airport. after years of sacrifice during zero covid, finally they're reunited. so erin, china's reopening has come with this relief but also chaos. beijing has stopped reporting nationwide data on covid infections but some provinces are sharing their numbers. around 89% of its residents have been infected with covid as laugh last friday. this is china's most populous province. we're talking a population more than 98 million people. local officials there did not disclose the death toll. it's a sensitive topic here because a high death toll, it would directly challenge the long-standing narrative that china's covid approach is superior to the west's erin? >> all right, salina, thank you very much live from beijing tonight. thanks so much to all of you. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news on two fronts. president biden's first public statement on the classified

documents uncovered at his office and the brutal storms in california. flooding, massive rainfall and flooding, tens of thousands under evacuation orders right now. and according to governor gavin newsom 17 confirmed dead right at this hour. cnn's nick watt joins us with the latest along the los angeles river which in normal times is a river in name only. what's the latest, nick? >> reporter: you're right, anderson. this is normally just a trickle. in fact, there's usually a homeless encampment in what is the l.a. river. those people about to flee to higher ground. you know, californians just aren't used to this amount of water. and in many cases the state's just not equipped to deal with it. further north up in santa barbara the floodwater just overwhelmed the sewer system, and that ended up with sewage on the streets in santa barbara. and also, you know, drivers just trying to drive where they shouldn't be driving because frankly they just don't know any better. so wave seen quite a few

rescues, people being plucked out of their car. while we're talking about drivers, just the incredible ba luck today on the road. a eucalyptus tree fell and hit a truck and then a motorcyclist also hit the tree and also died, anderson. >> it's been intense and back-to-back adding to the mess. >> reporter: intense and record breaking. some places, anderson, have seen 16 inches of rain, maybe a little more in just 48 hours. places set records, all-time highs for rainfall in a single day. another river a bit further north it usually runs maybe about 5 feet. it's expected to crest tomorrow at more than 27 feet. and as you said it's not over. we're in a bit of a lull right now of calm, but there is a lot more storm to come. the national weather service actually put it rather poetically. they said that the next in the

seemingly endless parade of storms is going to roll in from the pacific within the next day or so. that's going to hit mainly central and northern california with so much more rain. now, the lieutenant governor here says this is all an example of climate change, extreme weather. but, you know, here's the kicker, really the kick in the teeth. much of california has been suffering from severe drought. but all this water is not going to revert that. when you get tons of water in a short space of time, that doesn't change the big picture. that doesn't change the fact california is in drought. although, looking at this feels like a very strange thing to say. >> sure does. nick, appreciate it. we'll return to california a bit later in the broadcast are. for more on this we're going to want to turn to breaking news. president biden's statement on the ten classified documents discovered in a private office of his, and what we're now learning about those documents. attorney general garland has

already assigned an attorney to handle the matter and already submitted a preliminary report. tonight we're discovering just what these documents covered. before hearing from the president let's go to cnn special correspondent jamie ganggel who has this new reporting. what do we know? >> anderson, these documents -- first of all, just for context in this office almost everything was personal papers including funeral arrangements for his son beau biden, letters of condolence. and his personal lawyer was the one packing up the papers because they really believed everything in the office was confidential and personal. the lawyer finds a manila folder marked vp personal, but when he opens it he sees a paper marked classified. he immediately closes it, and they call the archives. they've given them full cooperation. i just want to say the vp personal label, that may explain why it was packed up.

it may indicate it was an honest mistake. so nevertheless there are these ten classified documents found. they're dated from 2013 to 2016. and cnn has learned the documents include intelligence memos, briefing memos, national security briefing materials that touch on countries like iran, ukraine, and the united kingdom, anderson. >> just to be clear on the personal -- on the file we don't know why there would be a classified document in a file that was marked personal. >> no, we have no idea. it's just we don't know who packed them up or how this happened. >> and i understand you have some new details about what else was handed over to the national archives in addition to these documents. >> so after a couple of days they handed over these first boxes that they found immediately to the archives. and i'm told that within a couple of days they just decided the biden team, the archives, they were going to hand

everything over to the archives out of an abundance of caution. so 50, 55 boxes are now at the national archives including all those personal documents. it's just another example of how the biden team did the opposite of what the trump team did. >> the documents were discovered november 2nd, six days before the mid-term elections. do we know why this wasn't made public for more than two months? >> we don't. we don't know whether it's because of the investigation. we don't know whether it's political. there's no question that people are going to ask about the timing, and certainly republicans and donald trump are going to try to make political hay out of it. >> i understand the house oversight committee chairman is already looking into this. >> welcome to the new congress. i just looked at the memo and it said that the oversight committee is investigating whether there is political bias at the national archives. i'm going to take a point of

