like our family. >> reporter: the vet crew's work earned support from millions on social media. they say it's all those encouraging messages that keep them going. >> a lot of people write us, guys, hold on, you are heroes. it's huge, huge support, and we are very grateful. >> to get the full story on ukraine's vet crew and to nominate your own cnn here go to cnn heroes.com. >> a special tanks to audi for joining us this morning at the table. >> thank you guys for having me, this is awesome. >> you always make it happy, thank you. >> see you all tomorrow we'll be in washington at the white house correspondents dinner. cnn news continues right now with cnn news central. ♪ developing this morning, major missile attacks across

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-year-old child and sparked this raging fire. i can show you on the map where the cities are. dnipro, uman, kyiv the capital saw strikes too. nic robertson is in uman for us. nic, tell us what you're seeing. >> reporter: the recovery is still going on here, intense efforts at this building behind me, ukraine's interior minister says he believes at the moment that this was caused by a stealth cruise missile, a kh-101 flying at low level. but let me get out of the way. david's going to zoom in, and you can take a look there at the firefighters. they're gathered around the first floor there. these big diggers have been pulling out rubble for hour after hour, ten hours now since

the missile impacted here. they've been pulling out bodies. it appears as if they may have found another. police have been giving us an update. three children among the dead here. they're working, as you see, recovering unfortunately this is the death toll that we're witnessing right here, right now. we are witnessing the death toll, this horrible scene, and this apartment building here in uman that was hit overnight very tragically by this missile, the death toll you're witnessing here climbing. but what the police and the rescue services are telling us here is that when they get cleared at the low level they're going to move higher up. dave is going to tilt up now, and we're going to take a look at the collapsed apartment building up there on the eighth floor. bad news about what they may find up there. we were speaking to a lady here, her friend lived up on the eighth floor there. her friend got out, the husband

was injured, but their seven -- their 13-year-old daughter, their 7-year-old daughter are still missing, and they're feared to be up there in that building. the police say they're going to continue and keep searching through the day until they've absolutely done everything they can. there are a lot of people standing around here, relatives, friends of people who lived in this building, desperate to know what's happened inside. we spoke to one of the first eyewitnesses on the scene. he said he got here in the early hours of this morning, about 5:00 a.m., people were asleep in their apartments. he said he could hear women and children screaming. he said they managed to pull one woman out of the rubble and get her off to hospital, but he said unfortunately she died. and a lady in the apartment right next to us here, she told us she heard the missile coming in. she heard that whoosh, put her kids in the bathtub, put pillows and blankets on their head.

she thought it was their apartment being hit because the whole building shook so much. she said she had no idea if they would survive or not. everyone here is traumatized and in shock. but the rescue and recovery operation still under way. but at the moment looking more like recovery than rescue, john. >> nic, i have to say, those images behind you, seeing the bodies carried out from this apartment building. i just want to stress that. this is an apartment building, nic, any strategic value to this other than being a place where civilians live? >> reporter: this building, this apartment building, and all the apartment buildings around here, according to government records, 109 people lived in here, but there are thousands that live around here. there's nothing strategic in this building that we can see. one of the neighbors told us when she heard the whoosh of the missile she thought it might have been an airplane flying

over to, you know, around the town. but this building, these apartments, the people living here, they don't understand why it happened, john. >> no, it's the type of sight you don't attack unless you want to kill civilians because that is what is there. what a sight behind you. nic robertson in uman and ukraine, keep us posted, nic. sara? severe storms are possible for 55 million people across the country today as extreme weather strikes. a round of tornadoes already hitting the south. as flooding swamps the midwest. stunning images of destruction in florida, the roof completely ripped off a home after a tornado hit just west of tallahassee. you can also see tree after tree after tree snapped in half like toothpicks. let's bring in meteorologist derek van dam. the question, i guess, here is there's more to come, and soon, correct? >> yeah. we have a severe weather threat for 50 million americans but we're honing in on texas for the

greatest risk of hail. we recall earlier this week we had grapefruit sized hail, that is 4 inch in diameter. and this sent some cattle rushing for cover. this damaged property. you can imagine the risk that this poses to human life just for instance, but that same setup is kind of formulating through the course of the day today. we have potential for severe weather across central texas and new to us, just within the past 15 minutes, from the storm prediction center they're extending this threat level further south from san antonio, further south from austin, that whole i-35 corridor, that is where we have our greatest risk of severe storms that could produce that large monster-sized hail and the potential for a tornado cannot be ruled out. here it is, greatest probability of hail today. look at the quarter to baseball to softball sized hail, this is off the charts large, the potential there, again, to repeat what we saw earlier in the week. now, we've got to talk about the other weather topic that is

