Bret youre welcome. Good evening. Im Bret Baier, we have new Polling Information Tonight about the president ial election in two crucial Swing States. Thats coming up. House lawmakers meantime tear into the Secret Service over the first attempted assassination against former President Trump, that is the subject of tonights common Ground Segment new Yorks Mayor resists calls to step down after being charged in a federal indictment. But, first, were awaiting landfall for the powerful Hurricane Helene. Along the florida panhandle. This going to be a Multistate Event with potential for significant impacts. Every minute that goes by brings us closer to having conditions that are going to be simply too dangerous to nav navigate. Going to come a point where we Cant Rescue you. I convince myself that it is safer to leave. A little bit nervous. Me against Mother Nature right now. Bret helene is bringing heavy rain, high winds. Predicted to be a massive Storm Surge. Tens of thousands of commerce
forces are coming from the other three directions, neil. neil: you know, mike, when you walk around the streets there, it s a beautiful city and everything else, i mean, how are people just comprehending this? a week ago it seemed unthinkable even though it was feared, now the battle is on, very feisty street fighting on the part of just average citizens who have taken this into their own hands, giving the russians more problems than they calculated. but it s got to be sur vale surreal. reporter: the switch really seems to have flipped with that putin speech. i think people were very hopeful that it was never really going to manifest in an invasion until the point they heard that speech in which he recognized the breakaway regions. that s when one ukrainian told me they felt like the mask was off. the next day this town looked like business as usual, but when you talked to people on the street, it was different. one retired soldier said he was
personally. so, frankly, this comes down to the ability of the ukrainian military and the ukrainian people to resist, impose physical costs on him and then, ultimately, russians themselves saying this is not what we want. neil: ambassador lute, thank you so much. crazy times, at a minimum. thank you for giving us some perspective on that. you know, we are hearing word of many ukrainians, mostly women and children, who have, indeed, left the country, about 120,000. a good many of them making their way to poland on the western side of the country, and that s where you ll find our mike tobin n lviv, ukraine. mike, good to have you. what are we seeing on the evacuation front? poland has accepted virtually anyone and everyone who wants in, but what s the latest? reporter: well, as far as evacuations go and refugees trying to get out of the country, they re hitting all three of the western borders,
going down to the office to volunteer. in terms of volunteers, these places where they re handing out the weapons, the lines stream around the corner. you get great resolve when you talk to the ukrainian people. they are ready to fight, to defend their homeland, and what i hear from a lot of people is that it s not 2014. they re better armed now because they ve had some support, time to get ready for it, and there s better resolve. it s not a matter of just losing the peninsula, this is a matter of losing hair homeland, neil. neil: thank you, my friend. please be safe, mike. we re learning more about the actions some countries and businesses around the world are taking. estonia the latest to say it s banning russian airlines from its air space. i peeve we re up to about a dozen cities and/or countries that are banning flights from entering the country, also hearing that the european allies are looking to sanction more russian leaders beyond vlad a myrrh putin, that the council of europ