that's happening tomorrow. and then on to germany to meet with the european allies in search of a way to avoid war. >> world leaders are on edge amid increased russian military drills near the ukraine border. cnn's natasha is in washington for us. you have information on the options the u.s. is considering. >> reporter: as the u.s. has gotten more and more pessimistic about what russia's plans actually are, the possibility of an invasion becoming more and more likely, they have begun to kind of shift their thinking from how to deter that invasion, which, of course, is still very much part of their deliberations, but also how to bolster the ukrainian military in order to sustain an ongoing resistance to a russian occupation if it does come to that. now, this is a recognition that if russia is going to invade, there's very little leverage that the united states has to stop that, even with the threat of very punishing sanctions that the administration has been threatening for the last several months. and so what they're thinking now is that they will provide. they are thinking about providing the ukrainian military with additional arms and equipment, including javelin anti-tank missiles, mortars, anti-aircraft air defense systems, in order to allow the ukrainian forces to sustain this push against a potential russian occupation that would cover large swaths of territory inside ukraine. now, of course, this all comes ahead of secretary blinken's meeting with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov, something the state department said was an indication that diplomacy is not all dead, but just in case it is, the u.s. is making significant -- having significant conversations about what they can do to help make the cost of such an invasion extremely high for vladimir putin. >> all right, let's go now to matthew chance, who is joining us from kiev. what's the view there from the ukranians? >> reporter: well, obviously, it's a very tense situation, victor, and obvious there's been a lot of gratitude expressed by ukrainian officials, by the consistent display of diplomatic and material support that they have been getting from the united states. so we have had, over the course of the past few days, a bipartisan congressional delegation here expressing their solidarity with the ukrainians given the threat posed by russia against them, vowing to go back to washington and push for stronger sanctions and more military aid. that's being followed up by a visit tomorrow by u.s. secretary of state antony blinken where he will be talking about the sort of strategic relationship, trying to give assurances that the united states will do what it can to guarantee the sovereignty of ukraine and its territorial integrity. there's also been ahussurances come from elsewhere as well. britain has announced military aid in the form of anti-tank weapons. nato says it will be deepening its technological relationship with ukraine to try and help it fend off cyberattacks of the kind that it experienced, apparently, from a russian source just a few days ago. the big question, victor, though, is whether these assurances that ukraine is s receiving from its partners and allies and from the west in general will be -- will deter russia from carrying out any kind of invasion, or whether it will actually provoke vladimir putin, the russian president, into some kind of action. it's not clear at this point whether diplomacy is dead, in fact, just in the past couple hours, it's been confirmed from d.c. that antony blinken, secretary of state, will be meeting sergei lavrov towards the end of this week for meetings in geneva, so that means at least that, you know, the diplomatic option is not at this point off the table. >> matthew chance, natasha bertrand, thank you both. a former u.s. ambassador to nato, welcome back. let's start where matthew left off, this announced meeting between secretary blinken and foreign minister lavrov of russia. that announcement's better than movement on troops on the border, but considering that there was just a meeting a few days ago that didn't offer much progress, what does the announcement of this new meeting suggest to you? >> well, at the very least, it suggests there's some possibility of having a diplomatic opening, as winston churchill said, jaw-jaw is better than war-war. but we're seeing a lot of efforts by the russians to prepare for the possibility of war, troops that are moving from one side of the country all the way to the ukrainian border, more troops into belarus providing the capacity for a military attack from the south, from the east, from the north of ukraine, and under those circumstances, diplomacy's just very hard. it's very hard to negotiate with a gun at your head. that said, it's a good idea for secretary blinken to have this conversation with foreign minister lavrov and see what we can get. >> what diplomatic solution could there be? i get the impression from stuff i've read that you have said that it's your impression that vladimir putin is sort of hellbent on invading ukraine. >> well, i think what putin is most interested in is to find a way for him to control what happens in ukraine, either the government indirectly by destabilizing the current government that's there and finding someone who's more to his liking, or taking matters into his own hands. and this idea that it's all about nato and nato coming too close to russia's borders or too many troops near russia's borders, i find to be an excuse, so i don't see the negotiation to be about nato or its future. what could be done is to have the kind of traditional long-term arms control negotiations that were undertaken in the 1990s to limit conventional forces, to limit the kinds of exercises that can be held, to find prior notification of those exercises and to build transparency in what exists, and there is scope for nuclear arms control negotiations and negotiations on missiles, but the real question is what does vladimir putin want? and it doesn't seem to be that the focus is on arms control. it seems very much on his ability to control what's happening in ukraine. >> mr. ambassador, the world just watched a country's military that was propped up with billions of u.s. dollars and years of training collapse in a short period of time. i'm talking about, of course, the afghan military under the taliban. there's discussion of sending more resources, sending more military resources and potential