headed to florida. you can see it from outer space. we re going to tell you when and where it is expected to come ashore. and taylor swift fans rejoicing this morning. we ll have the new tracks she dropped while you were sleeping. cnn this morning starts right now. a very big newsday. it is friday. we re going to start with russia getting major show of support from china as the war rages in ukraine. beijing just announcing this morning that chinese president xi will head to moscow next week for the first time since the invasion they began. he will meet face-to-face with president putin. russia is desperately trying to turn the tide. china is thinking about sending weapons to help. but beijing has been casting itself as a peacemaker and chinese officials insist that is what this meeting is all about. translator: china will uphold an objective and fair position on ukraine crisis and play a constructive role in promoting talks for peace. cnn s will rippley live for
we re going to start with five things to know for this st. patrick s day, friday, march 17th. new overnight, china announced president xi ping is going to russia for the first visit since the invasion of ukraine comes at a very crucial moment in the war. there is growing fears that beijing might send weapons to help putin. and sheriff s deputies and hospital workers have been charged with murder this morning after a black man died in a mental health facility in virginia. prosecutors arguing that surveillance video shows him being, quote, mothered. his grieving mother says he was treated worse than a dog. a cnn exclusive. dozens of workers were called to testify in special counsel s investigation, a restaurant server and a house keeper could be key witnesses. this sounds like a movie. it is real. an absolutely monstrous 5,000 mile wide blob of algae is
the family of ibo has viewed that security footage of his death. this is video that has not been released to the public. the family and their lawyers have described to us what it was like to watch that saying it was excruciating to watch. reporter: today three more people charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 28-year-old man in custody. all three are employees of the central state hospital mental health facility in virginia where he was taken on march 6th. that s in addition to seven sheriffs deputies already charged with second-degree murder. he was my dad. they smothered the breath out of my baby. they murdered my baby. his family has now seen video of the fatal incident. at what point do we stop preserving life? and what point do we consider mental illness a crime? prosecutors say he died of asphyxiation after being held down for 11 or 12 minutes. restraints so brutally with a
palatins. clark. gets it in if. gets it back. with ten. clark. double-teamed along the baseline. throws up and intercepted. for three! and the win! he got it! with 2.2 to go. incredible virginia fans in shock of what they just saw. check out this furman fan. praying every single prayer she knew hoping her team would win. and they did. furman, smallest school in the tournament, less than 2700 students knocking off virginia 68 huff 67. greenville, south carolina, making the pick to march madness in 43 years. they re moving on to the second round. but furman wasn t the biggest upset of the day. princeton, they took the lead on two seed arizona with two minutes to go. and then the wild cats didn t score in the final four minutes and 45 seconds of the game. tigers just a massive upset there.
bank and svb. then you have this fed lend tag silt. i would like to say is a success so far. $12 billion has been lent out to banks under this fad faed facil. that is another sign of the different kinds of instruments deplowe deployed to make sure the oxygen in the banking system is working. everybody watching the banks. absolutely. we re track ag story out of virginia. three hospital workers are now facing murder charges after 28-year-old iva otieno died in custody last week. this is his picture here. seven sheriff s deputies are facing second-degree murder charges. brian todd is joining us live outside of the dimwitty county courthouse in in virginia. what do we know about this? what is the county saying about pieces of evidence here? as for that security footage,