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the world, i am allison caustic . ahead on cnn newsroom, relief still days away for many southwest customers as we enter day eight of the airline meltdown. i talked to an aviation expert about the federal ramifications there plus we have a live report on a deadly fire at a casino in cambodia. that has left seven people that. pope francis says pope benedict is very sick and asks for everyone's prayers, the latest from the vatican. we begin with what ukrainian officials are calling a massive missile attack on cities across the country. ukrainian air force says russia is attacking from various directions with air and sea- based cruise missiles. -- joins us from kia, what is the latest and what are you hearing?

well, what we are hearing from ukrainian officials is that at least 120 missiles have been fired so far today from russia to ukraine, hitting basically every major metropolitan area in the country, including, of course kia, where we are just a few minutes ago, a distant side, -- and other cities as well. now, here in kyle keefe, there does not appear to be any major damage, one house was damaged from falling debris from a downed missile, there is also some damage to an industrial enterprise and a playground, but in other areas it appears that damage may be more severe in the western city of tel aviv , the mayor says that 90% of the power and lviv has been knocked out, there they have suspended trams and trolleys

in the city of harkey there are also reports of explosions they are, the metro and the subway has been suspended. it does appear this seems to be a nation-wide attack by the russians on ukraine. this was not unanticipated, several days ago there was an attack on the base well inside russia, ukraine did not claim responsibility, but assumed it was done by that, it was only a matter of time that it was widely believed that before the russians took revenge for that, allison?'s mykael wright, thank you very much for your reporting. to the travel fiasco for southwest airlines, passengers facing another day of cancellations today as the carrier struggles to get back on track. a pilots union representative says it looks like the flight schedule will be mostly full by friday.

the airline has canceled more than 2300 flights for today, but the number only drops to only 39 cancellations by friday. airports are field with on my that southwest passengers trying to rebook, as piles of luggage continue to grow, while other airlines were covered from last week's winter storm fairly quickly, southwest has not. tuesday southwest accounted for 84% of cancellations among all airlines in the u.s. on wednesday, that number dropped to 91%, and for today, it is at 99%. cnn transportation analyst mary scioto joins me now from charleston, south carolina. she is a former inspector general for the u.s. department of transportation. you for being here. >> thank you, good to be with you . >> so, these cancellations continue to snowball at southwest airlines, and this mess, incredibly, still has

days to go before people actually get to where they need to go. i am curious what your take is on this, what happened here? is this just bad luck because of the weather, which wound up colette with that planning, or is there more to this? there's more to this, southwest has been having problems for several years. in the last two years they have had several major mishaps and snafus because of computer problems, then recently in the last few years they have had several citations or violations from the rural aviation administration. and, while, initially, they said it was weather, eventually they put out a press release that said the real issue is that the computer infrastructure could not keep up with operations, they did not know when they were playing, where the pilots were. so, at that point was they admitted that, it turned into what i would consider, hopefully the federal aviation administration and u.s. department of transportation

content sitter or safety issues that have to be resolved, it is simply not the weather at this point, it is far more picks you mentioned there were citations and violations already in the past, but clearly it has not made an impact for southwest airlines, they have had these issues before, they are having them now, even the airline's chief operating officer said the company's outdated scheduling software became the main culprit of these cancellations, so they know the issue, the issue in the past, they have been issued citations and violations, but there has not apparently been any change, so what leverage does the federal government really happier? spiegel, the federal government has a lot of leverage. the question is whether they are going to use it. not just one area of the federal government, not just one branch. the united states department of transportation and its federal lipase aviation administration needs to address this promptly is a defect on safety and

national airspace system. not only has southwest said they cannot keep track of planes and pilots since aviation, including navigation and maintenance and safety really is a giant computer program. everything runs on computers. so, the faa really looks into whether they are able to run a safe operation, and whether they are able to be a major national aviation operation, and they have a few international flights. so, that is first and foremost. the other body of government needs to be looking into this, the house us representatives and the senate need to evaluate whether it is time to reregulate the airlines. in the past they have hunted and said we are going to do a pass and passenger bill of rights that has never materialized because once the lines were deregulated decades ago, all of that customer service and customer amenities

