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Zelenskyy: Russian Troops "Slowly But Noticeably" Moving Out Of North Ukraine; Ukraine Raises Flag Over Chernobyl, Reclaiming Nuclear Site; Several Evacuation Corridors Expected To Open Today In Ukraine; Ukrainian Families Risk Everything To Flee Russian Invasion; Will Smith Resigns From The Motion Picture Academy; Authorities Hunt For Mob Hitman Who Escaped Federal Custody; Bruce Willis "Stepping Away" From Acting After Aphasia Diagnosis; Ukrainian Refugees Having Their Babies Far From Home. Aired 1-2p ET
Aired April 02, 2022 - 13:00 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on Fredricka Whitfield. We start this hour in Ukraine. Russian forces intensifying attacks launched a series of new strikes as civilians tried to escape. Ukrainian officials say Russia began a new round of bombardments today in parts of eastern Ukraine, hitting evacuation convoys in railways. The Russians also targeting a key oil refinery in the central part of the country.
These new assaults coming just a day after Russian officials say Ukrainian helicopters crossed into Russia for the first time destroying a fuel depot. Ukrainian officials will not confirm nor deny responsibility for that attack.
And overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy giving an update on Russian troop movement saying Putin's forces are slowly but noticeably moving out of north Ukraine. This morning, Ukraine's flag back over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant weeks after the facility was captured by Russian forces.
A new satellite images show Russia's military abandoning a strategic airport outside of Kiev, which they captured on the first day of this invasion. All of this happening as new evacuations are underway in several besieged eastern Ukrainian cities. Seven corridors are set to open today. Thousands escaping the violence on Friday, but over 100,000 still remain trapped in the ravaged city of Mariupol.
The uncertainty of where Russia may strike next has residents across Ukraine on edge. That's especially true in the key port city of Odessa in the southern part of the country. CNN's Ed Lavandera is there now. So, Ed, Russia launched a few missile strikes on the Odessa region on Friday. So, what can you tell us about what's happening now?
ED LAVANDERA, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Right. The Friday night missile strikes kind of shattered a little bit of the tranquility that had been seen in this city of Odessa, key port city on the Black Sea. But despite all of that, there's a sense of defiance in the area.
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LAVANDERA (voice over): The Kanishka market is where you come to trade gossip and rumors, dollars for Ukrainian cash or hunt down underground rare books. It's also where a group of college friends come for coffee and a sense of peace.
(on camera): I want to ask you with everything going on in Ukraine, everything here seems so normal.
TAIMUR KRAVCHENKO, LAW STUDENT: Now it's home and we can, like, live a normal life. But that's for now, we don't know what's going to be tomorrow or in a week.
LAVANDERA (on camera): It looks normal. But is it really normal?
KRAVCHENKO: Inside everyone is afraid. If something's going to happen in Odessa, of course, we'll protect our city. But right now, we can just sit and live normal life.
LAVANDERA (voice-over): Do navigate the streets of Odessa, you see the remaining residents trying to go about their daily lives. But a large part of the city's historic center is transformed into a fortified zone with anti-tank barricades, bracing for an amphibious attack by Russian troops from the Black Sea. It's a ghost town.
(on camera): The residents of Odessa would normally be preparing to hold what is known as the April Fool's parade on this street in the heart of the city. It's a parade that started years ago in response to Soviet censorship. But now, this area of Odessa is completely fortified. And this year, there will be no parade.
Instead, civilian volunteers and activists are mobilizing to support the war effort.
(on camera): So we're in a bomb shelter in Odessa. And this is where they're making bulletproof vests.
(voice-over): We meet this man sealing the steel plates of homemade armored vests for frontline soldiers. He asked that we call him Martine (ph).
(on camera): We've heard that Russian forces are leaving Kyiv. Are you concerned? And do you think that they're going to start coming back toward Odessa?
We've already beat their ass. We will do it again, he tells me.
Russian naval ships remained stationed off the coast of Odessa in the Black Sea. The concern here is the war will intensify in the South.
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LAVANDERA: Before the war, Martine worked as a professional scuba diver. He defiantly says he looks forward to exploring the underwater wreckage of those sunken Russian ships as a diver when the war is over.
On a street corner, we find dozens of displaced families who have escaped to Odessa. They're from the worst war zones hoping to find food and clothing.
