retreating. video from the front lines tonight showing putin s soldiers abandoning their posts. we ll show you this new video. ukraine pushing russia back from a key city. we re going to go to the front lines tonight. and desantis tonight picking up nearly 40 new endorsements. i m going to talk to one gop donor who just met with him. will he back him over trump or not? and. new details tonight about the utah mother who wrote a children s book grieving her husband, is now charged with his murder. the attorney for the victim s family is my guest. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, russians on t run. just look at these dramatic new pictures. literally they re running. this is near bakhmut. you re looking at what appeared to be russian forces retreating. these are about a dozen or so as they re just running along that wooded area scrambling to safety. they re being attacked in this video from above. as i said, they are near the key
tornado outbreak wreaking havoc across much of the midwest and south friday. there are now at least 50 preliminary tornado reports in seven states. at least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others are injured. most of the deaths are in arkansas, where the damage is catastrophic reports of at least a dozen tornadoes there. governor sarah huckabee sanders , declaring a state of emergency and activating the national guard. as the storms gutted entire communities. she s expected to give an update on the storm damage at any moment now and the hardest hit areas of arkansas. that was the town of when. we don t know what s left . all my neighbors house is about destroyed. my two boys are out now trying to help dig people out of their homes. little rock also bearing the brunt of these storms, the city s mayor, telling cnn today that entire neighborhoods were flattened. impact is devastating . i just came out of nowhere. clearly no, it was coming. everyone took cover, as relate
around the nuclear power station was extra. it would appear from these satellite images that it is almost certainly untrue. that there has been no significant change in the level of attacks, evidence of attacks since the las images were taken a month ago. so that really gives the lie to longstanding propaganda line, taken by the russians, that the ukrainians are trying to shell their own nuclear power plant to make the russians look bad. that s on the one hand. i ve seen the evidence on the ground myself that missiles are being fired by results troops from very close to that nuclear power station. almost inviting a counter attack. they ve killed people across the dnipro river. so in that context, one can understand the demands being made increasingly stridently by the international community to demilitarize that area. that is why the french president called vladimir putin earlier on today. because of the deep concerns of some kind of military spy catastrophe there. and a fr
Administration is right now looking for prisoners around the world in any allied country that they could try to come up with some deal to free some people. obviously kara-murza notably was not on that list. this would have been evan gershkovich and paul whelan. do you think putin wants to make a deal? putin took gershkovich as a hostage as basically as a trading chip for after brittney griner was swapped for viktor bout, putin got a taste for the value of hostages. so they took a wall street journal reporter that s high-value hostage-taking. so putin wants to do one of these deals. but he wants to humiliate us with one of these deals. he wants to get unreasonable terms for these deals. we ve to be careful about all this stuff because the moment you do a deal like what was done with brittney griner, it kind of opens up the flood gates for them to take more hostages. once brittney griner went home, was go get evan