appears to have bogged down into a protracted conflict. fighting intensified in the country s east. russian missile strikes and shells continuing to fall on ukrainian cities including the capital of kyiv. where the first u.s. congressional delegation to visit ukraine, met secretly with president zelenskyy in kyiv. this weekend. the group s leader our speaker nancy pelosi, with strong words for russia and its president putin. do not be bullied by bullies. if they are making threats, you can not back down. that is my view of it. we are there for the fight. and we cannot fold to a bully. the democrats will comes as congress considers president biden s request for 33 billion dollars in aid to ukraine. and russia suggests that shipments of western weapons streaming into ukraine are fair game for its military. the latest on russia s more that s coming up. and later, the emotional true story of our nation s first black secret service agent pardoned last week by president biden
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
at least 52 buildings. in andover, officials say most of the roads are closed but the fire chief says it will take longer to figure out the damage in his city. unfortunately we ve been through this before. and it will be years that we ll be recovering from this. years. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joins us now. allison, at least 40 million people are still under the threat of severe storms. how many days are we talking about before things get better here? it s a great question because it s going to be a multiday event. you re talking over a dozen states at some point being impacted whether it s today, tomorrow or even potentially on monday. but let s look at the last 24 hours. again, 15 tornado reports so far. over 80 damaging wind reports and 60 hail reports. some were the size of baseballs and even softballs. so you re talking some pretty significant damage. unfortunately for some of these communities you ve got high wind warnings and wind advisories. meaning
wow. those images, unbelievable. hard to imagine it taking place, but it did. live. right in the middle of the day. in wichita, dozens of buildings were levelled. amazingly only a few people were injured. allison, it seems the more recent system of tornados, it just seems to be more outlandish than the next. hard to believe it s happen ng the middle of the day and hard to believe that they are happening in these clusters like this. it s a good point that you make because april and march are both above average in terms of total numbers of tornados. you feel like it s deja vu all over again. it s been a very active past 24 hours. 15 tornado reports, over 80 wind reports and 60 hail reports. this wasn t just small hail. some reports were baseball-sized and softball-sized hail. one of the problems today in terms of clean up is that you ve got high wind warnings and advisories out so as people are trying to clean up, they re going to have to contend with 30, 40, 50 mile an hour
fierce resistance in eastern ukraine. welcome to fox news live, i m griff jenkins. jacqui: i m jacqui heinrich. and president is looking to are nor, 33 billion for aid to ukraine. griff: 20 billion in the form of military aid, that means hard weapons and the assessment we re getting from the pentagon that the russian forces in eastern donbas and making uneven progress that the weapons in the west and eastern allies is clearly making russia slow if not outright stalled in their assault although they re continuing the shelling, they re continuing the hammering, and as you can probably see from back where you are in washington in the states, every single day in every corner of this country, missile strikes are killing civilians. it happened on thursday, a woman working for radio free europe, killed when it hit the apartment building in odesa in the southern part of the country, jacqui. jacqui: no kidding. as we zoo this aid having a lot of success with the ukrainian military, th