david willis, always great to get you . willis, always great to get you on newsday.want to turn now to south africa, which has been hit by a catastrophe of enormous proportions — they're the words of south african president cyril ramaphosa after he visited some of the most badly hit flood areas of kwazulu—natal. more than 300 people are known to have died and dozens more remain missing in the heaviest rains to hit the country in more than 60 years. shingai nyoka reports from durban. the aftermath of days of torrential rain, a month's worth of rain fell in a single day in some parts a month's worth of rain fell in a single day in some parts of kwazulu—natal. floods and mudslides destroyed key infrastructure. communities are in disbelief. some were lucky to escape with their lives, but the flood walters took everything else. i've got nowhere to go now. i've got no house, i've got no nothing. these are my family's now, my neighbours. we try to give them a place to sleep last night. we never sleep last night. the situation is very, very bad. floods are fairly common here

willie overthink this? i don't think so i_ willie overthink this?oever he plays. _ so. i think you every —— whoever he plays, manchester city will be too strong _ plays, manchester city will be too strong for — plays, manchester city will be too strong for atletico. the only way atletico — strong for atletico. the only way atletico could win this game is if something goes badly wrong. manchester city missed a wealth of chances _ manchester city missed a wealth of chances. but i don't see this atletico _ chances. but i don't see this atletico team under simeone as strong _ atletico team under simeone as strong as— atletico team under simeone as strong as they were. they've conceded _ strong as they were. they've conceded a lot of goals. their defence — conceded a lot of goals. their defence has been pretty poor. it would _ defence has been pretty poor. it would he — defence has been pretty poor. it would be a major shock if manchester city win tonight. i don't think it's going _ city win tonight. i don't think it's going to — city win tonight. i don'

>> this is fantastic. >> wow. >> willie, this is amazing. -- >> this is like going back to my cooking segment. what are we using here? >> oh my god. >> bell peppers and onions and tomatoes and cheese. >> i am willie, by the way, nice to meet you. >> is this a western or whatever you want? >> i like it. >> however you want your omelet is however you will get your omelet. >> it looks beautiful. >> may we dig in? >> where is savannah? and hoda and all of our friends. >> what's a secret to flip a good omelet? i always screw it up. >> there is a special technique involved in of getting a fluffy omelet. >> are we really doing this? >> i want to know. >> thank you. >> you kind of wait until it gets a little and you pull and drag and you get that and that gets it nice and fluffy. >> this is delicious omelet. >> this is what we are going to do on "morning joe," we decided when there is an omelet station and we have done 87 hours content per week, we are going to end by asking what did we learn this week? donny, what did we learn this week? there was

with _ years ago. 0k, thank you david willis with the _ years ago. 0k, thank you david willis with the david willis with the latest on - years ago. 0k, thank you david willis with the latest on that i willis with the latest on that story. male asylum seekers who reach the uk after crossing the english channel in small boats are to be sent to rwanda in a controversial new immigration deal the two countries will sign off on thursday. the government here says they'll unveil the full details later but it's thought some single men who arrive in the uk will then be flown to the african country, around 4,000 miles away, while their applications to stay in the uk are processed. our home editor mark easton reports from rwanda. the home secretary priti patel arrived and remained telling reporters she spent the last nine months trying to finalise a deal with another country to process some of the illegal immigrants who arrived to britain across the channel. at a conference cental and the remainder capital she will announce plans to relocate single male asylums from kent 4,000 mile south, to centr

>> thanks, willie.ns died fighting in this city that had taken on such a personal meaning for the leaders on both sides. i think mariupol represents that a little bit for president putin. secondly, it is very clear that russia has zero interests in protecting infrastructure inside ukraine. because one of the objectives of this entire war is to eliminate ukraine as a state or the idea of a ukrainian state. so making sure there is no possibility of economic recovery. mariupol very important as one of the ports for exporting grain and so on. so this is all about, which is why they will try to declare vic victory here on the 9th of may. they wrecked the economy and isolated it. the third thing is i think we're all going to be studying or talking about mo mariupol and the defenders in the same sort of heroic way people talk about the spartans or other famous battles like that. it's not financial to be food if the russians. i am still not convinced they will, if they are ever able to finally cap cure what's l

