randi kaye, cnn, palm beach county, florida. >> i'll be back next hour.es live in lviv, ukraine. [singing] ovoven roasted cooold cuts cooold cuts >>> hello, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john vause live in ukraine. the surge in fighting reported across the front line stretching hundreds of miles. >> live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. a u.s. federal judge strikes down a public transit mask mandate. sparking mixed emotion and concern air passengers and employees alike.

as randi kaye shared the story of a mother and her three children who are living with a total stranger bradford opened his home to them when a ukrainian church called telling him about the family in need. his kindness has inspired others. the president of the church told us a family in orlando who saw the story called to say they would also welcome ukrainian refugees in their home. others called saying they would help too. plus the mother told randi kaye she and her family have been invited to the cooper city community meeting next month, and a neighbor has set up a gofundme page for her and her family. the link is on the screen. >>> let's hand it over to wolf blitzer and cnn tonight. >> thank you very much. i'm wolf blitzer. this is "cnn tonight." we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. is vladimir putin now arresting some of his own aides over frustration? are some of his sabotaging efforts in ukraine? there is more evidence of growing tensions within putin's own in

cnn randi kaye reports from outside miami, florida. >> i realize something happened.be a.m. the neighbors called me and asked did you hear something? >> reporter: she was on a business trip last month in lviv rk ukraine. near the polish border. when russia started bombing her country. her husband and their three children were hundreds of miles away at the family's home outside kyiv. >> i just asked me husband to bring the kids to me. >> reporter: they devised a plan. he would drive them through the night about seven hours one way. to meet her in lviv. >> as your husband drove towards lviv, you were able to track him on your phone? >> on the what's app. share your location. and i can check where he's at. it was like the hardest hours. when you realize that all your family, your husband and kids driving and it's bombing and can be anything. >> reporter: when the family reunited, she thought her husband wasn't able to cross the border since men of a certain age were being told to stay and help defend ukraine. so her kids ages 3, 7 and 9 boarded a train to poland. meanwhi

randi kaye reports this was the latest in a series of attacks in the city's subways. >> reporter: januarymentally ill man shoved a woman on to the subway train track in times square. police say 40-year-old michelle alissa go was pushed on to the tracks of an oncoming train around 9:40 a.m. investigators say the attack was unprovoked. police identified a 61-year-old man as the attacker and charged him with second-degree murder. he later turned himself in. >> our battle is the subway system is fighting the perception of fear that cases like this could happen. >> reporter: stay away from the subway platform's edge said new york city's subway chief after yet another january incident. in that case, police say a 62-year-old man suffered injuries after being pushed on to the subway tracks at the fulton street subway station in lower manhattan. he was treated a at a hospital for a cut to his leg. >> i don't want to tell people they should stand on subway platforms and feel like they're in threat of their lives. but everybody should stand away from the edge of the platform. >> reporter: and look a

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cnn's randi kaye has more. >> i realized something happened because at 5:30 maybe a.m.orter: she was on a business trip last month in lviv ukraine near the polish border when russia started bombing her country. her husband and their three children were hundreds of miles away at the family's home outside kyiv. >> i just asked my husband to bring the kids to me. >> reporter: she and her husband alexander def vvised a plan. he would drive them through the night seven hours one way to meet her in lviv. as your husband drove towards lviv you were able to track him on the phone? >> in what's app, there is one option to share location and i can online check where he is because it was like the hardest hours when you realize that all your family, your husband and your kids driving and it can bomb and it can be anything. >> reporter: when the family reunited, she thought her husband wasn't able to cross the border since men of a certain age were being told to stay and help defend ukraine. so she and her kids ages 3, 7 and 9 boarded a train to poland and at the same time half a wo

cnn's randi kaye visited one camp and joins us live now from a border crossing in california. re in san ysidro, california. across the border from us we found hundreds of ukrainians living in a tent camp in tijuana, just across the u.s. border, hoping to gain access to the united states. that tent camp was closed, just hours after we visited there due to safety concerns. but here's what we found. this woman and 2 1/2-year-old son are living in a tent in tijuana, mexico, along with her husband they escaped the war in ukraine and are hoping to enter the united states. this is your son? one child? >> one. >> reporter: she shows me on the map where she says she once lived in western ukraine. before the russian bombs started to fall. how long did it take you to get to mexico? your travel? she tells me she traveled through four countries to get here, mexico is allowing ukrainians in with a simple travel visa. they just ran, she says, taking only a small suitcase and a blanket for her son. she worries about him with the cold temperatures at night. they are one of hundreds of ukrainian

. >>> now to randi kaye in mole toe have a where there are. [ moldova that where there are fears that they may be spreading. and why are moldova concern? >> reporter: there is a breakaway republic that sits on the border and we've been talking to people about how concerned they might be about living so close. there are five bridges that connect moldova to trhere. and there were recent explosions where ukrainians are blaming russia. and about 1500 russian troops are based there. and then you have this russian commander who in recent days said that russia wants to control awful southern ukraine and they could possibly create this land corridor that would stretch into tranc. and one guy said that he would stay and fight and protect his family and country. many others though told us that they have passports ready to flee. they won't stick around for what they are seeing happen in ukraine if they can get out. and we spoke to an authority who said that he believes vladimir putin would be looking to show that he could be victorious and that moldova would be an heeasy target. here is what he