privilege here. i have covered the archives for a long time. they are the least partisan people in this town. they are historians. they are librarians. they famously describe themselves as introverts who even when they've been working together for 30 years, when they pass each other in the hall they look the other way. this is not a political group of people, anderson. >> jamie gangel, i appreciate it. as we mentioned the president spoke for the first time about this before returning home tonight from the summit in mexico. what he said and what was unsaid. what can you tell us? >> reporter: white house officials have been very clear. they put out an on the record statement and there would be little if anything else they would say as this justice department review continues to play out. but the president gave his version of the event, events that track very closely with his white house counsel's team and also his response when he discovered these documents

existed. take a listen. >> people know i take classified documents or classified information seriously. when my lawyers were clearing out my office that the university of pennsylvania they setup an office for me, secure office in the capital the four years after being vice president i was a professor at penn. they found some documents in a box, you know, locked cabinet or at least a closet. and as soon as they did they realized there were several classified documents in that box. and they did what they should have done. they immediately called the archives. they immediately called the archives, turned them over to the archives. and i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office. but i don't know what's in the documents. my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. i've turned over the boxes, they've turned over the boxes to the archives, and we're

cooperating fully -- cooperating fully with the review in which i hope will be finished soon, and there'll be more detail at that time. >> reporter: you know, anderson, i think jamie's reporting really kind of underscores the scale of the cooperation up to this point. which while they are not willing to talk in detail about the process or perhaps how those documents actually got there to the extent they know at this moment in time the cooperation is critical, so the president's willingness to stand up there and address what he felt he was able to. it is a stark contrast to his predecessor and certainly something i think has been implicit in everything you've seen publicly from the white house over the course of the last 24 hours. >> so we know when the documents were found. do we know when president biden was initially briefed about them? >> reporter: anderson, i'm told almost immediately thereafter. it was a quick process and as you can imagine a hairy process. by the next morning the archives had picked up those documents

and taken them over. and within that period the president was briefed on what happened. but a key point there from the president which we've reported before and said it publicly, which he still does not know what these documents actually contained, what they entailed and also alluded to fact that's where his lawyers wanted it to be. again another element of this that will likely come out not necessarily the classified version of things but will come out in more detail once this inquiry is done. the president saying it could be soon, and that's when white house officials plan to give more information about the entirety of the process. >> perspective now from attorney general john wu. senior political commentator david urban, also cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie honing. you heard what the president had to say about being surprised by these documents. what do you make of the statement? >> those comments go right to

the most important legal issue in this case. did joe biden know those documents were there? if the answer is no, legally it's game over. there's no possible way you can have a criminal charge if the person did not know the documents were there. now, doj has to test this. and the way you do it i think investigatively is you have to reconstruct how those documents got there, who gave the order or instruction to take these documents from the vice president's offices over to joe biden's private offices in 2017, who actually moved the documents, who had access. but if you can reconstruct that satisfactorily and satisfy yourself as prosecutor that there was no knowledge, then that's it. joe biden is not going to have legal jeopardy. >> john, what do you make of what the president said and how the white house and doj are handling it? >> we don't know yet what the documents are. i'd be in favor of declassifying and seeing them. and with the trump case, too, we don't know enough about did the president ever see them, how did he handle them, how did they get

there. but i think what's really portment here for the rule of law, and this is making it complicated not just the special counsels here but attorney general garland and ultimately president biden all cases under our system of law have to be treated alike. and so what we need to see is that are prosecutors able to explain any differences? if they're going to go ahead, for example, prosecuting president trump versus not prosecuting president biden. because if you can't articulate a real difference in those two cases other than i think just cooperation, which so far is the major difference. if you don't see violations in the law, the intent of the people who the prosecution claimed violated the law, then you're going to undermine the faith of americans that we live under a rule of law and that prosecutors, judges, and juries are treating same cases in the same way. >> david, i'd like to play this comment from former vice president pence tonight on cbs and get your reaction.