scout willis showed a picture of her and her dad. she said she never anticipated the outpouring of love. and even the razzies rescinded an award for worst performance by bruce willis in a 2001 movie. >>> police in london are investigating a reported burglary at david and victoria beckham's residence. they were apparently home when the invasion took place. no one was harmed but a number of items were reported stolen. the incident is said to have taken place a month ago today. >>> coming up, a brand-new milestone for a civil rights pioneer. >>> and america's oldest park ranger retires at the age of 100. that's next. you're watching "world news now." scene 103, take one. here we go. my name is wesley, and i'm with my knucklehead brother. my friend nafi. my boyfriend doug. i thought we'd be on the same page about this and we're not. how do i know the way i'm going to respond to it? there's not that long term research out there yet. i don't want to be on the front line. but you're human. you're going to make a mistake. i'm just saying eve

the opposite of that is true, as well, willie. you look at the numbers we have been sending their way. $33 billion here. of course, before that, $13.6 billion. we're up, you know, close to $50 billion. i know during the lend-lease act in world war ii, the united states gave $11 billion to britain to fight nazi germany. of course, those were in 1940 dollars. far more than that. still, as admiral stavridis said yesterday, we are moving into lend-lease territory right now. this is historic. it was good to see president zelenskyy yesterday grateful for that money, believing that it has, you know -- that he has a better chance now to push the russians even further back. >> yeah. we heard yesterday morning, before president biden made the announcement, the package was going to be, quote, massive. boy, was that right. $33 billion. as mika pointed out, a lot of it is military assistance, but it is also funding their treasury, keeping their government going. it is humanitarian assistance. it is food. it is medicine. it is all the things th

. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, willie. what's so significant about these images is these are some of the atrocities that we have been hearing about for quite a while in places like mariupol. but there were so few journalists in that area or no journalists in that area that we didn't have firsthand accounts of pictures coming out of there except for the associated press journalists there were there in the early days of the siege that we relied on accounts from the refugees. while those were disturbing, now we're seeing these pictures emerging from the northern cities in and around kyiv. i just spoke with an adviser to bucha's mayor, and she described just an absolute atrocity that was carried out as you've been reporting. i spoke with another member of the ukrainian parliament who lives near kyiv, and she was so devastated by these images that e first started seeing over the weekend that, you know, you might remember, willie, this weekend there was a potential hope of a breakthrough between russia and ukraine, that there mi

hey bill. >> hey, good morning to you, willie.dly yesterday with two fatalities in the panhandle of florida and washington county. and when you see what is left of their homes, i mean it's no wonder that they didn't survive. i mean, you can't even really tell where the homes were located previously. you see a vehicle there to the left. and just not much else. everything, just completely scattered. we had other numerous tornados reported yesterday, too. we had a few in north carolina. one in pennsylvania. and we also had this one that did significant damage in chelsea, alabama. roof was knocked off. lot of tree damage. there were no fatalities or injuries with that tornado. so let's give you the summary from yesterday because we did have significant damage from the winds also in pennsylvania. each of these blue dots shows you the thunderstorms. at one point, we had tornado warning in washington, d.c. area. no confirmed tornado there. was just some wind damage and the month of march, i am happy to say good-bye to it. we had 233 torn

. >> reporter: good morning, willie. as close as the u.s.ritish special relationship is, do not expect president biden to duplicate that boris johnson to visit kyiv. that was ruled out due to the extraordinary security needs of any american president when mr. biden was near the this weekend he signed in law the bills that ban oil imports from russia and suspended normal trade relations with russia and belarus, but it's weapons that president zelenskyy is repeatedly requesting and the start of the war, th u.s. has provided more than $1.7 billion in military assistance and white house officials say they will also ratchet up sanctions and help ukraine document war crimes for eventual war crime prosecution. willie >> kelly o'donnell at the white house. thank you very much. chuck todd is nbc's political director and moderator of "meet the press. good morning, chuck. good to see you. joint chief staff milley was in on capitol hill this week and saying that the war in ukraine could go on for years. not months but years it raises the question of the

it is always an event when willie is here, isn't it? >> one more time for willie brown now. come on now. i love this. i get to say this just handed to me and you know who is here today? the grand nephew of mayor eugene schimtz is here today. right here? here he is. a nice hand for joe right here. grand nephew of eugene schmitz. wow. i feel like ed sullivan, for crying out loud. anybody else out there? great. and now it is time to introduce someone i have never been able to introduce and an honor for me, he is our fire chief. she hasn't even been in office that long and active in the street crisis response team and worked on firefighter safety, disaster preparedness and is really well equipped to talk about what we're talking about today. would you welcome the fire chief janine nicholson. >> nice to see you. >> and greetings and salutations to everyone. so fies nice to see you and the fabulous outfits. i wear the same thing every year. we are resilient and the san francisco fire department is ready for anything that comes our way whether it be fires, whether it be medical cal

