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>> reporter: yes, jessica. we spent the day in donetsk again, the eastern most under ukrainian control and a city very much right smack dab against the russian lines. what we saw today more intense shelling. shelling on random targets. hitting markets and basically not necessarily targeting military targets but i think the goal is really to demoralize and terrorize the population and perhaps prepare the ground for this much-anticipated russian offensive. we know that russian forces are amassing in that area also to the north and south of where we are and as a result of the shelling on these towns so close to russian lines, people are essentially forced to stay under ground. the shelling comes early and often. with russian forces massing nearby this is a portend of things to come. firefighters brave the threat of shelling but few others brave the streets of severodonetsk. life for those who haven't fled is moved underground. to stuffy shelters where safety trumps comfort. around 300 people call this temporary home. on the grounds of a sprawling chemical plant. maxim and his wife try to keep 7-month-old baby distracted. they're recent arrivals having fled their home ten days ago. maxim shows me cell phone pictures of the cellar they hid out in before coming here. disabled, tatiana stays in bed most of the time. she would prefer to be at home, but what home? there's no electricity, no cell phone signal, no water, no gas, she tells me. everything is shaking from the bombing. the windows are shattered. she tutors her grandson, a retired english teacher, she's been here for more than a month. >> a lot of people can't leave this place because of problems with health and they don't have enough money to leave and they have to stay here. >> reporter: this 73-year-old struggles to move about the shelter. he's not leaving town. i was born here and i'll stay here, he says. nearby tanks burn after a russian strike. not the first time it came under bombardment. the shelling here comes early and often. and the shelling continues. we've been hearing all evening distant thuds to the north of here. it is believed this city, kramatorsk, is really right in the middle of what is anticipated to be a russian pincer movement to try to cut off ukrainian forces in the eastern part of the country. it makes sense that is why they are firing rockets and artillery intensely to the north of here. jessica? >> ben wedeman reporting for us, thank you so much. russian president volodymyr zelenskyy says his country is in a daily state of heartbreak over the needless death of civilians especially younger victims. cnn's jake tapper sat down with him at the presidential office in kyiv for an exclusive interview. >> reporter: i'm sure you have seen the video of the ukrainian mom finding her son in a well and her sorrow, her crying is just devastating to hear. and you have seen a lot of videos like that. what is it like for you as the president of this country to see those videos, to hear the crying of the moms? >> translator: this is the scariest i've seen in my life in principle. i look at this, first of all, as a father. it hurts so, so much. it's a tragedy. it's suffering. i won't be able to imagine the scale of suffering of these people. of this woman. it is a family's tragedy, it's a disaster. it's the dreams and the life you just lost. we live for our kids, that's true. kids are the best we were given by god and by family. it is a great pain for me. i can't watch it as a father because all you want after this is revenge and to kill. i have to watch as the people have loved their loved ones and there are millions of people who want to live. all of us want to fight. >> don't miss jake tapper's exclusive interview with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy on cnn's "state of the union" live from lviv tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. now i want to bring in retired general wesley clark, the former nato supreme allied commander. general, great to see you. thanks for making time for us today. russia is warning the u.s. there could be unpredictable consequences. what is that implied threat, and what are you reading from that? >> well, of course it's an implied threat. we don't know what it means but it's something you take in stride. russia has invaded a country. it's our legal right under the united nations charter to assist a nation in its self-defense, so russia has no grounds other than bullying and intimidation against the west. in the united states and other european countries and encourage the political systems to reject so much assistance to ukraine, that's all. and if there's some attack on nato, putin knows what would happen there. the russians are fully occupied and unable to mount that offensive in donbas. all the reports i'm getting say it's been very, very tough to pull these units out of the northern part of the country, ship them to the east, find replacement soldiers, and they don't want to fight. the russian soldiers themselves, so many of them, know this is a fruitless, dangerous, wasted effort by russia. it's going to cause nothing but grief for everybody. they don't see the cause of the war. they're not trained effectively. putin is resorting to artillery, bombing and threats. >> right. and do you think all of the things you laid out, do you think that reaffirms the weapons supplied have been effective here? >> it's been effective thus far. now if he does get his big offensive rolling in donbas, that requires a different set of armaments for ukraine. that's mobile workers, armored fighting vehicles, self-propelled artillery, lts and lots of munitions and some of that is coming in. it's not all there yet this is the stage of the batting where it's preparation versus counter preparation, reinforcement versus counter reinforcement and the question is can the west get the material there ukraine needs before russia can reorganize its struggling armed forces to launch a big offensive. >> on friday president zelenskyy talked about the sinking of that warship. we'll listen to a quick clip from that. >> translator: we know it does not exist anymore. for us it is a strong weapon against our country. so its sinking is not a tragedy for us. i want you, the rest of the people to realize that, the less weapons the russian federation that attacked our country has, the better for us, the less capable they are. this is important. >> so russia is denying missiles