trainers to ukraine. if you could tell us, do you believe that the ukrainian military could hold up against a sustained affront from russia and the belarusians. >> in a conventional military sense, the answer, of course, is no. the russians are just too large, too powerful militarily to be stopped by a ukrainian military. but once the russians have moved into ukraine, the question is what then? if they don't withdraw, you then have to -- the possibility of an insurgency of the kinds of things that, in fact, we have seen in afghanistan, in the middle east and syria where weaker opponents are able to exact a significant price for those who are relying on conventional military means, and i think that's what the administration is holding for the ukranians and for the russians up front and saying, listen, you may be able to invade all or part of ukraine, but you probably can't stay there. remember, by the way, what happened to you in afghanistan back in the 1990s when, of course, the soviet union lost that war against guerillas and the mujahadin as well. >> the u.s. is sending these special operations forces to train and assist the ukraine military, and so what message do you think vladimir putin takes from that? >> well, he'll take the message that the united states is committed to upholding the independence and the sovereignty of ukraine. this idea that somehow a few special forces or even limited supplies of weapons are provoking russia to act, it's russia that has over 100,000 troops at ukraine's border. none of this would be happening but for the fact that russia is posed for a military invasion, a further military invasion of a country that it already has invaded and occupied in part. without that, we wouldn't be in this position, so the idea that somehow western actions can provoke the russians when it is, in fact, the russians who, over the past eight years, have been causing mischief and, in fact, annexed part of ukraine, just doesn't hold water. >> okay. ambassador ivo daalder, we always appreciate talking to you. thank you. >> my pleasure, alisyn. minutes ago, verizon joined at&t and delayed the activation of 5g on some towers around certain airports. airline executives have voiced safety concerns and predicted catastrophic disruptions to travel and commerce with the launch. >> cnn's aviation correspondent, pete munteen is here with us. pete, explain the problem and how we got to this urgent state today. >> reporter: alisyn, it seems like airlines are getting exactly what they wanted. just yesterday, airlines wrote the biden administration urging immediate action on the rollout of the 5g network, kind of hard to believe that the 5g radio network that is necessary for this rollout is on a similar radio spectrum to something in airplanes called a radar altimeter, a critical piece of instrumentation that pilots use to get a hypersensitive reading of their exact height above the ground. now, without that and with these possible errors, airlines say this could lead to thousands of flight delays and cancellations and diversions. now, we know that at&t and now verizon have said they will delay the rollout of 5g because of these airline industry concerns near certain airports. we don't know exactly what airports. we don't know for exactly how long. at&t, in its statement, threw a lot of shade at the faa and the airline industry here saying, quote, we are frustrated by the faa's inability to do what 40 other countries have done, which is to safely deploy 5g technology without disrupting aviation services, and we urge it to do so in a timely manner. now, airlines said this was a really huge issue for them. i've been covering this for weeks, and in this letter from the airline executives, of ten different airlines, mind you, to the d.o.t. and the biden administration, they said, quote, the ripple effects across both passenger and cargo operations, our workforce and the broader economy are simply in incalculable. right now, we are seeing the telecom industry has backed off a bit on this, even though they have asserted over and over again that there is really not all that much of an issue, they say. they say this has worked in 40 other countries. there's been mitigation techniques, no accidents or incidents attributable to this 5g rollout in other countries, so right now we also know that the biden administration and the faa and the fcc and aviation groups and telecom groups have all been meeting about this. it seems like this buffer zone idea that they have come up with will be the thing that sticks, at least in the short-term. now we're just waiting to see what the long-term solution is for all of this. >> it's an interesting point. if it's happened in 40 other countries, why is it taking so long or why are there difficulties to do it here? have there been or are there now any consequences or ramifications with the airlines? >> reporter: so interesting, we have just seen a tweet from air india which operates some flights into the united states and it says it will have to change certain types of airplanes, that it will have to change certain types of routes because of this. the faa has proposed a notice to airmen in which it says pilots should be especially concerned because of errors in their radar altimeters, possible errors in radar altimeters, that they should be especially attuned to this. i've seen what has happened in cockpits, what can happen in cockpits at the eaeronautical university. it can throw instrumentation errors, hard to determine what is happening in the airplane if your radar altimeter goes out. we know that american airlines has said it could delay or cancel flights to a magnitude in which it can't really understand just yet in a new memo it sent to its employees, so this is a huge problem, victor and alisyn, according to the airline industry, although two sides of this argument and right now it's playing out at the 11th hour. >> yeah, i don't like this, pete. i don't like thinking that pilots don't know what the altitude of the plane we're flying in is. don't like that, and that's really helpful to hear your experience, and we'll be talking to more experts in the program about how to fix this. pete muntean, thank you very much. >> any time. the omicron surge is still straining healthcare systems so we'll tell you which hospitals are at a breaking point. police are looking for a suspect behind the death of a ucla grad student. with pronamel 