war. there are new indications that russia is moving more supplies to the border with ukraine as the threat of an invasion looms. we will take you to moscow for a live update. we're so grateful to have you this sunday, january 30th. thanks so much for waking up with us. >> yes, good morning to you. we are always grateful that you are here. hey, boris. >> hey. >> so let's talk about what you didn't get yesterday in terms of the snow. i thought d.c. was in the path, but more than 15 million of you from maine to southern florida, if you have not stepped outside, you know it's cold, but you're waking up under this windchill alert and that's actually a remnant from yesterdays nor'easter. >> the frigid cold follows historic snowfall that broke records throughout the northeast, and this is what it looked like in boston. officials there still are urging residents to stay home and off the roads. appears to be whiteout conditions. and it wasn't just snow, a lot of places saw coastal flooding, t too. >> that's the moment i would be looking for an exit. >> exactly. running for the exits. observation waves crashing against the wind toe of a hotel in plymouth, massachusetts, yesterday. >> the headaches are not over, by the way. more than 1,200 flights to u.s. airports have been canceled today alone which affects not just people in that region but those who may have been trying to get there. >> we have the latest forecast from the cnn weather center coming up in just a moment, but let's go to boston and cnn's polo sandoval, he is live for us this morning. polo, boston recording its snowiest january on record, temperatures there right now in the teens. what should folks expect for the rest of their day? what is it like right now? >> reporter: well, guys, can you tell that we had a blizzard here in boston? the first in four years. that's because there is a certain set of criteria that has to actually happen of conditions that have to come together in order for that to actually happen here. you have to have those heavy winds of over 35 miles an hour for an extended period of time, low visibility and snowfall, extreme snowfall. as you mentioned, one of the snowiest days on record. the snowfall that we saw in boston just under 24 inches tying an amount that was logged in 2003, making for really -- really tying for the single snowiest day for boston. we are standing in a park right now but i want to get you a look at the streets, that's what's going to affect a lot of people as they get up and go about their sunday. seeing what we actually observed in the downtown boston area but also images throughout the city, the city has really done a pretty remarkable job in terms of the main roads of making sure that they're clear. you can see black top throughout the streets and a lot of the side roads as well. that was a challenge when you get getting from 2 to 3 inches an hour yesterday afternoon. authorities were certainly concerned they weren't going to be able to keep up but they basically worked throughout the night and continue to work this morning to make sure those roads are clear. power outages that's one of the big areas of concern, a lot of that along the massachusetts coastal areas, areas that saw some of that coastal flooding. you can bet utilities companies will be working as hard as they can to make sure people get back on line as soon as possible. we checked with the utilities companies this morning and the numbers are dropping in terms of power outages. the temperature feeling about negative 7 degrees the real feel here in boston right now. >> yeah, that's what i thought. i thought that there was some really cold weather behind this thing that was coming in. you take care of yourself there, polo. thank you so much. >> negative 7 degrees no joke. >> no kidding. all right. tyler, talk to us about where we go from here. >> yeah, so the temperatures only going to go down, that means the snowfall that fell yesterday is going to stick around for a couple more days. look at some of these snowfall totals, big winner was up in not massachusetts, 30.9 inches, we all were give or take around 2 feet or so. boston, massachusetts, they tied that record for the snowiest single day on record at 23.6 inches. that snowfall as i mentioned is going to linger around because even though the system is out of here, we have some northerly winds coming in and it's bringing in arctic air. temperatures are plummeting and you're feeling it outside. we have windchill alerts for maine down into the carolinas. now, the temperatures combined with the wind currently making it feel like it's below zero out there. new york is feeling like it's 3 degrees, albany minus 10, boston minus 5. so that's the kind of air that we have plunging down. we do rebound come the afternoon but still well below average. anytime you're below average in january you know it's going to be pretty uncomfortable. temperatures in burlington you should be sitting at 29 but you will actually only top out today at 17 degrees. it's not just here, guys, this cold air is being felt all the way down into florida where temperatures this morning are in the 20s and 30s as far south as central and southern florida. >> all right. tyler, thank you so much. we appreciate all your work the last couple