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in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. russian air defenses could have mistaken the commercial jet that crashed in azerbaijan on christmas day for a drone. that's according to a u.s. official. now, here, what survivors are saying about their ordeal. the u.s. president elect is weighing in on the coming ban of tiktok. why? donald trump is asking the supreme court to hit the pause button. and there is a single winning ticket in the $1.2 billion mega millions drawing for some lottery winners, hitting the jackpot doesn't always make their dreams come true. >> live from atlanta. this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. >> new details are emerging about russia's possible involvement in that deadly plane crash on christmas day. a u.s. official tells cnn that russian air defenses may have misidentified the commercial jet, confusing it for a ukrainian drone. moscow is trying to blame the pilot, claiming he failed to land the

plane twice before it went down in kazakhstan, but azerbaijan airlines says its early investigation shows, quote, physical and technical. external interference caused the crash. survivors are speaking out for the first time, describing what happened when they plummeted to the ground. >> when the first bang happened. i looked around, quickly, assessed the situation and thought that the plane was going to fall apart. a couple more seconds passed, but it didn't fall apart. another minute passed. not even a minute. a few more seconds passed, but it didn't fall apart. i thought that i should start praying now. i started saying words. i started to remember the almighty. i thought that those were probably my last words, so i thought i needed to get ready for a meeting with the almighty. >> cnn's hanako montgomery joins us now live from tokyo. so, hanako, we heard from one survivor. there is what we're learning from the survivors shedding any light on the possible cause of the crash.

>> hi, kim. it's good to see you. yeah, you're absolutely right. we're hearing more from these 29 survivors, and they're revealing some interesting new details about that crash. some of them are saying that they heard a loud bang and felt an explosion moments before that plane crashed on azerbaijani soil. in fact, that man that we just heard from, the man who was praying on that plane also said that he saw part of the plane's fuselage shell. that's the plane's main body, partially damaged. in fact, kim, if you take a look at this video, you can actually see there are visible holes in the plane's body. now, we don't actually know what caused these holes or what caused the actual crash, but according to one of our aviation experts, miles o'brien, the fact that the metal around these holes is bent inwards and not outwards shows that there could have been, quote, an explosion in proximity to the tail of that aircraft. and kim, this could all lend further weight to a growing

theory about russia's potential involvement. we've heard from a u.s. official and azerbaijani lawmaker and several aviation and military experts, all suggesting that russia could have misidentified that passenger jet as a ukrainian drone and shot it down. in fact, on friday, russia, for the first time ever said that the plane was directed to another destination because of ukrainian drones in that area, as well as fog. and as you mentioned, azerbaijan airlines also said as a result of their initial investigation, they believe the plane crashed after experiencing, quote, physical and technical external interference. so while this theory remains unconfirmed, kim, it is gaining a lot more traction. absolutely. >> as we look at the video of the debris there, as we see the video of that fiery crash, i mean, the fact that there were so many survivors is frankly astounding. >> it's absolutely remarkable. i mean, like you said, we've

all seen that video of the plane coming crashing down, skidding several hundred meters, turning into a ball of fire. yet somehow passengers were able to walk out, crawl out of there alive. and in fact, also we're hearing from some of these survivors that even during these really difficult and traumatic moments, they were able to help each other. here's one man's account i thought, i'll go and see what's there. >> if there's an exit, if it's accessible. i went in that direction and there was a woman in front of me. she regained consciousness and was moaning. i tried to lift her, lift her up, and i saw that from the side. there was another woman that was trapped. i tried to pull her out, but it didn't work. and she was trapped and her legs were trapped. and this woman, she was not trapped. i'm lifting her up, but she can't get up. >> i mean, truly extraordinary accounts there. and it's also remarkable that these pilots

were able to save some lives by managing to land part of the aircraft, even though they lost their own lives during that crash. now, in terms of what's next for this investigation, kim, a second black box was recovered from the wreckage on friday, and investigators are hoping that this would be really a key to solving this puzzle. they're hoping that the cockpit voice recordings and instrument readings will give some kind of indication as to why dozens of people lost their lives during this tragic, tragic flight on christmas day. kim. >> all right. appreciate that. hanako montgomery in tokyo. thanks so much. donald trump is urging the u.s. supreme court to pause a controversial tiktok ban, set to take effect just one day before his inauguration. the president elect now says he wants a negotiation. cnn's alayna treene has more. >> well, president elect donald trump on friday urged the supreme court to put a pause on a controversial ban on tiktok, arguing that a delay in implementation would allow his incoming administration to try

