First Light - Monday, April 4, 2022

04/04/2022 21 min
First Light - Monday, April 4, 2022

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Bodies with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture lay scattered in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian soldiers withdrew from the area. Clayton Neville reports on the latest in our correspondent close-up. The usual crowds filled the streets as bars and nightclubs were closing in California’s capital city of Sacramento when the sound of rapid-fire gunshots sent people running in terror. In a matter of seconds, the latest U.S. mass shooting had left six people dead and 12 wounded. Jim Roope reports on that for us. Democrats are launching a whirlwind of votes and Senate floor action Monday with the goal of confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court by the end of the week. Capitol Hill correspondent Linda Kenyon is with us to talk about it. COVID-19 cases in China’s largest city of Shanghai are still rising with millions isolated at home under a sweeping lockdown, as the draconian “zero tolerance” approach to the pandemic increasingly draws complaints from residents fed up with the restrictions. We'll talk to an American living there to find out what the lockdown has been like for him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.