please follow the show at jdbalart msnbc. thank you for your time. peter alexander picks up with more news right now. good morning. i am peter alexander here in washington. parts of ukraine are under fire in the dark and running low on water as russia unleashes a new barrage of air strikes overnight. president zelenskyy says 30% of his country s power stations are destroyed by russia part of what he says is vladimir putin s strategy to plunge ukraine into brutal conditions just as winter approaches. we are in ukraine with the very latest ahead. plus, just 21 days out from the midterms, president biden is going to put the spotlight on a crucial issue the democrats hope will motivate their voters. abortion rights. and he is ready to make this promise. codifying roe v. wade into law will be his first big legislative priority in the new congress. if he hopes that ll be enough to keep control of congress in democratic hands, that actually may hinge on a series of other issues. r
please follow the show at jdbalart msnbc. thank you for your time. peter alexander picks up with more news right now. good morning. i am peter alexander here in washington. parts of ukraine are under fire in the dark and running low on water as russia unleashes a new barrage of air strikes overnight. president zelenskyy says 30% of his country s power stations are destroyed by russia part of what he says is vladimir putin s strategy to plunge ukraine into brutal conditions just as winter approaches. we are in ukraine with the very latest ahead. plus, just 21 days out from the midterms, president biden is going to put the spotlight on a crucial issue the democrats hope will motivate their voters. abortion rights. and he is ready to make this promise. codifying roe v. wade into law will be his first big legislative priority in the new congress. if he hopes that ll be enough to keep control of congress in
we also learned from our folks at the pentagon that lieutenant john allen, of course, the commander of his coalition forces within afghanistan plans to call lakarzai today. conflicting information about how many people were killed and injured in this attack. one minister in afghanistan said it was 15. the president s office, karzai s office was it says 16 with nine wounded. what we believe happened, reports again are still sketchy. it is that a u.s. sergeant walked off a military base, coalition military base in southern afghanistan and volatile region, known as kandahar, went to a village and opened fire in the dark very early hours of the morning there. the president, the white house today put out a statement reading in part we are deeply concerned by initial reports of this incident and are monitoring the situation closely. we understand that the president has been briefed. we have heard from leading republicans on capitol hill,