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"newsroom" starts right now. want to wish you a good saturday morning. it is may 7th. we are so grateful for your company. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm in more boris sanchez. are you in the "cnn newsroom." we are beginning with the race to rescue civilians from the battered steel plant in southeastern ukraine in the city of mariupol. we have learned that within the last half hour there have been evacuations resuming today. around 150 people were rescued from the city of mariupol. it's unclear how many of those 150 were actually from the steel plant itself where people have been sheltering for months. we're going to be having more details in a live report coming up from ukraine in just a moment. that steel plant is the last stand for ukrainian troops in mariupol. president volodymyr zelenskyy says he's working on diplomatic efforts to save military forces that are still inside that complex. in the meantime, ukrainian forces say russia fired four cruise missiles at the key port city of odesa today. no reports of casualties thus far. and president zelenskyy also accuses russia of using blockades as a form of torture, he says, with starvation. he says that organizations are not allowed into mariupol to give people there the desperately needed food, water, and other supplies. president biden has announced more security aid for ukraine, more weapons. he says the u.s. is providing $150 million worth of equipment including artillery and radar for those ukrainian forces. want to go live with you now to ukraine for more on that steel plant evacuation. cnn international correspondent scott mcclain is with us from lviv. good news we've heard now the evacuations have resumed. but what more can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, so the news that we're getting is from the government of the donetsk people's republic, the breakaway region of korean e that declared its own -- ukraine that declared its own independence. the government says that 152 people including 32 children were evacuated today between 8:00 in the morning and 4:00 in the afternoon which is about an hour ago. and taken out of the city. that number includes 32 children now at a russian checkpoint in the village east of the city. what is not clear, though, and this is important obviously, is whether that number includes people from the actual steel plant or if it includes only people from the wider city. it is easy to get those two numbers confused because of how they've gone about evacuating these people yesterday. we know that they were supposed to, the plan for today was to get the remaining people out of the steel plant, 50 were able to leave yesterday include something children. they were supposed to link up with people at an evacuation corridor, meeting point, elsewhere in the city, and then they were supposed to be taken east toward russian territory, toward the so-called filtration center or reception centers, whatever you want to call them, where their documents are checked and they are questioned. it is a bizarre move to take people east when surely most of these people will end up going west toward ukrainian-held territory. the deputy foreign minister of ukraine says this is all part of the strategy for the russians, all part of their propaganda strategy to make it look as if these poor people from mariupol are fleeing toward had after being the victims of ukrainian militants. this is the sore of narrative that the -- sort of narrative that the russians want the people to know about. now even if lyncivilians are ab to get out, and we're trying to clarify that, it leaves a lot of soldiers, many of them we're told are wounded, trapped under the steel plant, the president says he is working on all kinds of diplomatic options to make it happen. so far we don't have any information about whether that might actually work. >> that's right. we have heard ukrainian officials saying that thousands of residents in mariupol have been forced to go into russia rather than escaping into ukraine where, as you say, they would probably prefer to go. from lviv, thank you so much. here to share his thoughts on the latest? retired major mike lyons. thank you so much for being with us. i want to pick up where scott left off there. even if all of the civilian who's are in the plant are able to get out safely, able to evacuate, you're still going to have hundreds of ukrainian troops there in a facility that has been under attack by russian forces for weeks. what is your sense of what may happen to those ukrainian forces? >> good morning, alex, and thanks for having me. they're going to continue to fight. they're in a location that's about six or seven stories deep into that steel factory, and they've got supplies and got equipment. they're not going to surrender. and perhaps the ukraine government can come up with something in order to get them out. and if they're going to escape, they've got to go the other direction. there's no way they're going to surrender to russian forces and, frankly, survive it. the tunnel system they have there is extensive. it would make the north koreans and the viet cong blush in tomorrows of what their capabilities are. we haven't seen the russians have the gumption to go into that tunnel structure and thrtry to get them out of there. that fight can happen for a long time. >> president zelenskyy says negotiations are under way and there are outside parties involved in those discussions. we're also getting