to the correspondents near the nuclear plant and in the ukrainian capitol. first, we have a war update from cnn s oren lieberman. reporter: the unthinkable now another step in russia s invasion of ukraine. russian forces firing on the largest nuclear power plant in europe, seizing control of the zaporizhzhia facility friday morning. they set fire to a building near the reactor, threatening to cause a nuclear disaster. russian federation continues shooting at the nuclear power plant. unit one, unit two have damage. reporter: a spokesperson for the plant say the fighting and the fire have stopped. the international atomic energy agency said radiation is normal. they are working at gun point. it could have been six chernobyls. the russian tank, people knew what they were shelling. they were selling this at close
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have more on what exactly happened aboard the bus as we get it. martha: back at home we are exactly one hour away from a pivotal war update from the vice president, joe biden set to speak from indianapolis, at the top of the hour and the president s point man on military operations, expected to predict an end to the political problems in iraq, while touting the draw down of american troops across the region and that is how we get started on a very busy monday morning, a brand new hour of america s newsroom, i m martha maccallum. gregg: i m gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer. the iraqi government, it is fair to say, appears to be in shambles at the moment. riddled with infighting and corruption. martha: the next question, are they failing to stand up, as they strong and stable government, as the u.s. forces start to stand down? major garrett is traveling with the president, live now for us from martha s vineyard and what this is news? what do we what is the news