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External attack to a very hardened nuclear power facility. internal, sabotage, mishap, a chernobyl accident, you bet. external attack, extremely difficult. so that's not what i saw. >> so you have been involved in several white house briefings on this crisis in ukraine, take us to tomorrow. will tonight's attack on the power plant, will it change the calculation, the position this white house is taking? >> well, stephanie, the white house is very measured in the way it's dealing with this situation, as well as with vladimir putin's threats about advancing a nuclear war, as part of a military t...

Going to hit one of the nuclear stations, and this is going to be the world's next disaster. >> you didn't evacuate, you happen to be in the united states traveling when the war broke out, what is this like for you, despite how dangerous this is, does some part of you actually want to be there right now? >> yes, actually the first day i saw, when putin invaded, i told my husband, i have to go back home, and his first question was, how? we have all of the airports, already bombed to ashes and there's no way to even come back home. and i'm supposed have a baby in a month, and you know, there's j...

We impose sanctions and we assume that the enemy in this case will just say well, we've been sanctioned i guess we have to stop doing what we're doing. sanctions take a long time to work. i think americans have an almost undue faith in sanctions. with that said, sanctions can impose a huge amount of pain on the people that putin has thought of as, you know, the kind of underbosses and those he relies on. some of the oligarchs that are being sanctioned are not people putin particularly cares about and the russian people who are going to bear. so brunt of these sanctions, people doesn't care abo...

Could be part of it. memories of chernobyl are strong here. i think another part of it, stephanie, the russian people are being told day after day, this is a limited military operation, in the east of ukraine, to protect the russian speakers there. they are not being told the reality. this is a sprawling invasion of ukraine, across multiple fronts, and this power plant, it is close to russia, but it is also far-ish from these two break-away republics that the russian media are saying are the source of the, the reason the russian forces are inside ukraine. and i think there is a general unwilli...

And now it's my second war, but it is harder. this van, filled with 25 people, also made it through today. all occupants of the same bunker in mariupol escaping together — from ages 2—75. 0vercome with emotion, babushka, or grandmother, anna, says, "it's all too much for me at my age." some of those arriving today gave us videos, a snapshot of the nightmare in which they've been living and the perils of theirjourney out. around 300,000 people are still thought to be trapped inside the besieged city, much of which has been destroyed by the russian bombardment. from the sky in particular, ru...