good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 25th. i m amara walker. good morning, amara, i m boris sanchez. we re grateful you are starting your weekend with us. you are live in the cnn newsroom and despite the vicious lies you may be reading on social media, amara and i didn t plan to coordinate our outfits, it happened naturally because great minds think alike. i think we re ready to welcome spring when it has ppen ukraine enters the second year of war with russia with a message to the world. [ speaking non-english ] [ cheers ] ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy acknowledging the grim milestones speaking before troops in kyiv. he declared 2023 as a year of ukraine s victory over russia and expressed confidence in his country s ability to fend off attacks. in the meantime, ukraine s international allies showed their solidarity with tributes and announcements of new weapons and funding heading to the region. the first shipment of heavy battle tanks arriv
said. reporter: in short, boris and amara, they say at this point in the investigation, they suspect it was a wheel bearing failure that led to the derailment on february 3rd. one out cars carrying plastic pellets was heated by a hot axle that sparked an initial fire. the testimony of the bearing got hotter, the train passed two wayside defect detectors that are basically devices supposed to detect axle problems on any trains that passen 0 the rails. that did not trigger an alarm because the heat threshold was not met at that point, however, it wasn t until the train passed a third detector down track that the temperatures were so hot, hot enough that that set off the alarm but by then, it was too late. so the devastating chain of events was set in motion. 38 cars derailed there near the pennsylvania state line and that included 11 tank cars carrying that were carrying hazardous materials that ignited
to run for mayor. he forfeited his residency when he went to work in washington, d.c. the rain has stopped after days of pounding california. general motors was recalling almost 100,000 vehicles, and most of the recalls are related to passenger-side air bag problems. models built in 2005 and 2007, and also potential rear axle problems. the commerce department says new home sales rose 5.5% last month after falling to their second lowest level in 47 years in october. the economists say the bump is