supreme court. now, i know there s a draft opinion, and it was leaked and it purports to say that, yes, the writing is on the wall. and no one should be naive to the prospect that roe v. wade may, in fact, be overturned. and yet, roe v. wade, again, sitting here today is still supposed to be the law of the land until the supreme court officially says otherwise. but for some governors and abortion clinic operators, the leaked opinion was enough. it s given license to governors to try to anticipate that overturning roe v. wade, according to that opinion, will allow them to decide the issue. remember, alito wanted it to go back to the states. it s about having the individual states being the one to decide how their state will operate. and because of it, some governors are now signing legislation accordingly or hoping to be able to soon. and for some abortion clinic operators, well, state abortion bans have made them stop providing the service entirely out of fear of being sued.
dow suffers its worst day since 20206789 more on what drove the massive sell-off and how stocks are looking right now. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, may 19th. i m jonathan lemire. in a case of history repeating itself, a race in pennsylvania is once again coming down to mail-in ballots. the republican senate primary race between trump-endorsed dr. oz, and hedge fund ceo dave mccormick is still too close to call this morning. the candidates only separated by a little over a thousand votes. while the mccormick camp is telling supporters to wait until all the votes are counted, former president trump is taking a page oust his 2020 play book. trump told supporters that dr. oz should forget waiting for the final tally and just say that he won. quote, dr. oz should declare victory. it makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they just happened to find. of course, during the 2020 election, trump tried this same tactic. he insis
settlement has been taken from the russians. you the russians not being able to make much progress. what they have been able to do, as you can see here is blow up bridges. it s one of three they have blown up. also they can halt what appears to be a counter offensive by the ukryukraini ukrainians. russia plans to cut electricity to finland. they say it s lack of payment. it comes after the country appear to be on the gentlemen of the jury of joining nato which is what vladmir putin did not want to happen. russia warned both countries if they did join. putin discussed the situation with his national security leaders and an exchange of views took place. there was an exchange of views between russia and the united states. im it koicame in form of a phone cl . the assault of the steel plant continues. i want to show you video released yesterday. it shows a ground level view of fighting at the steel plant. we don t know when the footage was recorded . you traveled to the northeas
top u.s. military leader talking finally again discussing the hour s long call of the state of the war. how ukrainian using official recognition technology on the battlefield and plus two russian journalists were able to defy the sensors, they were still alive to do it. we start with the preliminary hearing that could become a first in this war. a prosecution of an alleged russian war criminal even as the war goes on around it. melissa bell has the story. she warns you some of the images you are seeing are graphic. reporter: ukraine opens its first war crime trial. the 21-year-old vadim shishimarin accused of shooting an unarmed man. they include the massacre of 300 unarmed civilians in bucha and the killings of many sicivilian of men and children in the two months long of kharkiv. we have commanders give orders of shots. from other side, we understand that ordinary soldiers have their own responsibility for these atrocities. reporter: that s a message that needs to be
food prices too have gone up. nothing s being done about it. it s going to kill the people, these diesel prices. they have no i have no choice but to fill up my tank. there s no other choice. definitely too much. and it has to change, hopefully soon. neil: it is the story of the week, and right now it is hitting americans hard. i m talking about inflation, and it is still out of control. here s how bad things are getting. we re grateful if the rise isn t as dramatic as we had experienced in just the prior month. that is the state of things now with prices spiking at near 40-year highs. the last time we saw that is when jimmy carter was president. concerns that we re seeing the same thing roll out now and rolling around hoping for relief. good luck on that front. but kelly o grady on how customers and you are feeling. kelly. reporter: hi, neil. well, week we saw new inflation data with april s consumer price index out. the 8.3% year-over-year number was worse than ex