that would trigger a swift, a severe and a united response from us and from europe. and again, there are other things that russia could do that falls short of actually sending additional forces into ukraine. and again, across the board, we're prepared with europe for a swift and calibrated and great united response. a new intelligence report from the uk says there's a plot to remove the government in ukraine and replace it with a pro-moscow puppet regime. a charge the russians are denying. and all this comes as a new shipment of u.s. military aid arrived in ukraine this weekend. it included ammunition, which ukrainian troops could potentially use, fighting on the front lines against invading forces. cnn's chief international correspondent clarissa ward is in ukraine and arlette saenz is in washington. good to see you both again. antony blinken is talking tougher, but is russia hearing his message? do they feel intimidated? >> well, that's the million-dollar question, i would say. so far i think it's very difficult to get a sense of exactly what russia's thinking is in any of this. what was the original goal intended? what did they hope to get out of the diplomatic process? and that's the worry that you hear ukrainian officials privately discussing is whether russia is entering into these sort of prolonged diplomatic talks with good intentions or whether this is a diversion tactic. whether this is intended to delay giving them more time to prepare militarily. we don't know the answer at that which means that the u.s. and its nato allies have to take the russians at their word and try to go down this diplomatic path. and that's what they are planning to do with the written reply to russia's demands. that will be handed over later this week to the russian side. then there's talk of another meeting at a ministerial level potentially between secretary of state antony blinken and his russian counterpart sergey lavrov and even the potential thrown out there by secretary of state blinken of another meeting or at least virtual meeting between president biden and president putin. but i would say that it is hard to see what the two sides can achieve diplomatically when there's such a chasm between their concerns and the russians' demands. >> and arlette, take a listen to a republican congressman, michael mccaul, the ranking member of the foreign affairs committee and what he had to say earlier today. >> if we don't do something strong right now, i am afraid that he's going to invade ukraine, which will have, as the secretary talked, about he's right. and i think you and i did, it will have global ramifications here. >> so speaking of chasms that clarissa referred to. how is the white house responding to these calls for preemptive sanctions? >> well, fred, right now the white house is really standing beside the -- behind their decision to hold these sanctions over president putin's head but not implement them until -- unless he actually invades ukraine. secretary of state antony blinken today appeared speaking to our colleague dana bash arguing that this is what will be a deterrent to putin if he knows that those sanctions would go into place. take a listen. >> when it comes to sanctions, the purpose of those sanctions is to deter russian aggression. and so if they are triggered now, you use the deterrent ef effect. all of the things we're doing, including building up in a united way with europe, massive consequences for russia is designed to factor into president putin's calculus and deter and dissuade them from taking aggressive action. >> now the u.s. has been working on these possible sanctions for weeks now and president biden said recallarlier he's made dle president putin what the severity of those economic penalties would febbe if he mov forward with ukraine. still trying to work to the diplomatic route to de-escalate the tension but also preparing for all scenarios should russia move forward. >> and also arlette, the pentagon is working on different options and ways to offer more military support to ukraine. what are among the options? >> there was that first shipment of security assistance that arrived over the course of the weekend and the pentagon is constantly, the u.s. is constantly evaluating whether to provide more assista aance to ukraine. their hopes is any assistance offered could be done in accordination with nato's allies as they are looking to potentially supply ukraine with the ability to defend themselves if russia were to invade. now secondly, the u.s. is also considering military options to help bolster eastern european nato countries, potentially boosting military presence in that area. the u.s. argues that would be to serve as a deterrence to russia but also an assurance to allies rattled throughout this situation as tensions are rising. >> clarissa, this is a pretty alarming report coming out thif of this. and we're also expecting talks to happen soon between the russians and the british. so what does this is a about an advantage that russia -- even though they're denying the reports, an advantage russia seems to have here. >> well, i think it should come as no surprise to anyone that russia would potentially be trying to install its pawns or politicians loyal to the kremlin here in ukraine. we saw them do that in 2014 in crimea. we don't have a huge amount of information about this foreign office announcement. they basically said they named four individuals who are actually in russia now who are part of the administration of viktor yanukovych who was forced to flee after the revolution and they gave the name of one potential candidate who would run here for the kremlin named yevgeni moraev. he essentially said that these allegations were ludicrous because he's ukrainian and the russian-backed candidate is well known fd and he is actually tanksed by russia. but ukrainian officials here saying it's very important to have this information out in the open and certainly the u.s. is also saying, according to one security official, that this does gel with information that they have received. what we don't know, and what i think would be really important to know is a little bit more context around this. is this current information? is this happening imminently? and in what context does it happen? in the context of an invasion or some other scenario? we just don't have enough information yet, fredricka. >> all right. keep us posted as you learn it. clarissa ward in ukraine. arlette