in besieged mariupol, the last ukrainian soldiers still holding out inside this steel plant. how is your husband doing? reporter: marina shoemaker s husband is fighting in that plant. she managed to escape the city with her two sons max, who s 8 and has autism, and 18-year-old mark. that s fighting age, isn t it? do you worry about having to go off to fight? reporter: when mark says he s thinking about it, worry washes over his mom s face. marina says she doesn t want him to fight because it would be too much to worry about her son and husband at the same time i ve been with my husband 27 years, she says, i have no idea what i would do without him. she says she lives message to message, waiting for his next text what was his last message? they all want to live, she says, and
never be discovered. they never thought they d be defeated. of course, and those bodies weren t supposed to be found. reporter: he s now worried about vladimir putin s next step. we re preparing for chemical warfare because we have information russian officers receiveddant dots from their own chemical weapons. reporter: his information is it will mainly be used to the front line, but still, he worries for civilians trapped in that region. but sometimes hope does win. 1,000 residents finally got out of besieged mariupol on a humanitarian convoy. however, tens of thousands are still trapped, surrounded by russian forces. norah. o donnell: very powerful reporting. debora patta in kyiv, thank you. well, 37 million americans back here at home and across the south are in the path of dangerous storms. thousands remain without power after more than 30 tornadoes touched down tuesday in missing
this is the war they were fleeing. russia promises further temporary ceasefire is later today to allow evacuations from other cities, including chernihiv, kharkiv and also the besieged mariupol in the south. the exodus from the city of irpin, near the capital kyiv, is slow and agonising. more than 2 million civilians have now left the country. the united nations says more than a70 civilians have been killed in the invasion. the casualties include children. old enough to be scared, too young to understand why they are being bombarded. to fight the russian army, poland proposes sending its fighter jets to a us air force base in germany. but the us is cool to the offer. it does not want to provoke a direct fight between its forces and russia. two powers each armed
unbelievable. it neverfails studio basement. it isjust unbelievable. it never fails to astound me the kind of resilience, sense of humour. i was not in the house when it was bombed, so that is a good thing. i want to go to kyiv now. james waterhouse is there. we know there is talk of a temporary ceasefire coming into effect, 20 minutes ago, but we have heard that before. what is the latest? is it working this time? so is the latest? is it working this time? ., , ., , time? so far, we understand it is. we do not time? so far, we understand it is. we do not know time? so far, we understand it is. we do not know how time? so far, we understand it is. we do not know how many - time? so far, we understand it is. we do not know how many people time? so far, we understand it is. - we do not know how many people are trying to leave. this is a series of announcements by the russian defence ministry of pauses in fighting along key cities including sumy to the north east, chernihiv, mariupol
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