because of the condition. where they're putting all this snow, authorize so many mountains all over the city as these plows are working overtime. now the fans are working overtime. we're going to take you up here where you can see there's actually traffic, people in buf buffalo braving the conditions to head to that sabers game that was postponed because wednesday was too difficult. now conditions are starting to ease up a little bit, they're trying to get to the game. the bills game is still on schedule for sunday and they're asking people you want to make an extra couple of bucks, come out to the stadium. i want to show you some of these snow totals. we're talking about feet of snow. over 40 inches from parts of water town, the buffalo area has 20, 30 inches, and we'll continue with this snow, we have another storm system that's wiping through and it gets cold again going into the weekend. wolf? >> elisa rafa. thanks very much for joining us.

erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, the breaking news. trump threatens, quote, chaos and bedlam in a new supreme court ruling the man who told his supporters to fight on january 6th says if he doesn't get his way all hell will break loose. plus our voters out front series tonight. the voters nikki haley is depending onto carry her to victory it is actually not who you think. wait until you see this one. and as prince william visits his wife in the hospital we're learning more about princess kate's health, diet. why is the 42-year-old mother of three side lined for months over a mysterious injury? let's go out front. and good evening, i'm erin burnett. out front tonight the breaking news, chaos and bedlam. president trump warning tonight if the supreme court does not get him back on the ballot in colorado there will be -- and this is from the filing -- chaos and bed l. that warning from trump comes in a formal legal brief submitted to the supreme court just minutes ago. keep in mind this is the same

trump that lit to the fire leading to the insurrection on january 6th and now a message he's sending to his millions of supporters, chaos and bedlam, warning efforts to keep him off state ballots, quote, promise to release chaos and bedlam if other state courts and officials follow colorado's lead and exclude the likely presidential republican nominee from their bouts. putting aside what you think about names coming off the ballot, the way this is written is chilling warning. and remember it's not the first time trump has said this. here he is just last week. >> there'll be bedroom in the country. it's a bad thing. it's a bad precedent as we say. it's the opening of a pandora's box. >> bedlam in the country. of course we've seen what that looks like. to go back and lay this out i want to share with you the tweets trump sent in the days leading up to january 6th. we've just begun to fight he types in all caps.

big protest in d.c. on january 6th, be there, will be wild. and december 26th history will remember, never give up. see everyone in d.c. on january 6th. and then this is what followed as trump spoke to charged up supporters on january 6th. and then those words were followed by this, bedlam and chaos. paula reid is out front live in washington. and paula what else is in this new filing from trump to the supreme court? >> reporter: the trump legal team expanding their argument for why trump should not be removed from the ballot under section 3 of the 14th amendment. at a top line they're arguing this would strip voters of their ability to choose a candidate and, quote, threaten to disenfranchise tens of millions of americans and promised to unleash chaos and bedlam if other state courts and state officials followed. now, you noted that echoes a

lan language that in the past has led to violence. but here it is also true, erin, if the supreme court does not weigh in here and offer clarity, that each state is going about this a different way, that would prompt chaos and confusion. now, they also detail their constitutional argument to the high court. they insist that this section of the constitution does not apply to presidents because they are not, quote, officers of the united states. they also insist that trump did not engage in an insurrection. what's interesting about this, erin, is that it is highly unlikely that the court is going to want to thuchouch this issue. instead we expect they're going to focus on constitutional interpretation and not specifically get into what happened in and around january 6th. they also argued it should be up to congress not state officials to enforce this section of the constitution. and they argued it technically only prevents you from holding office, not from running for office. of course if you run for office

and you win, eventually you have to get to the question of what about holding office? but that would be more for the supreme court. at this point it's unclear how the high court is going to approach this case. they've not laid out the question they intend to answer. but of all trump's legal issues, legal cases that we cover, this one has the strongest chance of at a high level offering him a chance of success because it seems highly unlikely that the justices are going to want to strip voters of their choice of candidate. >> all right, well, paula, thank you very much. and everyone is with me. margaret, let's start off with as paula says this may be a case, right, the supreme court is uniform and says he should be allow today be on the ballot. but the issue seems to be the words that he used in the filing. chaos and bedlam will ensue. >> well, it looks like nikki haley is right. chaos does follow him everywhere. i say that tongue in cheek. >> yeah. >> he's creating the chaos, and that is not just chaos that is incidental. that's a threat. that is not a warning that bad things are going to happen.

