he's begging for more western help to prevent russia from doing that. >> jonathan lemire, thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. "jose diaz-balart reports" picks up the coverage right now. good morning, russia pledged new attack on kyiv after it struck a new target outside of ukraine's capital last night. ukraine military says russia shelled residential area and another city between kherson and odesa. back in the u.s., covid cases are in the rise again. just as millions of americans kickoff a busy holiday weekend, we are also going to tell you about a new covid test that could give you a faster results. and with the pandemic, immigration policy is set to

expire next month, congressman cuellar is joining us to discuss what it means to the southern border. this morning russia is warning the united states to stop arming ukraine according to a white house official. the conflict on the ground is intensifying. military analysts telling new york times, russia forces appeared to be close to capturing mariupol in the southeast. still holding out, amidst fear of resistance. russia announced last night its biggest warship sank in the black sea. russia says the trip was damaged by an ammunition explosion following by a friday. two republican lawmakers became the first u.s. officials to visit ukraine since russia's invasion. this is the white house is considering sending a senior

administration to ukraine to show solidarity. joining us now is gabe gutierrez and also peter baker, chief white house correspondent at "the new york times" and also ralph sanchez is with us as well. he's actually on a train that's going towards lviv. gabe, let me start with you, what are you seeing on the ground today? >> reporter: good morning jose, as the fighting intensifies in mariupol and to the east, we are getting a clear picture of the devastation here around kyiv. this is about 45 miles west of the capital city, behind me what's left was an industrial bakery that was bombed. people are still going through the damage here. you can see the extent of this devastation and jose, this was a bakery, we understand from neighbors that ukrainian troops were staged here. at least 15 people died in this

bakery when the rocket attacked came in. they're still pulling out bodies. we saw some human remains a short time ago. it is devastating to see this destruction up close and this is a town where more than 130 bodies have been pulled out already since the russians retreated several weeks ago. this is the same town where we joined you yesterday, jose, where that kindergarten was hit. i wish some where i can describe to you before the extent of this. this was not just patches of deaf station, this continues for miles and miles. this goes, you know, this is residential area, this is again industrial bakery. that was being used though by ukrainian troops as a staging area, they managed to stop the russian troops into the center

of this makariv. this awful scene where they were being and ended up and their phones were taken and some of the men were executed. they were so grateful that the russians have moved out. the question is how long will it take to rebuild all this. how will this community bounce back? it has no power, no water and this is something we are seeing play out in so many communities as the fighting is now intensifying in the southeast part of the country and mariupol and also we are preparing for that offensive in the donbas region. >> gabe, these images you are showing us, i don't know how you can describe what we are seeing. ralph sanchez, you are on a train heading towards lviv. what are you seeing? >> reporter: yes, jose, this is a westbound train is going from kyiv to lviv and everyday, rain shine and russian bombs and trains have been running in this country carrying people from

safety and moving humanitarian supplies where they need to go. the trains have been an absolute lifeline here. we met a woman who raced to kyiv by train to try to see her dying father before he passed away. she didn't get there in time but when we met her on the platform at chernobyl she was embraced by a friend she had run into by chance, 20 years, someone she could not imagine she would see during war zone on a train. the train worker here are held as the iron people. they are considered as heroes just like the soldiers fighting at the front line for what they have done to keep this country running. the russians appeared not to appearing trains and train

stations. that all changed last week when russian forces hit the kramatorsk station in the east of the country killing more than 50 people and shattering the sense of security and safety that people had on these trains. no one thought the russians could go after civilian train stations and that compression came to a shattering end with the attack at kramatorsk. trains kept ukraine linked to the rest of the word. the air force are shut in this country. boris johnson, the prime minister of u.k. when he showed up in kyiv for that surprise face-to-face meeting with president zelenskyy, he took a train here. it is difficult to overstate how important the train lines have been keeping this country going in the midst of war. >> interesting because in the last 51 days since the russians began their criminal offensive towards ukraine, we have been seeing trains packed with people

getting out of areas like kyiv and other parts. you are in a train that does not look to be that filled. are you seeing a d diminishing the amount of people trying to leave the area? >> reporter: a lot of people who are leaving, kyiv have done sew. the russian forces withdrew away from kyiv. people are having more and more confidence to head back towards the capital city and people coming from countries that they had fled to returning to ukraine. that's not the case though in the east of the countcountry. the trains that's coming from the donbas region are absolutely packed right now. everyone in this country is anticipating a really intense fresh russian assaults all across the east.

