or friendship with him, end quote. a spokeswoman for mr. gates said friday he stands by his 2019 statement to the journal and declined to comment any further. cnn has hasn t independently been able to verify the journal s reporting of why ms. gates was seeking divorce and the couple hasn t commented publicly beyond their initial twitter announcement. according to journal sources and documents reviewed, melinda gates said their marriage was irretrievably broken and a spokeswoman for ms. gates didn t respond to questions. jessica, thank you very much. top of the hour. thank you for staying with us. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota. president joe biden promised to work with republicans on many big-ticket items and this week that promise will be tested. last hour president biden laid out another piece of his covid recovery plan and pushed back against republican claims that he is sending the economy into a, quote, tailspin. so, some months will exceed expectation
public transportation mask order is not in effect right now at airports across the country. our aviation correspondent pete monoteen joins us with more. what did the judge say in their decision? reporter: anderson, this is so interest because this is the first time i m at reagan national airport. i ve done hundreds of live shots throughout the pandemic wearing a mask. this is the first time we re not wearing a mask because of this federal judge decision, katherine kimball. she was appointed by president trump. she says this rule is essentially void, that the cdc s authority doesn t go over. this is pending a federal review. it came by surprise and was very abrupt. we know the mask mandate was slated to end today. it got sfwextended by two weeks. airlines quickly pushed back against that and they said that this is something that is holding people back from traveling. the history here, back in february 2021 the biden administration ordered this to be put into place extended
the fate of that city currently in the hands of an unknown number of defenders. two hours ago russian forces issued a second deadline to surrender. no word on what ukrainians are going to do there. it includes civilians, by the way. this comes as video shows hundreds of people sheltering in the basement of that burning steel plant you see there. we are told that russian forces are firing at the facility willingly. these are some of the people who are hiding inside, dozens of women, children, the elderly. they have been there now four weeks. these mothers say conditions for their kids are desperate. there s not a lot of food. their children s teeth are starting to spoil. as a parent, just imagine going through that. this morning president biden will hold a call with u.s. al lice and partners to discuss how to hold moscow further accountable. white house press secretary jen psaki indicates the u.s. is preparing to impose some new sanctions, expand current ones against the kreml
cdc mandate for travelers as airports brace for mass confusion and chaos. let s go out front. good evening, everyone. i m kate baldwin in for erin burnett. the offensive is on. russia s widespread attack in eastern ukraine under way at this hour. ukrainian officials are calling it the second phase of the war. this as the ukrainian president zelenskyy warns the russians are stopping at nothing. translator: the russian army is not slowing down the use of missiles against ukraine. they are pressuring, looking for a weak spot in defense of our state find and enter there with the main forces. as the violence continues, there is a fear the worst is still to come. we do believe they reinforced the number of battalion tactical groups in the east and the south of ukraine. they ve added now more than ten to what they already had there in that part of the country. we still assess that in general they have the vast majority of their assembled combat power available to them. and
shocking brutality. call the police. here you see the mob is shouting toward the front liners who were trying to breach the doors of the capitol to physically pull the cops into the violent crowd. in another video, we see rioters under a trump 2020 flag finding law enforcement officers. one protester has apparently gotten hold of a police baton, and is using it against them. and now as you re about to see in a curse-filled rant from one protester, a reminder that mike pence was very much a target for not obeying donald trump s illegal demands. i m hearing that pence just caved. is that true? i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we re going to drag mother fuckers through the streets. you politicians are going to get drug through the streets because we re not going to have our shit stolen. if you voted for it, we re going to drag your fucking ass through the street. by the way, that is ryan nichols, a former u.s. marine from texas. he w