>> reporter: now, just a couple of states have rent protections in place, rent controls in place, the majority do not including right here in the state of florida, but, brianna, with high inflation and increased demand analysts we spoke to say unfortunately we can only expect rents to rise even more. brianna? >> yeah, this is the squeeze that we are seeing and so many people are suffering. vanessa, thank you for that great report. we do appreciate it. "new day" continues right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is thursday, april 28th, i'm john berman with brianna keilar and we do have major breaking news this morning for millions of parents with young children and babies. moments ago moderna announced it is seeking emergency use authorization for its covid vaccine for children six months through 5 years old. this has been the missing link, these people -- kids -- have not been covered, not been able to be vaccinated until this point. >> am i smiling? i think i'm smiling. the pharmaceutical giant is presenting data from its latest studies to support this move. the company believes this vaccine will be able to safely protect children against the virus. >> joining me now cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. okay, sanjay, give us the numbers here. give us the presentation. >> okay. let me preface by saying this is coming from the pharmaceutical company as we always say this data does have to be vetted and validated from the fda. with err just hearing from moderna. what they have found by giving 25 micrograms, that's one quarter of the dose they give to adults, they're giving to children under the age of 5, let me show you the numbers, they are looking at how much does this protect in terms of antibodies overall good antibody response. here are the numbers in terms of overall efficacy against symptomatic infection, so getting an infection that has any sort of symptoms at all, could be just a runny nose or whatever. in the 6 month to 2 years 51% effective, 2 to 5 years 37% effective. those are lower numbers than we're used to seeing from the beginning of the pandemic but very similar to what we see with adults with omicron and the moderna vaccine at that higher dose against symptomatic infection. in adults it's protective against severe infection against hospitalization and death but children aren't likely to have severe illness and hospitalization so we don't have numbers for that. those are the best numbers in terms of efficacy because there aren't enough kids who got severely ill to draw a comparison. overall generated similar antibodies and that protection against any infection. talk about 18 to 20 million people here, 18 to 20 million kids so a significant chupg of the population potentially. >> you see those efficacy numbers, 38% and 51% and are inclined to think, wow, that's not what we were seeing early on with the adult vaccines. so explain to us why this matters. why it's important even with this level of protection to get kids vaccinated. >> one point about just the efficacy overall is that they are still using the same vaccine that we have used since the beginning. there's been discussion about should we use an omicron specific, delta specific vaccine. that still has not been the case. that may be the case some time in the future but this is still the original vaccine. i think the reason this matters is sort of twofold, one is that, i mean, it's still some protection, obviously, you know, if you are talking 50% in that certain age group, half of kids do get that protection, but let me show you something else that's happened with omicron specifically with regard to kids. we can sort of track looking at these antibody studies just how much kids have been affected. they are the red line there over these past several months. that red line really did shoot up. tells us two things, kids are much more likely to be affected by omicron and we knew they were more likely to get sick. again, maybe not severely ill, but omicron seemed to affect the upper airway, kids were developing significant croup, sometimes they would need to go to the hospital even if they weren't admitted for that so this was a more significant variant for them. more kids being affected, you do have this vaccine. so even though it's a lower efficacy, placed on a larger population that are now being affected by this variant, it could still have a significant impact. >> we're talking about the age group roughly 0 -- 6 months up through 6 years old or your fifth year. what we do know about kids 5 to 11 year olds is the uptake on vaccinations hasn't been high. >> yeah. and, you know, i mean, there's all sorts of polling data to say how likely are you to go get your kid vaccinated and the polling data for 5 to 11 year olds it kind of tracked with what ended up happening. about 25% to 30% of parents saying we're going to go get this right away, we're going to do this immediately when it's authorized, you have about the same percentage who say no, never and the middle is we will wait and see what happens. i think that that's generally what the case is. we will see, especially as we go into the spring and summer, the numbers are still likely to come down. i think the big question, john, and i think what a lot of these folks are thinking about is the fall, late summer and fall when kids are going back into school, at that time you get a lot of co mingling of kids again but also because of the cooler, drier