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we ll look at also what president vladimir putin does after his high-stakes call with president biden. and we ll be talking with russian chess legend and pro-democracy activist, garry kasparov. and turning now to that breaking news on the pandemic, the ceo of pfizer says the company s covid booster shot is effective in neutralizing the omicron variant for those who get the third shot. three doses against omicron are almost equivalent to the two doses effectiveness we had against the original variant. this is very good news. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, sam brock, as well as dr. nahid bhadelia, she is an infectious diseases physician and the medical director of the special pathogens unit at boston medical center. also an msnbc medical contributor. sam, what else are we learning out of pfizer this morning? reporter: jose, good morning. it does get a little bit confusing, but here is the essence of it. what scientists are measuring right now is antibod ....
we re going to get an update as the markets close out a roller coaster week. i m hallie jackson in washington on this friday afternoon with our nbc news team, carole lee covering the white house, matt bradley in ukraine, courtney at the pentagon, also joined by jason beardsley, national executive director of the advocacy group the association of the u.s. navy. carole, start with you, with the first lady s first day in east europe, it s a busy and significant stretch for her overseas now. it is. the first of a four-day trip and she started in romania where she visited with u.s. troops serving them dinner and bringing them ketchup, learning there was a ketchup shortage there and so she brought gallons of ketchup to them, apparently very well received, and she also read to some children of service members there. there was a moment where she was reading with a service member and her son. i think we have that if we can take a listen. the end. and nathan, thank you for yo ....
of the house foreign affairs committee talks about his recent meeting with president zelenskyy. overnight, comedian dave chappelle was attacked on stage while performing at a comedy festival in los angeles. we ll bring you the very latest. and we begin this morning with a continuing firestorm over the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion in which a majority of justices on the u.s. supreme court appear ready to overturn the right to an abortion, granted by the roe v. wade decision, nearly 50 years ago. a handful of protesters are still in front of the u.s. supreme court this morning. as they have been since politico first published the draft opinion roughly 36 hours ago. protests were also held last night until cities across the country from new york to chicago to phoenix. the supreme court has confirmed the document published by politico is authentic. but it stressed, this is not the final decision which will likely be issued in late june or early july. chief justi ....
also this hour, we re looking at a new report detail the wall along the u.s. southern border. and a large wildfire is blazing through the northern part of the state of neemz. teresaleger fernandez will join us with more. and right now, in ukraine, hundreds of civilians and ukrainian fighters remain trapped inside a steel plant in mariupol. the very latest stronghold in the besieged port city. this morning, the mariupol city council said people are still waiting to evacuate after more than 100 people were able to make it out over the weekend. and we re just now getting an inside look, these are the horrors they experienced. matt bradley has the very latest. we heard from people who have come here, they mostly come, some, a couple from villages and towns outside mariupol. some from only 40 minutes away from here, and still, their cars are little shrapnel marking, bits, it looks like they have fragments of weapons, and they are carrying signs that say children. and w ....
immigration reform. what will come out of these discussions? we turn to breaking news out of ukraine, a 22-year-old u.s. marine veteran was killed fighting alongside ukrainian forces. a spokesman for the state department is closely following the situation. all this, as president 00 said resistance forces are planning to rescue the civilians. father east, a horrifying task for those who survived the reported massacres. families must identify their loved ones who fell victim to this war. i was raised, that is the greatest love you can do, help someone, risk your life for them. these people need it more than anyone on the planet. this woman climbed into a truck. looking for a loved one. how do you explain that to people? i couldn t imagine the pain she is going through. she couldn t identify the body was facial features, she it was decapitated. she started describing the clothing. identified a sock, and a shirt, that was enough for her to know that that was her f ....