in florida. but the states gop looking to restrict voting rights. tonight, the efforts on the way to fight back. we will start this hour for you with a ukrainian commander confirming right now that about 20 women and children successfully made it out of mariupol s embattled steel plant. united nations have been leading efforts to rescue up to 8000 civilians who have been bunkering underneath that berry structure. russian troops have destroyed mariupol, where an estimated 100,000 ukrainians remain. russia s destruction of the port city is part of the strategy to overtake the donbas region. but, the pentagon says that fierce pushback from the ukrainian troops have set russia several days behind schedule. that is rj thing too heavy weapons that the west has been sending to ukraine in recent days. president biden requested for even more military aid to be sent. earlier this week, he asked congress to authorize 33 billion dollars of artillery, anti tank weapons and funds for econo
tonight, the efforts on the way to fight back. we will start this hour for you with a ukrainian commander confirming right now that about 20 women and children successfully made it out of mariupol s embattled steel plant. united nations have been leading efforts to rescue up to 8000 civilians who have been bunkering underneath that berry structure. russian troops have destroyed mariupol, where an estimated 100,000 ukrainians remain. russia s destruction of the port city is part of the strategy to overtake the donbas region. but, the pentagon says that fierce pushback from the ukrainian troops have set russia several days behind schedule. that is rj thing too heavy weapons that the west has been sending to ukraine in recent days. president biden requested for even more military aid to be sent. earlier this week, he asked congress to authorize 33 billion dollars of artillery, anti tank weapons and funds for economic and humanitarian relief. meanwhile, actress angelina jolie was
authorities say at least one tornado touched down in the wichita area yesterday damaging homes, cars and at least 50 to 100 buildings. frightening images there. the worst damage happened in the town of andover where authorities say most of the roads are closed. but the fire chief says it will take a little longer to figure out the damage in his city. we know that there was a direct tornado strike that started sedge wick county and traveled into andover. we had many buildings in andover take very tough damage. total in the path there were 966 buildings, we believe. we do not have a damage assessment on how many of those were damaged. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joining us now with more. allison, that image we saw is really terrifying. we know at least 14 tornadoes were reported across kansas and nebraska. and we heard there from the official that we don t know the extent of damage just yet, but what do we know right now, allison? the key thing is the damage th
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 hour
started in sedgwick county and traveled into andover. we had many buildings in andover take very tough damage. total in the path, there were 966 buildings, we believe. we do not have a damage assessment on how many of those were damaged. i mean, the video is extraordinary. so far, only a handful of injuries are reported. more on this story in a moment. but first, we re watching new developments over seas in ukraine. ukrainian forces withstanding russia s mercyless shelling in lieu luhansk and donetsk. new video shows a submarine firing cruise missiles at ukrainian targets. this as we re seeing new images showing the devastation at a steel plant in mariupol. it s where a last stand of ukrainian soldiers and civilians are hunkered down, surrounded. and there s also this just in to cnn just moments ago. city officials in mariupol say there may be a possible breakthrough in the evacuation negotiations. for more on that, let s go to scott mcclain live for us in lviv. what are yo