reports that the russian forces are blowing up bridges in the northeastern part of the country in order to slow down this counteroffensive that the ukrainians are undertaking to push them out, push them back toward the russian border. when we see russians blowing up bridges, does that tell us that those russian forces are convinced at least in these areas that they will not be able to push forward again and are simply trying to slow down those ukrainian troops coming after them? >> that's not a good sign from russia's perspective. and they would blow the bridges behind them, say, from a straight military tactical perspective. but the ukraine military is performing superbly in kharkiv. on the counteroffensive they've pushed russian forces outside of artillery range which is saving the city from indirect artillery and howitzer fire. and when they -- when they blow those bridges up, they don't allow any way for the ukraine military to advance. so good for ukraine military. as long as they're not doing that along the, say, more western or eastern, along -- that's where we have to be concerned about. if they started doing that, they'd be more confident in their interdicting strikes to eventually go back on the offensive and take some ground back. >> we've seen ukrainian forces blowing up bridges to slow that russian advance. now it seems the tables have turned. let's talk about the intelligence sharing from the u.s. to ukraine. the biden administration is denying that it has provided intelligence that includes targeting information that has directly led to the killing of russian generals, the sinking of that black sea flag ship. do you believe that there's a red line there that the intelligence community will not cross? or is the biden administration afraid -- playing this down because they're afraid of russian retaliation? >> well, the administration does need to play it down. we are providing them tremendous intelligence, but that intelligence is then verified by drones and other things. in fact, you heard admiral kirby say at the pentagon press briefing that they're getting too much intelligence, and that can be just as much of a hindrance. they're getting where command centers are. more than satellite shots. command and control places have antennas, heat signatures. and you've got russian generals that have got to go there because of the russian military performing so badly. their operational security is awful. they get on their cell phones, and they get geolocated, and that's it. they've been very dumb, ukraine has been very smart. i think we've done just about enough with what the intelligence we're providing and -- it's making a difference, no question, a good example of american indirect hard power. >> and the u.s. has been praise-worthy of the ukrainian intelligence efforts themselves. major, we've got to leave it there. thank you so much for your time and your expertise. >> thanks for having me. so president biden is touting the stronger than expected u.s. jobs report here in the u.s. while he visited a manufacturing facility in ohio. that was yesterday. he also addressed what's top of mind for so many of us -- the skyrocketing prices due to the decades' high inflation. >> i know you're worried about the price of gas, food, and other necessities. and why it matters, if we make more things here in america -- well, it matters a great deal because the pandemic and the economic crisis that we inherited and putin's war in ukraine have all shown the vulnerability when we become too reliant on things made overseas. >> so we have a strong jobs report, rising interest rates, chronically high inflation, you saw it all produced a roller coaster of a week on wall street. cnn's alison kosik has more on the wild week and what could be coming next. >> reporter: good morning. great to see you. wow, a wild week of trading on wall street ending in a sea of red. it's a week that saw a swing to the upside where the dow jumped more than 900 points giving the index its best day of the year only to make a stunning reversal 24 hours later, plunging more than 1,000 points to have its worst day of the year. the whiplash even shocking hardened traders and analysts saying the action was not just volatile, it was violent. the moves came after the federal reserve decided to raise the key interest rate a half a percent to fight inflation. that's sitting at levels we haven't seen since the 1980s. prices of everything from gasoline to food to cars have jumped in the wake of pandemic shu shutdowns, supply chain issues, and the ongoing war in ukraine. the fed is right in the middle of a delicate dance to try get the economy back in alignment. it's trying to cool off a hot economy by raising interest rates without being too aggressive about it that it sends the economy into a recession. some believe economic growth is already showing signs of slowing. case in point, last week we learned gdp unexpectedly contracted at a 1.4% annualized rate in the first three months of this year, though many do say the report was distorted by temporary factors and is actually masking the underlying strength in the economy like in the jobs sector. friday's jobs report showed employers added 428,000 jobs in april. the jobs growth there is impressive considering there's a shortage of workers to fill positions. the jobs picture is a perfect example of why the fed is concerned about parts of the economy that are overheating, adding to the inflation picture. on wall street, strong reports like that are piling on fear that