good morning, everyone, and welcome to your new day. i m amara walker. and i m phil mattingly. and today all eyes are on capitol hill after days of deal-making. democrats get ready to vote on a critical part of president biden s economic agenagenda. we ll tell you what s in the bill and what it means for millions of americans. plus it was a week of twists and turns in the courtroom. now a jury has ordered conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay up to the parents of a sandy hook shooting victim. and war of words. tensions heat up between the u.s. and china after nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan. antony blinken s warning it could have major consequences. good morning and welcome to your new day. it s august 6th. amara, we did it last hour. i ll do it again because we re not sitting next to each other. what s the status? three of the four kids are awake. we re on track to an early start. i have access to all the cameras, and i am doing my best not to check because i don t
being taken into custody earlier today. a law enforcement source familiar with the arrest confirms to nbc navarro did not surrender himself. the committee subpoenaed him back in september then, remember, he got another subpoena from the fbi to comply with their investigation just last week. you saw that live shot of the courthouse. those microphones set up. we are watching to see if he makes comments outside that building and will bring it to you. we know the january 6th select committee will hear its public hearing in prime time just six days from now on june 9th as today we re also learning new and important details about another big hearing set for next week. this one on gun violence. survivors and parents of victims of the uvalde and buffalo shootings set to testify in front of the house oversight committee. it s a very busy friday afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington and i want to bring in justice correspondent pete williams. capitol hill correspondent ali vitaly
who joins us from washington. hello, welcome to the programme. the news emerging from the steel plant in mariupol is hard to verify, but it does seem tonight from the reporting of several news agencies, that the most severely wounded ukrainians have been taken out of the plant. 40 wounded ukrainians that need urgent treatment and we are told around a dozen buses have left the plant in the last few hours. the russian ministry of defence said those troops that do surrender would be taken to hospital in a nearby town, in separatist held ukraine, where they will then become prisoners of war. we will keep across that and bring you details as we get it. meanwhile there is some evidence emerging that vladimir putin is directly overseeing battle plans for ukraine. western intelligence sources believe the russian president, together with his military chief general garasimov, are intervening in day to day tactical operations and are making decisions that would normally be made by morej
settlement has been taken from the russians. you the russians not being able to make much progress. what they have been able to do, as you can see here is blow up bridges. it s one of three they have blown up. also they can halt what appears to be a counter offensive by the ukryukraini ukrainians. russia plans to cut electricity to finland. they say it s lack of payment. it comes after the country appear to be on the gentlemen of the jury of joining nato which is what vladmir putin did not want to happen. russia warned both countries if they did join. putin discussed the situation with his national security leaders and an exchange of views took place. there was an exchange of views between russia and the united states. im it koicame in form of a phone cl . the assault of the steel plant continues. i want to show you video released yesterday. it shows a ground level view of fighting at the steel plant. we don t know when the footage was recorded . you traveled to the northeas
ease the nationwide baby formula shortage that s left parents scrambling to feed their kids. the white house and private companies say they are now working to get more of that formula into the hands of parents. yeah. throughout the pandemic you know stores struggled to keep shelves stocked with a lot of popular brands, but this recall in february and then continued supply issues had really pushed parents to the breaking point. manufacturers say it may be weeks, potentially even months before supply is at full capacity again. let s take you now to delaware, where president biden is spending the weekend. and we find cnn s white house reporter jasmine wright there. jasmine, the biden administration has gotten criticism of its handling of the shortage. how is the president addressing this issue? reporter: well, boris, the white house has taken a number of steps in days, but still it comes as questions continue to mount as to why the white house didn t take more action, at l