>> when the american people see president biden receiving one form of treatment with the discovery of classified documents that were retained after he left the office of the vice president and they see president trump treated in an entirely different way, again, the handling of classified materials is a very serious issue for our nation. and we ought to take it seriously, but there ought to be equal treatment under the law. >> do you think this is how most republicans are going to approach this issue? >> listen, anderson, i was on this network on your show condemning how former president trump handled classified, said, you know, you shouldn't have tccei or ssp documents lying around in an unsecured fashion. they need boo be secured in a facility and similarly the vice president is wrong here. wrong is wrong. if you have classified

documents, and, you know, shocking gambling in casa blaunga, i don't know how they got there. well, you either told someone to take them there, you took them there yourself, or to your point earlier how can you prove knowledge here? what are you going to ask the vice president did you take it? you're going to go back -- why does joe biden get a pass and a presumption of innocence here and donald trump didn't get that presumption. i don't see them in raid jackets rummaging through his basement looking for more documents. i think that's what republicans see, and they do. this is big test for doj how they're going to handle this. and like cases should be treated in a like manner and we'll see what happens. >> elie, you're obviously reacting. >> the way you prove knowledge is the same way that as a prosecutor you prove knowledge in any case ever. perhaps you go to the person and ask them. you ask people around them. you look at documents. you talk to other witnesses. there's no mystery to this.

it's not just, well, throw your hands up and we give joe biden the benefit of the doubt. i'm saying there needs to be a thorough investigation. this is what prosecutors did every day. it's what i did every day for 14 years as a prosecutor. i think the response is bit glib. no one is saying joe biden didn't know so that's that. i'm saying there needs to be an examination of that. >> i wasn't being glib. i was just saying back when, you know, there's a raid on mar-a-lago -- i don't want to say raid but, you know, the fbi goes to mar-a-lago, i didn't hear a lot of people saying let's go through this, you know, long process and ask trump and let's see -- i mean there was a quick condemnation of the former president, much quicker and vo vociferous. >> wasn't that at the end of a rather long process of communications between the national archives and the former president and his lawyers? >> and to john's point there's a different level of cooperation here. i don't know -- i didn't see what the affidavits that were

signed by the former president's lawyers said or didn't say in terms of classified what they have and didn't have, but there seems to be a much less, you know, onerous kind of condemnation going on here with this president than the with the former president. and i hope people see that across america. >> and john, for you i mean the -- what we know about the back and forth between the national archives and the former president and the former president's attorneys some claims that were made by the former president's attorneys that were according to reportings turned out not to be the case, does that not matter in -- i mean do you not see that as just on the face of it from at this point with what we know of the level of cooperation from the biden administration or the alleged level of cooperation, does that not matter? >> anderson, it's a good point. at this point in the investigation based on the limited knowledge we have, we do see president biden's lawyers cooperating much more fully whereas it looks like president

trump was trying to hide the documents and not cooperating the justice department. although he claim that the fbi has been out to get him and i can see why he wouldn't trust the fbi, you know, after four years of his presidency. let's also not forget hillary clinton had the exact same problem with her severer taking classified information, putting them on an unsecured private computer network. she ultimately wasn't tried. my point is regardless of the cooperation or not i think prosecutors -- and again, this is not about -- this is not some glib response to people who know what they're doing at the trial level. this is a decision for main justice. this is not a decision for line level prosecutors. this is decision for the attorney general. ultimately the precedent -- are we really going to go after president trump for something like this, classified information mishandling given cases like this. i think if you're going to go after president trump on criminal law go after him on january 6th. go after something where the united states was really harmed, all of us were harm not here in

these three cases where i don't think the american people were harmed by this mishandling of classified information in any of these cases. coming up next a cnn exclusive with the uvalde, texas, police chief who was fired for failing to stop the gun00 the to say on video to investigators the morning after the botched police response, video never seen publicly until tonight. and we'll show it to you only here. later a hacksaw turned up in the search for a missing mother in massachusetts along with other evidence. more on what investigators are finding out as the husband remains in custody.

