i m laura jarrett. happy friday. happy friday. i m christine romans. nice to see you. march 12th. 5 a.m. exactly in new york. start the clock. president biden offering this hopeful path out of the pandemic and he s giving a time line by early summer. in the first primetime address he urged all-americans to do their part. if we do all of this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th there s a good chance you, family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard, neighborhood, have a cookout, barbecue, celebrate independence day. here the president urging all states to make all adults eligible for a vaccine available in two months. jasmine, we have dates here. vaccines on the way for everyone. lay out the president s goals. reporter: well, last night, laura, the president really did two things. he tapped into the empathizer in chief role that we are getting to know from him so well meeting with americans, as you said, to do their part. he
weeks trapped in the bombarded city of mariupol, some ukrainian civilians have been able to escape the surrounded steel plant, but the people still trapped inside say they have been under nonstop russian fire. as russian forces focus their operations on eastern ukraine, matt rivers reports on a small heavily damaged village north of kyiv, struggling to move forward amid the trauma of war. at the entrance to the ukrainian village, an effigy twists in the breeze. a uniform stripped off a dead russian soldier, stuffed and hung from a tree. people hate russia here. because of what it did. the tiny town northwest of kyiv has been leveled. russian bombs, rockets, bullets destroyed streets after streets after street. this was the site of some of the most intense fighting of the war so far. on their drive toward kyiv, the
civilians become casualties of wafr. our matt rivers reports now from kyiv. reporter: it had been weeks of relative quiet in kyiv but a couple of bangs and a plume of black smoke quickly changed that. ukraine and russia, both, confirming cruise missiles were fired into a central district of kyiv thursday evening, near miles away from where the u.n. s secretary general had just wrapped up a meeting with president zelenskyy. rescuers worked through the night and in the morning, a clearer picture emerged act what happened with this apartment complex shredded by shrapnel leaving those in the neighborhood shaken. this wall saved my life she says. otherwise, it would have been the end. there was a lot of fire. i could see everything was burning. it was horror. she said she only survived because she wasn t sitting next to the window. her son, alexei s hands bloodied. he says a clap and a blast, then panic, that s it.
nearby, a rail bridge was destroyed. it s not clear who is responsible for that. the head of ukraine regional military administration said russians were trying to quote advance from the north. and and that russian troops are using artillery and air strikes to wipe out settlements. this comes as a another mass grave is found in ukraine. again in a in bucha a site of so many atrocities already. details on the latest discovery are scarce. russian troops withdrew from the area, just a few weeks ago, more than 900 bodies have been discovered there. now, questions about the timing of a russian attack on kyiv as the un secretary general was meeting with ukrainian president. whether it was intentional or not. it s yet another example of civilians becoming casualties of war. matt rivers reports from the capitol. it had been weeks of relative
another $800 million in military aid for ukraine. he said this about putin s claims. it s questionable whether he does control mariupol. one thing we know for sure about mariupol, he should allow humanitarian corridors to let people in that steel mill and other places that are buried under rubble to get out. there is also new evidence of russia s intense military campaign in eastern ukraine. cnn geo-located showing heavy damage to a town in the luhansk region. it shows a nearby shopping center or grocery store and an apartment building all destroyed. let s start with the show of resistance we re seeing in mariupol. despite putin s claims of liberating it. as cnn s matt rivers reports, ukrainian forces inside that steel complex say their mission goes beyond protecting the hundreds of civilians taking shelter there. we destroyed one tank today, two armored fighting vehicles