not surrender, and he is begging the world for help, warning they may have only hours left. >> translator: this is our statement to the world. it may be our last statement. we might have only a few days or even hours left. the enemy's units are 10 times larger than ours. they have supremacy in the air, artillery and units located on the ground, equipment, and tanks. we appeal to the world leaders to help us. >> you can hear the desperation in his voice. and it may have something to do with this. ukraine security service calls what a communications intercept involving a russian ground unit commander. cnn has not been able to verify the authenticity of this recording. but they can hear talking about plans to level everything on the ground around this steel facility. >> translator: we are expecting surprises from russia here. >> what kind of surprises? >> translator: three-ton ones, from the sky. breaking overnight, the deputy prime minister of ukraine has announced an agreement with russia on a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of women, children and the elderly from that plant in mariupol. we are closely monitoring this development, see if it comes through. there have been questions whether they are respected by forces. in donbas, forces have been able to repel numerous russian advances according to the latest uk defense intelligence assessment. even though shelling in the region has intensified, russia continues to be hampered by the environmental, logistical and technical challenges that have been bes detective them so far. sources tell cnn the pentagon is keeping a constant watch as well for the possibility of any movements in russia's nuclear arsenal with lloyd austin getting two to three briefings a week. i have been told by u.s. military officials the u.s. has not assessed any new or unusual movements of russian nuclear forces. as the white house scrambles to get more weapons to ukraine as quickly as possible, the u.s. is set to announce another big weapons package. $800 million in weapons aid, following $800 million in weapons aid justify a few days ago. john voss is here with me in lviv. john, i want to start with the situation in mariupol. desperate pleas from inside that steel plant there. >> yeah. >> concerns we saw the ukrainian marine about the soldiers holed up there. but hundreds of women and children. is this a sign of hope there might be a path out for them? >> here's the thing. the path of this humanitarian may take. it will pass directly by the steel factory. they will take out women, children, elderly. no men obviously. will they stop? will they go that direction? will they stop along the way? the problem with corridors to this point, since this siege of mariupol began, there has not been one organized convoy has been able to get out of mariupol since the siege began march 1st. so that's the problem with the corridors. that's where we stand with that. >> we have heard accounts of russian forces shelling quote-unquote humanitarian corridors that they had agreed to. we may not know this at this point, but do we know where these people would go from mariupol? one phenomenon is they have been forced to go into russia. >> to go from mariupol to bodansk to srap zaporizhzhia. the russians have been doing it every second day. the fighters inside have refused to lay down their weapons. that's what the ukrainian government has asked them to do. to evacuate to leave. they are refusing to leave. >> well, listen. let's hope lives are saved there. the precedent so far has been harrowing. john vause, thank you so much for bringing us the latest. as russian forces continue to bombard the steel plant in mary we'll, ukraine's security service is releasing what it believes to be a communications intercept from a russian ground unit commander in the region. and here's more of that audio. we should note once again cnn cannot vouch for its authenticity . skwrojoining us is tom fore. it's an usual place for folks to seek shelter. take us through the situation at the steel plant and how many people we know are stuck there. >> yeah. well, no is the tricky part in all of this, jim. it's right down here on the coast, the azovstal iron and steel works. it is over a big area. this is perhaps one of the most dire situations we have heard about since russia invaded and this war began. they have been holing out here for quite some time. there is a series of tunnels beneath it where both civilians who are there and some of the fighters are. russia has tended to characterize this all as being fighters. the people from ukraine have said otherwise. we have heard the warning there. they say this is where they are completely encircled. there is command of the air, command of the ground by the russians and only the holdouts or still in this area. take a look at the plant itself. this is what is on the ground, which has been attacked, attacked and attacked. how they wound up there is not entirely clear. what does happen as this deadline approaches is the real question some. >> no question. as you look at the aerials, it gives you a view of how this war is being waged by russia. civilian infrastructure leveled. whenever it ends, it will be an enormous reconstruction project. the russian military set a deadline of 7:00 a.m. for the ukrainian military to lay down their weapons. do we have any indication that the soldiers holed up there are going to do that? >> that seems very unclear. the description from the russians. and bear in mind, this is a picture of mariupol at the same time. the russian vision of this, the way they