hello again, thanks for being with us. it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york with this special second hour on this federal holiday, and we are following breaking news this morning. america s secretary of state holding a high pressure meeting with china s president xi. did that one-on-one do anything to settle the simmering tensions between our two countries. extreme weather, millions remain under threat, even as communities reel from the aftermath of devastating tornados also ahead, a terrifying close call at one of the busiest airports in the country, a passenger capturing the video of this plane s wing almost hitting another plane on the runway. and later, celebrating juneteenth, we ll take you to galveston, texas, known as the birthplace of this federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery here in america. but first the breaking news out of china where u.s. secretary of state antony blinken met just a couple of hours ago with pres
the fighting is happening close to russia itself and to occupied crimea, the russians are able to bring a lot more of their superior air power to the fight. ukrainian air defenses are further back they re less able to stop them despite all of that, ana, we are seeing ukrainian successes over the weekend, the ukrainians struck a number of russian ammunition depots far, far behind the front lines, caused a lot of chaos, major explosions, fire balls that could be seen from miles around. and the british government is saying it estimates the russian casualties at this point are the highest they have been since the peak of the battle of bakhmut. you ll remember just throwing wave bakmut russia throws waves of mercenary soldiers and troops at that city and they managed to take it but an absolutely enormous cost. ana, as officials in kyiv and