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"outfront" next, russian bride offers $3500 to anyone who will put their life on the line as a new report shows putin to be launching an all out air assault. russian forces are gathering this evening. "outfront" investigation. tracking down chinese factory that make spy balloons belonging to chinese entities that tout their military capabilities. one executive even pointing to it flying over the united states on a map. wait till you see it. congresswoman angie craig speaks out. a stranger followed her into the elevator, punched her, tried to get in her apartment, she fought back. she's my guest. let's go outfront. i'm erin burnett. $3500 for your life. that's what city aligned with russia is now offering men who sign up to fight putin's war.

this is it. this is the decree. it is a decree signed by the leaders of a city aligned with russia right over the border in kazakhstan. it establishes a lump sum payment to mobilize citizens as well as person who voluntarily express their desire to take part in the special military operation and who signed a contract for military service residing in biaikonur city. you have the price of a life. it is 260,000 rubles. that's about $3500. it seems it may be more of a choice there. $3500 to die than it is in many other places in russia. a may suggests the city shut down the unemployment center and send anybody who needs work to war. the unemployed must enlist to

the army. if you have nothing to do defend your homeland and be paid for it. the mayor insists it will solve the unemployment problem. incredible to hear this, right? $3500 for your life. but, of course, from the numbers we know there is a chance that anybody who takes these deals do not come home alive and sometimes share intercepted phone calls. we have one ukraine intercepted which is of a russian fighter slamming his superiors for living larger than the enlisted men drinking water out of puddles on the ground and complained his request to come home was denied. here it is. >> translator: there are centaurs who live in three-story cottages in the town for [ bleep ] sake while you are here lying in a trench, you sleep in the dirt, eat in the dirt, you drink from puddles. while they walk around. >> are you going to try to get discharged? >> translator: well, around new

year's everyone lost their mind. because they had rejected all of our requests to go home. >> requested all our requests to go home and there they are stuck in trenches. some battalions are losing about half their men. you don't have to guess at the morale because we can actually see what's happening, right? we have new video in to show you tonight and to "outfront." what you're looking at are russian fighters sitting ducks staying cover in a trench then taken out by a ukrainian drone. gone. those are some of the lives extinguished. those images are leading the chairman of the joint chiefs in the u.s. general mark milley to say this. >> russia has lost strategically, operationally and tactically and then paying an enormous price on the battlefield. >> enormous price. there's another new video i want to share tonight. it's also new for us to

"outfront." a russian fighter jet. most likely hit by a manpad one of their portable air defense systems totally damaged beyond repair. they want us to see this but i can tell you i've seen it and anyone there has seen it. the countryside is littered with them yet putin is uppity the ante. according to intelligence shared with nato allies russia could be on the verge of launching a massive new air assault. we're starting to see more and more russian assets on at least two bases along the ukrainian border on the belarusian side. belarus is the same country he used for his assault on kyiv. fred pleitgen is there and david mckenzie in kyiv. let me begin with you, fred. talking about these assets, you know, accumulating on the belarusian side. this reporting about putin wanting to launch an all-out military air assault. what are you seeing there? >> hi there, i think that's an

important point you make and certainly also very important observation as well. one of the things ukrainians have been saying for a very long time, they fear as the russians might be preparing for that very large offensive belarus could play a large role and that first thrust the russians had when the war began also came from belarus. there were a massive amount of russian forts that went into belarus and the russians still have thousands of soldiers on the ground here in belarus and train them here to actually go into ukraine to fight there through the donbas, but, however, the ukrainians believe that right now there's not enough russian ground forces on the ground here in belarus but the air element, that really is the major important thing for them right now. this were just massive air exercises with the russian and the belarusian militaries that concluded a couple of days ago. alexander lukashenko said it was defensive in nature and doesn't mean anything but we know that he is dependent on vladimir

