in this effort to give diplomacy a chance. but keir is right. signs are not good this morning. they quickly throw cold water on the realistic prospects of an imminent summit between joe biden and vladimir putin, and all of the signs on the ground are things are moving in a military direction. it would be interesting to hear from matt. matt, we are watching things change. we have these fascinating satellite images, fascinating social media images we are seeing from the ground there. what will be the trigger that you look for to tell us that we ve got beyond kind of movement of troops towards an invasion and something that is actually a war in ukraine? beyond the war we ve had since 2014. reporter: it is a good question. definitely that pretext that is almost certainly going to be happening in the east of the country, in those two russian-backed separatist enclaves. that is what antony blinken was warning about. he was saying basically everything he predicted is
regions. last night forces deployed into the regions. today he asserted these regions are actually extend deeper than the two areas he recognized, claiming large areas currently under the jurisdiction of the ukraine government. he is setting up rationale to take more territory by force. reporter: the president announcing a series of sanctions in response, aimed at dealing a major blow to the russian economy. i am going to begin to impose sanctions in response far beyond steps we and allies and partners implemented in 2014. reporter: the measures target two russian financial institutions, u.s. investment in russian sovereign debt and some of the country s most elite. biden also promising if russia were to invade further, the u.s. was ready to announce additional punishment. if russia goes further with the invasion, we stand prepared to go further as with sanctions. reporter: the speech aimed at delivering a measure of
here, invasion is an invasion and that is what is under way. but russia has been invading ukraine since 2014. reporter: and so now the question is how far will the sanctions that the white house intends to impose today actually go. we saw yesterday, of course, in the wake of the recognition of those two breakaway regions by russia, u.s. prohibited new investment and trade to those two regions, expect what is happening today to go a lot further. but will it amount to the full package of swift and severe sanctions that president biden has been promising if russia invades ukraine? and it appears it won t go be the full package entirely, but it will be something significant. what finer said today is that the white house always envisioned doing the sanctions as waves of sanctions as russia continues to escalate its invasion on the path to war. will this include, for example, the steps of cutting off russian banks from the swift financial services system, will it include the export contr
in 2014. reporter: biden telling me friday that his team is actively working on plans to try to deter russia. i have been in constant contact with our allies in europe, with the ukrainians. my secretary of state and national security adviser have been engaged extensively. reporter: russia disputing it is planning an offensive but is demanding guarantees that ukraine will not be admitted into the nato alliance. he s worried that ukraine is turning into a nato aircraft carrier parked off the shore of southern russia. he doesn t like it, and he wants to basically push nato as far back from russia s borders as possible. reporter: the white house says it has a range of options at its disposal. it s to try to deter russia but any additional support could be viewed by russia as a provocation. so far, the white house pointing mostly to new economic sanctions. linsey? maryalice, thank you.
it was even connected by an extra door that was usually left slightly opened. she was all sick and i was like, i ll stay home with you and she wouldn t let me stay home. reporter: the two older boys, unlike their sister, stuck to the story they told police. did she ever get out of bed? yes, i think she did. reporter: if jurors believed them, it blew apart the prosecution s timeline that cory was murdered the night before. they said the same thing that they had told baird in 2006 and detective gibson in 2014. reporter: and the defense had its sights on detective gibson. they claimed in 2013, he was an over-eager, newly promoted detective, primarily assigned to work crimes against seniors. this was his first murder case. he transferred from k9 officer to elder service officer. and around the same time he went to a one-week course on being a lead detective in a homicide case. and he embarked on this