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
areas that are still dealing with the flooding concern. there are winter weather alerts across the southwest but this continues to hold through the rest of the morning into the afternoon and tapering back as we roll into sunday as that whole system takes its track as it pushes further east into the planes. again, pulling in quite a bit of snowfall to the higher elevations an additional 2 to 3 inches of rain expected across southern california. boris? all right, brittany ritz, thank you so much. three weeks after the toxic train wreck in east palestine, ohio, investigators released an initial report saying the derailment and chemical spill was 100% preventable. that report coming from the national transportation safety board also conclulded that the train s crew wasn t at fault but we still won t actually know what caused the incident for another 12 to 18 months. let s bring in polio sandoval. walk us through what the report
this interview, but she felt she had to because she didn t want to get this latest allegation lost or swept under the rug. but she is fearful, like all these whistleblowers are, of retaliation at the va. she feels her career is possibly over, but she was willing to come forward because she felt you could see the weight on her shoulders. she s had it. good for you, pauline. thanks so much, drew. still to come in the newsroom, as thousands of undocumented children stream across the border between mexico and texas, the governor of that state is pressing for a solution. this isn t a democrat problem, this isn t a republican problem. this is an american problem. but will congress be able to find a solution? that s the focus of a hearing on capitol hill this morning. polio sandoval is there. good morning, polo. carol, good morning. it s front and center again. the head of homeland security taking the hot seat before lawmakers. a preview of this morning s