>> good, evening beginning tonight with breaking news. over trump maybe just a short time away from becoming the first former president to be ever criminally indicted. the new york times reports that a district attorney's office here in manhattan recently offered him a final chance to testify next week before the grand jury. hearing of events in the stormy daniels hush money case. according to the times, such

offers almost indicate an indictment is close. and the investigation you may recall centers on $130,000 that one-time fixer, michael cohen, paid to buy the silence of stormy daniels near the end of the 2016 campaign. cohen's later reimbursed by the former president, according to the times, he's yet to testify but is expected to, joining us now with more cnn's, kara scannell. one of the dire details? even >> the new york times reported that donald trump was offered to appear before the new york grand jury investigating the hush money payment scheme. that is required under the law, when there's a criminal investigation. so, that step certainly indicate in tells us that this investigation is wrapping up, that's also evident by the parade of witnesses that have met with prosecutors and appeared before the grand jury. we reported yesterday, kellyanne conway had met with manhattan prosecutors, hope hicks has also been in. as well as some top executives at the trump organization. michael cohen has met multiple

times with prosecutors, although, he has not appeared before the grand jury. all this signaling the investigation is wrapping up, and that a decision on whether or not to charge is likely soon. as a reminder, they're investigating the hush money payments. hush money payment is not illegal, so, what prosecutors are looking at, and weighing is whether to charge the former president and possibly the company with falsifying business records. that's because, what we've learned through the federal investigation into michael cohen, remember, he pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges there. the trump organization had treated this reimbursement payment to michael cohen in their books as a legal expense. federal prosecutors said that was incorrect and not true. that's when the manhattan district attorney's office picked up this investigation and looked at whether it violated state charges. the state shirt they've isolated here, is falsifying business records. that's a misdemeanor, in order to make it a felony, it has to

be falsifying records to commit another crime. so, what are looking at here, weather and any campaign finance laws, state laws were violated. that's according to sources. that is an uphill battle. that's not a given, that's not a slam dunk kind of case. it's the kind of thing that the former president in his attorneys could really work with here. and try to knock down back to mr. meaner, which would carry a zero prison sentence to up to 364 days, anderson? >> has the former president responded to the new reporting? how likely is it that he would be to accept the district attorney's invitation to testify before the grand jury? a lot of times, people do not avail themselves of that? >> i think it's very unlikely that he would go in and testify before the grand jury, wait to see what kind of decision that the prosecutors are going to make here. he did issue a statement, according to trump spokesperson, he said that manhattan district attorney's threat to indict president trump is simply insane. for the past five, years the da's office has been on a witch hunt, investigating every aspect of president trump's life. and they've come up empty at every turn, and now, this i should also add, a source has told us that trump's lawyers have recently met with the manhattan district attorney's prosecutors, because of their concern about all of this activity before the grand jury. it certainly does seem that

things are coming to a head. >> appreciate, that i wanna talk about the implications with cnn senior political analyst new york times senior political correspondent, maggie haberman, she's also author of confidence man the making of donald, trump and the breaking of america, also cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, elie honig, his book is untouchable, how powerful people get away with. it chief little in, list -- >> what does this signal to you about the grand jury? anderson, this tells me that a decision on whether to seek an indictment is very close at hand. frankly, that an indictment is quite likely here. this is an unusual feature of new york state law. that says, when prosecutors are getting close to indicting someone, you have to give that person a chance to testify in the grand jury, that's actually different from federal law. you would not do this, tactically, as a prosecutor, until you are at the very end stage. on the off chance, close to zero, here on the off chance that the person except and

comes in to testify, you need to have all your ammo arrayed to question that person. this tells, me what really the closing phases of this. >> it's unlikely he would actually testify? >> it's close to 0%. if you do testify, as they warn you in the cop shows, anything you say can be and will be used against you in an eventual trial. >> maggie, how do you expect him to react to this? does it affect his campaign at all? >> we're entering uncharted territory. here i think it's important to note about this case, as care is, at this is a misdemeanor they're trying to push up to a felony. -- >> which is a really exotic case. >> and the judge could decide, no, we're gonna get back to a misdemeanor. that is difficult for a prosecutor, when it's a former president, to understand justice is supposed to be equal. for all, people take into consideration factors like this. i think we could see a rallying effect from his supporters. it could be that more people are turned off by this, i just

