he s standing by life live. also growing concern the u.s. about the potential spread of another deadly virus. the cdc is now discussing whether to offer vaccinations for people at high risk of what s called monkey pox. a rare case has just been confirmed in this country. and as the buffalo shooting suspect appears in court, there s a new report just outside tout that some 15 peopl signed into an online chat room where he invited people to watch the racist attack where it happened. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m westolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with president biden hitting vladimir putin with a one-two punch. the united states now poise d t send billions of additional dollars in new aid to ukraine as the president is promoting new efforts to expand nato right now. our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is joining us live from seoul, south korea. the president is heading to asia, whe
white supremacy. president biden and the first lady are headed to buffalo tomorrow and the tributes are already pouring in for the victims who were killed, all black americans, ranging in age from 32 to 86. the former buffalo fire commissioner and son of one of the murder victims, ruth whitfield, speaking out against the hate and racism that investigators say motivated this shooter. what are we supposed to do with all of this anger, all of this pain? i can tell you, this was an easy decision for us to go public. we re a private family. this was not easy for us. but how else could we honor our mother, how else can we uphold the things she put in us, the things she believed in? how else can we do that? what else are we supposed to do, he says, with all of this pain. and i know you re learning more about what the shooter had planned. yeah, we learned this from the buffalo police commissioner. he told me this morning there s some documentation that the shooter had plans t
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Im Maryam Moshiri live in malmo outside the arena where the Eurovision Grand Final will be taking place. Some Breaking News now, and the dutch Artistjoost Klein has been disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest. This all happened after the contestant, joost klein, the dutch contestant, joost klein, the dutch contestant was disqualified from the competition after what the ebu, the organisers describe as an incident just before one of the rehearsals yesterday. Confusion was around this area yesterday when people were told he wouldnt be performing and yet no one really knew exactly the reason why. Now we are hearing from the dutch press that the Swedish Police have confirmed there is an investigation ongoing into an incident involving joost klein and a team member, a member of crew at the malmo arena. Lets get more on all of this. Adrian bradley. You have been in the media centre for the whole of this week practically, what are people saying about this
white house this tuesday. and fox news is also learning that president zelenskyy will also brief members of the u.s. senate. that as a congress debates whether or not to send more aid to defend ukraine from the illegal and barbaric invasion continuing by vladimir putin opinion. more on this in just a moment with general jack keane on what this means, but first,s israel [gunfire] eric: israeli forces pushing against the terrorists of hamas, striking more than a 250 hamas targets in gaza just over the past 24 hours. the idf has ordered urgent evacuations in the southern city. well welcome to fox news live, i m eastbound shawn. arthel: a hello, everyone, i m arthel neville. the idf even publishing a map of the area it plans to hit hard underscoring the harsh reality that with hamas if operating from civilian areas, there is no safe place in gaza to take shelter. meantime, u.s. forces in the middle east shooting down three more drones that targeted two bases in syria accord
war but also the pretext by which vladimir putin launched his invasion of ukraine. we learned a little bit from this audio message. still, there s just so many unanswered questions, chris. matt bradley, thank you for that. let s go to ukraine where the military is looking to make the most of this moment of russian weakness. nbc s raf sanchez reports from there. raf, what can you tell us? reporter: president zelenskyy today making a surprise visit to troops in eastern ukraine who are taking part in the counter offensive. he was taking selfies, handing out medals, wishing one of these soldiers happy birthday, and the contrast between president zelenskyy out and about, and pruitt seen on saturday morning making the emergency broadcast in russia, since then his whereabouts largely unknown, a contrast deeply striking. zelenskyy has really tried to capitalize on the optics to try to present himself as someone