willie? . >>> meanwhile, what appears to be a third mass grave site near mariupol. new satellite images released by the american firm planet shows a plot of land 5 miles outside that besieged port city, where trenches were expanded between march 24th and april 24th. according to the company, the gravesite was about 200-feet long at the beginning and grew to more than 650 feet by this past sunday. in a radio interview, the city's mayor say the images align with information the ukrainian government has, that russian forces have been using mass graves to bury civilians killed in the seaside port. at times, having the city's residents dig the graves in exchange for food. meanwhile, thousands of ukrainian fighters and civilians remain trapped in a steel plant in the city. ukrainian fighter holed up inside the factory yesterday described the desperate situation they're facing. speaking to the "new york times," he said, the russians are, quote, trying to wipe us off the face of the earth. he appeale

willie?he'll go after the board for meddling with elon musk's attempted takeover there. >> oh, my gosh. >>> let's turn to the midterm elections. how should democrats be taking on republicans there? long-time democratic strategist and wise man james carville had some ideas on how to frame republicans. >> the problem is they are a weird political party. they need to be branded as such. these 26 qanon people, all right, that's not necessarily the extreme. i mean, these are people that talk about testicle tanning. these are people that, like, go to hungary for conferences. these are not normal, by and large, a large part of the republican party is just out and out weird. when you have moscow mitch saying we need more sane people, that means you've got a lot of really crazy people. look at the clip when they were liking at peter navarro. he was a serious person in the white house. you're telling me that he is a normal human being? no. and he's not even among the worst. >> joe, james always with th

kira. >> thanks, willie. we hope you catch "sunday today with willie geist" from 6:00 and 7:00 tomorrow. then stay on for "today in the bay" from 7:00 to 8:00. >>> here's a look at the top story we're following this morning. yesterday, a judge denied bail for jose portillo and ramirez, accused of conspiring to kidnap brandan cuellar. he was taken while his grandmother unloaded groceries. police found him 20 hours later. ramirez's lawyer says he'll seek a mental evaluation order for his client and may ask for a change of venue because of the publicity surrounding the kidnapping. ramirez's neighbors say she'd been acting strangely the last month, saying in the days before the kidnapping, they saw her walking around in a wig holding a baby carrier, even though she doesn't have a baby. both suspects are due back in court next month. >>> vianey has one last check of our smashing saturday forecast. >> sunshine, a little wind will linger through the afternoon. temperatures are quite pleasant. look at saturday and su

you know, willie, it's extraordinary, this woman. and as you know, there's been a long connection with the brzezinski family and madeleine albright. she considered herself to be part of the brzezinski family. they returned those deep feels. you see those two people in the middle, dr. brzezinski and madeleine albright, dr. brzezinski fled poland because of hitler. madeleine albright, because of totalitarian sweeping in, first, because of hitler and then because of stalin. but i had a dear friend of ours, yours and mine, and i won't reveal his name, willie, because he didn't know it was going to be said on the air. but he said it's remarkable that as much as he had deep and abiding respect for people like brent scowcroft and others in republican administrations, that it was these two democrats, chased out of europe by hitler and stalin, who actually -- who understood best just the dangers and the evils that the soviet union and that european totalitarianism posed not only europe, but the entire world. that her warnings, her warnings ab

>> what's that, willie? >> how about that, there's evidence on tape but he's still going with the argument that i didn't say that. the things you are hearing and seeing me say did not actually happen, the words of kevin mccarthy. >> yeah, it is unbelievable. >> unbelievable. he denied it, as willie said, reported from a new book by political reporters alex burns and jonathan martin that mccarthy wanted donald trump out after the january 6th capitol attack. it is a logical thought, by the way, and reaction to that attack -- >> everybody else was saying the same thing at the time. >> mccarthy had a call with house leadership in the days after the attack in which he said he planned to call donald trump and tell him it was time for him to go. >> yeah. >> but the denial from his team yesterday was in no uncertain terms. his spokesman saying, quote, mccarthy never said he would call trump to say he should resign. >> lordy, lordy, lordy. there are tapes. >> yeah. the authors of the tape provided the audio to msnbc,

