good morning. 11 a.m. eastern, 8 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart reporting off another very busy hour. right now ukrainian and russian forces are battling for control of a 300 mile stretch of ukraine's industrial heartland. this morning, putin claims they have liberated the city of mariupol but president biden said it's questionable whether putin controls mariupol. ukrainian president zelenskyy says a thousand civilians and the last military defenders are still hold up in that steel plant there. he adds despite efforts to

create humanitarian corridors, it could not get out due to the threat of russian shelling. in just the last hour, president biden also announced a new $800 million military package for ukraine, calling this a critical window for their forces. >> putin has failed to achieve his grand ambitions on the battlefield. our unity at home and our unity with allies and partners are sending unmistakable message to putin. he will never succeed in dominating and occupying all ukraine. that will not happen. >> adding even more urgency, he says he met with ukraine's prime minister at the white house right before he gave that speech. any second speaker pelosi will meet with the prime minister on capitol hill. we'll be monitoring that and drill into all of these developments as they happen. live right here on msnbc. and the travel mask mandate, the saga is not over yet. the new action that could mean

mask rules come back on flights and more. plus, sounding the alarm on climate change. a new report says in 2020, 1.7 million americans were forced out of their homes by weather-related disasters. it's the equivalent of every single person living in phoenix plus another 100,000 people being forced from their home. how the climate is driving where americans are moving in a brand new report you'll hear first this hour on msnbc. let's start this hour with the war in ukraine. nbc's kara lee is at the white house where the president just announced more aid for ukraine. matt bradley is on the ground in dnipro and i also want to bring in jason beardsley, a former

green beret master sergeant. matt, as our eyes and ears on ukraine, what are you seeing and hearing right now? >> reporter: we were just out? zaporizhzhia, a city that is kind of determineous of these corridors. we talked to families who were devastated, it was about a three-hour drive to zaporizhzhia. some of them were moved to tears with tales of how distressing the journey was, seeing dead bodies and destroyed buildings in the streets and just the prospect of never being able to go home again, never being able to see their homes. the family that we spoke with, they said they have information that their home as since been destroyed. so many of that city just razed to the ground. i asked them what if this city just becomes russian and putin never yields it?

they said this is absolutely impossible, ukrainians will take this again. it really just goes to show this city has become a symbol, a rallying cry for all of ukraine. this entire country has been looking to mariupol as an indicator, as kind of, you know, a way of expressing their patriotism. there's been songs written about it, they have memes about it. it's an expression in the face of what many consider to be russian hostility and aggression. one of the things that vladimir putin said this morning is that he's going to be essentially giving up taking that steelworks where there are a couple of thousand ukrainian troops hold up along with several thousand civilians. putin has had a habit of saying military failures are actually victories. instead of saying he has failed,

which every military analyst and every objective observer said it looked like he was failed, he said he simply had achieved his goals there and was now refocusing his operation in the east. we can talk about mariupol and talk about that devastation, but it is a prelude to what a lot of people are expecting to see he's of where i am now, where we're starting to see russian artilleries tenderizing the ground, getting ready for what everybody thinks is going to be a blistering new offensive. will vladimir putin have victory in the east that he didn't see outside the capital? hard to know. >> i want to end our conversation where you began, which is the humanitarian corridors, which have been in the different parts in the east and the south in the past 57 days. in mariupol, there is no way for people who were stuck in that city, 100,000 maybe, civilians,

who want to leave mariupol and go into parts of ukraine that are not seeing this intense devastation. that's -- that's not possible then. >> well, it's not possible if you're one of the thousands of citizens or civilians that are living inside the steelworks. if you're one of those ukrainian citizens who are now living under russian occupation in the rest of the city, well, you still have a way of getting out and that is into russia. russia is offering some citizens, some civilians who want to get out to simply go and join them, just cross the border into russia, which as far as the russians are concerned is all part of the same country. so this is one way that you can get out of there if you need to, if you're a civilian, but that would essentially mean capitulating to russian

occupation and moving into the nation that you consider to be your aggressor. >> who knows where or how you end up if you go via russia. matt bradley, thank you so much for being with us. carol, with this intense fighting that matt was talking about in mind, what is in the president's new announcements today? i think it was very significant. he said he signed a military package of $800 million last week and another 800 million going today. >> that's right, jose. one of the things the president said is that the package that he announced today is really aimed at helping the ukrainians defend themselves in what he called this critical window where russia is laying the groundwork for this next phase of the war. and inside this $800 million package, there's a number of things. there's we're told 72 howitzers,

