good morning to you. i'm jessica dean in washington. jim sciutto is off today. we're following several major stories this morning. overnight ukraine rocked by a barrage of russian missiles. the defense minister saying it's the most massive missile attack since the invasion began in februariment we know power is out in several regions including parts of the capital kyiv. we'll be live on the ground ahead. plus, the u.s. reinstating covid tests for travelers coming from china as beijing drops its own restrictions despite an overwhelming surge in cases. a fresh apology from southwest airlines today, plus new steps the airline is taking to reimburse passengers whose holiday travel was ruined. still more than 2,300 southwest flights canceled today. we're told the scheduling nightmare could end as soon as tomorrow.

let's begin this morning on the ground in ukraine. cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman is in kyiv. ben, you saw firsthand some of this damage. tell us what the last few hours have been like. >> reporter: jessica, according to the mayor of kyiv, 16 russian missiles were fired at the capital. all of them were intercepted. but in being intercepted, debris from those missiles fell to the ground, and there were several locations where that falling debris has caused serious damage. first we went to one house where there's a huge crater right next to it, and several of the walls were just completely destroyed, all the windows shattered. there were two men living inside. one aged father and adult son were sleeping on the other side of the house, but the impact caused, for instance, their car to set on fire. in another location more debris

fell near a house where there was a 14-year-old girl who was caught under the rubble. we spoke to her grandmother who spoke to her on the phone while she was still cause under the rubble hysterical, deprsperate r help. nearby her mother was injured in the falling debris as well as a manish. we saw the rescue services, cleanup crews were on the scene taking care of it. but we understand that in kharkiv, ukraine's second largest city in the eastern part of the country, as a result of those missile barrages, one man was killed, four of the missiles hit targets inside kharkiv itself. we understand these are described as critical infrastructure. what we know is, for instance, here in kyiv, 40% of the power is no longer functioning.

the mayor has told people to stock up on water and, if possible, charge their cell phones. in the far west of the country, in the city of lviv, 90% of the electricity has been knocked out. it appears this is, indeed, one of the largest missile barrages the country has experienced. the commander-in-chief of the ukrainian armed forces says 69 missiles were fired at ukraine. 54 were brought down by the air defenses as well as 11 of those shahed iranian-supplied cruise missiles. >> ben wedeman live on the ground in kyiv. thanks so much for that reporting. back here in the u.s., the u.s. responding to china's latest covid surge with new travel restrictions that will begin next week. the cdc says that's when all passengers from china must provide a negative covid test.

japan, india, taiwan and italy are putting similar rules in place. at the milan airport officials say almost 50% of travelers arriving from china on monday tested positive for covid. cnn's arlette saenz is traveling with president biden from st. croix. >> reporter: jess, exactly one week from today, any travelers coming from china to the u.s. will have to go through these additional steps to travel here. that includes providing a negative covid test before their departure. this all comes as there's been this rise in cases of covid-19 in china and also concerns from u.s. health officials about lack of transparency in the data. now, what exactly do these rules entail? these tests must be taken no more than 48 hours before the departure time and then those travelers will have to show proof of that negative test before they board their flight.

these must be pcr or antigen self-tests via a telehealth service approved by the fda. additionally this doesn't just apply to travelers in china to the u.s., it could be those stopping over in places like seoul, toronto and vancouver. travelers going through there and then coming the the u.s. will also have to test for covid-19. officials here have set a january 5th timeline to try to give the airlines time to get their operations in place to be able to follow these rules. federal health officials have been stressing that they are very concerned about the lack of information coming from china regarding their coronavirus situation. that includes data on the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, and most importantly, officials say, is lack of information regarding genomic sequencing which is key to helping identify new variants

that might be coming. officials are very concerned about the rapid rise in cases in china, saying it could provide more opportunity for new variants to pro live rate, and that they are looking for more information from china regarding that. the world health organization has said they want to see more authorization. they say this speaks to the distrust between u.s. and china. what officials are trying to do is prevent the spread of any possible new variants and trying to identify any new developments as well. >> arlette saenz traveling with the president. joining me yon john wong from seton hall university, a senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. lovely to see you this morning. thank you for taking time. a regional health chief says almost 50% of passengers ar arriving at italy's milan airport from china tested positive for covid-19 on monday.

you said the pace at which they're unwinding their zero covid strategy is alarming. that number seems alarming. what do you expect to see happen? >> i'm not surprised if you have 50% of passengers arriving in milan testing positive, because now we're seeing the unbridled spread of covid in china. very likely 40% of the population are infected. they are seeing the peak of the viral wave and this is what we expected. >> and the covid-19 cases are turning up here. we've had everybody together for the holidays. we're in the minter months now. what makes china's situation different than what's going on in the u.s. right now? >> i think two concerns here. first is that we are seeing the unbridled spread of the covid

cases in china and the variants are more likely going to emerge in the unprotected, unvaccinated population. the second concern is that china seems to be not that transparent in sharing data, including the genomic sequence of the samples. >> that's what i want to ask you about. it doesn't seem like it's just the lack of case reporting that could help the public health officials worldwide. there are concerns that you're talking about, that they're going to stop sharing this genomic sequence data. that's how they zero in on these new variants. how much does that concern you? >> well, first of all, so far we haven't had smoking gun evidence that indeed this virus has mutated, there are no strains emerging in the country. secondly, we don't -- we've

received conflicting information on the sharing of genomic sequence. according to the global virus database, china is submitting more genomic information from recent samples. i just find that this seems to be not supported by convincing scientific -- convincing evidence. >> all right, dr. huang, thank you for your expertise. good to see you this morning. >> thank you. southwest airlines has canceled another 2,300 flights today. the pilot's union says it expects to be almost back to a normal schedule tomorrow. cnn's adrian broaddus has been camped out at chicago's airport since this all began. we're hearing from southwest about concrete steps it's taking to make things right for customers. i'm curious what those are and

if the customers see them as enough at this point. >> reporter: well, the steps have been clearly outlined on southwest's mobil app as well as if you're using a desk top. they have steps you can take to request a refund. i want to outline those steps for you. for example, they don't want travelers to call, because the phone system is overloaded. flyers who have plans through january 2nd can make their changes online, they can also submit missing baggage information online and they can submit to get reimbursed for expenses. southwest not really clear what type of expenses they're going to reimburse for, and travelers can submit for a full refund request for canceled flights. but some travelers whom we heard from say this reimbursement offers little comfort.

>> i will never get that time back to at least hold her hand or spend that time with her. she spent her last few days just waiting on me. >> reporter: that was a passenger stranded in baltimore. she was trying to get to her sick grandmother. her grandmother died on tuesday. as you heard her say, she's never going to get that time back. we've been camped out here in the baggage claim area at midway airport all week. this is a story about more than bags. yes, people were suffering and hurting because they couldn't find their luggage, but some of those travelers missed out on valuable time. meanwhile here in chicago, the baggage claim area is back open. all the luggage that was once overflowing here has been rem removed, and if travelers were lucky, they got to take their bags with them. >> time always our most precious

commodity. adrienne broaddus in chicago, thank you for that update. this morning, glimmers of hope in buffalo as temperatures warm and a driving ban is lifted. buffalo police say they are finished going through more than 1,100 911 calls made during the massive storm. we know 37 people died in erie county alone. cnn national correspondent athena jones is joining us live from buffalo. there's been some back and forth between the county executive and the mayor about how the storm was handled. >> reporter: hi, jessica, that's right. hearing from the county executive for erie county, complaining about the mayor not being involved in kind of coordination calls and that sort of thing, working with the county and other nearby municipalities. here is how mayor byron brown responded. also note he talks about a death

toll that is smaller than the county-wide death tol. don't be confused by that. go ahead and take a listen. >> it's horrific, 28 members of our community dead in the city of buffalo. we did an evaluation after the last historic storm, just less than two months ago and did things differently. we will continue to improve. we will continue to work to do better, but hysterics from leaders is not what the public is looking for. >> reporter: it seems unlikely this conflict is going to end soon. but i can tell you we're now in front of buffalo city hall which will be open today, as are erie county offices. you mentioned the driving ban lifted. also, the police have managed to check on all those unanswered 911 calls during the height of the storm. the chief of police describing it as a grueling and gruesome

task, recovering a substantial number of bodies. he also said as the snow melts, he expects they could find more bodies. we expect to have a new update at the noon press briefing. we should also note remember yesterday the national guard were going to homes, checking on neighborhoods that had lost power. we don't have an update on what the national guard found in their searches. we'll have to be prepared for a larger number at this noon press conference. the rest of the city of buffalo very much beginning to get back to normal. we talked in the past about flooding concerns with the temperature reaching about 50 tomorrow. governor kathy hochul has directed state agencies to make sure they're prepared, sending personnel and resources, things like hundreds of thousands of dollars of sandbags and pumps just in case that flood threat does materialize. >> it is amazing, athena, to see the plows and cars behind you. that does look like progress.