sunk the ship and insisting a fire caused it to sink. the u.s. is scoring ukraine's account of what happened. how demarlizing is the sinking of the ship? it's hard enough they're having to tell their own version of the story. >> i think it's a fairly big deal. it shows ukraine's ability to use sophisticated weaponry, russia's lack of discipline to be able to do damage control on that ship and, third, it does take away some capacity of the russian black sea fleet to bombard ukraine and potentially seize odessa. i think it's a real warning to the russians, stay away from the sea and the fact the russians are taking revenge on it sort of counteracts their propaganda story that it was an accident, doesn't it? >> right. >> they're having some problem with their information warfare. >> thank you for your expertise. it's always nice to see you. >> thank you. some breaking news we want to talk about out of south carolina. police in columbia saying a dozen people are injured after a shooting at a shopping mall. here is what we know now. police put out a tweet saying they were responding to shots fired at the mall about ten miles from downtown columbia. about an hour later the lexington county police department said it was setting up a reunification area nearby for anyone with loved ones caught up in the incident. police saying there are no fatalities. three people have been detained. we'll continue to keep our eye on that. still to come, new york city on high alert for new covid subvariants as the u.s. sees cases and hospitalizations tick up. could mask mandates make a comeback? 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needed right now. we saw miles of delays of trucks, we saw spoiled food and that means everything at the grocery store could go up, asparagus and peppers. governor abbott of texas announced he was going to allow for his department of public safety to check every commercial truck coming from mexico into the u.s. along the texas border. this caused miles of delays, caused mexican truckers to go on struck. the produce industry says they've lost about $240 million in sales because of this eight-day enhanced check. the governor says he was doing this in response to president biden noting he was going to repeal title 42. the governor said that he was doing this to check for human smuggling and drugs but what this did at the end of the day was cause massive trade disruptions and will take several weeks now for the supply chains to catch up, jessica. >> and to kind of unwind alm of that. let's talk mortgage rates. they hit 5% for the first time in over a decade. how is that going to impact those looking to become homeowners? it's a really hot real estate market right now. >> it's going to make it a lot more expensive. over the last year or so we were seeing mortgage rates below 2%. that was incredibly attractive for home buyers to go out and buy a home. after the federal reserve announced they were going to start raising interest rates we saw the rates tick up and now they're at 5%, the high nest a decade that is discouraging people from buying homes. but that's actually exactly what the federal reserve is trying to do, trying to get people to stop spending so much to cool down this inflation. we know the federal reserve will increase federal rates several times this year. that means interest rates could rise more, another $300 or so on your mortgage for first-time home buyers especially could make the difference between buying a home and not. >> absolutely. good news here, gas prices going down. can we expect that trend to continue? >> in the short term potentially, yes. we know that china, a lot of china is under lockdown not using as much fuel. people may be concerned about rising covid cases. they may be cutting back on traveling. we know the president has taken the unprecedented step of releasing 1 million barrels of oil from our strategic reserve bringing down prices. you can see it dropping by several cents in the last week. but we are watching oil prices start to go tick up again. remember, gas prices do lag oil prices. in the short term gooz news. we have to see where they put gas prices. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. north korea has just reportedly test fired a new tactical guided weapon. we'll have move more on that in just a moment. you're in the cnn "newsroom." i looked on ancestry and just started digging and found some really cool stuff... it was just a lot of fun. just to talk to my parents about it and to send it to my grandparents and be like, hey this person we're all related to look at this crazy stuff they did in arizona 100 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hitting a rocky target somewhere in the watt earp off north korea. not an intercontinental ballistic missile like the kind we saw in recent weeks a. short range or interimmemediary that d strike troops in south korea or potentially strike u.s. troops stationed in japan or potentially even the u.s. territory of guam. in fact, guam's homeland security first put out a thing about this even before north korean state media saying they determined there was no immediate threat from the north korean missile launch. this is another provocation on a year north korea has really launched more missiles than we've seen in the pace of launches, an unprecedented pace of weapons testing including waems of mass destruction because north korea said, jessica, in their propaganda article today this is to strengthen the country's tactical nuclear operation. that is essentially a hint from north korea this intermediary range guided missile could be nuclear capable, could carry a nuclear warhead this raises questions about will north korea be conducting another nuclear test given work under way at their test site that had been shut down during the diplomacy with former president trump. in now seems crews are back there in operation getting that site ready for some sort of a test. could they be trying to test a smaller warhead that could fit on a missile like this? that is certainly the question military analysts will be asking as they assess all intelligence about the missile launch, jessica. >> and talk to us about the timing of this. what is the significance of the timing of this? >> reporter: well, we just a couple days ago had the most important holiday on the north korean calendar. april 15 was the day of the sun. celebrates the birthday of north korea's founder kim il sung who ruled for half a