically mention the president, and it only talks about officers of our government, that the president is not included. there are a variety of other technical exceptions that the supreme court could use here if they don't want to address the issue squarely.

i think they should address it. i think that colorado and maine correctly interpret the 14th amendment. we do not know what the supreme court is going to do. john, there is no prior history. >> there certainly isn't. due process could come up as well. i look forward to reading a supreme court decision of hmm, hmm, norm, we don't agree with you. norm eisen, great to have you on. and texas is looking to sue over the immigration law as they are looking to help and flying dozens of immigrants north. and looking to kick off 2024, the security steps that the nypd is looking to implement to make sure that the celebration goes off smoothly. that is next.

this morning, three democratic mayors from new york, chicago and denver are making urgent pleas for federal help as they are dealing with the surge of migrants in their cities. the mayors all spoke to cnn. the meeting with the white

house i think much more could be done and with all of our national leaders from the decompression strategy and making sure that the cost of this is not falling on the everyday taxpayers, and it is not just our cities, but from brownsville, to el paso to houston to chicago to denver, and this is an issue that is just seeing playing out on the streetsfs of our cities. >> we have infrastructure in our local communities that are not designed to ckcarry such a burd. the local municipalities are not structured to carry the weight of a crisis like this. i have sent a delegation to the border firsthand to see what the bordering cities are experiencing. what we have said repeatedly is that there has to be a bert --

better coordination. without coordination, this is going to crush local economies, because there is a financial responsibility that we have all taken on. >> part of the challenge is that we need the federal resources also, and that is where the supplemental budget that the president has pushed is being held up in congress, and the breaking point as major johnson has proposed is that this is unsustainable, and every single hotel room in the city is filled with a migrant, and so it is not sustainable holding up the funding. >> and so, democratic congresswoman, you hear the mayors and they said that more than 7,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border, and how big of a problem is this? >> it is a huge problem, and if anyone is sitting around acting line it isn't, then they are not aware. the democrats and the republicans acknowledge this.

you talk to a number of democratic mayors complaining about the issue, and i appreciate what was said in the very last statement which is the fact that the president has actually put forth a supplemental package that is going to provide some relief to cities, and the republicans don't want to tell the truth about what the president is trying to push forward, and that mayor absolutely acknowledged the problem, and the problem is congress, and the president cannot do this by himself, and he cannot shell out money, and it is action on behalf of the house and the senate. right now, the house is in shambles and they can't do anything right. so when the people are complaining about the migrant crisis, and the republicans are saying that they are the ones who can fix it, i want to remind people that basically the republicans have said that the house is on fire, and we see it burning, but no, we are not going to do our part. that is what they have done while the president is trying to provide some immediate relief, and long term solutions. >> what changes, if any, would

you be willing to make to asylum laws to relieve some of the pressure here? >> well, i don't believe that is the problem. for me, that is not the fix. it is one of the things that the republicans like to put out things to make it seem as if this is going to fix the problem for people who have never been involved in this, and for someone who is coming from the state of texas who is serving in the texas house when operation lone star began. i understand what is not looking like a fix, but i understand what is going to make people feel better, and republicans simply want to campaign on fixing immigration when they know it is not a fix, and they want to provide the resources that are necessary. we need to make sure that we have the courts that are fully staffed. we have to make sure that the persons who are coming over seeking jobs have the ability to actually work so they are not a burden, but in fact, they are doing what they want to do which is to be working and supporting

themselves and adding to our tax resources. we need more tax income anyway. so, i mean, we absolutely can work through this, but congress has to be willing to fully fund everything around immigration. >> well, there are those who say that the change in asylum laws would reduce the draw over the southern border, and i know that you disagree, but i am asking you a different question now, is there anything that you would do to reduce the draw of people from over the border? >> absolutely. and so for me, it is multi faceted issue, and that involves countries that they are fleeing. the foreign aid that we are sending, and we only spend 1% of the budget when it comes to federal or foreign aid. what we need to do is to make sure that we go back to