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randy kaye has more. >> reporter: republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene defending her alleged. >> prior to january 6, 2021, had you heard people were planning to enter the capitol building illegally in order to disrupt the electoral count process? >> no, absolutely not. i don't know anything about that. >> reporter: true to form greene was combative from the start. early on greenu was asked if she was aware of any effort to interfere with the electoral vote count. >> i had no knowledge of any attempt, and so that's a question that i can't answer. >> can i ask the court to acknowledge this is an adverse witness, a hostile witness? >> reporter: greene strongly defended various tweets she was confronted with leading up to january 6th saying she was only encouraging a peaceful march. >> the word peaceful is nowhere in this tweet, right? have a look. that word peaceful is not in this tweet. >> i can't read it. >> i'm asking -- there's not a secret code in there that's supposed to be peaceful, right? >> i never mean anything for violence. i don't support violence of any kind. >> rep

our randi kaye is in moldova. cnn's oren lieberman at the pentagon and mj lee at the white house.ut first let's bring in isa soares live from lviv in ukraine. isa? >> reporter: good morning to you, michael. in the last few hours we have heard that russian forces are continuing their offensive in the east, along the entire line in fact of contact in donetsk and luhansk, but ukraine is pushing back, holding off these attacks on several fronts, michael, even recapturing a town near kharkiv, and that is according to ukrainian officials. and in the last few minutes as well, intelligence from uk's ministry of defense, as you can see on your screen, russia has been forced to merge as well as redeploy some of its units that took part in the failed advance in northeast that likely suffering from weak moral as you're seeing there. in kyiv, meanwhile the city's relative peace was shaken by russia's missile attack on thursday night. it happened while the u.n. secretary general was finishing his visit here. earlier i spoke with the ukrainian lawmaker within an earshot of one of the targets. ha

let's bring in randi kaye who went to the contested area today.see, and explain why this territory is so significant. >> well, jake, we wanted to see how close we could get to trance this nia. it's about a 40-minute drive. we wanted to see just how to get there, and this is that breakaway republic, as you mentioned, it sits on the border between moldova and ukraine, and that shared border is about 250 miles long. trancenistria is about the size of rhode island. we were able to reach one of the bridges and this is this bridge that leads to dubasari. we saw there were armed russian troops. there was an armed russian vehicle. so we quickly turned around and just went a little down the road, but they kept their eyes on us. they continued to watch us through binoculars. we have video of that. they were passing the binoculars back and forth, and they also changed position on the bridge while we were there. when we first arrived, actually there was one member of the troops on moldova side, and while we were there, they all moved on to the bridge, unclear

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cnn's randi kaye has the story. >> reporter: this was the scene discovered by two charlotte county, floridating five or six feet into the air. >> car's on fire. >> what i could see was barely a person hanging out of it and then i opened my door and i could hear him screaming for me. as i get close to the vehicle, the fire was so hot that you could feel the hairs on your arm just kind of starting to burn off. >> reporter: deputies garrett parrish and vasquez knew they needed to act fast. >> not only was any the car trapped, but the whole right side of him was on fire. >> reporter: that's right, the man was on fire. so they tried to use a pocket knife to cut his seat belt. when that didn't work, they made a mad dash for a fire extinguisher from their car. >> i need somebody here now. >> it is a man's life at risk, right there. he's burning. >> he's very vocal about telling us he's burning too. he was screaming that to us, i'm on fire, i'm burning. >> reporter: it all happened around 1:00 in the morning. a witness called 911 to say he heard a crash. the car hit a tree while negotiating a curve

randi kaye, cnn, at the u.s. border with mexico. >>> let's head live to brussels now.foreign ministers meeting about to begin. the secretary-general of nato is speaking. let's listen. >> -- weapons and many different types of support to ukraine. nato also has responsibility to, of course, protect and defend all allies. so we have, since the invasion of ukraine, stepped up military presence in the eastern part of the alliance, and we are making sure that there is no room for misunderstanding, miscalculation in moscow about our willingness to protect and defend all allies. you being here provides us with a very good opportunity to sit down with you, to listen to your assessment, your analysis, and together discuss the way forward, how we can further support ukraine. so dmytro, please, welcome, it's good to have you here. >> good morning. thank you, jens, for welcoming me. i came to brussels to participate in the nato ministerial and to hold bilateral meetings with allies. my agenda is very simple. it has only three items on it. it's weapons, weapons, and weapons. we are

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plus the mother told randi kaye she and her family have been invited to the cooper city community meeting next month, and a neighbor has set up a gofundme page for her and her family. the link is on the screen. >>> let's hand it over to wolf blitzer and cnn tonight. >> thank you very much. i'm wolf blitzer. this is "cnn tonight." we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. is vladimir putin now arresting some of his own aides over frustration? are some of his sabotaging efforts in ukraine? there is more evidence of growing tensions within putin's own inner circle. here's president biden today on what he's hearing. >> he seems to be -- i'm not saying this with a certainty. he seems to be self-isolated, and there's some indication that he has fired or put under house arrest some of his advisers. but i -- i don't want to put too much stock in that at this time because we don't have that much hard evidence. >> that followed a question about whether putin's being misled about the war by some of his own defense officials, something u.s. intelligence and the pentago

randi kaye visited one camp. >> reporter: this woman and 2 1/2 year old son are living in a tent in tijuanad states. this is your son? one child. she shows me on the map where she once lived in western ukraine, before the russian bombs started to fall. how long did it take you to get to mexico? she tells me she travelled through four countries to get here. mexico is allowing ukrainians in with a simple travel visa. they just ran, she says, taking only a small suitcase and a blanket for her son. she worries about him with the cold temperatures at night. they are just one of hundreds of ukrainian families camped out here at the u.s. border with mexico. the tents are set up at the border crossing just south of san diego. at the time of our visit, about 2,400 people were waiting to enter the u.s., which has promised to allow 100,000 ukrainians on humanitarian grounds. they can stay for one year. how quickly are these refugees able to get into the u.s.? >> oh, my gosh, not quickly enough. we can get across maybe 300 people a day on a good day. some days are 200 and some days are 150. so, it all