don't think we know. we know that he will use, it which was he will say, he's being attacked and victimized. we've seen that over and over again. we're gonna continue to. >> to that, point the idea of they've been investigating for five years now they have this misdemeanor. >> yeah, i think trump will use it. he would say, you know this is weaponize justice department, look what they're doing to me, this is peanuts. there are many serious things coming down the road, potentially, for him. he can use this, and then he could build on it. the other candidates, i would think, are not likely to attack him on this. or mention it in any way. it all the. and candidates in 2016, learned that if you get out on the mud with donald, trump you're likely to lose. i think it could become a rallying cry, as maggie says, for his supporters. and nothing in the campaign. >> talk about why this, from illegal speck perspective, somewhat sketchy in terms of making it actually a felony. >> a couple reasons, first of all, using state laws here is really a square peg in a round hole. this should be, ideally, a

federal campaign finance crime, because the idea is, they made this payment, account is a campaign contribution, it's in connection with a federal election. >> that's what the idea of a federal charge would be. >> what the criminal aspect of this would be is that the hundred $30,000 was essentially a campaign contribution, because it benefited his campaign. which is a little bit, you have to convince a jury of the. >> you have to convince a jury, that beyond a reasonable doubt. with a trying to do with the state charge, this falsification of business records charge, which is a misdemeanor. that's a low charge. it only gets bumped up to a felony at the lowest level felony, the maximum is four years, it's not even certain he would go to prison, even if convicted of, that if you can tie falsifying the business records, saying this was illegal payment as opposed to a campaign payment, if you can tie it to the campaign, violation. this is not a smooth fit between the law and the facts, there's also the potential problems posed by having michael cohen as your star witness. he's a convicted perjurer, he is a very public white-hot hatred of donald trump, that will impact his impartiality.

remember, the feds, across the street, the southern district of new york, rejected him as a co-operator. >> he was also asked about the payments back in april 2018 on air force one, let's take a look. >> did you know about the hundred 30,000 dollar payment to stormy daniels? >> why did michael cohen make that? >> you have to ask michael cohen, michael's my attorney. you have to ask michael cohen. >> do you know where you got the money to make that payment? >> i don't know. >> that turned out to not be true, maggie, it's interesting, the same office was looking at other potential charges against the former president. the district attorney chose not to pursue those. travis prosecutors resigned in the wake of, that this is now what they have. >> look, when i think michael cohen would say, as a witness

and has said before, he lied on trump's behalf. i think you hear him say that in this case. you did have alvin bragg decide not to bring a prosecution against trump in connection with his actual business, despite proceeding against his business, they got a conviction across the board, in 17 counts in that case. it's different when you're prosecuting a company that is prosecuting a man. i do think it's worth noting here, putting aside issues of michael cohen specifically, or are the perspective thinness of the case. take it all together, it requires 12 people. it just takes one person to have reasonable doubt. even in pretty progressive manhattan, i think a defense lawyer could find one person, and that's a risk here. >> gloria, there's others more serious investigations going on with the former president right now, looking at san fran -- the 2020 election, result the insurrection, hitting a classified documents. one question, is what an indictment related to stormy daniels -- dilute the impact of those investigations, if anything were to come of them?

>> i don't really think it would. the other investigations, when you talk about the documents, or the insurrection, those are pretty big cases. i think this looks like peanuts compared to those cases. i don't think it would dilute those or the impact of those in anyway, and that is something that would be talked about on the campaign trail, whether or from a democrat or even from a republican. what this does, it agitates and motivate trump's base to get out there and say, look, he's being persecuted. he will use that to the absolute fullest, anderson. >> elie, just for clarification, if he was convicted of a misdemeanor, would they even bring a case for a misdemeanor? >> that is very good question. i think what they're likely to

do is to charge it as the felony. if they're able to prove both aspects of it, a, they falsified business records, they're getting to misdemeanor. then they can prove it was in order to avoid campaign finance laws, that would bump it up to a felony. that would give prosecutors a fallback, where if they can convict him on either one, really important to understand, even if this trip charge happens, if there's a conviction, there's a very good chance donald trump is not sentenced to a term behind bars. >> even if he was convicted of a misdemeanor, now that his record necessarily matters, would he be the only president to have been indicted? >> absolutely. yes, he would be the only former president to be indicted, even as just a misdemeanor. it's also really important for people to understand, an indictment does not legally prevent anybody from running for president, from being president, even a conviction does not prevent a person from running for president or serving as president. >> elie honig, maggie haberman, appreciate both of you. exclusive interview with a -- two of them as you know were killed. she might have been one of them.

