domestic priority right now. he knows the pains that americans are feeling because of it, but the big question, of course, is what president biden is going to do about it. that s where the challenge comes in for the white house. the president today leaning on the federal reserve, saying he does agree with them that inflation is the number one economic priority here in the united states. and you ve seen interest rates on the rise, potentially more of those rises to come in the coming months. when it comes to what president biden is going to do, he talked about the federal reserve s actions and his domestic agenda which we should note is stalled right now on capitol hill. and he also talked about telling companies not to price gouge, but there are still big questions about other steps he could take that he has not taken so far. you did hear him at the end of the remarks say that they are discussing whether to remove the trump era tariffs on chinese goods. that is something that
of bombing a school. dr. biden visited a school where ukrainian children have been absorbed by the ukrainian system in romania. it s nice that you re all working together. new video of wanted corrections officer vicky white, helping authorities piece together what happened before she allegedly helped inmate casey white escape. the vehicle we were looking for has been located in williamson county, tennessee. we know what direction they went, but right now we re trying to canvass the area for any witnesses. the white house now warning a covid wave this fall and winter could affect as many as 100 million americans. right now we are doing everything we can to prepare for that if that search for to come. sandals resort confirm that three of their guests died while they were at their emerald bay resort. there s no foul play suspected. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. and there are growing fears tonight that much of a vill
i will have the day s top stories, more than 20 people dead after a massive explosion there in havana hotel. welcome to the show, it is 8:00 a.m. here in ukraine. we begin our coverage in mariupol and the evacuation on friday. 50 civilians from that besieged azovstal steel factory. two buses set to be carried those civilians, under russian military escort. not known where they are being taken nor how many remained at the plant. as you see there, the site has been bombardment from russian tanks, artillery and as well as aircraft. president zelenskyy says he s negotiating negotiations, some 600 are still inside. have a listen. we are working on diplomatic options to save our military to remain in azovstal. influential mediators are involved. monday markets victory day for russia, what russia calls the great patriotic war. russian flag flies above a city s hospital and road signs have been changed to russian. an adviser to mariupol s mayor, soviet statues are popping out a
steel plantd in mariupol, the resistance to the war that vladimir putin will not call a war, official inside the plant tells the washington post the situation is, quote, critical. translator: the shelling and storming of asovstal is not stopping but civilians still need to be taken out. women, many children remain there. president says, quote, if there is hell in the wuorld it s in asovstal. the hell is intense, growing darker by the hour by all accounts yet an official said russian troops entered the territory of the steel plant but, were, quote, repelled by defenders. again, that is the reality, one vladimir putin is trying to deny so he can secure, we assume, something that resembles a win four days ahead of a holiday special to the russian people that commemorates their victory in world war ii. and a war, vladimir putin s closest ally, dictator of belarus, said today, dragged on, russian troops weren t repelled because they never tried to enter the steel plant in the
shelling by russia is making the task dangerous. he warns attacks are not stoppin stopping. this is something we ve seen, russia will claim they will allow humanitarian corridors but the shelling doesn t stop. russian ground attacks do appear to have eased temporarily in the oeast and the south. the ukrainian military give us a sense, when we talk about this potential evacuation effort for the civilians there at the azovstal plant, what is that next stage? reporter: obviously a cease-fire has to be in effect if they have even half a chance of getting out of the rubble and destruction that azovstal has become. since we saw the first hundred emerge, it must have been phenomenally difficult to get anybody else out over the past couple of days. i think it is a cumulative numbers of civilians from across mariupol. there are two possibilities the u.n. are trying to engage in, getting people out of azovstal, the hundreds trapped in there who it was said were reliably blocked a