and negotiate some sort of deal that would save the app. now, all of this relates back to a ban that congress approved earlier this year and biden signed into law, really arguing and requiring that the platform be sold to a new non-chinese owner or be banned in the united states. that ban is currently slated to take effect on january 19th, just one day before donald trump is sworn in to office. now what donald trump is urging the supreme court to do puts him at odds with the biden administration, which filed its own briefing on friday urging the supreme court to move forward with the ban. and they warned of grave national security concerns if it is not implemented. now, one thing to be clear on is that donald trump, in his briefing, did not really address the underlying first amendment questions, but he did urge the court to put this pause on the ban so that his administration can try to find some way to resolve the issue. this is what he said in the briefing, quote, president-elect trump urges the

court to stay the statue's effective date to allow his incoming administration to pursue a negotiated resolution that could prevent a nationwide shutdown of tiktok, thus preserving the first amendment rights of tens of millions of americans, while also addressing the government's national security concerns. now, one thing to be clear on is that tiktok is very popular in the united states. it has 170 million monthly users in the u.s. and trump, for his part, has wavered on the issue. back during his first administration, he actually signed an executive order that would have effectively put a ban on tiktok, also arguing of its national security concerns given china's influence over the social media platform. however, throughout his time on the campaign trail in 2024, as well as as just a couple of weeks ago, donald trump said that he is warming to tiktok, and he argued that part of his stance on that is because so many young voters who voted for him use the app. now, all to say, it is very unclear what is going to happen, but donald trump's argument is that he

wants a pause on this ban so that his administration can figure out how they want to resolve this. alayna treene cnn, west palm beach, florida. >> defense and trial attorney misty marris tells cnn that trump's legal argument to pause the tiktok ban doesn't address the reason behind the ban. here she is. >> we see him actually in writing. put that aside and say, we're not really going to comment on whether or not this is violative of first amendment, whether or not national security concerns actually overcome that burden of strict scrutiny. we're not even going to talk about it. that prong that's required. instead, we hear about his negotiating skills. instead, we hear about how he had great success using tiktok during the election. so to me, and from the legal perspective, that is not sufficient to fulfill that second prong. seeking a state, the only person to have led both the cia and fbi is warning the senate that kash patel and tulsi gabbard aren't fit to lead. >> william webster sent a

letter to senators on thursday stressing the dangers of confirming patel as fbi director or gabbard as director of national intelligence. he said he was deeply concerned about the nominations and emphasized that the effectiveness of both agencies, quote, depends on operating with complete independence from political influence. he went on to question patel's impartiality and gabbard's experience. pete hegseth attorney says the man donald trump wants to be defense secretary doesn't have an alcohol problem. lawyer tim parlatore also told cnn's pamela brown that he gave the senate armed services committee a copy of the confidentiality agreement between hegseth and a woman who accused him of sexual assault. he also says hegseth has given the committee a memo outlining concerns employees had with his leadership of a veterans group. the attorney says that memo was written by an employee who was fired and wanted revenge. all right, i want to bring in samantha hancocks lee, who's an associate editor of liberal currents and the author of a recent article called get ready

for trump's tv government. thank you so much for being here with us. so just a fascinating article with trump's election, many on the left have talked about sort of doom and gloom scenarios where trump essentially remakes america. you argue basically they should they should chill out at least about that fear, specifically because his style of authoritarianism is based on something you call gorilla channel governance, a term i love there. so briefly explain what you mean by that. >> yeah. so gorilla channel governance is a concept based on an old joke that trump's staffers were distracting him with a fake tv channel that showed gorillas fighting all the time, and the concept of gorilla channel governance is basically that trump is an old man. he is tired. he's distractible, and

