liberated a number of towns near kharkiv. the region where they reported the civilian killed has seen several explosions. the cause is missiles and bombs. ukraine has not confirmed nor denied responsibility for the blast. another major development is finland joining nato possibly. they agreed to assist each other militarily should either country face attack. finland shares an 800 mile border with russia. finland s president will contact vladimir putin if that should happen. if that will be the case, what my response would be that you caused this. vladimir putin s profile. critics made a daring escape from russia. she ll tell us how she managed to get out. we ll start of the report of the russian civilian killed. scott mcclain. scott, since the first time this war began in february, what do we know? reporter: anderson, yeah. as you mentioned earlier, this is an area where ukrainians have been making progress in taking towns and villages around kharkiv. in those areas they
and if you re familiar with that area, it is extremely steep. extremely thick vegetation that has not burned in probably decades. once it s got ahold, and started up that hill, i think we all saw that, as soon as i got to my headquarters, you could see the tremendous smoke column and we knew we had a significant fire. okay, this is the live scene right now of what s happening in the laguna hills area. this is the orange county area of colorado. it s about an hour or so outside of los angeles. it s very close to the ocean. you can see that fire burning in the distance there on the hills as the fire officials describe it. that of course is a palm tree. one of the issues they ve had with this fire is that embers have been spread by the winds. in fact, that s why some of these houses, according to the fire officials, have actually been burnt and have been involved in fire, as you can see right there. the embers have been managing to get inside the homes, into their attics and t
putin. well, if that would be the case that we join, what my response would be is that you caused this. look at the mirror. back in the u.s., a milestone almost unthinkable just a few years ago. 1 million americans have died of covid. the president ordering flags lowered to half staff in a country changed forever. we are also learning more today about this amazing story involving nerves of steel and an emergency landing soft as a willow. what happened minutes before a passenger had no choice but to take controls. let s begin with finland s decision to pursue nato membership. nic, is there any doubt that nato would rush to approve finland s application? they ve already given them a green light, if you will. nato secretary general today said that they will be warmly welcomed. there s been a lot going on behind the scenes in brussels at nato head quarters. a lot of conversations between different nations. and all of it coming to the same point. if finland joins nato whic
he s been really quiet, really reserved, but very funny. just a quiet, dry humor. it will be interesting to see how one of the greats, their minds, translates the games for those who are watching it with them as opposed to those who are watching him play it. that s going to be the exciting part for me and everyone woiho a fan of football. it s hard to not like tom brady. it really is. thank you so much for being with us. now day continues right now. good morning to our viewers ear in the united states and all around the world. it is what day is it? it is wednesday, may 11th. i m john berman with breonna taylor brianna keilar. a vote needs 1r060 votes to pasn a senate that s currently split 5050. what it will do, says majority leader chuck schumer is get every member on the record on the critically issue of abortion rights. pennsylvania senator bob casey, one of the historically anti-abortion democrats says he will vote to codify the roe v. wade decision. this is com
of a single party state. you know, the state had used to have a long tradition of democrats having a presence there, but really it boiled down to joe manchin and i think that result seems to indicate that the sort of joe manchin wing is very small and it certainly is not large enough to overcome trump s dominance in that state. but when you look at nebraska, you have the added factor here of an actual scandal, credible sexual assault allegations against herbster in the last several weeks of this campaign, and it seems that even trump can t overcome that. trump may be able to get away with a lot when it comes to those kinds of allegations, but he can t transfer that over to other candidates in a lot of cases. it is not the first time that trump has endorsed candidates who have been accused of misconduct, he did it in alabama, with roy moore, he did it in pennsylvania, prior to that his candidate chosen candidate dropping out of the race, and in this case, in nebraska, he