headed to florida. you can see it from outer space. we re going to tell you when and where it is expected to come ashore. and taylor swift fans rejoicing this morning. we ll have the new tracks she dropped while you were sleeping. cnn this morning starts right now. a very big newsday. it is friday. we re going to start with russia getting major show of support from china as the war rages in ukraine. beijing just announcing this morning that chinese president xi will head to moscow next week for the first time since the invasion they began. he will meet face-to-face with president putin. russia is desperately trying to turn the tide. china is thinking about sending weapons to help. but beijing has been casting itself as a peacemaker and chinese officials insist that is what this meeting is all about. translator: china will uphold an objective and fair position on ukraine crisis and play a constructive role in promoting talks for peace. cnn s will rippley live for
anything i did in the media. but this issue of social media and selfies and all that was something that, you know, it s talked about all the time. i learned a lot. which i know is your question. let me say this. this idea that the selfie effect, it s really interesting. first of all, it s a term that was coined by a professor sinclair mcbreide at harvard. it has to do with the idea that we re constantly looking it at the selfies of ourselves, people take a lot of selfies, and comparing them then to these really remarkable photo shopped filtered image that s we see on social media quite a bit. so there is this constant comparison that is happening between ourselves and between these, you know, basically unfathomable images. it can lead to feelings, changes in the brain, people feeling inadequate, requiring more dopamine in order to get the same satisfaction from your own looks. it s really interesting.