president biden may have taken a bribe while serving as vice president. what s the white house s response to the serious corruption allegation? i have to refer you to the justice department on that. i have nothing on that for you. do you know what country that pertains too. i m getting hooked, see you. sandra: stocks are falling on wall street. what exactly is the selloff signalling after the fed issued the latest rate hike, 10th in a row, and growing concerns more and more banks could be on the brink of collapse. john: and then the looming migrant surge at the border which dhs secretary mayorkas is getting a firsthand look at right now. reiterating all is well, even as the pentagon is forced to deploy 1500 troops to the border. sandra: the union is firing back at the white house spin and telling americans not to believe a word they are saying. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. happy friday eve to
ukraine, at least 19 people killed, several apartment buildings hit and reduced to rubble. cnn is on the scene in ukraine with the very latest. incredible video out of florida, destruction from a tornado that wiped out a dozen homes and damaged even more. now some 55 million people across the southeast are bracing for more severe weather as two major storms target the region. we have the forecast. a major win for abortion rights in two republican dominated states the latest attempts to ban abortions, ban most abortions failed and conservative lawmakers helped stand in the way. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. this is what is left of an apartment block in central ukraine after a russian rocket attack. it was part of a wave of strikes across ukraine. in the hardest hit, two rockets hit apartment buildings and a warehouse, killing at least 17 people. in dnipro the attack killed a mother and her 2
or as has been said by former russian lawmaker, russians who oppose the putin regime who did the attack. so, clearly there are a lot of options here, it was not us, it wasn t zelenskyy s government and the russians trying to get something off of this, decide to try and rally the russian people around putin by suggesting somehow it was an assassination attempt. so we cannot believe that theory at all. john: you don t think it was a false flag event then? i actually don t think so. i think it s possible, but again, i think it was some other group out there that was trying to embarrass putin and the kremlin. john: there are i don t know what the kremlin would gain by trying to show their vulnerability to a drone, the fact that a drone could get right over top of where putin stays occasionally would not be a message i would want to send to the world. john: it does send the idea that ukraine is out to take out
in ukraine. it s truly devastating, the images coming out. and now it is a desperate search for survivors amid the rubble. so far we know that at least 17 people are dead after a russian missile hit a residential building in the central city of uman. we re told the death toll will likely continue to rise as we speak. this all happened just before 5:00 a.m. local time. so many of these people asleep in bed. according to the zelenskyy government there were 46 in that building, and 27 of them now destroyed. the cnn team on the ground is seeing bodies removed from the decimated residential building. we saw it playing out live unfortunately as nic robertson was speaking to john ferman earlier this hour, sara. the pictures are awful. this pennant bearing the insignia of the russian military s general s staff was found hanging inside the bedroom