so folks there trying to get out of harm's way and trying to get to the relatives safety of places like lviv and ukrainian government is encouraging them get out while you still can before this russian onslaught really comes to bear. we are expecting vladimir putin needs something he can call a win before may 9th which is when the russians celebrate their victory in the second world war when putin will attend that massive parade in moscow. there is a real feeling that if you are in the east right now and you are planning to leave, you need to get out now before the fighting really begins. >> let's talk about what ralph was talking about and all seems like in the next days or weeks, russia may be having a new violent defensive eastern part of ukraine. what are the conversations, peter, going on at the white house about this next phase? >> well, obviously you know it is a sign that russia has

faltered in its original war plan, that was not the original war plan, they did intend to take kyiv and have a broader seizure of the country. it is a sign they have had to restrain their ambition. the question is whether the political solution that would end this. that does not seem likely in the near term. what putin is trying to do is savage some measure of face in this. the process of doing so, so many lives are being destroyed and destruction is happening as gabe and ralph have been showing us here of what an incrediblejob they are doing reporting from the field. the white house looks at this and thinks this is not going to be over in the near term. they are amping up russian shipments. the russians are nervous of how

well the ukrainians have done. and a huge black eye, the incident at the black sea. at the moment it is just, they're digging in for what looks to be a grinding devastating few days and weeks ahead for the people living in eastern ukraine. >> peter baker and ralph sanchez, thank you for being with us this morning. joining us now, the cofounder of the anticorruption action center in ukraine. a pleasure always to see you. when we spoke to you about two weeks ago, you said the situation in mariupol is like hell. what can you tell us about the situation there now? >> i am worried that these mariupol hell could be repeated in other cities. we see millions of inhabitants.

if russians will succeed with that operation in the east. we know they can succeed if ukraine will not receive advance weapons to fight them back. i am very worried about the future and of millions of people in the eastern part of ukraine. and unfortunately, we can't unload mariupol with those weapons which we are receiving so far. it is really important but it is not enough to unblock and i am worried that could be in other countries and other cities very soon. >> and that would mean just untold number of dead, men, women, and children. i am wondering what is it that

you think could make a difference in this conflict of 51 days of deaths and destructions. what is it that could make a difference for the ukrainian people? >> you know -- first, i am in the u.s. now. i had a meeting with senators and congressmen at the white house. i feel like it is still lack of beliefs with the ukrainian people and army that we can win. there has to be a change of the mindset of the administration. they have to realize that ukrainians will fight until the end. we'll not surrender. so, to get this done, to get russians out of ukraine and stop the horrible crimes and genocides, we simply need to receive advance weapons, not

just soviet systems. russians have much much. we can't keep receiving soviet tanks and systems and win this war. we need something like f-16s, real planes and fighter jets. if we get them enough, we can impose our own no-fly zone over territory of ukraine. we can protect our civilians and our cities from constant shelling. when russians are saying they are pissed off that the u.s. is providing weapons to the ukraine, it means something. it is a strong message that these have to keep going. weapons to ukraine must keep going. this next step of weapons of delivery is to believe that

ukrainians army can operate, but it wants nato systems. if you don't believe that, start training for ukrainian parlors and tank operators now. we have to do this now to win the war in the coming month. >> daria, thank you for being with us today. >> thank you. the fda approved the first test that could detect covid using your breath. how it works next. still to come, who for children have died after the train attack in ukraine. take a look at this photo of a bloody children's toy, it symbolizes the tragedy of what children are going through. we'll bring you reports inside a children's hospital in ukraine. you are watching "jose diaz-balart reports." "jose diaz-balart reports.