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at the bus stop at about 5:00 in the morning. this would be sandra shells, she was standing there as she normally did to take the bus to work when lapd saying that she was struck in the face by a man without provocation, they say. she was -- after she was hit, she fell to the ground and that is when she fractured her skull. we know that the fire department responded and actually ended up taking her to the hospital, the los angeles county usc medical center, where she had been a nurse for 38 years. dedicated woman who's been an essential worker throughout the pandemic. the hospital putting out a statement saying she was a kind, compassionate and giving nurse. we also know that they're looking into more about this person. they said they found him about an hour or so after the incident happened and he was not very far away. he was sleeping, a 48-year-old man who they say was homeless, has been arrested and has been charged on attempted murder -- for attempted murder. then you have, later 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oklahoma. leaders of four oklahoma city hospitals tell cnn that they are now at a breaking point with zero icu beds available. cnn's nick valencia is live at a covid testing site in atlanta. so, nick, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: yeah, really sobering data coming out from johns hopkins university, wanted to start there. that data, though, coming from confirmed lab tests so you have to imagine, victor and alisyn, that there are even more americans who were infected by covid-19 that didn't get a test. here, though, in metro atlanta, at testing sites like st. phillips, testing has considerably slowed down, especially compared to what they saw over the last three to four weeks as omicron was surging across the country. the demand here was so significant, they had about 600 cars per day that they brought in and partnered with lab link to bring in a mobile testing unit on site here at the worst of it, lab results were taking up to five days, leadership here at the church tells me, five days to turn around those tests. today, that is eight hours, they say. we are seeing these positive news and positive tidbits across the country, cases going down, particularly in early hot spots and portions of the south where i am at here, as well as in the west, and in the north, but hospitalizations continue to be a significant major disruption here across the country, really at a breaking point and perhaps nowhere is worse than oklahoma where the situation is just really scary. zero icu beds as a result of all the covid cases they're seeing there. it's led to a group of hospitals to write an open letter to residents, essentially saying they may not be able to help if they need help. part of that letter saying, soon, you or a loved one may need us for life-saving care, and we might not be able to help. we need your help. get vaccinated, get boosted, wear your mask, socially distance, stay home if you're sick. those words from hospital systems in oklahoma really underscoring just how dire of a situation that they're still dealing with here, a third year into the pandemic. >> absolutely. what a scary scenario that they're laying out there. so, also, nick, tell us about the latest showdown over masks in virginia. >> reporter: yeah, we've seen these issues really play out in schools across the country. we saw issues with unions in chicago, new york, students not showing up for, you know, the start of the school year. now, in virginia, standoff with the governor, who even though science has shown that masks work, he signed an executive order saying parents still have a choice as to whether or not they want to send their kids masked to schools. there are big school systems and school districts in virginia that are just not having it, saying that despite the governor's executive order, they're going to continue to require masks be worn in school reasonably. they know that masks work, just like the rest of us here, but the virginia governor saying it should be 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>> it sounds like, from what little we know at this point, victor, it sounds like the answer to tquestion is, no. as a long-time counterterrorism investigator and leader in the fbi, every counterterrorism professional's worst nightmare is finding out after there's been an attack or attempted attack that the person involved was somebody who was known to you at some point, and it looks like the brits are in that unfortunate position right now. nevertheless, if they ran some sort of a limited investigation, the conclusion of which they determined the guy was not a threat, that is typically not the sort of information that is shared with foreign partners, simply because in an effort to protect the privacy of someone who has not been deemed to have done anything wrong, you don't share that kind of information. >> yeah. >> andy, i was so intrigued to hear about how the hostages survived. and so, one of the things -- i mean, they relied, they say, on their training, that they had gotten, and one of the things that they did was they made a pact that none of them was going to individually try to escape. they were going to stick together and when they got an opening, they were going to try to go for it and at one point, 11 hours into this, the gunman told them to kneel down, and one of the hostages, one of the congregants, said, no, and stood up and looked him right in the eye and what we have learned -- i remember rabbi meyers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh also having recently had this kind of active shooter training right before that horrible event happened. and so, it's like, now it's up to congregants, up to the hostages. law enforcement can never make it there in time, and the idea that they are supposed to run, hide, and fight. i just think that's really interesting. >> you know, it is, alisyn, and you have hit it right at the heart of the matter. the brilliance of that training is its simplicity. it enables law enforcement not just fbi but dhs, local law enforcement, to get in front of average, everyday people and get them to think about these things in a very simple way. primarily to organize your thoughts when you're in that moment, so instead of just panicking, you're thinking about things like, how close am i to the nearest doorway? 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