Olga Petkovich is waiting with five of her six children.
So, you come from a village that was surrounded by Russian soldiers. You're in the crossfire. How frightening was that?
I was scared for the children most of all, she tells me.
Olga says her family had to walk through a forest to escape shelling. Tears well up in her eyes as her husband tells us Russian soldiers broke into their homes taking everything they could from the families in their village.
OLGA PETKOVICH, DISPLACED RESIDENT OF SNEGIRYOV, MYKOLAIV (through translator): When we came here, the volunteers told us to say what we need, but I'm ashamed. I've worked all my life and never asked anyone for anything. And now I have to ask.
LAVANDERA: Her little girl wipes away her mother's tears.
Mother, why are you crying, the girl asks. Because they were shelling us a lot, Olga tells her.
Not far from where we met Olga's family, we notice a father teaching his daughter how to ride a bike, a poignant moment in the midst of a surreal world.
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LAVANDERA: And Fredricka, we don't have a lot of details on the missile strikes that happened about 24 hours ago. We do know that there were three missiles launched at the Odessa area from the Crimean peninsula. One military official says that the Russian forces did not strike their targets. Fredricka?
WHITFIELD: My goodness. All right. Such powerful stories and experiences and pictures. Thank you so much, Ed Lavandera. All right, more now on that alleged Ukrainian attack on a Russian fuel depot. CNNs Frederik Pleitgen looks at the impact it could have on peace talks between the two countries.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): It could be a brazen and bold counter attack by the Ukrainians. This social media video seeming to show two attack helicopters penetrating Russian territory and firing at an oil depot setting the facility ablaze. The Russian military publicly acknowledging the incident.
On April 1st at around 5:00 a.m. Moscow time, two Ukrainian MI-24 helicopters entered the airspace of the Russian Federation at extremely low altitude, the spokesman says. Ukrainian helicopters launched a missile attack on a civilian oil storage facility located on the outskirts of Belgorod. As a result of the missile hit, individual tanks were damaged and caught fire.
Video from the aftermath shows the facility engulf in massive flames with firefighters struggling to put out the blaze.
Belgorod is a highly-militarized city right across the border from Kharkiv in Ukraine. It was from here that Russian forces crossed the border and attacked Kharkiv, moving large amounts of tanks, armored vehicles and trucks towards Ukrainian territory. But the Russians also have a massive military support facilities in this area. But Ukrainian so far have not acknowledged they've hit the depot.
DMYTRO KULEBA, UKRAINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: I can neither confirm nor reject the claim that Ukraine was involved in this simply because I do not possess all the military information.
PLEITGEN (voice-over): The strike comes as Russian forces have been suffering setbacks in their invasion of Ukraine, withdrawing some forces from the area around the capital Kyiv after failing to storm the city.
The Russians now saying they want to focus their offensive on the east of the country, which includes Kharkiv where authorities report a major uptick in shelling in recent days. All this as talks between Russia and Ukraine to try and end the fighting continue. But Moscow now saying Vladimir Putin has been briefed on the chopper attack and it could have a negative impact on the talks.
Of course, this is not something that can be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for continuing negotiations, the Kremlin spokesman said.
The strike on the oil facility will probably do little to hold up Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But if the Ukrainians are behind it, it would show they are not afraid to strike back at the country that is attacking them.
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WHITFIELD: Frederik Pleitgen, thanks so much. All right. Earlier today I spoke live with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko as he stood on the bombed out streets in Kiev.
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WHITFIELD: He expressed outrage at disturbing new video showing bodies in the streets of a village on the outskirts of the capital city. And he called on the west to provide more weapons and to hold Russia accountable for the atrocities committed in Ukraine.
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PETRO POROSHENKO, FORMER PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE: Please understand, this is not a film of horror. This is the real today life of Ukrainian capital. This is how we live in Kiev. Just behind me, this is the children basketball center (INAUDIBLE) and this is the Russian missiles who attacked these 14 children. And we are here. This is the respect of the memories of the victims of the Babi Yar which is happening here in Kiev.
And this is just a demonstration of disaster (INAUDIBLE) and protecting Ukraine. But Russian armed forces is not fighting with (INAUDIBLE) they fighting with the women, with a children with elderly people, killing and torture of civilians. And we should stop it. We should stop it. And we should understand that if they do not stop them here in Ukraine, definitely they go further. They make a public statement. We will stop (INAUDIBLE) this situation, definitely we need to move up.
