now, keep in mind the year isn t even four months old yet. cnn and the car kaoeuf defined mass shootings is one that injures or kills four or more people. here are the cities in 2022 away. philadelphia, four times. sacramento, three times. pittsburgh furman, south carolina. las vegas. baltimore. columbia, twice. stockton, california, twice. brooklyn, twice. bronx. baton rouge. elin, illinois. cedar rapids, iowa, willow brook, california, indianapolis, washington, d.c., miami, philadelphia, hartford, covington, kentucky buffalo, sacramento, frank, dallas, shelby, monroe, colorado springs.
the heads of advisers, et cetera, and trying to reach, you know, vladimir putin who is a russian orthodox christian to say, hey, christian to ch christian, what you are doing is wrong. . i was going to say there couldn t be anything less christian. you took the words out of my mouth. an important conversation. thank you so much. all right. more on our breaking news. the eastern town of kreminna has fallen to russian forces. we re also live on the ground in lviv where russian forces struck a civilian target for the first time since they invaded ukraine. plus, the wife of a kremlin critic detained in russia joins us live stphraofplt and cnn s last remaining original employee said his life was saved when a colleague donated her kidney. they will join us next on new day for this great story.
for being with us this morning. and new day continues right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and all around the world. it is monday, april 18th. i am brianna keilar. john berman is off. john avlon is with us this morning. great to have you here. russia launching strikes across ukraine, sparing no city. four missile strikes hitting lviv overnight. seven people were killed, a dozen others injured, including a child among those casualties. officials say three of the missiles hit warehouses not being used by the military. the blast shattered windows at a hotel housing evacuees. the attacks breaking a relatively calm in the western city that has largely been spared. no civilian targets have yet been hit. even the curfew in lviv was
tweets, people who usually ask me, are you still working? and now it s better to get, how are you feeling. that is good news. richard, can you tell us a little bit about how you found out that samira was willing to help? how much time between sending that email out of sort of desperation, knowing that you were maybe going to get some help? i need to look back on this. as everyone knows, i save almost every email. i think it was an email, not a phone call, but i definitely want to check back. i know i saved one or two of her phone messages. she could have dropped out at any point. i had one or two people do that, we had doctors rule out some other cnn people. i always said for months, until this kidney is in me, i m not holding out hope because that s how perilous it all is. many other cnn people do not know in my contract there s a clause that says, the last
atlanta t. surgery was definitely easier on my body than on richard. i m continuously rooting for him. you both look and sound great. i know you re both going through a lot. especially you, richard, right now. i want to tell the story of how this all came to be. when people come to work at cnn, they say, it s big. you and richard, you obviously knew of each other. you didn t work closely. you didn t have a rich where you were immediate colleagues. how did this all come to be? that s right. i kind of joke that my kidney met richard before i actually did in person. i had only worked with richard over the phone. i edited at my job some of his scripts.