>> TONIGHT LIVE FROM UKRAINE WHERE RUSSIA IS ESCALATING ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS AS PEACE TALKS STALL. THE SHOCKING VIDEO SHOWING RUSSIA MORTAR SHELLS HITTING A BRIDGE AS RESIDENTS TRIED TO FLEE A CITY NEAR KIEV WITH THE GROUP OF NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE TOLD NBC NEWS ABOUT THE HORRIFIC ATTACK. PLUS THE ALARMING NEW REPORT THAT RUSSIA MAY BE RECRUITING FIGHTERS FROM SYRIA HAS PROVEN CONTINUES TO TRY TO TAKE CONTROL OF UKRAINE'S CAPITAL. ANOTHER ROUND OF PEACE TALKS ENDING WITH LITTLE TO NO PROGRESS. NEARLY 2 MILLION REFUGEES HAVE NOW FLED UKRAINE. MORE THAN HALF OF THEM CHILDREN UKRAINE REJECTING RUSSIA'S OFFER TO EVACUATE CIVILIANS TO KEY CITIES IN RUSSIA AND BELARUS ALSO TONIGHT, HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS FROM INDIA TRAPPED IN EASTERN UKRAINE WITHOUT ACCESS TO FOOD AND CLEAN WATER. THE STUDENTS NOW MELTING SNOW AND DRINKING IT. WHAT'S BEING DONE TO GET THEM OUT. THE CRISIS CAUSING RECORDBREAKING GAS PRICES. THE AVERAGE COST OF A GALLON OF REGULAR. NOW MORE THAN $4.10 SUMP PUMPS IN LOS ANGELES AT $7 A GALLON OF THE WHITE HOUSE IS RESPONDING TONIGHT. DEADLY STORM SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED AFTER MONSTER TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN IOWA NOW BRACING FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH NEARLY 40 MILLION PEOPLE FROM MISSISSIPPI TO NEW JERSEY ON ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS. DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES AND THE SUPREME COURT DECLINED TO REVIEW THE DECISION THAT RE BILL COSBY FROM PRISON. IS THIS THE END OF HIS LEGAL BATTLES. TOP
STORY STARTS RIGHT NOW. STORY STARTS RIGHT NOW. ♪ >> AND GOOD EVENING. WE BEGIN ANOTHER WEEK LIVE FROM UKRAINE, WHERE RUSSIA IS ESCALATING ATTACKS ON UKRAINE CITIES AND ITS PEOPLE. A JOURNALIST CAPTURING THE MOMENT RUSSIAN SHELLING HIT A BRIDGE NEAR KIEV. THE BRIDGE USED BY RESIDENTS WHO SAW RIGHT THERE. WHAT HAPPENED, INCLUDING FAMILIES WERE TRYING TO ESCAPE WITH YOUNG CHILDREN TRYING TO FLEE THE CITY. U.S. OFFICIALS SAY ALL TROOPS RUSSIA MASSED AROUND THE BORDER ARE INSIDE UKRAINE AS PUTIN CONTINUES TO TRY AND TAKE KIEV. A NEW REPORT FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SAYING RUSSIA IS NOW RECRUITING FIGHTERS FROM SYRIA. WELL VERSED IN URBAN WARFARE TO HELP MORE THAN 1.7 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE FLED UKRAINE IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS. THE FASTEST GROWING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN EUROPE SINCE WORLD WAR 2. WE'RE ALSO HAVING ECONOMIC IMPACTS AT HOME. THE AVERAGE PRICE OF A GALLON OF GAS IN THE U.S. NOW MORE THAN $4.10 HIGHER THAN THE PREVIOUS RECORD SET BACK IN 2008 TALKS BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA. AND TODAY AFTER ABOUT 4 HOURS AND WITH NO MAJOR PROGRESS. AND JUST MOMENTS AGO, UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT ZELINSKY POSTING THIS VIDEO TO HIS INSTAGRAM SHOWING HE'S STILL AT HIS OFFICE IN KIEV SAYING, QUOTE, I'M NOT AFRAID OF ANYONE. LET'S GET RIGHT TO RICHARD ENGEL WHO LEADS US OFF TONIGHT FROM UKRAINE. >> RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE NOW ON KIEV'S DOORSTEP AND THEY'RE TRYING TO BREAK IN THROUGH A SUBURB CALLED AIR PAIN. >> AND THIS SLIPPERY ROLE OF PLANKS IS THE ONLY WAY FOR CIVILIANS TO GET OUT. >> THE UKRAINIANS BLEW UP THIS BRIDGE IN ORDER TO SLOW DOWN THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE. BUT IT IS ALSO MADE IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO EVACUATE THESE AREAS THAT ARE HOTLY CONTESTED CIVILIANS TODAY. WE'RE CROSSING IN WHEELCHAIRS WERE CARRIED BUT EVEN AS THEY ESCAPE RUSSIAN TROOPS KEEP FIRING ON THEM. THIS DISTURBING VIDEO YESTERDAY CAPTURED WHAT RUSSIA IS UNLEASHING ON CIVILIANS FLEEING ITS ONSLAUGHT IN THE BACKGROUND. YOU SEE PEOPLE
RUNNING DOWN THE SIDEWALK RUNNING DOWN THE SIDEWALK LEAVING THIS A MORTAR STRIKE UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS MOVE IN TO BUT ON THAT SIDEWALK, AT LEAST 4 PEOPLE 3 FROM ONE FAMILY LAI DEBT. THOSE WHO MADE IT OUT TODAY LOADED ON TO WAITING AMBULANCES. THANK GOD FOR THEIR SALVATION YOU I CAN'T EVEN EXPRESS HOW I FEEL. SHE SAYS AT THE SAME TIME RUSSIA HAS BEEN SHELLING CIVILIANS TODAY. IT OFFERED WHAT IT CLAIMED WERE EVACUATION ROUTES FOR THEM OUT OF 4 UKRAINIAN CITIES. SO CALLED HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS REJECTED BY UKRAINE BECAUSE VIRTUALLY EVERY PATH. >> LEADS TO HOSTILE TERRITORY IN RUSSIA OR ITS ALLY BELARUS UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ZELINSKY HAS STRONGLY CRITICIZED PRESIDENT BIDEN AND THE WEST FOR NOT PLACING SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA SOONER TO TRY TO PREVENT THE INVASION CHANGE IN HIS SPEECH TODAY. THE LINSKEY AGAIN PLEADED FOR A BAN ON THE SALE OF RUSSIAN OIL. MEANWHILE, A SENIOR US DEFENSE OFFICIAL TONIGHT SAYS NEARLY 100% OF RUSSIA'S TROOPS THAT WERE ON THE UKRAINIAN BORDER ARE NOW INSIDE THE COUNTRY. THOUGH THEY CONTINUE TO MEET UKRAINIAN RESISTANCE. >> EVEN IN AREAS RUSSIA NOW CONTROLS UKRAINIANS LYING DOWN IN FRONT OF RUSSIAN VEHICLES. >> EVEN RIDING ON TOP OF ONE. UKRAINE IAN FLAG. >> BACK IN KIEV TODAY. THE MAIN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TOOK THE DIFFICULT DECISION TO EVACUATE THE MOST FRAGILE PATIENTS THOSE UNABLE TO WALK WERE LIFTED ON TO VICTORIA IS LEAVING BEHIND HER HUSBAND. HE'S STAYING IN KIEV TO FIGHT. FROM THE BUS AND THE CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS ARE LOADED ONTO A TRAIN BOUND FOR 9 HOURS AWAY. WAR HAS REDUCED UKRAINE TO THIS A TRAIN FULL OF SICK KIDS EVACUATING AS THE RUSSIANS CLOSE >> VICTORIA, DOES HER BEST TO KEEP HER BABY MARK COM HARD FEELING COOL FOR MUCH