QUEST: Yes.
POROSHENKO: This situation (INAUDIBLE) just one thing. Ukraine and future of Europe and the world dependent from 100 fighter jet from 300 tanks, and from 500 armed personnel carrier. And this is this long blaze of dozens of thousands Ukrainian for staying in life to be enlisted in the armed forces. And the battalion of the territorial defense is just heavy weapons to attack and to -- throughout Russian force from Ukrainians.
WHITFIELD: Yes. You are living the horrors right now. Russian leadership would like the world to believe that all of these images are staged. You actually wrote an opinion piece in the Financial Times a few days ago. This as you're also trying to keep your safety and then speak candidly, as you are right now. And you issued this warning to other countries in the region writing. I know that if Putin gets away with what he is doing in my country, he will not stop here.
And other authoritarians across the globe will be emboldened to do the same elsewhere. Mr. President, do you feel like the world is getting this message as it watches the horrors unfold in your country?
POROSHENKO: First of all, I want to thank you for delivering this message. Because this is not only me who is saying that, but independent journalists with a risk of their own life delivering this message is about the horror which its Russia do here in my country. And with that situation, definitely, I really count that it would be no lost in peace without the full territory, free from the Russian troops.
And please don't count, don't trust the de-escalation of Putin because this would be words without deeds. And if -- Putin just regrouping. And the NATO information site today said that this is not the withdraw of the Russian troops from Ukrainian capital. This just because of the -- we hit the Russian troops and they need to withdraw it to regrouping and to review the ability to fight and send it either to Kiev back or to the Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv or Donbas. And without every tiny point of (INAUDIBLE) with the Russian puts on it, peace is unreachable.
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WHITFIELD: Thanks to former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for joining us today from Kiev.
Still ahead. Will Smith resigned from the Academy nearly a week after slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars live on television. But he could still face more consequences.
Plus, a manhunt is underway for convicted killer. A notorious mobster escaping a federal prison in Florida. Details next.
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WHITFIELD: All right. The job market is hot, red hot. Employers added 431,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate is now at a pandemic low, 3.6 percent. But President Biden acknowledged yesterday that rising inflation is still a big battle right now.
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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: More and more Americans get jobs as they do. It's going to help ease the supply pressures we've seen. And that's good news for fighting inflation. It's good news for our economy and it means that our economy has gone from being on the men to being on the move.
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WHITFIELD: All right. CNN's Nadia Romero spoke with one small business owners that say they're really feeling the crunch.
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NADIA ROMERO, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Every step of the baking process now cost more.
KASCHA ADELEYE, CO-OWNER OF KUPCAKERIE: And you look at your cost of goods sold and you're like, whoa.
ROMERO: Almost eight years ago, Kascha and Henry Adaleye started Kupcakarie in East Point, Georgia. Their baking business almost a bust during pandemic shutdowns.
K. ADELEYE: So that first two weeks was probably the scariest time of my life period because we just did not know.
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ROMERO: But Kupcakerie has kept baking and surviving. The president touting booming job growth nationwide wages up, unemployment down. Georgia Commissioner of Labor Mark Butler says the state's an example of record breaking bounce back.
MARK BUTLER, GEORGIA COMMISSIONER OF LABOR: You take a look right now in Georgia, we have, you know, been breaking records in a lot of different sectors like, you know, we're talking about professional services, health care, you know, warehouse and transportation. And so, you know, we're doing really good all the way around.
ROMERO: But inflation plagues the economy. Deliveries carried Kupcakerie through COVID. But now, skyrocketing gas prices sour the sweet treats.
K. ADELEYE: Gas prices are ridiculous. So we had to, you know, increase our delivery costs for the first time ever.
ROMERO: And baking staples.
K. ADELEYE: It's double. The cost of each cupcake at this point.
ROMERO: In 2019, Kupcakerie would pay about $18.00 per 15 dozen eggs. Now.
HENRY ADELEYE, CO-OWNER OF KUPCAKERIE: They are $55.00 per 15 dozen.
ROMERO: Cream cheese about $6.00 per three-pound loaf. Now.
H. ADELEYE. Eleven dollars per loaf. So, almost double the price of that.
ROMERO: Their bottom line just didn't add up.
