you made it. you made it to saturday, april 29th. always my favorite day of the week. good to have you along. i m victor black well. welcome to cnn this morning. and i feel like it s starting to warm up. it gets warm, cools. we re settling in, folks. we are. thanks so much for sharing part of our saturday morning with us. here s what we re watching. more than 20 million people are facing severe threats of storms again after parts of the south were pelted with baseball-sized hail this week. the main threat we re watching out for. the president can no longer ignore by not negotiating. we are still waiting for house republicans to produce a budget. they produced a ransom note. democrats and republicans spar over the debt limit. will this week s republican plan force the white house to negotiate spending cuts? we ll discuss. at least 23 people are dead after russia unleashed a deadly attack on ukrainian civilians yesterday. our team is live on scene where rescue e
good saturday morning. it is april 29th. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. i m amara walker. you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin with ukraine and a deadly russian missile strike on an apartment complex. the attack killed almost two dozen people, including six children. and it s believed to be the deadliest strike on civilians since january. it happened 4:00 a.m. local time when most people were asleep. ukraine s air force says russia fired a barrage of long range cruise missiles from the aircraft in the caspian sea area. president volodymyr zelenskyy says his forces shot down 21 of the 23 missiles fired. cnn s nic robertson has been on the scene since shortly after the strike, joining us now from uman, ukraine. hi, nic. what s the latest there? it is bad news from here. the death toll is now 25. you can see the recovery efforts still going on. but this is really just pulling out the debris, getting that off the site here. and we ve been talking with firef
their blackberries, i remember that. a lot of stuff going on in the background. certainly, that does it for cnn news central. but don t go anywhere the lead starts right now. a new chapter in the battle over abortion rights, republicans and democrats unite. the lead starts right now. attempts to restrict abortions in two separate states shut down. i ll speak with a group of women who pulled off a legislative maneuver to stop one band from moving forward. plus, a new wave of russian attacks across ukraine, an apartment building among the targets hit. a cnn team is on the ground as the death toll continues to rise. and downsize, as more people turn to drugs such as ozempic to drop the pounds, it s taking a toll on household names in the weight loss industry. welcome to the lead, everyone, i m bianna golodryga in for jake tapper. we start in our health lead and the fight over access to abortion front and center as state legislatures are cracking down on abortio
never for busing white house photos were just made public showing then president obama and top officials as the historic mission to kill osama bin laden was playing. out the man behind the camera, former white house photographer, pete souza, he will join us this hour. welcome to our viewers here in united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. here in the situation room. tonight nearly two dozen ukrainians, men women and children, are dead. at least four children among the dead after a russian strike on a residential building. residents fearing that more bodies maybe found as crews continue to search the rubble from multiple missile attacks. cnn s dick paton walsh is on the ground for us in ukraine. nick, russia unleashing this new barrage just ahead unexpected ukrainian military counteroffensive. give us the latest. as is often the case, we simply don t know what russia thinks it was aiming at, if indeed it was too concerned about where it s missiles landed. but in
about it, maybe he ll do it. like he did with the mueller investigation for so long. there is no chance he was ever going to testify. it s all a routine. it s all a hoax! don t believe it! i mean, the idea that he d been cooperative at the same time while he s throwing every bit of sand he can into the works is like, you know, come on, we know fully once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. we all know how the story ends. you know who s going to testify? his mascot, lindsey graham has been ordered by the federal appeals court to testify to the georgia grand jury that is investigating among other things lindsey graham s phone calls from the secretary of state about the presidential election along with donald trump s famous phone call. one of those striking things about the three judge panel 12 judges, appointed by donald trump. and of course, voted for by lindsey graham. the irony! the irony! the irony! lindsey grime has fought to do this with every out in his qu