willie is with us. willie, you have a question. >> senator, good morning, it's willie geist, we should point out, this is not happening in isolation. we saw this at the confirmation hearings for a historic supreme court justice where anyone who voted for her was put in that groom you were put in with groomers because they thought she had been too light. fanned by prominent united states senators that you had been too light in sentencing for child pornography, and things like that. i'm curious about the senator who made this accusation, and it's ugly but, i mean, we have to say it out loud about what she said about you, that you were upset that kindergartners couldn't be sexualized and that you were a groomer effectively, when you looked directly at senator tise yesterday and said what you said, did she look back at you. everyone's very tough online, on twitter and fundraising e-mails. what did she do back? what did she say back? >> she said nothing back. and couldn't even be bothered to look me in the e

with the citi custom cash℠ card. >>> 7:39 the latest on bruce willis.is family announced the movie star has been diagnosed with aphasia, more stories about his recent decline are coming to light. >> good morning. >> good morning. that announcement about bruce willis is sending shock waves through hollywood and beyond crew members from films the actor has worked on in recent years are speaking out one director telling us he had been worried about willis for years. >> come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs. >> reporter: as one of hollywood's top action heroes, bruce willis never backed down on the big screen. now the star is facing a real life challenge his family says willis will be stepping away from his acting career after he developed a brain disorder aphasia while it is not known when the actor was diagnosed, crew members tell the "l.a. times" he showed signs of cognitive decline. director mike burns worked with willis on multiple films and said he noticed something after a 12-hour shoot day in 2020. >> he was tired, and i could

this morning, grieve for willy joseph cancel. the marine who died along ukrainian forces. >> i am a former marine. i know he wanted to serve for freedom. he paid the ultimate sacrifice. >> reporter: willy's mother confirming his death to cnn. saying he was killed monday working with a private military contractor. the news is a devastating blow for orange county, new york. >> a lot of kids don't understand what they want to do in life. he figured it out. >> reporter: the county executive writing we will never forget willy's bravery and sacrifice. his wife telling fox news he went wanting to help people. he felt that was his main mission in life. adding they have a 7 month old son who will now be without a water. willy lived and worked in tennessee where he was a correctional officer and working to have a career in law enforcement. in 2020, a military judge convicted him of violating a lawful general order and was given a bad conduct discharge. the state department was monitoring the situation. >> we are reaching out to the family

thank you for that, helen willis. clive. thank you for that, helen willis- -- _ clive.t, helen willis. -- helen _ clive. thank you for that, helen willis. -- helen willetts. - a reminder of our top story... emmanuel macron wins a second term as french president, vowing to unite a divided country. that's it from me. now bbc one, time for the news where you are. good afternoon. it's just after 1:30pm and here's your latest sports news. liverpool defender andy robertson refuses to admit that they are favourites to reach the final of the champions league. they still have four titles within their sights — not least the premier league — and they're back within a point of leaders manchester city after beating everton 2—0. robertson opened the scoring in the merseyside derby as their great run of form continued — that's 13 wins in 15 league games for liverpool — and their next match is the first leg of their champions league semifinal against villarreal at anfield on wednesday. robertson insists he and his team—mates are not getting ahead of themselves. when you get to the semi

it is willie geist. but effectively did that a couple of days ago when he came out and announce it, okay, our focus is squarely on the east. remember, the goal as you know better than we do, a couple of months ago was for him to roll into kyiv, have a victory parade and install a new government, so clearly moving the goalposts here. what does it tell you, number one, about the state of the russian military, what it is capable of, and, number two, how does it change your thinking strategically with the ukrainians? >> two things here. one, we don't believe they've overcome their logistics and sustainment problems, unite cohesion and morale, organization, all of those problems are still bedevilling the russian military. air-to-ground is still not very good. that said, what they're going to try to do is focus on a smaller geographic area, so they will be able to apply all of that combat power and they still have a lot of it in a smaller area. you have seen they've named a new general to take over and they're

willie? >>> this morning, there are unconfirmed accusations that russia dropped a poisonous substance on the city of mariupol causing citizens to suffer from respiratory failure. report comes from ukraine's national guard operating in the area. a spokesman for russian-backed separatists in the same area denying the use of chemical weapons. the pentagon says so far it cannot confirm the reports but said if they are true, it would be, quote, deeply concerning to say the least. british officials say if russia did use chemical weapons, it would be, quote, beyond the pale and would trigger an automatic response. here is britain's armed forces minister speaking to sky news. >> i think it's useful to maintain some ambiguity over exactly what the response would be. but let's be clear, if they are used at all, then president putin should know that automatic possible options are on the table in terms of how the west might respond. >> all right. this morning the mayor of mariupol says the corpses of ukr