and what you do for customers when they have been stranded or dumped or overbooked, et cetera, was really left to the airlines. even this week the units dates department of transportation said we will wait to see if the airline does the right thing. that is ridiculous. that this point congress needs to say the right thing does not serve the united states or the passengers, and could have a ripple effect around the world . time for congress to look at the law and time to get tough and reregulate the airline operations. do you see congress really reregulate in the airline industry? well, they should, what they are going to do is what they always do, they are going to tinker around the edges, they will say we are going to get tough and make them if the passengers more rights. well, the airlines are not constitution in the united states, it is a government that

can return some of the rights for passengers, in the past we have had meltdowns, we have had other airlines meltdown, other airlines have done this in the past. congress has said that they are going to act, at one point they passed the passenger bill of rights, which basically said you cannot step on the tarmac for more than three hours and at that point you are allowed to be on an aircraft the government will find the airlines, the funds go to the government, not to the aggrieved passengers. so, that is usually what congress does -- you cannot conduct disorder lives in the and it states to rely on the airlines, that is ridiculous for a major nation, a nation the size of the u.s., to be at the mercy of underperforming airlines. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you, my pleasure, thank you. with covid cases surging in china, the united states will soon require all travelers from that country, including hong kong and macau, to test negative for covid-19 before flying to the u.s. there is a

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accusing western media for hyping up covid policy changes and by urging countries to work together. this is what of the ministry to the affairs spokesperson had to say. quota china has always believed that the measures taken by countries to prevent the epidemic should be scientific and moderate and should not affect normal people to people exchanges. now, the irony here is that since the start of the pandemic, china has had some of the strictest border controls in the world, but now that the country is finally up and cases are surging, other countries are getting nervous. in addition to the u.s., japan, india, taiwan have put covid testing requirements in place to in fact, taiwan and japan say if the traveler from china test positive for covid upon arrival, they will have to quarantine for several days. , china has stopped reporting daily covid cases on a national level, it is a severely narrowing its definition of covid death only reporting a handful of covid death for the entire month. aging says everything is under

control, yet we know that hospitals are overflowing with elderly patients and crematorium's across the country are overwhelmed. fever and cold medicine are scarce. the big concern from some countries like the u.s. is that the lack of data from china that could help detect new variants. -- the global consortium that maintains a database of covid sequences has said, however, china has ramped up the amount of data it is submitting, that all the genome sequences shared so far closely resemble the variance already circulating in other parts of the world since july. they u.s. says that the dish from china not enough. look, it is not as of china has totally thrown open its own borders. chinese borders still remain largely close to foreigners, apart from the limited number of business for family visits. in buffalo, new york, drivers are once again allowed to get behind the wheel and try to go about their lives, the driving ban was lifted a few

hours ago, almost a week after the winter whiteout began. all state highways have since reopened. police and national guard troops have been doing welfare checks in neighborhoods that lost power. and other emergency crews are checking on people who call 911 who cannot be reached during the height of the storm, authorities reporting at least 37 blizzard -related deaths in erie county. victims trapped by fire jumping to their deaths to escape the flames. still ahead we have heartbreaking eyewitness accounts about this fire in cambodia. plus, the former pope who has been referred to as god's rottweiler is said to be very sick. we live in rome with the latest on pope emeritus benedict. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking g to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember thehe three ps. what are the three ps? ththe three ps of life insurance on a fixed b budget are price, price, and price.

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welcome back. catholic leaders, including pope francis urging the faithful to pray for former pope benedict who is reportedly very sick. he became pope in 2005 and resides only eight years later, a decision that shocked the world. the vatican has not shared any specific details about his current condition, let's bring

in barb and adele who is live for us. i know pope francis has called for prayers and the vatican is not really getting out many details, i am curious at least if the former pope is alert? well, we are hearing lots of mixed reports from people who had seen in recent saying he was serene, but frail saying the reports that they had not been speaking for the last few days, it's hard to understand exactly his condition, he is 95 years old and very frail. he resigned 10 years ago saying that he did not think he had the ethical or mental capability to continue being the pope. one of the things about this particular situation, we are in unprecedented territory, he is a retired pope, if he was the active hope we would expect a lot of updates from the vatican, but because he is retires and a private citizen who was inside vatican city it is not clear

how many updates we will get, and how often they are going to be if we are not going to get one until there is news to report. spin-up pope francis has been asking the faithful to keep benedict in their thoughts, how is the church thinking of hindering the delicate time? well, the leaders of the church obviously praying for him, i'm not sure if we can say that they are praying for recovery as praying for serenity, and is the pope said, to be accompanied in prayer through the end. as we have said, the 95-year- old man in frail condition, we might expect, we don't know how much longer he might last, but there's not a lot of hope that he is going to recover necessarily from this, we know that he is not at the hospital and he has not been taken to a, he is in a monastery where he has lived inside vatican city for the last 10 years, this is really just about an elderly, real man who is, as the pope says, pope rinses, nearing the end.

