and then crashed. the driver dead on the scene. that driver was darya dugina, a commentator and supporter of russia s invasion of ukraine who was sanctioned by the united states and by the uk. she was also the daughter of prominent right-wing ideolog alexander dugin. an explosive device detonated saturday night setting the vehicle on fire. russia has opened a criminal investigation the investigative committee says they believe dugina was murdered. taking into account the data obtained the investigation believes the crime was preplanned and of an ordered nature, a statement said. while forensic work continued the foreign ministry implied ukraine may be behind the attack. if the ukrainian trace is confirmed, foreign ministry spokeswoman wrote on telegram. the ukrainians deny any involvement. translator: i emphasize ukraine definitely has nothing to do with this because we are not a criminal state which the russian federation is and even more so we are not a terrorist state.
declared it a public health emergency earlier this month but critics argue they have not moved fast enough. yesterday the deputy a mmonkeyp defense coordinator defended their response. we know what we got in terms of this outbreak. it s acting differently than any mo monkeypox outbreak before. we need what needs to be implemented to control the outbreak and clear which populations we need to focus on. it s more about the right time as opposed to there being a delay. those comments came one day after the white house announced a new plan called for boosting vaccine supply making anti viral treatments more readily available and reaching out to at risk communities. that plan is being put into action this weekend in s charlotte. health care workers in north carolina will be administering free monkeypox vaccine at pride events across the city. charlotte is one of several receiving 50,000 vaccine doses from the national stockpile ahead of large public events. we want to get in
on going fighting outside. a senior u.s. defense official calling russia s actions the height of irresponsibility. as cnn first reported, new satellite images contradict russian claims that ukraine has been systematically shelling the area around the plant. both sides are accusing each other of endangering the facility. cnn sam kiley is there. where do things stand right there? reporter: they stand as a very, very dangerous moment. that is something that the international community, the russians and ukrainians are agreeing on. they disagree who to blame with demands from the ukrainians and international community to demilitarize europe s biggest nuclear power station that has when at full capacity six reactors functioning at the moment it has less than that and there is no question either that the russians are using it as a fire base to attack civilian and possibly other targets in government held territory on the other side. that is exactly what we found when we visited a
aurlette saens is in wilmington, delaware. what has the white house learned? reporter: the white house has refrained from saying much publicly about the fbi search at mar-a-lago but officials have privately started to express concerns over those classified documents that were taken by former president donald trump. now, one of the concerns that is percolating among officials is whether this type of classified information taken to that florida home, whether that might jeopardize the work of the intelligence community by putting the sources and methods that the intel community uses to try to obtain information possibly at risk. many of these documents were highly classified top secret, so there are some concerns about what kind of impacts that could have on the intelligence community going forward. intelligence officials have expressed concern about what exactly is in those documents. there are also diplomatic concerns as well as whether there would be any diplomatic fallout
thank you for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with officials in new york city announcing plans to address the influx of asylum seekers arriving from texas. new york expects at least 1,000 children will enter the city s school system this year. they are among the thousands sent there by bus from the lone star state at the direction of governor greg abbott. but this week the governor doubled down on his decision. before we begin busing illegal immigrants up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. cnn s jean casarez is following this for us from new york. jean, how is new york responding and what is the plan? reporter: well, there is a plan and it s called open arms. it really facilitates what new yorkers feel about having them come from texas. here s what happens. the bus, as you see r