small in beijing. so why the lockdown or partial lockdown of beijing is necessary, we can see the necessity, it is justified. beijing is necessary, we can see the necessity, it isjustified. maybe they are just trying to use a harsh, very stringent measures to control it, so that can actually be early, because in the case of shanghai, they did it very late. so after more than one month of partial lockdown of shanghai, still the cases could not come to zero. at community level or in the whole city. so not come to zero. at community level or in the whole city. or in the whole city. so would you sa that or in the whole city. so would you say that the or in the whole city. so would you say that the zero or in the whole city. so would you
also this hour, we re looking at a new report detail the wall along the u.s. southern border. and a large wildfire is blazing through the northern part of the state of neemz. teresaleger fernandez will join us with more. and right now, in ukraine, hundreds of civilians and ukrainian fighters remain trapped inside a steel plant in mariupol. the very latest stronghold in the besieged port city. this morning, the mariupol city council said people are still waiting to evacuate after more than 100 people were able to make it out over the weekend. and we re just now getting an inside look, these are the horrors they experienced. matt bradley has the very latest. we heard from people who have come here, they mostly come, some, a couple from villages and
at one point we heard it was delayed because of safety concerns but did not hear anything more about that, and then there s the evacuation from the steel plant in mariupol, and you are seeing those pictures now. about 100 people, civilians were able to get out of the steel plant yesterday. they were taken on buses. this was coordinated by the united nations. the international committee of the red cross. it s confusing and conflicting information when it comes to where they are right now. there are reports they were taken to russian held territory but that if they wanted to go to ukrainian held territory they would be allowed to do so. we understood from the mayor of mariupol that those buses would be in ukrainian-controlled, about 140 miles from mariupol at some point this morning, and then we heard maybe this
towns outside mariupol. some from only 40 minutes away from here, and still, their cars are little shrapnel marking, bits, it looks like they have fragments of weapons, and they are carrying signs that say children. and white flags hanging from their mirrors and antenna this. internationally recognized signal, do not shoot, yet we still see bombed-out, burned-out cars, carrying the sign that says children in russian, carrying those white flags, that so clearly has v-been the victims of shooting, bombardment, shrapnel, it is terribly sad and so are the people that we keep saying who are arriving, some of them, you can tell on their faces just signs of horrific desperation. matt bradley, thank you. this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi and a group of lawmakers are headed back to the u.s. after meeting with polish president duda in war saw a few hours ago. it comes after they met with ukrainian president zelenskyy,
because we re listening, erin mclaughlin s piece on the person whose husband is in mariupol, who is in there, as one of the defenders of that steel plant, saying that there is little help that they can be extracted. it seems like a difficult mission to extract fighters in there when there is so much russian forces, and i m curious, general, when you were saying that, you said the word parity, between ukrainian forces and russian forces, what did you mean by that? well, look, i think the defense of mariupol has sucked in a huge number of russian forces in the south. russian marines and army, and the forces came out of crimea, they battled for now 60-some-odd days, they have suffered huge casualties, that has given a period of time for ukraine s major army units to re-equip with nato-provided arms.