Kentucky derby. This is early start, im laura jarrett. And im christine romans. It is friday, april 30th. Happy friday, everybody, it is 5 00 a. M. Exactly in New York. We begin with the Great American come back. The Economy Roars back in the first quarter. The economy grew 6. 4 on an annualized basis in the first quarter, the best first quarter since 1984. That strong number showed huge gains in Consumer Spending and business investment. Goldman sachs now estimates the economy for the year could grow 7 , the best in 30 years. Layoffs are slowing, weekly jobless claims still double what they were before the crisis but that trend incredibly important. The Housing Market is the strongest its been in years, Home Prices setting new records as buyers scramble to find homes amid an inventory crunch. The pandemic moves americans lives online, that has been a boom for tech earnings. AmazonS Profit more than tripled in the first quarter to 8. 1 Billion on 108 Billion in sales. The earnings comi
notion of privacy is thrown into question. i think the right outcome is to overturn roe v. wade. it was wrong the day it was skski decided. the court should turn out the bad faith noise and feel completely free to do their job. let me bring you up-to-date with the breaking news, that the eu has announced a sixth package of sanctions against russia in response to the war in ukraine. the plan which has yet to be agreed includes a proposal to ban all russian oil imports. the eu commission president says putin must pay a high price for his brutal aggression. we ll have more on that in about 20 minutes time. millions of women are feeling anguish over what they view is an ability human right, and that is the ability to end a pregnancy. the leaked document shows that the supreme court could be on the verge of taking away that constitutional right and that has ignited angry protests. the draft opinion shows the court appears poised to overturn the landmark abortion rights low
the government in kyiv is hoping to try again in the coming hours to evacuate thousands of civilians from the decimated city of mariupol. two senior ukrainian negotiators say they are ready to go there in person to make sure that it happens. dozens of buses lined up wednesday to evacuate women, children, and the elderly. but ukraine s deputy prime minister says this operation did not work as planned because russia could not ensure a proper cease-fire. as many as 1,000 civilians and an unknown number of soldiers are holed up in a steel factory with basic supplies running low. a ukrainian marine commander reports the city is under constant russian bombardment. president volodymyr zelenskyy says 120,000 civilians are still trapped in mariupol, and the remaining troops do not have the heavy weapons needed to defend the city. the russian push to capture mariupol is part of a larger offensive in the donbas and eastern ukraine. to the north, the military governor of luhansk reportin
with ukraine with the rush to evacuate civil dwraps inside mariupol days or even hours before the city could fall to russians. i am kim brunhuber at cnn world headquarters in atlanta. biden administration fighting pack against decision to end mask mandates on public transportation. day 57 of russia s invasion of ukraine and we begin with a bleak assessment from the luhansk military governor who says no town is safe, russian troops are destroying everything in their path. the government says 80% of the luhansk region is under russian control as they push on with this new offensive to push all the donbas in the east. u.s. defense officials tell cnn russia has added 17 battalion tactical groups so far until the past week but so far, russian forces have not nad any territorial gains since the donbas offensive began. trying again in the coming hours in the besieged port sea of mariupol. deputy prime minister reports a humanitarian corridor did not work on wednesday. russian fo
these are all crimes. reporter: this is cnn breaking news. thursday, april 21st. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in ukraine. we begin with breaking developments in the war. russia s defense minister telling president vladimir putin that russian forces need three to four days to take over the steel plant in the besieged city of mariupol, whereas, as many as 1,000 are hold up. they have not stopped shelling mariupol. tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped inside the city. we will continue to follow the story. meanwhile, we re seeing the devastation and human toll across ukraine. a new report finds russian forces committed apparent war crimes in bucha. the report says researchers have found evidence of executions, disappearances and torture. the russian offensive continues to push forward in the donbas region. the enhanced military say russian forces have taken a central village. they report russian forces are advancing from donbas to creme tors being. they have added