BAD. SHE SAYS I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE, BUT I HAVE TO AS THE TRAIN SET OFF TO THE WEST FOR SAFER TERRITORY. >> AND TOM, THERE WAS ONE POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT TODAY COMING OUT OF RUSSIA AND IT COULD BE A HEAD FAKE. IT COULD BE A DIPLOMATIC MANEUVER. BUT RUSSIA TODAY SEEM TO DIAL BACK ITS DEMANDS INSTEAD OF CALLING FOR REGIME CHANGE AND TOTAL SURRENDER. THE KREMLIN SAID IT WOULD STOP THE WAR IMMEDIATELY IF UKRAINE VOWED NEVER TO JOIN NATO OR THE EU ALREADY BLOCK AS IT AS IT WAS DESCRIBED AND IF IT ACCEPTED RUSSIA'S CONTROL OVER CRIMEA AND THE DONBASS REGION OF EASTERN UKRAINE. NOW THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT MAY STILL REJECTED, BUT IT IS A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE FROM DEMANDING THE TOTAL CAPITULATION OF THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE ANNIHILATION OF THE YORK RAINY AND STATE AS WE KNOW IT. TOM. >> RICHARD ENGEL LEADING US OFF TONIGHT ON TOP STORY WITH THAT NEW REPORTING. RICHARD, THANK YOU. NEXT TONIGHT THIS COUNTRY IS WATCHING SO MANY OF ITS WOMEN AND CHILDREN ON THE MOVE. THEY ARE GETTING OUT ALIVE, PUT OUT WHAT EMOTIONAL PRICE, ESPECIALLY FOR THE VERY YOUNG. IT'S A NEW GENERATION AT RISK FACING AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE. NBC NIGHTLY NEWS ANCHOR LESTER HOLT REPORTS. >> A LITTLE BOY WITH A TOY CAR BLISSFULLY PLAYS IN HIS OWN FANTASY WORLD. THANKFULLY OBLIVIOUS OF JUST FOR A MOMENT TO THE REAL WORLD SPINNING APART AROUND HIM AT THE LIVE EVE TRAIN STATION ADULTS CRAMMING INTO CARS WITH VOLUNTEERS OR FOLLOWING LINES THAT WILL LEAD THEM TO ANYWHERE. BUT HERE FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR CHILDREN. WON'T REMEMBER ANY OF THIS BORN IN KYIV 6 WEEKS PREMATURE IN LATE JANUARY HOSPITALIZED SINCE BIRTH. >> AND THEN WE HAT REMAINS. >> ALL COMES WE IN THE BOMB SHELTER. WAS REALLY >> THE WAR BEGAN AROUND THEM. >> EVERY NIGHT. WE FROM UPSTAIRS. THAT WAS THE FLOOR JUST A BOMB SHELTER OF THE HOSPITAL. YES, OF THE HOSPITAL. >> SO YOU HAVE PHILIP OVER HIS HUSBAND HAD GONE AHEAD WITH THEIR OTHER CHILD SOYA STAYING SO THAT COULD CONTINUE TO RECEIVE MEDICAL CARE. >> THERE WERE LESS AND LESS DOCTORS ATTENDING LESSONS ARE LESS TREATMENT AND DEPORTED WANT TO GO HOME TO THE YES. SO WE DECIDED TO YOU TO GO TO LEAVE. >> YOU KNOW, WE SKATE BY TRAINS. WHAT IS YOUR FUTURE. WHAT IS ON HIS FUTURE NOW. OUR
FUTURE. SO EVERY SINGLE DON'T FUTURE. SO EVERY SINGLE DON'T KINDA FUN. UKRAINE. WE KNEW? >> THERE ARE SO MANY CHILDREN OF THIS WAR LIKE YOUNG ALEXANDER SHOWING ME HIS TEDDY BEAR AND HIS LANGUAGE SKILLS. >> OR LOSE YOUR LINES AND I'M FINDS I'M NOT SURE IF YOU HEARD OR COMPREHENDED THE WEIGHT OF WHAT HIS MOM TOLD ME I'M ALL IN GOING TO POLAND, YOU KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE. >> IT IS ALSO A KINGLY SAID THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE CHAOS OF WAR, THE BOMBS AND THE MISSILES AND NOW THEY FACE THE CHAOS OF A SKATE FROM THEIR HOME COUNTRY. MOST OF THEM THEIR LIVES AROUND IT AND UNCERTAINTY TONIGHT, THE UN REFUGEE AGENCY REPORTS 1.7 MILLION UKRAINIANS HAVE NOW CROSSED INTO CENTRAL EUROPE OF THAT NUMBER UNICEF NOW BELIEVES A MILLION OF THEM ARE CHILDREN. HE WHERE WE ARE. WE'VE SEE 10'S OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN FLOOD THROUGH EVERY DIME THAT THEY'RE TRAUMATIZED. >> CHILDREN DON'T CRY ANYMORE. THAT'S A CLEAR SIGN OF TRAUMA. BUT MUCH OF THE WORLD IS CRYING FOR UKRAINE AND ITS CHILDREN. WHAT WE USE AND A TAIL ON A >> THE WORLD THAT SHE WAS BORN INTO. SHE. TOUGH WATCH. WHAT SHOULD BE OKAY. YOU KNOW, GOING TO BE OK. >> SO HARD TO SEE THIS WAR THROUGH THE EYES OF THOSE MOTHERS AND THOSE CHILDREN. LESTER HOLT JOINS US NOW LIVE FROM HERE IN LA VIVE. LET'S SHOW YOU COVERED SO MANY WARS BEFORE YOU'VE COVERED DISASTERS. WHAT WHAT HAS STRUCK YOU ABOUT THIS ONE THAT IS DIFFERENT. >> I THINK THE SCALE THIS IS CERTAINLY DIFFERENT. I THINK THE IMMEDIACY OF THE PEOPLE HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE COUNTRY. THEIR LIVES TURNED UPSIDE DOWN IN LESS THAN A COUPLE OF WEEKS NIGHT. I TALKED TO THE END OF MY BROADCAST TONIGHT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WERE THESE PEOPLE DOING 2 WEEKS AGO. THEY WERE DOING MUNDANE THINGS GOING TO
THE DENTIST, GOING TO WORK AND THE DENTIST, GOING TO WORK AND GOING TO SCHOOL. AND NOW THIS. >> YEAH, I LESTER, YOU KNOW, MANY PEOPLE THAT I'VE SPOKEN TO. I KNOW YOU ENCOUNTER THIS AS WELL. THEY LEFT BECAUSE THEIR CHILDREN WAS THE MOTIVATING FACTOR, RIGHT. THEY WANTED TO SAVE THEIR CHILDREN. THEY'RE NOW COMING TO PLACES LIKE LOVE GOING TO POLAND AND HUNGARY SLOVAKIA. BUT ONCE THERE THEY'RE BEING HELPED RIGHT NOW. BUT THE BIG QUESTION IS WHAT HAPPENS IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. AND I KNOW YOU ARE ASKING FAMILIES THIS AS WELL. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THE MONTHS AHEAD ONCE THIS WAR DRAGS ON. >> YEAH. I MEAN, THESE PEOPLE I MEAN, LITERALLY MAKING THEIR PLANS. THE BACK OF A NAPKIN THINGS ARE UNFOLDING. SO QUICKLY AND THEY'LL GET A PHONE NUMBER AND THERE IS AN INCREDIBLE SUPPORT NETWORK. HERE IN UKRAINE AND OUTSIDE IN POLAND. THESE OTHER COUNTRIES. BUT THE SHORT ANSWER IS PEOPLE DON'T REALLY KNOW. UM, YOU KNOW, YOU HEARD MENTIONED THAT STORY. A WOMAN SAYING ISSUES, YOU KNOW, GOING TO POLAND. DO YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY AND I DON'T KNOW. AND IT'S A IT'S THE UNCERTAINTY. I THINK THAT IS THAT IS IS ONE OF THE HORRIFIC. BY PRODUCTS OF ALL THAT'S HAPPENING HERE. >> ALRIGHT LESTER HOLT FOR US TONIGHT RIGHT HERE ON TOP STORY. AND YOU CAN SEE MUCH MORE OF LEICESTER'S DEVELOPING COVERAGE INSIDE UKRAINE TOMORROW AT 09:00PM EXCLUSIVELY ON NBC NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHT. WELL, SOME