that is a threat that he will make it so. and i just -- we have to be really careful and take really seriously the fact these aren't just words. this isn't crazy rhetoric, and many politicians often say the crazy rhetoric is there. he has proven that rhetoric can match violence at his calling, at his beck and calling. and that's what we should be careful about. >> i mean, david urban, it is incredible when you look back what he has said before and said fight for trump, and there is a play book, and he is choosing to use those words tonight. >> yeah, look, so not surprising that i disagree, right? so i think i just heard paula say in your previous segment that if all these states dag -- if there was a mismash of states across the united states some decided today keep the former president on the bal, some took

him off there would be chaos and bedlam in terms of -- >> she said chaos and confusion. >> chaos and confusion. okay. we can wordsmith here, but there would be bedlam. if people who are running on a threat to democracy platform themselves try to strip democracy away from people by allowing them to have a vote at the polling place choosing to be president that's going to create a lot of chaos and bedlam. listen, the former president and i we part ways on a lot of different things. in this case i think his lawyers are right and the wording is not too hi,alistic. i think it would create chaos, would create confusion, and would create bedlam. >> i'm here in los angeles. i can't imagine anyone walking into the courtroom and tell the judge, judge, if you don't follow the law and the law doesn't give an outcome i like, there's going to be chaos and

bedlam. that thug would be carried right out the door. i understand what he's saying if you think chaos means election officials might not know exactly what to do -- that's not what it sounds like, buddy. that's not what it sounds like coming from donald trump. >> it doesn't seem there's any confusion from him what those words mean. it's not you saying it, david urban. it's him. >> talk about disenfranchisement. oh, my god. >> okay, go ahead, david axelrod. >> two things can be true. i think there are real questions what it would mean to tell tens of millions of americans that that can't vote for their choice. but it's also true donald trump has hubittually used these words to provoke his supporters. and he has wielded it, david, many, many times. he has suggested bad things will happen if he doesn't get his way. and sometimes bad things have happened.

so the lawyers may have used these terms meaning one thing, but the problem is they come in the context of a guy who has used them in a quite different way throughout his political career and sometimes to the great detriment of the country. >> david, you have a point. you can't argue you're in favor of democracy and then argue donald trump's election would not be democratic. it's a choice of words and a context a clear dog whistle to his supporters which we all -- it's very difficult to deny. >> listen, i think i converted ax and margaret. >> we agree with you on democracy. we don't agree on the rhetoric. >> i'm troubled by the idea that people, that tens of millions of people won't be able to vote. it's a serious question, though. the colorado brief was -- the colorado decision was pretty well-reasoned. and, you know, the court i think

they'll find an exit ramp before they actually have to decide whether trump was an insurrectionist or not. >> go ahead, van. >> i think you're right. usually it's my republican friends who tell me democracy by itself is disaster. they say we have a democratic republic which means there are times you do not let the majority have its will. if majority said we want to take all the money from the billion-airs, it would not fit with our system of government. the reason they passed that amendment is they were concerned that people who had shown such disregard from the this country to launch a civil war would still be popular enough to somehow be elected and do more harm? it is the case sometimes the framers and people who make amendments say we don't actually want a full-blown democracy because sometimes the mass of people do things that are wrong. usually the republicans are saying that. right now the democrats are saying that. that there's a reason for this amendment, that there can be people popular, well-liked but

too dangerous to hold office. and people who have been in insurrections fall in that category. >> this was actually about biden. biden has been trying to make in roads on trump, which he's now pretty much acknowledging it's a two person race, too. you mention north carolina and hitting trump on the economy on the democracy issue. but today was on the economy, and i want to play something trump said recently followed by what biden responded today. here it is. >> when does it crash? i hope it's going to be during this next 12 months because i don't want to be herbert hoover. >> he wants to see the stock market crash. you know why? because he doesn't want to be the next herbert hoover. i told him he's the only hoover. he's the only president in four years to lose jobs and not gain any jobs. he doesn't know what he's talking about. >> van, is this a winning message for biden or not getting

