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agenda. we have new information just how talks broke down between the white house and the west virginia democrat. new reporting of manchin s counter offer to the president. despite the bad blood, is there still a chance they can strike a deal? good morning, welcome to morning joe, the first official day of winter. joe and willie have the morning off. i got the table. with us, we have al sharpton, congressional correspondent, jackie alemany with us this morning. john meacham is with us. and the host of way too early, john lemire. we ll get to the new reporting surrounding joe manchin and the white house in just a moment. but, first, the omicron variant of coronavirus over taken delta as the dominant strain in the united states. according to cdc s data, more than 73% of new cases in the country were caused by the new variant. in some places including parts of the tri-state area. the midwest, specific northwest and the south, omicron accounts for more than 90% of new i ....
immigration here at home could get in the way. meanwhile, new attacks all across ukraine, including kyiv, as the united nations chief visited the country. plus, things go from bad to worse in mariupol, as russia bombs a makeshift hospital inside the steel plant where fighters and civilians are barely holding on. former ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, joins us in a moment. and later, we ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, on the very latest in ukraine. and the january 6th committee ready to go public as the chairman announces the date of the first open hearings on the attack on the capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, april 29th. quite a week. yesterday, we knew president biden would be asking congress to fund a sweeping aid package aimed at keeping ukraine in the fight against russia for at least the next five months. we just didn t know how much he would be asking for. we heard from the president, propos ....
weapons systems to ukraine are adding fuel to the conflict and there could be, quote, unpredictable consequences. brianna. let s begin in mykolaiv which is where ed lavandera is. ed, can you tell us the latest from that region? reporter: well, good morning, brianna. it has been a hectic night here and morning in the city of mykolaiv, just east of odesa. we have been hearing bombardment throughout the night in the distance. and this morning, in the mid morning hours, a cluster bombs going off here in a residential neighborhood. this is a park where we are told several people were walking around. and you can see the impact on the ground from various of these cluster munitions that detonated in a largely residential neighborhood. apartment buildings behind me. this is an orthodox church. we will walk you back over to one of the impact sites. two dead so far in the explosions and the attacks going on this morning. in fact, here at this church, they have spent the morn ....
against zhang zhizhen of china. stefanos tsitspias and frances tiafoe are also on court. over in the women s draw, defending champion and world number one iga swiatek faces daria saville on louis armstrong, fourth seed elena rybakina is back on court against australia s isla tomjanovic. caroline wozniacki s comeback continues against petra kvitova what a game that could be! while britain s lily miyazaki has a tough test against belinda bencic. former premier league forward enner valencia led south america s copa libertadores with victory over bolivar. after scoring the only goal of the first leg in la paz, valencia opened the scoring in the 10th minute. the game was interupted briefly as players felt the affects of tear gas allegedly used to quell a riot outside the stadium, but it didn t seem to have too much of a negative impact on valencia. the equadorian scoring his second of the game and third of the tie to seal his side s progress. bolivar did have the chance of ....
well, this is following a pattern. in recent weeks, we ve seen drone attacks across russia, sometimes deep inside russian territory. what s been happening over the last few hours is a particularly large scale attack, a mass drone attack, as you say, targeting six russian regions. and also russian occupied crimea. it s unclearjust how much damage those attacks have done. most of the drones have been shot down by russian air defence systems. the most significant attack seems to have been in pskov, where the airport was targeted. initially, russian officials said four transport planes, military transport planes. that was revised down to two damaged. attacks also in the region which borders ukraine. and reports this morning suggest that those attacks have been continuing this morning with an attempt on the local tv tower there. the president of gabon, ali bongo, is reported to be under house arrest after army officers claimed they have seized power. they said they were annu ....