justify breaking off from ukraine. to bolster this effort, there were large pro-government rallies staged on friday in moscow and in st. petersburg. but we re not seeing widespread support for vladimir putin s announcement on wednesday of what he calls partial mobilization of hundreds of thousands of men to go fight for the russian military in ukraine. we ve seen signs of tearful far farewells, and we ve also seen this bizarre phenomenon where the flights out of russia right now are almost sold out with ticket prices soaring and long lines reported and surging of travelers at the russian border with finland, the russian border with georgia, where cnn was filming at the border terminal today, and russian men almost all the travelers were men of fighting age said they were waiting 10, 12 hours to cross
way to cuba by monday afternoon. as we take you to the cnn weather center and cnn s allison chinchar, it looks like it s headed right to the florida peninsula. right, it is. if you live in florida, this is not what you want to see. fiona has winds of 90 miles an hour. this is a significant, very potent storm making its way to canada. 26 miles per hour to the north. you still have hurricane warnings in the red and some tropical storm warnings for surrounding eras like newfoundland and quebec. you re looking at 95 miles per hour around sidney. halifax still up around that 60 to 70-mile-per-hour range. once we get into late saturday and especially into sunday,
cn cnn s brynn gingras. reporter: the defense attorney said it was his decision to make, but it does come after very explosive testimony from alex jones the day before where the plaintiff s attorneys questions him on a number of things leading to some vary fiery exchanges. here s one. you have families in this courtroom here that lost children, sisters, wives, moms. are we in china? i already said i m sorry. i m done saying sorry. the americans are being blamed. it was rejected. i stand by that, and i don t apologize for it. don t apologize, mr. jones. please don t apologize i ve already apologized to the parents over and over again. i m not apologizing to you.
would potentially support in terms of protecting abortion rights. but in the blueprint that republicans laid out just yesterday, they said simply that they would protect the unborn children, quote, as well as their mothers, but did not go into the specifics of how they would do that. i guess it would show how vulnerable the democrats might be with president biden at the helm. i say that because the latest cnn poll shows president biden s approval ratings at 43%. 55% disapprove of his job performance. also there was a new poll from marquette law school that was released on thursday. this is quite striking because three in four americans that s 72% do not want biden to run again. of course, a huge percentage of that including democrats themselves. if not biden, then who else?
from the network america relies on. new this morning as moscow is threatening to annex parts of ukraine, president biden says the united states and its allies are prepared to deliver swift economic sanctions on russia. in a statement he went on to call what they re doing a sham and said the united states will never recognize ukrainian territory anything other than as part of ukraine. cnn s ivan watson is in hong kong this morning with more. reporter: boris and amara, a creme len spokesman said the russian government could move rapidly to formally annex russian occupied parts of ukraine where pro-russian officials have been organizing these referendum votes to try to