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Reported deaths are also down. Now averaging 546 a day. So all of that is good news as we approach memorial day weekend and see signs that summer might look normal. Madison square garden hosted 15,000 basketball fans last night for the largest indoor event in new york since the start of the pandemic. And fans stormed the fairway yesterday when phil mickelson won the pga championship. In huntington beach, california, police had to break up a 2,500person party. Wow. Meantime air travel hitting another new high over the weekend. The tsa screening 1. 68 million people on sunday. Compared to 267,000 this time last year. Now all of this as we also get more information about the possible origins of covid19. A u. S. Intelligence report reveals that several scientists at that research lab in wuhan of were hospitalized in november of 2019 with unknown illness. Cnn is following the story. Natasha, tell us about this report. Hey, alisyn, yeah, this report basically adds more details about the pote
secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary, lloyd austin, the top diplomat and top civilian military official offering a one-two punch, a show of support to ukraine. they offered a diplomatic presence will return to ukraine this week. blinken says russia s war objectives in the country have, quote, already failed, while austin declared ukrainians can still win this war and stated publicly for the first time the u.s. intends to, quote, weaken russia, so it cannot invade again. top u.s. officials were in kyiv, russian forces attacked at least five railway stations here in the western part of the country. ukraine says that russia is trying to systematically destroy its railway infrastructure which has been so key in getting refugees out and weapons in. there have been deadly attacks over that infrastructure in the course of this war. in the east, officials say almost the entire luhnkk region is without water. barricaded at the steel plant can evacuate. ukraine say
cdc mandate for travelers as airports brace for mass confusion and chaos. let s go out front. good evening, everyone. i m kate baldwin in for erin burnett. the offensive is on. russia s widespread attack in eastern ukraine under way at this hour. ukrainian officials are calling it the second phase of the war. this as the ukrainian president zelenskyy warns the russians are stopping at nothing. translator: the russian army is not slowing down the use of missiles against ukraine. they are pressuring, looking for a weak spot in defense of our state find and enter there with the main forces. as the violence continues, there is a fear the worst is still to come. we do believe they reinforced the number of battalion tactical groups in the east and the south of ukraine. they ve added now more than ten to what they already had there in that part of the country. we still assess that in general they have the vast majority of their assembled combat power available to them. and
right now, day 50 of russia s invasion of ukraine. and a key russian warship, a flagship, in fact, badly damaged. ukrainian forces claim to have struck it with a neptune-class cruise missile. i m told this morning that ukrainian military has shared its assessment, its intelligence on the strike, with the u.s. very good morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m bianna golodryga. new this morning, ukrainian commanders say they struck one of russia s most important navy warships with a guided missile. this was one of the ships involved in the infamous snake island attack. the kremlin is denying reports claiming instead that there was merely a fire on board. cnn has not been able to visually confirm the status of that ship. also this morning, russian state tv airing this new video, saying that it shows more than 1,000 ukrainian marines surrendering to russian forces in mariupol. ukraine is denying this report. we should note that cnn cannot verify its authenticity. as cnn crews ar