he's clearly responding to what he sees on the television. his nomination for secretary of defense pete hegseth his primary qualification appears to being to be appearing on fox and friends. he's nominated dr. oz, a tv doctor for centers for medicare and medicaid services. administrator. right. these are posts that command enormous federal bureaucracies. but these are not people with experience running enormous federal bureaucracies. >> right. so, okay, so it's not just those nominations that you cite as sort of examples of this doge as well, the so-called department of government efficiency. another example of of of that. explain. explain that for us. >> yeah. so the concept here coming out of political science is the concept of personalist, authoritarian government. and in a personalist system, the big boss creates a lot of different

lieutenants who have conflicting and overlapping mandates. and this inherently creates conflict within their own government effectively. and that's the point. the point is to be able to play elon musk off against someone else inside of his administration, because doge has this enormous mandate to cut government spending anywhere. and that conflict between elon and whoever can only be resolved by trump. and then, of course, doge itself is theoretically going to be headed by also vivek ramaswamy. so these two co-equal heads, which creates further ambiguity and unclarity and conflict, which again leads back to trump's personal ability to settle these disputes in his own administration. >> yeah. and we've seen now trump is touting the fact that bill gates wants an audience with him, which could be

construed as a as a message to musk. you predict that elon musk might be one of the first casualties of trump's ego. so how do you think his ego affects his relationships with with advisors and appointees? and that might maybe constrain his effectiveness in terms of governance? >> yeah, i think that's exactly right, that it is a question of ego that in a more efficient system, you can trust your own lieutenants to, you know, be good people who are with your agenda under a personalist system, you always feel most threatened by your own lieutenants. and so elon, who has an enormous amount of personal wealth of media influence through his ownership of x, formerly twitter, it is precisely because he has an independent power base that he's going to be perceived as most threatening to trump. in the old metaphor, the tall

poppies get cut first. >> all right, so as we saw in trump's first administration, they they didn't actually get that much done because they didn't follow procedure, they didn't do their homework. and often things got bogged down in the courts, for example. but don't you think they'll have learned from that experience? i mean, project 2025 was specifically conceived to pave the way this time around. so where do you think how do you think that will play into it, and where do you think he'll be most successful? >> uh, i think project 2025 is absolutely a response to some of the difficulties that trump had in his first administration. um, i think structurally, you are always going to be in trouble trying to get a very large bureaucracy to do what you want it to do. um, the pentagon, for example, is, you know, the american armed forces are literally, you know, more than a million people, um, a budget

in, you know, again, hundreds of billions of dollars, um, and controlling an institution that is that large, even if you have, you know, schedule f powers to fire this person or various kinds of legal authority, it's just very difficult on an organizational level to get everybody rowing in the same direction, especially if they don't want to, and they kind of want to be obstructionist. everyone who's ever been in charge of an organization is familiar with these kinds of problems. so where is trump going to be most successful? it's where he's rowing with the tide of the party or of existing federal bureaucracies. a good example here is ice, immigration and customs enforcement has clearly long been dissatisfied with the kinds of deportations that they're able to do. the number of deportations that they are able to do. and so trump will be able to take the leash off of ice, um, in terms of

going to war with mexico, the pentagon does not want to go to war with mexico, and they will almost certainly do a great deal to stop that from happening. >> we shall see how effective and possibly transformative this trump administration will be. it certainly will not be boring that we know samantha hancocks lee in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, thank you so much for being here with us. >> thank you for having me. all right. >> north korean troops are reportedly learning the hard way how tough a battle with ukrainians can be. still ahead, new reports of staggering losses as north koreans try to help russia recover land held by ukraine. plus, russia is ramping up its production of military drones, with iran playing a supporting role. how facility east of moscow became a mecca for drone production, which is growing by leaps and bounds. that and more coming up. stay with us. >> now's the time to go back in time and shine a light on the family journey that led to