>> reporter: willie, good morning. there is huge celebration here in ukraine at the news of the sinking of this ship. the defense minister says he is looking forward to scuba diving in the wreckage of the "moskva" after his side wins this war. as you said, it is hard to overstate the symbolism of this. the "moskva" is or it was the flagship of the russian black sea fleet. now it is likely to be remembered as the largest warship sunk by enemy fire since the second world war. now, the russian defense ministry says the ship went down last night as it was being towed into port for repairs, but the ukrainian military says it hit that ship with two missiles yesterday. the russians very pointedly not giving any cause for the fire aboard that ship. they're also not saying how many of its crew members may have died in either the initial explosion or the sinking that followed. but, willie, i will tell you underneath the celebration here in ukraine there is real concern about how and when and at what scale vladimir putin may reta

we don't know specifically what is going on with bruce willis.ypically, with aphasia it can affect different parts of the brain. it can be caused by all sorts of different things including a stroke, a brain tumor, for example, but sometimes more progressive things like types of dementia it cause this as well. again, we don't know what's causing the situation with bruce willis. let me show you in the brain if you look at the brain specifically there's a couple areas of the brain that we often refer to in talking about aphasia, closer to the front of the brain, broca area, if there's an impact there, typically people would have a hard time expressing, speaking even writing. if they have more of an issue with wernicke area in the back of the brain, that would be more receptive. a harder time understanding the spoken word or reading. so, again, exactly which has been affected, if both had been affected, how much of this is due to a more progress issue of some other so, we don't know. but we do know that oftentimes, speech pathology, speech training,

but one piece of that comprehensive strategy, willie, is helping formerly incarcerated people.what this piece of the pillar is about. >> ambassador, good morning, it is jonathan lemire, the president granted his first full pardon. i wanted to ask you about one in particular. abraham bolden, the first black secret service agent assigned to presidential detail. he faced federal bribery charges that he attempted to sell a copy of secret service file and he had lied. explain to us why this particular case moved the president. tell us more about him? >> this was the first african american secret service officer. he's 86 years old. he was wrongfully convicted of a crime that now most everybody believes he did not commit. and he has waited all of his life having lived in and tried to serve honorably for his name to be cleared and i think the president felt very passionately that he was extremely deserving of this full pardon. >> it is called the incarceration to employment program. admirable effort to get low level nonviolent drug offenders out of prison. do want to ask you as your ho

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willie?e tyson in tokyo. >> we did. >> 42 to 1 odds. jonathan lemire, you have written a piece about that, that the white house and others are concerned that vladimir putin, whatever he ends up doing in ukraine, that his brand of authoritarianism, she may not win, as joe points out macron is still the favorite, but there is a creep of authoritarianism across eastern europe and into the west. >> yes, throughout europe. le pen, a noted putin sympathizer has the u.s. and close allies concerned. if she were to win it could be the end of the european union, sort of nato as we know it and could destabilize the continent, but even a narrow macron win could have a chilling effect, that others may look in the rearview mirror and whether they would be reluctant to keep going with this coalition to help out ukraine. >> yeah. >> certainly though there is a sense that we should look in 2017 macron trounced le pen. >> yes. >> there is an estimation this time will be closer. i don't know about the over/unde

there is so much respect for bruce willis in hollywood. decades has earned him that. now the news of his diagnosis and retirement comes as a relief to some who say they saw him struggling on movie sets in recent years. >> come to the coast. we'll get together. have a few laughs. >> reporter: this morning, new details from behind the scenes of bruce willis' battle with aphasia that for years had some in the film industry concerned for his well-being. >> it was kind of an open secret that bruce's cognitive abilities were in decline. >> reporter: willis' family revealing wednesday that the actor was diagnosed with aphasia, a symptom caused by an underlying neurological issue that can impact the ability to communicate. patients can lose some ability to speak or understand or both. >> in recent months he was struggling to, you know, strike the right tone and deliver the lines and we heard that he just seemed lost sometimes on set. >> reporter: willis' last motion picture "glass" came out three years ago. >> you think you have superpowers? >> it

