good morning to you. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, may 14th. i m victor blackwell. happy mother s day to you. thank you. happy mother s day s to everyone. i m amara walker. thank you for joining us this morning. here s what we are watching for you. moving along. hard to tell. president biden and republican leaders are expected to meet this week as they rush to avoid an unprecedented debt default. the warning coming from the white house as that crucial june 1st date inches closer. ukraine s president says the country s counteroffensive against russia will begin soon as he meets with countries supplying billions of dollars in aid. what that looks like on the battlefield and the report that zelenskyy could be planning attacks inside russia. gone through a fiscal crisis, a pandemic, and a horrific tragedy that could shatter any community, but did not here. four university of idaho students fatally stabbed in their off campus apartments six months ag
ukraine. president zelenskyy is hinting that the long anticipated summer counteroffensive will begin soon. the comments come as he continues his tour of europe vying for support from his european partners. today he is in berlin. it s his first visit to the country since russia s invasion. and you know just recently germany promised its biggest batch of military aid to ukraine. now, inside ukraine russia is hitting targets across the country. this is new video. look at that fireball. this is new video of a drone attack that injured 21 people in western ukrsaturday. another attack killed two people, including a 15-year-old girl. that is a a spectacular sight. sam kiley joining us from southeastern ukraine. we know that ukraine has been gearing up for a military count offensive. how soon might that happen, sam? reporter: well, i think the ukrainians are keeping everybody guessing and that is part in a sense of the campaign itself.
friend, igor novikov former adviser to zelenskyy. good to see you again. i cannot imagine how it felt to learn that the bodies of over 900 civilians have been discovered very close to your home, igor. unfortunately, i have to say, it is the tip of the iceberg. i have been saying all along that we are underestimating the the death toll of this war. i think at the moment if we use the military count, it is somewhere close to 50,000 people. i think that is an underestimation as well. that is the reality of this brutal war. from what i m seeing and hearing, i think it ll only get worse. after they crushed bucha, russian forces basically left kyiv or so we thought. but now you are getting airstrikes again. what do you think the russian
what those are, and moving into absentee, military count, which i understand and florida have not been counted yet. provisional and absentee military absentees are one issue, but what we can t understand is why is it that mail in ballots and early votes are still being counted and have not yet been properly recorded? according to our laws, those votes are supposed to be uploaded the day before election so they can be reported half an hour after the votes close for the next day. so we understand what is happening in palm beach and broward, it is the same two counties that can t seem to get it right out of our 67 counties in the state of florida. laura: what about the concern i want to go back to you, joseph, about brenda snipes? in broward i m in the concern that marco rubio he was on another network no, he was on our network, earlier tonight, and he basically laid waste to what happens in broward county.
visional ballots and movinging into ab absentee military count. provisional is one issue. what we can t understand is why is it male mail- in ballots and early votes are still being counted. according to our laws those are supposed to be reported half an hour before election. we re at a loss to understand what s happening in palm beach and broward. and it is the same two counties that can t seem to get it right out of the 67 counties in the state of florida. laura: what about the concern? i m going to go back to you, joseph, about brenda snyder in broward and the concern that marco rubio was on another network no, our network earlier tonight. he was basically laying