FAMILIES, HOWEVER, NEVER MAKE IT OUT OF THE HORROR. NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS CAUGHT IN THE MOMENT OR A SUSPECTED RUSSIAN BORDER HIT CIVILIANS AND KILL THE FAMILY OF 4, INCLUDING 2 CHILDREN ARE. KATIE TER SPOKE TO THE JOURNALIST EARLIER TODAY. HERE'S SOME OF THAT CONVERSATION AND WE WANT TO WARN YOU SOME OF THE IMAGES YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE ARE DISTURBING. >> I WENT VERY EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING TO TRY TO CATCH SAID SCENE OF CIVILIANS CROSSING AND RIGHT AFTER I ARRIVED, I CAN SENSE THAT THE MOOD WAS DIFFERENT. THERE WAS A LOT OF TENSION IN THE AIR. THE WAR THAT MANY CIVILIANS COMING A COST, THOUGH THERE WAS A STEADY STREAM. WE FOUND A POSITION WHERE THERE WERE A UKRAINIAN MILITARY LINED UP BEHIND A BRICK WALL, A CEMENT WALL AND THEY WERE NOT TAKING POSITIONS, BUT THEY WERE THERE PRIMARILY TO HELP CIVILIANS
ACROSS. SO WE WERE STANDING ACROSS. SO WE WERE STANDING BEHIND THIS WALL AND ABOUT 15 MINUTES IN A MORTAR ROUND
ADUS. BUT ABOUT 200 METERS ADUS. BUT ABOUT 200 METERS AWAY. >> SLOWLY A CAP SORT OF ZEROING IN ON THE POSITION OF THE PATH OF REAL CIVILIANS ORDER CAME BETWEEN US AND THE FAMILY. >> AND YOU SAID THE MOTHER AND 2 OF HER CHILDREN WERE KILLED SOMEONE WHO HAD BEEN HELPING THEM CROSS A FAMILY FRIEND WERE UNSURE WHETHER HE SURVIVED, OF COURSE, WE'VE HEARD THAT RUSSIA IS TARGETING CIVILIANS WE'VE WE'VE SEEN FOOTAGE. BUT FOR ME IS A NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER. I HAVE TO SEE IT AND DOCUMENTED. AND THIS WAS A SITUATION WHERE I LITERALLY WATCHED THE RUSSIAN MILITARY BRACKET THEIR MORTAR STRIKES ON TO A CIVILIAN PAST. THAT TO ME WAS CLEARLY INTENTIONAL. THE PATH OF THE CIVILIANS WAS VERY KNOWN AND THERE WAS NO MISTAKE THAT IT WAS TARGETING CIVILIANS SPOKE TO PEOPLE TODAY WHO SAID THAT WHEN VENTURE TO LEAVE FACT TO ESCAPE AMERICAN TODAY, A A RIVER. >> PEOPLE WERE LOOKING THEM LIKE THEY WERE COMPLETELY KNOTS LIKE THEY WERE HEADING TOWARD CERTAIN DEATH. FORTUNATELY DAY SURVIVED AND MADE IT OUT. OK. I THINK A PRESIDENT ZELENSKY HAS THE SAME MINDSET HIS COUNTRYMEN
WITCH-HUNT COUNTRY PEOPLE WITCH-HUNT COUNTRY PEOPLE WHICH THIS GRIM DETERMINATION AND WILLINGNESS TO BACK DOWN AND A KEEP FIGHTING TILL THE MISS ON SKIS ON THE SAME WAVELENGTH AS THE PEOPLE NOW THAT RUSSIA IS TARGETING AS ITS SEEMS TO BE UNABLE TO FIGHT THE ARMED FORCES DIRECTLY WITHOUT TAKING A ACCEPTABLE LOSSES. THEY'RE TRYING TO FORCE SOME KIND OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL BREAK OR SURRENDER OR SOMETHING THROUGH THIS KIND OF PRESSURE ON CIVILIANS. BUT THAT'S NOT ENOUGH TO BREAK THE UKRAINE LET'S KEEP IN MIND. >> TO JOURNALIST FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES PART OF A LARGE TEAM HERE COVERING THIS WAR WITH THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN EUROPE GROWING WORSE EVERY HOUR. I WANT TO BRING IN ROUGH FILE POSTERS IN SKI. HE'S THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE UN'S REFUGEE AGENCY IN POLAND. BUT FALL. I WANT TO ASK YOU, FIRST OF ALL, YOU KNOW, WE JUST HEARD OF LEICESTER'S REPORT THERE ABOUT A MILLION UKRAINIANS ARE POURING INTO POLAND RIGHT NOW. WE KNOW THAT YOUR COUNTRY IS TAKING THEM IN AND FEEDING THEM AND TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THESE PEOPLE IS THERE ENOUGH OF AN INFRASTRUCTURE THERE TO TAKE THE WAVE OF REFUGEES COMING OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. >> GOOD EVENING. WELL, FOR THE TIME BEING, THE RIS NOW SELF THE REFUGEES THAT COME FROM UKRAINE TO POLAND'S. THEY DO NOT APPLY FOR INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION. THEY'D RATHER STAY WITH A FAMILY. STAY RELATIVES. >> THEY MONEY TO PROVIDE FOR THEMSELVES TO FIND ACCOMMODATION ON THEIR OWN. >> THERE ARE, COURSE, PEOPLE ARE IN NEED >> SUBSTANTIAL LIKE I SAID, FOR THE TIME BEING, THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS THERE OF COURSE, GO INFLUX BIGGER AND BIGGER AND IT'S GETTING BIGGER BY THE DAY. MORE INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD BE NEEDED, OF COURSE, AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS WILL PULL SOME WILL THEY HAVE TO APPLY. >> AS YOU KNOW, UKRAINE IS TRYING TO WORK WITH RUSSIA TO DEVELOP THESE HUMANITARIAN CORRIDOR IS ESSENTIALLY A NO FIRE CEASE FIRE ZONE WHERE THEY CAN GET THEIR PEOPLE OUT OF THE WAR ZONE AND THEN RUSSIA DECIDES TO SUGGEST THAT THEY'RE OK WITH THIS. MAYBE WE CAN EVEN ALLOW THEM TO EVACUATE TO RUSSIA OR BELARUS. DID YOU FIND THAT SUGGESTION DESPICABLE ON THE PART OF THE RUSSIANS. >> WELL, WE'RE MOSTLY INTERESTED IN THE SAFETY OF THE CIVILIANS EVACUATED THE LESSON PORTION WHERE EYE OF WAY PROVIDE IT TO THE U.S. SAFE THAT THEY HAVE ACCESS TO. >> CHILD. BUT BUT RAINFALL TO TOOK BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO FLEE. THEY'RE TRYING TO FLEE RUSSIAN ATTACKS AND FOR RUSSIA TO OFFER THEM A SAFE HAVEN IN THE COUNTRY THAT IS INVADING THEM. BUT DON'T YOU THINK THAT WAS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. >> THAT'S THAT'S THAT WAS THE BEST A SOLUTION OF CAUSE. I THEM THAT I WAITING TO THE PONCE OF UKRAINE WITH THERE IS NO WAR RIGHT NOW AND AND NO, MINUTES ARE TO BT SPORT OPPONENT WOULD WOULD BE ABOUT SOLUTION, OF COURSE. BUT. SHE OR WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING RIGHT NOW IS THE HUMAN HUMAN LIVES. AND THIS IS WHAT WE WAS BECOME MOST. LIKE I SAID, THE BEST SOLUTION WOULD BE TO EVACUATED THEM TO WIN TO GET A SAFE AND ACCESS TO 2 PROTECTION TO ORDER AND THEY WENT WHEN THEY NEED. CAN BE MET. >> UKRAINE IS HOME TO 44 MILLION PEOPLE. AS YOU KNOW, THE UN INITIALLY ESTIMATED 4 MILLION PEOPLE WOULD BE LEAVING THIS COUNTRY DURING THIS HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. I'VE BEEN COVERING THIS FOR MORE THAN A WEEK NOW I'M NOT AN EXPERT, BUT I I'M SURE THAT NUMBER'S GOING TO BE HIGHER. DO YOU THINK THE NUMBER WILL BE MUCH HIGHER THAN 4 MILLION, POSSIBLY 10 MILLION. >> WELL TO ME WHEN WE WERE
