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Of ukraine and shejoins me now via skype from los angeles. thank via skype from los angeles. you forjoining us. firs of thank you forjoining us. first of all how many people are we talking about?— talking about? well, europe estimation _ talking about? well, europe estimation is _ talking about? well, europe estimation is pretty - talking about? well, europe estimation is pretty right. talking about? well, europe estimation is pretty right on j estimation is pretty right on point. its roughly ...

Reporters, and the biggest ukrainian news outlets are writing about this website. the ukrainian government is like replying to my tweets on twitter. this is in the right hands. a lot of the polish radio stations are covering this, were working with like individual bus drivers, like all the way in eastern europe, and having them like show a card that has like a qr code of this website to refugees. and all of that kind of stuff. >> and avi, is it in english only? >> we have over a dozen languages ...

Free. why did you want to be here? >> i came to this country for the first time in 2015. i fell in love with the country. i met my wife here. so it was a personal connection. >> and our personal connection was to him and to the overall effort of a democracy fighting to be a democracy. >> i kind of landed on an old line from "for whom the bell tolls." "for what are we born if not to aid one another?" looking at my two young sons and thinking of that line, i felt this was a unique opportunity to h...

Taxi drivers, bus drivers, they are acutely aware of the general level of trauma that a person would go through in the war because they are the ones on the ground actually helping these people to get out. but what we do is a certain level of co—ordination and establishing rapport to make the people understand that they are amongst friends. find the people understand that they are amongst friends.— are amongst friends. and being dealt with as _ are amongst friends. and being dealt with as in...

Tanks, arms and vehicles are being destroyed. >> it is quite stunning, even for all that power 27 days and they have not achieved any strategic objectives they were after. >> ukrainian forces fighting off constant russian efforts to occupy mariupol but the port city lays in ruins continuously bombarded by the russians. hundreds of thousands of people have fled. >> mariupol is almost 90% destroyed appear they bombed us the past 20 days. during the last five days, the planes dropped bombs everywhe...

Taking them to safety because there are always going to be echoes of being bussed out of one place, supposedly to somewhere safe, and im afraid, psychologically, that must be a very difficult step to take for them? i very difficult step to take for them? . ., , , ., them? i completely agree with ou. it is them? i completely agree with you. it is quite _ them? i completely agree with you. it is quite terrifying - you. it is quite terrifying stop and that is why grassroots organisations like safe ...

Said sounded like a russian drone. wore dead and drones, part of everyday life in ukraine. i should underscore that i cannot independently confirm that there were the bodies of around 700 russian soldiers in two different refrigerator trucks. the trucks were not opened for us. you heard the reason why. it is plausible when you hear the estimates of potential russian casualties coming from the u.s. government, coming from the ukrainian government. an additional issue, a challenge for keeping the ...

Russian drone. war dead and enemy drones, part of everyday life in eastern ukraine. >> ivan watson joins us now. so fascinating to hear about running a city at aye time like this. what did he tell you about the city? >> i kept asking him how do you keep the buses running on time? he said, thats been a challenge. a lot of his bus drivers had previous experience driving tanks, et cetera, and they volunteered to go back into the armed forces to operate armored vehicles. he said the city buses are o...

Senior correspondent ed lavandera and we just saw that statement from the mayor of mariupol saying that the city is now in the hands of the occupiers. do we have any sense of exactly what that means? >> reporter: i think what the mayor there is saying is describing what has turned and become an even more grim situation that we have already seen. mariupol is a city of about 400,000 people. the mayor saying that he believes there are still about 160,000 people left inside that city and he talked a...

Adolescents in middle schools and high schools can have a good school year, that the teachers are safe. teachers have to be vaccinated. the staff has to be vaccinated. the bus drivers have to be vaccinated. that will have the added benefit of expanding community vaccination rates to lower transmission overall, which will keep the little kids safer. that has to be the number one priority. >> but what about the kids 12 and under or under 12, i guess, that cant get vaccinated? then the virus moves ...