H. ADELEYE: Last year, we actually had our busiest year ever and our lowest profit margin ever is low.
ROMERO; How does that happen?
H. ADELEYE: Just everything's going up like tenfold.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your set will be 39.81.
ROMERO: So for the first time, Kupcakerie's cupcakes now costs five to 10 percent more.
K. ADELEYE: If you want a cupcake, we have to -- we've got to charge the cost of making
TONIE BUDGETT-PRICE, KUPCAKERIE CUSTOMER: Banana pudding, Red Velvet.
ROMERO: Customers take note.
BUDGETT-PRICE: I did frequent. Another bakery where their cakes are -- they're nice. But the prices are excessive. So again, another reason for me to come and have the opportunity to try something different at a cost that I feel is inviting.
ROMERO: A recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce survey shows most small business owners have raised their prices due to inflation, while also making big changes to attract a strong workforce.
BUTLER: I still think we're a ways off to figure out what the landscape is going to look like. Because there has been so many resets when it comes to the cost of goods, the cost of doing business and wages. ROMERO: With baby number two on the way, the Adaleye's fight open a second Kupcakerie location despite their challenges.
H. ADELEYE: Some days you can't sleep at night when you see the numbers but we're a business and we know we have to stay in business.
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ROMERO: So, I asked George's Commissioner of Labor, Mark Butler, how long will all of this last. He says, listen, I don't have a crystal ball. But hopefully prices will start to come down. We can't keep seeing inflation rise at the rate that we've been seeing it over the last year. But he's hoping, Fred, that happens without a big economic downturn. Like the R word, the recession that we dealt with not long ago that it still haunts many of us.
WHITFIELD: All right. Well, businesses like that need our taste buds to, you know, help them stay afloat. So they'll be seeing my business soon. I'm interested in this cupcake. All right. Thanks, Nadia.
All right. Coming up. The first of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing Putin's assault are starting to arrive right here in the U.S. next.
We'll meet one family who left their whole life behind and are now starting over in an unknown country and in a stranger's home.
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WHITFIELD: All right. This just into the newsroom. The body of Marine Corps Captain Ross Reynolds is now back in his hometown of Massachusetts. He is being honored with a procession in Boston, as the motorcade carrying his body makes its way from the airport to the funeral home.
Also killed in that crash in training, Captain Matthew Tomkiewicz. A 27-year-old from Indiana. Gunnery Sergeant James Speedy. A 30-year-old Ohio native who had earned two gold stars. And Corporal Jacob Moore. A 24-year-old from Kentucky. Officials say the Marines were taking part in a NATO training exercise that was not linked to the war in Ukraine. The cause of the crash still being investigated.
And as families flee the increasingly dangerous conditions in Ukraine, some are finding refuge in places they never dreamed of. CNN's Randi Kaye has more.
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IRYNA TIMOSHENKO, UKRAINIAN REFUGEE: I realized that something happened because when at 5:30 maybe a.m. the neighbors called me and asked, did you hear something? What happened?
RANDI KAYE, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Iryna Timoshenko was on a business trip last month in Lviv, Ukraine near the Polish border. When Russia started bombing her country, her husband and their three children were hundreds of miles away at the family's home outside Kiev.
TIMOSHENKO: I just asked my husband to bring the kids to me.
KAYE: Iryna and her husband Oleksandr devised a plan. He would drive them through the night about seven hours one way to meet her in Lviv.
KAYE (on camera): So as your husband drove toward leave, you were able to track him on your phone.
TIMOSHENKO: In WhatsApp, it's the one option, share your location. And I can online check where he is. Because you know it was like a hardest hours when you realize that all your family, your husband and your kids driving and it can bomb in and it can be anything.
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KAYE (voice over): When the family reunited, Iryna thought her husband wasn't able to cross the border since men of a certain age were being told to stay and help defend Ukraine.
So, Iryna and her kids, ages three, seven and nine, boarded a train to Poland.
Meanwhile, around the same time, half a world away, this man, Philip Bradford, was watching the Russian siege on TV at his Florida home.
Phillip's mother was Croatian and his wife's stepmother was from Ukraine. So, he felt the urge to help.
PHILIP BRADFORD, OPENED HOME TO TIMOSHENKO FAMILY: I heard my wife and my mother and my step mother-in-law, my mother-in-law, telling me get off of my dupa, which is rear end, and go do something.