any traction. >> >> listen, right now his polling on the economy is really carable and his numbers on the polling are really good. he's in a weird middle ground he's got to start making a case for himself on the economy. i think the union guys out there have been benefitting for him. i think the solar engineers and other people working at wind farms should be speaking up. i think he's trying to fill that gap between his poll performance and his actual performance on the economy. >> david axelrod? >> yeah, look, i think that he has tried to tout his economic accomplishments. and frankly, some of the numbers are very, very impressive. but you can't jump on people into feeling better. they either are or aren't. and sometimes they lag on statistics. i think what he needs to do is setup a comparative that he engages in often about the economy about advocacy.

a lot of his policies have helped raise wages among middle income people and lower income people. that's where his emphasis has been. trump talks like a champion of the middle class but governs by an economic loyalist. and the center piece of his administration was a gigantic budget busting tax cut that really did favor people in the upper income brackets. biden has a good palm tirson to make, but he shouldn't get into side debates about, you know, silly comments by trump. >> well, they both -- they both seem to agree on herbert hoover, which is actually not the topic a lot of people thought we would talk about. >> i would just like for democrats and republicans -- >> the great, great-granddaughter. >> one great. i never knew him. i was born in '77. but will democrats just bury the 90-year-old talking point from the earliest 20th century and recognize the great depression was a unique event in american

history. fdr couldn't solve it, hoover couldn't solve it. >> it wasn't actually -- margaret, it was trump who brought it up he said he didn't want to be herbert hoover. >> he is not a republican. you might actually be agreeing with trump here. >> wherever he is, he should be happy donald trump doesn't want to be him. >> that's the tell donald trump september a republican because republicans wouldn't -- >> erin, i'll just say this. voters are going to have to answer the question they answer every four years. are you better off now than you were at the beginning of the administration? >> until voters feel they're better off under biden than they were under trump, biden's going to keep failing that test. >> all right, thank you all very much. and next, nikki haley bringing in support from independents who say this. >> i will do anything in my power to make sure that trump does not become our next president. >> but is that enough to defeat trump even in new hampshire?

our voters out front report is next. plus more breaking news tonight. the sordid detail of of an alleged affair. the d.a. now claims the prosecutor's wife is the one meddling in the case. is all of this going to come out to help trump and hurt fani willis' credibility and is kim jong-un closer than ever to launching an all out nuclear war?

and you are looking at live pictures out of new hampshire where cnn will host a town hall with nikki haley tonight just five days before the state's primaries. maybe do or die for her campaign. and haley meantime is ramping up her attacks on front-runner, donald trump. >> i mean trump says things americans aren't stupid to just believe what he says. the reality is who lost the house for us? who lost the senate? who lost the white house? donald trump, donald trump, donald trump. let's talk about the truth instead of talking about the lies that he continues to say. >> all right, well this comes as haley tries to court voters across new hampshire to take down trump. but actually and this is really interesting some of the voters that she's courting may not be who you think they are, and that is why jeff zeleny is in new hampshire with this voters out front report. >> i will do everything in my power to make sure trump does

not become our next president. >> reporter: nancy has long wanted to vote against donald trump, but after seeing nikki haley today she said she finally found someone to vote for. >> i liked what she said, and i don't want biden either. >> reporter: she's a voter stuck in the middle, a critical piece of the new hampshire electiorat. have you voted in the past republican before democrats? >> yes, i have. i've voted for both. >> reporter: to keep the republican race alive haley is trying to stitch together a coalition of independents and moderates in new hampshire, a state donald trump lost in the 2016 and 2020 general elections. danielle brown has voted for candidates of both parties over the years. on tuesday she intends to vote for haley to send a message to republicans. >> they don't have to be fearful and just simply jump on the trump bandwagon. he's a bully. but some people feel they have to go with him. >> reporter: trump is trying to keep republicans in line, hoping to blunt haley's rise.