highlighting our weather headlines today, that is the mississippi river, the slow-motion disaster that continues to move downstream as we get this melt water from the epic snowfall, the record-setting snowfall across the upper midwest. currently 25 river gauges lining the mississippi river with flood warnings stretching over 400 miles throughout this area as the snow continues to melt. this is an example of just the rock island, this is around the quad cities area. we do have the cresting mississippi river into the course of the weekend. i believe we have a correspondent on the ground there as well, sara? >> derek van dam, thank you there. let's talk more about what he was just talking about, the dangers along the mississippi now, several parks and fields are already under water, several more homes and businesses are now under threat. cnn's adrian broadus is live in kachb po davenport, iowa. i can see the issue there. tell us what you're expecting to

happen as the river crests? >> reporter: well, folks in this community, sara, are taking steps to mitigate any damage. but as you can imagine as the river slowly rises those anxiety levels also go up. i'm standing on a crosswalk right now. it's under water. to give you some perspective, the light poles you see that are furthest away from me mark the embankment of the mississippi river in this area. it's clearly overflowing, taking over this parking lot. this is a parking lot where we are to the right, the parking lot -- or the parking spaces under water to the left. this concert venue also submerged. around town this is what we have seen, people taking those steps to mitigate any damage, filling up sandbags. this team said they started filling up sandbags on monday. we spoke sw a business owner who's been in this community 14 years, and she says this isn't the first time they've dealt with severe flooding.

listen in. >> oh, we've got 22 employees, they're hard working. i'm not -- a lot of them have been here since we opened. so it's hard. and i hope we don't lose anybody, but you never know. >> reporter: that was claudia anderson. her restaurant is the phoenix. a lot of people know that spot here in downtown davenport. she had to send workers home because they can't open for business because of the flooding. the sewers are backed up. that's one area of concern for her. plus, she's going to have to recoup her classes from shutting down her business. meanwhile, the river isn't expected to crest until late sunday night or early monday morning here, sara? >> thank you so much, adrienne

broaddus showing us some of the damage and potential damage that could happen. kate? there is another development today we want to tell you about in the fight over abortion rights we are seeing play out across the country. two bills, two different states, both almost completely banning abortion, and both of those moves failed, and both were in republican-led states. take nebraska for one, some people seen moved to tears as you can see in the video here from state senator megan hunt after what was being called the heartbeat act. it failed a critical test vote in the state legislature. that bill would have banned most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. and then in south carolina the five women in the state senate, three of whom are republicans there, they joined together to filibuster a near total ban of abortion there. cnn's dianne gallagher is tracking all of these moves for us, joining us right now. dianne, what more can you tell us about what happened in south carolina last night, and where this now heads? >> reporter: so, kate, this isn't the first time that those

five women, senators banded together in south carolina, to effectively kill that near total ban of -- on abortion, at least for this legislative session. there was a 22-21 vote on thursday, just a one-vote margin, but it is the third time since the dobbs ruling that returned that power back to the states that the republican majority state senate in south carolina, which the gop outnumbers democrats 2-1 there, it is the third time that they have effectively blocked a near total abortion ban from the point of conception. look, each time it has been those five women, three republicans, one independent, one democrat, who've sort of led the charge. now, of course there are male democrat counterpoints who have joined them as well as three male republicans yesterday, but they made impassioned speeches on the floor. and they did talk about the current climate and a potential for political backlash.

but what they really tended to focus on was things like biology, and legislative priorities, and sexism, and the idea of control. take a listen to this from state senator, a republican, sandy sen. >> there is not a single thing that i can do when women such as me are insulted except to make sure that you get an earful, and you need to blame this earful on following that leader blindly off the cliff for the third time on abortion. and i'm sure you're getting on a earful if you're being honest from your wives, from your children, from your grandchildren. you cannot tell me that you are not, i know you are. >> so right now in both south carolina and nebraska abortion is legal up to about 20 to 22 weeks. south carolina had passed a six-week abortion ban, but the state supreme court struck that law down earlier this year,

kate, and the state senate passed a bill that would ban abortion at six weeks, addressing some of those changes. but the house hasn't taken it up, seemingly more focused on a near total ban from the point of conception. >> so interesting, and so interesting to hear from that republican state senator, thank you so much for following this and bringing it to us. john? new data out moments ago shows inflation slowing. what does that mean for the prices you pay? mike pence under oath, the former vice president testifies for more than five hours in front of the grand jury investigating his former boss. minutes away from an historic space walk at the international space station. you can see the ground breaking mission live. ♪ 6 the boss. meatballs with m marinara and pepperoni. i get asked so many times - who's ththe boss? if you get the boss you are the boss. try subway's tastiest menu upgrade yet.