KAYE: Just a few minutes away from Philip's home, in Cooper City, is St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
BRADFORD: I went to the church. And I gave them a couple of $100 thinking I've done my good deed like a Boy Scout might. And I said, if I can help more, let me know.
KAYE: It turns out, there was more, a lot more.
Iryna had made her way to Miami with her kids. She visited that same Ukrainian church last year. So, when she went back and shared her struggle, a church volunteer called on Philip to help.
BRADFORD: I was told about this mother with three children from Ukraine.
IRYNA TIMOSHENKO, UKRAINIAN REFUGEE: Yes, I want to help. I have the big house. I want to give you the place to stay for your kids, and you will have the separate room for all of them.
KAYE: Philip's wife has been in a nursing home for the last four years. So, he's been living alone.
Not anymore. Iryna and her kids moved right in.
BRADFORD: I'm almost 80, so it's like having grandkids running around again.
KAYE (on camera): How do you feel about a stranger opening up his home to your family?
TIMOSHENKO: You know, I was shocked. And now we are like one family all together.
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KAYE (voice-over): Philip even insisted Iryna take the kids to Disney World, his treat.
(on camera): You sent them to Disney?
BRADFORD: Oh, she told you about that?
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KAYE: We know all your secrets.
BRADFORD: That's what grandfather's do I guess.
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KAYE (voice-over): Meanwhile, soon after Iryna left Ukraine, she found out men who had three or more children were allowed to leave the country.
So, a few days ago, this happened.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY: Pa!
UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: Pa!
KAYE: Upon his arrival, as a gesture of thanks, Iryna's husband, who will also live with Phillip, brought him this bracelet in the same colors as the Ukrainian flag.
(on camera): What does that bracelet mean to you?
BRADFORD: It kind of makes me one of them in a sense. Yes.
KAYE: Bonded?
BRADFORD: Yes. Right.
KAYE (voice-over): Randi Kaye, CNN, Cooper City, Florida.
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WHITFIELD: Wow. It's nice to be able to smile about that.
Well, the fallout continues for Will Smith. Nearly a week after he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, he's now retiring from the Motion Picture Academy. We'll discuss. Or resigning, I should say.
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WHITFIELD: All right, new developments in the wake of Will Smith's assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars. Smith announced in a statement Friday that he will resign from the Academy, saying he will fully accept any and all consequences.
Show producer, Will Packer, told ABC that Los Angeles police were standing by to arrest Smith after the incident.
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WILL PACKER, OSCARS PRODUCER: As they were talking, Chris was -- he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, no, I'm fine. He was, like, no, no, no.
And eve on the point where I said, Rock, let them finish. The LAPD officer finished laying out what his option were. And they said, you know, would you like us to take any action, and he said no.
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WHITFIELD: CNN's Camila Bernal joining me now live if Los Angeles.
Camila, the Academy is moving forward with Smith's disciplinary proceedings, all the things they are thinking over, entertaining. What does this mean for Will Smith?
CAMILA BERNAL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fred, it means more is likely coming, that this is not the end, that there are likely many more consequences coming from the Academy despite this resignation.
And, look, in this resignation, he says he is accepting the consequences of his actions. He says that that those actions were shocking, painful, and inexcusable.
In that statement, he says he's heartbroken and says he wants the attention back on the people that deserve it because of their achievements.
Of course, the Academy accepting that resignation but also saying that they're still going to meet on April 18th. And that's when we can see more consequences coming from the board.
But it is important to point out that, in 2017, the code of conduct for the Academy Awards changed because of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
And so according to new rules, what could happen, what could be some of the consequences includes private or public reprimand. It also includes the loss of Academy privileges.
He could lose or have the removal of the awards or his honors. And he could see other sanctions.
But of course, he did resign willingly. So when you do so willingly, it just means that he's also losing some of these privileges because of his resignation.
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And it means no access to film screenings in consideration for an Oscar. It means that he cannot vote on potential nominees.
And there's still this question of whether or not he'll be invited to attend future Academy Awards.
The one thing, though, that appears to still be on the table is the possibility of a nomination, which means that he could still win an Oscar in the future if he's nominated, despite not being a member of the Academy.