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cnn from an official familiar with the investigation. cheryl origin are friends around away from south carolina. she didn't have the identification needed across the border. she didn't know they were crossing over. for that she may have been a victim too if she had. i spoke with her just before moments ago. >> cheryl, thank you for joining us. i'm so sorry under these circumstances. how are you doing right now? >> it's hard. i'm trying one day at a time. it's a lot to process. >> you were the first to actually alert authorities in brownsville, that your friends were missing, or had been hadn't made it back. let's start with telling us about why you and your friends are planning to go to mexico? >> latavia is my best friend. she hit me up, asked me to join her. to accompany her. on the trip to brownsville, texas, for a cosmetic surgery. and we can the road trip.

we went out on a thursday, traveled to texas. once i got there, i was that an informed that her procedure was being down across the border. and that event, we were just arriving at brownsville, texas, at studio sex. and i didn't have proper identification. so, i couldn't join her to go across the border. it left me back at the hotel. >> so, because you didn't know that you know, you don't know you'd be going out the country, you did know you belong to mexico see it and run ideal with yo. did you travel with her and the others, to brownsville or did you meet them there? >> now, we all travel together. it was a root trap. >> so, did you have any idea about threats down and matamoros or what it was like across the border? or did latavia? >> no sir, not at all. not to my knowledge. i'm assuming she didn't know.

i know her, she won't travel to danger. >> did you actually try across the border, or turn away, or did you realize before even trying that you didn't have i. t.? >> she told me that, when i told her i didn't have my i. d. with may they drop me off at the hotel and said they'd return in 15 minutes. that's why i was so worried. and i was in fear. it didn't seem like 15 minutes had gone by. they weren't there. >> how long did you wait after 15 minutes, that must have been agonizing? >> when they drop me off, sorry, when they drop me off at the hotel i had gotten into the shower, i showered. i laid on the bad. i was exhausted from the long hours, the long ride. i ended up falling asleep. i woke up, and it was already 5:00 in the afternoon. so, from 9 to 5 i went down to the office. the clerk in the hotel, i asked him had my friends come back, or attempted to come in and out of the hotel, come back to the hotel. he told me, no. so, i called my boyfriend, i called tased brother, and i said, something's not right and

i texted my roommate. i said, something's not. right 9:00 got here, 12:00 not here, midnight. and now we're into saturday morning at 10:23. it's literally a few minutes before check out. i'm like there's no way, i call the cops immediately. >> and now you have their luggage, you had their things, is that right? >> i had three male victims belongings. i retrieved it after it became 11:00. >> at what point did you learn about what had actuall y

happened? when did you see the video? >> they sent it to me i think, it had to be saturday night and sunday morning. the wee hours. >> how did you think when you saw that. >> i dropped the phone. my body clenched off. i dropped the phone. my stomach was in knots. and i just began praying.

i just began praying for -- i didn't know much about the cartels. i started looking up videos, it was bad, it was bad. i begin to think the worst. i thank god for her daughter, 18 year old daughter, tased daughter, she held me together. she help me to gather. she made me -- >> have you talked to her sense? have you been able to hop talk to latavia or her daughter? how is she doing? >> me and her daughter speak. every so many minutes. and i've spoken to today. it put me at ease up a little bit. it was music to my ears to hear her voice. >> when you want people to know about latavia and the others, your friends? >> that feeling again. i want the world, i want the

world to leave us alone. and stop being mean. i want them to have a heart because everyone has a past. what happens to her wasn't right. she didn't deserve it. she's a beautiful person. when i spoke to latavia yesterday she said, thank you. she told me, thank you. she said she was worried about -- this lady was facing, death damningly air, she said i was worried about you. >> she said she was worried about? you >> i love her, she's the. bass right? she's a beautiful person. >> cheryl, i'm so sorry for what you and your friends have gone through. i appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. i wish you the best. i hope you get to see her soon. >> thank you. i appreciate that. >> cheryl orange, thank you. just ahead tonight, the latest

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>> a high ranking senate republicans and -- mitch mcconnell who tripped and fell out of dinner event last night in washington. he's being treated for concussion and is expected to stay hospitalized for a number of days.

