this after the u.s. justice department informed the former president he s a target, a target of the probe. also tonight, washington, d.c. monuments are shrouded in haze as wildfire smoke from canada drifts to the nation s capital. we re tracking this air quality emergency as it moves into the mid atlantic and threatens the health of tens of millions of americans. and the flood disaster in ukraine grows even more dangerous as the region is rocked by shelling and the kyiv government accuses russia of shooting at rescue workers. i ll acquit white house official john kirby about that devastating dam collapse and the broader state of the war right now. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with donald trump apparently in imminent legal peril. once again, the u.s. justice department moving toward a final decision on indicting trump in the classified documents probe after alerting the for
united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim brian hooper ahead on cnn newsroom president biden back home after his trip abroad and addressing the new abortion pill ruling what he had to say and what comes next in the supreme court butts. some positive news on the economic front this week, the fog seeming to lift on inflation in the us, but we ll talk with an economic equity. an economist who says be cautious of the new numbers and. panic and chaos of the political event in japan live in tokyo and why the prime minister had to be rushed to safety. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with kim bruun hoover. us president joe biden is back from his four day trip to ireland and weighing in on the abortion debate that still rages at home. he spoke with reporters after he arrived at dover air base and took aim at restrictions placed on a key abortion drug. here he is. i think it s outrageous what the court has done relatively they re going to overrule the fda, and
zone can be created. but what i can say is that the united states condemns any violence being perpetrated against people that are either trying to rescue their neighbors and friends and family or people who are seeking rescue, absolutely unacceptable. absolutely, indeed, ukraine as you know is advancing around bakhmut, but sources tell cnn that ukraine has suffered heavy losses of troops and u.s. supplied equipment, at least in recent days. our are setbacks right now to be expected? i don t want to get into the specifics of casualties or military operations, that s really to the ukrainians to speak to. this is war, though, and you know, there is, as sam rightly just reported, there is some heavy fighting around bakhmut, and there s fighting elsewhere along that front that arches all the way from the donbas down toward zaporizhzhia, and certainly it s to be expected that there could be casualties in this increased fighting. what we re going to be focused on is making sure that if an
no one, including the prime minister was hurt. now the prime minister did go on to make this political speech that he was scheduled to give he did refer to what happened. he said that an investigation was underway about this explosion. he knew people were concerned the apologize for that and then continued on with his political speech. i m talking about the importance of the democratic process, and he was there for a particular candidate. but i can tell you that being in japan what happened today is eerily reminiscent. it s bringing back a lot of memories of what happened less than a year ago in july of 2022 when former japanese prime minister shinzo abe was assassinated during a political rally, and ever since then, a lot of questions have been raised about the safety and security of politicians. in many cases. politicians in japan do get close with the public. they serve, perhaps a bit different in other parts of the world in the united states, where there
support forces or rsf, and this was always going to happen. i can t do all sudan observers. many people in sudan expected that this rivalry. this power struggle would spill into the open into a confrontation and military confrontation between the rapid support forces and the official sudanese military. because it s a sticking point in the negotiation to return to civilian rule in sudan, and right now the rapid support forces claim to have taken the main khartoum airport. there s also been reported fighting in marawi airport tomorrow. airport is the largest military base, the largest military airport in sudan, where a lot of the russian supplied ammunition, right russian supplied equipment . the m i d s and sou coves are at this particular location. so one of the things we trying to figure out is who began this latest escalation, but this builds up on days of confrontation between the rsf and official sudanese military and we have had statements now from both sides this this morning we