and i m am a ara walker. health officials are on their way to ohio after the train derailment. and the health concerns despite assurances. and five former memphis police officers charged in the beating death of tyree nick olgs nichols facing a judge yesterday. what his mother said about facing these men for the first time. kamala harris takes direct aim at vladimir putin in a speech at the munich securities conference. what it means at this critical juncture in the war. and plus what a u.s. military is officially calling off its recovery operation for the chinese balloon and the other objects it shot down. good morning, and welcome to cnn this morning. i think the sun is starting to come up and it is time to eat your breakfast. they don t see us as they eat breakfast away from the scamcamera. yeah. and a lot of news to get to. the biden administration is deploying medical experts from the cdc and hhs to east palestine, ohio, where hundreds of worried residents are
we re live with what all this means for a critical moment in the war. health officials are on their way to ohio following that toxic train derailment. the health concerns residents say they are now liveing with despite assurances from local officials. plus funeral services set to be held today for alonso baggily, the man killed by police. we re getting our fist look at the body cam video shows the moments leading up to his shooting. plus taking up arms, how some asian americans are taking steps to protect themselves following an increase in awe tacks on the asian community. that s coming up on cnn this morning. welcome to the weekend. saturday, february 18thth, we re so grateful that you are starting it with us. good to be with you. coffee has kicked in, so let s go. vice president kamala harris condemning russia s acts in ukraine as crimes against hu humanity. she delivered the rebuke against russia had in a speech before the security conference. here s a clip.
intersection during a yellow cig without caution. elon musk plans to fix the feature with an over the air update, a of software upgrade. it s not like you drive to the dealership or the service center. this is something that will happen automatically in coming weeks. in a tweet, he krit sized the word recall saying it s just flat wrong. christine romans, thank you so much for that report. thank you for sharing your morning with us. you don t have to go far. the next hour of cnn this morning rt starts right now. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m a.m. ra walker. and i m boris sanchez. crimes against humanity at the security conference as russia launches attacks on ukraine.
but i think that if you re going to believe in the first amendment principle, you ve got to be consistent and having public information out there, as long as it s not an imminent threat to safety, should be on there. now, if he is saying go take some action against elon musk or someone, that s different. that s a threat to safety. and i would agree that that shouldn t be on there. i just looked before coming on the show. aaron ruper has been banned. he krit criticizes me all the t. you can t ban that. so i think what this whole twitter is showing is that we don t have thoughtful decision making and we have concentration of power in who s deciding what is speech. and also i think one thing that s showing is there are no easy answers. it s easy to say i don t like how it s done.
now now that the president is sort of trolling her. but would the gop be risking anything by actually having to take a vote on it? yeah. that certainly could put them in a bind. we re seeing the narrative shift. it used to be that democrats were concerned thapd would feel the political heat and blowback. now they re starting to point to moderate republicans and say, are you really okay with this? so now we re starting to see republicans on the hot seat here. ryan, i want to ask you about the president s crude attacks against senator mitt romney. he krit side him earlier. also ben sass and congressman will hurd. why is the president targeting romney specifically? well, romney has been the most prominent republican in the