weather more rapid spread of virus. hopefully the vaccines will be available, authorized for people by then certainly but you're right, there is a significant percentage who say no or we're going to wait and see. >> at least for this group, again, this age group which has been the missing link this will give parents a choice if it's approved they simply is it not have. >> that's right. there is 5 handled older for the pfizer vaccine but this particular age group there hasn't been any protection. >> big relief for some people we know, brianna keilar. >> right. indeed. you were asking him for a friend, weren't you? >> exactly. a chilling threat this morning from vladimir putin, the russian leader warning that his bloody war against ukraine is going to expand if the west interferes. and the rhetoric is coming as the u.n. secretary general just came face-to-face with putin and tells cnn the war will go on until russia decides to end it. >> translator: if someone intends to intervene in what is happening from the outside and creates up acceptable strategic threats for us, then they should know that our response to oncoming strikes will be swift, lightning fast. we have all the tools for this, ones that no one can brag about. and we won't brag. we will use them if needed. >> the war will not end with meetings. the war will end when the russian federation decides to end it and when there is after a ceasefire a possibility of a serious political agreement. we can have all meetings, but that is not what will end the war. >> now, overnight the defense minister in britain said putin may seek to consolidate what he already has in ukraine and dig in like a cancerous growth. we're also learning about more record roars out of donetsk. the u.s. has credible information now that russian military units have executed ukrainians there while they were surrendering. their hands were bound, their bodies showing signs of torture and they were killed execution style. overnight there was an explosion in the russian occupied city of kherson. now, remember, the russians are in control of this city and russian media says the blast took place near a main television facility which is broadcasting russian-controlled information. a russian official said a return to ukrainian control is now impossible. across the eastern part of ukraine the ukrainian military reports intense fire from russian forces and the think tank the institute for the study of war assesses that, quote, russian forces have adopted a sounder pattern of operational movement in eastern ukraine. we will talk about what that means. i want to go live to lviv, ukraine, and bring in cnn's scott mclean on the very latest there. scott, what can you tell us? >> reporter: brianna, yeah, as you guys mentioned the united states now says that it has seen credible reports that russian troops have executed ukrainian soldiers while they are in the process of surrendering. these comments were made by the u.s. ambassador for global justice who was speaking at the u.n. yesterday, she was not specific in exactly where or when this took place other than the donetsk area. we have reached out to get further clarification but she says if those reports are, in fact, true that it would be a clear violation of the rules of war and she says that -- and she says that this is not an isolated incident, this is a sign of a larger pattern on the part of russian troops. meanwhile, fighting as you mentioned continues in the east and we're seeing new pictures released by local authorities in one small hamlet in the donetsk region where officials there say that 27 homes have been hit by shelling. we are also seeing new video the city of severodonetsk which is in the luhansk region of a hospital hit by shelling and in this video you can see one wall completely blown out, a section of the wall completely blown out, there's glass everywhere, metal, drywall strewn all about. local official says that one woman was killed in that blast. it is the only -- or one of only two, i should say, hospitals that are still functioning in that area and they say despite this it will continue to operate. then you mentioned kherson as well, john. as you said, this is the southern city of ukraine where the russians have been in control there since early march and now this new video showing an explosion in midair. now, according to russian media they're saying that ukrainians fired three missiles into the city, two of them were shot down, the third one landed near that tv broadcasting facility and one other thing to mention and that is that kherson officials also say that beginning on sunday they will begin to use the russian ruble as legal tender there. >> all right. scott mclean live in lviv, thank you for that report. it took five desperate tries but a key woman is finally reunited with her parents after she single handedly recued them from their home in mariupol. the parents had been hiding out in their basement since march with no heat or gas or water as the fierce fighting raged on all around them. in these videos that victoria took while driving through the city center to reach her parents you can see what she saw here, the destruction of this once vibrant city, block after block of blown out buildings, broken sidewalks, piles of rubble, a city left in ruins. joining me now to talk about her fearless rescue mission is victoria, along with her mother tatiana who we are so grateful to see safe and sound there. victoria, you