that is heading to hospitals in the hardist hit areas. while it s a critical first step, it also means thousands of parents have to wait a few more days for relief. because of the actions we re taking right now we re going to see more formula coming off factory lines. when? and more formula in stores starting as early as this week. let s go straight to mj lee in tokyo covering the president s visit. have they given any indication how many more of these shipments we might see in the coming days? parents are, i m sure, happy to hear about formula going to hospitals and health care facilities and that sort of thing, but they want to nope when the formula is hitting the store shelves? reporter: yeah that is such an urgent question, jim, and what you might remember is through operation fly formula, this is the operation that the government launched urgently to get more formula to the u.s., the u.s. has secured some 1.5 million bottles worth of this specialty formula and
just a year in a half into joe biden? it has been a rapid decline. if you get a moment this weekend , whole up the joe biden inaugural address. we can back it s remarkable. not because of what s in the speech, but because of what is missing from the speech. you want hear a single mention of the issues americans are mos concerned about. nothing on inflation, poverty, gas prices, the stock market, nothing on government spending coming energy independence, fentanyl overdoses, and nothing on border security. there isn t a single mention of policy in the entire address married instead he talked about himself. he compared himself to abraham lincoln issuing the emancipatio proclamation. he told us only joe biden could unite america, to save us from quote bitterness and fury. today on this january day, m postal is in this, bringing american together, and uniting our people, uniting our nation. i ask every american to join me in this cause. we could join forces. stop that the shouti
the world s excess carbon. the commander of the azov regiment says ukrainian soldiers have finally ended their defence of the devastated port city of mariupol. they d vowed to fight until the end, but were eventually told to surrender from the azovstal steel plant. meanwhile, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky has said that the donbas region in the east of the country has been completely destroyed. he said it was like hell . russia s defence minister says that the liberation of the region is nearing completion. jeremy bowen has the latest. the russians are shelling severodonetsk as they try to encircle it. more than 100,000 people lived in the city before the invasion. now, it s one of russia s biggest targets. this is russia using the methods it perfected in syria and chechnya heavy bombardment to try to break the will of its opponents. ukrainian rescue crews can still operate to reach civilians who need to get out. day by day, family by family, russia is grin
to german side eintracht frankfurt in an agonising shoot out on a disappointing night in the sweltering spanish heat. the line up for the queen s platinum jubilee concert has been revealed and it includes soul legend diana ross. with household budgets under pressure, will a getaway to the sun be a stretch too far for many families? very few bargains on offer, passport problems and airport queues. i ll look at what impact all this could have on your plans and the travel industry. after 36 years, the wait is over for top gun fans. the uk premiere is tonight, with hopes of taking your breath away. never mind danger zone, it was the thunder zone for some of you last night. the storms have cleared and for most it will be a dry day with sunny spells and once again. the full full coming up. it s thursday 19th may. our main story. the next few months will be tough. that was the warning from the chancellor rishi sunak when he addressed the cost of living crisis in a speech to business
of bills, one of which provides an extra $28 million in funding for the fda that s mainly for staffing issues, oversight into preventing future formula shortages. elizabeth cohen joins us with much more on what is now more or less military operation to get more baby formula to the united states. it really is, john, that s a good way to describe it. who would have thought that it would come to this in the united states. let s take a look at some more details for what you and erica just described. so the defense production act, the government directs formula ingredients, inn gred yents that go into formula, to go to formula manufacturers first. in other words, not to other things first. also the fda making it easier to import formula to the u.s., something that has really not been done very much at all. also, operation fly formula, the department of defense helps expedite formula imports by using commercial planes that have contracts with the dod. also, the fda and abbott a