russians have got gun implacements and rocked implacements close to that nuclear facility. they ve got military vehicles inside, which is no great surprise, because they captured it on march 4th. and they have been, because we ve seen the evidence with our own eyes, firing rockets outside of that facility. on top of that, we ve got their claim that the ukrainians are shelling back. that has been undermind not only by our own analysis of satellite imagery, but i ve spoken in the last few hours to people who have been working and one who has been working in that plant, close to that plant, and this is something we hear repeatedly from witnesses, who repeats that the russians are firing mortars to make it look as though the ukrainians are involved in some kind of threat to their own nuclear power station. all of this is set against a backdrop of very serious combat along a long front and very keep concerns in the international community that the international community could be
And vegetables be. in in the southwest, there is concern about water supply. david anderson has more on how this impacts farmers and ranchers and you and me. he is a professor at texas a&m university. professor, so good to see you. you too, thanks for having me on. wonderful. so sound really upbeat, but really, how dire is the situation? well, drought always seems to be the worst thing because it s always so widespread and it has really devastating effects on farmers and ranchers because we really rely on rainfall. even if you re irrigating crops, sooner or later that water had to come from rainfall. we certainly are in a pretty severe drought in texas and much of the west, it s leading ranchers to sell off their herds, to send more cows to packing plants. and eventually that means less
Drying of rural america. it ll put our food chain at risk. consumers will pay a big price and this country will not be the same that it was when our four fathers came. what happens in montana when you tell that joe biden has been good for rural america? or do you never mention the word biden when you re in montana so you don t really think about you as a democrat? it s not the first words of my lips. but i ll tell you more this, we need to talk about more about what s being done for infrastructure and that this administration has done and congress has done. in the american rescue plan s fate case. these have been serious investments in rural america. in order to have a rural america as vibrant, you have to have infrastructure. and you have to have markets. we re addressing the infrastructure with the help of the administration, and we re also addressing the markets with these bills, and other bills. look, the president came out and said here s some money available for existing pack