good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 25th. i m amara walker. good morning, amara, i m boris sanchez. we re grateful you are starting your weekend with us. you are live in the cnn newsroom and despite the vicious lies you may be reading on social media, amara and i didn t plan to coordinate our outfits, it happened naturally because great minds think alike. i think we re ready to welcome spring when it has ppen ukraine enters the second year of war with russia with a message to the world. [ speaking non-english ] [ cheers ] ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy acknowledging the grim milestones speaking before troops in kyiv. he declared 2023 as a year of ukraine s victory over russia and expressed confidence in his country s ability to fend off attacks. in the meantime, ukraine s international allies showed their solidarity with tributes and announcements of new weapons and funding heading to the region. the first shipment of heavy battle tanks arriv
under taliban rule but when they boarded the crowded cargo planes, they suddenly could not find their older son. his parents came out of the plane serving for him amidst the chaos. just thousand people on the ground. reporter: they finally realized he was already with another relative on a different plane but by that point, his mother and sister had been pushed beyond the airport gates. i cry a lot. my kids, my son leaving inside the plane but didn t let me romon waited and one of the last to bored his plane. he s now a single parent raising two children who spent half of his young life in the u.s. asking who is she? she says it s mom. i know rakmon doesn t know what mom meaning. reporter: romon s wife says the taliban requires male supervision for her to go anywhere including the store and
they believe the threat increases by the day and would particularly in the wake of the august 31st deadline. when you talk to white house officials they made clear the president is keenly aware of the possibility of one of the last u.s. troops getting on the plane serving as a casualty. one of the things they focus on right now is that more than 70,000 individuals have been evacuated from the country over the course of ten days and there have been zero casualties. no u.s. forces have been wounded or killed and that s something they would like to maintain and something they believe would be put into very real question if they went beyond that august 31st deadline. the key caveat and as the president made clear to g7 allies this morning is that he has directed the state department and pentagon to draft contingency plans if they believe they would need to stay beyond august 31st and what exactly that would entail. one other key point which will be very interesting to see tomorrow, he has
about for the present is necessary to confront the challenges that lie ahead. 3550 shootings in chicago last year, bret. out of that, 762 homicides, more than new york and los angeles combined. bret. bret: at the white house briefing room. kevin, thank you. most members of the u.s. military taking part in a survey about president obama have an unfavorable view of the departing president. a poll published by the military times indicates just 18% of those questions have a very favorable opinion of the president. about the same percentage said to somewhat favorable, 12% are neutral. 22.5% are somewhat unfavorable, and 29%, as you see, very unfavorable. former president obama will be former at the time that he takes his traditional final plane trip on the plane serving as air force one, shortly after the
jackets were in the boat. the big question is, in rough waters, you are tossed overboard, are you going to be able to swim and grab one of those and put it on? phil, thank you. and investigators finding that capsized boat as phil said. are their clues in that capsized boat? clues that could lead them to the boys. valerie is in new smyrna florida. valerie joins us. valerie? hey there greta. rescuersrescuers were here off new smynra beach yesterday. it s near the daytona beach area. they have moved their search north of jacksonville. that s because they re following the gulf stream, following that current. even though it s been raining on and off all day long. officers say conditions are good for everyone is a. that s really really great news. a capsized boat was found 60 to 70 miles off daytona beach along with a life vest yesterday. they have two cutters and a plane serving for these boys. they also expect another