are a mom, you got your 8-year-old son to safety in germany and then you tried four times unsuccessfully to get your parents out of mariupol. success on the fifth try. can you tell us what that was like? >> hello. yeah, you know, i didn't know that i should go to mariupol, first when the war started i took my son and we went to germany, but after several days there was no connection with my parents, with mariupol, and i decided to go and to try to go to enter the city and to try to help my parents to try to rescue them. so i tried for the first time and soldiers didn't let me in the center because it was fighting there. the second try they just closed the city and the third try i stuck in the small village near mariupol. so i stayed there around four or five days. so i coming to out and because of the soldiers they did not let people go out also, they said because of fighting. only on the fifth try, yeah, i entered the city and managed to take my parents from -- >> you had gotten a lead about a different route, right, to get into the city, but one of the most amazing things, and i think of this in my mind of you, you were in a mini cooper. you were in a small car, right? >> yeah, i have a small car and, yeah, i know that it was very dangerous to go with a small car inside the city because it's -- you -- i guess you saw the video and there is no actually roads. the city is damaged so it's very dangerous to go with a small car because if something happens with the car i just am stuck in the city and no one will rescue me. so my fifth trip was -- took me -- it took me two days just to get to the city because i went through kherson and mariupol, ver dance -- and only after that i came to mariupol. >> i can't imagine what it was like to see your parents and get to safety but i wonder what that was like and what kept you going. >> to be honest, when i came back without any success i was close to give up, but some friends of mine -- because when you go to the city you are certain to talk with volunteers, you know, some information, you collect some information that other people don't know maybe and some friends of mine they said that we managed to enter through this region with this new route, and i decided to try one more time and i was succeed. >> one more time. victoria, what a dangerous and brave journey. 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>> i think we've had the same experience except for the result and i would agree that there are so many people in the american government who are not appreciated for the hard work they do every day and it's not just the hard decisions that president biden has to do, but he has layers and layers and layers of people all the way down to the american citizen services folks in moscow who are helping us all the time. they're doing great, we just haven't seen paul's release at the end of it. >> i've heard you say that your brother's case is harder or more challenging in some ways. why? >> that's my perception. i sort of look at it as if we're doing negotiation was russia or other foreign nations holding americans hajj, those people are looking for concessions from the u.s. government and the u.s. government has just given one up to the russian government, so that's one less option that the u.s. has and they also may have delineated lines they are not willing to cross, so they may not be willing to do exchanges with more hardened or serious criminals to bring paul home. it seems like the options are narrowed. >> i know you had your eyes on konstantin yaroshenko, you thought he might be the guy traded for your brother, now he is off the table, it's already been used in an exchange. i would also say you hope the biden administration has the courage to make the deal necessary to bring your brother home. what do you mean by that? >> the president has to make terribly hard decisions all the time and i don't envy him, i wouldn't want to be in his shoes. he represents all of the american citizens wherever they are and paul is one of those. i think it takes courage and i think it takes a deliberateness in making decisions to make those choices to bring an american home and it's not a palatable choice even in the case of trevor to send home a drug smuggler who still has another ten years on his sentence. these are people who are correctly convicted in the u.s. being traded for people who were incorrectly or unjustly convicted in russia. we're essentially laundering a bad rule of law and it's a terrible position to be in but i hope that he will be courageous in looking for opportunities to bring paul home. >> i know it's complicated and you're choosing your words carefully and i do respect that. one of the people who has been mentioned is victor bout, he is like an arms dealer, a convicted arms dealer. is that someone that you would be willing to see exchanged for your brother? >> viktor bout and konstantin yaroshenko were the two names given to paul on the first weekend he had been arrested, they told him don't worry you will be home very shortly because we're going to trade you for these two folks. viktor bout is known adds the merchant of death, i think it's unlikely that the u.s. government would trade paul who is literally just a tourist who is entrapped by the russian security service for the merchant of death. >> i have to let you go. have you hear from paul or do you know how he feels this morning? >> he spoke to my parents yesterday, he had heard