spin-up okay, barbara and adele len rome, thank you so much. took a huge fire has killed at least 11 people at a casino in cambodia with some people so desperate to get out, they left to their deaths, according to a rescue worker who spoke to cnn after lame single the structure on wednesday night. he says he saw two people die when they jumped from the building, while other people suffer broken legs. the casino, which contains a hotel, is located near the thailand border, emergency crews from both countries rushed to help. the death toll is expected to rise as emergency crews are still searching hotel rooms for, but's . let's bring in journalist nisha tank who is with for us in singapore. these details are horrific, are we getting any details from officials about what they think may have caused the blaze?

>> so far, we don't know exactly what caused it, but rescue workers who have been on site since it started in a lower restaurant, then spread from there and having look at the building, it is pretty impressive, i think many of you are familiar with the layout do you are used to make hotel. you know that 700 were rescued, that is a number of people that may have been in the building. they have already been taken to hospitals, to put it in context even though this hotel, the grand diamond hotel is in the town, which is just over the border in cambodia from thailand, most of the people who go there to gamble our from thailand, it is a popular for those making their way to the reef, which is where the beautiful temples of angkor wat are. it is a big transit town, very important business town as well, in terms of the trade between -- in cambodia, i wanted to give you the context, you can imagine this hotel

would have been very busy. rescue workers also tell our teams over in thailand when they arrived pretty much the fire engulfed the building already, coming out overnight and scenes of the dark night sky, bright orange and tense flames rising upwards, and also i think that we have to point out that this is really a race against time, it is a situation like this, people also lost their lives -- through smoke inhalation, this is something that creeps through every crevice in the building, it is absolutely -- people came out this morning, this black acrid smoke rising to see what was happening and you can imagine all of the smoke really pushing out any sense of positivity this morning. these are where the pictures were -- in southeast asia.

-- for the town, which is incredibly popular with many -- i also just want to share that we know that cambodian authorities -- authorities, this is because this is very -- at the time, the rescue workers were shouting out for help in that thai language -- the fear of people around us, the death toll will go up very closely, but rather sad news to wake up to in southeast asia today. >> so heartbreaking, thank you for your reporting. it's been 10 months since russia invaded ukraine, and cnn correspondent have been there to cover all of it. coming up, clarissa ward recovers the frightening first day of the war that many did not believe what happened. eye and a silent protest against iran, coming up a people chess player amidst a

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welcome back. more now on our top story this hour. explosions and air rate being heard all across ukrainian ukrainian officials say is a massive missile attack from russia. in cities throughout ukraine, air defense systems have been activated. officials say russia launched at least 120 missiles that ukraine, targeting essentially every major metropolitan area. ukraine's air force is as russia is attacking from various directions, with cruise missiles launched from the air

and see. in odessa, energy providers have implemented eight emergency power outages to avoid significant damage if the facilities are hit. cnn's clarissa ward was among the team of correspondents in ukraine when she witness to the opening salvo of the russian invasion. now, as the year draws to a close, she looks back at those harrowing early days of the conflict when it appeared moscow might actually topple ukraine's leadership. once we had a sense that the invasion was imminent, we made the decision to try to drive to harkey, because it is a city that is very close to the russian border, there have and a lot of truth buildup just beyond that border, we were getting ready to go to bed when i noticed on twitter that president putin was speaking again, which is very unusual. at that hour of the night picks a decision has been made, a special military alteration .