>> nikki haley in particular is counting on the democrats and liberals to infiltrate your republican primary. >> reporter: his rallying cry is false. democrats are not allow today vote in the republican primary. in new hampshire more than 300,000 voters are undeclared. those voters make up nearly 40% of the electorate, more than registered republicans or democrats. what trump may not know is haley's rallies are filled with plenty of voters like susan rise who once supported the president. >> i will be up front and honest for you i supported trump in 2016, are voted for him in 2020. >> reporter: rice is exhausted by trump and excited by haley's potential to rebuild the republican party. >> i don't necessarily worry about the court cases. but it's the baggage and honestly sometimes what comes out of his mouth. >> thank you for coming. did you like what you heard? >> reporter: she's a lifelong republican. she first saw haley a year ago and has supported her ever

since. >> i'm very glad i had someone else to choose from. >> reporter: meaning someone other than donald trump? >> exactly. he was a good president for the time, but this is not the time. we need unification. >> reporter: haley is targeted undeclared voters from the suburbs to the seacoast where trump underperformed other republicans like governor chris sununu. >> i was going to vote for her to try to knock out trump. i don't know if that's a good strategy or not, but -- but i do like her. i do. >> reporter: mary and her friend colleen don't always agree on politics, but they found common ground in haley. >> isn't that what democracy is. >> reporter: she said trump's criticism on haley could backfire in new hampshire which she believes may be one of the last places to slow his rush to the nomination. >> i don't think she's trying to infiltrate. of course she's trying to get votes, but that's what she's supposed to be doing, and we have a ton of independents in this thing. >> reporter: and the conversation between those two

friends who went to a haley rally was so interesting. one thought haley was a little too conservative, the other thought she was perhaps a little too moderate. but they did again find common ground in her candidacy. they believe she is a better choice for the republican party and indeed the country. but building this coalition of independents and yes some republicans is key for haley's success here. and it could well determine how long this republican presidential race goes on. >> all right, jeff zeleny in new hampshire. so harry epten is here with me. harry, everyone watching this around the country because obviously that is her general election strength. but in new hampshire when you look at the numbers how many independent voters does she actually have to get to beat trump. >> so right now if you look at republican polling of post-and look at the polling for this particular primary folks who aren't registered with the party registered independents or those not registered and registered day of, they're going to make

upzer histtorquely speaking 40, and 50% of the leck tort. my guess looking at the numbers based upon the current percentage of republicans voting for haley and the current percentage of independents, that number may have to go above 50%. so it is a top road, but the fact it could happen. the idea of independents not voting in new hampshire as donald trump is trying to argue, they always vote in new hampshire. >> in the past three 40 to 47, so 50 is not out of the realm. >> she would have to beat by what has normally happened in history but not that much. >> so that's tough but not impossible. we want the reality here. then this specific group of voters haley is doing extremely well with. how closely do you watch this college educated republican vote? which by the way i should note in iowa went for trump. >> it wept for trump, but in new hampshire right now the polling shows it's going for haley. she is ahead of donald trump and

it is among college educated likely gop voters in new hampshire. she's not only doing better amongst them than she did in iowa, even nationally even though this is better group for haley than say non-college educated voters, she's going to have to pull in a larger margin. but those voters in the southern part of the state and hanover, new hampshire as well in the western part of the state, she's going to have to do very, very well amongst those voters if she wants to win? >> one of her backers is a bil billionaire. he said he's ready to give haley a bunch of money. but he said if you don't gain traction, you don't throw money down a rabbit hole. he's got a net wurg of nearly $8 billion. back when he backed christie and

always hoped for christie but obviously that's gone. $201620 million to a pro-christie super pac. >> it would help her significantly. haley has been fund-raising more and more money. last quarter was by far her best quarter. she raised upwards of $25 million. that was double what she raised in the first quarter. donald trump raised significantly more than her. she's going to need a lot more fund raisers if she wants a chance because without money political campaigns die. >> right. and die really fast. >> die very fast. >> all right, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and don't miss the cnn town hall with nikki haley tonight at 9:00 eastern. and meantime next the breaking news. the fulton county d.a. fani willis is fighting back against allegations of an affair with her lead prosecutor in the trump case, tonight making major accusations of her own. plus prince william visiting his wife in the hospital. so what do we really know about kate middleton's health? a special report from london.

tonight attorney general merrick garland emotional in an exclusive interview with cnn as a new doj report finds the massacre in uvalde, texas in

which 19 children and two teachers were killed could have been stopped much sooner and more of those would be alive. here's what he told evan perez after visiting the school after it took place. >> being there, seeing the holes in the wall left by the shooters, the places where the children tried to hide, you think of a child shot and left in a classroom, a small classroom with the shooter who's still chushooting for more than hour when law enforcement could have come in and rescued and conducted a rescue, it's not a pain that's ever going to go away. >> evan perez is out front from uvalde tonight. and evan, what else did the attorney general tell you about the -- this mass shooting and now the doj's investigation?