on the russian news, had it transferred by the prisoners that he was being left behind. that is his question why am i being left behind. we don't have any answer for why that happened. >> all right. david whalen, i do see you being with us. we are so sorry for what you and your family are going through and we hope you can keep the dialogue open and keep on pressing. thank you. >> thank you. as images come in of the horrors unfolding in bucha, the coroner there joins "new day" with how gruesome the scene is on the ground. a new view of a hospital in eastern ukraine that was blown up by russian bombing. finding the perfect developer isn't easy. but, at upwork, we found her. she's in prague between the ideal cup of coffe and a truly imessive synthesizer collection. and you can find her right now epsi?) on upwork.com (lepsi.) wh the world is your workforce, finding the perfect project manager, designer, developer, or whomever you may need... tends to fall right into place. find top-rated talent who can start today on upwork.com ♪ ♪ we believe there's an innovator in all of us. ♪ that's why we build technology that makes it possible for every business... and every person... to come to the table and do more incredible things. when a truck hit my car, the insurance company wasn't fair. i didn't know what my case was worth. so i called the barnes firm. i was hit by a car and needed help. i called the barnes firm, that was the best call i could've made. i'm rich barnes. it's hard for people to know how much their accident case is worth. let our injury attorneys help you get the best result possible. ♪ the barnes firm injury attorneys ♪ ♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ ukrainian authorities are in bucha and they're gathering evidence of what appears to be war crimes after russian troops left that town. we have brought you the shocking images and the footage of people apparently executed in the streets, their bodies left where they died. earlier this morning we posed questions to serhiy kaplishny, he is the bucha city funeral director and coroner. one of those tasked with finding their cause of death and making sure they receive a proper bur burial. >> serhiy, can you tell us how many people you have had to prepare for burial and what state they were in? >> translator: so far we have collected 416 bodies, we collected them from the roadsides, from basements, we had to exhume some of the bodies because they were forcibly buried in people's gardens and so we had to collect all these bodies and move them to the mortuaries so that forensic experts could work with them, and then once forensics released them, then we prepare them for burial. >> there are so many reports we're hearing of bodies showing evidence of abuse. what have you seen? >> translator: they were in a horrific state. their families still can't recognize them. we're having -- police are having to collect their dna for identification. a lot of them were burned, partially burned, some were shot in the head, some had half the head missing. a lot of them spent a lot of time in the basement, lying in the basement after they died, so, yeah, they were in a horrible state. and we are talking about partial decomposition, they spent two, three weeks after their death lying around. a lot of bodies that we saw had -- they had evidence that these people were hit on the head, a lot had head injuries or dents in their head, so hit on the head with a gun, and a lot of them were burned. we found a family of six people, five adults and one child, and they were shot and then burned. some died in their cars because the cars were shot at or fired on and then, of course, if you fire on a car quite often the car will catch fire and these people were burned alive. we got a mother and two children out of one of these cars. it's really horrible. a human brain can't wrap -- i can't wrap my head around this. i just can't really understand why they had to do it. >> serhiy, there are unconfirmed reports that some bodies in bucha were found with many tiny metal darts in them. have you seen that? >> translator: no, i have not seen -- i've read about metal darts being found in bodies, i have not seen that myself because i'm not a forensic medic, my job is to collect the bodies, take them to forensics and then to collect them back and arrange their burial. so, no, i have not seen that myself. >> serhiy, some of the bodies buried by families are having to be exhumed so you can document and establish a cause of death. can you tell us about that? >> translator: yes, during the occupation we were given a particular site -- we weren't actually allowed to bury the dead initially. they told us here is the area where you can walk around until curfew and that's t you can't go anywhere else. there were four or five russian army divisions stationed in our town and they were not talking to each other, but they told us you can't get out of this area, you have to stay in this area, and we asked them three times, with he asked, could we collect the bodies and particularly worrying was the fact was that there were bodies accumulating around the mortuaries and the mortuaries next to hospital so there was a risk of infection. the chief doctor of the hospital was very worried about that because also we had no electricity, no refrigerators, dogs were beginning to eat these bodies. so it was really a horrible pictures. so we asked and the third time we asked we were allowed a small