putin and lukashenko has said belarus' security would not be possible without russia. there's many believe that vladimir putin is trying to draw belarus more into his orbit and possibly trying to draw it into this war as well. one of the things we're looking at, erin, in a couple of days lukashenko and putin are set to meet once again and see what happens there. but certainly what the ukrainians are seeing they've seen an uptick in russian air movements on the belarusian side and russians are using belarus as well to hit ukraine with some missiles obviously having devastating effect on ukrainian cities. >> fred pleitgen, thank you very much. live in belarus tonight. of course, on the front lines in ukraine the brutal fight continues and david mckenzie has this report from kyiv. >> reporter: thousands of miles from the front lines, a cemetery in russia's far east. for young men cut down in relentless waves of attack. off camera a woman sobs and

says, our boys. [ speaking non-english ] soldiers of the 155th marine brigade, their unit has taken catastrophic losses. for weeks the coal mining town, the epicenter of russia's efforts to break through ukrainian lines. but the assault here has been a disaster. at least 30 russian tanks destroyed by ukrainian mines and artillery, a scrambled chaotic retreat. across the front ther their lines aren't moving. [ speaking non-english ] but this soldier says they are now ten attacks a day. there used to be just a couple. to the north, the russians are inching forward around bakhmut and every exit from the city is extremely dangerous. the battles here at close quarters and unrelenting trench warfare on the edge of the city.

it's so hard, the enemy is pushing from different directions, says this ukrainian soldier. all the efforts our men are making are priceless. fighters of the wagner commerceary group paraded their flag at a village on the outskirts of bakhmut but they are being forced to fight for every single house and wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin admits bakhmut will not be taken tomorrow because there is heavy resistance and grinding. for the meat grinder to start working it is possible to start festivities as wagner units continue to endure heavy losses on the efforts around bakhmut where they are vulnerable to ukrainian artillery and drones. ukrainian officials expect another russian thrust further north in the forest near kreminna. there's been fierce fighting for weeks and an advance would allow

them to capture all of the region, a key objective of vladimir putin's war. but the ukrainians are putting up stiff resistance and their allies expect that in the spring they may be able to launch attacks of their own, if they are supplied the weapons and ammunition they need. >> we believe that there will be a window of opportunity for them to exercise initiative and then change or continue to create the right conditions on the battlefield there. >> reporter: before that along this vast front, the ukrainians must hold off what they expect to be an imminent russian onslaught. >> president zelenskyy tonight, erin, saying that the situation on the eastern front is, quote, extremely difficult. he said their fighters are fighting over inches, over meters as he put it but this is an opportunity, he said, to destroy the russian assets

there. there has been a call for more ammunition, more weapons, the basic things soldiers need to push forward and to stave off a russian assault. nato is promising it but zelenskyy tonight said that speed saves lives. erin. >> all right, thank you very much, david mckenzie live in kyiv tonight. i want to go to lindsay addario photojournalist that returned from a trip to the front lines in ukraine. and, lindsay, i know on this trip you spent time near bakhmut where the wagner troops have been leading the fight for russia and fighting is incredibly fierce, close quarters fighting that david was just talking about. what did you learn? >> reporter: well, i was working for about three weeks in donbas, very close to bakhmut and as well near kreminna where there are intensive battles going on continuously working with michael for "the new york times" and what we were seeing was sort of an endless trail of fighters

going to and from the front line, a lot of wounded soldiers coming in, people talks about how russia is accepting an endless supply of soldiers to the front and sort of dispensable soldiers. they clearly don't mind if they get killed in battle and wave after wave. some in ambushes and some just sort of constantlying itting them and so definitely there's been an uptick in fighting. their goal, obviously, is to exhaust the ukrainian forces so that when they come in, you know, wave after wave, eventually they send in their most professional fighters at a point where the ukrainian soldiers are exhausted already and running low on ammunition. >> and, you know, you're seeing that happening in realtime here. i know you also, lynsey, did reporting on the free russia

legion made up of russians fighting for ukraine. and i know you and your team were doing that reporting. you took a photo of the unit fighting on the front lines that i wanted to share. this is your picture of them. again, the russians fighting for ukraine. why are they doing that? >> reporter: they're doing that, first and foremost, because morally they believe this is wrong. they believe russia should not have invaded ukraine and feel that it's their way to standing up to what they feel is an unjust war so it's really a moral sort of stand then there are, of course, russians who lived in ukraine for a long time and they feel like they want to fight on behalf of the ukrainians. and then there's just, of course, people who detest putin and want to sort of tree their country from his leadership so there are various reasons. we spoke to michael schwartz was the reporter and it was the story was led by him. but we met sort of both on the

