least eight and wounding dozens more. a new week, a monday. good morning, everybody. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. hello. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. this escalation is striking at a time when people overnight the destruction of the lone bridge connecting russia to crimea happened over the weekend. a key supply line for russia. vladimir putin targeted civilians. zelensky said russia is trying to wipe us off the face of the earth. they want to destroy our energy system and they are hopeless. the second target is people. they chose such a time, such goals in order to cause as much harm as possible. bill: check out the video here. one missile left a massive crater feet away from a children s playground. dana: the first major attack on kiev since june. 1 of 10 major cities targeted in the assault. bill: the white house trying to clean up president biden s remarks from last week on the russia nuclear threat. he said the u.s. was facing
cardinali will react in a moment. sandra: cyber attack on u.s. airport websites reportedly coming from inside russia. more than a dozen airport websites were hacked and temporarily taken down but there has been no impact yet on flight operations. so far, at least. hello, welcome, i m sandra smith in new york. and gillian, welcome to you. gillian: great to be with you this afternoon. gillian turner in washington. in for john roberts today. this is america reports. bring you more on this cyber attack as we get it into the newsroom. the white house is defending president biden s nuclear armageddon comments. they say the stakes for americans are higher than in decades. comes as dozens of missile strikes rained down on ukraine early monday morning. at least 11 civilians have been killed so far. the capital city of kyiv suffering the worst bombing since the early days of the war. sandra: vladimir putin vowing revenge for a bombing on the only bridge linking crimea and russi
her phone recording this as the blast went off around here near the national university. a man on a pedestrian bridge in kyiv when the explosion goes off. where to go from there? he run towards the surveillance camera. ukraine s president reacting to this. he beliefs that they re using suicide drones, the russians, and that they re coming from iran. he vows he will not back down. we are dealing with terrorists. dozens of missiles. they want to destroy our energy system. now there may be temporary e interruptions with electricity. so all of this days a after president biden said that putin is not joking about the use of nuclear weapons and we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. in a moment, i ll be joined by mike pompeo. perfect guest to talk about where to go from here with ukraine. first, trey yingst reporting live from kharkiv ukraine, which is on that list of cities that were hit. hi, trey. martha, good afternoon. we
security, he will urge members to vote no, potentially triggering a government shutdown. bill: mccarthy is upping the ante, a record two hill whereon apprehensions in a single year, including 80 suspected terrorists, three times as many as we ve seen in the past five years combined. dana: the surge putting strain on border communities, many are running out of resources and federal help is nowhere to be found. leaving a lot of trash. a lot of migrants are dying in the river. all those things are affecting the city. right now, it is not safe, especially for a lot of the ranchers. the situation, it is not under control. we don t know these people. dana: following this from capitol hill, good morning, we ve been watching this border crisis become major midterm issue and a bigger headache for democrats here on the hill as they just cannot seem to iran out details on immigration reform and just as you mentioned here, house leader kevin mccarthy tweeting if biden and
a movement began it to abolish police departments nationwide, all of this has unfolded in the twin cities peered at the numbers don t lie, assault, burglary, property destruction, motor vehicle theft, spiking, all of them in minneapolis over the past year. and, while homicide may have dipped in the past year, which is good news. the city is now seeing an increase in murders over just the past two years, three years. going right back up again. despite the grim numbers, far left democratic congress woman ilhan omar, controversy at times, who just snuck out a win, her district includes part of minneapolis, and continues to push the defund police a gender. that is coming from her. not only do we need to defund but we need to dismantle and start a new. so we must continue to hold people accountable that want a certain system to fully function for certain people, and completely have at dis- interest in that system functioning for the rest of us. but we do need to completely dis