quadrant near the church, a tiny area where we could bury the dead that we were able to collect. so these are the bodies that we've been exhuming just so that we can identify them. yeah, we couldn't actually bury everybody. so this was really just something that we were able to do very quickly. >> and i understand you're having to record all of this by hand because the computer systems were damaged? >> translator: yes, we had no power and so the computers weren't working and we had no mobile communication because they were jamming mobile signal. so, yeah, this was all done by hand and particularly the first burial that we were able to do that was 57 people, that was -- that was managed by the head of the hospital and we helped bury them, we helped transport them and take them to the site where we were allowed to bury them. and then also people were collecting -- we created two mass graves and buried 117 people and recorded it all by hand. >> serhiy, you have six people working with you and you have 10 to 15 funerals a day, you're organizing burials, releasing bodies to families. it was hard to fathom this amount of grievof grief. what has this been like for you and those working with you? >> translator: yes, it's difficult to convey my feelings. it's just so unprecedentedly horrible. we have to do this every day, we have to see this every day and you kind of in a horrible way get used to that a little bit, but one thing that i can't get used to and i have to leave when this happens is children, when parents come to collect their children. i have a daughter myself and i just can't watch that. i have every time that happens i have to leave. >> we certainly do appreciate him for sharing that with us. very tough to hear, but very important to know what they've gone through there in bucha and other places. a russian banking executive leaves russia to join the fight in ukraine. this after the mysterious death of one of his colleagues. he's going to join us. the white house correspondents dinner, brianna and i not invited, interestingly enough, but anchoring a prime time special to cover it. there is a anxiety growing about this event as we learned president biden will take precautions when he goes. >> i didn't want to go anyways. that's what i'm going to say. we also sat down with award winning actor stanley tucci ahead of the new season of the cnn original "stanley tucci searching for italy" we will have our conversation ahead. . and a prooging note, get ready for adventure with an all new cnn original series "nomad." join the master so he mall yair and celebrated chef as he searches for the true part of the city through his food, music, art and people. catch the series premiere sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. for back pain, i've always been a take two and call in the morning guy. but my new doctor recommended salonpas. without another pill upsetting my stomach, i get powerful, effective and safe relief. salonpas. it's good medicine. before treating your chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month each lasting 4 hours or more, you're not the only one with questions about botox®. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they even start, with about 10 minutes of treatment once every 3 months. so, ask your doctor if botox® is right for you, and if a sample is available. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness can be signs of a life-threatening condition. side effects may include allergic reactions, neck and injection site pain, fatigue, and headache. don't receive botox® if there's a skin infection. tell your doctor your medical history, muscle or nerve conditions and medications, including botulinum toxins, as these may increase the risk of serious side effects. in a survey, 92% of current users said they wish they'd talked to their doctor and started botox® sooner. plus, right now, you may pay zero dollars for botox®. ask your doctor about botox® today. this is xfinity rewards. our way of showing our appreciation. with rewards of all shapes and sizes. 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>> i think we've heard that rhetoric from the russians pretty consistently almost since the war began. we do take all threats very seriously, nato looks at contingency scenarios, but i think the prime minister has been clear this isn't a nuclear war. we're not talking about the imminence of any sort of nuclear strike. but it's interesting that putin wants to use such threatening rhetoric. it's part of his attempt to destabilize other countries and throw them off balance to detract from what he's doing in ukraine. >> we see a lot of that, the kremlin spokesperson saying that pumping ukraine full of weapons is a threat to european security. do you see it that way? >> no, what we're doing is helping ukraine defend itself against russian aggression. it's russian aggression that's the threat to european and indeed world security. you know, russia is a permanent member of the security council, he does have nuclear weapons we know he used chemical weapons in syria it's russia that's the law. ukraine is allowed to defend itself, she's allowed to ask other countries to help her. that's what we're doing. >> your foreign secretary has actually said not arming ukraine would be a provocation. is urging western allies to provide planes, to provide other heavy weapons. putin has said that western interference is going to be met with this lightning quick