| By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News |
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| Good Monday afternoon. Some of the first evacuees from a Mariupol steel plant have made it to safer ground, a warrant has been issued for a corrections officer suspected of helping an Alabama inmate escape, and New York City has raised its Covid alert level. |
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| Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown. |
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Evacuations underway in besieged Ukraine port city of Mariupol |
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| A desperate evacuation effort is underway in Mariupol, the southern Ukrainian port city largely controlled by Russian forces after months of relentless attacks. |
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| About 100 civilians who were trapped for weeks inside a steel plant in Mariupol were finally able to leave on Sunday. |
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| Some have already begun arriving in the Ukraine-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia today, according to the Ukraine’s military. |
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| But hundreds of civilians are still reportedly inside the Azovstal plant, and Russian forces resumed shelling the complex overnight, Ukrainian officials said. |
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| About 500,000 people lived in Mariupol before the Russian invasion, and an estimated 100,000 civilians may still be trapped there. |
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| Over the weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a previously unannounced visit. |
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| "Our delegation traveled to Kyiv to send an unmistakable and resounding message to the entire world: America stands firmly with Ukraine,” Pelosi said in a statement. |
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| Today Pelosi was in Warsaw to meet with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and Polish lawmakers, to thank them for their humanitarian efforts to help neighboring Ukraine. |
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| Speaker Pelosi meets Polish president after unannounced visit to Kyiv |
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Arrest warrant issued for corrections officer after inmate escapes |
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| An arrest warrant has been issued for an Alabama corrections officer suspected of helping a capital murder suspect escape last week, authorities said. |
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| “We know she participated” in the escape, Sheriff Rick Singleton said today at a news conference. “Whether she did that willingly or was coerced or threatened, we're not really sure, but we know for sure she did participate.” |
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| The officer, Vicky White, left the Lauderdale County Detention Center with inmate Casey White on Friday, the day she was set to retire. While the two share the same last name, they are not related. |
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| The two disappeared and haven’t been seen since Friday, though the patrol car they were in was later discovered at a shopping center. |
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| Casey White was charged with two counts of capital murder in 2020 and was awaiting trial after confessing to a 2015 stabbing death, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. |
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| He was already behind bars in connection with other crimes from 2015, including a home invasion, carjacking and a police chase. |
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| “We consider both of them dangerous and in all probability, both individuals are armed,” U.S. Marshal Marty Keely said today at a news conference. |
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| A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to their capture. |
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| Warrant issued for Alabama corrections officer who disappeared with missing inmate |
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NYC raises Covid alert level as cases rise nationwide |
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| It’s the first time the alert has been raised under the system implemented under Mayor Eric Adams earlier this year. |
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| City officials have not moved to bring back Covid restrictions, but New Yorkers are urged to “exercise even greater caution than they have the last few weeks,” New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vassan said in a statement. |
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| Across the country, at least 44 states have seen a rise in cases over the last two weeks, largely fueled by the Omicron BA.2 subvariant. |
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Former NYPD officer convicted in January 6 Capital attack |
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| The jury convicted Thomas Webster, 56, on all six counts of assault and civil disorder, rejecting his claims that he was acting in self-defense. |
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| Webster is the fourth Jan. 6 defendant to be tried by a jury, and the first to be tried on assault charges. |
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- A federal judge has rejected the RNC’s effort to stop the Jan. 6 committee from obtaining email and fundraising data from a campaign vendor.
- The Jan. 6 panel has sent letters to three GOP Trump supporters, Reps. Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks, and Ronny Jackson, asking them to cooperate with the investigation.
- A special grand jury has been seated for a separate investigation into whether former President Trump illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.
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What else we’re watching: |
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- A massive 188-square mile wildfire in New Mexico has forced more residents to evacuate.
- The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that Boston violated free speech rights when it refused to allow a Christian flag to fly outside city hall.
- The theme for tonight’s Met Gala, the biggest night in fashion, is “Gilded Glamour.”
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