we begin in ukraine where 60 people are feared dead following a bombing on a school in the eastern luhansk region. local officials are saying 90 people were sheltering in that school when a russian plane bombed the building. there were rescued. we believe 60 were killed. a regional official says they are most likely dead. president biden is holding a virtual summit today with other g7 leaders and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. this meeting was deliberately scheduled ahead of russia s annual victory day celebrations which is tomorrow. it marks the nazi surrender in world war ii. president zelenskyy today marking a day of remembrance and celebration. it s marked every day on may 8th to honor the people who lost their lives during world war ii. translator: this year we say never again differently. we hear never again differently. it sounds painful, cruel, without an exclamation, but with a question mark, you say never again? tell ukraine about it. ukraine says
this comes amid heightened fears that russia could escalate their war against ukraine. as the country waits to see what is going to happen in the fight over abortion rights, we re going to look at the moves states are already making in anticipation of the ruling. parents across the country are scrambling to find baby for formula. what s behind the shortage, and what s being done to replenish the supply. and a good saturday morning to all of you. it is saturday, may 7th. christie, so nice to be back with you. thank you for having me. we appreciate you welcoming that 1:45 alarm. i know it s not easy. for you, anything, and now we re going, adrenaline s flowing, got calf ffcaffeine. we ve got an hour under our belt. we can do this. thank you. let s talk about president biden. indeed, he is touting economic gains in the new u.s. jobs report, while visiting a manufacturing facility in ohio on friday, but he s also addressed what is at the top of mind for so many am
the rubble. well, we hope that saturday may 7th so far has been good to you. i know it s early, but we re grateful you re waking up with us. you, too, alex. thank you for having me. so great to be back with you. always. we will begin with the stalled efforts to free more civilians from that battered steel plant that has come under attack by russian forces in the city of mariupol. right. evacuations were supposed to resume today after 50 civilians were freed from the plant in mariupol yesterday. so far there are no signs that process has restarted. we know at least 100 civilians, including a number of children by the way, are still trapped in underground bunkers. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has accused russia of using blockades as a form of torture, he says, because people are being starved. zelenskyy says organizations are not being allowed to get into mariupol to get the people there badly-needed food, water and countless other supplies. and presi
steel plantd in mariupol, the resistance to the war that vladimir putin will not call a war, official inside the plant tells the washington post the situation is, quote, critical. translator: the shelling and storming of asovstal is not stopping but civilians still need to be taken out. women, many children remain there. president says, quote, if there is hell in the wuorld it s in asovstal. the hell is intense, growing darker by the hour by all accounts yet an official said russian troops entered the territory of the steel plant but, were, quote, repelled by defenders. again, that is the reality, one vladimir putin is trying to deny so he can secure, we assume, something that resembles a win four days ahead of a holiday special to the russian people that commemorates their victory in world war ii. and a war, vladimir putin s closest ally, dictator of belarus, said today, dragged on, russian troops weren t repelled because they never tried to enter the steel plant in the
right there on the screen. but not as much as the kremlin clearly expected or hoped. nick paton walsh joins us now live from southern ukraine. nick, what progress, if any, have the russians made in this second phase of their campaign? well, certainly it is unclear if they are seeing that dramatic change in pace and territorial gains that they had advertised ahead of this regrouping and pushing to the donbas. ukraine seems to be on the counteroffensive in some areas and still in this city of mariupol, predominantly under russian control, azovstal steel plant is holding out relentless bombardment, civilians caught inside and i think a sense of this being so symbolic now for ukraine s tenacity here. we spoke to a ukrainian marine who served in the same city, in a different steel plant, taken by the russians and he talked to us about what he endured in the fight there and after he was taken prisoner, injured there. this is how the war ends. but if you told him he was lucky, he