marine willy joseph cancel working for a private contractor in ukraine, leaving a wife and young son back home. president biden reacting to the loss late today. meanwhile in kyiv tonight they are taking stock after relative calm. a flurry of missiles overnight. the mayor of kyiv said vladimir putin was sending a message after zelenskyy met with the u.n. secretary general. the battle still fierce in eastern ukraine, this video released by the russian defense ministry, but a senior u.s. defense official saying tonight that russia's war has not gone to plan, and that their assault on the east is behind schedule by at least several days. and tonight after russia cut off natural gas to poland and bulgaria, the european union is reportedly preparing to phase out their use of russian oil. that money they pay for that oil, funding putin's war. abc's senior foreign correspondent ian pannell leading us off in kyiv tonight. >> tonight, a pentagon plea to russia to tamp down the nuclear saber rattling after threats from the kremlin. >> we urge russia to stop escalating the rhetoric with respect

doctor matt willis with marin county public health says it is not surprising they're seeing more cases know, the end of the school year, we've got graduation problems with that social gatherings. those things we're also seeing increased transmission across the bay area and in marin county, associate with the, you know, the ba 2 variant. >> moving forward, health officials are recommending schools take precautions at indoor events, including possibly requiring proof of a negative same day antigen test to attend requiring vaccine verification to attend and perhaps requiring masks indoors. these are only recommendations. public health officials say they want to move away from mandates and get back to simply advising the public to the east bay covid-19 cases and more than triple that berkeley schools in just a week's time. that is according. >> to the district superintendent. as of thursday, there were 91 cases the week prior there were just 29 berkeley unified says that they're also seeing more cases among their sports teams and point to many factors, including. the loosening of mask rest

>> some interesting developments, willie. here in the north, which we will spend very little time on today, you have seen the ukrainian military advance to the belarusian border in some spots. you are seeing these forces essentially redeployed over time, over here to the east. they will head in this direction to come in this kharkiv access. i think the big place to look is everything will shift to the east here in the coming days and weeks. where the russians have made kind of incremental gains is this kharkiv access, moving down to the southeast. what they want to do is link up their troops here from luhansk, the donbas region that putin said was the justification for going in to begin with. the real battle that is going on now and i think over the next couple of weeks is izyum. this is the northwest access you see them advancing on. here and luhansk is where they've been trying to battle out. this is the breakaway republic that had russian separatist groups in. you will see a battle between the two axes. you will see russia

i will say, willie, i feel to guilty when i go on those shows. tomorrow night we have leonardo dicaprio. the entire kardashian clan and john lennon's ghost and a duet with paul mccartney. tonight, though, cable news talking head joe scarborough. you can feel it, wa, wa, wa. >> i'm sorry i couldn't be with you last night. i was doing late night hackensack hosted by a couple of high school students. had a conflict. i think it went well enough. >> good, good, good. we've got some stories that we're watching that are of the stranger variety. you guys ready for this? >> i don't think i'm watching this. i think alex has been watching these. >> we're starting overseas in germany where a 60-year-old man got 90 covid vaccine shots solely to sell fake vaccine cards that have real batch numbers. the suspect wasn't detained but is under investigation. i hope he's okay. >> there has to be an easier way. >> run them off on a printer, man. get yourself a laminating machine. >> remember whiteout? >> i remember whiteout. >> you do? are you trying to be nice? >> n

scott willis says the family is overwhelmed by people reaching out.cribes the last few days as surreal. she said, i truly never could have anticipated the depth and breadth of the love we've received as a family, how much love, energy and prayers humbling me. >>> we turn to a new safety push on social media. law enforcement officials from across the country are calling on two of the most popular apps to do more to protect kids by giving parents more control. here's abc's andrea fujii >>. >> reporter: 23 states and washington, d.c. are asking tiktok and snapchat to beef up their security to keep kids safe, saying in a new letter, your companies are not taking appropriate steps to allow parents to protect their kids. they acknowledge tiktok and snapchat do provide some protections, just not enough, claiming some of your internal parental control settings can be changed or bypassed. back in february, tiktok said it would take new steps to enforce limits on what young people could see on the platform, including information about eating disorders, violence