So what we're doing here is waiting to see what happens on April 18th when the Academy gets together and when they decide what those consequences will be.
We're also waiting for Chris Rock to speak out. Because, of course, we've heard some things and he did speak out but briefly.
And he said that in the future he is hoping to speak out. And he says it will be funny and it will be serious.
So we have now heard from Will Smith, and we're still waiting to hear from Chris Rock, which, of course, it is a difficult incident for everyone involved, and there's still a lot coming -- Fred?
WHITFIELD: Indeed.
All right, Camila Bernal, thanks so much.
Meantime, a manhunt is under way for a notorious mobster who escaped from federal custody. Details next.
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WHITFIELD: Here's something new today. An infamous mob assassin on the run. And right now, an intense manhunt is under way to track him down.
Dominic Taddeo killed three people and tried to kill two others in New York back in the 1980s. He served time at a prison in Florida but then took off after being transferred to a halfway house.
Joining us now is CNN law enforcement analyst and former FBI supervisory special agent, Peter Taddeo (sic).
Well, let me tell you, this is a really peculiar situation.
I'm talking to Peter Licata. Sorry about that, Peter. Because my words just kind of went right past
me.
Now, let's talk about Taddeo, who is 64 years old. So, do authorities still consider him dangerous?
PETER LICATA, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Good afternoon, Fredricka.
Yes. Regardless of his age, he was incarcerated for committing three murders and the attempted murder of another individual. So of course, he'll be considered dangerous regardless of his age.
He has a violent criminal past. He's an admitted member of organized crime. So obviously, he will be considered dangerous and treated that way as the manhunt will continue by the United States Marshals Service.
WHITFIELD: How do you suppose something like this would happen?
LICATA: Well, it's unusual, actually, for those individuals that are incarcerated for organized crime, especially older individuals that go back from the '80s and '90s.
They usually -- members of organized crime that are incarcerated do their time and they do their time generally quietly, just waiting for their -- to serve their time, then repopulate back into civilian society with their personal lives and most likely their criminal lives as well.
So it's very unusual for this individual to run. Though, in his past, he is noted that he skipped bail on a previous arrest back, I believe, in the '90s.
So he does have a history of trying to evade the law.
WHITFIELD: And then to run a year before actually being released.
And of course, now, if caught -- and it seems everybody always gets caught, right, at some point -- that time to be served has now just been elongated.
LICATA: That's correct. He just had one year to go, again, in a halfway house in Orlando, Florida. He just ruined any chances he had of living a normal life in society.
When he's caught, he will be tried for avoiding law enforcement, for missing out on his specific hearings and procedures.
So that will be a bigger dent, a bigger hit to his incarceration here in the near future.
And they will catch him. It usually happens pretty quickly.
WHITFIELD: So this kind of escape, does it say something about the network that he was once in and doing business with, right, as a mobster, that the network is still ongoing and that is part of the lure of wanting to escape and resume business as once was in?
I mean, what's the psychology here?
LICATA: That's a good question. Again, these individuals usually do their time and reintegrate back into society and into their organized crime affiliations.
Usually, when people try to escape from prison, there's an underlying circumstance. It would generally be a sick family member or he's sick himself and is just looking to get away.
A year to go, there was probably some news that generated his escape.
But I can assure you that, right now, the Marshals Service, probably assisted by local law enforcement in central Florida, as well as the FBI, they're going through his visitor logs for probably the last six months to a year to see who's visited him.
They're going through his call logs to see who he's talked to that may have helped facilitate his escape here.
WHITFIELD: Right. And like all of these kinds of escapes, the recapture is inevitable. It is just an issue of the when.
WHITFIELD: All right, Peter Licata, thank you so much.
LICATA: You're welcome. Thank you.
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WHITFIELD: Actor Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting after his family revealed that he's suffering from a debilitating medical condition It's known as aphasia. And experts say it robs people of their ability to communicate and understand others.
CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, has more.
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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: When it comes to aphasia from a neural perspective, neurosurgery, neurology, we think about this as sort of a broader issues, the inability to communicate generally.
Which means not just the ability to speak but the ability to write, for example. And not just expressing yourself but also being able to receive speech.
And so being able to understand the spoken word and being able to read someone's written work.
And so this is sort of generally what aphasia means. And we don't know specifically what is going on with Bruce Willis, how much of his communication this really affects.