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year before. sara? this morning, new key economic data just released that could be critical as the fed meets next week to decide if they will raise interest rates yet again. cnn's christine romans is here with more on that. >> good morning. >> good morning. what do the numbers look like, what's going to happen? >> we're seeing inflation cooling and this trend is pretty well established at this point. when you look at inflation up 4.2%, this is consumer inflation, it's the pc/e, the index, the one the fed likes to watch. 4.2%, that's the slowest in almost two years. still, higher than the fed would like, but the slowest in two years. and when i look from february to march, only up 0.1%, prices only up 0.1%. that is, sara, a more normal number. we've seen a couple of years of anything but normal in the inflation story, so that number in particular i like what i see. also, there's a report out, a companion report with this that showed employee costs, wages up

in the first quarter. so while inflation is cooling overall, wages are still rising. so i think it's all important data as we talk about the fed and its campaign to cool inflation. this headline number would suggest the feds' medicine is working. >> this is more normal. what is not normal is what is happening with first republic bank. what is going on? the possibility we're going to see another bank failure? >> first republic is quite literally fighting for its survival right now. i mean, we learned earlier this week that $100 billion walked out the door after that banking crisis in march. $100 billion of deposits went some place else and that has left this bank in real trouble here. the stock cut in half this week, down 95% from its peak. it's up in trading and one of the reasons why is i think there's a lot of speculation about what are the strategic possibilities for this bank, bought by someone else, will the fdic have to take it over. your deposits are safe and

guaranteed. watching this bank to see what happens today, also we're going to be getting really critical post mortem from the fed about what went wrong last month with the two banks that failed. >> i have a feeling it's going to be big. i'll let you read it and then we'll bring you back on to get the details. >> it's a deal. new details this morning about the unprecedented testimony from former vice president mike pence. he appeared for five hours before a federal grand jury investigating donald trump's actions actions surrounding january 6th. trump had tried to block pence from testifying four times. pence has publicly denounced trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. but this is the first time he spoke under oath about his direct conversations with the president he served beside. cnn's kaitlan poelance is with us now. what did mike pence say? >> it's a big question. it's five hours of testimony that we know mike pence sat for.

he would have been answering questions of the grand jurors and federal prosecutors in the secret proceeding w. we don't know what they asked and what he said. but everything we've learned, his subpoena, the court fight over it, all of it points to a large part of it being about donald trump, what donald trump didn't want him to testify to, and that the court ordered he must is about their directive conversations, things that trump wanted to protect as secret. and we also know that there was a judge who looked at this, looked at the possibility of pence testifying in this as the vice president who was presiding over that activity on capitol hill on january 6th, and that judge said that he would have to speak to the grand jury under oath about conversations where donald trump may have been acting corruptly. so that is very clearly something the justice department may have wanted to ask him about. all of that said, pence's team has not divulged even publicly

that he testified yesterday. one of his top advisers, mark short, did an interview on news nation in the afternoon just after this story came out that he had been in court all day. here's mark. >> i think that the vice president, you know, had his own case based on speech and debate clause, pleased for the first time a judge acknowledged it applied to the vice president of the united states. but he was willing to comply with the law, and the courts have ordered him to testify. >> so we're going to keep pushing to see exactly how significant what pence said may be and what exactly he said. but at this point it will be up to the prosecutors to determine if what he testified to, what was said in that grand jury yesterday could be used in a possible criminal case. john? >> katelynpolantz, thank you. it's all unprecedented.

>> joining me is elliott williams. we do not know what was asked or what was said in that room. he testified for five hours. if you were in the room what are the most pressing questions you would ask, what can pence provide? >> oh, i think the most important question pence can provide, did former president trump ever explicitly say or imply that he knew that he lost the election? because any number of crimes that might be investigated by the special counsel will, you know, sort of hinge on that fact, what was the president's level of knowledge? then if you're asking mike pence questions it's, you know, number one, what pressure did you perceive or feel throughout this period from the president? did he ever try to direct you to take any action on january 6th? what other conversations did you hear? what conversations did you hear with the president and other people? so there's plenty, and i'm sure that five hours went by pretty quickly because the amount of matters they had to talk about with him. >> mike pence did have a partial win, if you will, in terms of what -- when he was appealing and what he would testify to,