days. it's the question that we've been trying to sort out since yesterday afternoon, will he or won't he? football fans trying to figure out exactly what the g.o.a.t. will do after espn reported that nfl quarterback tom brady is going to retire at the end of the season. >> so think about it, 22 seasons, seven super bowl wins, he's 44 years old and he says, i'm still undecided. cnn's sports ankle andy scholes reports. >> reporter: have we seen the nfl's most accomplished player walk off the field for the final time? espn's adam schefter and jeff darlington reporting saturday afternoon that after 22 seasons tampa bay buccaneers quarterback tom brady plans to retire. after orchestrating yet another incredible come back in the loss to the rams last sunday brady had said on his podcast monday any decision to walk away would be a family call. >> the biggest difference now that i'm older is i have kids now, too, you know, and i care about them a lot as well and, you know, they've been my biggest supporters, my wife is my biggest supporter. you know, it pains her to see me get hit out there. you know, she deserves what she needs from me as a husband and my kids deserve what they need from me as a dad. i would say i'm proud and satisfied of everything we accomplished this year. i know when i give it my all that's something to be proud of and i've literally given everything i have had this year, last year, the year before that, the year before that. i don't leave anything half-assed. >> reporter: the seven-time super bowl champ has always maintained he wanted to play to 45 years old. brady will celebrate his 45th birthday in august. his bucs teammate devin white was quick to offer congratulations on a great career via social media but some close to brady have told media outlets that his future is still undecided. brady's agent releasing a statement to espn saying i understand the advanced speculation about tom's future. without getting into the accuracy or inaccuracy of what's being reported, tom will be the only person to express his plans with complete accuracy. he knows the realities of the football business and planning calendar as well as anybody, so that should be soon. brady's father, tom brady sr. also telling multiple reporters his son hasn't made up his mind. the bucs head coach bruce arians says he has not been told brady is retiring. cnn has reached out to the bucs, brady's representatives and the nfl but haven't received responses about the situation. if this is it for brady he leaves as the greatest quarterback to ever play the game, a sixth round pick that was once the huge underdog ends with the most passing yards and most touchdowns in nfl history and those seven super bowl rings are more than any other team in league history. >> he's able to step aside while still playing at an extraordinarily high level at an advanced age and the word satisfaction also came into play. he had all that he accomplished in new england and if he had stepped aside at that point it would have been more than enough to ensure his place in history right at the top of the pyramid. then he goes and wins another super bowl with the bucs and he plays at an extremely high level this year, change a play or two and he's in the conference championship game tomorrow. so leaving at that level, very, very few athletes, even among the greatest of the great, get to go out on their own terms that way. >> thanks to andy scholes for that report. let's bring in now cnn sports correspondent carolyn manno. carolyn, we have seen tom brady pull off some incredible last second come backs before. is this really the end for the greatest quarterback of all time? >> yeah, at this point it appears that way, boris. i think what you just heard in andy's report from tom brady himself really echos that. that he doesn't like to do things halfway. he has proven to be so meticulous in every single aspect of his career and there's really just the sense that this narrative somehow escaped his control on saturday. i had a chance to speak with multiple people who are and have been close with him, they tell me their sense is that he was planning on ultimately making this decision but he doesn't like other people communicating what he feels is his business or are his plans. this is a man that produces his own pregame hype videos, i would be shocked truly if there weren't a clearly defined strategy around this decision to retire. from covering him myself for many years in new england i have known him to be a historian of the game. i doubt he would have timed it this way. this is the eve of the today's championship conference games, he played in 14 of those over the course of his career. he won ten of them. he's made it look very easy but he knows firsthand how difficult it is to get to this point for the teams that are left in the playoffs and so with the respect as a player, as a leader, the example that he strives to set creating a circus with the final two games before the super bowl looming doesn't seem to align with his personal values, either. >> all right. so here is my question, do you have any ideas how this confusion started, because we were talking yesterday and somebody said it almost sounds like somebody who was close to him leaked it out, which would really be