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undergoing outgoing chemotherapy treatment. he says he plans to keep making progress every day in congress for american democracy. a source tells cnn federal prosecutors are investigating the finances of republican congress-elect george santos after questions arose around how he was able to lend his campaign more than $700,000. this comes after cnn's kfile uncovered more falsehoods from santos including claims he was forced to leave a new york city private school when his family's finances took a hit and he berated goldman sachs while representing the company at a top financial conference. cnn washington correspondent sunlen serfaty is joining me now. it seems like there's more every day. it's kind of hard to keep up with all the lies and falsehoods. we've got new kfile findings. let's start with those. >> this is all intensifying for him quickly. three new falsehoods uncovered by our colleagues at the kfile. the first one is that santos

claimed he attended and went to this very elite private school in new york, and he said it was only then he had to leave because his family fell on hard times financially. there is no record, according to the school, of him ever having attended that private school. also santos says he attended a financial conference as an employee by goldman sachs. while he was there, he spoke out against the company and they're planning on investing in rene renewables. he never worked at goldman sachs. according to the event planners, there's no record of him appearing at that panel nor appearing at the conference at all. he was never registered. also, additional new family claims that he made about his family background, first he claimed his mother immigrated from europe to brazil. cnn's review of this found that she was actually born in brazil. also questions about claims that he made over his family name,

claims his mother had used a historically jewish name. that is something that genealogists working with cnn found there's no evidence of, no evidence of jewish or ukrainian heritage in his family tree. santos has not responded to these new allegations yet, jessica. it's notable this is all coming as federal prosecutors, as you noted at the top, are investigating his finances. we also know from the county that they are looking into it as well. they are looking into these fabrications and they say, quote, the numerous fabrications and inconsistencies associated with congressman-elect santos are nothing short of stunning. certainly it's remarkable that every day there are new fabrications. >> big ones. sunlen serfaty, thank you. joining us to discuss this further, "new york times" political reporter acid herndon. sunlen and i were just talking about this, new allegations

every day. we're finding out about new lies and still nothing from gop leadership about these fabrications. when we were on the hill last week, kevin mccarthy would not talk about this. do you think they'll be forced to address this next week when they return in person? >> i do think they will be forced to come up with at least some answer on this front because the allegations at this point have transitioned from kind of eye popping to genuinely alarming to pathological it seems. this is someone who not only every instance of their bio has seemingly been made up, but each additional report from kfile, from my colleagues at "the new york times," even from random people on twitter. people are going through his whole tweets seeing instances where he claimed to have black ancestry, jewish ancestry, a relationship to 9/11 that doesn't seem to have panned out. this is something that continues to roll. as you said, there are now these

investigations piling up. i think the hill leaders will be forced to respond when they come in person to the hill next week. the problem for kevin mccarthy, there's a political incentive to keep santos in the fold because of his speakership fight. you have the ethics, financial concerns piling up, but you also have the political incentive to kind of keep the caucus in line at least in the short term. >> totally. that's what i wanted to ask you about next. there are various layers to all of this. the house minority leader, kevin mccarthy, is still trying to get to 218 to become speaker next week on january 3rd. he's having to do a lot to try to get to that number. they've got such a slim majority that they're going to have in the house. how do you think this is impacting his calculus on addressing the santos situation? >> it's hard to know if it directly impacts that calculus. it certainly shows how slim margins kevin mccarthy has.