describe it is -- we will let everybody come out. nobody will be shooting. all the -- clear what the russians see happening next. mainly the notion is you lay down your weapons, you come outside -- looking at all of this, you can understand the ukrainians inside are saying what we want to see is some international force to -- out and take us away from all of this, not into the hands of the russians. jim, i have honestly no idea where we will be in another hour or two here in terms of what will actually happen. what we do know under the circumstances, what we are hearing from ukrainians said, they are almost out of food, almost out of water -- relentlessly by bombing and attacks here. they are grossly outnumbered. they are saying they need some kind of help even as they continue to try to hold out. >> it's medieval war tactics. surround and starve. it's part, it seems, the russian plan here. tom foreman, thank you so much. >> we are 52 minutes away from this deadline that russia has given ukrainian forces to surrender. thank you so much for being with us. this steel plant in mariupol, it's about four miles wide. it's got the last remaining ukrainian forces and civilians trapped inside who say they are being bombed with everything russia has. if you're inside that and you are begging for help and you're facing this deadline, what is their thinking right now? >> well, they are trying to survive the fact that the military is still fighting there. it's a small miracle. they are using the steel meal as a level of protection. the way out of there is by the sea. i don't see how you will get an international unit to get them out using the road networks from a timing perspective. plus, i wouldn't trust the russians at this point. the only place that you would guarantee success of evacuating civilians would be coming from the sea, which another country could easily do, bring a ship and have them evacuate that way. >> that's what they're asking for. they are pleading for any other country to help with an extraction unit. the united states said we are not sending in american pilots, american forces. would they take the risk of going in through the sea to try to make that extraction effort happen? >> it would have to be a commercial sea liner as opposed to an american warship. there could be a misunderstanding if something breaks out there. russia would have to decide. if you bring the civilians anywhere out in the towns and cities, there is no town what the military units could do to them. >> they are begging for help. we have seen overall broadly, they are sending another military aid package. they are prepping $800 billion more. something president zelenskyy said what the allies had sent them now, if they had september them weeks ago, we wouldn't be in this place. >> probably not weeks ago. it is very sophisticated. right now is prioritizing the equipment that's coming through. it will be important for the ukraine military to get the switch blades. in order to defeat the russians at this point, they have to win the artillery war. every weapon that is fired,s they have a return address. they have to figure out where that return address is coming from and put fires on that directly. do you think they could have success with that? president biden said they will send more artillery, something they desperately need in the second phase of the battle. >> the question is what kind of artillery. there is self-propelled, much more heavy, difficult to get there. there is the towed artillery that takes on the trucks and different types of artillery. tonnage, 2,000 tons is a lot of c-17s. the lift to get that there is a lot. and to get it 500 miles from the polish border. >> because they can't fly it in. pentagon officials are worried russia would start to target these shipments, something they haven't done so far, at least not successfully. do you think that's a real concern? >> i think it is. they will target the rail lines. you saw what happened when they targeted the civilian rail head. they will do that more in the east. they might get lucky and hit a high valued target from our perspective, a logistical perspective. the convoys, to get it to the fast as we can is the logistical challenge. that is what will win the war for ukraine >> ukraine said they need it as soon as possible. retired army major general mike lyons. > new this morning, for the biden administration also challenge that decision to lift mask mandates on planes, buses and trains. but there are big questions whether it's too late. ♪ ♪ i came, i saw, i conquered. 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. >> i think some of the counties will be disappointed they now have to take over sewage, building inspections and all of these difficult responsibilities that disney had taken up for its own properties. it is a lot of properties. it's hundreds of people employed in the counties and thousands from outside around the country and around the world who go there to work at disney. this is in part the company not getting behind the don't say gay legislation even before it was enacted. disney was slow to recognize that this would be an issue for its employees who really led the charge in saying, hey, this goes against disney's own stated policies, this is what we stand for as a company. we need to do something about it. sometimes when republican legislators go a little to the right when it comes to culture issues, you see companies like the nba, north carolina, standing up first and saying, hey, we don't want this. this goes against our values. and this is going to keep