dollars in military aid to Ukraine, including rockets and anti tank

weapons that makes some nine billion in US assistance to date. Meanwhile,

Ukraine is warning that the Zap origi, a nuclear plant, now under

Russian control is in jeopardy. It has been shelled repeatedly in

recent days, and there are fears of a radiation leak or worse, the

biggest power station in Europe.

Nuclear power station in Europe. And if something happened, so there

will be

Huge consequences not only for Ukraine, probably all Ukraine will

be contaminated. Also today, Russia temporarily halted inspections

of its nuclear arsenal under the start arms control treaty with the

US It blamed the American sanctions over Ukraine

ceasefire held today between Israel and Islamic Jihad militants in

Gaza after weekend fighting killed at least 44 Palestinians.

Fuel and supply trucks entered Gaza as Israel reopened crossings

that, in turn allowed Gaza's sole power plant to resume operations.

China has announced more military exercises around Taiwan, keeping

tensions high in the region. It is retaliation for a Taiwan visit

by Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U. S House of representatives. But

in Delaware this morning, President Biden played down the chances

of outright conflict.

Not worried, but I'm concerned that the movement as much as they

are.

But I don't think they're going to do anything wrong.

Later, the president got a firsthand look at flood damage in eastern

Kentucky, including a site where surging water smashed a school bus

into a building. It was his first major trip after emerging from

Covid isolation.

Three white men who murdered Ahmad are very in Georgia in 2020 were

sentenced today for federal hate crimes. Father and son Greg and

Travis McMichael drew life in prison. William Roddy Brian got 35

years they judge. The judge also ruled that they must serve their

time and their life sentences for state murder convictions in state

prison. Michaels had argued that they would not be safe there.

Investigators in New Mexico search today for a vehicle that could

be connected to the killings of four Muslim men. Police say this

car, a dark gray or silver Volkswagen may have been used in all four

homicides. The victims were of South Asian descent. The latest was

killed on Friday. While street mostly mark this mark time today that

Al Jones industrial average gained 29 points to close at

8 32,032.

The NASDAQ fell. 18 13 points. The S and P 500 lost five and two

passings of note. Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough

died Sunday at the age of 89 in Massachusetts will have a remembrance

later in the program, and singer and actress Olivia Newton John died

this morning in Southern California.

She had a series of hit songs in the 19 seventies and eighties, and

she starred in the musical Grease. Olivia Newton John was 73 years

old.

Still to come on the news hour, Amy Walter and Annie Linskey weigh

in on how the Inflation Reduction Act could affect the midterm elections.

Residents in the American Southwest struggle with the health effect

of nuclear or extraction.

Kenyans prepare to head to the polls to select their next president

after a divisive race plus much more.

This is the PBS news hour from W. E to studios in Washington and

in the West from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona