thanks for joining us in this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead, donald trump s son eric due back on the stand minutes from now. what he and his older brother said in court today in the civil fraud trial. a senior hamas leader just reiterating his vow to repeat the horrific october 7th attack on israel again and again as fighting ramps up in gaza. what does it mean for the future of the conflict? plus, the long journey to escape. at least 79 americans and their family members have been allowed to exit gaza in the last two days, according to a senior biden administration official. but for palestinians, the only way out is having a significant injury, as the situation there worsens daily. and here at home, a vote to expel embattled republican congressman george santos fails in the house. but his legal and political troubles are far from over. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments in new york. we are waiting for eric trump to get b
can put an end to any format of negotiations. negotiations that might have prevented the carnage in kharkiv, ukraine s second largest city, where fresh shelling today killed 5 and injured 20, according to the regions governor and destroyed a central world kitchen restaurant that was feeding thousands. but it s mariupol that has become the symbol of civilians suffering. russia s two-month siege has trapped hundreds of thousands of civilians with little food, clean water, electricity or medical care hundreds of thousands have managed to flee on 15th of march we escaped. what i can remember are dead bodies around us, yeah we were arriving around dead bodies, so we were driving around dead bodies, dead children reporter: nick runs a local television channel in mariupol. dozens of his staff remain in the city
the aimages of complete and utter destruction in borodianka is heart wrenching. the city s mayor is now speaking to cnn. this is something we ve seen from city to city across this country, those strikes not by accident, often guided missiles hitting civilian targets. cnn s brianna keilar joins us now from lviv and brianna, it is almost exhausting, right, to see these images every day and to interview and witness the civilians suffering. you spoke to the mayor yesterday. how did it describe it all? he basically described, jim, a city that is raised, right? these were high-rise buildings and they have been pancaked with people inside of them. we heard from president
the death toll in that city alone is close to 2200 people. civilians suffering, trapped unable to evacuate. living without heat, electricity and running water and say food is running out. a russian air strike comes dangerously close to the border of a nato ally. ukraine says russian war planes p fired more than 30 hmissiles ner the western city of lviv about 12 miles from ukraine s border with poland and that adds to the fear the conflict can catastrophically escalate and draw in nato, including the united states. the strikes killed 35 people. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy posted these images on social media today. he s seen visiting wounded soldiers in the hospital and comes as russia requests military assistance from china according to a senior u.s. official.
apartment complexes have been hit in kyiv over the last 24 hours. more and more pictures we are seeing like this, civilians suffering. we re also awaiting an extraordinary summit of sorts from the leaders of three key nato nations. we re talking about poland, the czech republic and slovenia. they re all headed to kyiv at this moment to meet with ukrainian leader president zelenskyy there in the capital. a city under siege. clearly a huge risk in that. meantime, in southern ukraine, we have seen relentless attacks on this key port city of mykolaiv in the south, an effort by the russians to take over that key strategic port. cnn s nick paton walsh, we want to warn you, some of this video is graphic. reporter: we have seen during the night behind me the sky occasionally light up from the continued rocket fires that go back and forth between the two sides here as russia, it seems, is trying to move to the north