144 rounds of ammunition, drones, a lot of things that we've seen before but more of them. and we're already hearing from president zelenskyy of ukraine who tweeted he is grateful for this support, he said this help is needed now more than ever. so what you're hearing from the president, though, is that this is just what he's sending now but that a lot more needs to be sent. so one of the things that he said is that he will request from congress a supplemental, more money to send more weapons to ukraine. he said he wants to have a steady flow coming in, announced $500 million in economic aid to ukraine and a ban on russian-affiliated ships at u.s. ports. the highlight of his remarks this morning was that $800 million military package, which the president said it comes on top of a lot of other aid, $3.4 billion since the war began but there will be a lot more according to him. >> julia, also for the first

time the biden administration detailed how the president planned to bring 100,000 ukrainian refugees into the united states will work. >> that's right. so we could start to see some ukrainians come through the airports, jose, in the coming weeks. we understand there will be an online portal so people who want to sponsor them can go online, prove themselves, be vetted and go through some health metrics and other bio screenings. this will provide another pathway for those coming across our southern border. more than a thousand ukrainians a day are crossing because there's no legal way. some legal advocates say this doesn't go far enough and that it won't get anywhere near 100,000. they pointed out since october the president has only brought in a little over 8,000 refugees

through that program and had a goal of 125,000 for this year. they're not very confident he's going to get toward that 100,000 goal for the ukrainians but they do say it's a step in the right direction, jose. >> julia, this is fascinating. right now you're saying about a thousand ukrainians are crossing the border between mexico and the united states. this war has been going on for 57 days. a thousand a day. i think it's important to point out that the ukrainians are apparently being allowed in to the united states but everybody else who has left their country because of war or terrorism or a lot of other things is not even given the opportunity to request asylum. is that still what the policy is right now? >> reporter: that's by and large the policy. ukrainians as a nationality have been given the exemption to what

we called title 42, what we have discussed a lot, which is due to be lifted on may 23rd. ukrainians are by and large allowed in to claim asylum. it's still not an easy trek for them. most go through mexico and go through tijuana. there's a lot of money sent and uncertainty. i've spoken to ukrainians who said they have been held for weeks in i.c.e. detention. what about the nationalities are aren't getting across because of covid restrictions. you can't make the argument that ukrainians don't carry covid and others do. it puts the administration in a hard spot when they're trying to help one nationality and using other reasons to keep others out. they want to create this pipeline for ukrainians. it doesn't go as far as a lot of advocates would like them to but

not also boost a refugee program so others can get through and get close to that 125,000 global goal for the year since they're only coming a little bit over 8,000 and we're halfway through. >> good point. i want to go back to the military situation in ukraine. you know what we just heard from matt. and the president zelenskyy's reaction to it. how is that military defense of the ukrainian people going to be able to be bolstered by this $800 million announcement today, 800 million last week? how significant is it? >> well, a lot of that, jose, is going to depend on how quickly and effectively the ukrainian military forces are able to integrate the new equipment, the training and the multiple sort of joint command necessary to make those effective. artillery pieces don't operate alone on the battlefield. they have crews, forward

observers, radar systems, they have to be camouflaged and move quickly and camouflaging tracks to get into a hindsight. all that's important and there are very big targets for air assets that russia may choose to take those out. in place with those, you need the air defense component. the biden administration has triggered both. what we've seen so far is the ukrainians have been fighting guerrilla warfare, hit-and-run style tactics. they're able to move around rapidly across the battlefield with artillery, with tanks, with air defense, you become less mobile, which is how they've had their successes so far. ukraine is going to need to integrate they as well and maintain a guerrilla style offense to make impact on the

