responsible for the house crisis as the house scrambles for a vote tonight, tonight, on a multi million dollar bill to help. plus, check out the markets. have you seen this, wall street in a free fall in the last hour of trading. investors are getting ready for the biggest loss since 2020 because retailers, walmart, target, et cetera sounding the alarm on inflation. coming up, we ll tell you what is going on and when things could turn around. i m hallie jackson in washington and i want to bring in our poll lit. caller: political team. dasha barns, vaughn is in philadelphia and tony is in north carolina and our senior political editor mark murray is with us, as well. at 3:01 eastern time, 12:01 pacific here is where we stand after last night s primaries. in pennsylvania you have oz holding a lead over david mccormick. a recount is looking more and more likely. it s coming as you have former president trump as he did in 2020 not waiting around for the official results, ur
america are hurting because of inflation. donald trump loved west virginia and west virginia loves donald trump. there is a passenger flying a plane that is not a pilot and the pilot is incapacitated. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is wednesday, may 11th, 4:00 a.m. in washington, 11:00 a.m. in ukraine. more help could be on the way soon to ukraine to fight off russia s brutal invasion. u.s. house lawmakers have approved an aid package worth about $40 billion in addition to the nearly $14 billion already provided to ukraine earlier this year. if the senate approves, u.s. president joe biden is expected to sign it into law. meanwhile in eastern ukraine the mayor reports missile strikes on two areas of the city of of. but russia is not succeeding on many fronts. ukrainian forces claim that they destroyed a russian tank near kharkiv. the u.s. director of national intelligence says that russian failures could lead to a dangerous new phase of t
War as fairly and as safely as possible even as we ve seen from mariupol just in the past couple of days, nearly 1000 ukrainian troops have now been put into russian custody and there was some agreement between ukrainians and the russians on that and it looks as though that agreement is now in jeopardy because we ve heard from the russians that it looks as though they re considering classifying the battalion that was the military unit that was underneath the steel works in mariupol that entire time hold up underground fighting against the russians that they re now being considered as being classified as terrorists, which means these men could be facing trials in russia. hallie, rattling through the headlines you mentioned here, we also saw american flag being raised over the u.s. embassy in kyiv. that is a big moment and follows other nations who also returned to work in kyiv in the ukrainian capital.
Were mentioning the steel works in mariupol, last bastion of ukrainian resistance in the city, the taking of mariupol, its strategic importance to russia s wider aims, the importance of up towns like khe and so it is important that we ve been hearing from the head of american intelligence mentioning the possibility yesterday in front of the senate armed services committee that it may be that one of russia s strategic gains is actually to create a land corridor all the way to moldova. and we ve seen the explosions the last few weeks blamed on ukrainian forces by russia, but ukrainians describe it as false flag operations. so that is one of the possible strategic aims that the admiral believes that russia may be looking to pursue. that is one of the big questions of course that she put before
Stories, after more than a week on the run, a violent end in the hunt for a former aal alprison guard and escaped inmate. welcome to the show, every with within. for it s 9:00 a.m. in ukraine. and russian president, vladimir putin, may not have given away any of his military plans on monday, but russian forces are cheerly focussed on punishing the ukrainian port of odesa. the city has been hit by a barrage of cruise missiles in the past day. fires from russian planes, ships and submarines. and these are brand new pictures just in to cnn. at least one person was killed in attacks on a shopping mall, as well as two hotels. they say russian forces are continuing their storm offensive on the steel works in mariupol.