our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world, i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you from london. just ahead on cnn newsroom. when that tape comes out tomorrow, it s going to be horrific. this evil is russian aggression, can and should be stopped only with adequate weapons. the terrorist state will not understand anything else. i m not sure the news could have been any better. economic growth is up, stronger than experts expected. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, january 27th. 9 a.m. here in london. 3 a.m. in memphis, tennessee. that s where a vigil was held last night for 23-year-old tyre nichols. he died after a violent altercation with five memphis police officers. tyre nichols, a lifelong skateboarder, a vigil was held at a skate park. his mother warned of the graphic nature of the video that will be made public today. have a listen. i d like to say to
well, the so-called war on woke is heating up. arkansas governor may sign a bill that would impose restrictions on drag shows. that s according to the washington post. this proposal has to make its way through the statehouse and the governor s desk. but the spokesperson says the proposal is not about banning anything, but protecting kids from sexually explicit drag shows. cnn reached out for comment and are waiting to hear back. that s not all. in her first month in office, she issued an executive office to prohibit critical race theory in arkansas schools. and she banned the term latin x. it s not just her. across the country, more politicians are getting traction with rhetorical and legislative wars on so-called woke culture and language. i want to turn to nicholas kristof. he has a new piece out on these language wars and writes, in part, i fear that linguistic contortions, however well-meant, aren t addressing our country s desperate inequities or achieving progressive
viewers in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. max foster has the day off. just ahead on cnn newsroom for several days now the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance balloon over northern u.s., specifically over montana. what we re likely to encounter is going to be really unprecedented. these are dangerous temperatures. if you don t need to be out, stay inside. the resolution is adopted. house republicans in one of the first moves in power, ousting democrat oilhan omar frm a seat on the foreign affairs committee. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, february 3, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 2:00 a.m. in montana where a mysterious flying object is being monitored. there is the moon. and then what is that? what planet is that? it is not a planet, but a suspected chinese spy balloon, the size of three buses that is flying over the northern u.s. u.s. military is being aware of it fo
we re not safe. if this is something that is that the white house is just kind of brushing off saying, oh, there s no threat. we re watching it. even the president was asking. can we take it down? he said. no there s the concern. obviously there s concern for american lives everywhere in any situation, but if this were to happen in china, if the us had something like this in china, they would have taken it down immediately. on that safety in i assumed, obviously wrongly, that nothing like this could ever happen because i assume that our airspace was vacuum tight and that the moment a speck of dust enters that airspace. it is shot down, so my big takeaway is if our enemies can get a slow moving balloon into our airspace, and who s to think tv concern about shooting it down, but but i also understand what michael waltz is saying. congressman waltz he s basically saying, look, this isn t over downtown l a. this is in a very sparsely populated area. the reason we know it s spa
ahead of the trading day on wall street, the u.s. government steps in to protect a failed bank, promising depositors they won t lose a penny. one film won everything, everywhere, all at once on this year s oscar awards. already-flooded parts of california bracing for yet another powerful storm. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. we begin in the united states where the biden administration is stepping in to contain the fallout from the sudden collapse of silicon valley bank. authorities say customers will have access to all their money starting monday morning. the president also promised to hold those responsible for the bank s failure fully accountable. he will speak about the issue in the coming hours. regulators also shot down another regional institution, signature bank, fearing it was also on the brink of collapse. cnn s arlette saenz has more. reporter: the biden administration took extraordinary steps sunday to ensure that al