saenz in washington, thank you. as the uk appears to step up its role in trying to de-escalate the crisis, prime minister boris johnson is facing an intensifying crisis at home over his leadership. the prime minister has been under pressure for weeks over a scandal involving a series of parties held at downing street during the lockdown. and a report on the scandal expected to be released this week could prove to be a make or break moment for him. cnn's nadia bashir is in london for us. how much trouble is boris johnson in right now? is he feeling the heat? >> fredricka, this could certainly prove to be a decisive week for the prime minister as we wait to hear the findings of that internal investigation into more than a dozen parties and social gatherings said to have taken place in downing street and across other government departments during times when the country was either in lockdown or under pretty strict covid restrictions, restricting those social gatherings. the prime minister has gone from denying that any parties took place to saying he wasn't aware of these gatherings and now directly implicated in the scandal, the photograph taking part in a social gathering on the gardens of downing street. he says he wasn't aware this was a social gathering and believed implicitly it was a work meeting. but, of course, this has been difficult for many to believe given the sheer number of social gatherings that have now come to light that have taken place with government staff members. now, of course, the prime minister has taken a hit in the public opinion polls. many calling for the prime minister to resign but he's also facing mounting pressure from within his own conservative party. we've already seen one lawmaker now leave the party, moving to the opposition labor party. a senior mp openly calling for the prime minister to resign and others writing letters of no confidence in the prime minister. and one of the lead ing members has received several accounts of intimidation. many mps told they had to back the prime minister or face funding cuts to their constituencies. the government denied this anded so they're looking into it but this raises the question of whether the prime minister can emerge unskacathed from this report. >> nada bashir in london, thank you. still to come -- covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are falling in so many parts of the country. so is the u.s. turning a corner on the omicron variant? 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why are we being told we can't be free and being put into mandates we don't agree with. >> this really struck a chord with me. i got three little kids and it's just a matter of protecting our freedoms. and our right about -- it's our body. >> sort of hard to characterize the people who are out here. we did run into some former military folks. we ran into people who are currently working in the health care industry. a lot of people who are critics of the biden administration's handling of the pandemic and of the government in general. fred, back to you. >> joe johns there in washington, d.c., thank you so much. all right. in belgium, police say 50,000 people took part in an anti-covid restriction protest in brussels today. that's what they're calling it there. it's one of several large protests that have swept that country in recent weeks as the country issued restrictions to slow the omicron surge. at one point the march actually turned violent as protesters clashed with police. officers were seen firing water cannons and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators. as pertains to covid cases overall in the u.s., the number of cases and hospitalizations are actually dropping in so many parts of this country and quite frankly in some parts of the world. and as we look at some of these numbers, the question persists. are we turning a corner on the omicron variant? here with me you, dr. carlos del rio, the dean from emery school of medicine and at grady. good to see you. you're here in atlanta. doctor, how do you answer the question? are we turning a corner? >> well, i think we are. i think we are. it's a country beginning to see a decrease in many cases. areas of the country where the omicron wave started are seeing a decrease in the number of cases. but other areas are not. areas in the south. areas in the west that started later are still peak, still going up. but i think it's going to take awhile for it to still go down and i suspect like in previous waves we're probably going to have a fairly long tail whether it's still going to be a significant number of infections happening. >> let's take a look. these are the disparities that remain. numbers are falling in the northeast but in the southeast and parts of the west it doesn't seem to be the case. is it simply an issue of the vaccination rate or is there other -- some other determining factor here? >> well, there are many determining factors. vaccination rate is probably the most important of them. but also, you know, you have other things like how much are people spending time indoors? how much are people congregating in large gatherings indoors? how much -- how good is ventilation and mask wearing being done? i think a lot of different factors. but the most important one is the vaccination rate. and not only vaccination but really also what percentage of population is boosted. we got to remember that all the close to 64% of the u.s. population is now vaccinated, only about 23%, 24% are boosted. our boosting rates are low. and we know with the omicron variant if you're not boosted you're more likely to be infected, to be hospitalized and have severe illness. so dr. fauci was asked this morning about the long-term strategy for the u.s. in this pandemic. and this is what he said. >> what we would hope that as we get into the next weeks to month or so, we'll see, throughout the entire country, the level of infection get to below what i call that area of control. and there's a big bracket of control. control means you're not eliminating it. you're not eradicating it, but it gets down to such a low level that it's essentially integrated into the general respiratory infections that we have learned to live with. >> so in other words, get used to it? >> well, you know, yeah, pretty much get used to it. it's going to be here, coming and going. we're probably going to have outbreaks and maybe there will be a new variant out there. we don't have