shot, get the shot. okay, and one, a few questions about this pacific vaccine. there are two things that we would like none of them have to do with how many professional athletes or netfli stars half been vaccinated. we don t care. first question, is it safe? the second question, is it effective, safe and effective that s all that matters so let s address those questions in order tonight. from the moment the first shipments arrived inin the u.s. we were assured of this would be the safest vaccine science is ever produced, the risks of taking it were so small we could ignore them completely. the worst thing that could happen is having an allergic reaction. clinical trials revealed no evidence at all that the vaccine could cause any life-threatening condition. in february an infectious disease researcher explained that the johnson & johnson vaccine was especially safe. the bottom line is thatt nobody who has gotten these vaccines has died from covid. sure, as far as we know,
one the bengals won. bill: how big is my smile? dana: big. strong feelings i m supposed to have feelings on the overtime. ukraine, the u.s. deployment is to shore up defenses. the alliance is sending ships and fighter jets as russia amasses thousands of troops along the ukraine border. bill: state department evacuating staffers families from the embassy in kiev. it is also issued a do not travel warning for americans in that country. dana: a second shipment of u.s. weapons has arrived in ukraine. this as british intelligence warns that the kremlin is plotting to replace the ukrainian president with a puppet leader loyal to moscow. bill: the situation evolving by the moment. republicans say one thing is clear. president biden is not going to deter vladimir putin. putin believes he can reconstitute the old soviet union and challenge the united states on the world stage. right now he has more to gain than he believes he has to lose. so far with this administration
you put up with me. i did text you that. more than 50 million people facing winter weather alerts as a powerful and dangerous winter storm batters the east coast this morning. thousands without power. freezing rain, ice, snow stretching as far south as florida. governor kemp is pleading with georgians to stay off the road. high wind and sleet making driving treacherous. more of the same in north carolina where conditions have turned deadly. a tractor trailer slid off a highway, killing two people, multiple tornados touched down in southwest florida. in lee county, 28 homes were destroyed and dozens more declared unlivable. in south carolina, the national guard had to be called in to assist stranded drivers. black ice and snow in the state remain a threat this morning. and the storm is expected to hit the northeast next. nearly 3 million people under high wind warnings, including here in new york and boston. philadelphia could get some snow. and travel disrupted. 1,200 f
of the strictest covid countermeasures many of them have ever seen as the world confronts a second olympic games amid a pandemic. cnn s selena wang is live inside tokyo with more now. how many spectators will there be, and how will the government be choosing them? reporter: well, ana, it s hard to believe we re only 17 days away from the start of the games and we still don t know how many spectators are allowed or how they will be chosen. all we know from organizers is that anyone allowed to attend is going to have to follow strict covid rules before, during and after the games. international spectators have already been banned and with the latest change reflects just the growing restrictions and what is already an extraordinarily restricted olympic games, even for than what i experienced in the tokyo summer games. i ll be traveling in a couple of weeks but already i ve had to download an olympic health tracking app, put in my daily temperature and once i enter beijing i ll
for the very latest on its path, meteorologist tom seder is in the cnn weather center. it s coming down big time in d.c. right now. i was just looking out the window in the d.c. bureau. it is just there is the capitol right there. you can t even see it. that s how much it s snowing here in washington, but things are tough all over, as we know. yeah. where you are, jim, i forecasted in d.c. for years that i-95 corridor is a really tricky area to forecast because you re right on the rain/snow line. and more northern parts may start as snow but generally will chain over to rain. let s explain the watches and the mornings right now. what a storm, pushed out of the dakotas over a foot of snow, 14 in des moines, they got 9 inches in mississippi. tupelo could see a little bit more. these warnings do not include boston, new york city. philly s going to be a little interesting. i do want to show you the radar, and i included florida here because we had a rare january tornado, and