fighters will withdraw from a high profile battle in ukraine next week. the major blow to russian president vladimir putin and what it could mean for the war if they do retreat. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments here. i want to begin in ukraine with the latest commenting from the leader of russia s wagner group, threatening to withdraw from bakhmut if he s not supplied with more ammunition. this graphic video with the bodies of russian soldiers, he would draw as soon as next wednesday, significantly after victory day celebrations in russia. this is a guy trying to earn putin s good graces, the latest declaration is shocking. reporter: the words in the declaration are not necessarily so surprising because we have heard him in recent days since last week make this claim that he says russia s ministry of defense is not providing his group with enough ammunition in bakhmut. what is surprising here is the tone that he has in these videos and the
faced with delays and cancellations look at these numbers and they will get higher heading to the fourth of july. passengers are just trying to deal with it and get through it. they say this. i have a five-hour layover. i got to la guardia airport at new york in 6:00 a.m. to find out that my 8:00 fight was cancelled. even with the delays, they worked with us. we had no problems. oh, boy. this person is way more patient than i would be. the pilots are out in force and protesting today. they say they are stretched way too thin, that even that flights are being put in place, that they know they don t have pilots for. then there s this concern. listen closely. they re trying to fly airplanes without pilots available. they re pilot pushing and narrowing the margin of safety. martha: that does and sound good. where is the secretary of transportation in this? he announced a $1 billion pilot program for road equity. his office says they re doing things to make sure pe
will be here to honor his wife. poppy, phil. certainly quite a day ahead. and we will have eva, thank you very much, full live coverage of that, it begins at noon eastern right here on cnn. thank you so much for starting your day with us. we ll see you back here tomorrow. cnn news central is now. we are standing by this morning for ten more hostages to be released by hamas. now, the fifth day of the fragile truce between israel and hamas. one day more than the original agreement to get hostages out, and only one day now and only one day more before now fighting could resume. and with these two additional days more hostages will be released and more aid will get into gaza. 51 israeli citizens and 18 foreign nationals have been released by hamas since the pause began friday. just yesterday, among the hostages released was a mother and her 3-year-old twin daughters. you see pictures of them there. they re coming home without their father. he is still being held captive by
the distance. the israelis are trying to engage anyone that tries to ambush their forces. the battle is street by street. it s urban gorilla warfare. neil: one month in, israel says they have gaza city surrounded and preparing to move in. the white house trying to move in. is the president starting to back off from his israel position? still with them, but maybe not as with them. coming up, we re going to talk to the national security council s john kirby on how far the white house is willing to go. welcome. i m neil cavuto. happy to have you with us. let s go to mike tobin in southern israel with the latest on this preparation for something big and pretty soon. mike? neil, while the israeli forces are not letting up as you mentioned, gaza city is surrounded. in fact, they have the israeli navy bringing pressure from the sea. overnight, there was an aerial bombardment with 450 targets being hit. the air strikes continue tonight. the palestinian health minute try said the
so obviously he said a lot of his constituents, too, are frustrated here because, you know, they did things the quote unquote, right way. they, you know, entered legally or waited for the process here. you know, does it feel like this issue is being too much of a political football here, passing the can down the road saying, no, it s republicans when at the end of the day, democrats were also sent to congress to get things done. everything is a political football these days, but what we certainly see, and this goes for every major issue of significance that it absolutely will require democrats and republicans to come to the table, to compromise and to get something done. the only point that i am making here, though, is if we are truly going to address the root causes of our present immigration crisis, we have got to address the fact that there are not enough asylum judges. there are not enough asylum courts. there aren t enough resources centered around that, and there is not a cle