supporting the countries and make sure that we are going to enter into smarter trade agreements an ths and things li, so they don't feel the need to leave, and i don't want to live here, and we are talking about the dangerous circumstances, and we are talking about the life or death, and it is cheaper, and the dollar have going a lot further than it goes here, and absolutely, we have to be smarter to do what we have historically done which is big brother and helped to stabilize some of the communities with the desire to leave. >> your governor texas governor greg abbott has issued this border law which has granted texas authorities the power to arrest migrants and given the judges the authority to remove them from the country, and the other attorneys are saying that

it is not constitutional. what is your view? >> i am dumbfounded and it is amazing that our governor has a law license. if our governor wanted to come up with federal enforcements he should have ran for the president of the united states, and right now he is the governor of the state of texas unfortunately, and you can't make texas law go over and above what federal law says. that is what he is trying to do. historically under operation lone star, they came up with a scheme to arrest people under criminal trespass, and they found that it is number one, cost us more money, and two, put us at risk for more lawsuits, because we did not have air conditioning in the jails, so they were throwing them into prisons, because we did not have

the space, and long story short, it was ineffective what greg abbott was trying to do when he tried to arrest the migrants, and it is going to be ineffective again, and it is going to cost us again, and so, he needs to stop pandering, and people need to demand the receipts and demand that we have actual fixes to the problems. >> jasmine crockett, democrat from texas, have a happy new year. >> thank you. and now, new york city is ramping up security ahead of the new year's celebration. as hamas is adding to the security concerns. and now, this podcast of a woman who has helped to kill her abusive mother has been released from prison, and we will speak to a producer of a docuseries

about gypsy blanchard.

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innocent women. and now hamas is trying to hide sexual violence against women. they don't want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them stand with palestinians and israelis for basic human rights. stand for all women. this morning, a new intelligence memo obtained by cnn says that the new year's eve celebration is an attractive target by terrorists who might be motivated by the hamas terror attack on israel, and israel's response. no credit threats are known right now, but lone terrorists

are a concern. >> reporter: new year's eve and new york city with the tight security and especially this year. while the officials stress there is no specific reporting regarding any threats. a joint threat assessment from ten law enforcement agencies shows that law enforcement is remaining concerned about hamas showing violence against arab and jewish communities using sophisticate attacks that could be used in advance.

and there are also threats of domestic violence that will be monitored minute-by-minute leading up to new year's eve in multiple command posts. from the joint operation center to the intelligence bureau to the fbi's joint task force in lower manhattan. >> the horrific attacks in israel, and the ongoing war and conflict happening now is motivating and inspiring people to do bad things. >> last year, a 19-year-old man from maine traveled with an attack plan that was inspired by online propaganda. they say that officers attacked him after he was held at a new

year's eve check point with and the and the overlay includes a network of cameras, and team of sky scrapes up above, and the k-9s moving around the perimeter and dogs who can pick up the whiff of explosives 100 feet away, and explosives worn by the plits the war between israel, and hamas has brought on some clashing when some sgrrn and the live televised event in.

we know where they want to go, but we are going to use all of our tactics to prevent that. >> reporter: but this is not what keeps them up at night, terrorism is. they will be on alert, john miller, cnn. and now, police say she helped to kill her abusive mother, and now she is ready to tell her story.

gypsy rose blanchard who helped her boyfriend kill her abusive mother has been released from prison. she plead guilty to second-degree murder and sentenced to ten years.

