hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, february 26. i m amara walker. good morning. i m boris sanchez. we are so grateful that you are spending your morning us with, starting your week with us. i am pumped to be alongside amara. how are you doing? same here. good to be with you. it s our friday. i am doing great. plenty to get to this morning. here is what we are watching. one thing that has been made clear to me is that everyone wants this contamination gone from the community. the epa stopping the removal of all contaminated material from that toxic train derailment in ohio as a battle now looms over how and where it should be moved. there is an outcry from neighboring states and the white house is responding, too. the war in ukraine is now in its second year and marked by fierce fighting in the east. our alex marquardt is there with troops from around the world who joined the front lines to fight russia s invasion. see
appearance for the suspect accused of leaking classified documents as we re learning details tonight about how jack to sherra was able to access such crucial information, plus the supreme court weighing in on the fight to essentially ban an abortion drug tonight, temporarily restoring full access to that widely used pill , but for how long? also tonight a possible motive in the murder of a top tech executive prosecutors revealing the stabbing came after an argument over a personal relation. asian ship. san francisco district attorney is my guest. let s go, outfront. good evening, everyone . i m erica hill in tonight for erin burnett. outfront tonight. beware the quiet man. those are believed to be the words of jack to share a he s the 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard who is now accused of leaking hundreds of highly classified pentagon documents that ominous passage, appearing on a gaming profile reportedly linked to share a who today? made his first
i m here to see if i can trace just one person through one of these lost objects and shed new life on this dangerous journey taken by so many. my name is thomas naadi and i m a bbc correspondent. i m based in ghana, my country, but my journey starts here in lampedusa. this has long been an arrival spot for refugees seeking better opportunities in europe. i m here to meet one of the founders of a collective set up for objects lost by those travelling on this route. i m hoping to use one of these objects as a lens for looking closer into the migrant s story. indicative of so many, traced through a single object lost with along the way. giacomo shows me some of the objects closest to his heart. giacomo found most of these down and lampedusa, where for years, the authorities received. it s a slightly strange feeling to be standing here on this island in the footprints of so many. looking at all those objects, i could just imagine the pain, the sacrifice and the strength needed to
form vice president mike pence has to sit for the counsel. a federal judge in washington, d.c. most of pence s argument to avoid testifying. the speech and debate clause shielded him in his role as president of the senate. we re going to explain what the judge said about alleged illegality on the part of donald trump and what it means for pence in a moment. also, what the judge conceded to pence s team. we also have breaking news on the trump hush money case. we re going to explain that so don t go anywhere. joining me now, laura jarrett. from west palm beach near mar-a-lago, and former chief attorney also here in new york, garrett haake for the reporting. all right, laura. i m going to begin with you. let s talk about what you ve learned about former vice president mike pence. what did the judge say about why he is compelling him and ordering him to testify? the headline is that pence will have to testify in front of the special counsel grand jury there in washington, d.
so let s get started. how safe is safe in east palestine, ohio? we are on the ground and hearing from a familiar face, three weeks since that fiery train derailment with new research now casting doubt on what health officials have been claiming. plus, it is the one year anniversary of russia s brutal invasion of ukraine. as republicans climber to curb u.s. aid to ukraine, china winds now sending drones and ammunition to help russia. is theren end to the war insight? and later, charges of discrimination in texas, no shocker there. governor greg abbott, vowing to sign a bill that would ban chinese citizens from buying any property, even a house. i want to know, why this is not a bigger story? all of that and more is coming up. we start today s show in ohio, where there are new health concerns this morning three weeks after a train carrying hazardous cancer causing chemicals derailed. residents in east palestine have been, understandably, worried about what is in their wat