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and the boy who was shot, but survived by playing dead. mireya villareal on the ground in uvalde. also breaking tonight, the deadly tragedy unfolding on this memorial day weekend. five people feared dead after two boats collided on a river in georgia. helicopters rushing to the scene, and what we just learned about the search. the growing shortage of baby formula. an estimated 70% of the u.s. supply now out of stock. emergency shipments coming in from as far away as australia. fierce fighting in ukraine. the russians gaining ground in the east. will the u.s. give ukraine longer-range rockets to help stop the russian advance? what we re learning tonight. and for the first time, our team on the ground in odesa, where the russian blockade is creating a food emergency. skyrocketing travel prices as millions head out for the long holiday weekend. but even with everything costing more, why the roads and airports are still seeing heavy traffic. powerful storms hit pa ....
biden administration on the defensive. plus, we re live at the cnn weather center. how climate change is destroying homes with extreme weather across the u.s. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than 1,000 towns and villages have been retaken so far from russian forces. he says the russian military is paying heavy price for its aggression. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers, many of them young conscripts. russia has lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles, a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters, drones and all of its prospects as a state. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of kharkiv in the north. further south, ukraine claims it successfully blocked a russian advance at a key river in the donbas. ukraine says it destroyed more than 70 armored vehicles including tanks and multiple ....
70% of formula supplies out of stock nationwide. the fda announcing millions more cans of formula will soon be flown to the u.s. from australia and the uk. this as the administration is again invoking the defense production act for a third time to ramp up supply. here s abc s white house correspondent mary alice parks. reporter: with store shelves still barren across the country, communities organizing give-aways for baby formula. i ve had no baby formula for the last two weeks. reporter: an estimated 70% of the baby s national supplies out of stock. in dearborn, michigan, friday cars lined up nearly a mile waiting for formula. volunteers struggling to meet the demand as some in line were turned away empty handed. i m overwhelmed at this point. reporter: this week the fda announcing it will bring in millions of cans of formula from companies overseas to help address the shortage. among the shipments, at least ....
Invoke the defense production act to ramp up supply. worried parents need answers now. cnn s adrienne broaddus talks to desperate parents. on here they ll say if they have it in stock. reporter: it s another full-time job. i m up with him at 2:00 a.m. in the morning looking for formula. reporter: searching ten hours every week. i start with the website and then after that i go to target. after that, i go to meyer, jewel, walmart, walgreen s, cvs. coleen is one of many parents on the hunt for baby formula across the nation. this is really anxiety provoking and really worrisome. when i get to work in the morning, i look for formula. when we re finally sitting on the couch for an hour at night, we re looking for formula. so, i haven t found any in about three weeks. reporter: she has supply for three weeks thanks to a friend and her aunt. but the shortage is affecting ....
Is it safe to use overseas options? if they are being manufactured by the same company and brought into the country under established protocols, then yes, it should be. i think it s great that there are strides being made by the government to improver it. but this is not going to be fixed overnight. this is not a time to stockpile formula, because that will just make it worse for all of the families out there. there is a slow trickle of supply coming in. it s not that the supply has been completely shut off. so while it s tempting to go out and buy two months of formula. if you can really just not do that, and buy what you need a week at a time, it s going to make it better for everybody. the improvements are coming. we will get out of this. it will take some time, but improvements are coming. and i m just hearing our producers telling us the fda ....