For more on all of this, we turn to nbc news correspondent cal perry live in lviv, ukraine and nbc news correspondent keir simmons live in moscow. we have josh lederman in brussels. so cal, first we ll go to you. what do we know about this russian assault on ukraine right now, on kyiv, and also the developing refugee crisis? from what we can tell, the main assault is still taking place around the ukrainian capital of kyiv, the fighting started late yesterday, in the suburbs that surrounded the city, from the north and from the east, and slowly crept forward, but this morning, as the sun rose, over the capital city, it was still in ukrainian hands. there has been a herculean effort to arm citizens in that city, at least 16,000 assault rifles distributed to citizens there, there were even instructions put up on the ukrainian ministry of defense web site, showing civilians how to make molotov cocktails, you
Year. i want to bring in cal perry who are is at that school district and spoke to one mom who is feeling the consequences of those policies. so cal, take us inside that conversation. reporter: yeah, it was a hard conversation to have. this is who is caught in the middle. you have the families of those folk who is are dying. in this county, 17 folks since the beginning of the year should say 12 of them did cme back to school. so 5 folks never came back. 12 died. anthony dorsey was a 24-year-old, still is a local hero. went off to play college athletics and came home to be a biology teacher. he got sick in early september and died on september 14th. i talked to his mother. one of the things she wanted to talk about is the fact that he wasn t vaccinated. take a listen. what was important to me was that people understood he was a teacher and he was exposed to this virus probably at school. and i wanted people to be safe.
They could lose some funding in the school district its. that s the situation not just here in florida, be but in so many states where you have republican governors who seem to be going against that traditional republican value of local control. and seem to be going against what science is telling us. the cdc, which had a recent study that said these classrooms had a three and a halftimes chance of being shut down if those students aren t masked. a horrible story well told. cal perry, thank you. and staying on this conversation about the physical and mental health of our students and teachers, i want to bring in the secretary of education. mr. secretary, just listening to cal s reporting here, that s the heart of your challenge, protecting the students and the teachers as everyone is trying to get back in school for this academic year. thank you for having me. my heart goes out to the dorsey family and what they are experiencing now is so unfortunate. and the reality is it s prev
Nice and smoothly, two zero g. it feels wonderful, and you will want to get out of your seat, automatically. so strap yourself in, and experience this. when you get out of your seat, and look out at that window, for a moment it will seem like you are inside a snow globe, because the beautiful silica flakes will be around, and it is beautiful. msnbc s kyle perry is in last cruises new mexico, an hour south of that launch site. so cal, launches through these latest developments, will it where we would not go off today? yes, look. it is a good thing we have enough content from virgin galactic to blast the delay plus we have our own animation, we are in good shape. we just heard this in the last 15 minutes, it is a 90 minute delay, we are looking at 10:30 eastern, about 8:30 here local time. what you are going to see is going to be nothing short of incredible and dramatic. hopefully, what we will see in the next couple of hours is the crew starting to make its way towards an aircraft
Get ahead of the scan dal. they expect to get worse than better and revelations to come out and that s why we re going to hear from the commandant of the marine corps in about ten minutes explaining what they plan to do, what they plan to offer to any potential victims and how they might need to change the culture inside the marine corps. we ll keep an eye on that and you will too, hans i know. thank you, joining us fromhe pentagon. four states are going court to fight president trump s revised immigration order with hawaii and oregon the latest to join the list. the executive order will bar u.s. entry from six majority muslim nations including iran. the order goes into effect next week. msnbc s senior editor cal perry is visiting los angeles in a highly populated with iranian neighborhood in los angeles so cal, tell me first off where are you and what are you hearing? reporter: westwood boulevard. that s whey thought. reporter: in the middle of los angeles. look at this, sto