thank you for joining us. right now, more than two dozen states and 65 million people are on alert as a powerful winter storm hits coast to coast. conditions are slamming flagstaff, arizona, and this man was barely able to stand as the wind gusts whipped the binding snow around him. in 29 states they are in the path for this storm. the snow warnings stretching to southern california. flakes even possible on los angeles beaches. and in utah, miles and miles of dicey driving. you can see cars stranded as crews worked to clear the roads. in minnesota the national weather service is warning of historic snow possibly the most in decades. meteorologist jennifer gray is standing by for us. but first, cnn s adrian brodas is in minnesota. what s happening where you are there? i see some really ice eye streets behind you. reporter: there s a break right now when it comes to snowfall. the plows have been moving along this stretch of highway behind us. but we saw the first phase of thi
with us. biden flying home after 72 hours in europe. an undercover trip to kyiv, a defining speech and today a huddle with allies on nato s front lines. his parting message colliding with the new joint effort to condemn the west and promise, quote, new frontiers. plus this is their mess. the president puts the job of cleaning up a toxic rail spill on the shoulders of the southern railway. but stern words from the president come only after ohioans impacted say they believe the president has i ignored them for weeks. and the new republican majority, one ally calls for red states to lead the union. and an alabama republican want the enshrine the ar-15 as the national gun of america. fist, a split on the global stage. president biden in war saw and vladimir putin in moscow. their agendas underline the state of play in ukraine right now. there s no end in sight for the war. right now, president biden is on air force one. his trek home capping a three-day trip jam packed with h
good wednesday morning, i m lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. right now escalating tensions between the u.s. and russia with ukraine front and center. in the last hour, president biden led a show of unity with leaders of the so-called bucharest nine, our eastern european nato allies and he had this blunt message about the future. today as we approach the one-year anniversary of russia s invasion, it s either more important that we continue to stand together. because what s literally at stake is not just ukraine, it s freedom. looming over it all the spector of nuclear weapons with new comments from a top putin ally this morning saying russia has the right to defend itself with, quote, any weapon including the nuclear kind. this as we also learn russia told the u.s. it was going to test an intercontinental ballistic missile before president biden s trip to ukraine. and another wrinkle during a meeting with china s top diplomat earlier, russian president v
moscow next. happening right now, historic winter storm is pummeling bringing heavy winds snow and ice after slamming the rockies. we ll take you live to minneapolis. also this morning, the epa has now ordered norfolk southern to play for all cleanup operations related to the toxic chemical spill triggered by a train derailment in ohio earlier this month. we ll tell you which major political figures are heading to east palestine today. president biden is wrapping up a high stakes trip to europe as tensions continue to escalate between the u.s. and russia. this morning the president reacted to vladimir putin s decision to suspend participation in the last remaining arms control agreement between the u.s. and russia, calling it a big mistake. his response came hours after sharp new rhetoric from one of putin s top allies who told a russian news agency, quote, if the u.s. wants to defeat russia, we have the right to defend ourselves with any weapon, including the nuclear k
speech when it happens. and andrzej duda bringing the president to the capital amid the ongoing war next to his country. and as i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, ki proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. this is hours after vladimir putin delivered his own state of the union, state of the nation speech trying to blame the u.s. somehow for the war in ukraine and you remember of course, it is russia who invaded country a year ago today. and russia would suspend their participation in the new start nuclear weapons treaty as it is known, and russia is already not in compliance and the question is what this means going forward and will russia perhaps break the limit on nuclear warheads set by that treaty, and we begin in warsaw where president biden is going to speak. phil mattingly is there, and cnn national correspondent is there in hkharkiv, and this is not to be a response to putin s speech, and what is the president s mess