good morning to you, welcome to your new day, i m christi paul. hi, christi, i m boris sanchez. there are new details in that shooting that left a new york city police officer dead and another critically injured. what we re learning about that officer and what investigators know about the gun that was used during the shooting. and amid warnings that russia is planning to invade ukraine imminently there are new details to share with you this morning about the kremlin s alleged plot to install a pro-russian leader. and the winter olympics are just a few days away, why coverage of the games could look very different this year. it is sunday, january 23rd. thank you so much for waking up with us this morning. we re following breaking news out of the houston area. according to officials there a harris county deputy was shot and killed during an apparent traffic stop. one that officials have called a brutal murder. cnn s polo sandoval is with us live right now. this is sti
ukraine. and you re grounded. how one woman s anti-mask moves changed the travel plans for more than 100 others. hello and welcome to the lead. we begin with our health lead and the strongest case yet for getting a covid booster shot or should i say strongest cases yet. three new cdc reports show that adults who had gotten their booster shot had the best protection against hospitalization because of covid and against emergency room and urgent care visits. the new data suggesting getting a booster in the age of the omicron variant is now less of a nice to have and more of a must have. this as we are learning that unvaccinated adults over the age of 65 are nearly 50 times more likely to be hospitalized for covid than their fully boosted peers. across the u.s. today, more than 160,000 people are hospitalized with covid right now. that s a record high. but as cnn s omar jimenez reports, the number of daily cases are actually trending down, even as some hospitals are growing
prosecutors allege rhodes and his ten co-defendants traveled from across the country to d.c. with stockpiled weapons, ammunition and other tactical equipment, video from january 6th captures oathkeepers wearing military gear forcing their way into the building in a military stack formation. prosecutors say the group even stationed quick reaction forces outside d.c. to rush into the capitol if needed and that rhodes was planning for violence well beyond january 6th. rhodes estranged wife also spoke to cnn. he sees himself as a great leader. he almost has his own mythology of himself and i think he almost made it come true as seeing himself as some sort of figure in history. reporter: meanwhile. trump allies, like senate moornity leader mccarthy are refusing to cooperate with the house select committee investigating january 6th. vb though mccarthy previously supported an investigation and said that president trump admitted responsibility for the attack. cnn servicing t
particular industry. and they won t back down. a top u.s. diplomat warns the drum beat of war is sounding loud from russia. what will vladimir putin do next? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper starting with the politics lead. for the first time in the january 6th investigation, the u.s. justice department is using the rare charge of seditious conspiracy related to the insurrection at the capitol. prosecutors indicted 11 defendants on this charge including the leader of the oathkeepers, the violence prone far right extremist group. prosecutors say that the defendants opposed by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of presidential power. video from january 6th shows a group in oathkeepers insignia, many wearing helmets, moving in a single file tactical formation through the crowd. and according to the indictment the defendants conspired beginning in november, 2020. they recruited members and affiliates, organized training and paramilitary combat tactics.
the world s attention. let s hear why he thinks that bet is worth making. piers morgan, thank you for coming on the show. how does that happen, how does a deal get thrashed out? it was fortuitous, really. the whole good morning britain blow up with the meghan markle thing, and the free speech debate, it was all raging in the uk, predominantly, around the world but predominantly in the uk. and rupert happened to be in the uk that summer, and he watched it all go down. and i think they had been toying with whether to do a new network, and i think he felt that if i was now available, that it was worth having a go. and so they had to get me, and i had a few suitors, as i think has been well documented. and as soon as rupert came knocking with his company, with the global tentacles it has and the ability for me to do, as you said in your intro, to do columns, to do books, to do crime documentaries i have been doing as well, you know, it seemed to me an irresistible chance to go ba