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cheaper copy of the shahed pictured in a video posted in july by the stalin's falcons. that same drone unit. for this volunteer air defense unit in kyiv, it's clear the cheaper copies are fueling bigger attacks. >> now. they sent russia, sent every day a lot of drones, more of them are not even with the explosive things. it's just very cheap and very simple. >> drones for yuri chumak, a serving supreme court judge by day, there's no denying the decoys are working. >> we cannot detect what it is. you just see that it's drone. so you shall use missile, or you shall use machine gun to shut down it. >> cnn sources in ukrainian defense intelligence believe alabuga will produce up to 10,000 gerberas this year alone. analysis of downed drones shows russia has also adapted the original shahed, making it tougher, more

weatherproof and in some cases, deadlier. in late october, experts in kyiv found traces of thermobaric munitions on downed showerheads, there were several of them. >> their effect is that they're used as incendiary munitions in a certain radius. they disable all equipment and people. >> ukraine has tried hitting back this april strike using a modified small aircraft. blew a hole in the roof of a worker dormitory at alabuga, but neither that strike nor international sanctions could stop the breakneck pace of expansion here between march and september this year, two entirely new buildings appeared next to the original ones, and this image from late november seems to confirm they're connected. new covered walkways link old and new buildings. another looks set to join the factory to the worker dormitories, now fully repaired. >> they started to create, we thought, drone cages over the buildings and then as the as they built other buildings, it

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that's. vip to 369369. >> i'm dr. sanjay gupta in atlanta, and this is cnn. >> welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. the world health organization says an israeli raid has forced the last major health facility in northern gaza out of service. the israeli military surrounded the kamal adwan hospital in beit lahia on friday as part of its ongoing operations in the area. the w.h.o. says there are at least 60 health workers and more than two dozen patients in critical condition who remain inside. the idf says its troops are operating in the area but aren't inside the hospital. israel claims hamas is using the facility for its operations. witnesses and staff say the idf ordered patients and medical workers to evacuate, despite there being nowhere else to go. listen to how one nurse described the

scene. >> they separated the men from the women and took the women in groups. those who refused to remove their clothing were beaten and they took our phones. i didn't have a phone, but those who were refusing to hand over their phones were beaten, and those who refused to take off their clothes were also beaten. >> meanwhile, some israeli government ministers have criticized a new investigation into sara netanyahu, the prime minister's wife. israel's attorney general announced the inquiry on friday on allegations mrs.. netanyahu may have harassed a witness in one of her husband's corruption trials. israel's justice minister and the far right national security minister both denounced the new probe. elliott gotkine has more on that, plus details about the hospital in northern gaza. >> if there's one thing that riles prime minister benjamin netanyahu more than being in the dock himself, it's accusations against his wife, sara netanyahu, who has a 2019 conviction for misusing public funds. now faces formal investigation for allegedly intimidating a witness in her

husband's corruption trial, as well as indirectly harassing the attorney general and deputy attorney general. the allegations were first aired on israel's channel 12 uvda program, the country's equivalent of 60 minutes. benjamin netanyahu decried the report as a new blood libel, calling it biased and false propaganda. the prime minister sees it as another strand of what he describes as a witch hunt against him, orchestrated by the left wing media, and which led to him being tried for fraud, breach of trust and bribery charges. he vehemently denies. netanyahu asked that his trial be postponed due to the wars with hezbollah in lebanon and hamas in gaza, but to no avail. in the enclave itself, the israeli military on friday said it was carrying out targeted operations against what it described as a hamas terrorist stronghold in and around the kamal adwan hospital in northern gaza. hamas has denied that it uses hospitals for military purposes, and the idf has not offered definitive proof of its claims. hospital director doctor hussam abu

safiyya said in a social media post that the idf was besieging kamal adwan and issuing orders for its evacuation. a few hours later, abu safiyya said the israeli military was burning all the operating departments in the hospital and had evacuated all displaced people and staff, some of whom he said had been arrested. smoke could be seen billowing from the building. the idf said troops had facilitated the secure evacuation of civilians, patients and medical personnel prior to the operation. elliott gotkine, cnn jerusalem. >> all right. i want to bring in doctor tania hassan. she's the co-founder of gaza medic voices and a pediatric intensive care doctor with medecins sans frontieres, also known as doctors without borders. and she's worked in gaza's hospitals many times. she joins me now from amman, jordan. thank you so much for being here with us. so you have actually taught at the kamal adwan hospital, i understand. so before we get to the wider

