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house for letting therapeutics fall by the wayside for this near exclusive focus on vaccinations that we ve seen. they ve also accelerated the timeline when they ll be delivered from september to june. we were looking at an order of ten million initially. the white house announced that they will get the full ten million by june. by the end of january, they ll have four million covid treatments on hand. a lot of the same sort of vibe that we got from the president when he gave his remarks today ahead of the briefing warning folks that are unvaccinated that they re at risk with this highly transmissable omicron variant telling people that are vaccinated to get boosted. also speaking about the numbers as we ve seen this really record-breaking number today, one million cases in the u.s. here s what the president said earlier. if you re vaccinated and boosted, you may get covid but you re highly protected against severe illness. schools can and should be open this winter. ....
donald trump still support conservative politics. it is not just in virginia, the race for governor in new jersey remains neck and neck. a virtual tie at this point between the incumbent democrat governor phil murphy and challenger jack ciattarelli. that race less than 2,000 votes apart. another shock for democrats who saw murphy coasting to another term in office. the biggest winners of the night on issues, policing, education, and the economy. in new york, cnn projects that eric adams will be the next mayor. the former brooklyn borough president and former retired police captain ran on a pro police platform, promising to crack down on crime as well as police abuse. in minneapolis, the site of major anti-police demonstrations and protests last year, voters rejected an aggressive bid to overhaul policing in that city. they voted down a ballot measure that would have abolished the minneapolis police department to replace it with the department of public safety. let s ....
in kansas, but half a world away in ukraine where russian soldiers are continuing to pound the donbas region aided by russian airstrikes. we ve seen better than a thousand airstrikes a day on the part of the russians, and that is well beyond what s going on in the donbas region. let s go to matt finn with the latest. matt. reporter: and, neil, a senior u.s. defense official says russia s latest offensive is going slower than planned. ukrainian forces are pushing back, they are fighting off russia s attempts to gain the donbas region and the south eastern portion of this country, that area it wants so badly. when russian forces retreat from a city or region, we are able to get a look at the atrocities and the catastrophic devastation left behind. so often residential neighborhoods and communities. take a look at this new video showing the extent of the damage in the town of irpin near kyiv. it was the scene of intense fighting last month. russian forces have since with ....
these attacks come after the mosque va which was russia s flagship in the black sea. it s the largest boat to sink in decades and pentagon officials confirmed yesterday that it was hit by two ukrainian neptune missiles earlier in the week that caused fires and damaged the boat. it s another remarkable loss for russia s military as it continues to deal with low morale while preparing on renewed offensive focused on taking control of eastern ukraine. two senior u.s. defense officials are set to begin that offensive in the next few days. they say russia can start moving back troops into ukraine as soon as this weekend before all of its troops are fully engaged and ready to fight. russian forces have suffered significant losses in ukraine after 52 days of war. according to president zelenskyy, up to 20,000 russian soldiers have been killed in ukraine compared to 2,000 ukrainian soldier losses. nbc news has not independently verified those losses. they ve recovered the bodie ....
moscow re-ups its offensive. also this morning, the mayor of lviv says ukrainian defense forces intercepted four russian cruise missiles overnight. this comes on the heels of a flat-out humiliating week for putin, including reports of ukrainian forces carrying out attacks inside russia s borders, and the highly confirmed sinking of the moskva. now putin demand that the u.s. stop supplying ukraine. joining me now is foreign correspond raf sanchez. thank you for being with us. bring us up on speed on the overnight air strike. how are residents reacting to this news? reporter: so, tiffany, no casualties reported at this time t the local governor says those missiles were successfully intercepted. we heard the air raid sirens going off at 5:00 a.m. the sirens go off here a lot. some of the locals don t seem to notice it. but this morning this was not a false alarm. this was vladimir putin striking deep into western ukraine. it s very unusual for him to strike this fa ....