News Wrap: Russian shelling takes more Ukrainian lives on 500th day of war

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• John Yang:

  Good evening. I'm John Yang. On this, the 500th day of the war in Ukraine, more Russian shelling took more Ukrainian lives. The attack on the eastern Ukrainian town of Lyman killed at least eight civilians and wounded 13 others.

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the day with a video showing him on Snake Island in the Black Sea, which has become a symbol of Ukraine's resistance. Russian forces captured the island in the early days of the war, only to be forced to withdraw a few months later.

  Zelenskyy is in Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan endorsed Ukraine's membership in NATO, a bid that's a big flashpoint between Ukraine and Russia. But President Biden told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that Ukraine shouldn't be admitted into NATO just yet.

• Joe Biden, U.S. President:

  I don't think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now at this moment in the middle of a war. And so I think we can work it out, but I think it's premature to say to call for a vote in now.

• John Yang:

  Ukraine's membership in NATO will likely be discussed next week, when President Biden and the leaders of other NATO nations gather in Lithuania. Sudanese health officials say at least 22 people died in one of the deadliest airstrikes in three months of fighting. It happened in Omdurman which is across the Nile River from Khartoum.

  Paramilitary forces blame the attack on the Sudanese military. There are no signs of let up in the fighting between the two sides.

  In Southern California, six people are dead in this morning's crash of a small business jet. The FAA says the Cessna Citation took off from Las Vegas and crashed about 300 miles away in a field in Murrieta, California, between Los Angeles and san Diego. No word yet on the identities of the dead.

  And the heat just keeps on coming. More dangerous temperatures in the forecast for much of the south and Southwest. Highs are expected to be over 110 in places like West Texas, Arizona and California. Forecasters say this heat wave, stretching from Florida to California could last several weeks.

  And meteorologists say weather patterns in the coming week could bring more smoke from Canadian wildfires to the upper Midwest.

  Still to come on PBS News Weekend, a new study has fresh insights on California's homeless population. And white speed cameras are disproportionately, affecting Chicago's minority residents.