rebuffing the efforts on the ongoing giggss, a move that s bound to frustrate newly empowered republicans. investigations, fingerprint analysis, and the supreme court doesn t know who leaked the report of who turned over the investigation on roe v. wade. and why chip toe is still driving them crazy ahead on cnn this morning. good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. it s saturday, january 21st. great to be with you, boris. great to be with you always, amara. up first, a plea from ukraine and a standoff over tanks. german officials say they will not send their leopard 2 tanks to ukraine unless the united states also agrees to send its m-1 abrams tanks into the battlefield. volodymyr zelenskyy says there s a need to send them. it s a message to all of our allies to be frank. in order to have this capability of the tanks as well as the long range and everything else we are discussing is very much needed now so that our brave defenders can be pr
for the area later this weekend. heavy rain showers could mean flooding across some gulf coast states. let s check your forecast now. allison chinchar is in the cnn weather center. a mixed bag. yes. we have two different systems both producing different types of scenarios. the one along the gulf coast will be the biggest threat for flooding. the secondary system, the focus there is the snow. a lot of the heavy snow right now, a few light snow showers around the denver suburbs. the bulk of the heavy snow is across kansas. wichita now, it s rain. you will go back and forth between a rain/snow mix. same thing for kansas city and st. louis. on the southern edge, heavy rain from baton rouge towards hattiesburg and montgomery. that line will shift north and east over the next 24, 48 hours. all of this area here by late saturday night, atlanta,
the fences of this, the federal correctional institution in inglewood, as it is called in the denver suburbs. as you look across to the right you can see the field where some of the inmates generally exercise each day. this weekend, blago himself was filling those hours by exercising. cameras caught him on the grounds of the federal correctional institution. he did about 20 laps of the baseball field, we are told. then he was seen doing some shirtless push-ups, if you want to picture that in your mind s eye. his famous black mop of hair now almost entirely white. meantime, back at his home in chicago, welcome back balloons appeared. his wife said she didn t put them up, but quite conspicuously she didn t take them down, either. she of course has been a steadfast supporter of her husband and a campaigner for his
kathy barnes, 55, denver suburbs. he s not the most pleasant person. he can be very blunt and boorish. but i think this country needs someone who is more business-oriented. the factors that dragged it down in 2018 is he right? i d be very surprised if he turned out to be right. this was readily apparent going back to 2016. when you look at the states that delivered him the presidency, places like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, in the states that had other statewide elections on the ballot, non-trump republicans ran well ahead of donald trump. there are people who were willing to vote for pat toomey for senate who could not pull the lever for donald trump. whether he sees it this way or not, and it appears that he does not, he has had a tight rope act since the day he came into office to try to hold together this coalition of people. a majority of whom in his own
democrats must pick up 17 republican seats right now in order to get the magic number, not lose any of their own. 17 is the magic number for the democrats right now. let s go over to john. it s gone down from 19 to 17. the democrats are smiling right now as the number continues to decline. they are smiling especially because you just called that race in colorado. that was a target of opportunity, a key pickup for the democrats to prove their point, again, in the denver suburbs, that they could pick up these previously republican seats in suburban areas where the president of the united states is toxic out there. plus the changing demographics of the district. that one s off the board now. that was here a minute ago. democrats see more opportunities in the states that haven t closed yet, including a number in the big state of california. so you re looking now the democrats need 17 more, and they re leading in 31. tells you the math is pretty good. eight republicans leading right now i