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cnn has obtained new video of an interview that the former police chief of the uvalde school district, pete arredondo, gave to investigators. it was recorded well before artaundo was fired for his actions that day after he and others came under intense criticism for the failure of the police response. specifically while they failed today follow the guidelines for an active shooter situation. he was cooperative in the video far more than he was when shimon prokupecz approach him a week later. some also appears to contradict evidence that's since come to light including never before seen body camera footage obtained by cnn. we're going to she you excerpts of this video in a moment. cnn is also publishing the full 57-minute interview with former

chief arredondo alongside a digital story on our website. you can check it out. also shimon prokupecz who's been tirelessly breaking news on this story will join us in a moment for more on what we're about to see. and we want to warn you watching this report is troubling so if you have children in the room you might consider having them leave. here's shimon's report. >> i know there's probably victims in there and with the shots i heard i know probably civilians were going to be deceased. >> reporter: pattern arredondo heard for the first time the day after the may 24th shooting attempting to explain his actions. in new video obtained by cnn arredondo telling investigators he assumed students in the room with the shooter were already dead, so he chose to clear children from surrounding classrooms. we now know he was wrong. at least three victims were pulled out of the room alive who later died from their injuriesmism. >> my first thought is that we

need to vacate. we have it contained and we have it contained there'll be some deceased but we don't need anymore out here. so i called in and get the kids out. >> reporter: stunning admissions while being questioned by the fbi and texas rangers. >> trying to get communication with him. >> can you hear me, sir? >> reporter: arredondo explains he kept trying to talk to the shooter, and for the first time we learned that he heard the gunman alone in a room full of children reloading his weapon, and still he took no action that stopped the gunman. >> i'm certain i heard him reload. i heard something over a pin, we all know what that sounds like -- sorry, with a clip. i'm assuming he reloaded. i know he did that one time.

i don't know if there was a second. he never responded at all. >> reporter: now considered one of the worst law enforcement failures in recent memory arredondo knew that criticism would come. >> we're going to get scrutinized. i'm expecting that. >> reporter: days later arredondo would be labeled incident commander by the texas state police. they say he was the officer in charge and the man to blame for the deadly delay. >> who was the incident commander, sir. >> the chief of police. it's his school. he's the chief of police, okay? >> reporter: ordawnedo who presided over a six-person police force before he was terminated in august declined to comment for this story. through his lawyer he's previously denied he was ever in charge and said he never issued any orders. a cnn analysis of never before made public body camera footage and newly obtained phone calls reveal arredondo repeatedly directed the officers around him

not to enter the room with the gunman. this is at 11:40 a.m., just 7 minutes after the shooting began. >> it's an emergency right now. i'm inside the building. i'm inside the building with this man. he has an ar-15. he shot a bunch of times. he's in one room and has a lot of firepower so i need this building surrounded and surrounded with as many ar 15s as possible. >> reporter: as more officers and body cameras responded to the scene we can hear arredondo start to talk with the shooter. >> sir, can you please put your firearm down? we don't want anyone else hurt, sir. >> reporter: arredondo can be seen trying to open the door to an adjacent classroom while giving commands to other officers.

time was not on his side, and it reflects the mind-set that goes directly against active shooter training. the policy emphasizes speed for any officer to go immediately towards the sound of gunfire and stop the shooter. arredondo last completed the training in december 2021, five months before the uvalde massacre. at about 12:12 p.m. a crucial transmission from the uvalde dispatcher comes over the radios in the hallway informing the officers that a child in the room with the gunman called 911 and said she's surrounded by victims. the dispatch blares within earshot of arredondo. he doesn't seem to hear it because he's talking, repeating instructions for officers not to enter. >> guys, hold on. we're going to clear the building first but we're going

to empty these classrooms first. >> all these are empty. >> he's verifying right now. >> reporter: officers actually turned down their radios so they can hear arredondo give the order. it seems clear to the men on this side of the hallway arredondo is in charge. and when a nearby officer suggests that a border patrol agent looks like they are about to go in -- >> tell them to [ bleep ] wait. >> reporter: arredondo said he assumed border patrol agents at the other end of the hallway would be the ones to make the breach since they had rifles and he and his men only had pistols. >> smart thing to do obviously with a handgun we let these guys make entry when it's that time. >> reporter: but it wasn't just handguns. as body camera footage clearly shows there were plenty of heavily armed officers on scene. some in the very first moments

after the shooting began. arredondo for the first time also explaining why he thought the door was locked, admitting he never tried to open it. >> i have it picture in my mind that i saw that, i saw that hammer in there, and usually when that's there, that's locked. 90% of the time. >> reporter: we now know investigators believe it was unlocked and there was no need to wait for a key. at the end of the interview arredondo says rather than breaching the door he even considered trying to shoot through the walls to kill the gunman. >> the thought crossed my mine to start shooting through that wall, which would have been stupid, but you start thinking there's already somebody deceased in there, you want to start. but, you know, obviously we don't ever train to shoot through walls. it's not something, not probably the smartest idea but, you know, you always question yourself.

