republican party, as he described it, with a series of swipes at his predecessor, former president trump. the president never using the word inflation, but acknowledging while jobs are back, that prices are still too high, saying he s going to do everything in his power to bring gas prices and food prices down in this country, saying his work is still not done. i want to join some of our colleagues who have been watching. nbc s mike memoli is in the room in philadelphia with the president. nbc s jake ward is in half moon bay, california. also with me amari only meek way from the wall street journal . the president s desire was to send a message to americans right now who are watching their wallets shrink in effect right now. the markets getting a bad hit yesterday. the fed preparing to race interest rates by as much as .75 a point.
your knees. because these are people, women, children, the elderly. i m in kharkiv right now, and people think it s safe, you know, soldiers are coming with flowers to welcome their wives and girlfriends and children back on trains and just the past week, there s been a number of, you know, very bad shellings here and, you know, a school was hit yesterday. a woman was killed. it appears she was rushing to the basement, probably for safety, but she had just come back, apparently, a few days ago from evacuation. and people think it s safe, but it s not. it s still within range. there were a number of deaths, i think seven deaths and 1 injured, just a few days ago here. it s not out of reach, you know, of the russians to cause what i feel right now here is terrorism. to that point, you re living amidst a country slowly being destroyed, piece by piece, by
the governor of donetsk yesterday said three civilians were killed in russian attacks in the region, this as local officials say at least 38 towns were hit yesterday. causing extensive damage to civilian infrastructure. president zelenskyy says the fighting in the donbas is quote the most difficult. and alleged the russians were trying to destroy everything there. this, as a presidential advisory yesterday said a key city in the region is facing relentless bombardment and could become the next mariupol. in its intelligence briefing earlier this morning, britain s ministry of defense said russian forces are trying to encircle this town, but are facing stiff resistance from ukrainian fighters. joining us now, live from central ukraine, is nbc s jay gray. jay, thank you as always for being with us today. give us the very latest on this fierce fighting we re seeing on the ground in eastern ukraine.
with a 2-year price guarantee. call today. russian forces are stepping up attacks across ukraine again, hitting key infrastructure around the country. local officials say at least six train stations in the central and western parts of ukraine were hit yesterday. a number of explosions also rocked the western city of lviv, near the polish border damaging three power stations there. the city s mayor reported attacks knocked out power and disrupted water supplies in some areas. he also said two people were injured in the attacking. lviv largely has been a safe haven for diplomats and tens of thousands of ukrainians fleeing. it s also been a may have transfer port for major weapons coming into the country. joining me is congressman jason
so for a lot of these communities, it may feel like deja vu all over again. it s been a busy past 24 hours. a total of 16 reported tornados. 88 wind gust reports and 60 hail reports. some of them the size of baseballs and even softballs. unfortunately for a lot of the clean up efforts that are going to take place today, you re going to have to contend with gusty winds. high wind warnings across the areas that were hit yesterday. 30, 40, 50 mile per our wind gusts. today, the same system continues. we re just seeing it shift towards the east. basically anything from milwaukee downwards waco and austin have the potential for strong thunderstorms. the yellow area more of the target point. chicago, st. louis, little rock. damaging winds, large hail and tornados all possibilities. we have showers and thunderstorms ongoing right now, but you re really going to start to see the potential for the