beheading ukrainian prisoners we are live in ukraine, plus cries for help. dramatic new +911 calls from the bank shooting that left five people dead as we re also learning new details about the shooter s past and in a story you ll see first on outfront fears growing the u. s could be dragged into a war with china as beijing says its military. it s ready to fight. let s go, outfront. good evening . i m erica hill in for erin burnett. outfront tonight beheaded two horrific videos out of ukraine that appeared to show russian troops mutilating ukrainian soldiers. the video is not surprisingly graphic and what we re about to show you. it s just a few images from these two videos. so in this one image, you can see what appears to be a russian soldier crouched over ukrainian screaming in pain as that masked soldier. uses a knife to behead him. images from a second video, and here you ll see what appear to be the bodies of ukrainian soldiers that have been beheaded by russian troops
and giano caldwell, but first this. john: to kick off america reports, life expectancy in america dropping to the lowest level in more than two decades, according to the cdc. deaths from drug overdoses and covid fueling the decline. john roberts in washington. sandra, good wednesday to you. sandra: i m sandra smith in new york city. plunged to an average of 76.1 years in 2021. fentanyl poisoning driving that number with more than 72,000 deaths by the end of last year. john: president biden s border crisis making it worse. officials are trying to stop the flow of fentanyl from creeping into the u.s., but despite efforts, parents are feeling the consequences of drugs in their family. fentanyl has changed the game. no longer can we say just be careful or it s not going to happen to my family. it took half of what he thought was a percocet. you have to talk about these pills and other forms that unfortunately they are now taking other than just pills. no mother want
reporter: following the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade, the administration criticized by some for lacking urgency. of course, the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. earlier today we saw president biden signing the second executive order on this front since this historic decision, and the executive order today would, in part, support women who now need to travel out of state to get abortion services and other health care services. though it is very clear the white house is still figuring out the details of how exactly they would execute this. jake, there s no question that this is an issue that this white house hopes will continue to energize voters heading into the midterms. they believe that is exactly what they saw last night in kansas. m.j. lee at the white house, thank you very much. an issue still dogging the white house, the fallout from house speaker nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan. the c
From anywhere in the world. Hello, welcome to have you here in the United States and all around the world. Cnns continuing coverage of israel at war. An Israeli Ground offensive into gaza now appears all but inevitable. Its bombardment of hamas targets will become even more frequent, more than 4300 palestinians have been killed in the past two weeks. Following the hamas Terror Attack in israel which killed more than 1400 people with around 200 others missing or captured. Hundreds of am mored vehicles with thousands ever israeli troops are now poised to strike at hamas in a moments notice. Saturday the staff repeated what they heard all week, we will go into gaza. Good to have you with us elliot. The Israeli Force has told residents in the north to head south, warning of significant combat. And at the same time, youve got the u. S. Stepping up its socalled deterrence in the region. What can you tell us . Linda, weve been talking about the likelihood, the eminence of a ground force in is
Issued the ultimatum to evacuate Northern Gaza immediately, wanting that increases your Israeli Military activity against hamas could be imminent. Tens of thousands of palestinians have been seen leaving their homes in gaza city, throughout friday, carrying what they could but most are deciding either not to evacuate or simply do not have the means to do so. Most say they have no safe to go either, and on top of that, hamas told them to stay in their homes. That with so many people suddenly streaming into southern gaza, the only place to actually leave gaza is the Border Crossing into egypt. Egypt says they have not closed it on their side, but the status is unclear due to israeli airstrikes on the gaza side. Israeli military says they carried out a limited rating to gaza on friday, primarily to seek out intelligence they said, on the estimated 150 hostages in gaza. An unknown number of the hostages are americans, and come on friday, joe bryden spoke with their families by video call.