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>> all right. breaking news overnight in ukraine, where a devastating months' long battle in the key port city of mariupol, ukraine, has officially ceded control on russia. we'll have more on the deal that is right now allowing the city's final defenders to safely evacuate that steel plant. we'll also go live to buffalo this morning as president biden prepares to visit the grieving city in the wake of saturday's deadly mass shooting. it comes amid new reports about the suspect's alleged plan to turn the massacre into a spree. we will talk to a top member of the white house nation...

families can't buy baby formula. >> bill: 40% of brands are out of stock nationwide. one republican lawmaker saying she is hearing from border agents who say their facilities have entire pallets of formula set aside for illegal immigrants crossing the border. >> these agents themselves have families and they have family members that can't get this baby formula in the stores. in texas and arizona, new mexico. the richest nation in the world and we're scrounging around for baby formula? >> the formula crisis is just one of many disasters facing biden's administration. americans scroung...

In the meeting. why do you claim the border is secure, you know what we are dealing and the secretary made a statement, i haven't claimed the border is secured. he's telling men and women who put their lives on the line who watch them on tv saying the border is not secure. he has no respect for the men and women in the border patrol. i was down in county and met with border patrol agents. the only advice i can give them is hang on tight, hang on because in two years the right guy gets back in the white house and you're going back to the job that you're supposed to do is secure the bored and pr...

Make almost all of the country's formula. to make up for the factory shut down, abbott says it's flying in products from europe. other companies say they are ramping up production. >> simply can't turn it up produce more formula. these are very precise manufacturing mechanisms and changes have to be made with fda's okay. you can expedite but you can't rush. rushing causes problems. >> abbott says it's waiting for the go ahead to re-start production here. it needs the fda, it says, to do that. we have asked the fda why it hasn't given the okay for abbott to start making formula again, and they ...

Families on what they should do if they run out. >> is there a hotline they can call? should they take the baby to the hospital? what should they do? >> well, i would say those are important public health questions but what i can report on here, what i can convey to all of you what we're doing to dress exactly that concern. >> white house says because of their actions, manufacturers have produced more formula in the past four weeks than the four weeks preceding the plant shut down and that recall. but, after abbott's plant reopens, it's going to take another 8 weeks for that formula to reach s...