our panel weighs in. and forces put on high alert. russia and nato over the potential invasion of ukraine. can diplomatic talks bring the party back from the brink or is an attack by vladimir putin all but certain. breaking news out of the shark as the state supreme court judge strikes a mask mandate for schools in public places. the near department of education defiant tonight saying that schools will real require those mass. breaking details on that case coming up. we begin with the crime crisis making the streets as dangerous as ever for those who protect and serve. greg gallagher is taking a closer look tonight. good evening. from the killing of cops two kids, forcing a stunning rush of violent crimes across the us for the politicians disagree and solutions, but it is getting tough to find anyone who doesn t think that we has a country have a major problem. already in 2022, five. city police officers have been shot. this weekend 22-year-old officer jason ribera lost h
russian invasion. we are live in moscow this hour. anti-vaxx and antimandates. thousands take to the streets from d.c. to brussels. we have the very latest on the state of the pandemic. and with less than two weeks to go before the winter olympics and just days before the chinese new year, we look at china s covid policy two years after wuhan. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is monday, january 24th, and u.s. president joe biden is set to be considering option to bolster troop levels in eastern europe amid fears of a possible russian invasion against ukraine. now, according to ukrainian intelligence, russia has now massed more than 127,000 troops in the region, and as tensions remain high, america s top diplomat has issued one of the strongest warnings yet. have a listen. if a single additional russian force goes into ukraine in an aggressive way, as i said, that would trigger a swift, a severe an
cases you can see still sky high, but they are going down. and now it s just under 700,000, another promising sign? hospitalizations. patient lots are trending down in the northeast. i m so glad to have you here with us, dr. fauci. you say things are looking good, going in the right direction, as omicron cases decline. when will we be in the clear? well, ana, i m not so sure we can say when we ll be in the clear. it s a trend we have seen. they had a shatter people and came back down. we re seeing it in those areas of the countries that had the first surge to begin with. we project we ll start seeing the same peak in coming down. how long that takes, that we re in in an arena we can actually live with that time is very typically to predict. it will continue to come down and down. with all the things we have, with all the tools, vaccine, booster, testing, masking, we ll belt keep it down there. the worth-case scenario is we ll have another variant that would allude some
violence call. prompting a new focus on rising violent crime in america s largest cities. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. president joe biden talking with world leaders about the very real chance of russia in 58ing ukraine again. underscoring how it has escalated in reason days. the pentagon announcing this afternoon, as many as 8,500 u.s. service members are now on heightened alert and have been told to know ready to deploy at any moment. if necessary, they will join nato forces in eastern europe and the alliance s effort to deploy the troops near ukraine. we re covering this escalating tension, even a crisis on multiple fronts. let s start wat the white house. do we know about whether or not to send u.s. forces to eastern europe? it s a decision that could come as soon as this week. what we do know, as of today, president biden hasn t made a final decision about that. behind the scenes they are getting the specifics ready in case he makes call to bolster u.s. forc
for russia. a minor incursion, president biden sparks confusion and sows doubt on america s response if russia invades ukraine. we ll have reaction from moscow this hour. donald trump gets handed a major legal blow as the u.s. supreme court rejects his request to keep his white house documents hidden. what this means for the january 6 investigation. and hundreds of thousands of syrians facing a harsh and brutal winter. human rights groups calling it a crisis within a crisis. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. good morning, everyone. welcome to the show. it is thursday, january the 20th, and we begin with the last thing u.s. president joe biden needed really with his approval rating at a listless 41%, and that is a foreign policy stumble. his administration is scrambling really to clean up his suggestion that a minor incursion by russia into ukraine might get a less forceful response than an outright invasion. have a listen. russ