the senator had a bad fall back in 2019, broke his shoulder on that occasion. kind wishes have been coming in all across the political spectrum. given the 51 to 49 split in the senate, and the absence on either side obviously is significant. i'm joined by doctor sanjay gupta. so, what kind of treatment might senator mcconnell be receiving? how serious-ism occasion concussion for anybody but somebody's age? >> it can be serious. there's still some details that we need to understand and know about him. first thing that they would do is do an overall assessment on how he's doing. and increasingly focus on the

neurological exam. and just what is his neurological status. did he lose consciousness as a result of this fall, we do not know that. does he have any other neurological symptoms, is he oriented to person, place, and time. does he have any amnesia. what they call retrograde amnesia. the measure of things in the past was a happy trouble remembering things now. these are efforts of things they would do immediately depending on how it looks at that play. if he has a headache or something they determine whether or not he might get a ct scanners brain to see if there's any kind of bleeding, or anything over it concerned. again, we don't know that, but more time than not, there's not an issue of having -- keep in mind we know several things about his health, first of all he's 81 years old. that's gonna heighten the level

concern overall. he survived polio as a child, he had bypass surgery 20 years ago back in 2003. you mentioned that folly had four years ago back in 2019, pretty significant fall if you may remember, anderson. he fractured his shoulder at that point. he also a couple years ago was seen with these bruised, bandaged hands as well. we don't know what was causing that. but it gives you an idea sort of of his overall health. right now doctors are focused on his neurological exam overall. trying to determine if there was anything more needs to be done. more likely than not, there will be. but that's how they approach. it >> senator mcconnell noted,

that he tripped, people that he was out last night said he was quote on point when speaking at the event. i'm not sure what point the fall may have taken place. how long would you expect them to be in the hospital for? >> first of all with regard to quote unquote, being on point. with the way i read that, the way i interpreted, that is it didn't seem like he was having any trouble leading up to that fall. it's an important piece of data i think for the medical team. was he starting to develop any weakness on one side, or something. sounds like he was speaking coherently and i would suggest that he tripped and fell. just like was described. as opposed to something more. i think maybe that's what they were referring to. as far as how long will be in the hospital, it's interesting for most people. even with a mild concussion they can go on the same day. but again he's 81 years old. there may be a bit more caution with them. but also if he did get a scad, cities can of the brain, and it showed anything at all. it might warrant him staying more days in the hospital. he's continuing to have symptoms. mild headache in which can constitute a symptom in this case. it might warrant him staying in the hospital as. well anderson, falls are a big deal especially in the elderly. we probably don't talk about it enough. it's essentially taking a lifetime of risk, so many of our medical problems, consolidating into a split second. so, in the hospital doctors take, falsely very serious and i think that's probably why they're airing on the side of caution. there >> sanjay, thank you so. much -- for him is. finally coming, up senator elizabeth warren joins us to talk about the presidents new budget plan, it's challenging

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>> president biden chose philadelphia as the place to roll his 2024 budget. the plan calls for three trillion in deficit reduction over ten years, caps insulin vices, promises for medicare drug savings, and calls for higher taxes on the wealthiest americans.

the president today calling house speaker mccarthy in the house republicans to lay out their alternative. >> i said i'm gonna introduce my -- the 9th of march. you introduce yours. will sit down angle line by line. we'll go through. it and see if we can agree on and what we disagree. on and then fight about it in congress. i want to make it, clear i've read it with the speaker, heavy time, tomorrow if he has his budget. lay it down, tell me what you want to do. >> speaker mccarthy's ruled out any tax increases, inflation to cuts are -- leaving little wiggle room for got a reduction. democratic senator elizabeth warren's a member of the senate finance committee. i spoke with her just before airtime. >> senator warren, i appreciate you joining. as what the president knew budget proposal say about the administration's priorities in the battles that they're willing to have with congressional -- ? >> i think it's as, we're taking you on.

look, the republicans have been clear what they want to do. they want no tax increases for the wealthy, and the wall connected. and they want to impose a lot of cuts on everybody else. this week, they crunch the numbers on that, and said the consequences of the republican tax cuts would be our accession plus two and a half million people would lose their jobs. what the president has put forward, he said i want to do this the other way. i want to invest in america. i want to invest in middle class people. and working families. i want to increase access to childcare for example. and i want to pay for it and pay down that that by seeing -- the wealthy and well connected are gonna have to pay a little more. >> are there any democratic priorities that you think were not representative are underrepresented in the budget? >> now, i need to say right now, we're all still reading through it. but the main pieces are there. this is truly about investing in america. , so we've got war on climate,

as i said we have childcare personal favorite of mine, we've got it's a down payment on that, it's family leave, it's paid family leave. we're getting the major pieces. he's got the child tax credit in there. which left out half the kids in america at of poverty. when we put it in place a few years. ago >> the republican leadership both in the house and senate have said, they're not interested in changes to civil security and medicare. do you believe them? >> well, you know, i don't know what their plan is here. what the president is trying to do for example with medicare, is to say, we can extend the life of medicare. by just changing how much we're paying the drug company is. and negotiating for prices, and bringing down costs for american families. you know 35 dollar cap on insulin it was a great down payment, it shows joe biden doing what joe biden does best. and that's out there fighting for working families. what are the republicans got to offer on that?

