steel plantd in mariupol, the resistance to the war that vladimir putin will not call a war, official inside the plant tells the washington post the situation is, quote, critical. translator: the shelling and storming of asovstal is not stopping but civilians still need to be taken out. women, many children remain there. president says, quote, if there is hell in the wuorld it s in asovstal. the hell is intense, growing darker by the hour by all accounts yet an official said russian troops entered the territory of the steel plant but, were, quote, repelled by defenders. again, that is the reality, one vladimir putin is trying to deny so he can secure, we assume, something that resembles a win four days ahead of a holiday special to the russian people that commemorates their victory in world war ii. and a war, vladimir putin s closest ally, dictator of belarus, said today, dragged on, russian troops weren t repelled because they never tried to enter the steel plant in the
refuse to pay in rubles. is the president really wanting title 42 to go away because it was a trump era policy. the president has never felt that title 42 was effective. jen psaki can spin this any way she wants. 4, 3, 2, 1. four astronauts on their way to the international space station. go falcon. let freedom ring. pete: good morning, you are looking at a live shot of charlotte, north carolina where according to fox weather 48 degrees. ainsley: what s the high going to be? pete: the high will be 74. ainsley: okay. nice. we ll take it. pete: it is wednesday, april 27th year of our lord 2022. the voice you hear is not brian kilmeade. for that i apologize. i m here with steve doocy and ainsley earhardt. ainsley: we are so glad you are here april 27th. only have really about a month left of school when do your kids get out first week of june? pete: late may. steve: my kids are out of school all i m thinking about about a month big vacation. right
all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york, welcome to alex witt reports. new questions today around the killing of 22-year-old amir locke in a pre-dawn raid wednesday. that was carried out by the minneapolis police department serving a no-knock warrant. yesterday, hundreds of protesters again took to the streets of minneapolis to demand justice for locke. nbc s megan fitzgerald has more. reporter: anger and frustration pouring out into the streets from new york to minneapolis. horns and lights blaring in protest after minneapolis police shot and killed 22-year-old amir locke after entering an apartment on a no-knock warrant that police now say locke wasn t listed on. body cam video capturing the deadly encounter on wednesday just before 7:00 a.m. in seconds, where locke appears to be under a blanket. police say a gun slides from underneath, and officers opened fire. nbc news has reached out to the officer for comment, but has yet to hear back. that s the moment
favored? and, the winter olympic games. just four days away. we re going to show you the dark controversies that beijing wants to distract from during the games. our new series. behind china s wall. welcome to the lead. we start in the health lead. a bipartisan group of governors is calling on president biden to offer clear guidelines on how the u.s. can move beyond the pandemic now that new covid cases and hospitalizations are falling dramatically in the united states. even in places where the omicron variant hit later in the surge. in fact, 45 states in the u.s. are currently seeing cases decline or hold steady in the past week. but that s not the map that local officials used to determine when or if restrictions such as mask wearing and social distancing can be ditched. this is the map they used. the level of community transmission. it measures new cases per 100,000 residents. and nearly every u.s. county, as you see there, is still considered high. cnn s nick watt repor
i m dana bash live from milwaukee. today on inside politics, split screen like no other. eight people are slated to stride across the stage here in wisconsin. more on why eight may shrink to seven. . the republican who should be all the the center of the stage donald trump won t be here. but he s still very much the center of attention and he s share ing some of the spotlight with rudy giuliani. moments ago, the indicted attorney landed in atlanta. he s expected to negotiate his bond and surrender at the fulton county jail. i want to go strait to fulton county where paula reid is. rudy giuliani is now on the ground in atlanta preparing to surrender to authorities. set the scene there. reporter: in just moments, we expect that rudy giuliani s team will come here to the fulton county courthouse. they are scheduled to meet with the district attorney s office to negotiate the terms of rudy giuliani s release. once they get that bond agreement in place, then rudy giuliani c