a brutal attack inside of the district office of a u.s. congressman. a man with a metal baseball bat strikes a staffer and intern on her very first day. unconfirmed reports that an american has been killed on the ukrainian battlefield. the state department is now responding. and alarming report that has lawmakers taking action. all of this on cnn news central. we begin this morning with the house reports out of ukraine that claims of a u.s. citizen has died in bakhmut, and the state department is saying that it is looking into this. the besieged city in eastern ukraine has been seeing heavy fighting for months now, and now the wagner paramilitary group says a body has been found with u.s. military documents. and the state department says it is seeing additional information, and needs that in order to determine what happened here. we are hearing from the ukr ukrainian military saying that it has staved off a major russian attack. but the air defenses from the western w
what are you going to do tomorrow? can t top that. you can. bring it. see you tomorrow. cnn news central is now. that music. new reaction this morning after the town hall with former president trump. what democrats and republicans are saying and how this might shift the race for 2024 in surprising directions. key economic data just into cnn showing inflation is cooling. weekly jobless claims have ticked up to the highest levels since october 2021. title 42 ends today so what happens next as thousands of migrants are said to be waiting just across the southern border. we re following these stories and more. this is cnn news central. okay. so what now? this morning we are getting fresh reaction to former president donald trump and his appearance on a cnn town hall last night. president biden wrote, quote, it s simple folks, do you want four more years of that? a super pac backing florida governor ron desantis put out a statement called it, quote, an hour o
william la jeunesse is in tijuana, mexico to assess the conditions there jacqui heinrich at the white house with the latest from the biden administration. but we begin with correspondent bill melugin in brownsville, texas again tonight. good evening, bill. bret, good evening to you. cbp sources tell me in the last three days in a row, border patrol has made at least 10,000 migrant apprehensions. those are the highest daily totals ever recorded. fox is also told in the coming days we can expect to see the largest wave of mass releases the u.s. has ever seen. back to in the mexican border city of reynosa thousands of haitians have gathered ahead of title 42 s expiration at midnight. the change in policy means for the first time in over three years, border patrol will lose the ability to quickly expel migrants back to mexico in an already historic border crisis is expected to get worse. here in brownsville, evidence of that crisis is on full display. images from a fox dron
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heart-pounding view inside of the battle for bakhmut, and the footage that shows moment that ukrainian soldiers attacked their counterparts of enemies. thousands of new migrants continue to arrive each day on the southern border, and the action that the white house is hoping will discourage new migrants from coming. a key state of the u.s. economy and the crucial insight that consumers just provided right here on cnn news central. incredible new video into cnn this morning which appears to show ukraine s military attacking russian forces near the city of bakhmut, and the defense minister said they have pushed the russians back at least two kilometers in the city which is stuck in stalemate for months as we know, and now, take a look at this which appears to be in the newsroom which is appearing from the drone, and showing ukrainian soldiers attacking soldiers in bakhmut, and they say that ukraine s long-awaited counter offensive is taking shape, and they say that the st