i mean to the point where he has to worry about someone like congress-elect santos or the conversation around him to make sure he continues to keep the republican caucus in line on the way to speakership. kevin mccarthy's best option here, best hope here is that there's not a good emerging option that republicans have as an alternative. what he's going to do is even if this goes to two or three rounds of voting, really try to present himself as the best possible scenario to keep the republican caucus in line. it will be nothing short of a disaster if the republican caucus cannot come up with someone to be a speaker leading them into this new congress. so that's going to be mccarthy's pitch. to your point, it definitely does show the slim margins he's working with, that something out of nowhere, something like this discussion around congressman elect santos has complicated those efforts. >> it sure has. something that probably nobody sad coming. i want to go back to the santos

thing for a second new york was a really bright spot for the gop in and other wise disappointing midterm performance. they flipped three democratic seats, one the seat that santos carried by about eight points. new york was a good spot for the gop. have we heard anything from other new york republicans or any of the other incoming congresspeople? >> we've heard from the law enforcement officials, some are republican district attorneys saying they're going to investigate. we've heard the political side stay pretty silent. to your point, new york was a bright spot for republicans. there's been a lot of conversation in the political universe about why didn't democrats or maybe even media report these allegations before the election. to your point, santos won by eight points in a year where republicans were really doing well across the ballot. there's nothing to say that even some of these allegations coming up before the election would not have stopped him from being able to win.

the question is what is this going to say going forward. for a democratic party, it does force some soul searching to say why weren't these allegations brought up by opponents, why weren't they seen in opposition research? i have seen people in the democratic front as a calling card to say the party needs to get itself together. not only the results prove that point, but this kind of figure emerging from the republican side should have come with a democratic counterweight. >> we're expecting the house ways and means committee will release former president trump's full tax returns. what are you watching for in this, and what do you think might come of it once we finally have the full report? >> yeah, it's finally here. we are hearing from house leaders that they say that this will prove that the irs did not audit trump when they should have. we'll certainly get more information about his financial dealings, speculations about his

wealth. i think it will add up to something we have already known, which is that donald trump has used every trick in the book to try to lower the amount of taxes that he has paid and has not seen himself as kind of fulfilling that responsibility of taxes in a kind of patriotic way to the american people. we knew that from the day he became president. we'll get further details on that next week. this continues the efforts from democrats to try to show him as someone who is not fit for the office going forward. it could impact the republican primary, too. >> astead herndon, always great to see you. appreciate it. >> thank you so much. still ahead, we'll go live to the border in el paso, texas, where officials say the situation there is entirely unprecedented. the emergency shelters are, quote, just a band-aid. stay with us. piled with turkey, ham and roast beef. this sub isn't slowing down any time soon. i'll give it a run for its money. my money's o on the sub.

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right now a new tent facility has been built in el paso, texas to help process the growing number of migrants at the border. a border patrol spokesperson says it will be able to hold roughly 1,000 migrants at a time. cnn's rosa flores is in el paso with more. can you walk us through how this is expected to ease the flow of migrants there. >> reporter: in essence, this is a processing facility. jessica, we've seen this during prior surges where the federal government adds processing facilities so they can increase the number of migrants they can process. as you know, a lot of the border officials all along the

u.s./mexico border have been very critical of the federal government in the sense they say this is more of a band-aid. the judge probably put it best. he said imagine that your house is flooding because there's a league, and many stead of calling the plumber, you call somebody to come mop your house and it keeps flooding, so you just call in more people to help you mop your house instead of actually calling the plumber. that's what a lot of officials in the border communities say, that these are all band-aids. officials in el paso say this is an unprecedented surge and needs a different type of solution. take a listen. >> we're a city of immigrants. what's going on right now is something completely different, something unprecedented, something we have not seen before. we're not used to people coming over the way they're coming over and running through our highways. we're not used to people

sleeping on our streets. right now the temporary shelters i suppose are a band-aid to what is to come, but long term we need to be better prepared. for now we have title 42 staying in place. however, that's not the solution either. >> reporter: jessica, let me provide a little context. when she says this is unprecedented, it really is. i've covered multiple surges over the years, and what's different is that this time a lot of the migrants that are arriving don't have money and don't have family, don't have sponsors in the united states. so that's why they're stuck in communities like here in el paso. normally in the past, the migrant had a connection to somebody in the united states so you'd call your aunt, call your mom and they would pick you up and you would have a home, you would have a place to stay. that's the difference this time. a lot of these migrants, they don't have connections with other people in the united states. >> some really good context there. rosa flores in el paso, texas.