WHEN WE FIRST ESTIMATED THE WHEN WE FIRST ESTIMATED THE NUMBER AT FORT MEADE IN. IT NOW LOOKS LIKE IT WAS A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATION. NOW IT LOOKS THERE ARE GOING TO BEING MUCH MORE PEOPLE. FLEEING TOWARD AND WE FIRST ESTIMATED THE FOLD. IT WILL STOP THAT BECAUSE LEE WEBSTER PART 4 FULL FULL MEAN NOW WE HAVE REACHED 1.8 ACTUALLY RIGHT NOW AND MORE THAN ONE MEDIUM CROSSED THE BORDER INTO POLAND AND IF THE SITUATION DOES NOT IMPROVE IMMEDIATELY. WE'RE SURELY GOING TO TO EVEN THE DIGGER IN FLUX. I'M I HOPE I'M IN THIS SPOT, IF THE WAR THE AND NUMBERS. ARE VERY LIKELY TO INCREASE BEYOND THE 4 MILLION FIGURE. >> ROUGH ALL AS YOU WERE TALKING, OUR DIRECTOR WAS ROLLING IMAGES OF THESE MOTHERS IN THESE CHILDREN FLYNN WITH ONLY WHAT THEY CAN YOU SEE THE DESPERATION IN THEIR EYES. THE CHILDREN ARE CRYING. I REALLY HOPE THAT PEOPLE NOT ONLY AMERICA BUT ACROSS THE WORLD, NEVER GROW TIRED OF THESE IMAGES THAT THEY DON'T CHANGE THE CHANNEL THAT THEY DON'T FORGET ABOUT THESE PEOPLE. HOW CAN PEOPLE AT HOME WATCHING THIS BROADCAST HELP TONIGHT. >> YOU KNOW, THESE THESE DEFINITE THE THEY BREAKING MY HEART RIGHT NOW. KEN, HOW BY PROVIDING BASIC RIGHT NOW INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CAN DONATE TO UNHCR TO OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE ASSISTANCE ALL STRIVE TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN UKRAINE FORWARD FOR THE INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE OR OUTSIDE UKRAINE IN THE END, THE COUNTRY'S THAT'S TAKE THEM MOST OF THE BUZZ AND. THIS IS THIS IS WHAT WE CAN DO AS A IS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ORDINARY CIVILIANS. >> ROUGH, ALL WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. AND WE KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK TO HELP ALL THESE MILLIONS OF UKRAINIANS WERE TRYING TO FIND A SAFE HAVEN TONIGHT. WE THANK YOU AGAIN. WE ALSO WANT TO TURN NOW TO A TROUBLING STORY. ONE OF OUR REPORTERS CAME ACROSS HERE IN UKRAINE AS THE REFUGEE CRISIS DEEPENS. HUNDREDS OF INDIAN STUDENTS ARE NOW TRAPPED IN EASTERN UKRAINE. DESPERATE FOR SUPPLIES EVEN MELTING SNOW FOR DRINKING WATER. 3RD PARTIAL CEASE-FIRE NOW CREATING A HUMANITARIAN CORRIDOR NEAR THIS AREA WHERE THEY ARE PINNED DOWN IN SOMEONE HAS MORE ON THEIR FIGHT FOR A SAFE ESCAPE. >> TONIGHT. AT LEAST 700 INDIAN STUDENTS TRAPPED IN UKRAINE. ACCORDING TO INDIA'S GOVERNMENT AND STUDENTS ON THE GROUND NOW PLEADING FOR RESCUE. THE MEAT OR THIS ZONE. BUT I WAS STARTING TO I PUT IN VERIFIED VIDEO, STUDENTS EVEN MELTED SNOW FOR DRINKING WATER.
>> I THINK FOR SO WE'RE >> I THINK FOR SO WE'RE GETTING CAN >> YOU AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TRIED TO GET OUT. WE WAITING FOR AND BUY SUITS BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO ME, YOU KNOW, HAS WON IT. >> VERIFIED REPORTS SHOW MANY STUDENTS STILL BUNKERED. UNIVERSITY BY THE RUSSIAN BORDER. JUST WALL IS ONE OF THEM. EVERY ONE IS FREAKING OUT. SHE'S SEEN AIRSTRIKES IN THE SKY GUNFIRE ON THE SIDEWALK AND MILITARY ON THE ROADS SOME MAY SAY SOMETHING AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT EVERYONE IS MOVING THE BUNK US NOW. SARAH K HOMIE, A SPOKESPERSON FOR AN INDIAN STUDENT GROUP HAS BEEN ADVOCATING FOR TRAP. STUDENTS ONLINE WELL, THE SHOOTING 100 SHELF GOLD COAST PRETTY PROBLEM TO FAMILIES WOULD LEAVE MUCH CONSOLE HIM. VERIFIED VIDEO SHOWS MORE STUDENT GROUPS PLEADING FOR HELP. >> READ THEY DID NOT AND DID NOT MAKE ANY WHAT IS BEING DONE TO GET THE STUDENTS OUT. YES, NO PROPER RESPONSE DOWN THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RESPOND FOR COMMENT. BUT ON MONDAY INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER CALLED RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN TO EXPRESS DEEP CONCERN, QUOTE, FOR THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF THE SUNNI STUDENTS FOR JOSH WHILE SHE NOW HAS ELECTRICITY AND FRESH WATER. >> BUT THE SUPPLIES HAVE BEEN SUBDUED. HER FEARS. >> ARE YOU AFRAID FOR YOUR LIFE AT ALL. >> YES, SOMETIMES WHEN YOU HEAR ON DAY. >> WE HAVE SEEN A THAN YOU THINK. AND YOU HAVE SEEN THIS POINT. >> HE'S IN CLAY JOINS US NOW FROM 30 ROCK IN NEW YORK'S IN CLAY. I MEAN, I REALLY CAN'T BELIEVE THIS STORY. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A FEW EXCHANGE STUDENTS HERE. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HUNDREDS OF INDIAN CITIZENS. WHAT ARE THEY DOING TONIGHT. WHAT IS THE COUNTRY IN YOU'RE DOING TO TRY TO HELP ITS OWN PEOPLE TO GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. >> YEAH, TOM, IT'S REALLY MIND-BOGGLING TO HEAR THE ACCOUNTS FROM THE STUDENTS AND INDIAN OFFICIALS HAVE SPOKEN WITH BOTH PRESIDENT PUTIN OF RUSSIA AND PRESIDENT ZELENSKY OF UKRAINE, QUOTE, STRONGLY URGING BOTH SIDES TO HAVE A CEASE-FIRE. AND THAT, OF COURSE IS SO THEY CAN SAFELY EVACUATE THEIR CITIZENS. TOM RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES SAY THERE WILL BE A CEASE-FIRE WHICH IS GOOD NEWS THAT THE STUDENTS WERE EAGER TO HEAR BECAUSE THE CONDITIONS THERE IN FRANKLY ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE SHOVE ON THE SHARE WITH ME. BUT ASIDE FROM THE PHYSICAL TOLL THE STRAIN ON HER MENTAL HEALTH IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES RIGHT NOW AND SHE'S NOT ALONE IN HER PLAY. THOMPSON UNIVERSITY SAID SATURDAY THAT 1700, 1700 FOREIGN STUDENTS CURRENTLY LIVE IN THEIR DORMS. SO THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO WATCH SUPER CLOSELY. TOM. >> RIGHTS IN CLAY HAS COME OUT WITH SOME VERY POWERFUL INTERVIEWS TONIGHT. A