Colorado home and kidnapped a housekeeper. Hear what she says about the ordeal and what the man may have been after. Plus, schools that are not okay. It comes from a chicago principal who says that students are still struggling both med mentally and academically almost two years into the pandemic. What hes seeing at his school. And alcoholic drinks are making a cocomeback on southwes airlines. While some passengers raising a glass to that, one group has some real concerns. We are thrilled to have you this sunday, february 6th. Good to see you, Trchristi Sflpo russia seems to be closing in on ukraine, and the latest signs that Vladimir Putin may be close to an invasion here, hes reportedly assembled 70 of the troops and weapons that he would need for a fullscale invasion. That is according to two u. S. Officials familiar with the latest estimates. Russia continues to add to the forces in the region, almost daily, as the United States warns that an invasion would lead to horrific consequences. Cnn correspondent melissa bell has been following the developments from kyiv, ukraine. Melissa, walk us through these latest developments and what this Troop Buildup suggests. Well, these are some of the most alarming warnings weve had from american intelligence yet, boris. When were talking about is Russian Troops that are amassed on several borders of ukraine. And one of the most alarming, of course, is the buildup thats been happening across the russian border. What youre talking about is a border that is really a couple of hours drive from kyiv. The latest american Intelligence Assessment is that if Vladimir Putin wanted to invade, he could do so pretty quickly, taking the ukrainian capital within 48 hours. And if he were to carry out that multipronged attack from several different fronts, theres very little that Ukrainian Armed forces could do about it, given the strength of the capabilities that have been amassed on those borders. Beyond the american Intelligence Assessments that is being shared with lawmakers, but with european allies as well, as the u. S. Is trying to shore up nato unity in the face of this threat, we can see on Satellite Imagery that weve been receiving and we can have a look at shows that chose that border. Just about 50 kilometers from it, you can see where those capabilities have been changing. More men, more equipment, and also, aircraft that have been brought into several places. Again, very close to that border and worringly close to the ukra ukrainian capital, boris. That fortification almost looks as if this is a when situation as opposed to an if situation. We know that Emmanuel Macron is going to moscow today and to kyiv the next day. How much potential does he have to potentially detour this . Reporter he believes that he has the russian president s ear, and the feeling in western capitals is that some negotiation, some dialogue is better than none. But the feeling is that that window for opportunity for dialogue is narrowing. And the point is whether or not the russian president has already made the decision to invade, the point is that he could do so and do so with devastating impact, as we mentioned a moment ago, we could be talking about Tens Of Thousands of casualties, millions of refugees, and what would be the largest Land Invasion in europe since world war ii, christi and boris. Melissa bell reporting from kyiv, ukraine. Thank you so much. Turning now to the United States and wisconsin, specifically. There was a shooting at an apartment complex that ended with two people dead and another injured. This happened yesterday morning in brown deer near milwaukee. And you see this dramatic Video Showing officers running away from the scene. One of them holding a child. The officers say that just as they arrived, a suspect opened fire on them. Our officers were dispatched for a shots fired scene. Upon riarrival to the scene, ou officers were fired on from the second floor balcony. They set up a perimeter and requested aid from surrounding agencies. No officers were hurt, but the suspect, who has been identified as 26yearold man, is dead after an apparent selfinflicted gunshot wound. The relationship between the suspect and the victims, that isnt clear yet, but authorities do believe this incident stemmed from a domestic dispute. We know that the victims are a 23yearold woman and a 31yearold man. Police do plan to release their names later today. And police in virginia have arrested a suspect at a deadly shooting at a Hookah Lounge near the Virginia Tech campus. 