she admitted to helping her boyfriend kill her mother. the mother forced her to pretend to have multiple serious illnesses including leukemia and brain illnesses leading to many serious illnesses, and it is known as munchausen by proxy. gypsy told her boyfriend about the abuse by her mother. they came up with a plan to kill her mother. on lifetime, there is soon going to be a docuseries. joining us is sharon scott, the producer of the docuseries. and so, just for the viewers who are not familiar with the story, what was it like for gypsy, and what was her mother doing? >> it was horrific for jep si. and really, and then to the

moment where they decided illve was there, and she had gland s was there, and she lost 16 of the 32 feet. they rosted out. and it was truly because all her mom wanted to get the story out there on television and make everybody feel sorry for gypsy. all for attention. >> and how did she get everybody to believe that gypsy had leukemia. >> that is the best story and for that and i don't know why they did not look at the medical

charts together, because it is shocking, as you say, from and by the way, her dad, he is not in the picture, and he didn't know. he knew something was up, but he didn't know what the mom was doing, and so she had no advocate and nobody who knew her story. >> sharon, can you explain to me, the difference of really spending time in prison has made, and you see some of the images of gypsy as a child, and she actually looks bet tersh, right? >> well, the one line of everything that is my the she said and that find and she got

her ged in prison, and made friends in prison. she had a life that was 100% better than the life she left behind. >> sharon, can you tell me what are gypsy's plans now that she is out? >> well, she wants everything. she met her prison in, and they had a letter or date and -- it was like crack of dawn, and 3:00 a.m., and gypsy going to prison, and we had a lot of fear of sgj

and so they are in the car, and whisked away, and now they are at a location which is obviously, you know, we are not telling anybody where it is, and she is with her dad. it is very difficult to have a relationship, with two half siblings, and a 12e7 and sharon scott thank you so much for joining us, and i cannot wait to watch this on lifetime. >> it is going on the start the 5th of january. thank you. >> i can't wait to watch this. barbie box sflauauchoffice hiti and d some of ththe biggest t s of 2023. ththis week k was s a bibig us. . there isis a lot o on ththe lil. >> and t the pick. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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even with hollywood on hiatus for much of the year, there were plenty of entertainment stories to talk about. stephanie elam is going to unwrap the top ten entertainment stories of the year. >> reporter: barbie takes over the box office. brittany and prince harry spill their own tea. and hollywood goes on strike. behind the scenes and in front of the camera, it was a wild year, and here are some of the top stories. lisa vanderpump reacting to the

news that cast mates had carried on an affair. >> do you want anything? >> for you the die. >> reporter: and maddox received an apology from the pair, and the show's viewership doubled as it unplayed. >> reporter: and coming in at number nine, the end of a tv dynasty. >> i love you, but you are not serious people. >> reporter: after four storied seasons, "succession" bowed out after the children engaged in business battles, and betrayals to get into the family business. critics and fans aggreed that the finale was a knockout finalization to the obsession. and number five belongs to jeremy renner who made a

recovery after being mauled by a snowplow. just 30-minute later, he was up and very small. and ed sheeran's court battle. did he copy "let's get it on." and he said that thinking out loud didn't use "let's get it and he ruled he did not enfringe on any copyright. and serious scare for jamie foxx. rumors were rampant for months

until july when he resurfaced on social media. >> i went to hell and back, and the comeback had some potholes as well. >> and he. >> and prince harry did it and so did brittany, the long line of celebrities who wrote a book. >> it has been cathartic. >> reporter: prince harry writes about the royals, and in writing about the conser va roaring back to life. number 4, barbie kicked off a summer of pink fever. she revived all churl

phenomenon, and unlocked the records, and provided a booth to and she grossed the fastest according to all star. and beyonce sold yut stadiums thanks for the ren sauers tour. and pink side stay forever tool snapping. two of the and it came and went on for months before deals were ratified. and number two, a loss of a friend. >> just into cnn, actor matthew

perry died. >> they just found him, and he was found at his home in los angeles, and he is believed to be 54 years old. >> reporter: his personal and he said, we are more than cast mates, we are a family. >> welcome to the eras tour. >> reporter: number one on the list belongs to who else? taylor swift. she put on a buzzy head tourning show for the ages. debuts a new relationship with nfl player travis kelce, and named "time" magazine

>> reporter: and two of the top ten newsmakers bar by and that is after the vander bump i'm stephanie elam. >> thank you. smf sm v.