sad. >> yeah, it's really difficult to speculate. i think, christi, there certainly is the notion that somebody on his team wanted to get ahead of this narrative, it's all about controlling that. that maybe, you know that is correct got back to tom and he said i need to do things my way. his dad tom sr. in the past has gotten a playful wrist slap from his son about maybe leaking information about how the quarterback is feeling. if those things are the case it would be unfortunate. there's also been talk about a spite season, tom brady may be coming back for another year so he can truly do things exactly his own way. however the information came out i think what we're learning now is this is the future, a league without tom brady and of course there is no regrets there. he's got nothing left on the table. >> that is true. he's generally done it all. carolyn manno, thank you so much. >> thanks, carolyn. still ahead this hour, russia is claiming it doesn't want war with ukraine. but its actions suggest otherwise. we will talk about it coming up. stay close. plus former president trump hinting he might pardon the january 6th rioters if he takes back the white house in 2024. hear exactly what he said after a quick break. find your breaking point. then break it. every emergen-c gives you a potent blend of nutrients so you can emerge 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stay tuned for that. major news close to the white house, more than 100 influential black women from across the country thanked president biden in a letter after he vowed to honor his promise to nominate a black woman to the supreme court. it would be a historic pick. the first ever to sit on the bench if she is confirmed. >> this is a show of appreciation for the president and a show of support for the possible nominees. from key democrats as he continues to take criticism from republicans over that announcement. cnn white house reporter jasmine wright is with us now. so talk to us about the goal from those who were signing this letter. >> reporter: yeah, christi and boris, the goal is two pronged here. first it is to thank the president for following through on that pledge, but second, it is really to make it very clear that there are a group of very influential black women around this country ready to rally around whoever that potential nominee may be. so in a letter sent to the 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biden they are influential as we said, they are civil rights leaders, political -- political -- people in the political spectrum from all types of work, media personalities and they were really active in pushing the president, then candidate, to pick a black woman vice president in 2020. they've been involved in voting rights efforts at the white house as well as police reform, but now here is their goal is to protect this nominee whoever it should be. remember, we don't know who it is yet, but they want to protect them and make sure they get to this confirmation process fairly, swiftly and with the least amount of damage to their name as possible. christi and boris. >> and jasmine, president biden says he's going to select the nominee by the end of february. what can we expect over the course of the next few weeks? >> reporter: well, we can expect a bit of a hustle. we know that the white house has confirmed that they are considering judge michelle childs of south carolina who has is being pushed by biden ally jim clyburn. we see on the screen more people we believe are under consideration from the white house to fulfill this role. now, you said president biden says he wants to have a nominee by the end of february and of course chuck schumer majority leader in the senate says he wants the confirmation process to go quickly. we will hear a this rhetoric about where it is, where the white house is in the process of things really for the next few weeks. boris, christi? >> jasmine wright, thank you. good to see you this morning. so there is optimism this morning as the united states turns a corner on this latest surge of covid cases. that states might start easing restrictions. >> cnn health reporter jacqueline howard has more. >> reporter: christi and boris, there is a lot of optimism but that doesn't mean that the united states is going to roll back its covid-19 measures or recommendations quite yet. the reason why most covid-19 policies are based on levels of community transmission of the coronavirus and right now nearly every single county in the u.s. is still experiencing high levels of transmission. you see on this map here only a handful, about four counties, have gotten transmission down to low levels, two in rural texas, one in nebraska and one in hawaii. so low transmission means there are fewer than ten new covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in a week and the test positivity rates in a community is less than 5%. whereas, high transmission means there are at least 100 new covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in a week and the test positivity in that community is at 10% or greater. now, cnn has reached out to some cities and counties from seattle to north carolina, and their health officials tell us that they are keeping an eye on transmission levels to help determine