february. see right there, exchange of flowers. ar let signs is at the white house. kate bennett joins us from traveling with the first lady. kate, what do we need to know about this visit? reporter: well, we re back in slovakia tonight. earlier today we made the surprise trip with the first lady into the south western corner of ukraine. a 15-minute drive from the border. besides the trip on mother s day, the biggest surprise was the first lady of ukraine. they ve exchanged correspondence, and meeting today was a big deal. not only is a first lady going into an active war zone. this is also the wife of the president of ukraine who has tried to keep under cover. the public has not seen her. the two women together on mother s day. as dr. biden said, it was important to express support from america on mother s day for ukraine. now, the two women held a bilateral behind closed doors for about a half hour or so that the press didn t get to see. i m told they talked about especia
you are watching cnn newsroom. welcome to the show everyone, it s 9:00 a.m. here in lyiv in ukraine. the russian military was seen as sporting two buses said to be carrying several evacuees to a town east of mariupol as you can see in the video there. the factory has been under bombardment, president zelenskyy is hoping to negotiate the safe evacuation of the soldiers still inside. translator: we are also working on diplomatic options to save our military who remain. mediators are involved, including influential states. meanwhile, russia is hastily putting its stand wherever it can in mariupol ahead of the victory day. a russian flag flies over a hospital, and signs have been changed to russian and they are saying, soviet statues are popping up across the city. victory day, appears this year that he may want to make a show of mariupol, or what is left of it as some sort of prize. we are in southern ukraine with the latest for you. reporter: escorted by armor,
who has been heavily involved with the negotiations and the efforts to get people out from underneath of the steel plant. she said that all women, children and elderly people have been taken out from the plant successfully. the order of the president has been done, she said. so this part of the mission, at least, is complete. we also got word from one of the soldiers inside of the plant that that evacuation mission went off without a hitch. without any kind of incident. what we still don t know is whether or not there were any civilian men left behind. that is a possibility. but can hwe don t know. and we don t know how many were trapped under there. the latest estimate there was around 100 civilians, perhaps still trapped. earlier we had gotten word from the separatist government, the donetsk people of the republic saying 152 people including 32 kids had been allowed to leave the city. but it wasn t clear whether that included peep from under the plant or whether that was on
ruling that made abortion rights the law of the land. the author of the opinion,alito egregiously wrong. and that carries a lot of weight, as he and four other conservative justices now hold a majority on the supreme court. u.s. president joe biden, meantime, says a woman s right to an abortion is, quote, fundamental, and that the supreme court s decision, if it becomes official, could end up affecting all decisions in americans private lives. if this decision holds, it s really quite a radical decision. does this mean that in florida they can decide they re going to pass a law saying that same-sex marriage is not permissible? it s against the law in florida? so, there s a whole it s a fundamental shift in american jurisprudence. now you on the flip side, many conservative republicans see the likely demise of roe v. wade as a victory in their decades-long battle against legalized abortion. some are celebrating loudly and proudly. others are taking a more subdued approa
mariupol. many civilians trapped inside the city. for the first time in nearly half a century, a american woman appeared to be on the cusp on losing their rights to safe appo abo abortion. it appears to be poised overturned. now, cnn confirms the authenticity of the document. the final ruling is not expected until june. tyabortions remaining now. this would mark a major victory for decades in the making for american conservatives. the three conservative judges appointed by former president trump shifted the idealogical m makeup of the court. jit is reasoning with exceptionally weak and the decision had zdamaging consequences and far from bringing a national settlement of the abortion issues. kcasey was a case in 992 tha also uphill abortion rights. take a listen. reporter: a seismic move coming from the supreme court overturning roe v. wade legalizing abortion in the united states. nearly 50 years of legal access in in my states could soon change. a number of stat