>> well, erin, this has been an emotional couple of days. the attorney general spent the night here in uvalde. he did a tour down at the town square where there are these -- these murals that have been painted for those children who were killed in that massacre. and one of the things that he told me was, you know, obviously spending time with the family members, he met with them behind me here in a room here at this building behind me with the associated attorney general they took questions from the family members for more than two hours. and eighty-one of the things the family members are asking for is obviously accountability. one of the hopes is as a result of this report and some of the things that were found that were seriously lacking in the federal -- i'm sorry, in the law enforcement response that day, that local authorities will take further action, perhaps maybe getting rid of some of the

police officers who are still on the police force here in uvalde. >> all right, now, i know you also as part of your conversation, you talked about that and the other major legal cases going on right now that you're covering including the special counsel jack smith's election case against former president trump. today the judge hinted that that trial which was supposed to begin in six weeks, could be delayed. what did garland tell you, evan, about this case and the timing? >> well, he defended the effort by the justice department, by the special counsel jack smith to try to keep that trial date, try to get this trial started ahead of the election. as you know, erin, the justice department has rules that prohibit taking certain actions to stay away or staying out of the way of elections. so that's one of the questions i had for him was asking certainly whether the timing of that -- of that trial presents a problem

for the justice department. listen to his response. is there a date in your mind where it might be too late to bring these trials to fruition? again, to stay out of the way of the elections as the department policies require? >> i'll say what i said which is that cases were brought last year. the prosecutor has urged speedy trials with which i agree. and this is now in the hands of the judicial system, not in our hands. >> reporter: and erin, that's certainly the most extensive comments we've heard from the attorney general on the subject of these trials of the former president. obviously we are all now waiting to see whether the former president's effort to appeal this to the appeals court and of course to the supreme court, whether that succeeds in trying to prevent these trials from happening this year. erin? >> all right, evan, thank you very much in uvalde tonight. ryan goodman's with me now, our

out front legal expert. let's start with what evan just played there, the attorney general talking about the time line which is something he's not done before. obviously just significant he would say it at all, but when you do hear that answer, you do hear something very specific. what is it? >> i do. so the legal community has always wondered if the justice department's 60-day rule apply tuesday the start of the trial. in other words, if we are 60 days out from the november elections do they just stop in their tracks and stay we can't proceed any firth snr i hear the attorney general, "a," not saying the 60 day rule applies and, "b" strongly suggesting it does not. he says it's not in our hands, it's not our call, it's the court's call. and he also says the decision was taken to indict last year. >> he's emphasizing we did our part. >> that's right. >> but what you're saying he's implying as long as he can get it started in 60 days, it wouldn't stop. even if you started you hit 60 days if you're not done it goes on hold?

>> that's right. or we're all waiting what the supreme court will decide, do they hand it back down to the supreme court? and if it's a 60-day window can we start? he's saying we can start. it's just not in our hands. >> a new hearing has been scheduled. this is allegations the district attorney fani willis, she's an elected democrat is romantically involved with the person she chose as her lead prosecutor, nathan wade. and he was then, you know, billing by the hour to do this. so she hires him, they're having this affair, and they take the money chat she pays him and spend it on themselves, vacations and other things like that. there's a hearing this judge is going to hold now on february 15th and they're asking fani willis to respond to these allegations. she has not responded yet. she's been silent. so can you just explain why if there was a romantic relationship and she's paying him this money and they're using to do to things together, tell