But typically, with aphasia, it can affect different parts of the brain. It can be caused by all sorts of different things, including a stroke, a brain tumor, for example, but sometimes more slowly progressive things, like types of dementia, can cause this as well.
But, again, we don't know at all what's causing the situation with Bruce Willis.
Let me show you on the brain -- if you look at the brain specifically -- there are a couple of the areas of the brain that we often refer to when talking about aphasia.
Closer to the front of the brain, the Broca area, if there was an impact there, typically, people would have a hard time expressing, speaking, even writing.
If they had an issue the Wernicke area, in the back of the brain, that would be more receptive, a harder time understanding the spoken word or reading.
So, again, exactly which has been affected, if both have been affected, how much of this is due to a more progression issue of some other sort, we don't know.
But we do know that oftentimes speech pathology, speech training, things like that can be helpful in these situations.
That's sort of an overlook at, typically, what is aphasia, some of the causes, and what can be done about it.
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WHITFIELD: Fascinating and sad.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, thank you so much.
We will be right back.
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WHITFIELD: The Russian war on Ukraine has turned more than four million Ukrainians into refugees, and half of them are children. Now some babies are being born beyond the Ukrainian borders.
CNN's Kyung Lah has the story of one Ukrainian infant born into a family torn apart by war.
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KYUNG LAH, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Born just hours ago in Poland, Baby Adelina (ph) is already a survivor of the war in Ukraine.
(on camera): Is it -- is it hard to be happy?
KHRYSTYNA PAVLUCHENKO, UKRAINIAN REFUGEE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) LAH (voice-over): "It is," she says.
Adelina (ph) is Khrystyna Pavluchenko's first child.
KHRYSTYNA PAVLUCHENKO, UKRAINIAN REFUGEE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(on camera): You feel guilty? Why?
PAVLUCHENKO: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LAH (voice-over): "Because I left," she says, left her home in Western Ukraine.
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LAH: The war had begun. The bombing neared their city.
Pavluchenko escaped by bus, then walked on foot across the border. Paramedics rushed her to the hospital. She delivered Adelina (ph) a month early, separated from her family.
PAVLUCHENKO: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LAH: "My mother, sister, grandparents, still in Ukraine."
"He is killing our people," she says, of Vladimir Putin. "How could anyone be so cruel?"
MAGDA DUTSCH, INFLANCKA SPECIALIST HOSPITAL: I am terrified. I'm terrified that something like this can happen.
That you can live your everyday life and, all the sudden, because of decisions that you have no influence upon, there is a war and you have to flee. It's -- it's unbelievable. It's terrifying.
LAH (voice-over): Dr. Magda Dutsch is a psychiatrist at Inflancka Specialist Hospital in Warsaw.
The hospital, focused on treating women, has seen 80 Ukrainian patients this month, delivered 11 babies, and treated cancer patients like 58-year-old Tatiana Mikhailuk.
TATIANA MIKHAILUK, UKRAINIAN REFUGEE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LAH: "I ran with my granddaughter in my arms," she says.
Missiles had already blown up the windows in their building. As they fled, something exploded next to their car. Her city is now occupied by Russians.
She is grateful for her doctors at the hospital and the free health care in Poland that is treating her cervical cancer.
Khrystyna is one of the doctors. We are not using her last name because she, herself, is also a refugee from Ukraine, a mother of a five-year-old and the wife of a Ukrainian military man. (on camera): Your husband?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE, DOCTOR: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LAH (voice-over): "My husband has been in the military since 2014. At the moment, he's in Lviv."
LAH (on camera): You had to leave your husband behind?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LAH (voice-over): "Yes," she says. "Now, in Warsaw. I can't sit and do nothing," she says. "I have this opportunity here to help women who fled the country."
LAH: With each breath, Baby Adelina (ph) offers her mother a respite from the war.
(on camera): What will you tell your daughter about her birth?
PAVLUCHENKO: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LAH (voice-over): "The truth," she says. "We will tell her everything as it was. She should know the truth."
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(on camera): All of the Ukrainian patients you have seen in the story, that health care is being covered by the government of Poland, including the health care when they leave the hospital.
And they are not the only ones. The Ministry of Health here in Poland says 197 Ukrainian children have been born in Poland since the war began.
Kyung Lah, CNN, Poland.
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