overnight the u.s. vowing more support for taiwan amid continuing threats from china. the biden administration approving a $180 million arms stale that could include antitank systems. cnn's pentagon current oren liebermann is joining us with more. can you break this down how this is different from what the u.s. pljed previously? >> broadly speaking, the intent is the same. first, the capability. this is a volcano system capable of dispersing antitank mines over a given area. even if this system isn't something we haven't seen the u.s. give high want or the taipei offices, diplomatic office over the course of the past year, the intent is the same, meant to show u.s. support for taiwan and show china the cost of a military incursion of taiwan if that's a decision china would make. u.s. security officials have

warned that china is preparing for the possibility of a military takeover of the island. this is intended to make a more difficult proposition for china. it's one in a series of steps, a series of packages we've seen u.s. give taiwan over the course of the past year. others include anti-ship missiles, anti-tank missiles and for spare parts for ships. -- a billion dollars in potential arms for taiwan as well as a stockpile of weapons there and a modernization of taiwan's military. jessica. >> oren liebermann at the pentagon, thanks for that update. still ahead this morning, an incredible story of a determined mother who took matters into her own hands when she was told there was a shortage of the cancer drug her 9-year-old daughter needed. >> she knew she needed to take all of her medicine. what happens now? does this mean i die?

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new data this morning on the unemployment picture in the u.s. the weekly jobless claims that came from before christmas ticked up slightly. claims jumped up to 225,000 and that is in line with what economist forecasted. so far the numbers continue to hover at pre-pandemic levels from 2019.

2022 a bleak year for wall street. marked by recession fears and interest rate hikes and sky high inflation. let's bring in mag eagan now. walk us through how bad this was for the stock market this year. >> there is no way to sugar coat this, this year. the s&p 500, it is lost more than a fifth of the value. the nasdaq has lost more than a third and the dow down 10%. u.s. markets are up this morning. but they're all still on track for easily their worst year since 2008. now, we should remind people that the stock market is not the economy. and it's you just mentioned, especially the jobs market which remains historically strong. but the losses on wall street, they're still painful to all of us because we've just lost some money in our 401(k) accounts, our college savings accounts, all have gotten smaller. the market is in a weird place

where both bad news and good news are being treated as bad news by investors. right. bad news because it raises the risk of a recession but good news because it raises the risk that the federal reserve has to continue raising interest rates next year. jessica, thankfully this year is almost over and next week we start with a clean slate. >> what were some of the best performing stocks this year. >> all of them were oil and gas, occidental and hess and marathon, because oil and gas companies have been minting money amid high energy prices. and the other side if you look at the worst stocks, we've seen sharp losses for the owner of tinder and match.com, that is match group. and meta which owns facebook and paypal, all of them down sharply. and then there is tesla. so it is lost more than 60% of

the value this year on track for the worst year ever. this is because of concerns about demand for tesla vehicles and concern about elon musk being distracted by his ownership of twitter. and elon, he addressed this issue in a memo to employees yesterday. obtained by cnbc and reuters, don't be bothered by stock market craziness. long-term i believe that tesla will be the most valuable company on earth. another bold claim there from elon. now his company, tesla, has lost almost $800 billion in market value so far this year. just a staggering amount of money. and tesla is not alone. more than $800 billion wiped out from alphabet, which owns google and $900 billion for amazon and for apple, just enormous losses. clearly markets are pricing in a

risk of a potential recession for next year. and again, they're worried about an aggressive federal reserve. but but, jessica, if the market is too pessimistic and the economy could avoid the recession and pause the rate hikes, maybe markets could bounce back next year. >> we'll see what 2023 holds for us all. thank you so much. still ahead, cnn is live in ukraine after one of the most tense missile attacks since the invasion began. stay with us. ♪

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top of the hour here in washington. good morning, everyone. i'm jessica dean. jim sciutto is off today. we're following several major story this is morning. overnight ukraine rocked by an onslaught of russian missiles, explosions rattling cities across the country. ukraine calling it one of the largest missile barrages since the war began. power is out in the capital kyiv. at least tree people were injured there and we'll take you there live in just a moment. plus the u.s. is reinstated covid tests for travelers coming from china as beijing sees a surge in cases. the e.u. considering doing the same thing. and southwest airlines canceling thousands of flights agai