at jake toppeapper and if you m an episode, you can listen wherever you get your podcasts. our coverage continues with wolf blitzer in the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, breaking news. putin claims victory in the besieged city of mariupol. trapping tens of thousands of civilians and ukrainian troops holed up inside a huge steel complex. putin ordering forces to make sure even a fly can t escape from the last major stronghold. president biden says there s no evidence mariupol has completely fallen and vows that putin will never succeed in occupying all of ukraine. the u.s. sending an additional $800 million in military assistance to ukrainian fighters.
of concerns coming from the democrats of orange and osceola county, the area that surrounds this special district. they are estimating that this could be a tax burden that could be taken onto families an average of $2200 to $2800 of tax burden per family in those counties. so that s a big concern, just the debt surrounding this. but another big concern, jake, is the legality of this. can this actually be done? because there is a florida statute that says that there must be a vote within the special district if this happens. so we re still waiting for a lot of that to be worked out. desantis now does have these two bills on his desk and is expected to sign within the next 15 days. we re also still waiting to hear from disney. they have been pretty quiet over the last few days. surely they are talking to their attorneys about this and we ll have to wait and see if this all ends up in court. there s also the politics of whether or not politicians
most of the effort hunting down mines and other abandoned ordnance is painful work with intense focus for hours at a time. but there s urgency too, because discarded and deliberately planted weapons are harming people weeks after the russians left this territory. this truck hit a mine north of kyiv,in sin rating the driver. this emergency vehicle ran over something explosive injuring eight onboard. there are many painful legacies to russia s brief presence in this part of the country. ukrainians are working to ensure that one doesn t endure. jake, the commanding officer of the disposal unit said for every year of the war, there will be a further three years of cleaning up the dangerous stuff that s left behind. no matter how careful and