store where you are. yes. and then after that, it was silent but i didn t know if there were more people in the store or anything and i proceeded to get a phone call from another friend. he is a is a local that gives employees rides to and from the store and he called me and said, please tell me that you are okay and i whispered to him and i said, yes, i m scared. i m i don t know what to do and he says, where are you, and i said, i m at the desk. he said, stay down, don t move. the cops are outside and they are going to be coming in and i will be outside waiting for you. it just come find me outside. so i waited and i heard the walkie-talkies from the police and i peeped my head up a little bit over the counter and a officer happen to look in the window when he said, stay down. stay down. i got back down flat and i waited a couple more minutes. it seemed like forever. i heard people walking and i heard somebody crying hysterically. i kind of just got up and stood up with
not the last aid package for ukraine has been overwhelmingly approved by the u.s. congress. a rare and notable achievement given the deep political divisions between democrat and republican lawmakers. on thursday, the $40 billion aid package for both military and humanitarian assistance passed the senate, but not without opposition. 11 republicans voted against the bill in defiance of republican mitch mcconnell. anyone concerned about the cost of supporting a ukrainian victory should consider the much larger cost should ukraine lose. president biden is now heading to south korea and is expected to sign the bill into law once he arrives. but wait there s more. just as the senate approved that $40 billion, the biden administration announced another security package worth $100 million and the flood of money to ukraine comes at a critical moment. ukraine s top military commander claims his troops have broken the russian siege s at kharkiv and miykolaiv and says ukrainia for
remarks here in south korea, president hailed the u.s./south korea relationship as a linchpin of peace and stability. trying to shore up the alliance with japan after his visit concludes here in south korea. he wants to bolster the relationship as a team when u.s. intelligence is warning of a heightened threat of a north korean missile and/or nuclear test, potentially while president biden is here in the region. certainly a moment of heightened tension. and president biden wants to send a strong message that the u.s. will defend its allies in the region. now, listen, president biden is also making clear this is about national security. it s also about economic security. that is why we saw the president visiting a samsung semiconductor chip factory earlier today. and the president in reinforcing his message about this region by talking also about the war in ukraine and russia, insisting the u.s. and wall lies should not be relying on autocracies for critical materials. and tha
looming in the background, china, which has been flexing its military power in the region recently. north korea, which may launch a missile test during the president s visit to the pacific region. and, of course, the war in ukraine. president biden called out vladimir putin in his remarks today, and he s set to sign off on a major aid package while in asia to help ukraine. cnn s white house correspondent jeremy diamond is in seoul following the president. so, jeremy, what else happened on biden s first day there? reporter: well, alison, in his first remarks in south korea, president hailing the u.s./south korea relationship as a linchpin of peace, prosperity. there are heightened intention with north korea as u.s. intelligence indicates that north korea could potentially test fire an intercontinental ballistic missile and or a nuclear weapon while president biden is here in south korea or while he is in the region as he goes to japan next. that has, of course, heightened
white house conference on food, nutrition, and health that people can t live with their conscience if people go. hungry three bills here sent to congress, in which he said, should virtually eliminate poverty as a sort of malnutrition. delegates to the conference streamed into a washington hotel. they included corporation executives, welfare mothers, labor leaders, doctors, young social activists, indians, mexican americans, and bureaucrats. some lobbied for their ideas to end hunger. the conference was opened by president nixon. he said now is the time to do something for the estimated 15 million americans too poor to buy enough food. until this moment in our history as a nation, the central question has been, whether we as a nation would accept the problem of a malnourishment as a national responsibility. that moment has passed. on may 6th, i asserted to congress that the moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in america itself for all-time. speaking for this administ