front line, a trip to the front line was very quick because it was extremely dangerous. as you can imagine, the russian legion are -- the soldiers that the russians would like to target because they're their own countrymen fighting for the enemy so we were a mile from russian positions and so we did a trip there and we did a training. >> wow and i want to show another photo. this is a man named zaza. what stood out about him? you're about a mile away from the russians and, you know, for whom these guys, this free russian legion unit would be target number one. >> reporter: so, zaza looked like a baby. he was incredibly young. we mitt him at a training so that was in the kyiv region. that was not at the front line. he was preparing to go to the front line. they had been training for several months, and very well trained, very professional and

zaza talked about how he just didn't believe in his country fighting this war and he made a decision finally to just walk across the border into ukraine and offer himself up to fight for the ukrainian military. there's a system whereby, of course, all of these russian soldiers have background checks and have to be vetted before they can fight for the russian legion. >> it is incredible and incredible to imagine what it would take at such a young point in your life to walk across that border. >> incredible. >> lynsey, thank you so much. fantastic to speak to you and see your incredible work. thank you. >> thanks. next new video just in to cnn showing the terror inside one michigan state university classroom as a gunman roamed the campus killing three. are authorities uncovering the motive why. trying to track down entities making spy balloons. wait till you see what she found

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shooting and response unfold unable to believe what she was seeing. >> every time we heard a loud noise we'd freak out. we need change now. how many times do we have to sit and watch my students die, our friends die like please like i just -- something needs to change. ♪ >> reporter: students, staff and residents now coming together to pray and cope with how this could happen here. the shooter's father tells cnn his son grew bitter reclusive and angry after the death of his mother two years ago. the shooter was charged with carrying a concealed weapon in 2019. he pled guilty to a misdemeanor. his probation ended in may of 2021. mcrae and at the rock, a sort of community message board on campus a question with no easy answer.

how many more? now, in addition to the rock this is another makeshift memorial that popped up on campus, the statue of the spartans here in the middle of the campus. look, on the -- in the backpack of the shooter they found a two-page note. in it he indicated he wanted to finish off east lansing, whatever that means and also seemed to make threats towards schools in new jersey where he grew up. it is also not clear tonight whether the two guns they found on him were legally purchased in 2021. erin. >> all right, miguel, thank you very much. from msu tonight. an "outfront" investigation. ursula went to the factories to check on spy balloons. >> according to state media they have a moon factory on the outskirts of beijing. we should be getting close now. and minnesota congressman

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in tonight's "outfront" investigation, inside china's spy balloon making operations. six chinese entities that make the balloons are now blacklisted by the u.s. one openly boasting about its killer capabilities. another company's founder even on camera showing, you know, his wares pointing to a balloon flying over the united states. there's video of state media opening saying they're used for

military purposes. our selina wang is outfront. >> reporter: they're hoisting the balloon up for a big moment. it's the maiden flight for china's first high-tech giant balloon. state tv says it's for both military and civilian use. if we can master this technology, the narrator says in this 2015 state media documentary it might become the killer move in global competition. fast forward to 2023. >> holy crap. >> reporter: now the world's attention is on china's balloons. the u.s. commerce department has blacklisted six entities tied to china's military arerospace and the balloon launched here was made by one of the blacklisted companies. we tried to find the place.