POWERFUL REPORT IN CLAY. THANK YOU. NEXT, WE WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT AMERICAN TROOPS TRAINING WITH NATO FORCES IN LATVIA. SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN ON NATO'S FRONTLINE TO THE BALTICS CALLING FOR A DEMOCRATIC WALL AGAINST RUSSIA. ABC'S JOSH LETTERMAN IS THERE WITH EXCLUSIVE REPORTING ON THEIR TRAINING. >> TONIGHT, AMERICAN TROOPS BARELY A 100 MILES FROM THE RUSSIAN BORDER READY TO TAKE ON ANY THREAT. RUNNING THROUGH DRILLS IN LATVIA ALONGSIDE NATO ALLIES PREPARING FOR A RANGE OF BATTLEFIELD SCENARIOS. I NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE ABLE TO TRAIN AT THE NATO ALLIES LIKE THIS. IT'S A DECADES OLD MISSION WITH FRESH PURPOSE. THESE TROOPS TRAINING ON RUSSIA'S DOORSTEP IN A COUNTRY THAT SOME FEAR COULD BECOME PUTINS NEXT TARGET. IT CERTAINLY GIVES US. >> A SENSE OF URGENCY. ALL THAT RAIN THAT WE'RE WE'RE CONDUCTING RIGHT NOW IS IS VERY FOCUSED ON WHAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DO TO TO LOT VIA THE U.S. HAS DEPLOYED ANOTHER 800 TROOPS TO THE BALTICS. >> THERE ARE AMONG ROUGHLY A 100,000 U.S. TROOPS NOW IN EUROPE SO EXPERIENCE GET YOUR HEART PUMPING. >> AFTER RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE. THE U.S. 20 OF PATCHY ATTACK HELICOPTERS FROM GERMANY TO HERE IN LATVIA TO SHORE UP NATO DEFENSES. >> PARATROOPERS HERE ARE PRACTICING URBAN WARFARE LIKE THE KIND PLAYING OUT IN THE SNOWY STREETS OF KIEV. PUTIN HAS CALLED NATO'S EXPANSION INTO EASTERN EUROPE. A THREAT. BUT NATO SAYS IT SEEKS NO CONFLICT JUST TO DEFEND ITS MEMBERS LIKE IT DID AFTER 9.11 WHEN A NATION WAS ATTACKED. >> A RALLIED TOGETHER. >> TONIGHT, A NEW RALLYING CRY FOR NATO WITH EUROPE'S FUTURE AT STAKE. >> THESE NATO TROOPS HERE IN LATVIA WILL BE CONTINUING THEIR EXERCISES THROUGHOUT THE WEEK AND ARE PART OF BROADER DRILLS THAT NATO IS CONDUCTING ACROSS EUROPE INVOLVING ALMOST 13,000 PEOPLE FROM 13 NATO ALLIES. AND TONIGHT THE U.S. ANNOUNCING IT'S SENDING ANOTHER 500 TROOPS TO EUROPE TO EVEN FURTHER SHORE UP NATO'S DEFENSES COM. >> JOSH LITTLE BIT WITH THAT EXCLUSIVE REPORT TONIGHT. JOSH, THANK YOU. BACK IN THE STATES. MANY FEELING THE GROWING ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THIS WAR. MOST NOTABLY AT THE GAS PUMP WHERE PRICES HAVE SURGED ABOVE $4 A GALLON LEVELS NOT SEEN IN YEARS. JO LING KENT HAS THAT STORY. >> TONIGHT RECORD-BREAKING PRICES AT THE PUMP NATIONWIDE. >> IS ACTUALLY KILL MY BUDGET FEEL IT. BUT JUST GOT IT. >> KEEP GOING. AVERAGE FOR A GALLON OF REGULAR IS NOW MORE THAN $4.10 SURPASSING THE PREVIOUS RECORD IN 2008 PRICES SKYROCKETING. NEARLY $0.50 A GALLON OVER JUST THE LAST 7 DAYS. CALIFORNIA DRIVERS SPOTTING AN EYE-POPPING $7 A GALLON IN LOS ANGELES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE BIGGEST JUMPS ARE IN RHODE ISLAND, NEVADA, CONNECTICUT, KENTUCKY AND ALABAMA SACK AGO, ABOUT 2 WEEKS NOTICE AFTER THIS. I'M GOING PARK THE CAR, BUT IT'S SIMPLE. THE BUS AND SOON IT WILL GO BEYOND THE PUFF EXPERTS WARN THAT RISING GAS PRICES WILL LEAD TO MORE EXPENSIVE PLANE TICKETS OVERNIGHT. CRUDE OIL PRICES REACHING LEVELS NOT SEEN SINCE THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS WE'RE NOW IN A VERY ACTIVE DISCUSSIONS WITH OUR EUROPEAN PARTNERS. >> ABOUT BANNING THE IMPORT OF RUSSIAN OIL. RUSSIA, WHOSE ECONOMY IS HEAVILY DEPENDENT ON ENERGY EXPORTS ACCOUNTS FOR NEARLY 10% OF THE GLOBAL OIL SUPPLY. >> WHILE AN IMPORT BAN COULD RUSSIA'S ECONOMY. ANALYSTS SAY IT WOULD ALSO TRIGGER EVEN HIGHER GAS PRICES HERE AT HOME. IF YOU KNEW THAT PAYING MORE WOULD MEAN IT. >> BETTER OUTCOME FOR THE INVASION OF UKRAINE. WOULD YOU DO THAT SHORT ANSWER. YES, OF COURSE, AT THAT MEANS PAYING AN EXTRA FEW DOLLARS AND. >> AND THE PRICE THAT YOU'RE PAYING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO RISE GASBUDDY NOW ANTICIPATING THE NATIONAL AVERAGE COULD GO UP ANOTHER 40 TO $0.50 A GALLON IN THE COMING DAYS AND WEEKS. TOM. >> JO LING KENT THERE IN CALIFORNIA WITH PRICES NORTH OF $7 A GALLON WHILE. ALL RIGHT. OUR COVERAGE FROM UKRAINE CONTINUES LATER IN THIS BROADCAST. BUT NOW WE TURN TO MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE KATE SNOW IN NEW YORK WITH TONIGHT. OTHER MAJOR HEADLINES KKTV. TOM, THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL YOU'RE DOING THERE. AND STILL AHEAD ON TOP STORY TONIGHT, A GRUESOME DISCOVERY IN FLORIDA. THE BODY OF A MISSING WOMAN. >> FOUND IN A SEPTIC TANK. THE HANDYMAN NOW ARRESTED FOR HER MURDER. PLUS THE BOAT RUNNING AGROUND IN THE FLORIDA KEYS WITH HUNDREDS OF MIGRANTS ON BOARD. SOME TRYING TO SWIM TO SHORE THE INVESTIGATION JUST LAUNCHED AND THE DEADLY TORNADOES TOUCHING DOWN IN IOWA. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS NOW UNDER THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WE HAVE THE TIMING UP NEXT. STAY WITH US. ♪ LOOK INSIDE THE CDC. THE AGENCY REELING FROM 2 YEARS OF A WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC, ITS ROLE SHIFTING AS MANY STATES ARE NOW SEEING LOWER LEVELS OF THE VIRUS. I SAT DOWN WITH CDC OFFICIALS ABOUT WHAT'S NEXT. IT HAS BEEN HARD 2 YEARS. DOCTOR HENRY WALKE IS TAKING US TO THE CDC'S EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER. THIS IS THE NERVE CENTER REALLY OF THE CDC RESPONSE BEFORE THE PANDEMIC. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN PACKED FOR NOW, MANY CDC EMPLOYEES ARE STILL WORKING REMOTELY. THIS IS A MEASURE OF THE IMPACT OF. >> COVID-19. BUT IN MOST OF THE COUNTRY, THINGS ARE SHIFTING. GREEN MEANS LOW COMMUNITY LEVELS YELLOWS MEDIUM ORANGES HIGH. WE'RE SEEING MORE GREEN, MORE. AND HOPEFULLY IT IS ABSOLUTELY HOPEFULLY WILL SEE IN THE NEXT IN THE NEXT MONTH OR 2 THAT THE MAJORITY THE COUNTRY ACTUALLY WILL BE GREEN JUST DAYS AFTER WE VISITED THE MAP GOT GREENER TRIPS LIKE THIS TO MISSOURI. THIS IS A NEW THING. THIS IS AMONG MY FIRST. IT'S REALLY BEEN AMAZING. WE MET UP WITH CDC DIRECTOR DOCTOR ROCHELLE WALENSKY AS SHE VISITED A CLINIC IN LOUIS HERE'S THE BIG QUESTION. IS IT OVER? I DON'T KNOW. >> AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THE HONEST WE CERTAINLY HOPE SO. WE CERTAINLY HAVE A LOT OF IMMUNITY IN THE POPULATION. MORE AND MORE PEOPLE GETTING VACCINATED MORE PEOPLE GETTING BOOSTED. WE HAVE SOME IMMUNITY FROM PRIOR INFECTION BY IT. AND WITH CERTAIN TEAM. WE DON'T KNOW. ARE WE NEARING A NEW PHASE. I THINK WE ARE IN A NEW PHASE WHERE WE CAN START TO GETTING BACK TO DOING MANY OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE LIKED TO DO AND WHERE WE HAVE TO REMAIN VIGILANT. DO YOU SEE COVID TURNING INTO SOMETHING MORE LIKE THE FLU AS WE MOVE FORWARD. I DO ANTICIPATE THAT THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE A SEASONAL VIRUS. IT MAY BE SEAS ALL AROUND THE TIME. OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUSES THRIVE SO THAT THE WAY THE FLU IT THE WAY THE FLUIDS DOCTOR WALENSKY SAYS IT'S TIME FOR MOST OF US TO PUT THE MASKS AWAY. I WOULD SAY PUT YOUR MASKS IN A DRAWER. >> ANTICIPATE YOU MAY NEED THEM AGAIN AND HOPE THAT WE DON'T PEOPLE ARE GOING TO WELCOME THAT. DON'T READ HAHA JUST AS MANY KIDS ARE RETURNING TO CLASSROOMS WITHOUT MASKS. SOME DATA SUGGEST THE VACCINE FOR CHILDREN IS LESS EFFECTIVE NOW. >> THOUGH THE CDC RECOMMENDS KIDS 5 TO 11 GET VACCINATED. FLORIDA'S SURGEON GENERAL SAID TODAY THE STATE WILL OFFICIALLY RECOMMEND AGAINST THE VACCINE FOR HEALTHY CHILDREN. SHOULD PARENTS OF 5 TO 11 YEAR OLDS BE CONCERNED THAT THE VACCINE THEIR KIDS GOT. >> ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH. I WOULD SAY PARENTS 5 TO 11 SHOWED ANTICIPATE THAT THEIR CHILD MAY NEED A BOOSTER DOSE. AND GET THEIR KIDS VACCINATED. HAVE YOU LET PARENTS DOWN. THIS HAS BEEN A HARD TIME. UNCERTAINTY IS HARD. AND IF YOU WANT ANYTHING AS A PARENT. YOU WANT CERTAINTY THAT YOUR KIDS GOING TO BE OK. I CAN SEE THAT IT IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE IT PAINS YOU AS A PARENT YEAH. WHY. AND YOU CAN RELATE. ABSOLUTELY. WHEN MY KIDS ASK ME ABOUT SOMETHING THAT THEY MAY OR MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DO. AN EVENT THAT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE OR GO I FEEL >> IF YOU ARE A BETTING PERSON DOCTOR WOULD YOU WOULD YOU THINK THAT WE'RE LIKELY TO HAVE MORE VARIANTS. IT JUST IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WE CAN DECREASE CHANCES BY GETTING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE VACCINATED. JUST A YEAR AGO. THE CDC HAD INSUFFICIENT DATA AND SEQUENCING CAPABILITIES. NOW IT SAYS IT'S RAMPED UP GENETIC SEQUENCING TO HELP DETECT NEW VARIANTS. DOES THE CDC HAVE ENOUGH TOOLS NOW TO RECOGNIZE A NEW VARIANT POPPING UP IN THE U.S. WE FEEL PRETTY CONFIDENT IN THE LEVEL OF OF. >> DETECTION BEING ABLE TO DETECT NEW VARIANT NEW HOME AS THE NATION ENTERS A NEW CHAPTER. >> DOCTOR WALK ALSO TOLD ME THAT HE'S HOPEFUL THAT IF THERE IS ANOTHER VARIANT, IT WON'T HAVE THE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES THAT WE'VE SEEN FROM OTHERS. WE TURN TO WEATHER NOW A DEADLY WEEKEND OF SEVERE STORMS ROCKING THE MIDWEST. A MASSIVE 4 TORNADO. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS RIPPING THROUGH PARTS OF IOWA THIS WEEKEND KILLING 7 PEOPLE. >> LEAVING BEHIND A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION. DAMAGING ALMOST 52 HOMES. TREACHEROUS WEATHER ALSO HITTING THE WEST HEAVY SNOWFALL IN DENVER, CREATING DANGEROUS CONDITIONS ON THE ROAD. MORE THAN 50 CARS CRASHING IN 6 SEPARATE PILOTS ON SUNDAY AND THAT STORM THREAT CONTINUING TODAY FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. LET'S GET TO NBC METEOROLOGISTS MICHELE GROSSMAN WITH THE TRACK OF IT. MICHELLE. >> HI THERE, KATE. YEAH, WE'RE SEEING THAT STORM SYSTEM TAKING AIM ON THE NORTHEAST RIGHT NOW. IT'S MOVING THROUGH VERY, VERY QUICKLY WITH WINDS UP TO 70 MILES PER HOUR. LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE A LOOK AT RADAR. SHOW YOU WHERE IT IS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE IT STRETCHING ALL THE WAY FROM NEW ENGLAND DOWN TO THE SOUTHEAST. YOU SEE THE YELLOWS, THE REDS THE ORANGES. THAT IS YOUR HEAVY RAIN AND WE COULD SEE THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME FLOODING ZOOMING IN A LITTLE CLOSER HERE. WE'RE SEEING SOME STRONGER STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. WE'VE HAD HISTORY OF 70 MILES PER HOUR WINDS THERE WITH POWER OUTAGES, TREE LIMB DAMAGES. WELL, THAT'S GOING TO BE THE CASE AS WE HEAD THROUGHOUT THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. SO SEVERE THREAT INTO TONIGHT. 37 MILLION AMERICANS AT RISK FROM ATLANTA TO CHARLOTTE ROANOKE UP TO DC ALSO PHILADELPHIA WHEN THAT'S GOING TO BE THE BIGGEST THREAT HERE. WINDS GUSTING 5067 MILES 70 MILES PER HOUR. SO 64 MILLION AMERICANS WHERE YOU SEE THE BLUE HERE FROM BOSTON TO ALBANY TO ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA DOWN IN DC ALSO BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA. WE'RE LOOKING AT GUSTY WINDS TONIGHT. I CAN HEAR THOSE WINDS OUTSIDE MY HOME STUDIO NOW, NOW THAT ACTIVE PATTERN CONTINUES TONIGHT. SO WE'LL SEE THAT COLD FRONT MOVES THE COAST SHOWERS STRETCHING TOMORROW FROM TEXAS TO THE CAROLINAS. AND THEN WE COULD SEE TRAINING STORMS. THAT'S WHERE STORM KIND OF SITS AND SPINS AND DROPPED A LOT OF RAIN. >> IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. KATE. ALL RIGHT, MICHELLE, THANK YOU. WHEN WE COME BACK, BILL COSBY WILL REMAIN A FREE MAN. THE SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S. REJECTED AN ATTEMPT. >> TO HAVE COSBY'S CONVICTION REINSTATED. WHAT THIS NOW MEANS FOR HIS ACCUSERS.
