this. that s more ground than the russians have gained in months. and it happened fast. i want to show you this. you can see sort of a time lapse here in the area around kharkiv, the yellow is where the ukrainians have made gains, just since september 3rd. you can see how quickly this all happened and how much of the territory held by the russians the ukrainians were able to take back. russia is responding, however. ukrainian officials say that russian strikes knocked out power in the region. ukrainian troops are being greeted like conquering heroes, civilians rushing to offer flowers, hugs, some of them crying tears of joy. this is a humiliating defeat for russian president vladimir putin and his military. the russians being forced to flee fearing they would be surrounded and captured. they left behind a trail of destruction. sam kiley was live from kharkiv, ukraine, with an exclusive look at what remains from the izium area now. he was the first international corresponden
political. cancer doesn t care if you re republican or a democrat. everyone can come together to fight this and he compared it to the moonshot saying you have to harness the resources of u.s. scientists and doctors and technology to be able to do this. elizabeth, in general since 1991, cancer deaths are down 31% according to the american cancer society. a lot of that is because of prostate cancer deaths down 50%, breast cancer deaths down 40% but a lot of that, i have to say, is because of screening, early screening and preventive measure, not necessarily curing the cancers itself. how feasible, how realistic is it to cut cancer deaths in half in 5 years? i reached out to a variety of experts asking that question this afternoon. i thought they d say, i don t know about that. they actually were quite positive and pointed to the statistic that you just pointed to, in 28 years they went down 32%. whatever reasons there were, we can do more of the same and they pointed to sev
military promotions. the senator describes as a draw with his contentious fault with the pentagon. we are describing it that way, let s go to cnn live on capitol hill. what are you hearing? there s a lot of relief, it s a bipartisan opposition. he has very little support from the senate republican congress for trying to block all military promotions. something that has never been done before, nothing that any senator can do under the rules for the senate. what he has done is hold up every military promotion until the pentagon grants him a policy requiring reimbursement for military personnel to travel out of state for abortions, the pentagon said it would not do that, after some time, an increasing number of republicans is tommy turberville needs to back down, they said that he would in fact back down. they decided instead of holding up and all nominees. he would release them, about 450, that would allow all of them, they are four star ranked generals and those are people
feel squeezed while raising a child and taking care of a parent, the sandwich generation, we want to make it affordable so loved ones can live with greater independence and dignity and child care costs for most families are cut in half. no working family if we get will help me get done. no working family in america will pay more than 7% of their income on child care for any child under 5. you want to give raises to home workers so they can increase the capacity, increase their knowledge, increase their opportunities? hem l health workers and child care workers are disproportionately women of color and immigrants. workers like the ones dr. king stood for when he marched and gave his life. look, folks, just imagine, instead of consigning millions of our children under resource
let s get to our pnler panan. we re joined by thomas frank, us a latest book is out in paper book. we re also joined by the managing editor of thegrio.com joy ann reid. mitt romney talked about education and it reminded me of that time when he went to an inner city school not far from where you were in philadelphia and he lectured teachers about class size citing mckenzie research. your response to what he said? i don t know if i have a response for that. try not to use an expletive if you can. their overwhelming research says the opposite of what mitt romney is saying. the schools that fare the best are the schools that are the best resource schools but also the schools that are situated in the most safe communities and in communities where young people are fed properly and can walk to