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18 past the hour, coronavirus cases are on the rise as we head into the holiday weekend, up more than 10% nationwide. the cdc is extending its mask mandates for planes and public transportation until the 3rd of may. the fda granted emergency use of authorization for the first covid breath test. joining us now is antonia hylton and professor of infection diseases at florida national

university. antonia, what are you hearing from travelers this morning? >> reporter: good morning jose, new yorkerss are taking precautions seriously but they are insisting to move forward onto normal life of whatever it means. people are well aware that cases are raising that are driven by the subvariant, ba.2. there are announcements coming from the pa system asking people to keep their masks in place, people here are wearing n95s and the most part very taking seriously. then you know in terms of the leadership response in public health response in new york and surrounding states, it is also about public or personal responsibility about people needing to get tested before they go to big events or stay

home if they feel sick or taking common sense precautions right now but they are stopping short bringing back the local mandates we saw in the past. take a look at the conversations we had with folks here this morning. >> i am not that concerned about it because we have to wear our masks on the trains and it feels like in new york even in the subway everybody is pretty good about it. >> we control what we can. we are all vaccinated and goot our booster shots. just wear a mask when we feel we are in a an environment like this where we don't know and we take them off when we are outside. >> reporter: on the flip side of all that, the city of philadelphia is bringing back the mask mandate. the other day, the top official of the state of connecticut next door said there is no more political or societal will for these mandates at this point. no matter what happens with the variant and cases rising, she

didn't expect us to go back to the place of bringing these mandates in place. people need to get tested and need to take precautions and keep other people's health and safety in mind. >> thanks antonia. >> dr. marty, what is down the line? what are the covid variants, etcetera, that you are looking at and we should be worried about? >> good morning jose, right now we are very concerned of the increase in ba.2 in the united states and not just ba.2. and ba.1. part of the increases we are seeing now in the united states. we are further concerned about some variants that's out there. all the way to s.

the one that's most concerning are xe which has a 10% higher problem than the ba.2. that's an issue and also xd is omicron and delta that we are monitoring closely. we are not seeing any significant difference in disease manifestations from these subvariants statistically significant. in part that's going on and currently there is a high level of immunity in part because we had this huge surge of cases of omicron and that was ba. in january and that is combined with people being fully

vaccinated and people being vaccinated and boosted and people being vaccinated and having been infected. means that there is a currently higher protection in our community. however, there is a problem in that, we know that immunity from coronavirus whether that immunity is from natural infection or vaccines does wain. the biggest concern is as protection wains and variants increase, are we going to get -- we'll have significant number of individuals that are ill enough to require hospitalizations to a level that again impacts overall public health. that's the metric we are most concerned about. >> clearly far from over. dr. marty and antonia hylton, thank you for being with us this morning.

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texas governor abbott is using political stunt at immigration border. inspections have caused huge backups at border crossings. some company telling "the washington post," the delay is causing them a lot of money and making it tough for them to fulfill orders at a time when supply chains already stressed. abbott reached deals with three mexican states that could end those extra inspections. the governor is put migrants on buses and sending them to washington to protest the biden administration's decision to lift -- with us now to talk about this is telemundo's

correspondent christina londono. >> that's right. what the governor is doing his strategy does not seem to be very successful. these migrants thought they were getting on a humanitarian bus. they were grateful to be bussed to the northeast because some of them had court dates in this area, catholic charities are there to pick up. within two hours of buses arriving, migrants are not in the streets of washington, d.c. what governor abbott said he wanted to do with this strategy with export the chaos at the border to the nation's capital. we have not seen that happening yet, jose. >> christine, thank you very

much. a tragic story of a young man trying to seek a better life in the united states, the 14-year-old christopher along with his two cousins and sister trying to cross the rio grande when he disappeared. he drowned. his mother told us what his sister told us what happened. >> with us now, texas congressman henry cuellar, it is always a pleasure to see you. we know and we just heard and saw the feelings of al mother who lost her child because he

was looking for a life in the united states. title 42 has been, you know, a real barrier for a lot of these people to actually even be able to enter the united states to request asylum. how do you see title 42 which ends on the 23rd of may? >> title 42, jose, as you know is a health order. keep in mind your prior story before this interview dealt with the pandemic cases of coronavirus rising in the united states. so how can you say adding more money for the more vaccines uninsured and restaurant relief and cases going up. and say at the border there is no health issues and you get rid of title 42. look, i feel very bad for that mother and she's only one of so this mothers that have to grieve for people that have died at the

border and some of them don't even reach the border because they met with the cartels or seeing a young girl, you are going to stay with us or seeing a strong boy, hey, you are going to work for us and be our arm muscle. some of them don't even make it. there has to be a asylum. you know the number, if you have 100 people go before an immigration judge, only 10% is accepted and the other ones are rejected. why are we letting 100% on a false premise when they are not allowed to stay here if we follow the law. >> congressman, i am glad that you mentioned just how difficult and dangerous and sometimes deadly the track from central america through mexico to the united states is. we look at the jungle area there in panama. it is just hell.

