Hannah, stop check joining me here in cheddar studios in lower Manhattan.
Good morning Hannah, how you doing? Good morning baker, I'm good.
How about you were doing great this one.
So we obviously have a lot to dive into this morning. Everyone.
So let's get you are need to know headlines this morning.
Let's get you caught up on the latest and
happening in Ukraine as a residential building in Kiev Was
hit by Russian shelling and that set off fires
on several floors of the 12 story building there.
Now rescue workers evacuated 37 people from that building.
At least two people so far have been injured in this.
Now people inside Kiev which is under a 35 hour curfew imposed
by the mayor on Tuesday have described explosions echoing throughout the night.
Air raid sirens also sounded throughout the night as well.
Some sad news here.
Fox News sharing some heartbreaking news about one of their own that is there.
Cameron Pierre Stachowski was killed in Ukraine
that after the news crews vehicle came under fire,
Ukrainian producer Alexandra cushion nova also killed in that
attack and Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall was injured.
Now, as far as peace talks are concerned here,
there's some mixed messaging going on in the progress here.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinski is saying that Moscow
is finally getting quote realistic in their negotiations.
While Russia's delegation is saying that talks have been difficult and
slow now Russia did add that the country wants a quote,
peaceful,
free independent and neutral Ukraine and that that's been Russia's intent
from the beginning. Hannah.
Meanwhile baker,
the Russian journalist who interrupted a state
tv news bulletin and denounced the war
in Ukraine has been fined 30,000 rubles or about $280 by a Russian court.
The news editor burst onto the set during a live
broadcast of monday's nightly holding a sign protesting the invasion
concerns for the journalist safety arose when she
was not heard from the following incident.
She posted a message to social media just before the
demonstration urging Russians to protest the war in the streets.
She can still face additional charges. Video is, it's just incredible to watch.
Meanwhile, fighter and its vaccine partner biontech,
They're reportedly planning to request approval for giving a
4th COVID-19 vaccine dose to anybody 65 and older.
Now the submission for approval from the FDA
is expected to include data from Israel.
That's one of the few countries that already has
authorized a second booster for people 60 and older.
The move also is to combat waning immunity and that
occurs several months after you get that first booster shot,
Hannah
and about a year after the infamous ever given chip
clogged the essential Suez canal causing a global logistics nightmare.
Another evergreen is dealing with the same issue.
The ever forward is everything but it's stuck in
the craig hill channel of the Chesapeake bay.
The giant container ship ran aground on sunday Maryland
port administration is working on ways to free the ship
Evergreen,
which is based in Taiwan has sent divers to the ship to inspect the whole for damage.
Now, last year, when the 400 m ever given got stuck in North Africa,
it blocked vessels from moving on both sides of
the Suez Canal waterway for about a week.
Yeah,
that is just incredible to think that it's almost a year
to the month that that incident happened we've ever given.
Meanwhile,
some Disney employees were planning a walkout that
over the company's response to florida's new law
that bars discussion of sexuality and gender identity
in pre K to third grade classrooms.
Disney Ceo bob chapek initially had refused to comment on that legislation even
as the company had donated to local politicians that had supported it.
Now, he later walked back his initial response,
he was trying to stay neutral and he also said he announced plans
for Disney to pause all of its political contributions in the state.
He also called Governor Rhonda Santis to object to the law,
but still L G B T Q plus advocates within the companies
are saying that Disney hasn't gone far enough to correct itself.
A number of employees are now staging a week of virtual 15 minute walk outs,
culminating in a full day walkout. That's on March the 22nd.
So that's next Tuesday opponents of the legislation
have called it the don't say gay law
and have voiced serious concerns about the impact
it could have on Children in florida.
Now, the governor wants a scientist,
I believe just signed that bill into legislation earlier this week.
But the all the the other larger question here about this heinous bill
is
does bob
peck keep his job at the end of the day because the internal turmoil has
been so bad so far with Disney in terms of his public stance on this.
And it doesn't help by the way that the person he took over this job
from bob iger had already announced his his opposition to this bill weeks before.
So really putting bob
peck in a terrible position here.
Matt Belloni over a puck news has already said that he thinks bob
peck might survive this just because Disney's stock has been impacted here.
But clearly this is going to be a bigger
headache here for Disney with all these walkouts happening.
When people had spoke to the organizers behind these walkouts,
they described the current atmosphere at Disney as quote,
confusion and concerning.
So you gotta just picture all of
the different personalities and everybody who wants
to express themselves in different ways and then everybody who doesn't and I mean,
it's it's tough for some of those employees, but also at the same time,
I can't blame them.
No, Absolutely.
And we can't we can't forget that Disney is
the largest employer in the state of florida.
And they they they're the employer of a lot of L. G. B. T. Q.
People and that's not fully responded.
No no exactly they still really have not fully responded.
So this is really going to be sort of this difficult tight walk for bob shape
to kind of have because Disney didn't really want to get involved in culture wars.
But clearly that's not going to be the case here.
It's already happening elsewhere baker.
The first international space station spacewalk for 2022 is in the books.
Nasa astronauts,
Kayla Barron and raja chari started installations
shortly after eight a.m. Eastern time yesterday
making power upgrades.
Their spacewalk lasted nearly seven hours.
Baron and Shari assembled and installed modification kits
that will make future solar array upgrades possible
outside of the space station. This comes as the clock is taking on the I. S. S.
Which will be retired
by the end of the decade.
I was looking into this and I was actually seeing that
they were planning to go back for their second spacewalk already.
March 23rd beginning around 8:50 a.m. Yeah that's really interesting.
The other thing that's really fascinating here is there's going to
be Russian astronauts are going to be going to the I.
S. S. On friday.
So there's an american astronaut that has to come
back starting on friday sorry on March the 30th.
Excuse me.
But what's interesting is that american astronaut
has to come back with the Russians.
So given the fact of all the geopolitical tensions that
are happening right now between the West and Russia,
Russia is still saying, look,
everything is gonna go according to plan here right now that what's
happening with Ukraine has no impact on what's happening with the I.
S. S.
But either way sort of interesting that the
United States denouncing Russia what's what's happening in Ukraine
but has to walk this tight walk with
getting this american astronaut back from space here.