place yesterday for the city of mariupol itself, more than 300 people were evacuated, according to president zelenskyy speaking overnight. let s get more on all of this, daniel treeseman, a professor and author and joining me now from california. and daniel, a very good morning to you. let me start, really, with what we ve just heard from sara sidner and inside that mariupol steel complex. as we ve been looking in the last 24 to 48 hours, it s been completely battered and decimated by russian military. how do you see this playing out? reporter: well, the russians clearly would like to take the azovstal steel plant before may 9th. it seems that putin would like to announce victory on may 9ette and the last remaining part of mariupol that the russians haven t taken yet is this steel