>> cnn's justice correspondent shimon prokupecz joins us. you've done reporting on other officers and their mistakes that day. we should be clear arredondo was not only person perceived tee bine charge. >> there was a lieutenant from the texas rangers who's now in the process of being fired. there was the sheriff who should have been running this operation as well, and there were other senior level people who were on scene that should have known things, that should have taken charge. one of the things that has been so striking to me in watching all these videos now and watching what arredondo was saying is no one went into that hallway, none of the police leaders there on that scene went there to find out and talk to him on what was going on. he's standing in that hallway for quite a long time. one of them goes in there to find out what's going on, he's the closest person in a leadership role to the gunman at that point. and he himself arredondo is making all kinds of assumptions, wrong, incorrect, bad, his

instincts are wrong. but no one is out there, no one goes from outside to inside to talk to him. >> it's been eight months sibs the shooting. what is the status of the law enforcement response, the investigation. are families closer to an official answer? >> no. it's hard to believe it's been only eight months but we're still learning this today. the fact he perceived he was reloading, that is an important piece of information because that would indicate to officers, wait, this guy's red eto keep shooting, there are kids in there, we've got to get in there. he never shares that with anyone. for the first time we only learn of this from this video. and for the families this is going to be the first time they're learning this. >> or if he's reloading that's the opportunity to go in. >> when he talked about the reloading you have that opportunity now, you know he's moving around and they should have gone in. >> appreciate it as always. a hacksaw turns up in the search for a missing massachusetts mom of three along with new bloody

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a hacksaw, torn up cloth, and what appears to be bloodstains all were discovered last night when investigators combed through trash in the search for ana walsh, the massachusetts mother last seen on new year's day. prosecutors say the blood and bloody knife were recovered from the basement of the walsh home along with a trail of other evidence. >> reporter: tonight investigators processing potential evidence collected after hours of searching through garbage late into the night at this trash transfer station south of boston. law enforcement sources told cnn materials found included a hacksaw, torn up cloth material and what appears to be bloodstains. the district attorney not commenting on the specifics of what was found only to say the search resulted in a number of items which will now be subject to processing and testing to determine if they are of

evdrchary value. sources also tell cnn investigators also found disturbing searches on brian walsh's internet records as they looked into the disappearance of his wife which included how to dispose of a 115 pound woman's body and how to dismember a body. walsh is being held on a charge of misleading investigators. he pleaded not guilty. prosecutors described chilly detail during his arraignment of what they say investigators found at the family home in cohacit. >> blood was found in the basement area. >> the attorney not commenting on the case. her office telling cnn she wants to focus on walsh's defense. during his arraignment she said her client is cooperating with investigators. >> mr. walsh has given several interviews. we have consented to searches of his home. we have consented to searches of his property.

>> reporter: bryan walsh told police he lost saw his wife new year's day. and a friend of the couple said the last time he saw them nothing seemed out of the ordinary. >> we celebrated and toasted and what you do over new year's. >> reporter: the 29-year-old mother of three wasn't reported missing until january 4th. investigators discovered her husband made purchases at a home depot on january 2nd. >> he's on surveillance at that time purchasing about $450 worth of cleaning supplies that would include mops, bucket, tops, drop cloths. >> reporter: ana walsh's friends say they now fear the worst. >> she would not by her own choice go a day without speaking to her own husband and children. that's very out of character. >> jason carol joins us now from massachusetts. what is the latest on the search inside their house?

>> reporter: anderson, as you know for the past several days they've been searching inside the house, outside the house. late this afternoon the district attorney released a statement basically saying that the search at the house has been completed and now they're in the process of processing everything they found there at the house. but once again much of the investigation now focused on those items that were found in the trash, those three items plus whatever else they may have found there and what they can do in terms of trying to make a match, some sort of a dna match and see where it leads them. >> jason carroll, appreciate it. we turn now to criminal defense attorney mark numara for more on the growing investigation. you heard jason's report. does it seem to you this case is moving towardsden additional serious charges. >> the prosecution did exactly what they should have done, arrest him for something but not any type related to the murder because they don't want that

