8:00 in the morning. so right in the early morning rush hour here in kyiv. and the early times there was sirens going off for a very long time. and then just blast after blast that took place as the rockets were impacting the ukrainian capital here. and some of the places that we went to were in central kyiv. for instance there was a playground that was hit leaving a gigantic kracrater and a busy insection and there was just a seen of carnage at that intersection with several cars completely destroyed. we saw some dead bodies there as well and the ukrainians told us that five people were killed at that place alone. and just to give you an idea of the area that that was in, this was next to a museum and next to a university building. it is unclear that there would have been any sort of military infrastructure there. there certainly didn t seem to be any. and the ukrainians are telling us this is a scene that is going on in many parts of the country here in ukraine. they say th
here to discuss is white house reporters for at associated press simmon kim and lou oliver. simon, we re expecting to see the president out on the trail. what are we expecting to hear from him and why is it that he s welcome in some states and it appears there are others that he s skipping, case in point arizona. right. well the message that you re going to hear from the president this week is the message that he has driven all throughout the last several months as the campaigns heated up. and that is that this election even though it is a midterm election, that is it a choice. it is a choice between the democrats view perhaps of health care and protecting medicare as social security againsts what republicans have put up and that is what the white house has been trying to hammer home. their view that voters could make this a choice election rather than a referendum election. but you re certainly right.