either way, we've got a lot to get to for you this morning.
So let's dive into the need to know headlines
this morning, Russia's retreat from Kiev this weekend,
well, did reveal some potential war crimes and even mass graves in nearby cities.
The details coming out of cities like
busta are horrifying and their heartbreaking.
That is, Ukrainians tried to return home and rebuild their country again.
Fighting continues in Ukraine's southern region and
in the contested area of Donbas.
That is foreign officials from Japan,
the EU and the UK all calling for even more sanctions against Russia.
According to the U. N.
More than 1400 Ukraine civilians have so far been killed so far in this war, Hannah
and police in sacramento California are still searching
for suspects after a mass shooting this weekend,
Six people were killed and 12 more were injured.
Officers did recover a gun at the scene, but say there were multiple shooters.
The shooting happened early sunday morning.
Right as bars were closing and crowds were pouring onto the streets right now,
Police say that they were working on piecing together
the events leading up to the shooting
to hone in on the suspects.
This is the third mass shooting where six or more people have been killed in 2022.
All right.
Meanwhile, in Washington,
Judge Catania Brad Jackson is about to begin
the final steps to become the first black woman
to sit on the Supreme Court
this morning.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is going to vote on
her nomination and will send it to the full Senate
now, given the even 50 50 split in the chamber,
the committee vote will be likely deadlocked and once that happens,
democrats will have to move for the full
Senate to discharge the nomination from the committee
after that.
The Senate will then move into several days of debate on
that nomination before a final vote is expected on thursday yesterday.
Retiring. Republican Senator Roy blunt of Missouri
said he too would oppose her nomination.
I don't think she's the kind of judge that will
really do. The kind of work that I think needs to be done by the court and
I won't be supporting her.
But I'll be joining others and understanding the importance of
this moment. Now we should know.
Jackson does have the votes for confirmation,
all Democratic Caucus members plus Republican senator Susan Collins
of Maine all set to vote yes on her.
A few more republicans could jump on board.
But Jackson doesn't need more support to join the High court.
And if you're trying to travel to Florida this weekend, you were in for a rough one.
Airlines delayed more than excuse me,
more than 9000 flights coming in or out
of the sunshine state because of thunderstorms.
The air traffic disruption
comes during peak spring break season for the state.
Now Southwest was the hardest hit. Airlines. The weather delays happened on
top of a system outage which also delayed morning flights.
Those storms have since cleared and it's business as usual for florida flights.
Now, I definitely heard from my family,
I was gonna say you traveling to florida all the time.
I know that was a story that would have been impacting you
and I would have been miserable
imagine. Oh yes, I'll be doing the show alone while you're still traveling.
Meanwhile, Tesla has informed their employees and their suppliers
they're not going to resume production at their shanghai factory today.
The electric vehicle giant did not confirm why production remains halted,
but it likely has something to do with Shanghai's
recent lockdown to combat their latest covid surge there.
Now Tesla was hoping to stop production for only four days
but they actually saw those plans spoiled after the
city extended its lockdown on friday and saturday.
Now Elon musk did take to twitter following the lockdown extension,
he says china zero covid policy and supply chain interruptions
led to a very difficult quarter for the company.
The current stoppages now the longest stoppage of Tesla's
Shanghai factory since it opened back in 2019.
The Shanghai factory produces 6000 model three's
and 10,000 model white cars every single week
And Mexico is suspending its gas subsidy policy for
us drivers in its border states until April eight.
This comes after a slew of us drivers drove into the
border region to take advantage of the reduced gas prices.
The Mexican finance ministry says it saw a gas shortage in the US border region
due to an imbalance between supply and demand.
The area includes baja California and Tijuana,
the latter of which is one of the busiest border crossings between the two countries
in Mexico.
The average gas price range from 3 to $4 per gallon throughout the month of March.
While us gas prices on average remain well over $4 per gallon.
Alright, March Madness finally has a champion.
The south Carolina gamecocks, the number one seed
came in as the favorite and delivered with a 64 49 victory
over a Yukon for their second national title in six years.
Senior guard Destiny Henderson led the way with 26 points for
the Gamecocks while its defense stifled the electric Yukon offense.
So now the attention shifts to tonight for the men's side that
is Kansas takes on north Carolina in the men's national championship game.
Now Kansas came into March madness with the second best odds to win
the tournament and then now favored to win tonight's game by four.
That according to our friends at Bet mgm. Both teams come in with plenty of momentum.
The Jayhawks coming off a dominating final
four win over Villanova while north Carolina and
it coach K's career with an emphatic loss tonight's tip 9:15 p.m. Eastern time.
So a late one for us.
We'll obviously have to watch the highlights tomorrow morning when you and I get up.
But I mean this is this Final four was amazing
at least on the men's side was so incredibly amazing.
I mean,
what way that north Carolina was sort of able to
stifle mike dostoevsky's final game as a head coach.
You and I both almost sort of pulling for Duke to sort of win this,
just for Mike Yastrzemski to sort of end his career on this.
Amazing, you know, it was still such a fantastic game for him.
And the way he left, I have so much respect for coach K and the way he did it.
I will say the last time these two teams met, By the way,
North Carolina and Kansas was in 1957 where it was a triple
overtime victory by north Carolina and Wilt Chamberlain led Kansas interesting.
Isn't that wild now? Wilt Chamberlain still has like so many, uh,
records that he holds in the league and he's the only player to score 100 points.
Yes, still,
Yes, still. And by the way, he had no idea.
He went to Kansas that actually completely blew my mind.
Their Kansas, by the way, the number one seed north Carolina, the eighth seed.
You never see an eighth seed, by the way, make it.
But I feel like north Carolina has always been overperforming.
I mean, they've been the best eighth seed.
Did you see the streets in north Carolina after this? Oh yeah, there was insane.
It was insane. That's the stuff I missed. Like,
I am so happy that we're in this
in this era where everyone is a little bit, you know, all the fans are back because
that's what you want to see is that fans will be so excited.
And like even though Coach K lost and we didn't get our win there, it's still just,
we love to see the fans by the way, on the women's side, you know, once again,
congratulations to south Carolina Yukon.
I think I read somewhere 17 straight Final Four appearances,
which is like insane to sort of think about my gosh, well, for more stories,
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