hear whether the inspectors will be able to get to that plant. it is the fighting, the shelling that is precisely why it s making it so necessary, alisyn and victor. all right, melissa bell in kyiv. thank you. let s bring in now retired brigadier general steve anderson. he just returned from ukraine. general, you were talking to people there about the logistics and the maintenance or the weapons systems they ve received from the u.s., and other countries, we should say. what are the biggest issues that they re facing at this point in the war? well, really, there s two issues, victor, that they re facing right now. first is frontline leadership. they ve taken tremendous casu casualties in the front line. their junior leader, small unit leaders have been perhaps 30% to 40% have been killed over the course of this war, so, they ve got to replace those. but the other big issue is logistics. and my ten days on the ground, i got to see this firsthand. the big issue, really,
she can play doubles for another five, ten years, but also they need to bring that same energy for every mactch. i guess they expected last night would be the last one, they have to bring the we love serena signs every night moving forward. how could she walk away from something that brings her this much joy. it s the top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. any moment now in pennsylvania, president biden will give a speech on gun safety. he s promoting his safer america plan, which includes increased funding for police and public safety along with a renewed push for an assault weapons ban. this is the first of three trips to pennsylvania in the coming days. on thursday, president biden will deliver a prime time speech in philadelphia. he ll be back on labor day in pittsburgh to celebrate american workers. cnn s arlette saenz is traveling with the president in wilkes bury, pennsylvania, what can we expect from the presi
family and fans. oh, my god, i love you too. look how happy she looks there. williams also reflected on her career, and what s allowed her to win all of these years, but she refuses to say if this is her last tournament. she previously said she s evolving away from tennis. she was asked about that again yesterday. yeah, i ve been pretty vague about it, right? i m going to stay vague because, you never know. williams has won six u.s. open titles. she won the first one in 1999 when she was a teenager. of course she wants to stay big. i don t think she knows what she wants to do. when you hear the roar of the crowd, why would you walk away.
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