they've got to offer two and a half million people being pushed out of work. and that's bad for our economy and it sure as heck is bad for millions of families that lose jobs. >> this is an opening salvo, republicans haven't put forward their proposals yet, the negotiations have mcgahn. house speaker mccarthy -- that they are willing to reena associate with a showdown over the debt ceiling. the looming. do you think the white house our congressional republicans can find a compromise? >>, while the thing is, the republicans right now are just playing hostage games. so, they're saying that if you don't do what we want to do. we're gonna default on the data. now, i had a hearing subcommittee hearing, this week in which the chief economist from --

mark sandy came in. he said if they push us to even a temporary debt default, it will push the company into a recession. and it's gonna cost 1 million people their jobs. and interesting enough, the republican economists who were there but -- republicans agree. they said, we just can't do this on the debt ceiling. but notice the other half, and that's when manatees crunch the numbers they said as well, if you give into the republican cuts into the budget. what that's going to do is push the country into a recession and caused two and a half million jobs. so, either way the republican -- either default on the debt. or short term or forced to these cuts on the economy. both of them put people out of work and push the economy and to our accession.

if the republicans want to sit out and negotiate, what they gotta do is first, they need to vote to raise the debt. saying and then they'll sit down and negotiate over the budget, they really want to bring down the national debt, great, how about the asked someone like jeff bezos to pay more in taxes than a boston public school teacher. right now that's all he's paying. >> before we go i want to ask you what the criticism that speaker mccarthy is getting including from some republicans, for releasing more than 40,000 of security footage from the january six -- tucker carlson. with manipulation of. it how dangerous in your view are these ongoing attempts to rewrite the history of that day? >> obviously, what he's trying to do exactly say, rewrite history. it's very dangerous. but this is also dangerous in a more immediate sense, having all of the tapes released to someone like this. that now means that all the camera angles are now where they're covered, where you're not, where the exits are. and in an emergency, where he is, that you take someone like the vice president to try and protect him from harm. this is about security in the

short term, right now. and to just hand that over for political purposes, to try and reshape a narrative that it's at odds with what america saw with its own eyes. that's genuinely dangerous. and shocking it that the person who's now the leader of the house of representatives would do that. not just two others who are in commerce, but would do it to america. >> elizabeth warren, we appreciate your. time thank you. more political news, republican presidential hopeful of potential candidates are making their way to iowa. less than a year before caucuses are gonna start primary season. former south carolina governor nikki haley turned there yesterday for, governor ron desantis will be there tomorrow

to be with republican lawmakers. and a few days after, that former president will have a visit to. iona jeff selanee -- may be looking for in 2024. republican presidential nominee -- >> all right. >> in iowa breakfast is served with a hearty side of politics. >> welcome to the west side conservatives. >> and less than a year, these republicans will help start the 2024 presidential contest. yet top has already turned to the end of the campaign. revolving around one question above all. >> we like him. the question is, can he win. >> he of course is donald trump. who remains at the center of the conversation at a regular gathering of loyal conservatives. kim schmidt presides over. >> right now he's probably in a party than anyone else. it didn't work last time, were concerned about. that >> a clear sense of trump

fatigue has set and among many republicans. but not terry pearce. he still proudly whereas his make america great again. hat he believes to his core, the former president can win again. >> i think donald trump is the only one that can lead us back to where we were in 2020. >> others are more blind. >> i'm a trump supporter, and if he's not on the ballot, i'm not gonna write it. in >> the republican field is slowly taking shape. florida governor ron desantis visits i will for the first time on friday. former south carolina governor nikki haley is on a three day tour here this. week and trump comes monday. >> he's gonna have to sell himself. >> kelly cook's driving around dallas county, the fastest growing in iowa. where she leads the republican party. she admires trump. but is bracing for rising attacks among gop rivals.