24yearold jamel flint is charged with firstdegree murder and several counts of attempted murder. Police say that flint called 18yearold Isiah Robinson and injured four other people friday night at a bar. Virginia tech was placed on lockdown for several hours after that skmhooting and one of thos injured was a student at the school. This is one of the oddest stories were bringing you this morning. A man accused of prbreaking int Michael Bloombergs ranch in colorado, kidnapping an employee, and terrorizing her at gunpoint, hes now in custody facing state and federal charges. The woman is safe, but she tells investigators that her kidnapper was heavily armed, that he wanted to know information about the former new york mayors daughter. Camilla bernal has more details for us here. Reporter boris, christi, we now know that the man accused of kidnapping one of Michael Bloombergs employees was identified as Joseph Beecher and the information that we have is coming from an Arrest Warrant and from a criminal complaint filed in federal court. And according to those documents, beecher allegedly rammed through the gates of this ranch belonging to Michael Bloomberg in Rio Blanco County in colorado. According to those documents, he found that employee inside, who later told authorities that he was heavily armed and that he told her that he would shoot her face off. He also told this employee, according to these documents, that he wanted to create an international scene. He was also asking for the daughters of Michael Bloomberg by name. Once he found out that the daughters were not at the ranch, according to these documents, he made then this employee, who was not named in any of the court filings, to get into her truck and drive him around. They ended up in wyoming, and authorities were able to track them through the her ipad. Thankfully, she was okay. Now, he is facing a number of charges wel charges, including a federal kidnapping charge. And we know his First Court Appearance is on tuesday. But the documents did not specify who his attorney is at the moment. We did hear, though, from Michael Bloombergs spokesperson, who said that theyre thankful to Law Enforcement for bringing bang that employee or that victim to her family. Boris, christi . Camilla bernal, thank you so much. Pivoting to politics now. The Republican Party is determined to take back congress in this years midterm elections, but theyll have to sort through some major rifts growing in their ranks. Lets bring in political congressional reporter Olivia Beavers to discuss all things politics. Olivia, good morning. Thanks so much for sharing part of your sunday with us. Some of that division in the Party Centers on the big lie and what happened on january 6th. And were now learning more about what some lawmakers were doing in the days and hours leading up to the insurrection. This week, we learned that congressman matt gaetz met privately with mike pence, trying to convince him to overturn the election, and others like jim jordan spent time talking on the phone with President Trump that morning. How do you think the January 6th Committee will handle the inevitabilitthat those members will not comply with their investigation . Boris, that is a major question that weve been waiting for months to try to figure out, whether the January 6th Committee does actually move to subpoena some of its own members, because that sort of opens a pandoras box of using a tool that historically the house really hasnt deployed. And if it does, if House Republicans win back the majority, you can imagine that they would absolutely use that same precedent against democrats for whatever reason that they choose isser reason to do it. But, as you said, were slowly getting this drip, drip out of the January 6th Committee. I interviewed jim jordan some time last year, and he told me he speak to donald trump multiple times on the day of january 6th, but he has repeatedly said he doesnt know what time. Now, the more information were finding out, i think we have signs that the committee is building a timeline of when these phone calls took place. The public doesnt know them, but it looks like they know the timeline of when the mccarthy and donald trump phone call took place as well as the jim jordan phone call or phone calls. And were anticipating getting details on that likely in just a few months, perhaps in early summer. I do want to ask you about minority leader kevin mccarthy, because the pressure is growing on him to break precedent and potentially help out liz cheneys primary challenger. Cnn reported last year that some of the other House Republicans who voted to impeach trump got money from mccarthys leadership pac. So how does he navigate this midterm cycle, balancing these alaska factions,s within his party. He obviously wants to be speaker and its a very fine line to walk, isnt it . Its a very fine line, and gop leadership usually doesnt wade into primaries, but last year around this time, i was in florida watching basically the dam break when liz cheney and mccarthy were at the gop retreat. And that was when mccarthy started to move to oust liz c cheney as Conference Chair and from there the relationship has deteriorated. Mccarthys sort of way of responding to some of these things, like you saw with the rnc moving to Censor Cheney and kinzinger, is he doesnt weigh in. He remains silent. Cheney has been a thorn in his side. Its going on interesting, but if he breaks that precedent, whats not to say that, you know, some of the more conservatives in his conference dont push him to start getting involved in other primaries, where republicans voted to impeach. And potentially, primaries where former President Trump has selected multiple candidates to endorse. I want to ask you to expand on something that you alluded to earlier, because youve been Doing Reporting on what republicans plan to do with the January 6th Committee if they win back the majority. Whats their calculus . Whats their thinking . Were sort of hearing from republicans. I asked leadership, i asked freedom caucus, i asked more moderate members. Youre getting the goldilocks answers. Some say, you know, crumple it up, throw it in the trash bin, we dont want to have anything to do with it. Lets move on. Thats congressman dan crenshaw, there are more moderate members. And you have more of a middle where they say, lets use it to investigate Outstanding Security measures, and of course, they want to, you know, turn the committee and investigate nancy pelosi even though that shows that theres a lack of understanding with how the Capitol Security Works at the u. S. Capitol. And then theres members like matt gaetz and Newt Gingrich who want to turn it into a fallout weapon against those who were continue committee, investigate the investigators, and undermine the reality of what happened on january 6th, which is that Trump Supporters breached and attacked people in the capitol. Theyre trying to turn, claim that, you know, the government was behind it, or whatever Conspiracy Theory theyre trying spin. That is really where youre sort of seeing it. And it will, expectedly, if mccarthy becomes speaker, fall to him. But at the moment, there are a lot of ideas and it seems like there is a push at least use it as some sort of political tool. At some point, i think the Republican Leadership is going to have to answer for claims like the one thayou mentioned from madison hawthorne, the congressman suggesting that january 6th was a false flag investigation and it should be investigated. The deep state was behind it. Sure. Olivia beavers, thanks so much for the time. Always appreciate hearing from you. Thanks, boris. Of course. Later this morning, you can get more political analysis on State Of The Union with jake tapper. Senator joe manchin just one of several politicians who will be joining. Lisa murkowski will be on as well. It all states today at 9 00 a. M. Right here on cnn. Dont miss it. So more than two years into the pandemic, one chicago principal says, quote, our schools are not okay. He is so concerned that he penned an oped to parents about what hes seeing every day. We think we know whats going on. You listen to him and we do not. Hes with us, next. Stay close. So when my windshield cracked, i chose safelite. 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So many students are still struggling during this pandemic. Last month, new research showed that children are experiencing both mental and physical health problems, anxiety, depression, food insecurity, school di disengagement, all linked to school closures. Seth lavin is with me now. He has written this incredible oped in the chicago suntimes, highly suggest that you take a look at it. Talking about the difficulties that he sees each day in hi scs school. This was so eye opening. Wh we hear about it, but to hear about it in the way that you put it is extraordinary. Thank you so much for being with us. I want to read something you wrote about how children are not okay and teachers are not okay. His what you say. We knew this year would be hard. We did not know that it would be like this. A kindergartner throwing chairs. A second grader tearing up a classroom. A middle schooler swearing in your face, and then falling to the ground if tears. Every teacher i know feels like theyre failing. That is a lot of weight for a teacher to carry. I want to ask you about that in a moment. But i want to break this down into two different parts here and talk about whats happening within the walls of your school. Lets address the children part of this first, if we could. What do you say that they need the most and what is most distressing to you when you interact or when you watch them . First, good morning. Thank you so much for being here and drawing attention to this. You know, what do the children need, the kids need love. And it is hard right now. Its hard in schools, its hard in schools everywhere, but my purpose isnt to scare people or to make people think that the kids are bad or theres something wrong with them or something that needs fixing weve been out of community for so long that kids have missed a lot of what it means to be in community. So our jobs in school is to help them come back together and work through all of it and figure it out. What they need is patience and love and teaching, like they always do. Lets get to that teachers aspect of it. We all know how hard it has been to be at home with our family, with our kids, sometimes, and how overwhelming it is. I cannot imagine what its like for teachers who have an entire classroom full of kids that are struggling, as well. You had written about the teachers that the front line isnt holding, we know there were billions in Education Funds that were given out to schools from the government, but you say that you cannot build an addition on a house thats on fire. Relate to us the weight that these teachers carry and what they most request from you. Yeah, absolutely. My wife is a teacher at a School A Couple of miles away from mine, so i talk to her, of course, all the time. If youre a teacher, youre somebody who is caring for children relearning how to care for each other. These children have experienced trauma and hardship. Their emot