we go joe located a possible address for one of its factories. according to state media they have a balloon factory on the outskirts of beijing so should be getting close now. this appears to be the exact spot from the state tv documentary. you can even see the same view of the mountain ranges behind me but if you look here it looks like there used to be buildings here but now it's just this empty space and there's this metal gate and barrier over this area. we actually spoke to multiple villagers around here and none of them had heard of a balloon factory in specific but when we showed them the state tv documentary they said it was definitely filmed at this area and two of them said that they know several of the factories in recent years have been torn down. we don't know if the balloon that was spotted over the u.s. this time around has anything to do with the six blacklisted companies. but beijing's balloon has flown over the u.s. before according to state media. in this video a co-founder of

the company, they show the trajectory of an unmanned airship flying around the world. he says, look, this is the united states. beijing claims the balloon that intruded u.s. airspace earlier this month was only for civilian research purposes but u.s. intelligence officials claim the balloon is part of a fleet of chinese surveillance balloons. the general manager of the beijing base balloon company told state media in 2015 that the balloons can be used for military purposes, if they carry telecommunication or surveillance equipment on board. scientists found a group, mchlthsat, a balloonmaker on the blacklist. in this 2017 state 450ed ya or the on msat, the anchor touts that these airships can carry a large number of detectors and communication equipment for surveillance reconnaissance for military and civilian use.

cnn has reached out to all six chinese entities for comment but none have responded. >> this balloon program is not just for surveillance but for strike. and the potential for dropping warheads including hypersonic glide vehicles from high altitudes. >> reporter: this week beijing has made accusations of its own saying the u.s. has illegally flown balloons over chinese airspace more than ten times since last may, a claim the white house immediately denied. >> there is no u.s. surveillance aircraft over chinese -- in chinese airspace. >> reporter: the u.s. is on high alert for airborne objects in its airspace putting china's ambitions on the world stage. it's not just china developing this. i spoke to brendan mulvaney and said countries around the world are investing in this.

it's seen a resurgence because it's relatively cheap and can hover for a long time and harder to detect but clear from research china has a growing interest in this and sees it as the next frontier for great power rivalry. >> selina, thank you so much. so much amazing detail and investigations there in her reporting, so let's go to john bolton, former national security adviser under former president trump briefed tomorrow by the biden administration on these chinese surveillance balloons. so, ambassador boelter, you heard selina wang's piece about these six companies at the heart of china's, you know, surveillance balloon ambitions. they've been touting this program on state media as you saw. how concerned are you about what we're seeing from beijing right now? >> well, i'm very concerned across the board, certainly the balloon surveillance issue is in the forefront of the news, but chinese efforts across the board

to gain intelligence, not just about the u.s. government, not just about our military capabilities but of all aspects of american life and their means and methods cover the fullest possible range, and i think chinese aspirations are really global. it may look like they're seeking right now only in quotes only hegemony but i think they have global -- however this turns out in specific is something of a wake-up call for the american people and for our european friends, as well, that china is the major threat we face in this century. >> so the biden administration says three balloons flew over the united states during the trump administration and went undetected until recently and today john kirby who, of course, is the national security council spokesperson was asked directly about comments that you recently made sort of questioning that assessment. here's what he said, ambassador.

>> all we're doing is speaking the truth. the reason we know that is because of the work we've done since we came into office to better understand this program and to try to do the kind of deep analytical work that needed to be done to decipher how these balloons operate. >> does this change your view? he said all we're doing is speaking the truth? >> look, the administration is shattering its credibility. every time it puts another spokesman out to talk about what's happened over the past couple of weeks, i mean, on the specific question, what happened in the trump administration, i count four different stories, first it was detected. then it wasn't detected. but it was assessed incorrectly and i mean it just keeps going back and forth. the critical question here and i'll ask about all this tomorrow. >> i know you'll be briefed by

them. >> i do plan to ask about it. but here's the key point and this is now coming out in the past couple of days. it appears that the first balloon, which is the one we know is from china. we don't know where the other three came from but that that first balloon was detected by norad or somebody from the moment it was launched from hainan island meaning that we knew from the get-go that balloon was from china and yet it was tracked and approached alaska, where what the administration said first was it was detected just north of the aleutian islands yet if this information and all the major newspapers already -- >> about hainan island. >> they knew it was from china. right. they knew it was from china from the beginning. there is no excuse not to have shot that balloon down. >> can i ask just to play devil's add secret here and maybe, maybe there is an excuse. maybe the excuse is they wanted to observe it and see where it

