good morning. hopefully you re awake. making breakfast having your coffee coffee? welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. i hope you re not drinking coffee? actually me just coffee it off because you don t drink coffee. you don t want anyone else to do it right. morning. tea would be nice, right? i don t like taste. there we are. i m victor blackwell. thanks so much for spending part of your easter sunday. what? what would you recommend? just a nice green tea. maybe an earl gray something with cinnamon. maybe. i ve got something. my office. maybe i ll swing by the wild. it s okay. it s all right. here s what we re watching this morning. top democrats are vowing to make abortion a central issue in the lead up to the 2024 election after a judge ordered the suspension of a drug used in medication abortions. what senate majority leader chuck schumer is telling his caucus about the fight ahead a weekend of religious celebrations and escalating tensions in the mideast. the israe
pete: this is not just a race,st the an event. st the an extravaganza. that s the apopka high school band performing life here at the daytona the national speedway i ahead of the daytona 500 tomorrow on fox. thanks for joining us here on fox & friends weekend, pete hegseth, will cain, rachel campos duffy and a very cool graphic that makes us look awesome, because we re at an amazing event, the great american race. it s great on the back here with the both of you. rachel:st the been an incredible couple das i days here. the food that the mche mothers are doing pat: thankfully, we haven t seen any of it yet. will: it ll be the 75th running pete: 75th or year of nascar, 65th will: thank you for that correction. i m a little off. i have a bud canty that just said, are you headed to bible study? [laughter] or maybe a parent-teacher conference? [laughter] with my sweater on, he also said you might be headed to bushwood country club. [laughter] pete: okay. rachel: di
support nearly a year after russians full scale invasion of ukraine. tennis top diplomat is expected in moscow, over fears that baiting might send lethal aid to support russia s war. then a massive 6.2 magnitude aftershock hits turkey, just two weeks after the devastating quake that left tens of thousands dead. so, it is just after eight in the morning, and in warsaw poland, where u.s. president, joe, biden is set to begin a two-day visit following a symbolic and highly secretive trip to ukraine. in the hours ahead, mr. biden will be meeting with the polish president in warsaw castle, as he marks nearly one year since russia s invasion of ukraine. and that falls a surprise trip to kyiv, on monday. a unprecedented presidential visit to an active war zone with no significant u.s. military presence. think about. that air raid sirens, in, fact could be near kyiv as he arrived. mr. biden walked alongside mr. zelenskyy, outside st. michael scott pedro and some winter sunshine was a
the lead starts right now. president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, how did the white house pull it off? plus the new promise the president is making while some republicans chastise him for growing. russian families on the run from the brutal war and ending up at the u.s. southern border. what one family went through to escape. and the murder of a bishop found dead in his california home. new details just coming in in this case. welcome to the lead. i am john berman in for jake tapper. moments ago president biden arrived back in poland after his unannounced trip to ukraine and stood side by side with president zelenskyy where biden declared putin is failing as the war nears its one year mark. biden said his trip was important to reaffirm unwavering u.s. support. one year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. america stands with you, and the world stands with you. as part of the trip, biden announced another half million-dollars in assistance for ukrain
will, too. i can feel the windsor chain. i m priscilla alvarez at the white house, and this is cnn. and everything. what a difference a year makes in california state water officials now say the sierra snowpack is among the largest on record dating back to the fifties. and now the question is how much of all that snow will help ease the state s long running drought. cnn s stephanie elam has more from the sierra nevada mountains. right now we re going to see it in snow from almost nothing to record setting snow depths. 1 27, california s current snowpack in the sierra nevada is one of the largest ever one that couldn t be more opposite from last year . this is the fourth wettest in terms of snow water content