following a train derailment 12 days ago in ohio. hazardous chemicals contaminating air and water. some people are getting sick and some animals are dying. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom i m dana perino. bill is off today. good morning, john. john: i m john roberts. complex environmental disaster and many questions still unanswered. folks have been allowed to return to their homes. serious safety fears remain despite assurances the air is safe to breathe and concerns are spreading about the potential impact on the water supply as a plume of pollution spilled into the ohio river flows toward the mississippi. i think the residents have every reason to be concerned. we ll continue to dig. that s the importance of these testings, testing the water, testing the air. i know hundreds of tests have been conducted but still residents are reporting things that have to be answered. dana: we re covering this story from all angles. emily lives nearby and felt the effe
live from london. just ahead on cnn newsroom president biden is set to mark one year since russia s war in ukraine. ukraine will never be evicted from russia. we saw another launch from north korea. the tests are in response to the joint military drills held by the u.s. and south korea. it s something, just a little town, i don t think ever expected to happen. i also notice i have this rash on my arm that was not there before i came here. corporate lobbyists have far too much influence in our government. and they see this as a result. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, february the 20th. 9:00 a.m. here in london. 4:00 a.m. in washington. president joe biden is set to depart for poland to mark the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine. once there, they ll deliver remarks for continuing u.s. support for the speech in warsaw. the polish prime minister said he expects a very strong condem
of the bravery of 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson, who spoke truth to power, who spoke the truth, who spoke, despite the fact that many much older, much more experienced men, were too weak and too shrivelled to be able to speak out about what happened behind closed doors in the trump white house leading up to did she say that? is willie here? let me tell you something willie i don t know that she mentioned there s more than one woman who spoke out and was able to do that. right. compared to these pathetic men. it s okay. i don t think she used the word shrivelled. they re in the corner, shrivelled in the corner. it was cold. kind of chilly. i don t know. i get what mika is saying here. you better. it was quite an image, willie, is it not? liz cheney getting rapturous applause at the reagan library, the epicenter of what once was a movement called conservatism, and talking about just how corrupt the republican party has gotten, but how one young
future of the program remains in jeopardy for hundreds of thousands of people that call america home. we ll talk to one of those dreamers later this hour. we begin with the efforts to bring down the skyrocketing prices we re paying for gas, groceries, and many other items. in a few hours from now the federal reserve is expected to announce its third interest rate hike this year. raising a key interest rate by three quarters of a percent. that s the largest increase since 1994. this comes as president biden looks at other steps to try to reduce the highest priced spikes in more than 40 years. the president sent letters to seven energy companies asking them to explain their record profits, as well as a drop in refining capacity helping to drive up gas prices. he also says he s prepared to use emergency authority to increase refinery capacity and output in the near term. the new york times reporting the president is also considering rolling back some of the tariffs preside
combatting china. president biden will spend the next days in south korea before heading to japan to meet with leaders there. before returning home to d.c. on tuesday, he ll attend a meeting of the quad leaders. which includes japan, india, and australia. and in ukraine, russian forces are stepping up attacks on the eastern donbas region. at least 12 people were killed and 40 injured after russia unleashed new rounds of shelling in a key city in luhansk. one of the few ukrainian strong holds standing in the way of russia seizing full control of the don bass. the attacks could be a precursor to a larger drawn out battle. president volodymyr zelenskyy called the strikes, quote, brutal and completely pointless. willie. meanwhile, the u.k. ministry of defense has released new information reporting the battle for mariupol has left the russian military weakened. the fierce fighting against ukrainian troops who held out inside of that steel plant has depleted russia s ranks and re