Update any minute. Will the country s biggest city mandate masks indoors, all of it as the new york governor the last couple of minutes is putting place new vaccine requirements and pushing private businesses to do something extra. We ll tell you about it, with our team live in tokyo with the breaking news out of the olympics, with simone biles, the overnight decision she will compete in one event tomorrow, as the american women wrap up another epic match on the soccer turf. I m hallie jackson in washington. Vaughn hillyard in jacksonville, florida, kathy park in new york city and dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives. Good morning to all of you. Vaughn, let me start with you in florida. You re outside of a hospital that s well past illustrates earlier record for covid hospitalizations. Talk about the landscape in florida. You also have the governor coming out and saying no mask mandates. I ban basically any requirements for masking in places like schools, et cete
for weeks now ukrainian, u.s. and nato officials have war on the russians preparing for a renewed military offensive in the east. it seems the battle for the donbas region is under way. according to ukraine top security official a 300 mile long front came under attack by russian forces monday. and for the most part that defensive line held. for civilians who remain trapped in the conflict zone, hope of a escape is starting to fade. ukrainian prime minister announced no evacuation corridors will be open today. pentagon believes 76 russian tactical groups have been deployed in the south and east. eleven added in the last few days alone. each consists of 800 troops. tens of thousands of russian soldiers committed to the offensive. and despite the out numbered and out gunned, ukraine president says his country will not give up without a fight. meantime we re receiving new images from mariupol. weeks of heavy fighting have decimated the port city. and russians are near total contr
soldiers concerned this will be a secondary strikes. russia can pick and choose where they try and force brakethrough. russia more than just launching an invaegs, more than launching a war, is undertaking a campaign of terror. this is how the russians live and that evidence suggests their existence here is neither disciplined. we will keep fighting and defending. we will be doing this daily announcer: this is cnn breaking news. the battle for the donbas region now appears to be underway. ukraine s top security official said they attacked along the eastern front lines on monday in kharkiv, donetsk and luhansk. for the most part those towns held . russian forces have been regrouping in southern and eastern ukraine. they say it looks like russia is trying to learn from earlier failures in the north and the pentagon believes russia has now deployed thousands of additional troops to the reasoning gone. nkts we do believe that they have reinforced the number of ba tall
the president meeting with ukrainian counterpart in what is being described as a defiant display of western solidarity. white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president and reports tonight from warsaw, poland. good evening, peter. bret, if president biden stuck to his schedule he would still be in washington, d.c. right now. but, instead, he is here in warsaw after a daring dip into a war zone. and he is looking ahead to a big speech tomorrow where we do expect him to call out vladimir putin by name. putin s war of conquest is failing. but it s ongoing. so the president is committing 500 million more dollars in equipment for the fight against putin. thought he could outlast us. i don t think he is thinking that right now. the u.s. gave russia a heads up, president biden would be visiting ukraine but to keep the trip clandestine the president was driven in a white toyota suv instead of the customary black suburban and traveled with a much smaller
and probably most are, but at some level the people who run the democratic party weren t upset at all. they were thrilled. here was an issue for them to run in the midterm elections, an issue perfectly suited to a party that had nothing to talk about. are they going to brag about joe biden? i don t think so. it s abortion, they re going to take your abortions away. that was the democratic message for the midterm elections, coming up in just a few days, but there was a problem with the messaging. so covid had just ended, and people not being entirely stupid still remembered this very same democratic party, the same people, had forced the entire population to wear paper masks like children, and then to take the shot as a condition of going outside. so women have the right to control their own bodies? hmm. they used to tell us that. then they fired thousands of nurses for refusing to submit to an experimental vaccine. so the phrase my body my choice had been, as we say in the