hello and welcome to all of you watching us around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, a covid-era immigration policy expires in the u.s. how the end of title 42 will affect migrants who want to enter the country. signs ukraine is moving toward launching its counteroffensive against russia. what we could see in the days before it begins. and the european union considers new rules for artificial intelligence. and they could affect how you interact with ai. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with kim brunhuber. we begin with a landmark change in u.s. immigration policy. the controversial covid-era rules known as title 42 expired just a few hours ago now. and that means harsher consequences for those entering the country illegally. thousands of migrants seeking asylum made their way to the southern border ahead of the deadline. authorities have detained a record number of migrants in the past few days. while things appear quiet at
here we go. one house. two of them. yeah, hit two houses. wow. right? good morning, everyone. good monday morning. good weekend? good weekend. monday though. arg. you ll get there. we re glad you re with us. we start with weather. there is a dangerous winter storm dumping quite a bit of snow on southern california. that s right. southern california. and unleashing tornadoes as it heads east. we re tracking the severe weather threat. also this we re confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment. there s growing concern this morning that china may be ready to provide weapons to russia. could it be a game changer on the battlefields in ukraine? what s ahead the cia is saying. house republicans taking aim at the biden administration s handling of a toxic train disaster in ohio. what we re hearing about investigation ands hearings on capitol hill. but we begin with the winter storm tearing across the nation right now.
beheading ukrainian prisoners we are live in ukraine, plus cries for help. dramatic new +911 calls from the bank shooting that left five people dead as we re also learning new details about the shooter s past and in a story you ll see first on outfront fears growing the u. s could be dragged into a war with china as beijing says its military. it s ready to fight. let s go, outfront. good evening . i m erica hill in for erin burnett. outfront tonight beheaded two horrific videos out of ukraine that appeared to show russian troops mutilating ukrainian soldiers. the video is not surprisingly graphic and what we re about to show you. it s just a few images from these two videos. so in this one image, you can see what appears to be a russian soldier crouched over ukrainian screaming in pain as that masked soldier. uses a knife to behead him. images from a second video, and here you ll see what appear to be the bodies of ukrainian soldiers that have been beheaded by russian troops
This hour, we continue to monitor the repulsive antiisrael protests on around the country. Last night, far left riotersit in new york city burned an american flag. They also vandalized a worldno war one memorial. Meanwhile, new yorks governor, kathy hochul, was caught on tape saying, well, something downright degradinggradin about African Americans. Were going to play that tape coming Ug Africay Thatp in. As democrats try to demagogue abortion. Well, guesabortions what . Were going to introduce you to one of the most prolife senatorsroduce to grace the halh of capitol hill. That persons name, joe biden. Weve got the record now, of course, joe has since flushed his deeply held, quote, catholic beliefs down the drain to appease the radical base that now makes his party just like he abandoned israel to appease the Radicatl Marxistsis that make up the radicals that run the party. Run the now, the full story is p up straight ahead. We do Begin Tonighstraightt Witn In A Manhattan courtroom w
toss the head set fell. zimmerman says he was acting in self-defense and has never been arrested or charged, but martin s family and their many supporters claim that racial bias in the shooting and the investigation. so now the fbi has stepped in and the justice department has opened a civil rights investigation. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joining me now with more on all of this. why don t we go ahead and start with trayvon s cell phone friend. i understand you actually have a copy of her sworn affidavit. give us the details, sunny. we ll kind of unfold the conversation from there. good morning, kyra. i do not have a copy though of the sworn affidavit but i did speak to one of the martin family attorneys this morning for at least half an hour, and she and i discussed this phone call. apparently trayvon martin on that night had been trading phone calls with a 16-year-old friend, a girl, and as they traded phone calls, one of the last phone calls, w was at abou 7:04. tr