hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, february 26. i m amara walker. good morning. i m boris sanchez. we are so grateful that you are spending your morning us with, starting your week with us. i am pumped to be alongside amara. how are you doing? same here. good to be with you. it s our friday. i am doing great. plenty to get to this morning. here is what we are watching. one thing that has been made clear to me is that everyone wants this contamination gone from the community. the epa stopping the removal of all contaminated material from that toxic train derailment in ohio as a battle now looms over how and where it should be moved. there is an outcry from neighboring states and the white house is responding, too. the war in ukraine is now in its second year and marked by fierce fighting in the east. our alex marquardt is there with troops from around the world who joined the front lines to fight russia s invasion. see
it s big men good if it goes. fuhrman has won. one-possession game arizona needs three to send this thing to overtime. get a quick two if you can. 15 seconds left that s not it. air ball. that s not it. trying to keep it alive shot is no good. arizona with a shot that will not go the tigers of princeton growl their way into round two how many of you had number 15 princeton over second seeded arizona? number 13 fuhrman knocking off uva? jonathan lemire, unfortunately for me, i had the whole thing, the final four wrapping up with uca beating arizona. how am i doing how am i doing do i have a chance actually, i talked to some people that had uva and arizona in the final four. ouch, that hurts that bracket is officially busted, anyone who had that. president biden picked arizona to win the whole thing they were a popular choice this is why march madness is so great, joe you know, college basketball, maybe during the regular season matters less on the sporting
So theyre not paying bank fees and a lot in health, new vaccines. So were by far the biggest funder on malaria, coming up with new bed nets, new drugs. A vaccine, a way of killing mosquitoes. Yeah, but if you think about this in terms of ethics, are you driven in your philanthropy mostly by excitement, by the potential outcome, or does it come from some deep psychological motive, you know, guilt, a feeling that you should live a life thats purposeful, a feeling that, you know, you genuinelyjust dont know what to do with this cash . I not only want to put the money in, but i want to put my time in and assemble people so we can learn, you know, what Health Systems work, which ones dont. I, you know, find the work very fulfilling. I get to learn new things. Get to go to interesting places. Yeah. Theres no sacrifice involved. Its. Well, its quite a lot of financial sacrifice sure, but i dont have any use for that money. I mean, im not denying myself, you know, the worlds best cheeseburger,
move that could change the trajectory of the war. let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane. he s chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general keane, welcome. so let s, we ve got a year into the war. what lessons have we learned, and what to do they tell us about what comes next? well, certainly we all welcome success that ukraine has had, and i think the center of gravity for that success has been the iron will of its soldiers and its people. and certainly the u.s.-led western coalition has been providing all the arms and ammunitions. but also while that is commendable in terms of the support provided, we have actually handcuffed the success of the ukrainian forces because we slow-rolled so much of weapons that they needed. we sent them in their piecemeal, and they arrived mainly after the fact. as an example, the ukrainians began an offensive in july after russia s offensive had talled in thalled in the east. an
that is the east coast of the state, a few hours ago, they cleared that airport, grounded the planes, nothing coming in and nothing coming out. and the reason we now know was because they had a planned operation that balloon. let s remind you what this balloon looked like what we have been tracking for a few days. the white balloon. that s been. and then came down across the us. there have been attempts to shoot it down, not done because of the risk of falling debris. also, this seems to not be a huge security risk to the us, given what the balloon was and the fact that chinese satellites could get information just as well is this balloon. decision was taken to wait till it got over to the sea, where the risk to people was much less. they shut the air space and we now know they have just shut it down, according to a reuters photographer at the scene. joining me now is our north america correspondent, david willis. hi, david. this is happening just before he came on air. what