me exactly what the problem is? >> so the strongest form of the argument is and it's a good argument there's a conflict of interest, that the two of them are profiting off the investigation. that she's paying him at this rate where he's billing extraordinary hours. >> i mean one it looked like 24 hours in one day, which is obviously b.s. if it occurred. >> yep. and then it's also an astronomical amount for a prosecutor in georgia on a yearly basis. that's the argument. and that she hires him and they're romantically involved when she hires him, and he's not very qualified for the position. he's never tried a federal -- he's never tried a felony case, not federal. he's never defended a felony case according to the allegations. and according to the public record, "the new york times," et cetera, that's the argument. the judge saying i'm going to hear the argument, i'm going to have an evidentiary hearing. it seems like the judge is taking it seriously. >> the way you laid it out it

seems like those are serious things and taxpayer dollars. and next a nation searching for answers after the princess of wales was suddenly hospitalized and going to be hospitalized for weeks and then out of the public eye for months. so tonight we are learning more about it. and north korea may be closer than ever to all out war as it is looking to exploit the chaos around the world. we have a special report.

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this is why we fight. i'm adam schiff, and i approve this message. so tonight prince william visited his wife in the hospital. she's recovering from what we've been told is abdominal surgery. the princess of wales remains in a private london hospital where she could spend the next two weeks. the royal family is trying to keep her diagnosis under wraps only saying her public schedule will be put on hold until april while she recovers, which is of course a dramatic shift, a shocking shift for a very, very active princess. max foster is out front. >> reporter: loved and admired, a royal health scare has caught the nation by surprise when on wednesday kensington palace shared that catherine, the

princess of wales, needed medical treatment. it circulated questions about the condition of one of the most senior royals health who aside from having morning sickness during a pregnancy has never had any known health problems while she's been a royal. now she's forced to stay out of the public eye for up to three months until doctors give her the all clear. last seen over christmas and her family, the princess of wales lives an active lifestyle. having a regular royal schedule of engagements, some 120 last year, and by being a hands-on mom, looking after her three children. she still finds time to enjoy the outdoors and keeping up her favorite hobbies like skiing and working out all to keep the princess fit and healthy. her relatability to the public has made her a role model amongst adoring fans who might try to catch a glimpse of her at

wo wimbledon where she's seen every summer watching the games. the princess' interest beyond the support extends beyond the annual championships. known to enjoy cooking for the prince of wales and her children, katherine has even been spotted stocking up at a british super market, showing she doesn't like to rely on staff for shopping and trying to maintain a normal lifestyle. now all appearances slow down as katherine recovers and the couple have canceled all travel plans for the foreseeable future. with king charles and two other senior royals taking a back seat, heads turp to camila and other members of the family to step up as the public faces of the royal household, to reassure britains that all is fine and it is business as usual. we are actually getting more detail in these medical bulletins than we normally would from the palaces, perhaps suggesting a new era of openness

from the royal family. >> max, thanks very much to you. and perhaps more transparent than in the past, but still at this point they're not saying what it is. out front now dr. jonathan riner. and the palace has said this was a planned surgery, not an emergency one. they have been clear and transparent in saying it's not a cancer diagnosis. but other than abdominalsurgery they haven't said anything else. what do you make of this? >> we know she's had a rather extensive operation. woe know that because the pallance announced she's going to be in hospital for 10 to 14 days, so that speaks to the rigor and extent of the operation. and we also know that it's going -- she's going to be, you know, recovering out of the public eye for, you know, two to three months. and there aren't a lot of procedures that these days that require such extensive recovery.

you know, for example, if you have an abdominal operation to take your gallbladder out that's an outpatient procedure almost basically most of the time. and really several days to recover before you get back to work. you can have open heart surgery and be out of the hospital less than a week and back to work in three weeks. so the princess of wales has had, you know, a large operation and is going to require a long time to recover. you know, one other thing. we try to get people out of the hospital as quickly as possible because you can get infections in the hospital and it's always better to recover at home. and with her resources, she can have basically as much help as she needs, physical therapy, nurses, iv infusions. again, when you keep a patient in the hospital you're keeping them because they need treatment that they can't get at home. and she can get just about anything at home. >> when you say only a few things could be that, and obviously i emphasize we don't know what it is, but what are those? >> well, you know, we're told she doesn't have cancer, which is wonderful. there are some operations, for

instance, for pancreatic cancer that would easily keep people in the hospital, you know, for two weeks. other abdominal operations such as a colectomy or partial colectomy, those can keep people in the hospital for a while. i don't want to speculate on what kind of surgery the princess has had. it is a difficult, you know, disclosure for public officials, you know, can be very difficult. i'm not sure anyone really has the right to know. but the british people probably have a need to know. she's probably a fabric of their country, she's essentially i guess the queen in waiting and she has a relationship with the folks in her country. >> it's pretty frofound the way you said it, maybe not a right but a need. and she has a right and a need for her privacy. and yet, of course, she is much more than that, so we'll see if they do -- they do soon give more information.

