several have outlawed abortion immediately under the so-called tigger laws that will ban or restrict most abortions in roughly half the country. the biden administration weighing options to try and protect abortion rights. former acting attorney general math i hue whitaker joins us in just a moment, but first alexis mcadams is lye in new york city live in new york city with the protests, but let s start with david spunt live at the supreme court. we can hear those crowds still gathering on both sides, chanting, jeering or cheering. david, what s the latest from there? reporter: a lot of energy outside the united states supreme court, that is for sure. things were quiet early this morning, but things began to pick up with several how coming outside the high court to lend their voices just a few hours ago. we re going to take just a little bit of a pan of the crowd right now. you can see there s quite a crowd out here. both sides of this abortion issue out here, though wher
cutting strips of cloth hour after hour, then sewing them into elaborate meshes. we spoke to one 57-year-old man and asked him why it gave him so much satisfaction. here s what he had to say. translator: if my work has saved the life of just one of our soldiers, then it will all be worth it to me. reporter: those giant innocents are thrown over arounr artillery pieces or even soldiers in the grass because both sides use drones. they are certainly necessary in this war. back to you. arthel: steve harrigan live in odesa, ukraine, thank you very much. eric: yesterday marked four months since russia invaded ukraine and this war started, and as the fighting grinds on with no apparent end in sight, experts say putin is deicively defeated unless putin is defeated. the u.s. is sending more medium-range rockets to ukraine and that assistance, they say, can t come fast enough. ukrainians are bravely fighting
intense fighting is turning many cities into rubble are. steve harrigan is live in odesa, ukraine, with the very latest. steve? reporter: that s right, arthel. ukrainian officials now admitting that they ve ordered their forces to retreat from the city in doe necessarying, the two sides have battled over this city for weeks, russia launching daily and nightly blows nightly. up to this point, 90% of the buildings in that city are completely destroyed, so to avoid being surrounded and captured, those ukrainian forces pulling out. ukrainian officials say they are losing up to 200 soldiers each day in the fighting. as that fighting intensifies in the east, around the country those who can t get to the front line in ukraine, a lot of senior citizens and also women with small children are doing what they can to volunteer. we saw one volunteer center where they were making camouflage nets, sewing them,
we communicate with the governor of the donetsk region pavlo kyrylenko. he takes responsibility to communicate with that side. so we received information from the governor of the donetsk region. that was the deputy mayor of mariupol telling me that they were not able to safely evacuate their citizens from the city because the shelling and fighting continued. well, all of today, i ve spent time speaking to volunteers who were at an arts centre where they were making camouflage nets for the military. at least 200 volunteers that had gathered there and they make about a0 nets a day and the army comes and picks it up and takes it to where they are needed most. while i was there, i met a young woman who came to us in tears, devastated because she doesn t know where her husband is now.
possible while that humanitarian corridor window is open for them. we also had overnight from ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky about the refusal of nato to impose a no fly zone. that has not dampened in the sense of patriotism and resolve, try to do what they can looking to assist in anyway they can. young people at the centre in a space where they are making camouflage nets. i willjust walk in this direction to show you what they are doing. they are using cloth being sent by people across this country, and they are cutting them up, and as you can see, almost using the net to create this camouflage which they were then sent to the army in places like kyiv for