. >> reporter: willie, good morning. strategic port city of mariupol would be a major prize for vladimir putin after weeks of setbacks on the battlefield. there are grim indications he may be about to take it. the defenders of mariupol making what may be their last stand. ukrainian troops outnumbered and out gunned. russia demanding they surrender by 6:00 a.m. local time. a deadline that came and went. unclear how much longer they can hold on. the mayor of the devastating city saying this week, 10,000 civilians already been killed already and warning the final toll may be twice that. president zelenskyy over night hailing the remanding fighters as heroes and threaten to break off peace talks with russia, we spoke with the ultra nationalist defender of mariupol. >> how will you fight if you can't get more ammunition? >> we are defending our land. we are highly motivated. >> reporter: across the east of ukraine, vladimir putin's rockets still raining down. three people killed in this attack in kharkiv on saturday, local of

today i want to talk about my grandfather, willie brown. not that willie brown. he is not the grandfather. my grandfather was a world war ii veteran. when word got out to the south that jobs were available, he with so many others moved our families west. not because they believed that racism wouldn't follow. but because of what this city represents. a better opportunity. ny grandfather found a union job as longshoremen working alongside a generation of workers building ships and repairing machinery. they were good paying jobs that led to development of freedomnantly black working neighborhoods in bayview and filmore and lake view. the truth is this city and neighborhood where we are today always represented an opportunity for those seeking a better future. our waterfront has been a beacon to newcomers and immigrants for nearly two centuries. that is the spirit where we stand today, a place where hope grows and hard work. look around us. today's waterfront is a beacon for jobs, housing, economic opportunity. in this area in the coming years, 7,000 homes will be bu

it's been a little over 14 months since fani willis' office began that investigation.ay, we're learning where things stand and where things are headed. you might remember earlier this year, a panel of judges cleared the way for potential grand jury to be seated to look at charges against former president trump. today in the "atlanta journal-constitution," district attorney willis confirms a time line saying the grand jury will be seated may 2nd and start hearing from witnesses june 1. in today's interview, she notes that her investigation has taken voluntary testimony from at least 50 people. she told the paper today, with the grand jury being seated now, she plans to seek subpoenas for an additional 30 other people at least. part of the special grand jury's job would be to sign off on subpoenas for folks that won't voluntary testify but will once compelled to by the grand jury. come june 1, that grand jury is expected to hear from the witnesses themselves. all of that is new and notable. i'll tell you there's one other piece of that interview with the hhc that stood o

so again, we don't know specifically what's happened with bruce willis.r what causes it, but oftentimes spieth pathology, speech training can be useful especially if implemented early. if we get more details about what's happening with him, we'll bring them to you. >> sanjay, thanks. >>> with covid infection rates waning in some places it's difficult to understand where we are in the coronavirus pandemic right now. two years ago, the situation was clear, we were in a global lockdown, and that's when one of our heroes sprang into action vaccinating people in philadelphia's hardest hit black and latino communities she's still on the front lines. >> we started with testing, then vaccination. we were seeing folks that hadn't seen a doctor in a decade. we were literally putting a band-aid to a much bigger problem with health inequities and health digsparities. so i opened the doctor center for health equity. we are a multidisciplinary clinic. we take care of newborns through grandma and grandpa, and that is the next step, to not just save lives but really impa

marine veteran willy joseph cancel. he was fighting in ukraine. was killed according to his family -- his family has been open about this. i know you have privacy laws. but they have been speaking to cnn. can you tell us more about this young man, former marine, had been working in tennessee, we understand. then enlisted in this international force that's been created. >> we have heard the statements from the family. we are right now in the process of reaching out to the family to learn more details, to ascertain how we might be in a position to best support the family at this time. andrea, i would be remiss if i didn't take this opportunity to reiterate what we have said for weeks now. americans should not travel to ukraine. it's inherently dangerous. of course, owing to the russian hostilities, civilians and fighters have lost their lives in russia's unprovoked war against ukraine. there's another danger. you heard from our ambassador for global criminal justice earlier this week, during a presentation at the u.n., that we have credible informat