♪ >> NOW THE TOP STORIES NEWS FEED AND WE BEGIN WITH A DISTURBING DISCOVERY IN FLORIDA. THE BODY BELIEVED TO BE THAT OF A MISSING WOMAN FOUND IN THE SEPTIC TANK IN HER BACKYARD IN JENSEN BEACH. 57 YEAR-OLD, CYNTHIA COLE WAS LAST SEEN A WEEK AND A HALF AGO. HER HANDY MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER OVER THE WEEKEND. A MOTIVE IS NOT CLEAR UP NEXT, RESCUE CREWS BRINGING HUNDREDS OF HAITIAN MIGRANTS TO SAFETY IN THE FLORIDA KEYS. OFFICIALS SAY THIS OVERCROWDED BOAT WAS PART OF A SMUGGLING OPERATION THAT RAN AGROUND IN SHALLOW WATER. A LOCAL BORDER PATROL CHIEF SAYS ABOUT 300 PEOPLE WERE ON BOARD AND MORE THAN A 150 OF THEM SWIM TO SHORE, MANY OF THEM NEEDED MEDICAL ATTENTION. AUTHORITIES SAY AN INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. UP NEXT. TONIGHT, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS DECLINED TO REVIEW THE DECISION THAT FREED BILL COSBY FROM PRISON LAST YEAR. A SPOKESPERSON FOR COSBY CALLING THE DECISION A VICTORY. THE 84 YEAR-OLD SERVED 3 YEARS IN MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON AFTER A JURY FOUND HIM GUILTY OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING ANDREA CONSTAND AT HIS PENNSYLVANIA HOME IN 2000, 4. BUT THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT RULED LAST YEAR THAT THE DECISION TO CHARGE COSBY IN 2015 VIOLATED HIS DUE PROCESS. THAT'S BECAUSE THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY BACK IN 2000, 5 HAD MADE AN AGREEMENT NOT TO CHARGE THE COMEDIAN IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS DEPOSITION IN A CIVIL CASE. BUT LATER A NEW DA FILED CRIMINAL CHARGES AND USED COSBY'S OWN WORDS IN THAT DEPOSITION TO MAKE A CASE AFTER COSBY WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON. I SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY WITH ANDREA CONSTAND. WHEN YOU WATCH HIM CELEBRATE. HOW DID THAT FEEL TO SEE HIM. TALKING
ABOUT THE FIRST MEAL HE HAD. ABOUT THE FIRST MEAL HE HAD. DISGUSTING. BUT AGAIN. >> THE SURPRISE ME GIVEN THE THE LEVEL OF THE. THE ARROGANCE. AND HAVING NO REMORSE. >> NBC NEWS LEGAL ANALYST DANNY CEVALLOS JOINS ME NOW FOR A CLOSER LOOK AT ALL THIS. DANNY, WHY DO YOU THINK THE U.S. SUPREME COURT DECIDED TO JUST STAY OUT OF IT. >> WE WON'T KNOW BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THOSE ORDERS WITH THE SUPREME COURT REVIEWS IT AND DOESN'T GIVE US THE REASONS WHY THEY'RE DECLINING TO HEAR THE CASE ON WHAT'S CALLED CERTIORARI. SO THEY'RE DECLINING SEARCH WILL NEVER KNOW THE REASONS WHY. BUT IT MAY BE THE CASE THAT THE SUPREME COURT AS IT OFTEN LIKES TO DO LIKE STILL SAYS THAT WERE DECIDED ON INDEPENDENT STATE GROUNDS ALONE AT A LOWER COURT. THIS CASE, THE LOWER COURT IS THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT. >> AND SO NOW FOR BILL COSBY. IS THIS THE END OF THE LINE. DOES THIS MEAN NO MORE LEGAL TROUBLES FOR HIM. >> THIS MEANS THE END OF THIS CASE AND NO OTHER CASE, ALTHOUGH. WERE THERE OTHER CASES IN PENNSYLVANIA THAT PROSECUTOR COULD HAVE BROUGHT WITHIN THE STATUTE OF HE WANT IT. SO WE CAN EXPECT THIS MAY BE THE END OF HIS CRIMINAL CASES IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE TIME BEING AS FAR AS CIVIL WHO KNOWS. THERE MAY STILL BE VICTIMS OUT THERE. SO WE MAY NEVER EVEN HEARD ABOUT. SO IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHETHER BILL COSBY'S LEGAL WOES ARE COMPLETELY BEHIND HIM. BUT THIS CASE INVOLVING THIS VICTIM. YOU CAN SAFELY SAY FOR HIM IS OVER. >> DANNY, THANK YOU. NOW TO TOP STORIES. GLOBAL WATCH AND THE FIRE AT A HIGH RISE BUILDING IN LONDON. CELL PHONE VIDEO SHOWS FLAMES SHOOTING OUT THE 17TH FLOOR BURNING DEBRIS ALSO FALLING TO THE GROUND. FIREFIGHTERS USED A 210 FOOT LADDER TO HELP REACH THE FLAMES. THE SURROUNDING AREA WAS BLOCKED OFF. NO ONE WAS INJURED. OFFICIALS ARE NOW INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE. NEW SATELLITE IMAGES MAY SUGGEST THAT NORTH KOREA IS RESUMING TESTING OF ATOMIC BOMBS. ANALYSTS SAY THE NEW IMAGES FROM MAX OUR SHOW CONSTRUCTION AT A NUCLEAR TEST SITE IN NORTH KOREA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS. NORTH KOREA CLAIMED TO HAVE DESTROYED THE MISSILE SITE IN 2018, A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE CIA SAYS THE AGENCY IS NOT COMMENTING. TONIGHT AS CLASHES CONTINUE OVERSEAS. UKRAINIAN-AMERICANS ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO COLLECT SUPPLIES FOR UKRAINIAN TROOPS AND REFUGEES PROVING THAT DISTANCE WILL NOT DETER THEM FROM CONTRIBUTING TO THE WAR EFFORT. SHAQUILLE BREWSTER IS IN CHICAGO WITH THEIR STORY. THE DONATIONS COME IN BY THE CARLOAD DIAPERS WIPES ABOUT 400 PAIR OF SACKS BOXES OF DIAPERS FOOD, MEDICAL SUPPLIES, PURCHASED BY AMERICANS HEARTBROKEN BY TRAGEDY. THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY CANDACE TRAFFIC. WHAT'S HAPPENING AND EVERYONE FEELS THE SAME WAY. AND WE FEEL LIKE HELPLESS HOW CAN WE HELP THEM SOMEHOW SINCE RUSSIA'S INVASION THIS UKRAINIAN SHIPPING SERVICE HAS TAKEN ON A NEW MISSION. >> CONVERTING ITS OFFICES INTO SORTING CENTERS ALREADY SENDING 6 TRUCKS MORE THAN 90 TONS OF SUPPLIES TO POLAND. >> WHERE IT WILL THEN BE BROUGHT ACROSS THE BORDER TO UKRAINE. PEOPLE DOING GREAT JOB. >> WE NEED MORE. WE NEED SO WE NEED THE HELP FROM GOVERNMENT. >> HE SAYS PEOPLE 3 THIS OPERATION POWERED BY AN ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS. MANY WITH FAMILY LIVING IN UKRAINE SEEING THIS AS THEIR WAY TO FIGHT. EVERYBODY HAS TO THEIR PART. SO. >> SOMEBODY HAS TO FIND AND HOLD A GUN AT THE FRONT LINE AND SOMEBODY HAS TO BRING TO MEDICINE TO HELP PEOPLE THAT WERE INJURED. >> YOU'RE PART OF THE FIGHT. OH, ABSOLUTELY. BUT WITH THE DETERMINATION THERE'S ALSO FRUSTRATION SEEN IN MASSIVE WEEKEND RALLIES THAT HAVE REPEATEDLY DRAWN THOUSANDS TO THE STREETS OF CHICAGO, HOME TO MORE THAN 50,000 PEOPLE WITH UKRAINIAN HERITAGE. WE HAVE TO SUPPORT WE CANNOT JUST LEAVE IT AND WATCH IT. THAT'S PUBLIC EXECUTION UNTIL THE BOMBING AND THE WORK HERE CONTINUES. DO YOU THINK YOU CAN SUSTAIN THIS EFFORT FOR WEEKS AND MONTHS TO COME IF THIS WAR GOES ON. THE UKRAINIANS ARE A HARDY BUNCH UKRAINIAN-AMERICANS PREPARED TO SUPPORT FOR THE LONG RUN. BUT PRAYING THE END OF SUFFERING IS NEAR. >> WE'VE BEEN WATCHING THESE DONATIONS FOR IN ALL DAY LONG. IN FACT, EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME FROM THE SLEEPING BAGS TO THE TENT, TO THE DIAPERS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN LOADED ON TO THE TRUCK WERE DONATED TODAY ALONE. YOU'RE GETTING THE SENSE THAT PEOPLE ARE DOING WHATEVER THEY CAN FROM WHEREVER THEY CAN TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE. >> CHECK. THANK YOU. COMING UP, OUR COVERAGE FROM INSIDE UKRAINE CONTINUES TOMMY ON THE SPEAKS TO A MEMBER OF THE
UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT. WHAT SHE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT. WHAT SHE TOLD US ABOUT LIFE INSIDE. ♪ ♪ >> WELCOME BACK TO A SPECIAL EDITION OF TOP STORY REPORTING FROM UKRAINE. YOU'RE SEEING JOURNALISTS RUN FOR COVER AFTER HEAVY SHELLING NEAR KIEV. JUST A SNIPPET OF ALL THE ONGOING CONFLICT IN THIS COUNTRY. I WANT TO BRING IN NOW A MEMBER OF UKRAINE'S PARLIAMENT LISA. YEAH. SCHOOL. LISA, THANK YOU FOR JOINING TOP STORY KNOW THIS IS INCREDIBLY TOUGH TIME FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT SOME COMMENTS YOU MADE ABOUT YOUR PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY. YOU THINK THAT IF THE RUSSIANS GET THEIR HANDS ON HIM. THEY WILL ULTIMATELY EXECUTE HIM. >> I'M SURE THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT. THEY WANT TO KILL HIM AND GET THAT THERE THAT THESE COVERAGE ACTUALLY EXIST IN IN THE WORLD TO PRISONS AND SKI SHOWS LOTS AND LEADERSHIP AND HE'S NOT SCARED AND THE RUSSIANS. WE MISCALCULATED THAT. >> WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE FAMILY THAT WAS KILLED OVER THE WEEKEND WHEN RUSSIAN FORCES ATTACK CIVILIANS WERE TRYING TO EVACUATE JUST OUTSIDE OF KEITH. >> IT'S A BIG TRAGEDY BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT'S NOT GOING TO BE CASE. THE PEOPLES CBN'S AND CHILDREN THAT KILLED BY SNIPERS AND BY EXPLOSIONS AND BY SHOOTINGS YESTERDAY. ONE PERSON I KNEW WAS HE'S A NEXT TO. >> LISA. I KNOW YOU'VE DONE A LOT OF INTERVIEWS AND YOU HAVE TO STAY STRONG FOR YOUR PEOPLE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ESSENTIALLY A PUBLIC SPOKESPERSON FOR YOUR COUNTRY. BUT I MEAN TO LOSE YOUR FRIEND AND TO LOSE ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE THAT ARE JUST CIVILIANS YOUR COUNTRY. THAT HAS TO BE SO DIFFICULT IT'S INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT >> IT'S A HOW IT'S A REAL HELP. BUT SOMEHOW I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS THE FIGHT. WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE. YOU KNOW, THERE 2 WAYS. >> WHETHER YOU GET OUT AND YOU NEVER SEE UKRAINE OR YOU KEEP FIGHTING WITH IT WHEN ALL THE LOSSES. AND YOU KEEP THAT FACE. THAT'S. THE PRICE THAT
WE PAY IS GOING. THE RING IN WE PAY IS GOING. THE RING IN REAL RESULTS. KILLING >> I'M SURE THAT NOW WE HAVE NOT ONLY UKRAINE WITH DEFENDING. FUTURE OF HUMANITY. AND I'M SURE THAT PUTIN IS GOING TO FAIL IF HE ISN'T GOING TO FAIL TOMORROW. PHYSICALLY IN HIS STATE AND RUSSIA. HE WILL FAIL IN ANY WAY BECAUSE HE IT'S GOING MEETING OR CRIMES RIGHT NOW AGAINST. UKRAINIAN PEOPLE. >> I ♪ >> REPORTING FROM UKRAINE THAT MOVING PERFORMANCE. YOU SEE THEIR LITTLE GIRLS RENDITION OF LET IT GO FROM THE MOVIE FROZEN FOR STAGE. A BOMB SHELTER IN KIEV. HER SONG, A BRIEF DISTRACTION FOR THOSE HARD ALONGSIDE HER. THAT LITTLE GIRL LIKE SO MANY CHILDREN. WE'VE MET CAUGHT IN THE CROSS HAIRS OF THIS WAR. LAST WEEK WE INTRODUCE YOU TO SOME OF THE MOST VULNERABLE VICTIMS OF THIS CONFLICT, AN ORPHANAGE HERE AND WILL BE THAT REPORT REACHING PARENTS BACK HOME IN THE U.S. WHO RECOGNIZE THE KIDS. THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO ADOPT FOR YEARS. TONIGHT, OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH 2 OF THOSE FAMILIES NOW DESPERATELY TRYING TO GET THEIR KIDS TO SAFETY. >> THE MASS EXODUS IN UKRAINE REACHING HISTORIC LEVELS NOW THE FASTEST GROWING REFUGEE CRISIS SINCE WORLD WAR 2. I JUST TO LIFT MY HOME TO NO I HAVE NO PLAN. I JUST WANTED TO SAVE MY PROTECTING CHILDREN IS FUELING THE MIGRATION FROM THE FIGHTING IN THE EAST TO SAFE HAVENS IN THE WEST. THESE CHILDREN YOU SEE HERE MAYBE IN THE WORST POSSIBLE POSITION BECAUSE THEY'RE ORPHANS. THEY DO NOT HAVE FAMILY. THEY ARE IN LIMBO RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE BEING TAKEN CARE OF THERE BEING FED LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND YOU CREATE THIS MOMENT. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN LAST FRIDAY WE INTRODUCED YOU TO A GROUP OF UKRAINIAN ORPHANS EVACUATED FROM THE WAR ZONE. 8 YEAR-OLD DEMETRIUS TOLD US HOW HE HOPES TO STILL BE ADOPTED. >> WHAT DO YOU THE WORLD TO KNOW ABOUT UKRAINE. >> HE TOLD ME HE WANTS THE WAR TO STOP ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY TO ANYBODY BACK AND BETTER THE REGION. THE TREE SAYS ANSWER SHOOK ME BECAUSE IT'S THE REALITY OF THIS WAR. >> OUR STORY CLOSE TO HOME FOR SEVERAL FAMILIES BACK IN THE U.S. BECAUSE THEY RECOGNIZE CHILDREN. THEY WERE TRYING TO ADOPT. I SAID, OH, MY GOSH, LOOK, THIS IS THIS IS BEACH IS WHAT WE CALL HIM. AND HE WAS EATING BEACHES CAME UP TO US ASKING TO BE ON CAMERA. HE SPENT SUMMERS AND WINTERS IN TO KIND FAMILY WANTS TO ADOPT HIM AND HIS 2 SIBLINGS HE'S JUST LIKE SO SPECIALLY WANTS TO BE WITH THIS SO BAD AND WE HAVE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T COME TODAY. WE'RE WAITING. YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE THE PROCESS STANDS NOW WITH THE WAR WILL RIGHT NOW ALL OFFICES OVER THERE CLOSE TO RIGHT NOW THAT THE ADOPTION PROCESS IS IN A STANDSTILL. >> OUR QUESTION IS WILL WE EVER SEE THEM AGAIN, ESPECIALLY RUSSIA HAS BANNED ADOPTIONS TO AMERICAN CITIZENS AND HOSTING SINCE 2013. >> THE HIGH KNICKS TELL US THERE ARE AT LEAST 300 AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE SAME BOAT. >> THIS KIND OF LIKE THEY'RE AT READINGS. BUT YOU IT'S THE THEM. >> THE ROSE ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT CHILD. THEY'RE TRYING TO ADOPT THE COUPLE IS NOW IN POLAND ON THE BORDER HELPING REFUGEES BUT ALSO TRYING TO MOVE ALONG ADOPTION OF THEIR CHILD WHO THEY SAY TEXT THEM EVERY DAY. >> BUT HE'S AFRAID OF THE WAR TO USE JUST ABOUT OPTION IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IS NEXT ON THE LIST FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS IN MY HEART USED HIM AND IT DOESN'T MATTER PAPER IT
DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE LAW DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE LAW HE'S MOST >> AND AGAIN, WE FEEL FOR OF THOSE AMERICAN FAMILIES TRYING TO GET THE KIDS THEY HOPE TO ADOPT OUT OF UKRAINE FOR THOSE OF YOU AT HOME WHO WANT TO HELP THE CHILDREN. YOU JUST SAW A REPORT HERE IN LA VIVE. YOU CAN DO SO BY VISITING THE WEBSITE THAT THEY ARE COLLECTING FUNDS FOR RIGHT THERE ON YOUR SCREEN. THE LINK IS ALSO ON THE TOP STORY. INSTAGRAM AND TWITTER PAGES. I WANT TO THANK YOU TONIGHT FOR WATCHING TOP STORY. I'M TOM LLAMAS REPORTING AGAIN FROM
UKRAINE. STAY RIGHT THERE. UKRAINE. STAY RIGHT THERE. MORE NEWS NOW ON THE WAY.