the train that goes towards the north kills people every single day. so, congressman, what is the solution? how do you deal humanely with people who want sigh asylum bec they have no other options in their existence? >> so why not get some immigration judges asylum officers and our consulates in those countries and do the work there and then if they are allowed then they their packet of $500 ticket is cheaper than 8,000 or $10,000 or $15,000 that they pay. why not do some of the humane way and why not we can think outside of the box. if you look at the number, 88 to 90% of them are going to be

rejected by immigration judges. there are false premise. the only ones that are really going to come out winning are the cartels because they're marketing and they use strategies over people. let's say 88% of 8,000 of them last six months, we had 1 million individuals by 8,000. that's $8 million they made on this. >> congressman henry cuellar, thank you very much for being with us this morning. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we reached out to the congressman democratic opponent to join us as well. we hope to have her on future programs as well. the florida governor signs into law a ban on abortion after 15 weeks. we'll go live to fort lauderdale

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39 past the hour, a series of abortion laws passed across the country this week. in florida, governor desantis signed a new law banning abortion after 15 weeks set to take effect in july. on tuesday, oklahoma's governor signed a law making it a felony to perform an abortion punishable up to 10 years in prison. kerry sanders is breaking it down for us. what's the reaction there? >> reporter: this is a debate in the country that's been ongoing for generations. when the governor signs the new law in florida which will go into effect in july as you said.

there were much applause supports the governor's doing. it bans most abortions after 15 weeks unless the baby has fatal fetal abnormality. there is no exceptions for rape or incest. those oppose these laws does not need to be any restrictions. these are reactions from those who would like to see a law like this struck down by the u.s. supreme court. >> this is a very cruel law passed if the state of florida. now people have to go to north carolina in order to access abortion past 15 weeks. >> as a person who had an abortion as a result of a sexual assault, if i was pregnant right now, i would not be able to have an abortion. >> reporter: jose, florida's law

is basically built off of a structure of a law in mississippi and that's currently being challenged in the u.s. supreme court. the conservative justices on the supreme court indicated back in december that they were leaning to uphold the mississippi law but we are expecting at some point during the sessions right now, in the supreme court the next couple of weeks that we'll get a ruling on the mississippi law and of course that ruling on the mississippi law will likely impact the laws that you mentioned including the one right here in florida, jose. >> kerry sanders in fort lauderdale, thank you so much. the human toll. the toll in ukraine is growing. more children are dying. we'll take you to the hospital in ukraine treating children who are injured from a train station attack. you are watching "jose diaz-balart reports." "jose diaz-balart reports.

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the ministry tweeted out this picture showing a children's toy covered in blood that was found at the scene. the toy will be sent as proof as the barbaric crime. mark stones visits hospital where other injured children from that attack are recovering. i want to warn you the images of his report are very devastating. >> reporter: it is a week after the shelling at the train station. yana was 10. she was at the stable fleeing. she lost one of her legs and her mother. next door, she's 12, she lost her leg and she lost her mother. we do not show their faces or

interview them but what more needs to be hear. andre was at the station, too. they tried to board the train away from danger. he's now without his arms. >> that was sky news correspondent mark stone reporting. with us now to talk about this and what's happening in ukraine, former ambassador to ukraine and now senior director of the atlantic. thank you for being with us. athea, when you see images of little girls and boys that have lost their limbs and their mother and parents, i am wondering -- this must have a deep effect on the soul of the country. >> jose, when i look at that, it has a deep effect of the soul of the country and all of us. if it does not, we need to

question to why. when i see images like that i do wonder and i know a lot of people not getting involved in ukraine, i am not advocating for or against. how many humanity do we lose and be attempt of saving humanity when we talk about the madness of putin. we are living in 2022, this is not a time where we can ignore what's going on on the other end of the world. we are seeing it daily on our phones. this is a situation where you have to be there to see it, to be a ukrainian, a soldier. these are images we are witnessing on a daily bases on our phones and on our television screen. i understand the frustration of the ukrainians and wondering how the world could watch and not help. it is a frustration that many of us share with them. >> ambassador, cia director

william burns spoke at georgia tech publicly disclosed the first time the white house is worried the white house could order a use of technical or a low yield nuclear weapon. how worry should we all be about this? >> we need to be prepared for this. if putin were willing to do that, that means that we are threaten not just of what he's doing in ukraine. he'll do the same tactics in the baltic states on nato allies who we are pledged to defend. i think the best policy is to not be intimidated by putin. as you know, sweden is considering to join nato. this means that we'll have to put nukes into the baltic syria. our baltic ally sort of left.