good morning >> reporter: good morning to you, willie. this is a small corner of france it's no exaggeration to say that every french vote today could change history behind me, you can see one of their transparent ballot boxes a nice little routine here every time someone votes, the official shout "voted! voting under way this morning in a polarizing french election that could shatter president biden's hard-won western unity over ukraine the ballots, a choice between current president macron or the currently president emmanuel macron or upending politics here with the far right's this man is for le pen. it's time for change, he says. anti-establishment marie le pen. this man is for le pen it's time for change, he says. >> we have tried everything, socialist, communist, conservative, the center right, center left. it does not work >> i would say macron is less dangerous, because also le pen t has a lot of like politics against immigration and against rights of the immigrants >> reporter: president macron casting his ballot earlier, compari

willie? >>> let's go over to the white house.te house correspondent for politico and co-author of "the playbook," eugene daniels, and a nbc contributor. your colleagues have new reporting about the biden administration possibly sending a high-level official to meet with president zelenskyy in kyiv. we've soon these stirring images of prime minister boris yeltsin walking through the streets of kyiv, yesterday president duda of poland and other baltic letters in kyiv, a capital city vladimir putin, thought he'd be holding right now. how high level are we talking? >> le mere and alex ward, a colleague at politico, have scooped basically the administration is having conversations about like you said sending a top-level administration official over there. we're not talking, you know, people from ns d'or anything like that, but possibly the names most obvious here, president biden, vice president kamala harris, the secretary of defense and the secretary of state. the last two there i will say, there's a lot of security if they were to

when i asked willie what do we do with our anger? and he said terry, it can no longer be about anger. it has to be about healing. going to the source of our pain, and recognizing it. owning it. apologizing for it. embracing it. with a commitment to change. and when i asked jonah yellow man, a medicine person among the dinne what he was seeing, he said terry, we have to go deeper. and so i ask us together what does that look like for each of us? each of us in our own places with our own gifts in the places we call home. and evangi gray, a medicine woman fighting for water rights for her people in san juan county for 30 years still no water. she says to dwell is to see things as they are. and then you sta stay and fight for those things that you see for your community. it is a privilege, she said. we are eroding and evolving at once. perhaps jonah's call to go deeper is a call to acknowledge the power that resides in the earth itself. the organic intelligence inherent in deserts and forests, rivers and oceans and all manner of species

and outpouring of grief for 22-year-old willie joseph council. the former u.s. marine who fought and died alongside ukrainian forces. >> it goes to my heart because i'm a foreigner marine. he wanted to serve for freedom, he paid the ultimate sacrifice. >> willie's mother confirming his death to cnn. said he was killed on monday well working with a private military contractor. a devastating blow to his hometown. where he once served as a volunteer firefighter. >> a lot of kids his age don't understand what they want to do in life, he figured out as a young age. >> the county writing, in part, we will never forget williams bravery and sacrifice. his wife brittany, telling fox news, saying he went there to help people. he always felt that was his mission in life. adding that he had a seven month old son. according to family, he was a correctional officer and aspired to -- in 2020 a military judge convicted him of violating a lawful general order and given a bad conduct discharge, the state department said he was closely monitoring the situation surrounding his deat

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>> willie, thanks. how powerful when you see america's top diplomat and america's top security official going in tandem. to kyiv to meet with president zelenskyy and secretary blinken is saying we're getting our diplomats back into ukraine and that is this important. and we have a nomination for a confirmed ambassador to go into ukraine. that is just as important as delivering howitzers. and then the terminology used by secretary austin to say we're in this to help ukraine to win and then lay out that meaning that it is sovereignty and that is so powerful and reflects a maturation of the thinking about the white house our alliesond what this is all about. wasn't that long ago we were arguing about whether or not to provide stingers. now in a short amount of time, the administration i think has gotten it right. can we deliver? the russians, of course the noise coming out the kremlin, they're extremely unhappy about this. the capable that the admiral just talked about is very evident for everybody to see.

your answer to willie's question raises a much larger question for the russians.re going through such a profound cultural collapse inside the military ranks? >> it is a great observation for your part. first, i would say five to seven years of my service in the corp was with an organization suffering tremendous issues of discipline moral, equipment problems and you name it, the corp i retired from 2006 was lightyear. the russians are going to have and as i mentioned before, they got a year's long effort to turn the russian military around. i mean the corruption and the lack of leadership and lack of nco corp and training issues and conscript base. these things are going to be institutional changes that i think are not going to be accomplished well in the best possible manner within the course of the decade. >> i can't imagined it being turned around before that. colonel, thank you so much for being here and we are so grateful for your service to our country. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, colonel. >>> coming up, we'll take a look at the morn