response. and i wonder if you feel that you -- that britain has a good sense of what that response would be. >> well, we certainly with the nato planners sit down and go through lots of contingencies based on what we know of russian military doctrine, based on what we've seen them do elsewhere in syria. we don't know exactly what putin might be, but i do want to stress that it is legitimate under international law for ukraine to ask for help. we are in this situation because putin invaded ukraine. >> there's a question of if this war is really contained to ukraine. do you think it is right now? >> i think what happens in ukraine will determine what happens in the rest of europe as far as mr. putin's ambitions go. if he can be stopped in ukraine, if the ukrainians can push him out, then i think other countries in europe will be much safer, but if ukraine falls, then i think putin will go after other countries in the southeast of europe and in the balkans. we already see russian efforts at destabilization there, not military efforts, but just enough to throw those countries off balance. >> that sort of -- i think there is an obsession and rightly so with in a way trying to contain this to ukraine. do you think it's too much of an obsession? do you think that it misses the point? >> i don't think it's an obsession. i can see that in some ways ukraine has been asked to bear all the risk, all the threat that putin is throwing at europe at the moment, but it is concentrated in ukraine, the war is concentrated in ukraine and that's where it needs to stay if we're to avoid a really big escalation in which many more people will die, including in ukraine. if we end it with a nato-russia conflict then i'm afraid that's what will happen. it's why we help ukraine with weapons. >> finally, i want to ask you a former polish army chief is upset with the prime minister because he did talk about ukrainian forces training in poland on british anti-aircraft weapons. does the prime minister need to be a little more hush hush about these things? >> the prime minister as you know has taken a very strong position on the i will legitimacy of what putin is doing in ukraine and he's going to go on doing that. he talks to president zelenskyy every day, giving him support and the prime minister and the president have been getting together with other allies to work out what the next steps should be, work out how the war might unfold and how best we can support ukraine. >> but revealing where the training is going on, does he heed these concerns? >> we've been training ukrainian soldiers for a very long time and if there's a possibility of helping them get to grips with more advanced weapon systems, we're very ready to do that. i stress and launch attacks on to moscow or anything like that. these are defensive weapon and we're only doing that because putin invaded. >> and i will just say, i think the polish army chief fully welcomes that. it is the revelation of the information that he feels could be a little bit endangering, perhaps. but ambassador, we really appreciate you coming in, it is such a critical time. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you for having me. two former russian gas executives and their families have been found dead. a top russian bank executive who says he was fired for his pro ukraine views says he believes they were targeted. and cnn on the front lines in eastern ukraine. >> let's get into the basement. >> the latest as vladimir putin seems to threaten to widen the war. 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i mean, so well, and it is such a smash hit. how is it different doing this than being in films or on stage? >> well, the great thing is you don't have to memorize any lines. and that is huge at my age. so that's wonderful. also, it is very different. it is really the opposite of film-making in so many ways. it is similar to film in the sense and theater in that you have to make a connection with the people that you are -- that you're interviewing. if you don't have that connection, then i think it -- then i think it doesn't work. >> we're getting into this point where a lot of people are traveling and they haven't i think for a while now and that means a lot of people are going to be going to italy. i wonder, especially when there is so many very touristy places that people can go, what your one piece of advice is for them going there, and having an authentic experience, traveling or dining. >> i think, well, traveling obviously, you know, the more -- the more luxury there is, the nicer it is for everybody. but it is always hard to afford that. i think that -- but with regards to eating, i always think it is best to go where the locals go. i think that's where you're going to get the most authentic meals, the most truthful meals. my parents always said when they went, they would wait and see where all the working men would go for lunch. and then that's where they would go and eat. and that's where they would have the best meals. >> well, stanley, we're so looking forward to this. and we appreciate you being with us to talk about it. thank you. >> oh, thank you. it has been a pleasure. and cnn's been great, all through -- all of it. >> that's so good to hear. >> thanks so much. >> we love you, and everyone tune in to an all new season of the cnn original series "stanley tucci searching for italy" sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific only on cnn.