happening. you know, texas is looking at laws that are offensive to the lgbt community. and last year delta faced this in georgia when it came to voting rights laws. this is across the board. not just social issues but also issues about equality in the view of these companies. they need to get on the offensive. they need to realize when these laws are coming up. they need to start lobbying early. they need to realize that the gop is not necessarily the party of business anymore where the choice between the gop and democrats is lower taxes and less regulation on the gop side and the democrats are, you know, hurtful for business. it's a different dichotomy now. >> that is something you have written about before saying when they don't agree, the gop likes to punish them when they don't agree with their politics and policies. do you believe this is just another version of that happening, that playing out in florida with this iconic company like disney and this popular, powerful governor? >> absolutely. this is a punitive punishment for disney not agreeing with ron desantis. and it's funny because the gop was the party of corporate personhood. companies are people too. and companies therefore have speech. and speech is considered, you know, a political right. so, you know, in the old gop framework, a company like disney absolutely has the right to lobby whatever government it wants for whatever laws that it wants. now the gop is changing its tune. corporate needs to realize they need to change their political strategies in a sense because they are not dealing with the same two political parties anymore. >> that is so interesting. i also want to talk about netflix. anybody who had a bad day yesterday, i think netflix had a worst day. they lost 200 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 and expect to lose another 2 million in the second quarter. >> yeah. okay. so wall street has been calling this forever and ever and ever. there would be a day where netflix came to its plateau in subscribers and what would happen. until now it's been theoretical. disney getting on board with its deluge of content in the streaming wars, all the different actors in the streaming wards hastened that day for netflix. now netflix is like, okay, we need to figure out how to raise more money from our subscribers. so they're considering a product that's cheaper but commercials so advertisers are dealing with some of the costs. it is very expensive to create good content. >> yeah. >> when you have someone like disney who has years and years and years of classic content in the can, they're going to have not necessarily as expensive a time getting their operation up and running. netflix is going to deal with some issues. and i wouldn't be surprised if we see a cheaper netflix with ads and i wouldn't be surprised if in 10 years the streaming services look more like the cable we used to know. which is so fascinating because everyone thought streaming is replacing cable in that sense. thank you for breaking that down for us. it's fascinating. >> no problem. thanks for having me. minutes from now is the russian deadline for the ukrainians to surrender in the last mariupol stronghold which the ukrainians said they will not do. plus, prosecuting putin. meet the ukrainian official who is building the war crimes case right now and vows to make the russian leader pay. and a tv analyst turned freedom fighter. why a tv analyst left to go help in the fight. wet dishes? 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>> it goes a long way to protecting you, jim. now, of course there's going to be more stuff in the air because other people won't be wearing masks. but still masks will provide a high level of protection. so let's take a look by mask type. say you're on a plane and other people aren't wearing masks but you're wearing one. an n95 will reduce the number of inhaled particles 20-fold compared if you weren't wearing one. a surgical mask nine-fold and cloth mask three-fold. there will be more stuff out there so they won't go as far but still it will reduce your chances of getting covid. to flip this around, if you're a healthy person and not so concerned about getting covid, you might still want to wear a mask to protect other people. there are people who are immune compromised where their vaccines didn't work. children undergoing keep character where vaccination didn't work well for them. they are the vulnerable ones. if you wear a mask and you happen to sit next to one of these people, you will be going a long way to protecting them >> that's always been this from the beginning, it's not about. it's about others. but unfortunately not everybody sees the light on that. thanks so much. more breaking news out of ukraine. we are getting word two zoo workers who stayed behind to help feed animals have now been found dead. who is responsible? 