went and how maneuverable it was and what was on board and they were going to jam it. all of that could be an excuse, not an excuse, could be an explanation, couldn't it? >> okay, let me ask you a few questions. could they say with assurance that that payload under the balloon which they described as equivalent to three buses did not contain a nuclear weapon? >> well, i certainly can't answer -- >> could they say with certainty, that's right. and they can't either. look, here's all -- >> that would be an incredible technology to be able to launch a nuke from a balloon, but -- >> you don't have to launch it. you just have to drop it. >> okay. i'm not going to -- i'm obviously not going to be able to answer your specific questions but do you open the door to the fact that they knew more about it than they've told us, takes away the fact they should have told us more but knew more and made an intelligence assessment about what to do? >> all i can -- all i can do now

is repeat what they have said, and the commander of norad said he made an assessment on first detection and that's what they said on january the 28th that the balloon did not demonstrate hostile intent. i would argue it demonstrated hostile intent from the moment we knew it came from china, did we make an effort to call the chinese and say, one of your balloons is heading toward us? if you have control of that balloon, turn it around or we're going to shoot it down? did we do that or just sit there with our thumb in our mouth watching it cross into american territory? i think this is very serious. >> and it's going to be obviously crucial to see what you get briefed on tomorrow and what and the they provide to some of the questions you have. ambassador, thanks very much. i appreciate taking the time to speak to you. >> glad to be with you. >> all right, next congressman angie craig assaulted.

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tonight congresswoman angie craig speaking out days after she was assaulted in her d.c. apartment building. the suspect is set to face a judge tomorrow in relation to the attack. craig says hamlin followed her into the elevator. asked to use her bathroom. when she refused he punched her in the face. congresswoman craig fought back, luckily she had a hot cup of coffee and was able to throw it on him. congresswoman, look, this is just to even here this, i'm so glad you're okay. you get in an elevator and it's terrifying. what else can you tell me about what happened and when you realized that there was something really wrong. >> well, it was clear from the start that i was going to have to try to reason with him in the beginning to get out of the elevator. he slipped in just as my doors were closing and, of course, i tried to stop the progress of the elevator immediately and

asked him to get out of my elevator but he insisted on following me up, wouldn't get out and so, look, at the end of the day he jumped in front of the buttons of the elevator, asked to go to my apartment and there was no way in hell he was going to get to my apartment. i had to do whatever i could do to fight my way out of that elevator. >> i mean, that's -- i know it happened -- i'm sure all this happened very quickly when you look back at it. you break it up piece by piece. what went through your mind when it was happening. he blocks the elevator buttons. at this point truly terrified and did you even think at the moment about your coffee or was that sort of instinct wall to use that hot liquid? >> well, i think when he asked to go to my apartment is when fight or flight really kicked in for me. he did jump in front of the buttons. at that point i tried to move him out of the way. he got behind me at that point

and i dumped the coffee on him. you know, at some point in this scuffle he punched me. he sort of pushed me up against one of the elevator walls and as the doors opened on the floor that we finally arrived at, he still didn't want to let me out of the elevator. i don't know that i had time to think quite candidly. i did what i needed to do to get out of that elevator and i'm really lucky he didn't have a weapon. i suppose now that i know his arrest history, i feel really, really lucky today to be here in minnesota talking to you. >> absolutely. and, i mean, it is -- one can only imagine if he had a weapon what could have happened. the suspect is believed to be homeless and you mentioned his prior record. i understand there were 12 prior assaults on that record. some did have a dangerous weapon so there were types he did have that. i know he's due back in court tomorrow and could face up to ten years behind bars if convicted.

congresswoman, what do you want to see happen here? >> well, number one, i don't want there to be a 14th victim. it really is just unbelievable that i was the 13th assault and the reason we're having a conversation here today and probably the reason that he could be held is because i'm a member of congress and this is being adjudicated in term court this time, unlike the other 12 instances. what do i want to see happen? i want americans and especially women to feel safe in their communities and to me that means we have got to focus our effort on public safety, making sure the people who, you know, shouldn't be released aren't but at the same time i sit here and i think to myself how did this happen 12 times in america with addiction, with homelessness, with mental health issues and this individual served ten days,