the fed will have to do more work, meaning more aggressive or higher rate hikes. back to you. >> thank you. officials made a key discovery in the search for a missing corrections official and inmate that is facing murder charges. >> yeah. authorities have announced they located the car. a ford suv that they previously believed that vicky white and casey white, who are not related, that that was the car they were traveling in. the car had been in a tennessee tow lot for about a week. and this location is about a two-hour drive north from where these two people disappeared from that county jail in florence, alabama. cnn's ryan young is in florence with the latest. what are you learning? >> reporter: yeah, what a story when you think about the details to this. the fact that that car was found last week and one of the things that we learned from the tow truck driver who towed that car himself, that car was found in the middle of the road. once they arrived, they were able to pull it to the tow lot. what we believe is that car was completely empty. all the supplies they may have had had gone along with them. at the same time, if you think about investigators wondering why that car was sitting there for so long, what we figured out is the tow truck driver was home watching television, saw that ford edge that everyone was looking for and said, hey, i think i towed that car. he called the sheriff's department. they went down and checked the vin number. lo and behold, that was the car sitting there. think about it, it's two hours away from this location. that does give marshals the chance to sort of go through that entire area to figure out if there are any more clues there. take a listen to the sheriff who talks about the idea of how this could help their investigation moving forward. >> one thing that i think they did not plan on is the extensive media coverage that this case has gotten. they can't stick their head out anywhere without somebody seeing them. so i think that's really going to cause some issues for them, and i think eventually they're going -- they're going to chance it, and somebody's going to see them and we're going to get them. >> reporter: i've been covering this story for almost a week. when you think about the details that the sheriff's department and the marshal service put out, it stands out. you think about casey white being 6'9" tall, close to 300 pounds. also when you think about vicky white, she has a slight waddle. that's the way they put it, a waddling walk. that's something she probably can't change. they may have changed their appearance. the media attention and the attention in this community has been so intense, they believe it will help to continue to bring a lot of tips in. hundreds of tips have come in so far. the marshal service and the sheriff's department tcontinue o hope that maybe more clues will come in to focus their gaze on some part of the country. i can tell you, florida, kentucky, even as far away as california have called in tips in terms of this manhunt. and the interest in this story has gone as far as australia with people calling in and asking about what's going on with the story. if you ton follow it, you -- you continue to follow it, you can understand why the intelligence manhunt increase and attention to it because of the idea that you have a woman who worked here for over 17 years who helped a man escape. so many people want to know why. >> yeah. no doubt. ryan young. thank you so much. you hit it on the head here. you have to wonder how vicky white goes from being, as she was described, an exemplary corrections officer and now potentially on the run with an inmate charged with murder. what led her to take such a risk, what could be going through her head right now? i spoke with behavioral analyst casey jordan about that this morning. >> no doubt she thinks she is in love with him and that they're going to be walking on the beach like in "shaw shank redemption" down the line. you've got to consider that she brings no value added to this man who we've established is a violent criminal. everyone who knows him talks about how dangerous that he is. and once he is out and has a car and has her money, maybe $100,000 in cash that she had with her, there is really no incentive for him to keep her alive because she creates a liability to him getting caught. so obviously we hope that she is recovered alive and that we get her side of the story. but as time goes on, i would argue that it's far less likely that she is alive unless there is some angle she has on him where he needs her more than she needs him. >> by the way, u.s. marshals service says both vicky white and casey white, again they are not related, but they should be considered armed and dangerous. still to come this morning, security is something that is of great concern at the supreme court right now. protests expected over the potential to overturn roe v. wade. but the fight for abortion rights hits home for the daughter of jane roe. she's with us next. and then the death toll in cuba has reached 25 after an explosion at a havana hotel. we'll be having the latest as search and rescue efforts continue. we'll be right back. why not both? 