bianca is off. but just ahead on cnn newsroom the amount is just extraordinary. you can imagine opening up your front door and seeing that snowy sight? that is what some residents in california are witnessing with more snow to come. it gives the chinese communist party the ability to manipulate our social discourse. to countries in the region, it is not a choice between washington and beijing, it is a choice between sovereignty and servitude. what he did to his family, what he s did to so many people, yes, i experienced a lot of anger. seems the state s position is let no ted dead horse go unbeat. this has got to stop. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, march 1. 9:00 a.m. in london, 1:00 a.m. in california where more snow is heading for a state already enduring a treacherous winter storm. parts of california have 7 feet of snow as a freezing cold system moves inland over the united states. residents
she lost her bid for re-election last night failing to finish in the top two in a runoff election. it is the first time in more than three decades that chicago has voted a sitting mayor out of office. i m eternally grateful to everyone who gave us their time, support and money and prayers. thank you from the bottom of my heart. god bless you. god bless this incredible city. long time public schools chief paul vallas ran a tough to crime campaign. he will face brandon johnson a cook county commissioner in an april runoff. fbi director christopher wray says the bureau believes the covid-19 pandemic was likely the result of a lab exteacciden wuhan. this comment is just days after the tent of energy low confidence assessment that covid most likely originated from a lab leak in china. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. we step back for a second, the fbi has agents, professionals,
the second world war or new assessment of the worst pandemic since 1918 china is front and center tonight. on ukraine members of the administration spoke today and over the weekend warning beijing that arming russia would be a mistake. we are confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment that would be a very risky and unwise bet. bill burns, the cia director. on covid we learned yesterday that the department of energy has assessed in a newly updated intelligence report that it most likely originated from a laboratory leak. cnn has just learned the reason for that updated report. three sources telling cnn that the department of energy shift was based in part on information about the research that the chinese centers for disease control, the chinese cdc in wuhan, was doing around the time of the outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses m bats but it is unclear how closely
outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses in bats but it is unclear how closely related the variants were to the strain which started the pandemic. as for the energy department s new assessment, it is described as low confidence and a minority view apparently within the intelligence community. that said, it sparked new calls today from transparency from china. we would wish to see from the prc a greater degree of responsibility, a greater acknowledgment that it is in the interests of the chinese people, yes, we better understand the origins of covid-19, but it is in the or to understand the origins of covid-19. today s development also prompted to leading house republicans to send letters demanding the state department of energy and the fbi to provide testimony and documents related to the ongoing probe of the ten pandemics origin. china s foreign minister also weighed in, calling on relevant parties to quote,
stare down between the u.s. and china and the outcome could have huge ramifications for russia s war in ukraine. u.s. officials are saying beijing is considering arming vladimir putin s forces with drones and ammunition and it s a move the biden administration thinks would prolong the war and up the death toll significantly. the cia says there is no evidence that china has yet sent any of this lethal equipment, but the white house promises major consequences if it does. beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it provides military assistance, but if it goes down that road it will come at real cost to china and i think china s leaders are weighing that as they make their decisions. now, this warning is coming just weeks after a suspected chinese spy balloon traversed the united states, leaving the relationship between these two super powers in tatters. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house for us. does the white house see this as thei