showing no mercy. cracking down on protesters demanding the release of opposition leader alexei navalny. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday evening. and although cases and hospitalizations are trending down, the presence of new covid v variants has some medical experts warning the worst is still to come. natasha chen has more on the race to vaccinate as many people as possible. in some ways, americans may feel the beginning of a light at the end of the tunnel. the number of people hospitalized from covid-19 dropped below 100,000 on saturday for the first time since december 1st. only one state right now, louisiana, is seeing an increase in new cases compared to the previous week. and more than 30 million doses of the vaccine have been administered so far. i feel bad that i can go see my grandkids. getting a second shot, it just has done wonders for me, and it r
both candidates with alexandria in fredericksburg and rich edson in virginia beach. rick, we ll start with you. what s the latest in this extremely close race? well, anita, the very latest is beer, wings and college football. there s an event at a sports bar. the governor just left, and terry mcauliffe with the local celebrities and politicians trying to get the vote out in the democratic area in the southeast corner of the state. they ll head up to richmond a democratic pocket and northern virginia trying to turn out voters. democrats have repeatedly trying to tie glenn youngkin to donald trump, and so we asked mcauliffe if he s making the race too much about the former president? well, well, well, please don t say that. he has had so much of a reason he s running is because of donald trump. he tried to play it both ways. i never said the reason i m running is because of joe biden or barack obama, i m running because this is what i want to do for virginians. earlier th
he has revealed himself to be a total ideologue and i suspected he would become of that joe biden nominated him to provide a cover for the department of justice to be deeply politicized and even weaponized against the american people. shannon: a number of heated exchanges went down on capitol hill. plus tennessee senator marsha blackburn who asked the ag whether he would equate angry parents to the oklahoma city bomber. she joins us live to discuss. parents frustrated over another prominent democrat posting a picture inside without a mask while their kids are forced to mask up for hours a day in schools. this time it s new york governor kathy hochul mask less on broadway. not violating any laws or guidelines but a stirring backlash from parents who say they have had enough. americans irritated as more and more out of stock signs propping up in stores and online. one store owner has advice on how to save for your christmas. we begin with that senate judiciary committee heari
that the worst could be yet to come here. also it bears noting that you don t change a commander if you re winning a war. so, there s a real fear this invasion could turn even more brutal than what we ve already seen. here was the pentagon today on that eight-mile-long russian convoy believed to be headed from the donbas region. another convoy of vehicles that are heading south towards that town of izium, we believe these are the early stages of a reinforcement effort by the russians in the donbas. cnn has geolocated this new video that shows this large column of russian military vehicles inside russian not far from the eastern border of ukraine. vehicles are seen facing northwest in the direction of donbas. there is also new tape tonight of an alleged ukrainian strike on a russian weapons depot in the luhansk region of donbas. ukrainian officials claim they destroyed an ammunition warehouse there, and ukyou can e burned out shells and rockets scattered all over the groun
where residents are scrambling for the most basic necessities. ukraine bracing for a full-scale russian assault in the east. there s a heavy russian troop presence in the south and the east. the areas here marked in red. military analysts say the russians will try to take control of the entire donbas region in eastern ukraine. there are new images of a long column of russian military vehicles near russia s border with ukraine. all of them pointing towards the direction of the donbas. meantime, russian education off on monday, there were unconfirmed reports of a russian chemical attack in mariupol. cnn cannot independently verify that claim. and to the north, ukraine s president says russian troops left behind thousands, thousands of mines. translator: the invaders left mines everywhere, in the houses they took over, just on the streets, in the fields. they mined people s property, mined cars, doors. they deliberately did everything to ensure that the return to these areas