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>> i want people to understand that what i've been told from others who were there, they thought they were going to a spring break party. it had been advertised on social media as such with a $5 fee to come. and they thought they were going to a spring break party. so i just want people to know that they were doing what kids do. they go to parties when they're that age. and it's very important for people to know that. they went there to have fun. >> yeah. understand. that's something that a lot of high schoolers do, 17-year-olds, especially. when was the last time you had spoken with math stphaou. >> i had spoken with him saturday night. >> before he went to the party? >> it would have been before he went to the party, yes. >> what can you tell us about what he was like and for any of you, miles, lee, please weigh in. we have heard from the school administrator who was talking about what a good friend he was and they thought he had such a promising future. just 17 years old. such a young, precious age. >> yes. matthew, i can say these words about him. matthew was actually one of the brightest lights you could have ever seen. his whole persona was like a bright light reaching out to other people. he was loyal, kind and compassionate. he had learned how to become an -- he was learning how to become an advocate for himself as well as his peers. he had begun to advocate for them in the school setting. he was learning to advocate for them in the youth enrichment program and starting to mentor other kids there where he had become part of that program. he was learning about business through one of his mentors who is here, mr. lee davis. and he was starting a clothing line. and i'm going to let mr. davis talk more about that. but he was loyal. he was learning how to travel through this life and use his kindness for good. that's what he wanted to do. everything he did he wanted to do it for good. to help somebody. this was in this kid's heart. >> mr. davis, what can you tell us? i did read about this t-shirt line that he was starting. and i know he wanted to surprise you, bonnie, with this. what was in the works behind the scenes on this? >> well, again, when i met matthew a few months ago, we initially didn't hit it off. because he just thought i was an average guy coming in to say the same thing everybody say to kids when they visit school and have these groups much after a while, after a couple groups he realized i wasn't the average guy and we had a lot in common as far as how we grew up and some of the things we went through. and so the ice was broken. and as i got to know him, he told me, you know, what his ambitions were and some of his goals. and within that he let me know that, you know, he had a passion for fashion. and he wanted to get into that and start a clothing line. he wanted to start out with t-shirts. he wanted to do t-shirts, then jeans, then polo style shirts and suits. so he had a goal and vision in mind. we went through the design processes and him being in my office, free-hand designing his logos and all that stuff. then we just got with somebody to really bring it to life. the logo that you guys see was the logo we came up with. that's the end result. that was going to be on the t-shirt that that would come out may 1st. one of the things he let me know is the first had to go to aunt bonnie. that was his main thing. his main goal. anything after that would be icing on the cake. hopefully we can make that dream happen. we have the t-shirts coming. and we will give them out. if aunt bonnie wants to use them at some point to raise money or do some things in matt's name, then she has the blessing to do that as well. >> miles, how do you get to know matthew? . >> of course. so i matthew in the male mentoring program of youth services. he was there before i was hired. it was a family atmosphere. he already knew them before i came. we had similar backgrounds, where we grew up. but i was someone he trusted. once matt did trust someone, he would do anything for them. he was loyal. his compassion was probably one of the biggest things that stood out to me as miss mentor, we would speak daily or every few days. if a few days wouldn go by, he was reaching out to me to make sure i'm okay. >> right, right. >> we recently hired matt as well. he was like a peer mentor, and he helped out with a lot of office tasks and just things around the office. buff the kids at the office are heartbroken. they were telling me how much he was a mentor to them. and how he was becoming a mentor for them. it's just very unfortunate. he worked on a few projects for us. it's very unfortunate this happened. matt is a great kid. and i'm just sad that he wasn't able to reach his full potential before this happened. >> yeah. everyone talks about what a promising future he had. and so i just want to say we are so sorry again for your loss and for what's happened here. and i want to thank you, miles, bonnie, and lee to come on and share his story because i think it's important >> yes. excuse me for one second. i just need two seconds. i want to mention because i'm here on cnn and this is national. i want to mention jaden, the other young boy that died. i want people to remember him and remember that this child, like all these other children that were there, are our precious assets. and we have a responsibility toward them. they should not have to be our children for us to reach out our hands for them, for us to extend ourselves to them, to give them support. because the times for them are so tumultuous. we have a responsibility to them. i ask all of you to please remember that. thank you. >> bonnie, that's very well said. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you wall three for joining us this morning. >> thank you. up next, actor johnny depp is taking the stand against his ex-wife who accuses him of abuse. he said that would never happen because of his childhood. plus, they have 10 more minutes before the deadline is up. what the ukrainians in mariupol are prepared to do next and what happens if they don't comply with this ultimatum they have been given. we're live in ukraine. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase l good. 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