the judge overseeing the grand jury ruled he would not have to talk about matters that are linked to his role as being president of the senate on january 6th. so then what line of questioning was then off limits in that room yesterday? >> sure. well, and i guess this is one of the things we're not going to know about because he probably had to consult with his attorneys about it through the day if they ever stepped up close to the line. the vice president is the president of the senate, and sort of treated as a congressional officer. he would not have to testify about things that he did on that day in that role, or maybe in preparation for it. the problems, there are probably gray areas that exist over where mike pence, just the vice president talking to the president, and mike pence the head of the u.s. senate sort of collide and i'm sure they had to hash that out yesterday. >> this is unprecedented, the first time in modern history a vice president has been

compelled to testify about the president he has served with. i'm sure you've kind of wondered this, and it's unknowable in the exact moment, more time and history to see if it's had an impact. do you think this move, now this precedent that this now sets, that this somehow changes the role of a vice president, or changes the relationship between a vp and a president going forward? >> i don't think it does. i mean, i think what it does is it reaffirms the notion that at a certain point even people at the highest levels of government still have to subject themselves to the criminal justice system. i think you saw glimmers of this in the context of richard nixon in the 1970s, but you're seeing it again here that certainly mike pence is critical and important, but he was the vice president of the united states, but also right now as a witness and could provide valuable evidence or information to the justice department. i think and a reaffirmation of that point is a great takeaway

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welcome back to cnn news central, we are closely tracking this hour the deadly new attack

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

of jack teixeira. he was in court for a detention hearing yesterday. the judge has not ruled on whether or not he must stay in jail while he awaits trial. all of this has promised the pentagon to review how it vets individuals before giving them security clearances. tasha bertrand is joining us now. what more are you learning about what might change when it comes to getting security clearances? >> you know, sara, that is what is under investigation by the pentagon, the air force inspector general, they're both trying to figure out why so many of these red flags in teixeira's background went unheeded during the process of him getting a top secret secret security clearance. prosecutors revealed what those red flags were, including he was suspended from his high school for making violent remarks about guns, about molotov cocktails,

things that generally made his classmates feel very uncomfortable and that was only three years before he was granted this top secret clearance, only about 20 when he did so. a lot of questions here about why that wasn't flagged. why it didn't prevent him from getting a clearance. he applied twice for a gun identification card, and was actually rejected by the local police department in massachusetts because they were uncomfortable with the fact that he had been suspended over these violent remarks. so all of this taken together really raising questions within the pentagon, especially post-snowden after this massive overhaul of the process to detect insider threats. how this was not caught sooner. of course there are questions about the insignia found in his bedroom, including things that were apparently sympathetic to the russian general staff as well as a cache of weapons the fbi found when they searched his bedroom. the pentagon is saying they have a prescribed process for the security clearance vetting process and that the vast majority of people who do

receive these clearances are not bad actors. here's what the pentagon press secretary said just yesterday. >> an adjudicator follows a prescribed process that examines a sufficient period in a person's life to make an affirmative determination that that person is eligible first for security clearance, and then eligibility for access to classified information is predicated upon the individual meeting personnel security guidelines. >> so another major question, though, has to do with his behavior while he was actually in the military. of course according to prosecutors he was posting things online about wanting to kill people, about wanting to use his van as a weapon to shoot out of the back of it in crowded suburban areas. why wasn't the pentagon able to catch that? the big alleged leak of classified documents, much sooner, sara. >> there seemed to be a lot of red flags there, thank you so much, natasha bertrand live for us from the pentagon. john. this morning, a political

announcement that has the potential to shift the balance of power in the u.s. senate. west virginia governor jim justice, a republican, announced his candidacy for the u.s. senate seat now held by democrat joe manchin. the republican governor announced his candidacy to a room full or supporters, including senator shelley moore capito and lindsey graham. it could throw the senate to the republicans with one shift in 2024. >> and it is our chance. it is our chance right now, you know, if you look at the math and you look at everything, and you look at what happens if this doesn't happen in 2024, now just imagine, imagine this country on the pathway that we're on with the biden administration today, and imagine this currency as to what it would be if we continue on that pathway to 2030 or beyond. >> joining us now is hoppy --

the host of talk line on west virginia radio, really the very beating heart of west virginia. so great to talk to you. look, i think there are two aspects of this which resonate with the national audience here, one, it's the balance of power in the senate, and then the joe manchin of it all. let's start with the first, because it was interesting to hear governor justice there in his announcement speech make the balance of power a central theme. how big of a deal is that in west virginia itself? >> well, i think it's a significant deal because this state is very conservative. it has gone heavily red over the last couple of decades. donald trump won the state by 40 points in the last two elections. the balance of power is important, and here's jim justice who was heavily recruited by mitch mcconnell and steve daines saying you elect me, and i'll help swing the senate to the republicans. yeah, it's a factor for sure. >> now, you say west virginia is a really at this point ruby red