speedy trial clock running. what they do is arrest him for lying to police, keep him in a high bond. and now they know, he's, quote, safe. and they can do their job. i anticipate it taking a while to make sure it's all done properly. >> investigators recovered a bloody knife from the house and found internet searches. generally speaking how difficult would it be to charge this man with murder without his wife's body being found? and by the way those internet searches i mean some of them were incredibly specific like how do you dispose of a 100-something pound woman. >> you almost wonder if he wants to get caught when you do something as insane as that. but i'll tell you you don't need a body anymore. it's great when you have it, it's great when you have a video of the event, but the forensic evidence has gotten so much better in the past 15, 20 years. not only internet searches but dna. even without the body they're going to have enough evidence seemingly as they put it all together to focus on nobody else

but him and the missing body and the blood and maybe a knife, a hacksaw that may have blood on it, i think it may be enough for a jury. >> as a defense attorney what would be your course of action for if this was your client? >> well, you know there's always two silos. the first is can the state prove the case? you go into the suppression issues. did they do this search properly? are there other possibilities, other people out there who may have wanted to cause her harm? >> you always look at the forensic side of it, the evidentiary side of it. as we've talked about a lot you're now looking at a potential defense or mitigation. the searches, the really horribly simplistic way he went about trying to do this, $450 in a home depot. that's almost begging for, you know, to get arrested and convicted so maybe there's something there. >> appreciate it.

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probably about 9 feet up. >> reporter: for rescue teams it's a battle against time as rising flood waters stop californians in their tracks. this person got trapped in santa clarita as he tried to cross the roadway. >> just waited and put a ladder down and grabbed him out of the passenger window. >> reporter: in ventura firefighters also plucked drivers from their cars. officials say at least 14 people were pulled from an island in the ventura river using ladders and rescue helicopters. the river rose 17 feet in just 12 hours, reaching an all-time record, cresting over 25 feet. >> there's a lot of swift water rescues going on currently. a lot of people are getting trapped in the water with their vehicles. please turn around, don't drown. >> reporter: thick mud and debris is also a problem. heavy storms left it behind forcing highway 101 near state route 33 to close. mud put the brakes on this

semi-truck just east of ph philmore. >> the police stopped us and would not let us pass through. >> reporter: another danger in santa cruz, falling trees. a lineman repairing power lines captured this video just as a mud slide toppled this deadly fir tree. this giant boulder fell from a roadside cliff shutting down parts of malibu canyon road. the national weather service in los angeles says more than 15 inches of rain has already fallen across the coastal foothills in santa barbara, and ventura. in santa barbara county more than 500 homes were impacted by a sudden sinkhole. all this fire hydrant burst in santa barbara, forcing even more water into the street. whole neighborhoods and towns

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>> reporter: this commander is finalizing the co-ordinates for a strike on a russian occupied town. before the war, max was an english teacher. his 43rd artillery brigade has seen action in the battles of kyiv, kharkiv and now donbas. their target today, a building from where, he says, attack drones are launched against ukrainian forces. this system is known as a pion. it's a soviet artillery system, 233 millimeters. rounds weigh 100 kilos, 220 pounds. this is a system used both by the russians and the ukrainians. the cold here chills to the bone, making this work all the more difficult. to protect against russian

drones, they have deployed a special weapon that depletes drone batteries. first, the round goes into the barrel. the trigger cord is pulled. sending the massive round hurtling toward its target 18 kilometers around 11 miles away. it fires again. and again. a forward spotter radios max that the target has been hit. he tells his men to use shrapnel rounds to finish the job. >> we damaged it. we destroyed the building where they hide. i suppose they will not make problems for us in future. >> reporter: a small victory in a big war.

>> ben wedeman joins us from ukraine. there's a battle going on in the east. what are you hearing? >> reporter: the situation is grave to say the least. exactly what's happening is difficult to say. russian sources are saying that they now control that town, which is relatively small, just about 10,000 people. the ukrainians say it's still under control. cnn was able to get in touch with a soldier there who described intense fighting, raging in the city. he said that the situation is critical. he said that buildings are changing hands from one day to the next, that there's -- the situation is such that they can't even count the dead at this point. now, this is a city -- a town, a

very small town where the russians have really thrown a lot of resources in trying to take it. it's the wagner group, that private military contractor that seems to be leading the fight. of course, they have recruited prisoners and others. it does seem that they are willing to throw them willy-nilly towards ukrainian lines, regardless of casualties, to try to allow the russians to claim. after so many defeats around the area. back to domestic politics. kevin mccarthy now house speaker. what do we know about the side deals he made with republican opponents that got him the speaker's gavel? we will examine what he may owe and to whom next.

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