Helmet. that is perfect. are you can also order one of my coanchors a books on amazon that is captioning sponsored by cbs duncan: tonight a show of support. speaker nancy pelosi meets ukraine s president zelenskyy in the streets of kyiv. our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done. duncan: her surprise visit a secret until today. battered mariupol, new evacuations at a beseiged steel plant. i m charlie dagata in eastern ukraine where intense fighting continues but the evacuation of mariupol is under way. duncan: also tonight the political fight on capitol hill over billions in you funding for over billions in new funding for ukraine. i m at the white house, where the pressure is on to get the assistance package package passed. the president s biggest ask for ukraine to date. these kamikaze drones are
Country, observing the orthodox christian day of the dead. but there were some glimmers of hope for some civilians sheltered at a steel plant in mariupol. cbs charlie d agata has more tonight. reporter: good evening, we got confirmation today in a president zelenskyy tweet that the evacuation of civilians at the steel works plant had begun. he said do far around a hundred people had been evacuated. they are working on the evacuation of many more in the coming days. the first few residents to escape from beneath the steel plant of mariupol described the hell they endured for weeks. ( translated ): when the shells started landing i thought my heart would stop. and i would not survive. reporter: they re now headed to the relative safety of ukrainian held territory. even though the u.n. said it had brokered a deal with the russians and red cross, the first successful evacuation after so many failed attempts still came as something of a surprise.