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[explosions] >> dana: happening today intense fighting across gaza as israeli special forces launch a raid into gaza citys largest hospital. they found weapons and hamas stockpiles inside. soldiers searching the hospital found no sign of the hostages kidnapped and held by hamas terrorists. welcome to a new hour of "americas newsroom." im dana perino. >> bill: im bill hemmer. israeli forces are going room to room and underground tunnels as intense fighting rages across the gaza strip. i...

Australiaing and years long investigation may be coming to a conclusion. nbc news correspondent blayne alexander is live outside the fulton county courthouse. thanks for joining us. blayne, were seeing activity at the courthouse this morning. what do we know? >> weve been outside of this courthouse for the better part of three hours since the early part of this morning. youre right, things are ramping up. were seeing a lot of activity. we have been watching both outside and inside the courthouse...

A ukrainian fighter is describing horrific conditions beside that battlered steel plant. >> he says theres about 600 wounded inside the sprawling complex. he says the conditions are unsanitary and operations are being performed without anesthesia. we want to take you live to kyiv now. >> we have been learning from fighter that managed to speak to the outside world give an idea of those appalling and deteriorating humanitarian conditions inside. we, at our end here, have been meeting with the fam...

About $8 million more of drawdown authority, to take stuff from our stocks and give it to the ukrainians, which were doing every single day. thats great. but itll largely depend on their consumption rate. how fast are they going through this? if this becomes a prolonged conflict, yes, we want to make sure were prepared to help. >> ukraine is proposing to release russian prisoners in exchange for the evacuation of wounded soldiers inside the steel plant in mariupol. the countrys deputy prime mini...

From the most innovative company. get a great deal on this limited time price with internet and voice for just $49.99 a month for 24 months with a 2-year price guarantee. call today. we are tracking efforts to evacuate civilians from the steel plant in mariupol, more evacuation attempts are planned for today. ukrainian fighters and civilians are sheltering inside the sprawling complex, have endured heavy russian shelling. ukrainian president zelenskyy is working on diplomatic options to

Who said russian aircraft were planning to, quote, level everything to the ground. >> reporter: cnn cannot vouch for the authenticity, but the sbu has previously released audio from intercepted radio traffic with russian soldiers discussing killing and raping civilians. both allegations of war crimes by russian troops. a tendency of russian troops to use unsecured communications in ukraine. for now a ukrainian commander says russian forces are, quote, willingly bombing and shelling the plant, a ...

But let me give you the backstory of why this is so important. this is a sprawling complex. you can see its a hugely wooded area. and its in these areas that military exercises, training, education, troops come to learn and practice, not just on their own, but with a lot of their western allies, including american troops. there were joint military exercises held on this space just a few months ago, joint exercises between the americans and ukrainians. this is a vital point for the ukrainian mili...

Sprawling complex. about five or six miles from the main road where many refugees are using to meet up with the border check point to get out of the country. only about 11 miles from the polish border and it is that proximity to poland that many figured would be the reason why this part of ukraine would likely be spared by russian military strikes, figuring that vladimir putin wouldnt want to get so close to a nato allied country. apparently not the case. this base in particular was used particu...

President zelenskyy says some towns simply no longer exist. imagies from a village about 30 miles west of kyiv show a school and a medical building as well. we start wis moth what it l like. we have the latest on the shelling. >> reporter: on the outskirts of the perimeter. normally this is a public access road but already a checkpoint is set up down the way. a bit of tension and security concerns. several missiles, air strikes, ukrainian officials say, landing in that base. we know there are ...

Responsibility is to protect the embassy. to protect the embassy with 650 troops, you cant protect this sprawling complex as bagram, so they decided to concentrate or hamed karzai in kabul. >> martha: that reveals what weve heard, which is that the military leadership at the pentagon felt they didnt have enough people to do both as you said. so the fact that they say well, we can give up bagram, theyre dealing with the number of people theyre given. so they had to make a choice. that was an admi...