the most attention for critical elections that could reshape some of the most powerful roles in congress. hello, everyone. sandra smith in new york. john, hello to you. john: sandra, great to see on this tuesday. i m john roberts, this is america reports. maloney and time to an end. new york democrats facing off in the newly redrawn 12th congressional district. one of the most hostile races of the year, with maloney questioning nadler s capacity to serve another term. sandra: and john, in florida, matt gaetz goes up against two challenges in another test of the former president s influence. and marco rubio will see who he will face in november. john: and aishah hasnie is in clearwater, florida. sandra: bryan in new york city, 17th congressional district received the attention of democratic party superstars. yes, good afternoon, it has. the one hand, representative alexandria ocasio-cortez endorsing the progressive candidate, state senator alexandria biagi, an
today. it s flag day. tomorrow is independence day, and government workers have been told this week to stay home. residents are advised not to gather in large groups. public transportation is shutting down early. tomorrow is the six month mark since the war broke out, and since then air raid sirens really have been the everyday sound that we hear here in ukraine. the government is now releasing new eerie warnings of more specific kinds of threats. in the event of an artillery launch, this alarm will notify residents. if it s a chemical attack, this new sound will echo throughout the city. and this siren will alert ukrainians of radiation danger. today i met with the former ukrainian president poroshenko and he says ukraine cannot keep up with the number of russian attacks, but it s the western military equipment holding back the war. ukraine hasn t a possibility
i want to confirm this. i want to at the same time i think we need to be precise. this does not mean that everything is okay. but the safety of the plant there, there is no immediate radiation danger here. sit normal in this sense. very good they are off diesel generators. do you get the sense when they are talking to the russians they understand what s at risk here? do you feel they are act anything good faith? everyone understands very well what is at risk here. let me make that perfectly clear. everybody understands what is at stake. this is why we need an agreement. we need a specific nuclear
from physical and psychological fatigue. their words. it said workers have not been allowed to leave the plant since they seized chernobyl after invading ukraine. now the iaea general said there is no immediate radiation danger and laid out how his team is working to try to execure an agreement for safety at the nuclear facility. we re in contact with all of the nuclear power plants and all of the nuclear facilities in ukraine. i ve been talking about this with russians, with the ukrainians. last week i was in turkey speaking to mr. lavrov and mr. about the whole situation. not only chernobyl but the rest of the facilities because we urge we urgently, we urgently need an agreement and an overall agreement on the safety and the security of these places. reporter: well cnn has learned that ukrainian president zelenskyy presidented president biden for more sanctions and
been informed of the radiation danger. after treating the patients, the doctors at the regional clinical hospital found that their scrubs were causing radiation meters to click. the patients who were hurt in the initial blast had been taken to moscow. the rooms where those patients had lain in the regional hospital were sealed after the patients were taken away. but then also, the doctors who treated those patients were then transferred to moscow for their own medical evaluations. according to the times hospital employees are in a depressed state. they don t understand why doctors and nurses who were fulfilling their professional duties were treated in this way. the new york times quoting regional news sources in russia there. the washington post editorial on this crisis links to this video reportedly shot nearby the blast site. as you can tell, it shows a line of ambulances that are purportedly taking the injured away from the contaminated site. what is a little unnerving toward