russians. mariupol is a great example. if you can knock out the siege pieces, you start to break the resistance of russia. you can't afford to defend everything. it's got to be a strategic vision balanced with the tactics on the ground. >> sergeant, what are you looking and taking a birds-eye view of this conflict and how clearly it is changing now. what are you looking at? what are you keeping an eye on as far as the fighting and what the future needs to look like for the ukrainians if they can successfully repel the russians. >> well, first i think the big picture is there aren't great outcomes here after the invasion. i think the real opportunity to have done that would have been to flow these weapons in prior to the invasion with the intelligence that we had six months before this happened, having these pieces in hand before russia rolled in to ukraine would have prevented or at least minimized what they've done. now we're stuck in a place where

the russian military has obviously been underperforming, they've had logistic problems, supply problems, morale problems. their leadership has been decapitated, five to eight generals have been killed. the ukrainians sunk one of their primary asset ships in the black sea. they're losing a lot of face which puts them in a place of desperation. that's not good for ukraine. that's what you're seeing in mariupol, the pounding and sieging of these cities. to flip that around, zelenskyy and his military commanders need to figure out quickly how to put a strategy in place that carries a vision of the eastern portion but allows for the ground tactics to be as creative as they've been so far. they can do it. it's making sure your disparate elements are working in conjunction to either con strict

the russian movements or pound them where their massed together. that's an advantage now because the russians are using artillery and armor, not very mobile. this is a chance for ukraine to turn it around. it will not be easy, though. >> thank you all so much for being with us this morning. tomorrow richard engel will have a special look at how the ukrainian people are fighting back in the face of war and destruction. that's on assignment with richard engel, ukraine, freedom or death. tomorrow at 10 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc and streaming on peacock. >> here's a quote, who screwed this up? that's what speaker pelosi wants to know after the capitol was forced to evacuate after a plane flying low. it was a flyover again for a baseball game. what happened?

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appreciation night over there but no one told the capitol police. speaker pelosi was quick with a scathing statement. she laid the blame at the feet of the federal aviation administration saying their apparent failure to notify the capitol police is outrageous and inexcusable. she goes on to say the unnecessary panic caused by this apparent negligence was particularly harmful for members, staff and institutional workers still grappling with the trauma of the attack on their workplace on january 6. it's easy to laugh at a miscommunication like this. it's lucky it happened over recess when no one or not many people are here on the capitol grounds. but the way the speaker ends that statement here, that's still so pal pable in everyone's

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will reinstate flight privileges for banned passengers who refused to wear masks. here's what united's ceo said earlier on "today." >> customers that simply refused to wear a mask, we told them you can't fly united until the mask mandate is over. we have talked to them individually and many of them assure us that, you know, now that the mask mandate is off, everything is going to be fine. that announcement just as the faa announced its zero tolerance policy for bad behavior would become permanent. joining me is dr. hilton, an associate professor and msnbc medical contributor. doctor, it's great to see you as always. let's talk about the first d.o.j. announcement. it plans to appeal the ruling but not requesting a stay, which would reinstate the mandate. is there any clarity to any of

this? >> no. and it's one of those things that we know that the person can still decide not to wear masks on the plane. the united states, we just crossed a milestone where .3% of our population has died in 2019. some say that's a small number. that's 1 in every 330 americans. just to think about the fact we're going to be crossing over a million americans dead at the current rate before mother's day and the fact that we can't unravel this chaos that's now being caused by corporations playing the pandemic planners and saying what they want at the value of customers' feelings and not at the protection of the customers' health. that's a major problem. we know it's not just death we have consider but also disability left in the wake and also the fact that not every american citizen can be vaccinated at this point, including the small children that we see in the video that's

