the state department works to find them. cnn s barbara starr has the latest developments. reporter: it was in the fighting north of kharkiv where two americans went missing last week, less than 5 miles from the russian border. the u.s. government working with ukrainian authorities to find them. i have been briefed. we don t know where they are, but i want to reiterate americans should not be going to ukraine now. reporter: now this photo from a russian blogger has emerged of alexander and andy appeared to be bound in the back of a russian military vehicle. video later emerging of an interview they did with pro-russian media. cnn is not showing the video as the two appear to be speaking under duress. now the state department is working to verify their status. they said that there is a photograph that is being circulated on the russian media, and they re working hard to verify it. we re very hopeful. reporter: retired staff sergeant druuke served in both kuwait and ir
presidential runoff. we ll look at who the candidates are and what issues are on voters minds. we re tracking developments in ukraine where the area around the capital, kyiv, was rattled by a series of explosions a short time ago. military officials say air defenses worked on enemy targets and that so far there have been no fires or casualties reported. officials are also urging people to stay in shelters. the blasts happened a day after president volodymyr zelenskyy went to odesa, mykolaiv, and visited residential areas hammered by russian artillery and missiles. he says ukraine will not yield any territory in the region. translator: we will not give away the south to anyone. we will return everything that s ours, and the sea will be ukrainian and safe. meanwhile, thick smoke rose over the separatist-held city of donetsk saturday after images appearing to show incoming artillery. the mayor says civilians were hurt and several city blocks were damaged. cnn s salma abde
appointing heat advisers to combat the rising temperatures. plus festivities are under way for america s newest federal holiday, juneteenth. why it s important here in the u.s. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with kim bruneber. defenders hold the line against russian forces in ukraine. the governor of luhansk said that the russians tried to break through but were pushed back. an attempt to cut off ukrainian units, the governor also said a chemical plant sheltering civilians has been shelled again. meanwhile the area around the capital, kyiv, was rattled hours ago by a series of explosions. so far there have been no fires or casualties reported. ukraine s president zelenskyy is promising to regain all the cities captured. here he is. translator: the losses are significant. many houses were destroyed. civilian logistics were disrupt td. there are many social issues. we ll restore everything destroyed. we will not give away the south to anyone, we ll retu
anyone can get this disease, but one community may be more at risk right now. thank you so much for joining us. it is election day in america. voters are heading to the polls in five states today. much of the attention right now is on georgia. the key battleground state in 2020, sure to be important in 2024, and right now it is a test of donald trump s sway with american voters. the represent can primary for governor is its current governor, brian kemp, versus former senator david perdue. it s also basically turning into a mike pence versus donald trump matchup as well. and in the final minutes, there is a question today of what is david perdue trying to do, really, on camera making racist remarks about the democratic candidate in this race, stacey abrams. let s get to it, let s start there. kristen holmes is live in atlanta for us. kristen, early voter turnout has been huge and today is the day. reporter: this is huge. it has become a proxy war between the maga election
and one confirmed case now in the united states. i m jake tapper. we start with the health lead in the biden administration, warning parents desperate to get their hands on baby formula to beware of online scammers, charging exorbitant prices for formula that does not exist. house lawmakers griled the fda commissioner demanding answers and action. this after the house passed a pair of bills to address the crisis. the first would provide $28 million to the fda to fix the shortfall and prevent it from happening again. the second bill is ensuring low income families can find and buy form law enforcement last night, biden passed the defense production act to direct suppliers to deliver formula to manufacturers. but the slew of actions is not stopping even biden allies from criticizing the overall administration response. nobody did their job here. no one did well. senator casey and i wrote to the fda and to abbott back in february and said, what are you doing? we need to get th