putin trying to intimidate us from helping defend ukraine and defend our own interests. >> ambassador, president biden one of the first few world leaders who used the word genocide to describe what putin is doing what putin is doing in ukraine. the kremlin categorically denies, of course, that accusation. how significant is this and who decides or what organization decides what is and can be labeled as genocide and not? >> i understand why president biden said it because in fact there's substantial evidence that there is genocide. and you have scholars on genocide like professor bartoff at brown university and eugene finkel who had art -- an article

in the "post" saying this was genocide. we need to do more in sending weapons to ukraine as they prepare for an effort in don boss. >> and he was telling me to all the of people that he talked to, women and children mostly who said to the person we're going to be out of the country just for a little bit, we're going to go back. i keep thinking, tia, about the reality in syria and the reality in afghanistan and so many places where people have been forced to leave their homeland, hoping, praying and thinking that they will be back shortly but sometimes that doesn't happen. >> often times that doesn't happen. and not to make it too personal, but my family are refugees from afghanistan during the soviet war when the russians came in. and i remember my parents always saying one day when we go back

and that never happened. we're seeing that with the syrians, we're seeing that with refugees throughout the world and unfortunately i do wonder what the future holds for the ukrainians. unfortunately i don't think we've seen the worst of the war yet and we've seen some terrible, terrible actions by putin, by russia. unfortunately i fear i's going to get much, much worse. i fear what that means for ukraine in the future. i know they have lots of friend and allies over all the world but that doesn't necessarily mean the good days are coming any time soon. >> thank you very much for being with us this morning. coming up, we're going to go to el salvador for an inside work at the president's crackdown on gangs. that's next.

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what did you learn? >> the majority of the working class there seems to sport the president and all of these arrests. but for those asking questions about those arrests, there is a lack of straight answers. this is the video the president of el salvador wants people to see, his prison guards man handling inmates. the populous president has the country under a 30-day state of emergency and he's not looking to cover up these images. he's promoting them on his official twitter account. this is part of his all-out offensive on gangs in el salvador. he suspended parts of the constitution, police making over 11,000 arrests in 19 days in response to gang violence that left 62 dead. he said he can't wait for the arrests of gang members. he says with that $20 he has to pay to gang members, he would be able to buy food.

>> reporter: critics say he's passed authoritarian laws and is ignoring human rights. >> these sweeping laws are allowing authorities to do whatever they want. you do not have a judicial independent system in the country that can act as an effective check on executive power. >> reporter: treasury officials have accused him of secretly working with the gangs in the past, a fact he denies. >>they lifted up her husband's shirt and he didn't have any tattoos has he ever had problems with the police? >> no, no, no. >> reporter: she said they took anyway and it's because they live in a poor neighborhood and they can't afford to live anywhere else.

>> reporter: the president stays defined. >> you can be held for up to 15 days if you're arrested in el salvador under this emergency declaration without being charged. the big concern for human rights observers is that due process among other things. in response to some of the criticism coming from the united states, the president fired back saying i have a journalist friend who wants to go to guantanamo bay and see the conditions there. you have your terrorists, we have ours, stay out of our affairs. jose? >> gadi schwartz. be sure to follow the show online, j.d. balart, msnbc.

as we're coming on the air, russia focusing more and more on dominating or trying to eastern ukraine. we saw in mariupol claiming russian troops are digging up bodies had that been buried before in some of these court yards and not allowing new burials of, quote, people killed by them. the director of the u.n. world food program tells nbc news today that people in the besieged city are starving to death. while russia has pulled back from the ukrainian capital of kyiv, the defense minister is promising to boost the number of missile in and around the city. the flagship, which translate to moscow, is now at the bottom of the black sea. with claims and counterclaims from russia and ukraine. a ukrainian naval officer in the port city of