evidence of any variant right now but a lot of the world is still unvaccinated and a new variant can emerge. we have three things that make life easier going forward. number one is we have a significant proportion of the population vaccinated or infected. omicron has affected probably about 50% of americans when all said and done. and that's going to leave a certain degree of immunity. number two, testing is becoming more available. the government has made an effort to get testing out there. probably going to be late but it's going to help us going forward. and number three, we have therapeutics. better drugs. better treatments will make life easier. for the first time we have drugs that you can take orally. doesn't require injection. and that's going to change also our strategy going forward. >> and then you still hear a lot of frustrated americans talk about the messaging and how messaging has also been a big obstacle. what's your recommendation or what do you see in terms of how you can help the populous or how the medical community can help or the administration help the populous have a better understanding of really where we are, you know, as a society with covid and what is -- what continues to be the potential of this virus. >> well, you know, the problem is that the virus has changed. the conditions change. and what we're doing changes. and, therefore, you have to communicate that. and i think -- the example i give is similar to when you take a plane. at a certain point they say put on the seat belt, don't get out of your seat, there's turbulence ahead. then they say it's okay to get out of your seat and then they'll say, everybody is sitting down, nobody moving because we have a lot of turbulence. people can say you're changing the message all the time. well, the conditions are changing as a result and you have to change the message. the complication is not necessarily the message. we're trying to explain why you're changing the message and that's where we've been deficient. we change the message but don't explain why we change the message. and i think explaining what's behind the changing of the message could be done better. >> all right. dr. carlos del rio, thank you. >> take care. coming up -- in texas, a manhunt is under way after a deputy was killed overnight following a traffic stop. officials say he was brutally murder forwed for no apparent r. a live report next. ♪ ♪taking a break from all your worries ♪ ♪sure would help a lot ♪ ♪wouldn't you like to get away? 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>> seriously sad situation. nadia. we've got a little more on that situation in new york because this just in now. new york police officers are honoring one of their own with these images you're about to see now. hundreds lines the streets today as the body of officer jason rivera was transferred from the medical examiner to a funeral home. rivera was killed friday night in a shooting while responding to a domestic disturbance. his partner, officer will mura was also shot on friday and he remains in critical condition. the nypd says rivera and murrah are the fourth and fifth officers to be shot in that city this month. rivera's funeral is set for friday at st. patrick's cathedral. and two homeless men in los angeles are now facing murder charges in connection with the killing of innocent women in separate attacks. briana, a ucla grad student, was working alone at a los angeles furniture store when she was attacked and killed. and sandra shells, a nurse on her way to work was attacked at a bus stop where she hit her head on the ground and then later died of her injuries. cnn's stephanie elam explains how these attacks unfolded. >> reporter: on january 13th, breanna was working alone in a furniture store in the hancock park neighborhood of los angeles. just after 1:30 p.m., police say she texted a friend that someone in the store was giving her a bad vibe. >> at 1:50 p.m., a customer found breanna lying on the ground lifeless, covered in blood. that person called 911. we do believe that the suspect is homeless. and that's in part by the fact that he came on foot, left on foot. >> reporter: police say she was stabbed to death, releasing video of the suspect making a purchase in a nearby convenience store about 30 minutes after the murder. after a nearly week-long manhunt, police arrested a homeless man wednesday. 31-year-old shawn leval smith. for her family, the agony is raw. >> in denial, still, some anger. there's a lot of sadness. everybody is trying to find a way to process it. it can't happen to other people. it's just too hard. >> reporter: but on the very same day she was killed, another woman was attacked by a different homeless man. a woman who colleagues say was devoted to helping people on the street. >> she stood for benevolence and the homeless. this is someone that came to work with extra clothes in her backpack in case there was someone who needed clothes. >> reporter: around 5:00 a.m. 70-year-old registered nurse sandra shells was at a bus stop downtown heading to work when a man struck her in the face without provocation, police say. shells fell backwards, fracturing her skull when she hit the concrete. the los angeles fire department responded, rushing shells to the los angeles county usc medical center which had been her original destination. this is where she worked in the emergency department for nearly 40 years. shells died of her injuries three days later. >> we lost an outstanding nurse who dedicated her life to the vulnerable population that we serve. >> reporter: police arrested 48-year-old kerry bell found sleeping not far from the crime scene. bell is charged with one count of murder. cnn has not been able to confirm if bell has representation. lapd chief michael moore says the murders are tied to the nation's failure to address the needs of homeless people. >> these lives are speaking to mental health, substance abuse, housing and ensuring that people who are a danger to the public are not allowed to remain on our city streets. >> reporter: cnn affiliate kcal cbs reports smith was recognized in a pasadena restaurant when smith entered to use their bathroom. after he left, one of the workers called police and that is when across the street at a bus stop police quickly moved in to apprehend him. stephanie elam, cnn, los angeles. still ahead, it's been close to two years of dealing with home schooling, quarantines, vaccines, masks, you name it. we'll show you the unique way a group of moms is dealing with the frustration and stress. ♪ move your student loan debt to sofi. earn a $1,000 bonus when you refi- and feel what it's like to get your money right. i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! 