playing. >> so give us a broad picture of the pandemic and of covid in the united states. you know, i'm so glad that you mentioned the number and every single person that has lost their life or been severely affected by covid, it's important that be we remember them. the number of deaths and please correct me if i'm wrong, the number of deaths are trending down, still losing about 400 people a day. so what's the status of covid in our country today? >> right. you know, according to news notes, 420 people died yesterday. we know millions of americans have lost their taste and smell and we say oftentimes we hear a report this is a mild case of covid. but what does it mean when two

of your five senses no longer work, when pieces of your brain and your nerves are no longer talking to each other and what's the trajectory that we anticipate happening when you have that type of inflammatory response with those persons being more at risk with developing conditions like parkinsons, multiple sclerosis and alzheimer's that impacts the brain because of inflammatory responses. we don't know. what we do know is people who have been not able to taste or smell since january 2021, that's not normal. and people who are told it's just mild, they feel like they're being ignored by the general public and by the medical community in its entirety because we're not saying how can we help and help others following into that same path where their body is no longer functioning in a normal way. >> you're right.

it's just like it's like a cold now, it's going to be mild, but there are many, many, many people who are suffering from this long-term covid reaction and yet, doctor, i'm just wondering with this new variant, right, it being much more transmissible, easily transmissible, i guess, something like masks should be, something that we should all be considering when we go to public places, even if there's no requirement? >> for sure. and think about, too, especially when you're talking about mass transit, we do not know where the other person beside us is coming from, right? that's the purpose of getting collectively into this vessel to take us to point a to point b. in the united states of america, only 65% of americans are vaccinated, only 30% of us have taken the booster shot at this point. we know that millions of children found cannot be

vaccinated. think about who is sitting beside you. we know global vaccination has lagged. 65% of the globe is vaccinated but of the poorer countries, only 15% of people living in those poorer countries has received one dose of the covid-19 vaccine. what does that mean when we're bringing about and transmitting covid around this globe that it only means that we're going to develop another variant that we will see. we can anticipate that. it's not some conspiracy theory. viruses mutate overtime. until we get this lifted and to not have systems in place to address the community surge if they do happen because the mobile clinics have now disappeared within those poor, vulnerable communities it's not center in public health measures and definitely not centered in

equity. and what the airline corporations are doing, if people disobey the policy and remove their masks, they can come back, it tells us we center our actions at being neglect at the most vulnerable. >> thank you for with us. i appreciate it. president biden is on his way to oregon to talk about his infrastructure law. why he's getting out of d.c. to make the case for his agenda. >> and americans across the country have been forced to leave their homes because of climate disaster. we have a look at a brand new report that looks at where it's happening, where people are going, how cities are dealing with it and how all of us may be impacted very severely wherever we live. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." we'll be right back. diaz-balart reports. we'll be right back.

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but also this region of the country, the pacific northwest, is a cash hub for democrats. so the president will be doing fund-raisers. these will be the first in-person fund-raisers he's done outside of washington. so hoping that he'll raise a lot of money for democrats, also draw a little attention to his domestic agenda, particularly the infrastructure law and then tomorrow on earth day the president will in seattle and talking about his climate agenda. so he's expected to sign an executive order but really, jose, this puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that he hasn't delivered on his promise -- on his climate agenda. largely that's been stalled in congress. there's a lot of pressure for the president to try to get something done. those talks are happening very quietly on the hill but it's not clear that anything's going to really wind up getting passed that would be significant enough for some of the president's reporters who want him to take very significant action on climate change. >> cara lee in washington, thank

you so much. >> it's pretty amazing. the number of americans whose lives have been ended by climate change is accelerating dramatically. it's a key revelation in a report out just this morning. some of the details that it shows are just really chilling. i mean, in 2020 alone, 1.7 million americans were forced out of their homes by weather-related disasters. and in just the summer of that year, nearly one in three americans lived in a county that directly experienced a weather-related disaster, like a hurricane or a tornado. and one in seven americans experienced dangerous levels of air quality from wildfire smoke. i'd like to bring in clarence anthony, ceo and executive director of the national league of cities. thank you so much for being with us. so alarming, this report, that the most climate endangered areas are becoming more

