good morning, everyone and happy easter weekend. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday. april 8th camera walker. i m victor blackwell. it is good to spend a little time with you. let what every time i see you now, i just see you know, bunny ears and i mentioned i had bunny tail have no cocktail, but i was a mall easter bunny. and that s the thing. yeah you have this thing with you got it. bring the picture tomorrow. here s what we re watching today. conflicting rulings when it comes to access to a medical abortion pill. one judge halts availability of the drug another preserves access to it in some states were joined by doctor for more on what this means for women across the country. the latest jobs report shows economy is still trucking along, but we re seeing signs that things are cooling down what the numbers say about the fight to tame inflation. at least three people are dead following separate attacks in the middle east. we are live in jerusalem with the latest on
morning, everyone it is saturday . april 8th. i m amro walker. i m victor blackwell. you are in the cnn newsroom and we begin with the abortion debate across the country. this time, it s over access to medication. abortion after federal courts issued conflicting rulings began after a federal judge in texas ruled to suspend the fda s two decade old approval. of method. pistone then washington state judge ruled the fda must keep the pill on the shelves and 17 democratic states and the district of columbia. cnn s senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen joins us now. so explain what medford press stone is and what happens next. so victor medford. redstone is one of two drugs that are used in medicated abortions. in other words, abortions that are used by pill rather than by a surgical procedure. as you said they ve been used safely from more than 20 years. they have an excellent safety profile, and actually, they are now quite common. let s take a look at what s happened wi
has now issued an arrest warrant for vladimir putin. prosecutors accuse putin and another official of illegally deporting ukrainian children to russia. we expect to hear from president biden perhaps reacting to this at any moment but first cnn s ivan watson is in kharkiv, ukraine and nic robertson is in london. ivan, walk us through exactly what the icc is alleging here. reporter: they re issuing arrest warrants for none less than the russian president himself, vladimir putin, accusing him of alleged war crimes for what they say is the illegal abduction of ukrainian children, forcibly deporting them to russian territory. they ve also issued an arrest warrant for a russian government official, and she is kind of the children s right official in the russian government. she has already issued a statement. the kremlin have already issued statements basically calling this these arrest warrants null and void, saying that moscow is not a signatory to the rome statute, that they
inflation. prices fell dramatically last month for manufacturers. of course, those costs passed down to consumers eventually. the flip side, there are still banking fears simmering, futures way down ahead of the opening bell, you can see there. what all of this means as we get another big decision coming, that is, the feds, whether it will raise interest rates again. plus this morning escalating tensions after an alarming encounter over the black sea, a russian fighter jet colliding with an unmanned u.s. drone. that $23 million aircraft then crashing into the sea and the race is now on to recover it. extreme life-threatening weather continues to hammer both coasts this morning. record rain, swamping california, heavy snow, 3 feet in some areas, burying the northeast. this morning nearly half a million people without power. we are going to get to all of that, but we do want to begin with the economy this morning, this new data that just dropped, cnn chief business corres
provocation in the skies. the u.s. says the wreckage of the unmanned drone may not be recover. but russia commits to finding it. top biden administration officials lashed out, calling russia s actions recollectless and escape. russia to says it shouldn t have been flying during a special military operation. natasha, what are we learning about this incident and also the wreckage? the race is on, really to find this wreckage. what we are told is apparently the u.s. does not have any navy assets in the area that could readily go and pick up that wreckage, so it would be difficult to large a rescue mission for the drone. it s appearing more likely that it will not be covered by the u.s. russia is now saying they intend to try to find the drone s well. with the secretary of security council, saying they do intend to launch a mission to try to find a drone, landed in the black sea after being harassed by two fighters jets on tuesday. however, we told the u.s. did take steps to er