>> we don't want to strong candidates to shred each other. and duke it out in the boxing ring, and see the best man standing. so, hopefully, grace, dignity, toys, spartz calculation. in the end or all wanting to support the nominee. >> david omen a des moines businessman said republicans need a fresh start. >> should the party belong from trump. i'm not sure he needs a third nomination. >> his message is getting a little stale. a little old. looking backwards, more than four. where >> bob vander plath is president of the inferential christian group, the family leader. he too believes it's time to turn a page. >> there is an appetite for somebody other than trump. >> is that trump fatigue? >> i think part of it. is that there's a little bit of an exhaustion. i think there's some people saying they look into the next generation of leaders. >> but a field to large it unwieldy he says will only benefit trump. >> if trump wins in iowa, they don't say anybody stopping him after. that >> republicans like marianne who noose, are listening. and sizing up all of the contenders. mindful of the caucuses have a long history of humbling front runners and elevating alternatives. >> it's not a two man race at all. i think it'll be a wide open

feel. not necessarily in terms of 15, 16 people running, but open in terms that everybody's got a chance at a. >> jeff zeleny joins me now from iowa. as we mentioned, desantis headed to iowa for his first visit. what's the anticipation forum like there? >> anderson, it's definitely the closest the foreigner governors come to really openly showing his intent to run for president. we're told he plans to make a formal announcement likely after the legislative session in may or june. but i will voters certainly are eager to see. to size a mob. but i can tell you it's very much more open minded here. i was just at nikki haley campaign event in central iowa, talking to so many voters here. candidates, the voters are looking at all the candidates across the spectrum here. it really gets down to, are you ready to move on from the former president, and if you are who will you consider. so, the florida governor certainly is popular in many

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>> at least seven ukrainians are dead after russia pummeled the country with a large-scale attack including missiles and drone strikes this morning. the attack included as many as six hypersonic missiles. which is rarely used. a top official for the country 's air force said they've quote, no capabilities to counter those missiles. cnn's ivan watson has the latest from kyiv. for the area to lurch lasted almost seven hours.

>> thailand, sierra, russia launched a massive missile attack on ukraine. hurling at least 84 missiles and killer drones against its neighbor in a single night. the deadly barrage pounding ukraine in the north, southeast, , and last. decimating several houses in the western city of lviv. killing at least two women, three men there. in the capital, kyiv, one missile strike temporarily knocked out some electric power. while another slammed into the courtyard of a large apartment block. fortunately, no one was killed here this morning by this missile strike. but it terrified people living next door. nolan and ukraine knows when a deadly russian missile could explode in their neighborhood. >> olga and -- say the seven a. m. blast broke windows in their seventh floor apartment. >> it was very dangerous. so, we were very scared of it. >> but the close call didn't stop them from working today. >> we've developed immunity after a year of war says he will. yeah we don't run and hide in the basement anymore when there are aerate siren's. >> ukrainian military say is that the air defenses shot down

nearly half of russia's missiles and drones. but canned intercept some of these deadly weapons. they were x 22 which we can't shoot down, we can't shoot down the cans all either. >> russia's defense ministry calls the missile barrage retaliation for what it claims was a ukrainian terrorist attack in russia as the onset region on march 2nd. claims which cnn hasn't been able to independently verify. deadly russian revenge attacks, that leave ordinar y ukrainians picking up the pieces. >> and ivan watson joins us. are there concerns that more of these attacks can happen soon? >> certainly. the ukrainian military says the risk of further attacks as high. it isn't the first time there's been a big salvo. the russians have basically been firing missiles at

ukrainian city since back in october and september. with the goal it appears of china knocked out the electric power grid. , so that sent workers, utility workers scrambling to get power back up here in kyiv for example, they did manage to restore power to some 15% of the city that have been knocked. out there still trying to get the heat back on to 30% of the city. but i need to point out. these utilities are still functioning in the city. in this country despite the repeated salvos of attacks. and in fact, in the neighborhood i wasn't, anderson, one of the high-rise had nearly been held. just across the street, the supermarket was still working, the dominoes pizza was still working. this hasn't succeeded and crushing ukraine's economy. and people i talk to you, who nearly missed this attack. they said they're not leaving. it includes the mother of a seven month old baby. who was born in ukraine during the war. she said that she's not going anywhere. >> ivan watson, we appreciated. thank you. careful. another massive snowstorm is hammering the northwest tonight. which is why you need to hear

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