begins right after this. less than eight hours left on that u.s. policy used to turn away migrants at the border. what s going to happen after midnight? the lead starts right now. crisis at the border and it s about to get worse. cnn rides along as migrants climb on top of a train. others crawling through barbed wire trying desperately to get into the united states. what s gonna happen when that key title 42 immigration policy runs out at 11:59 this evening? well, top biden administration official is here and we will seek answers. also, trump s 2024 campaign playbook seems to be a repeat of falsehoods and decency from 2020. how not only democrats such as president biden and also republicans today are expressions revulsion at things that he said at the cnn town hall. plus, 18 years after disappearing, today movement towards justice in the tragic vanishing and murder of natalee holloway. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with a huge story in our world
overnight rescue. just before we came on the a temporary cease-fire in sudan and now the effort to get american citizens out to. james longman reporting. here in the u.s., the midair scare onboard an american airlines flight. flames shooting from the engine following an apparent bird strike. the pilot issuing a mayday reporting engine failure. severe weather alerts as we come on the air tonight along the mississippi river, bracing for historic flooding. also tonight the severe storms elsewhere. tornadoes possible, dangerous winds as well. ginger zee timing it out. president biden tonight on running for reelection. what he said today and what the numbers show tonight. biden, trump and the reaction from ron desantis win asked about trump out pulling him. ian pannell inside ukraine tonight as we have remarkable images emerging from the front line. in the battle for block mood. trench warfare between ukrainian fighters and russian forces as clothes as 15 feet apart. the
all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. this is early start. we begin with ukrainian forces struggling to hold on in the eastern city of bakhmut, as russian troops close in from three sides. ukrainian officials say the situation in bakhmut has grown much tougher. they say their forces may need to retreat to avoid being trapped by encircling russians. cnn s scott mclean is tracking this story for us from london. and, scott, what are the chances the ukrainians will be able to turn this around? and if they can t, does that mean russia is back on the offensive. so, christine, good morning. it really depends on who you ask. because last week there were plenty of indications that the ukrainians may in fact be forced to withdraw from that area. a drone reconnaissance university has been ordered to retreat from the area. you also had a key bridge by the russians kiting off the ukrainians final supply routes in and out. a
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matter that much anymore. it s all politically driven it seems. it matters less about the charges and more about which political party you belong too. you decide where the bias isabel put out that the evidence for example the potential indictment of donald trump over hush money at the center of the investigation a payment made by michael cohen seven years ago related to an incident 17 years ago. this week a mysterious move by manhattan grand jury who set to consider the case and possibly the indictment on an especially postponed and then canceled for now. good democrat d.a. alvin bragg not have enough evidence? bragg made it known during his campaign for d.a. he was about going after donald trump. has achieved a deputy attorney general s office, we sued the trump administration over 100 times. be hard to argue with the fact that with most important most hope hype profile case i ve seen them upfront and awol since he can do. but we ve had similar fate s out before they got c