A torch a few days before the official opening of the Winter Olympics as its going ahead despite 0lympics as its going ahead despite the four boycotts and strict covid i9 restrictions. We start with tensions on the ukraine border. Russia has been locked in a Military Standoff with ukraine, and weve now seen the first Major Movement of us forces in response. Some 2000 troops will be sent to poland and germany, and 1000 troops already in germany will go to romania. Heres The Pentagon Spokesman making that announcement. The United States stands shoulder to shoulder with our nato allies. The Current Situation demands that we reinforce the deterrent and defensive posture on nato s eastern flank. President biden has been clear that United States will respond to the growing threat to europes security and stability. I want to be very clear about something. These are not permanent moves. They are moves designed to respond to the current security environment. Moreover, these forces are not going
A torch a few days before the official opening of the Winter Olympics as its going ahead despite 0lympics as its going ahead despite the four boycotts and strict covid i9 restrictions. We start with tensions on the ukraine border. Russia has been locked in a Military Standoff with ukraine, and weve now seen the first Major Movement of us forces in response. Some 2000 troops will be sent to poland and germany, and 1000 troops already in germany will go to romania. Heres The Pentagon Spokesman making that announcement. The United States stands shoulder to shoulder with our nato allies. The Current Situation demands that we reinforce the deterrent and defensive posture on nato s eastern flank. President biden has been clear that United States will respond to the growing threat to europes security and stability. I want to be very clear about something. These are not permanent moves. They are moves designed to respond to the current security environment. Moreover, these forces are not going
to reopen a key stretch of the southern border. we are watching both those live events happening right now. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. gillian, great to have you here today. gillian: thank you, gillian turner out of washington in for john roberts. this is america reports . that feud between president biden, texas governor greg abbott is ratcheting up by the hour now. sandra: some legal experts warn it could trigger a constitutional crisis. the president demanding the federal government have access to the 50 acre shelby park, likely remove the boxes and the razor wire along the rio grande. gillian: the latest on the ground inside eagle pass. sandra: right to peter doocy, live at the white house as we await this briefing. key to hear what we hear directly from the white house on all of this. for now, how far is this administration willing to take their battle with texas? peter: it s a big tug-of-war, and they have to come up with something new
we will look at the messages they are bringing, and whose a strategy is likely to work. extreme weather from coast- to-coast in the united states, from flooding in georgia, to deadly wildfires in california. we will have details from the cnn world weather center. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. we begin in canada, where a manhunt is underway for two suspects in connection with a deadly mass stabbing. police in saskatchewan say the attacks killed at least 10 people, in more than a dozen crime scenes, at least 15 people were taken to hospitals for injuries, and leaders of the james smith cremation have declared a state of emergency. they identified the two suspects as damien sanderson and myles sanderson. they are considered armed and dangerous, and believed to be traveling in a black nissan rogue. there is a saskatchewan license plate. we are taking all steps possible to track these individuals, and any information that comes in from th
saskatchewan. they re looking for damien sanderson and myles sanderson. let me be clear. we are still looking for the two suspects. we are asking residents across saskatchewan and neighboring provinces to be vigilant. at this stage in our investigation we believe some of the victims have been targeted by the suspect and others have been attacked randomly. cnn s paula newton live in ottawa. what do we know about the suspects and the victims here? good morning, christine. you know, this is what has been so shocking and also so frustrating at this point in time. you just heard the rcmp commander say at this hour they still don t know the motive. they don t know how this unfolded. what we do know is those two suspects are still at large. when i m talking at large, christine, they are trying to cover a very large geographical area. the alerts run through three prairie provinces. they are trying to appoint certain people to a black nissan rogue. that does not mean that they a