Of its special status. what that might mean for the sunshine state s largest private employer. plus it s a seat that could control of the u.s. senate but now the senate race in pennsylvania could define what it means to be a democrat. and the besieged city of mariupol appears to be on the brink of falling to the russians, a city that if captured would provide an essential link connecting crimea seized in 2014 to the donbas region. putin claims mariupol has been liberated, quote, unquote, but hundreds of innocent civilians remain trapped inside a steel plant with no evacuation route available. putin has ordered his troops not to let anything in or out of that plant. this as a new horror is uncovered just outside mariupol. satellite images show what ukrainian officials say is a mass grave that has been expanding over the last month. an advisor to mariupol s mayor says russians are taking truckloads of corpses and dumping them into the ditches. ed lavandera joins us from the