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decision to carry out the strike. so how will russia respond to all of this? we ll ask pentagon press secretary john kirby when he joins us live. and in the southeastern ukrainian city of mariupol this morning [ she wlling ] that is shelling of the azovstal steel plant it is believed 200 civilians are sheltering there at the plant. women, children and wounded soldiers. at this moment the next stage of evacuations are underway. the united nations is hoping that a joint effort with the international red cross would be able to get more people out of that plant today. a medic on the inside says that people are dying in agony. bullets, hunger and a lack of medicine. now elsewhere, the pentagon is saying the russian forces made some small progress in parts of the eastern donbas region, but clearly not as much as the kremlin expected and hoped by this stage. let s bring in analyst kimberly dozer and former special forces operator mark hayward. he just returned home aft ....
spread. welcome to the show, everyone. it is 8:00 a.m. here in ukraine. we ll begin with a glimmer of hope for people trapped in the ukrainian city of mariupol after weeks under siege by russian forces and several failed evacuation attempts. a handful of civilians managed to leave on saturday. ukrainian commander at the steel plant, the last bastion of ukraine s defense of mariupol, says 20 women as well as children got out after a cease-fire r. but that is really a tiny fraction of the hundreds still trapped inside the plant and the thousands, of course, believed to be sheltering in other parts of the city, 100,000 or so. meanwhile, missile strikes hammered southern as well as eastern ukraine on saturday. in the southern port city of od odesa, you can see on your map, witnesses reported hearing several explosions. ukraine s military also confirmed that the runway at odesa s airport had been destroyed. in his nightly address, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy vo ....
wow. those images, unbelievable. hard to imagine it taking place, but it did. live. right in the middle of the day. in wichita, dozens of buildings were levelled. amazingly only a few people were injured. allison, it seems the more recent system of tornados, it just seems to be more outlandish than the next. hard to believe it s happen ng the middle of the day and hard to believe that they are happening in these clusters like this. it s a good point that you make because april and march are both above average in terms of total numbers of tornados. you feel like it s deja vu all over again. it s been a very active past 24 hours. 15 tornado reports, over 80 wind reports and 60 hail reports. this wasn t just small hail. some reports were baseball-sized and softball-sized hail. one of the problems today in terms of clean up is that you ve got high wind warnings and advisories out so as people are trying to clean up, they re going to have to contend with 30, 40, 50 mile an ....
that an institution charged with protecting our children is tearing families apart. then, can social media helped dismantle democracy? we are about to find out. two of the smartest people i know we ll explain why. velshi starts now. good morning! it is saturday april the 30th. day 66 of russia s unprovoked invasion of ukraine. i am a velshi. this morning, we will go back in time to talk about a tiny place in eastern europe that could become key to the war that is now ranging across ukraine. geographically, transnistria is a in area in eastern moldova. it is looking between the east and the west and the ukrainian border in the east. the area encompassing transnistria and present a model that was touched taken by the soviet union in the early part of world war ii. it was then captured by the access powers and controlled by romania for a period of time. it was taken once again by the soviets in 1944, becoming the moldovan soviet socialist republic. months before th ....
reporter: now, just a couple of states have rent protections in place, rent controls in place, the majority do not including right here in the state of florida, but, brianna, with high inflation and increased demand analysts we spoke to say unfortunately we can only expect rents to rise even more. brianna? yeah, this is the squeeze that we are seeing and so many people are suffering. vanessa, thank you for that great report. we do appreciate it. new day continues right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is thursday, april 28th, i m john berman with brianna keilar and we do have major breaking news this morning for millions of parents with young children and babies. moments ago moderna announced it is seeking emergency use authorization for its covid vaccine for children six months through 5 years old. this has been the missing link, these people kids have not been covered, n ....