>> so, we all rushed up onto the roof, and sure enough, later, we could hear explosions across the night sky. it has been a few minutes now, we have been hearing a steady stream of loud strikes, it is not clear exactly what they are targeting picks i was not just in the city of harkey where we were in cities across the country which have not been anticipated particularly in the t. >> on the very first day of the or, we saw people flooding into metro stations and harkey, carrying their belongings that they had, or could possibly grab with them. this is an actual subway car here, if we can pin him, you can see dozens of people are squashed in, they are sitting on the seats there in the dark, there are children here . >> the really iconic moments for us will never forget, was

the scene on the bridge from the key of suburb . >> there has been a steady barrage of artillery since we got here just over an hour ago. a never ending stream of people just desperately trying to cross to safety. president putin has sent his army is not -- the exit is tells a different story. everyone steps in where they can , including us . >> we saw people who were clearly traumatized, who were confused and discombobulated, there were many elderly people, people who were living alone, they were carrying their pets, and carrying their babies, and we stood there and watched the scene unfold. you to feel, as a journalist, but impotent in the moment, because beyond wanting

to tell their story, which there was more that there was do to help these people. >> within western liberal democracies, there was outrage, anger, and a broader determination to try to respond strongly and in unity. this war will be a strategic failure for putin. one act together, we are stronger, and we really can make a difference . >> china, india, the united aerator area -- other countries hatting a slightly different perspective, they were less willing to condemn it. president putin made it very clear that he viewed the situation in ukraine as an existential threat to russia, the fact that they were so focused on key of, the capitol, i think made it clear that for president putin, nothing less

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a female iranian chess player who is ranked number 10 in her country did not wear a he job when she took part in the international tournament. sara khadem played in the world graphic templates chess championship in kazakhstan according to the irani news outlet on tuesday. it also shared a picture of her without the head covering. he jobs are mandatory for women under strict dress code . cnn reached out to her instagram

page for, joining us now with on this is not of this year as she joins us. so, what statement is she trying to make your? >> well, she is the latest extreme sports in iran you have, apparently, shut solidarity with the protest movement by -- we know that that he job has been a poignant symbol throughout the protest movement and we have seen many women removing the hay jobs, cutting their hair in a show of protest not only against the severe restrictions on women's rights but against the regime, entirely. it is a brave show of defiance, because we do know that in iran this is something that is punishable by brutal means by the morality police, she is the latest in a string of sportsmen who have done this, in november we saw -- competing in tehran, she removed her hijab or let it fall off during an awards

ceremony, notably in the sense of solidarity with the protest movement. back in october many remember the rock climber -- he was competing in seoul, korea, without her he job. sportswomen are mandated by the regime to keep their scarves on while competing overseas, one representing the country. of course this is a significant moment of defiance by the sportswomen, but what is the concern now is what response you will receive back in iran, of course -- competing in kazakhstan, we have seen sports people in the past facing pressure and oppression by the regime, some of been speaking under duress, when denying taking the stance of solidarity with the protest, -- saw her family home being demolished weeks after competing in seoul, there is a significant concern over how she will be met by the regime upon her return to iran, but of course this comes amid an ongoing protest and nearly

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nearly a week after that deadly blizzard began blasting buffalo, new york, the city's ban on nonessential driving has finally been lifted. major state highways and western new york have also reopened the buffalo remains under a travel advisory with many roads smothered by small. crews have been trying to clear at least one lane in every city street for emergency responders but have unhampered by hundreds of abandoned vehicles draft investment banks. meantime, the death toll has grown to 37 in erie county and could still rise. city leaders in charge of the emergency response are coming higher, cnn's miguel marquez brings us the latest from buffalo. buffalo, taking out. officials here, responding to criticism, they should have done more. 35-mile-per-hour wind gusts for 3 hours straight with less than visibility.

this was an extreme blizzard committed a category package of blizzards . >> kacie mcdonnell's mother died in the storm on christmas eve. of buffalo needed who have been through many snowstorms here thought this was the same . >> we were waiting for her to come home. i knew something was wrong right away, though . >> a simple decision on any other day, life-threatening in this storm. >> my kids lost their grandmother, that is her most important role, being a good grandmother. and now they just have memories. >> reporter: in erie county alone, at least 37 killed in extreme weather in an area accustomed to major snowstorms. for every person who died, dozens of stories of those who stepped up and saved friends and neighbors, even strangers. this is something i always do, i hope everybody. there are people out there dying and freezing to death in

