as well at a russian military installation across the border in belgorod. they re part of a series of fires and explosions that have taken place in russian territory. let s begin with cnn s matt rivers in kyiv. officials say civilians finally getting out of that steel plant, getting out of mariupol. it s going slowly. do we expect it to continue? reporter: yeah, so i think we are expecting it to continue, jim. we re talking really about two different evacuation operations that are happening right now in mariupol. on the one hand, you have the evacuation of the general population of the city. of course, almost the entirety of mariupol is controlled by russian forces. what we have seen is a cease-fire hold now so that the overall number of residents in mariupol, tens of thousands of people, according to ukraine, that need to be evacuated. they can start evacuating from that russian-occupied territory. eventually moving to a city called zaporizhzhia, which is in ukrainian-held
it is not i joke, we ll get into it. national inflation rate 8.5%, highest in more than a generation. the economy is shrinking with the gross domestic product falling last month. if it happens two quarters in a row, we call that recession. hope it doesn t. gas prices above $4 a gallon. a new poll finds most surveyed are concerned about higher cost of living. the president seems to think it is a laughing matter, maybe he got together and chuckled in practice. watch this reaction to trevor noah as he told jokes at the white house correspondence dinner saturday night. people have been hard on you, since you came into office, things are looking up, gas is up, food is up, rent is up, everything. harris: joey jones, your reaction? joey: funny, i guess. i was in town with this, but i was there with a group of wounded veterans, that was my night. i don t mind everyone getting together and celebrating a press corps and a first amendment right to challenge the president every
musk s crusade for free speech is somehow alarming to left-lean ing media folks. tweeting that trump s truth social is currently beating twitter and tiktok on the apple store and responding to a report that twitter s top lawyer had cried at a meeting about musk s takeover, the zillionaire wrote referring to the 020 new york post story the on hunter biden s laptop: suspending the twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate. look, moderating content on social media has been treacherous for all the silicon valley giants, and musk may disappoint both sides. but too many journalists seem to think censorship is the answer. elon musk responded to the media freakout with this tweet: the extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. 9. howard: there is a media uproar here in the capital over new audiotapes obtain ad by two new york times repo
when we left you, reports were that 10 people were wounded in that attack, today, rescuers removed a body from the rubble of a high rise apartment hit, a woman named vera hirich, ukrainian journalist with radio liberty, was 54 years old and 23rd member of the media to be killed since the invasion began. russia says the missiles aimed a the a nearby defense plant, near where secretary guiterrez was at the same time, kyiv called it vladimir putin s raised middle finger to the secretary-general, you ll hear more from a conversation with the mayor in the program and more details today in the death of american and former marine joseph william cancel, killed fighting alongside ukrainian troops, offering condolences and white house warning against americans going to fight. his mother spoke to cnn. he believes in what they were fighting for. he it just was something that hit to his heart and, you know, he knew they needed help. and it was just something he had felt that he could
authorities say at least one tornado touched down in the wichita area yesterday damaging homes, cars and at least 50 to 100 buildings. frightening images there. the worst damage happened in the town of andover where authorities say most of the roads are closed. but the fire chief says it will take a little longer to figure out the damage in his city. we know that there was a direct tornado strike that started sedge wick county and traveled into andover. we had many buildings in andover take very tough damage. total in the path there were 966 buildings, we believe. we do not have a damage assessment on how many of those were damaged. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joining us now with more. allison, that image we saw is really terrifying. we know at least 14 tornadoes were reported across kansas and nebraska. and we heard there from the official that we don t know the extent of damage just yet, but what do we know right now, allison? the key thing is the damage th