century. that holiday is marked by huge celebrations across north korea and on certain milestone holidays they tend to do things like a missile launch, a provocative event, to have a propaganda win on the home front domestically and send a message to the international community. this happens to be the 110th anniversary of kim il sung's birthday. so could this test be some sort of not only a weapons test but also to announce to the north koreans that their dictator remains strong, remains powerful, and remains firmly standing up against their arch enemy the united states? certainly a propaganda benefit due to the timing as well. >> right. if you're just tuning in, breaking news north korea claiming it's test fired a new tactical guided weapon. we were just hearing from our senior international correspondent, will ripley. thank you so much for laying that all out for us, will. we'll continue to be in touch with you and come back to you in a little bit. thanks so much. retire astronaut and iss commander scott kelly is selling mementos from his time in space to help ukrainians who are fleeing the war. kelly is auctioning off both real and digital content to help raise 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>> well, this issue is very personal to me, jessica. i have ukrainian family members. i have a brother-in-law who came to the united states as a teenager. his kids, my niece and nephew are ukrainian americans. i have ukrainian friends and so this is a personal issue to me and i felt like anything i could do to help i was going to try. >> and it's so interesting. obviously you're auctioning off items, but i think it's so fascinating you're also doing nfts. what made you decide to use those as well? >> well, i've been interested in the crypto world and the block chain and the interesting things it can do. so i felt like this was an opportunity to raise some money with an auction of over 3,333 unique, as you mentioned, nfts. and the auction or the sale was on friday, and the auction was on friday as well. actually the sale was a couple days before. but we sold out all the nfts within a few hours, and the auction was complete yesterday. we raised right around half a million dollars. >> that's incredible. congratulations. i know that money will go to good use. i want to talk to you about your new book. in your book you explain how you went from a distracted student with poor grades to the command ear commander of the international space station. people look at you and think there's no way you were a bad student. how did your mistakes and challenges lead to you a career that took you into space for almost a year? >> yes, so i was a very distracted kid. i was not -- i wanted to do well but i just couldn't. it wasn't until i was in high school i discovered a book that was critical to my success, and it was tom wolfe's "the right stuff" and showed me a path and inspired me that i could do more if i could just become a so you know much of what i do today, whether it's motivational speaking or writing, i want to inspire kids leak i was inspired by tom wolf. i wrote an inspirational book a. small book with big lessons about not being scared, although it's a normal emotion but not fearing failure, being willing to take risks. being willing to make mistakes. things tha like that, that will hopefully help some one people on a path to success. >> i am sure it will, those are important. i think we are trying to learn as we go through life. i know you talked to your fellow astronaut mark van de hei when he broke your most consecutive days in space. what did you say to him? >> i think i tweeted at him. i didn't speak to him on the space or ground. just congratulations, a year is a long time. i know it is, it's not easy. it's actually hard to do. that's what makes it a great thing, though, is that it's really, really hard. i just congratulated him and let him know that we were all proud of him. >> yeah. that's so great. i do want to talk to you a little bit about your thoughts about the contingents between united states and russia right now. speaking of twitter, i know you had a back-and-forth of russia and the space program and obviously someone who's worked with russians in space. how are you keeping politics off space program? in there it's easy to do in space. you realize, you are no longer on earth. you have priorities there. those priorities are supporting your crew members, their work. 84 teammates. emotional support you have for one another and relying on each other literally relying on each other for our lives. so it seems like earthy blocks is not the most important things when are you in space. having said that i am sure at some point if we got to it that would affect relation on board. i don't think we are there yet with the crew members. i do know the people at nasa and cosmos, at least most of them, the good ones i know want to make this partnership work. >> with groups like spacex, blue origin, making starts to get more people into space, what do you think are the chances we see you go up in a commercial rocket any time soon or any of your fellow astronauts? >> well, i would go. no one has called me yet. it would be great to go on blue origin. i think that looks like one of the greatest rides you can have, because it doesn't take a lot of training, over pretty quick. you can talk about it later that night at you know meeting back with your friends and family. i think it's great. we're in the early days of commercial aviation, where commercial aviation was, where it's really, pensive, it's risky. some day those costs will go down, the safety will go up, it will be something we can all hopefully one day experience. >> we know blue origin, scott pellty wants to go up. we got that on record. thank you so much with your book and an incredible job there raising money for ukrainians. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, jesse. you can go to cnn.com/impact to help ukrainians in need. you will find more than 40 vetted charities distributed aid. so far our campaign has raised more than $7.5 million. thank you for advance with your help there. we continue to follow this breaking news, 12 people hurt in a south carolina shopping mall, three people have been detainedments plus, their home lands are on either side of the war. but this couple will not let them stop them from tying the knot, thousands of miles away. for a limited time, get a 5g phone on us! 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