interference into the 2020 election is meeting right now. this could mean 1/3 indictment for the former president. we are following these major developing stories and many coming in right here to cnn news central. [music] cnn has learned that ukrainian combat troops are now hiring this controversial cluster munitions that the u.s. gave them. sources telling us that tactic is part of ukraine s counteroffensive and the pentagon officials are waiting to hear how effective they are in combat. cnn pentagon correspondent lauren lieberman is joining us on this.oren ããtell us what you are hearing. breonna, is only about last week that ukraine began receiving the u.s. provided cluster munitions. and part of the purpose of this was first to make sure that ukraine had enough artillery ammunition with its counter offense of going slower than anticipated and slower than both ukraine and the west would like to see. but also to be able to use the effect of the cluster munitions to sat
central. the question everyone is wondering, will former president donald trump be criminally indicted for a third time? we may soon get an answer to that. a federal grand jury hearing eft in the special counsel s 2020 election interference probe is meeting right now, not far from our studios in the nation s capital. it may be the final meeting before the grand jury votes on an indictment. trump s lawyers said they have until today to respond to the special counsel s target letter and say whether trump will come in and testify to the grand jury. that is seen as very unlikely to happen. let s take you now, live outside the court house with cnn s kaitlan, today there s been a flurry of activity were your, tell us about what you re seeing. indeed, boris, there are a lot of different witnesses that have come through this grand jury previously to build the case that the justice department has been looking att donald trump, a potentially others and today, there were additional
was with the agency for more than a decade has just been indicted in connection with his actions on january 6th. the accusation that his comments encouraged rioters to kill the police. that s next. plus, exclusive new footage of the moment in davenport, iowa, the building suddenly collapsing. what we now know about the three people officials say are likely still trapped in the rubble. also, off the ledge, with the u.s. no longer on the brink of an historic collapse, president biden and washington are breathing a whole lot easier today. we ll hear from the president in just a few hours as he prepares to sign the debt ceiling bill into law. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin right here in washington just five hours away from president biden s speech with nbc news white house correspondent monica alba. monica, what s the goal tonight? reporter: i think for the president, chris, it s really to convey the severity of this issue,
8:00 in the morning. so right in the early morning rush hour here in kyiv. and the early times there was sirens going off for a very long time. and then just blast after blast that took place as the rockets were impacting the ukrainian capital here. and some of the places that we went to were in central kyiv. for instance there was a playground that was hit leaving a gigantic kracrater and a busy insection and there was just a seen of carnage at that intersection with several cars completely destroyed. we saw some dead bodies there as well and the ukrainians told us that five people were killed at that place alone. and just to give you an idea of the area that that was in, this was next to a museum and next to a university building. it is unclear that there would have been any sort of military infrastructure there. there certainly didn t seem to be any. and the ukrainians are telling us this is a scene that is going on in many parts of the country here in ukraine. they say th
this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. russia unleashing missiles across ukraine. few cities were spared in what could be the broadest assault since the invasion began. dozens more injured. v vladimir putin is posting about the strikes. he said they re in retaliation over the weekend of a key bridge linking russia to annexed crimea and accusing ukraine of terrorism as imangs like these are broadcast all over the world. the ukraine president is holding emergency talks with g-7 leaders today about how to respond to this. let s get straight to fred pleitgen live in kyiv. cities all over ukraine were bomb bombarded but look at what is behind you. even a playground in kyiv. reporter: when he was dressing the security council is that he said that the russians hit command and communications infrastructure of the ukraine military. but as you could see behind me, this is definitely not command or communication infrastructure from the ukrainian military. this is a pl