implications of this, in terms of what it means to gaza, i just want to first ask you for your reaction to what's happening there well, thanks, kim. >> honestly, i'm struggling to even process it. you know, for for almost three months now, the israeli military has repeatedly attacked kamal adwan hospital. we have received plea after plea after plea from its from its director, a pediatrician like myself, doctor sam. abu safiyya, asking for international protection. while we were having our christmas dinners, doctors in the north were sending sos messages about injured patients that were bleeding to death because they could not access military, they couldn't access medical care as a consequence of obstructions by the israeli military and besiegement of one of the few remaining hospitals in northern gaza. there are three public hospitals in northern gaza, namely beit hanoun hospital, which has already been destroyed by the

israeli military. the indonesian hospital and kamal adwan hospital. the hospital you were just speaking about the indonesian hospital was mostly put out of service about a week ago by the israeli military. the electricity supply, the water supply and the oxygen generators were destroyed. you cannot run a hospital without those things. it also doesn't have medical supplies. when you when cnn minutes ago mentioned that the israeli authorities have said they had organized safe evacuations for the patients from kamal adwan hospital, i'm afraid that is false. that is inaccurate. what they did was forcibly evacuate and detain under gunpoint much of the patients and medical workers within kamal adwan hospital and the critically ill patients that weren't able to to to evacuate the hospital. we have

heard they have been transferred to the indonesian hospital, the same hospital that third hospital in northern gaza that has already been, for the most part, destroyed. it has no electricity, no water, no no oxygen. we have a colleague, a nursing colleague who was severely injured by the israeli military two days ago while he while he was in the process of treating a patient, he's in critical condition. he was on a ventilator, a ventilator in the only icu left in northern gaza, which was in kamal adwan hospital. and now we don't know where he is and what his fate is if he's amongst those critically injured patients that were transferred to the indonesian hospital. there is no electricity there to operate his ventilator. this is a death sentence for those critically injured patients at kamal adwan hospital and doctor hassan abu safiyya has sent numerous messages over the last few months, including four days ago

saying the world must understand that our hospital is being targeted with an intent to kill and forcibly displaced us, displace us. this is exactly what happened. >> i want to get to the wider implications here and we should just say israel again says these attacks are to to root out hamas, which which is using the hospitals for military operations. but you know that that phrase that you used a death sentence. i mean, that's something that the w.h.o. has said as well. these attacks are a death sentence for thousands of palestinians. the un has said that that all of this is a wider pattern. they've accused israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity because of these widespread attacks against gaza health facilities. you yourself provided the un with testimony. you spoke out at a panel during the election here in the u.s. that the democratic national convention. yet this still keeps happening. >> it does. kim. and and this

is part of a wider pattern, and it's utterly incomprehensible to think that after about almost a year ago, coming january this year, the international court of justice ruled a plausible genocide, insisted that preliminary measures be put in place to prevent ongoing genocide. and what we have seen is a worsening of these egregious crimes against humanity. we have amnesty international calling this a genocide. we have doctors without borders, medecins sans frontieres, the organization. i, one of the organizations i work for, saying that this is what they're seeing is consistent with reports by these organizations of ethnic cleansing. and we have every single credible organization that is, uh, exists to protect our human rights and our health. saying the same thing, and it is met with impunity and ongoing militarization, ongoing supply, supply of weapons by the united states in in very

clear contradiction of international humanitarian law, in very clear contradiction of the u.s .'s own laws. and then we have mainstream media continuing to peddle this this claim by the israeli military that, you know, the excuses that there's military activity from within these hospitals. i am sorry, but these this excuse has been used from the very beginning. it was used for al-shifa hospital. we found no evidence of that. it was used for. a hospital for for the indonesian hospital, for the hospital. it is used every single time israel targets a hospital. and it has targeted virtually every hospital in the gaza strip. all of this by design. international journalists, independent human rights, human rights and forensic investigators have been prohibited by israel from bearing witness. you, kim, as a journalist for 15 months, have not been allowed on the ground.