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>> reporter: well, this is what we're seeing -- 20, 25 people outside the united states supreme court, not the massive crowds that we were talking about last week. of course that's a reflection of the weather, and the forecast here is for rain throughout the day into the next several hours at the very least. nonetheless, we are expecting large demonstrations here in the washington area over that ruling even though it's a draft ruling, if you will. and if you take a look at this, this shows you what the authorities are expecting. the non-scaleable fencing around the united states supreme court sort of a jarring image if you think about it. signs up say area closed by order of the supreme court. this is the same non-scaleable fencing that we saw up around the united states capitol which is just across the street, after january 6. also saw a lot of it around the white house during the trump administration. so non-scaleable fencing, concerns for security in light of this decision which in some form is expected by the end of the united states supreme court's term. we're also expecting demonstrations, frankly, around the country. that's a real reflection that this decision as written suggests power will be handed down to the states to decide abortion matters. so you can expect demonstrations around the country. back to you. >> and joe, justice thomas was one of the five in the majority on this draft that would overturn roe versus wade. is he now claiming that the supreme court is being bullied? >> reporter: well, that's what he said. this was at the 11th judicial conference in atlanta. he said institutions of government should not be bullied into giving what some see as a preferred outcome. clearly a reference to what has gone on here since the leak of that draft. back to you. >> all right, joe johns, good to see you this morning. thank you so much. if roe versus wade is overturned, it would be an historic change for women's reproductive rights in this country. melissa mills is with us now. she is the eldest daughter of norma mccorvey, known in court documents as jane roe, the plaintiff in the roe versus wade case. melissa, we appreciate you being here. first and foremost, take us into the moment that you heard about this leaked draft decision. >> i was in shock. i was -- i couldn't believe it. i mean, this is going to take us back -- it could take us back 50 years. and a lot of unnecessary deaths and a lot of, you know, for women that may not be able to have health care that they need to take care of their families and themselves. yeah, it's shocking to see that we could be set bag like this. >> you say unnecessary deaths because you believe women will go try to get abortions in unsafe ways. >> they'll take matters into their own hands. they're going try to help themselves if they can't -- the people that can't travel to the places that they need to or, you know, get the help that they need to take care of what they need to. it's going to happen. it's happened forever, and that's why roe helped us. it helped all women to take care of themselves and their families as they needed. >> so we have done a cnn poll, and it broke some things down into some specifics. i want to ask you about there one -- 51% of people polled want their state to be a safe haven for women seeking abortion, even if there is a federal ban. there are states such as new york and california who are vowing to be those safe havens for women. do you believe that the law should go back to the states? >> you know, it's every woman's -- it should be every woman's choice to make those decisions for themselves. there shouldn't be anyone else telling them what to do and how to, you know, the trajectory of their lives. they should be able to make those choices. and it's not right for another human being or another person to make those choices for any woman. it should be that woman's choice. >> what conversation do you think you'd be having with your mother right now if she was here? >> she would be really -- i know she would be very upset because she's pro-woman. she wanted women's rights, women should have that voice for themselves, their families, what they need to take care of themselves, and nobody else should tell, you know -- especially someone that hasn't been through that. they shouldn't tell another person how to -- how they should handle their lives, especially when it comes to this. >> your mother is the reason that this law exists. now we know that decades later in 1998 she told the "associated press" that she was not 100% pro-life. then before she died, she clarified and said that she had been paid to say that, and she still supported abortion rights for women. do you think she ever had trepidation that she vacillated back and forth about what this really meant for her, particularly considering the fact that had she had an abortion, your sister wouldn't be alive and with you today. >> yes, ma'am. my mother had a very hard life for one. she was just like most of the women out there in this situation, and there's a lot of people that are in this situation that -- it affects everybody. it doesn't matter even if -- if those bad things have happened. things happen. but i believe -- she would say, you know, she just wants things that are realistic. she doesn't want it to be abused, and that's where she saw a lot of bad things when she did work in the abortion clinics. she saw a lot of things mentally that were hard on her. but yes, she would want women to have that choice but within reason. you know, just realistic -- realistic things for people and not extremes like we're talking criminalizing a woman if she wants that to happen. if she doesn't top carry that child -- not every woman is a mother, not every woman, you know, wants to have children, and that should be that woman's choice. shouldn't be anyone else's choice to do that. that's all i believe she really wanted was women to have that choice just like roe says. >> melissa mills, we appreciate you taking time to talk with us this morning. thank you. >> thank you. all right. coming up, as prices at the grocery stores soar, so do the prices to grow the food to stock those shelves. how inflation is hitting farmers, that's coming up next. . ♪ come on. