hello. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. president biden will officially meet with ukraine s president zelenskyy at the g7 in japan tomorrow. the white house confirming just a short time ago ukraine scored a key victory with the u.s. after the biden administration signaled it will permit allies to send f-16 fighter jets to the war-torn nation. other g7 leaders have been meeting with zelenskyy. they offered their support for, quote, as long as it takes. g7 meetings are not just about ukraine. leaders are also weighing in on how to confront china s increasing military power. cnn s phil mattingly is in hiroshima. can you give us a preview of what the meeting might be like? reporter: a preview of the day, because i think that s important in the context of things. yes, the bilateral meeting between president biden and president zelenskyy, the first face-to-face meeting between the two since president biden s surprise trip to kyiv earlier this year. there was also a
is saturday, april 22nd. i m aymara walker. victor blackwell and you re in the cnn newsroom we begin this morning with the battle over abortion. the widely used abortion bruggeman kristen will remain available to women in the u. s without restrictions , at least in those states where abortion remains. the decision protects access to the drug at least until the appeals process plays out, but the protection could ultimately be taken away again. court ruling in texas earlier this month suspended government approval of the 23 year old drug. it s the latest in a series of moves against abortion rights. cnn supreme court reporter ariana vogue is with us now. so the decision stands in the hands in the body administration. they got a big win, also for abortion rights community a major victory, but the battle is not over. right the bind administration is relieved today, right because those lower courts put in these restrictions significant restrictions on this key abortion drug, the b
tractor trailers flipped after a string of tornadoes ripped across mississippi and alabama. we can t account for everybody and it just is hard. plus, the terrifying survivor stories. this woman hiding in a freezer. deadly explosion at a chocolate factory in pennsylvania. at least two people dead. one person found alive under the rubble, but others still missing. the blast so big, it rocked nearby buildings off their foundations. vladimir putin s nuclear escalation. russia now moving tactical nuclear weapons to belarus right on the border with ukraine. how the white house is responding tonight. former president trump s first big rally since announcing his run for president. thousands of supporters lining up for hours. what he now says about the looming indictment in manhattan. kidnapped in haiti. this american couple held for ransom. their relatives in the u.s. now pleading for help. we re going to find you and we re going to bring you home. plus, the former stud
you prefer the soviet style prt of the democratic party s internal elections, where votes from merely a formality. all the really big decisions, the meaningful ones, are made thars in advance by donors. oh, of course, everyone sif y on board. that s what they do. but ifou prefe you prefer democy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues thatet actually matter, it s pretty. refreshing to see it . yes, it s a little chaotic, buti this is what it s supposed to be now. we re going to give you a lotth more detail on what s happening in just a minute and throughout the week. but first, t firs a quick overviewe big to frame the big points. kevi kevin mccarthy of californo was going to be speaker. he was g wants to be speaker. in fact, he wants that job, more than anything else in his life. and he was going to get it. ause but then a group ofd that kevin twenty republican members stopped him. now they stopped becausepresent they decided that kevin mccarthy is not conser
them. this as elon musk says this company will no longer pay for critical satellite after he was told to, quote, f off. will a judge s decision come too late to make any kind of a difference? and they re called the triple threat. three latina women on the ballot in texas. they are republicans and what they re saying about abortion, the border and taxes even has democrats listening. let s go out front. i m erin burnett. inside putin s depraved draft. in a video that you will see first out front, we are seeing just how far russian officers are going to draft new fighters. this video is from st. petersburg, and what you are looking at is russian draft commissioners. they re waiting for men to exit a building. the woman that you hear, you just heard her voice and you see her there, you can hear her saying, who are you? look, they ve got papers. they ve been standing guard here since 7:30 in the morning. the older tells her not to film, asking her if she has kids. why are