30 days, that's no time to get the help that this individual needs either. so if i can stop there from being a 14th or 15th or 20th assault, i'm going to do that but at the same time it really does emphasize the intersection of all of these issues we're facing as a country. >> absolutely does. now, on the heels of this president biden called you, the vice president called you. a senator from your state amy klobuchar, i know, came to see you. today happens to be your birthday and i mention that in the context of in a few days you've gone through a terrifying assault and got thinking about your birthday and vice president and president calling you. right? this has been an unexpected and awful experience but i wonder whether all of this has changed your view at all of what you can and what you want to do in congress? >> well, i think it has to change me. at the end of the day, i was focused on addiction, on mental

health as a member of congress, but i'm going to be even more focused on these issues. i'm headed to the border tomorrow, in fact, with a number of colleagues to talk about fentanyl coming into our community and addiction challenges we have and at the end of the day, i hope that we can put our heads together to actually solve the issues of the day. all of these topics end up being political wedge issues in washington, which party can use it against the other to try to divide us and i'm not interested in any of the nonsense, erin. we've got to make sure people are safe in their communities and we've got to make sure that people can get the mental health and addiction treatment that they need. >> congresswoman craig, thank you very much. i appreciate your time and for sharing all of that with us. >> thank you. and "outfront" next medical miracles. more than eight days after the devastating earthquake people are still being found alive, one

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tonight miraculous stories of survival even eight days after the massive earthquake hit turkey and syria. two people, a man and woman, were pulled from the rubble in hatay, turkey, today. this video captured the moment that rescuers located another 65-year-old survivor. this is amazing. still buried able to rave from beneath the rubble. they are the lucky. the death toll has now topped 41,000 that we know of. jomana karadsheh is out there in antakya, turkey. >> reporter: deep in the heart of turkey's disaster zone these americans are on a mission like no other they've known. as soon as the earthquake hit volunteers from the los angeles county sheriff's department say, they just knew they had to be here. >> it's the type of thing that we feel strongly about because we volunteer to do search and rescue back in america. and so it's one of the things that just is burning in our heart to get out there and help people if we can.

>> reporter: they do mountain rescues, have responded to hurricanes and even traveled to ukraine. they've never seen anything on this scale before. >> the destruction here is incredible. there's -- there's -- we're in one city right now where there's, you know, we could go to each and every building and know there's someone that needs help there and there's not enough people to help them even though there's over 100,000 rescuers. they would need a million and this is just one city in a very large picture of turkey. >> reporter: on monday they helped rescue a 17-year-old boy, the third life they've saved this past week in hard-hit hatay. but there's just so much to do here. >> we are looking at a pile of rubble the size of this building behind me and we're standing there just on a pile of rocks. we knew there were hundreds of people underneath us and getting to them is just near impossible. >> issues where we feel helpless

and because so much devastation is being witnessed. >> it breaks our hearts. >> there's been times though, you know, complete happiness and joy because of people being found. so it's a roller coaster of emotion. >> reporter: the group says they're only here to support the people of turkey reeling from their deadliest earthquake. >> the people of turkey are doing the hardest thing they've ever had to do. they're having to unbury their own community. their friends, their loved ones, some of the people that we're working with lost their entire family and helping -- >> they're helping to dig out other people's families. >> reporter: there is no giving up. everyone here is searching for 70-year-old grandmother. just one mission in one city in one massive earthquake zone. >> just incredible, jomana, i know they're from the sheriff's department you were speaking to. they typically do mountain rescues. this is very different than what

they will ordinarily be doing. >> reporter: absolutely, erin. they say that they don't really do urban search and rescue. they don't have the equipment for that. but, you know, they came out here not knowing what they're going to do. they just wanted to get on a plane and help people here and when they got here they thought they're emts, they will be assigned to a field hospital and providing any sort of medical treatment and support for the survivors of the earthquake but instead they were placed into these search and rescue teams and sent out to help out here in antakya, one of the hardest hit cities in the earthquake zone and they have made a difference as have other teams from around the world who come here and supported the people and, erin, we were out there today watching people in that community, in that neighborhood. they were so grateful to them having them there. people were coming up to them bringing them tea and coffee and food and just thanked them for

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