populated. are those cities properly preparing for what is going to happen to them? >> yeah, well, it's a great question. that's one of the questions that we are preparing our members to ask themselves and develop a plan around it. because what we are seeing is that, you know, all of those residents are not really economically able to move. and it is having a major impact on these communities. and so we've asked our members to really put themselves into three categories and assess their ability to be able to address those issues. the three categories are are you a vulnerable city? are you a recipient city or are you a climate destination? if you can answer those through specific planning, if you're vulnerable, you lack high-hazard areas and lack the financial

resources to adapt to the climate change. and then your job losses that will occur. but it really does hurt mostly the poor people that can't just pick up and move. and if you're a recipient city and community, you often are small, mid-size, you own very little resources to be able to provide the housing and affordable housing and other related stress. and then the climate destination communities, those are those that will get people in their community. they may face decline but they may be in much better position to leverage the resources they have. so it's about learning how to get ready because these climate actions are occurring. our home state of florida, i'm from south florida, west palm beach, clearly we need to look

at the south florida compact that we created in south florida between monroe, broward, dade and palm beach county as a way of planning for our communities as it relates to the climate impact. >> and, clarence, i'm so glad you mentioned that because i think there's clearly a disproportionate impact on the climate crisis is having on our communities. >> no question. the communities of color and the issues of equity around this -- i'm blessed when i was in south florida and i still am there at some dates, if there's a hurricane, i can have a short-term displacement impact on my life. but those that are in the center of a hurricane, a fire impact, they don't have that option to just get up and move to another

community. and so what this report does, it says to you what actions should you take? how can you plan for affordable housing? how can you plan for environmental impact? flooding in our home state of florida again, miami area, south beach, miami beach. those are big questions. but the thing of this plan, it really asks the municipal leaders are you ready? what kind of actions should you be taking? how will your residents be impacted? if they can answer those questions and start planning and putting to the a plan, i think the residents will be in great shape. and the phenomenon of migrating in america is not new. we've always had a migration for

different reasons. the 60s the blacks migrated to more urban communities. in the 60s as well the invention of air conditioning brought so many people to the sun belt states. they weren't prepared then and neither are we now, but we are getting ready for and we can't always say this is about the next generation. this is about us today. this is about us getting ready to be able to when it happens have a plan and actually consider the residents first. >> clarence anthony, thank you for always thinking about the people, the residents first. i really appreciate you being with me this morning. thanks. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> a celebrity contestant and fierce competition on both sides of the aisle. why the senate race is being so

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and people say it's about having access to a plant they say helps them with anxiety with health disorders, with their enjoyment and also it's about justice in a state where black and brown communities, they say, have been over policed for the use of the plant. take a look that conversations we've had today. >> i was waiting for this moment. just for the fact to be able to have choices. >> this should have happened years ago, decades ago. but it's finally come to new jersey. >> it's ridiculous to emoo that there are states where it's not legal and there are people being

thrown in jail every single day for something that are making people a booming business in other states. >> reporter: because this is set to become a $2 billion business within just the next couple of years. the business being diverse and inclusive is of the utmost importance to state leaders and business owners like this here. more than 60% of their staff are black or hispanic and for the conditional ilicense holders, 37 of the 68 people who have the licenses awarded are minority led, diverse-led companies. and that's going to be a huge part of making sure this business, that's set to bring in millions of dollars of tax revenue, ends up benefitting people that reflect what the entire state of new jersey looks like, jose. >> thank you so much for being with us. and that wraps up the hour for me. you can always reach me on

twitter and instagram @jdbalart. thank you. for the privilege of your time. "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. ♪ and good day, everyone. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington where president biden is authorize aring his second package to ukraine in as many weeks, saying time is of the essence to stop russia's advance to the east by sending weapons ukrainians need to win the battle throughout the donbas region. >> now they've refocussed their campaign to seize new territory in eastern ukraine. we're in a critical window of time where they're going to set the stage for the next phase of this war. we won't always be able to advertise everything our partners are doing to support ukraine. to