you and everybody you work with, they've not been allowed on the ground to document this. and yet these same mainstream media channels still provide the israeli narrative, which has been proven false time and time again. and last night, kim, doctor aburish, deputy minister of health in the gaza strip, came on cnn on, on on your your news network and said, we have told the israeli military over and over again, go in the hospital, search for yourself. don't destroy the hospital. we do not have military activity within our hospitals. and you are welcome to go inside and see that. and yet they burned it. they burned it down. >> yeah. we will have to leave it there. but but just to to the accusations about the mainstream media and cnn as well. we have tried to provide both sides, but as you very rightly pointed out, israel has not allowed reporters and cnn

access to gaza, which unfortunately limits our ability to tell all those important stories. we'll have to leave it there, doctor tanya hajj hassan in northern gaza, rather in amman, jordan, thank you so much for speaking with us. appreciate it. >> thank you kim. all right. >> well, there are new concerns about airport safety and security during this busy holiday travel season. after a stowaway on a delta flight was arrested on christmas eve. cnn's carlos suarez has more. >> a stowaway discovered again, hiding on an airplane just moments before takeoff on christmas eve in seattle. >> the unidentified individual cleared a standard security screening the night before the flight. getting past the checks for identification and flight information without a boarding pass, an airport spokesperson tells cnn the following afternoon, they were able to board the delta flight, still without a boarding pass. >> it must have been a sweet talker, betty crocker, because

i don't i couldn't imagine how you could ever do that. >> when the person was discovered on board, the plane returned to the gate to remove them. according to the airport spokesperson. the suspect then, quote, ran out of the plane before police arrived and hid in a bathroom in the airport terminal. port of seattle police used video surveillance cameras to find and arrest the suspect. >> nobody knew really what was going on, so we were kind of left in the dark. >> all passengers on board were deplaned and rescreened by tsa, delaying the flight for nearly 2.5 hours. >> which leaves you to wonder the worst. you're stuck on the plane. and you know what? if there was explosives or something? >> the incident elevating security concerns during one of the busiest seasons for travel. >> i understand that the transportation security authority agents are besieged, but these are the areas where the system is, you know, blinking red. >> so far, officials from the tsa, the port of seattle and

delta representatives have not explained how this person was able to bypass so many layers of security. delta apologized to delayed passengers in a statement, saying, quote, there are no matters more important than safety and security. the tsa said it takes such incidents seriously and, quote, will independently review the circumstances of this incident. >> i take the responsibility for these stowaway events so far has been sort of joint between the tsa for letting these individuals pass their i.d. checkpoints and the airline, in this case, delta, for not being vigilant enough at the doorway to that jetway. >> it's the second time in weeks that a passenger boarded a delta flight without a ticket. >> the captain. we're just waiting for the police to come on board. >> just before thanksgiving, a woman snuck onto a delta flight from new york's jfk airport to paris. it took three attempts to get her back to the u.s. to

face charges. the tsa said that the unticketed passenger did not have a prohibited items. now, officials with the port of seattle added that the aircraft and the terminal was swept by a police canine, and all of the passengers were rescreened. carlos suarez, cnn, atlanta. >> well, someone out there may be starting the new year. $1 billion richer. we'll have more on the mega millions massive ten figure jackpot when we come back. and we assume that winning the lottery can be life changing. but for some past winners, those changes came with tragedy. that story and much more straight ahead. stay with us. >> welcome to times square. last night of my life. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight on cnn. streaming live on max from meat free monday to sizzle pan

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the odds of winning that jackpot were one in more than 300 million. but not all giant jackpot winners live happily ever after. cnn's randi kaye lays out the tragic situations that some jackpot winners have experienced. >> we want to present to you this check. >> his name was jack whitaker, and he is the poster boy for problems often faced by lottery winners. >> i just want to thank god for letting me pick the right numbers. >> on christmas 2002, whitaker won a whopping $314 million. the 55 year old west virginia grandfather took the lump sum payout of 113 million. he had plans to buy a helicopter and start a charitable foundation. >> my biggest problem is going to be keep. keep my granddaughter and daughter from spending all their money in one week. >> whitaker, who died in 2020, was proof that money doesn't buy happiness. in the years following his big powerball win, whitaker was charged with drunk driving and allegedly

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