so, my call to action today is simple. tear off a small piece from your commencement program, and write life is for service on it. yes, we gave you the pens to really do it. up and on that no, i wish you a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with, us i will see you next week. thanks for staying up late doctor anthony fauci, joining us later on. we ll be asking, him how do we understand this rise in covid cases, across the country? how worried should we be that new funding, to fight covid, is still, bottled up in congress? let me start tonight with the story picked up last week in western michigan. sources tell the nbc affiliate at the town hall, more of the communities they covered, were like raided by law enforcement. if your reporter, and here the town hall is rated, your mind goes to corruption, graft, or some small town embezzlement scheme. these things happen, at all levels of government. but, that wasn t w
just days before the election, who is kathy bartlett and could she win? and good evening, welcome to a special edition of outfront, live from kyiv tonight i m erin burnett and russia with a new warning and a massive show in force. this comes as the u.s. is flexing its military muscles 700 miles south of ukraine. thousands of troops from america s allies join americans for military exercises in north macedonia, at some point, hundreds of paratroopers to the sky to demonstrate how quickly the alliance could respond to an attack. while it s important to note these exercises were planned for putin s invasion, it s always the option to hold them up, the u.s. with that and other exercises since the conflict began, no doubt the message was aimed at putin and it comes as former president dmitri medvalev gave a warning, quote, that russia will strengthen the number of air defenses and ground and air forces as well as naval forces if sweden and finland join nato. they probably will,
high. plus a funeral procession will take place soon as they demand answers for the killing of one of the arab world s most prominent journalists. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. first time since russia invaded ukraine 11 weeks ago, a russian civilian has been killed on russian soil by ukrainian shelling. report comes from the governor of belgorod just across the border from ukraine s second largest city kharkiv. ukraine won t say whether it s responsible for a series of recent attacks on the region. meanwhile new drone video and satellite images show ukraine has blown up at least two pontoon bridges in luhansk region. russians building them to move farther west in donbas offensive. and ukrainians claim they ve recaptured more villages in the kharkiv region, much of the area still in range of russian artillery fire. in the south, ukraine is offering to swap russian prisoners of war for wounded ukrai
sweden also expected to announce its intention to join the alliance. the kremlin reacting this morning, by calling finland s joining nato a threat to russia. on the battlefield in ukraine, ukrainian armed forces have acknowledged russian advances in some areas of the east. their scale, however, difficult to measure. plus, ukraine is now offering exchange of russian prisoners of war for the safe evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers from the surrounded azovstal steel plant in mariupol that has become their last holdout. for the first time, russian civilian has reportedly been killed on russian soil by cross border shelling from ukraine. of course, many ukrainian civilians, many thousands killed by russian shelling so far in this war. nic robertson is in helsinki, finland, and sara sidner in kyiv. nic, let s begin with the impending expansion of nato, particularly finland s joining and expected that sweden will follow. finland, a neighbor of russia, resisted this step for
putin. well, if that would be the case that we join, what my response would be is that you caused this. look at the mirror. back in the u.s., a milestone almost unthinkable just a few years ago. 1 million americans have died of covid. the president ordering flags lowered to half staff in a country changed forever. we are also learning more today about this amazing story involving nerves of steel and an emergency landing soft as a willow. what happened minutes before a passenger had no choice but to take controls. let s begin with finland s decision to pursue nato membership. nic, is there any doubt that nato would rush to approve finland s application? they ve already given them a green light, if you will. nato secretary general today said that they will be warmly welcomed. there s been a lot going on behind the scenes in brussels at nato head quarters. a lot of conversations between different nations. and all of it coming to the same point. if finland joins nato whic