announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone it was an encouraging sight for american families who had been hard pressed to find infant formula for their babies pallets and pallets of formula, 35 tons, arriving in the u.s. from europe aboard a military transport plane, enough to feed 9,000 babies and 18,000 toddlers for one week but the math doesn t yet add up to full store shelves. with 43% of formula supplies nationwide out of stock tonight the biden administration moving on several fronts, including another military shipment planned for later this week to try to ease the shortage but relief may still be some weeks away, leaving frustrated and anxious parents further on edge. jo ling kent has late details. reporter: when the first emergency aircraft for operation fly formula landed, it delivered a sign of hope, alongside growing nationwide panic. everything is empty. i don t know about y all, but this is scary. reporter: aboard
abroad could start arriving this weekend. after the president used emergency powers to try to solve this formula crisis. amid the conflicted messaging, the white house is in the midst of a staff shakeup. john kirby is now headed to the white house joining the national security council. the latest from ukraine where the donbas region in the east is, quote, completely destroyed and resembling hell according to president zelenskyy. this as ukraine is about to get nearly $60 billion more in aid from the u.s. and from g7 nations. in oklahoma, the most restrictive abortion law in the nation approved by the legislature on thursday. banning the procedure from the moment of fertilization. the first of the growing challenges facing the white house. joining me now is senior white house correspondent. kyle: kelly o donnell in seoul, jonathan lemire, and former white house press secretary robert gibbs. we have former undersecretary of state richard s this engle. kelly, why thi
is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. ukrainian president ze zelenskyy said that more than a thousand villages and towns have been retaken, including six more over the past 24 hours. he said the russians are paying a heavy price for their aggression. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers. many of them young conscripts, they have lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles and a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters and drones and all of the prospects as a state. ukraine said that russian troops are continuing to retreat around the city of kharkiv in the north. they claim to have blocked a russian advance in a key river, the destroyed pontoon bridges, the top u.s. defense ministry spoke for an hour on friday, their first since the war began. the pentagon said that lloyd austin appealed to keep the lines of communication open. in the donbas, ukrainian forces claimed to have stopped a russian advance across a key river. repor
of choice. this as the first war crimes trial against a russian soldier begins. plus, amid the world s harshest covid lockdown, we get a glimpse of the emotional and mental toll it s having on families. and as parents in the u.s. struggle to find baby formula, we ll tell you how the white house is responding to the shortage. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than a thousand towns and villages have been retaken so far from russian forces, including six more over the past 24 hours. he says the russians are paying a heavy price for their aggression. here he is. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers, many of them young conscripts. russia has lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles, a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters, drones, and all of its prospects as a state. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of