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the warmer air is not affecting just buffalo, but also what looks like more than of the united states, cnn meteorologist tom sater has a forecast. >> sometimes in the winter months, wishing for the weather is not always the best thing. look at the snowpack across north america from british columbia, this is just the beginning, wait until you see what comes of the forecast for them. upper midwest, ontario. we've been focusing on areas such as buffalo, a year ago, 9.3 inches were on the ground. to hundred this year, six feet above average, different some flooding will be going on in a massive amount. earlier today it is in watertown, the better cleared areas, but when authorities say watchers sewer drains on your roads, keep them from getting ice have been jammed, how can you find them? this is looking pretty good. in most locations the ponds but still up and seven feet high, some areas cannot find them apart, then throwing into the forecast. 88 cementing process

and accelerates it, average high buffalo 20 degrees above average by 7:00, got above freezing, everybody is earlier today every city in north america except for my nuts, north dakota, was above freezing, temperatures only above average, maybe about 20 or 25 degrees warmer than normal, here is the one front, mountain snow the first in a series of storms that, the water vapor in the firehose, the atmospheric river, the wind also accompanies this, they were a category one, category 2, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands in part of oregon to upstate new york, that system has moved into the desert southwest, the watches and warnings are in place, now it really starts to kick in. here gives a series of storms moving in, the storm that already moved in, here comes the second one, this is thursday to friday, we have another one friday to saturday, a firehose to san francisco,

maybe 10 inches of rain, here comes the next one monday in to tuesday, there is another one back behind that. massive flash flooding, landslide threats, the atmospheric was river causes monthly heavy mountain snow and travel problems but we see unbelievable amounts of rain in parts of california, that is the next story. first watching the melting in buffalo. benjamin netanyahu will soon be sworn in for a record term as israel's prime minister, it is a stunning political turnaround for a man who has already led israel longer than anyone else. first, parliament will vote on his new cabinet that is set to to begin in the next hour, analysts expected to be the most right- wing government in israel history. -- is covering this for us and joins us live from jerusalem, good to see you. i am curious who is expected to make of his cabinet, what are the new prime ministers first priorities? one of the really interesting

things about this is not that netanyahu has been prime minister, this is the record sixth time, for the first time he will be the most left-wing minister off that coalition government, because in his new partners include people who have in the past, expressed views that are homophobic or racist, or anti-democratic rick it is especially for netanyahu, he is on the left of his current government. internet the agenda, this is something he published yesterday to have the principles of their government, they are not sacrosanct, they are not legally binding, this is what the government says it will do once it is sworn in later today. they say for example today promotes and develops all of the land of israel and specifies the galilee in the north and also judea and samaria, a.k.a. the west bank. we could see more settlements being built on the west bank's and unoccupied land being

considered on illegal. we could see a bit of a spending bit on infrastructure, one of the other plans they outlined was to restore the proper balance between the legislature and the executive, and the judiciary, there are concerns that because israel lacks constitutional right bill of rights, that by diluting the power of the supreme court, in other words giving parliamentarians the power to override any loss that might be struck down by the high court giving the new government too much power, one thing i should say they included in these plans, presumably to international concerns about what they might do, they status quo of religion and state will be preserved, and includes for holy places, this reference, two concerns that one of the members of the government, the new interior minister has advocated in the past great change to the status quo on temple mount, to allow, for

example, to pray there, which they are not allowed to do, this is something that could have been an explosive issue here, the new government saying they are not planning to make changes there ultimately, netanyahu said the buck stops with him, he is on the back of a offensive doing interviews on international u.s. media, we have had an op ed penned by one -- said the finance minister, also said to to be in charge of a civilian matter in the west bank, trying to allay concerns about changes to the supreme court oversight. >> all right, thank you for your great reporting. an amazing opportunity right now to witness a planetary parade in the sky. from now through the end of the year, you can see all of the planets in the solar system after sunset. i'm talking about mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn

, they should be visible to the naked eye, you even need binoculars to see uranus and neptune, mercury is fading quickly from view. today is one of the best remaining chances to see them, assuming skies are clear, of course. there the final megamillions drawing of the year is now up to a cool $640 million, no winner coming from the drawing on tuesday, that means there is one more chance to head into 2023 with millions of dollars in your pocket. the cash prize comes down to about $328 million, the full jackpot will be the largest mega millions prize ever offered in the final week and only the fifth time in history megamillions jackpot has talked $600 million, the final drying of the year held on friday night at 11:00 p.m.

, eastern time. i might just buy a ticket for . before we go, celebrate the new year as we can with cnn international, we feature special coverage from across asia, africa, europe, latin america, the united days, and even the meta-verse as the world welcomes in 2023 with new year's eve live, starting in asia we will follow the sunset and celebrations peak in major cities across the globe, beginning at midnight in sydney, 9:00 p.m. in hong kong or 8:00 in the morning eastern time. thank you for joining us, i am alison kosik, cnn newsroom continues next.