aircraft. you can see the breadth of the areas hit. president vladimir putin, the russian leader, threatened further harsh responses. this is following a huge explosion over the weekend on a strategic bridge between crimea, illegally annexed in 2014 by putin and mainland russia. and moments before the attacks in ukraine, duelling in the united nations general assembly where delicates are expected to vote on the annexed regions in ukraine. met with silence while the ukraine ambassador received applause after saying this translator: but my day has started almost 14 hours ago. we started 14 hours ago, because my country was under attack. my immediate family was in a residential building under attack unable to go to a bomb shelter, because there was no because russia has already killed some of my family members, and we see no end to that cruelty. in a rare public appearance today the top british intelligence officer sir jeremy fleming is expected to say exhausted rus
election day. we will be back everything what, willie? all of this is wrong. tomorrow morning we will have it right. a special show before a live studio audience and we will break down the results and the races that will likely still hang in the balance. we will also have some very special guests. that s at 6:00 a.m. eastern time right here on msnbc. josé diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i am josé diaz-balart from new york. today election day. polls are open in most of the country with polling places just opening in california and nevada. voters are making decisions in races that will determine the balance of power not only in the nation s capital, but in states, towns and cities across the country. when it comes to congress all 435 seats in the house of representatives are up for election and 35 senate seats. and republicans need to pick up five house seats and one senate seat to take control on c
gas prices ahead of the election. bill: 150 million barrels that drained the reserve to its lowest level in 40 years. republicans say this is a major security liability. they will do this three weeks out for election. communicate it is not our fault and we ll fix it. the point made earlier, we now have the strategic petroleum reserve at a 40-year low. the fact that we don t have that in reserve our adversaries are watching that. dana: jacqui heinrich is watching it all at the white house today live on the north lawn. good morning. the president s critics worry that draining the country s emergency stockpile could leave the u.s. vulnerable in the event of a major military conflict or natural disaster. like hurricane katrina when president bush released 20 million barrels from the country s reserves to keep the country afloat because a quarter of u.s. oil production was shut down at that time. that is not the case right now. but in the same breath as the white house is
reporter: just so they can kill the sons of other mothers. cnn international editor nick paton walsh is live for us in ukraine. nick, start with this referendum vote. officials say that some ukrainians are being forced to vote. how is that being done? reporter: yeah. some of this is clearly because of the implied pressure of being occupied by a military force of russia or in terms at time the direct pressure that appears. at the moment, ballot boxes are being brought to people s homes, suggestions they walk to polling stations. there is a great confusion on how this would play out, thought in in-person voting would happen on the last day. it appears to be much more haphazard and people are simply being asked to put their mark on a piece of paper. none of this of course is anything relow temperaturely approaching democracy and being, done under the pressure of military occupation. probably the middle of next week there will be a round endorsement, an extraordinary high p
and then to make the humiliation complete, police collected household pets, tore them from their owners hands, and beat them to death in the streets, claiming that dogs and cats somehow spread disease. anyone who complained about this at a very clear answer from the government, which was broadcast at full volume from drones circling overhead. they said control your soul s desire for freedom, so people did. they had no choice. that is what life is like in an authoritarian society. and not just in china. also in new zealand. less than a year ago, the left-wing new zealand government shutdown the entire country over a single covid case. don t talk to your neighbors, commended the prime minister, keep to your bubbles. in neighboring australia they did pretty much the same thing. police in australia beat a man for daring to have a cigarette outside his own apartment. that may all seem horrifying toc health authorities here loved it. they looked on in envy. unfortunately for tony