dr. reiner, thanks very much. >> a special report is next. plus near total communications blackout in gaza is now stretching into its seventh day. we have been able to get one dispatch from inside. >> water is filling the streets. .

the stark warning about kim jong-un getting closer than ever to launching an all-out war. it could change drastically, that's the word that was used, given the recent military cooperation with russia and vladimir putin. will rimley is out front. >> reporter: tonight the korean peninsula staring down the barrel of a catastrophic conflict. that warning from one of manager's leading nuclear scientists. one of two long-time north korea observers who say kim jong-un is

sending signals in state media. he may be prepared to take advantage of global chaos to exploit what he sees as weakness and vulnerability between the u.s. and close allies, south korea and japan. >> they're talking about war. war preparations for their country. so we're quite concerned. >> reporter: for years, former los alamos director had unparalleled access to north korea's highly secretive nuclear program, seeing more than almost any american. what he's seeing now, he says, reminiscent of the lead-up to the catastrophic korean war more than 70 years ago. a chilling shift in leader kim jong-un's strategy. far more than the usual sabre rattling. >> i think this time it's different. he may have decided that it is time to actually take some actions. >> reporter: for the past 30 years, north korea's goal was normalizing ties with the u.s.

hector says that ended in 2019 when summit talks in hanoi, vietnam, collapsed. donald trump and kim walked out humiliating and infuriating the north korean leader riding his private train back to pyongyang empty-handed. perhaps giving up on u.s. diplomacy, making a strategic turn toward conflict. >> he may believe that there is some way, sort of what one would say, what's a path to victory, that he may be thinking very differently than what our conventional thinking is. >> reporter: kim's confidence may be bolstered, he says, by closer ties with china and a deepening military alliance with russia. north korea's foreign minister visiting moscow just this week. also, labeling south korea a hostile country. >> translator: this is a political provocation. >> reporter: not just political. north korea testing a new hyper

sonic missile, potentially nuclear capable, adding to kim's growing arsenal. tonight, experts say that arsenal already poses a credible threat to tens of thousands of u.s. troops across this region in places like south korea, japan, guam, some missiles believed to be capable of even striking the u.s. mainland. kim has the fourth largest standing army. well over a million strong which is why experts say diplomacy and military deterrence are crucial here. >> all right. thank you very much. next, we have an exclusive dispatch from inside gaza which is very hard to get because communications have been down there for a full week.

i think he's having a midlife crisis i'm not. you got us t-mobile home internet lite. after a week of streaming they knocked us down... ...to dial up speeds. like from the 90s. great times. all i can do say is that my life is pre-- i like watching the puddles gather rain. -hey, your mom and i procreated to that song. oh, ew! i think you've said enough. why don't we just switch to xfinity like everyone else? then you would know what year it was. i know what year it is. tonight, the blackout. a near total communications blackout in gaza has now hit the

one-week mark. there's no sign of it letting up at this point. the purple line you're looking at shows connectivity since before the war began. the drops are outages. this one is noticeably longer than any of the others and its effective force can't be overstated. no phone lines, no internet access makes it extremely difficult if not impossible to get any humanitarian aid into the enclave to communicate with anybody. we have though in occasional moments, you can get a breakthrough. we were able to get one dispatch from the aid worker we've been talking to since the war began. you've heard a lot from him. he reached us on a borrowed phone with a special sim card. that's how he did it. he's telling us what it is like right now where he is. >> the sewage water is filling the streets. there are no pavements. there are no streets basically. everything has been obliterated and wiped out. it's really difficult to maintain our dignity as palestinians living in the north