state yet joe manchin has been able to not just survive but in many ways thrive. he has been a presence in west virginia for decades now. how vulnerable is he? >> well, you're right. joe manchin has been around for a long time, he's held about every office in west virginia, including governor, and now senate for a couple of terms. he has managed to thread the needle. he is a moderate to conservative democrat. he does not run as joe manchin the democrat. he runs as i'm joe manchin, you know me. he has 100% name recognition, he's very good on the stump. and obviously he's gotten a lot of national attention over the last couple years. so he is -- he's right there. he should not be -- if he gets in this race, that's the big question, he's not to be taken lightly. this is not a slam dunk. if he does run you've got to figure that even if the washington democrats are not thrilled with joe manchin he's their only hope. if it's not manchin, if it's not manchin, this seat is

automatically a republican seat. it's an automatic flip. >> you keep using the word if there, i want people to know why. this is the statement that joe manchin put out after governor justice's -- after his announcement, manchin said, quote, i am laser focused on doing the job west virginiaens elected me to do, lowering health care costs, protecting social security, medicare, shoring up american energy security and getting our fiscal house in order. but, make no mistake, i will win any race i enter, that last line we highlighted, i'll win any race i enter. that's not i'm in it. it's saying i might be. what's going on here? >> well, first of all, manchin, this is west virginia, and politics is kind of sport here. so nobody's going to be wimpy about an election, and manchin is a fighter, he's proved he can win elections. but i also think, john, keep an eye on this. manchin has three options here. he's 75 years old. he's had a lifetime in politics. he could run for reelection, and

it would be a blood bath in west virginia, it would be a very tough election. he could not run again, but i think his attention span's very short, i think he would miss being in politics. or, or, he can be a third party candidate for president. it is not lost on manchin that 70% of the expected voters would like somebody other than trump and biden. and manchin, i think, is testing the waters to see if he could be a third party candidate. >> so he's thinking maybe even beyond west virginia, hoppy kercheval, thanks for joining us. i think we'll be talking to you again soon. >> john, stick around, i know this is something you'll enjoy. it does not involve a black hole but it does involve a historic space walk. i'm actually serious, stay here. look right here. i believe, guys, tell me if these are still live pictures. these are playback. i believe these are live pictures from -- kind of is given, from space, from outside the international space station. flight engineers steven bowen of

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me. this is mind blowing to me. how did this happen? how did he not know it was being pranked? it was a video call. >> you've got to assume volodymyr zelenskyy wasn't on it. it was a one-way video call. the pranksters, a couple of russian comedians that do this all the time just pretended to be volodymyr zelenskyy, the ukrainian president. they do this all the time. they constantly posing as world leaders or prominent firings and then calling other prominent figures and world leaders and having prank calls that aren't necessarily hilarious, but they're sort of intended to be similar to the conversations you'd imagine these two figures would have, as a means of revealing some kind of truth. you know, these people are not going to get interviews with jerome powell normally. the fact they got through to him and then broadcast what he thought was a private conversation. he spoke inflation in the united states. he spoke about how there may be a recession, there may be low

economic growth. they also tried to draw him on how russia was coping amid sanctions. take a listen, i think, to what jerome powell had to say about that. >> so how do you assess the policy of the central bank of russia, for example, so they managed to save the rubble, why? >> yeah, so i should say that in our system, in our governmental system it's really the administration, which is to say we're not part of the administration. we're an independent central bank. >> there, he was being asked to praise the russian central bank. that indicates, you know, that this is the objective of this couple of comedians, they want praise for the russians. never do things against russia, always for russia. but jerome powell and the bank here basically releasing a statement saying that no sensitive or confidential information was discussed. that's kind of borne out with what we heard from jerome powell

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levis? >> well, poor will. we have to start with bryce young, one of the most humble players out there and proof that positive attitude and big dreams can come true. he has built himself into a champion even though he is 5'10" and 210 pounds can make it come true. it is the character that makes the dream come true. he was never the biggest, the fastest and always had doubters, but we all run our own race. and never to be jealous and get what they have, but what is meant for you will come in your own time when god wants you to have it. run your own race, and try to

have tunnel vision. >> with the second pick, texas's c.j. stroud was picked. and he told us that he has been through so much and lived in a storage facility and his mom could not afford cleats, and he was so overwhelmed when his name was called. and now, he went to indianapolis colts and real quick on will levis, kate. it is called the agony and the turmoil when you are not called and yet a 92% chance to be drafted, but no team called his name in the entire first team and waited, waited. i remember when i was drafted, i felt like my heart was beating out of my chest wondering if your name would be called and will levis will have his dream come true later today. >> absolutely.

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