shooting. and the platinum jubilee celebrations in the u.k. minus the guest of honor. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. welcome, everyone. the war in eastern ukraine now being described as a grinding slog with neither side appearing to make any significant gains in recent days. ukraine concedes russian troops have made some modest in roads in and around the key city of severodonetsk but were pushed back from nearby towns. britain s defense ministry says it expects russians will control all of the luhansk region within two weeks. the international red cross said the scale of destruction defies comprehension. but ukraine claims its forces have progressed into the southern kherson region. as the conflict surpassed 100 days ukraine s president, volodymyr zelenskyy, remained confident of the outcome. translator: we have been dedefending ukraine for 100 days. victory shall be ours. glory to ukraine. now, the human toll in ukraine
we ve got a lot to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. there are several competing headlines on this friday night, involving the january six investigation and 100 days of war in ukraine. but this nation is also still reeling from a string of devastating massacres carried out with guns. and on this national gun violence awareness day, many of us are wearing orange, including the white house, to honor gun victims and survivors. over the last few weeks, mask shootings have taken dozens of lives, and injured so many others. the demand for new legislation grew even louder this week. do something! do something! do something! do something! we will. we will. don t have all of these on locked back doors. let s have an assault weapons ban. mental illness mitch mcconnell, it s time for you to use the word, gun. they won t make schools safer. that is a lie. that is not true. it will save lives. your ideas have been shown to get people killed. do not tell me that th
my fellow americans, enough. enough. it is time for each of us to do our part. it is time to act for the children we lost, the children we can save, for the nation we love. let s hear the call and the cry, let s meet the moment, let us finally do something. president issued several proposals including a ban on assault weapons, or at least raising the age to purchase them to 21. expanded background checks, new rules for safely storing weapons, new red flag laws, repealing the immunity that protects gun manufacturers from liability, and addressing mental health. his speech came at a night when democrats on the house committee passed a string of proposals that have little to no chance of getting passed republicans in the senate. this morning, the teacher falsely blamed for leaving a back door propped open ahead of the mass shooting at robb elementary school is speaking out. amelia marin says the accusations left her second guessing herself and feeling alone. cnn s omar jim