with alyson camerota and john berman. and we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world, this is new day. john avlon is in for john berman making fun of my brackets. fantastic to have you. you know, it s my pleasure. you are crushing the bracket. credit where credit is due. thank you very much. okay. we begin on a serious note with dire warnings from president biden and the director of the cdc. dr. rochelle walensky believes the u.s. is on the verge of another deadly surge. i m going to pause here. i m going to lose the script. and i m going to reflect on the reoccurring feeling i have of impending view. we have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where we are and so much reason for hope but right now i m scared. cases are on the rise in nearly half of the states. in michigan, infections are rising sharply especially among people under 40 years old. and testimony continues this morning in the derek chauvi
increase of covid-19 variants puts the country on the cusp of surge in cases. cases are increasing nationally and we re seeing this predominantly in younger adults. baylor complete s college basketball s greatest rebound and rebuild with a championship. texas, we got a national championship, too! the state deserves it! this is new day with alyson camerota and john berman. okay. so, i don t know where jim sciutto came from to win the cnn bracket. i thought that i was winning. so to bring people up to speed here, baylor won the college national basketball championship. it was baylor who won. baylor won. gonzaga loss. as a result, alisyn camerota did not win the cnn march madness pool. how did this happen with this vast sports knowledge, i can t believe somebody leapfrogged over my bracket. jim sciutto will not come in the next week and a half. he won. he ll bask in his victory. drinking champagne. also incidentally baylor as well. we want to welcome our vi
the president also wants a legislative package to seize property from russian oligarchs and putin s enablers. this could ensure when the oligarchs assets are sold out of, funds can be used directly helping with the harm russia caused in ukraine. a short time ago nato s secretary general predicted this war could go on for months or years. for people living in the area, the attacks seem relentless. basement. let s get into the basement. a cnn crew scrambles for safety as russian forces intensify their attacks in eastern and southern ukraine. this morning the u.n. secretary general visited a mass grave. this is in bucha. and then he had meetings with ukrainian president zelenskyy. let s go straight to cnn s scott mclain in lviv. what can you tell us about that meeting? hey, we understand that president zelenskyy did meet with the u.n. secretary general, and they are holding a press conference that s either happening now or due to begin soon. and we re just waiting for
allow it to happen. we re not attacking russia. we are helping ukraine defend itself against russian aggression. just as putin chose to launch this brutal invasion, he could make the choice to end this brutal invasion. russian president vladimir putin may be trying to dig in like a, quote, cancerous growth within ukraine. on the ground, ukrainians are reported their towns are being bombarded in kharkiv, donetsk and luhansk. the u.s. assesses roeurb is making slow and uneven progress in the east. russia appears to waoeub out the identity on in the city of kherson, appointing their own officials to city council. according to a local ukrainian councilman, replacing local currency with the ruble and threatening ukrainian teachers. cnn s anderson cooper joins us from kyiv, ukraine. anderson, we know the secretary-general of the united nations was just there meeting in kyiv right where you are with president zelenskyy. and we heard about large explosions there. so what s happenin
go. police releasing the mug shot of the suspect charged in the shooting of a black teenager in kansas city. 16 year old ralph yara will bring the wrong doorbell while he was trying to pick up his siblings. last week , he was shot two times. 84 year old andrew lester is charged with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action. thank you so much for joining us. i ll be back here tomorrow night, cnn tonight with alison camerata starts now. hey, alison. great to see you and we ll be talking about that case, of course, as well. good evening, everyone. i m alyson camerota. welcome to cnn tonight that 84 year old man in kansas city was charged this evening with shooting 16 year old ralph ural in the head. this was last week after you re all apparently rang the wrong doorbell. is this a valid case of stand your ground law, or is this the law of the instrument? which says when all you have is a hammer? you treat every problem like a nail. here. the instrument is a gun. our