sanchez. i m amara walker. thanks for joining us. i ve been checking the poll enforecast every day. it hasn t been good here. how about you? we may be getting the cherry blossoms. here s what we re watching. the white house rolls out another $400 million in aid as fierce fighting continues in the eastern part of the country. our alex marquardt has a look at the bat tle for bakhmut. it sounded like a freight train going by the house. at least ten people are dead after severe storms hammer the south. where we re seeing impacts from that system this morning. alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in jail. the judge s worjs for murdaugh during the sentencings and why the former south carolina lawyer will likely find himself in court again on dozens of other charges. also, cnn still in east palestine, ohio, as residents there begin to recover from that toxic train derailment. they care about their food. they want to know what they re getting. they want to kn
the billionaire is here, too. let s get the latest from kelly o grady in los angeles outside first republic bank that yesterday at this time, its very future was in question. not so much today. kelly? that s right, neil. first republicly closed down 62% yesterday. i just checked and looks like it s up 28% today. that s a good sign for them. we re seeing more concern with scb. the fdic is looking to avoid a bailout and look for a buyer. we re learning that the fdic is looking to hold another auction to sell svb after attempts failed this weekend. my sources tell me a number of private equity firms are considering the acquisition but they re not sold on buying the bank in its entirety yet. this comes as a shareholder class action lawsuit has been filed against the bank and the former cfo and coo. there will be many suits to follow on this front. this comes as governmental scrutiny ramps up on what went don at svb. the doj is investigating the collapse. this is routine in a si
the goal overall will be to instill confidence in the american banking system. federal regulator said depositors will have access to their money today. the measures have effectively waived $250,000 insurance and of $220 billion in assets uninsured. at least 29 companies were impacted by svp collapse like pinterest, fitbit, ziprecruiter to name a few. the same has been done for new york signature bank, which was shut down over the weekend pure treasure secretary janet yellen said the action does not equal bailing out the banks. we are in the middle of a financial crisis. if you were investors and owners of systemic, large banks that were built out and we are certainly not looking to reform put in place and that means we will not do that again. but we are concerned about depositories ever focused on trying to meet their needs. ceo of pershing square eckman agrees this was not a bailout in terms of how the term has been used as of recently mainly because taxpayer funds will
russia had paid for his political rise and for his political party. they had worked to install him in power. they totally controlled him. he was their guy. that was how russia controlled ukraine. they controlled the ukrainian president. they installed him in power and told him what to do and he did it. and russia, of course, didn t want ukraine to have better economic ties to the west. they didn t want ukraine to have any ties to the west. they wanted ukraine to only be tied to russia. and so when ukraine had the opportunity to sign on to this pro-european trade deal, russia didn t want him to do it and russia s guy in ukraine, this very corrupt, very compromised pro-russian president said he wouldn t sign that trade deal with europe. he said instead he would sign a knew one with russia. people in ukraine did not want that. they wanted to stop looking east. they wanted to look west instead. so in response they started protesting. in november of 2013. and a few months into it,
here. it is presidents day today, february 20th. presidential historian gonna be with us tonight. she s gonna be with us here live very very much looking forward to that conversation. but it was on this date, which won february 20th in 2014 when the group they call the heavenly hundred was killed. it was actually 118 people, call them the heavenly hundred. the youngest of them was just 16 years old. the oldest of them was 83 years old. it all happened as the culmination of protests that had started the previous november, people were protesting in ukraine. because the government of that country had had the chance to sign on to a big trade deal with europe. a deal that was expected to have big economic benefits for ukraine, it was definitely something that would bring ukraine closer to europe. closer to the west. people in ukraine frothy war, really looking forward to. it this is a popular thing they very much wanted it. but the president of ukraine at the time decided he was