the best path to take to return to what we used to think of as normal. u.s. surgeon general dr. vivek murthy told our colleague jake tapper that he is optimistic, but we 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is it something else? and that's important to know that. >> reporting from no, sir could you, nic robertson, thanks for the update. so what does vladimir putin want? that's a question getting asked a lot in the crisis between russia and ukraine, but other countries, including germany and france, also have a stake in how all of this plays out. >> cnn's tom foreman breaks it all down for us here. >> reporter: hey, boris and christi, this dangerous and complicated situation is made much more so by the fact that everybody wants something different. so let's break it down by starting with ukraine. what does president zelensky want there? he wants to keep a united independent country, he would like to continue building ties with the west with nato and less so with russia, he would like the russians to stay on their side of the border, even though there's still some fighting in the eastern part of his country already, and ultimately he would like everyone to tamp down the language a little 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>> thanks for having me on this morning. i think that bitcoin and cryptocurrency have that option because you look at the numbers of roughly 90% of americans have access to a smartphone. utilizing crypto with dollar costs averaging if it's a dollar a day, $5 a day or week, that savings and growth pro residential. you talk about the 50% drop in the last several months but overall there is a 273,000% appreciation since bitcoin has been established in 2010. that appreciation and trajectory keeps going the long term appreciation cycle. >> people to get in that now do not benefit obviously from that rise in the value as you suggested. i want to read a couple of headlines you alluded to as well what's been happening in the last couple of months and these are headlines over the last 48 hours. bitcoin is reeling from a two-month free-fall. that was on a yahoo news. cnbc has paul krugman says crypto has disturbing parallels with subprime mortgage meltdown. you have the hill saying crept toe volatility hits banks, celebs and every day investors. what convinces you that crypto is a solid investment? >> you know, no one blinks an eye when a stock market has a dip. i think that's the same thing with bitcoin. you see short-term volatility as long as people are trying to day trade and the way that we're looking at this in jackson, tennessee, when we talk about employees being able to take that option of investing, it's not day trading, it's not trying to capitalize on short term gains it's about long term horizon investing and that's part of the education piece that we have and we are looking at our platform to provide that option for employees. >> so how have city employees received this? >> it's been across the board, some have come to my door and knocked on it and say, hey, we're ready to do this, i'm? some are more skeptical. that's why education is an important piece. we offer our employees an ira plan so this will be not dissimilar to that. we will still pay them in u.s. dollars and then they will have an option with a third-party platform we contract with to utilize crypto, utilize bitcoin, we hope it's bitcoin, to look at that long-term investing strategy we want them to do with the same strategy they have for their iras for retirement. >> let me ask you this, i know you've given a blueprint of plans to install a digital mining network at city hall. some people might look at this and say on your personal time, sure, go ahead and do what you want to do with your finances. there may be some trepidations about bringing this into city and state government. to what you say what? >> first off, that was a plan and unfortunately right now in the state of tennessee we can't do that because local governments can't hold any crypto on the balance sheet. making a small investment utilizing those mining rigs in off peak hours which will help regulate our electricity grid would be a benefit not only to our energy authority but to our -- being able for us to prepare for and pay for our electricity bills, you know, this would not be a gamble and investment, this would be utilizing the mining machines to do that investment for us and mining while we're still going on with regular business. look at 10, 15, 20 years down the road when that appreciation cycle has come up on where the projections think it will be then local governments will be able to ask the and question instead of the or question we're faced with every day now. >> mayor scott conger, appreciate you taking the time to be with us this morning. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> of course. aaa says that gas prices are not coming down anytime soon. it's not the news that drivers want to hear. we have details just ahead. ♪ got my hair ♪ ♪ got my head ♪ ♪ got my brains ♪ ♪ got my ears ♪ ♪ got my heart ♪ ♪ got my soul ♪ ♪ got my mouth ♪ ♪ i got life ♪ like pulsing, electric shocks, sharp, stabbing pains, or an intense burning sensation. what is this nightmare? 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