Russian forces in crimea have stormed one of the last military facilities on the peninsula still in ukrainian hands. Soldiers smashed through the front gates of the bill back where vehicles, gunshots and explosions could be heard complex. Om inside the one ukrainian soldier was injured. Officials said russia had given him an ultimatum to surrender. Russian forces have also been seizing Ukrainian Military assets elsewhere in crimea. Took control of ukraines only submarine. Is nowsays the vessel officially part of the black sea feet. For more now, we go to our correspondent on the ground. Plenty of dramatic new developments. Tell us more about the airbase. How important is the facility . Important for Ukrainian Forces and now for russians. From 2002 it was it wasian until 2002 a civilian airport. From 2002 it was military. Putin would use it for example when you visited the peninsula. It was most detected protected. It was very important to take control of the airbase because putin is go
The bridge will open on labor day. It has yet to be officially approved by that threeperson panel but thats expected to happen tomorrow at 10 a. M. Allen . It seems like the scale really tipped when the federal government signed off on this temporary fix to the permanent bolt fix. Reporter thats right. It has been a whirlwind 48 hours. We have seen a federal report come out approving that temporary fix for the bridge and not only approving it, but also urging caltrans to open this as soon as possible. This is a safety issue and we have heard officials over and over stress that the new bridge will be by far safer than the old bridge. We got a number of independent reports confirming that the earlier we can get people on the new bridge the better. A toneddown Opening Celebration but an owing there will be. Christin ayers, thank you. An opening there will be. New at 6 00 cisco in Silicon Valley is slashing its workforce. It announced its cutting about 4,000 jobs. Thats about 5 of its work
Cal or dental procedures. Im still going for my best. And for eliquis. Ask your doctor about eliquis. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live from washington every sunday. Tonight, Spring Cleaning in the Trump Administration. Rex tillerson gone. Andrew mccabe, gone. Is the Special Counsel far behind him . And what about other key members of the Trump Administration . Senator chris van haul enjoins me live to talk about what all of this means as the Foreign Policy obstacles mount for the United States. Plus, democrats pull off a serious upset in trump country. New polling just out today shows why pennsylvania could be just
the beginning. But we start with a restive weekend in the white house. That is an understatement. Andrew mccabe fired hours short of his retirement, and he kept his receipts. Reportedly handing over notes on the president to the Special Counsel. The Special Counsel subpoenaed the Trump Organization as the president s lawyer wondered aloud whether isnt it tim
Theres this boisterous army of protesters. Theyre here to send a message to the president and to lawmakers and to everyone whos listening. Theyre trying to prevent the next school shooting. And their battle cry is never again. So heres what the march for our lives website says theyre marching for today. They want to pass a law banning assault weapons. They want to expand background checks to eliminate the loopholes in the sales of guns at gun shows as well as online. Obviously this movement, though, is not monolithic. There are lots of people here well talk to that have their own ideas for how to cut down on gun violence. But those are the three stated goals. So this movement of course was born in the first days after the High School Massacre in parkland, florida. The students from Marjory Stoneman douglas who lost 17 of their classmates and teachers, they ignited this movement, and there are hundreds of those students here today. And several will address the crowd over the next few ho
Serious upset in trump country. New polling just out today shows why pennsylvania could be just the beginning. But we start with a restive weekend in the white house. That is an understatement. Andrew mccabe fired hours short of his retirement, and he kept his receipts. Reportedly handing over notes on the president to the special counsel. The special counsel subpoenaed the Trump Organization as the president s lawyer wondered aloud whether isnt it time for the special counsel to be ended . And now the president is fuming on twitter. Why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans . Worth noting that mueller, james comey and Rod Rosenstein are all republicans. So, with that out of the way, the president went on to golf at one of his properties, and across the globe the russian elections went off without a hitch. Vladimir putin running for another term as president , winning another term as president. If he completes it, he will have