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let's bring in the organizer of this event. a mental health therapist sarah harmon who you saw with the glow wands and melinda moyer, science journalist and author of a piece in the atlantic this week called "covid parents has passed the point of absurdity." ladies, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> yes, everyone agrees there has been a lot of frustration. there's been a lot of heart ache for some of us we have lost loved ones, family members and for perhaps everybody, there's a feeling of losing time. so, you know, sarah, to you first, how did this scream come about and how do you feel like, for a moment, it made you feel better? >> yeah, so as a therapist who works with moms and a mom of two young kids, i have a 3-year-old and 5-year-old. i actually have a company that supports mom called the school of mom. i was hearing for two years and personally experiencing these overwhelming emotions, right? resentment, grief. all of this loss around the childhoods our kids couldn't have and especially with my clients who were first time parents, right? they just were raising kids for the first time in the middle of quarantines which is so challenging. so i was hearing all of my clients and my friends talk about how hard it was and we had nowhere to put it. and so i was casually saying to them, we should all get in a field and scream and the feedback was like, please, let's do that. and so as someone who is -- my mission is to support my community, i decided to put it on. >> and melinda, you wrote about kind of the frustration that you've been feeling and frustration that universally a lot of people have been feeling, and here it is. here's a portion of it. when mothers feel there's no more appealing way to spend an evening than to yell into the frigid january darkness, something is very, very wrong. well, it's not just moms, right? all caregivers are hitting a real breaking point. particularly because, you know, everybody wants their kids to have more, greater liberties. but these are serious times. this is all about life and death. choices. so talk to me about how, i guess, this camaraderie has assisted. >> well, so in my work, i'm really trying to give parents tools to make their lives easier. so i have written a book and we have a newsletter and, you know, just trying to support parents basically. and during this wave, during the whole pandemic but especially during this wave as i've listened to parents and, you know, really tried to understand what they're going through. the messages i've been getting are so different. that's parents saying we're struggling more than ever. we can't do this. we're exhausted. and i really wanted to give a voice to these feelings because i think a lot of people may feel that they're alone and really struggling and not knowing how to make decisions anymore. and so that is one of the reasons that i wanted to write this piece was to help parents recognize you're not alone. and also to really try to pinpoint and describe some of the reasons this moment is truly universally hard. >> i think people find there is some comfort to know they're not the only ones who feel this way at a time when we're all in this together, sarah. a lot of people, a lot of parents have felt like i'm the only one who feels this way and they're not sure how to channel it. so help us understand, what is it about screaming, let it it all out that's made you and a lot of people feel better? >> it's such a natural way for the body to release rage and anger, right? and anger is so much more than just anger. there's all those emotions underneath it that we talked about. when we scream, i've been hearing the aftermath. people say they feel lighter. they felt like it was amazing to feel out of control for a second. they felt connection to others and their pain. they felt like they had a place to just express what they've been holding onto for two years that was safe, which is -- we can't really scream in front of our kids. so it's the body's natural way of letting it out and it feels very good. >> right. that makes so much sense because so many of us have felt like we have to keep it together. so you're holding it all in, keeping it tight and then really what you need is a nice big release and you all have come up with this great idea. i mean -- >> and on the other end of it is new emotion. on the other end is a peace, a joy, a laughter, and it feels so new to these moms. they forgot that they could access those emotions. >> oh, yeah. well, melinda -- >> it's a nice ripple effect. >> the feeling that you all have had in -- there's this great release, but now we can also laugh and then maybe see that, you know, there's some camaraderie that comes with that, too? >> absolutely. i think that one of the great things about sarah's scream and about, you know, there's others being organized, and i had one on a newsletter thread last night. it's bringing parents together. and right now we're feeling so isolated. so alone and now new friendships are forming and we're really starting to recognize, you know, the power of supporting each other. the power of standing sometimes in a circle and screaming. there's something really cathartic and really that can bring people together and hopefully, yeah, build friendships that last forever. >> i'm smiling because i'm looking at those still pictures and just the variety of the screaming. a lot of us are trying to do that without our kids watching, but then maybe some of our kids need to see that, too. and some of the pictures showed that. just to see how hard moms are working to keep it together but then also looking for ways to release. release. sarah harmon, melinda, thank you so much. appreciate it in helping so many of us realize that it's okay to feel stressed out. it's okay to find a way to let it go. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you. all right. we'll be right back in a moment. , so i'm good. now move! kim, no! mucinex lasts 3x longer for 12 hours. with less moderate-to-severe eczema, why hide your skin if you can help heal your skin from within? 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