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ scotts turf builder triple action kills weeds, prevents crabgrass, and feeds your lawn. all three, in just one bag. i like that. scotts turf builder tripl. it's lawn seon. let's get to t yard. there's a different way to treat hiv. it's every-other-month, injectable cabenuva. for adults who are undetectable, cabenuva is the only complete hiv treatment you can get every other month. cabenuva helps keep me undetectable. it's two injections, given by a healthcare provider every other month. it's one less thing to think about while traveling. hiv pills aren't on my mind. a quick change in my plans is no big deal. don't receive cabenuva if you're allergic to its ingredients or taking certain medicines, which may interact with cabenuva. serious side effects include allergic reactions, post-injection reactions, liver problems, and depression. if you have a rash and other allergic reaction symptoms, stop cabenuva and get medical help right away. tell your doctor if you have liver problems or mental health concerns, and if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or considering pregnancy. some of the most common side effects include injection-site reactions, fever, and tiredness. if you switch to cabenuva, attend all treatment appointments. every other month and i'm good to go. ask your doctor about every-other-month cabenuva. 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>> well, obviously the checkbook. we borrow massive amounts of money to operate with, and right now expenses are extremely high, and we're just trying to see how we can make it from day to day. >> so as you try to navigate this and you make choices, what are those choices that you're having to make about what to grow, what not to grow? >> well, we are kind of cutting back on vegetables because the inputs are so high. right now fertilizer is up almost 300% from what it was last year, and fuel has almost tripled, as well. and the labor situation is also pretty bleak, and so vegetables take a lot of hand labor and a lot of fertilizer and inputs. we're moving away from some of those vegetables in favor of growing some of the other crops such as cotton and hay. and a little bit of grain and, you know, they don't require the massive amount of inputs that our vegetable crops do. and on the other side is that they are mechanically harvested. so that's some of the things that we're doing, cutting back on fertilizer and other things, trying to minimize trips to the field. >> have you had to think about a time frame in case prices don't go down, how long you can sustain these high prices? >> you know, we lost money last year, and if things don't turn around this year and we -- if we lose money this year, too, we may have to look at liquidating and going and doing something else because this isn't working. you know, you mentioned the food prices in the united states were up around 13%, well here at the farm our prices are up like i mentioned almost 300%. and that takes our profit margin to nothing real fast. >> who or what do you and your colleagues blame for this? >> i don't think it's my place to put blame. i'm a farmer, and so i want to take care of my farm and do what's best for me, and so all i can do is mitigate the problems, try to mitigate some of the things that come my way. and i just try to do the best i can. i can't control what's outside of might have realm. so i'm doing the best that i can to control what comes my way. >> so what kind of help would you like to see to help you mitigate this? >> well, you know, i grow lots of fruits and vegetables, and then there's a lot of nut crops here, tree crops. and those aren't government subsidized like your grains and soybeans are that they grow in the midwest and even cotton. you know, we're kind of left out in the cold and left up to, you know, open markets. and then we have to contend with inputs from, you know, cheaper -- cheaper inputs from other countries, and so we have stiff competition from other countries, and i don't know what the problem is. i just want a fair shake. maybe that's what i need to say. i want a fair shake. i would -- you know, it would be wonderful if americans would just demand to buy american products and not cheaper inputs from other places. >> don, when you look back a year ago before these new issues popped up, could you just quickly tell us what were the problems that you were facing back then? >> well, we always deal with weather. you know, there's always labor issues have really compounded since covid. we can't get fluf-- can't get eh help for the crops. we grow green chile, watermelonings -- watermelons, onions. when there's no help, no people to harvest those crops, they just basically sit and rot in the field. so we've, you know, we had a hard year last year because of covid. and i don't foresee things getting better on that labor part, you know, this year. >> right. don hartman, we wish you the best of luck. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> we'll be right back. 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