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spokesperson for the late kremlin critics as that navalny's body won't be returned for at least another 14 days. we have the latest on that story. meantime nearly the entire state of california is under a flood alert right now, another atmospheric rivers slamming the state. what does this mean for the 37 million people in the way of this severe weather? >> and a story that many of you are talking, texting, tweeting about. we know that you are a financial advice columnist getting scammed out of $50,000 in cash. so how did this happen and how can you prevent this or something like it from happening to you? you were following these major stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central >> leaders from all over the world are demanding answers over the death of imprisoned vladimir putin critic alexey

navalny. this morning, his widow met with eu foreign ministers as she and other members of their family get the run around from the kremlin, far from getting any information about how the dissident died. they haven't even been able to see his body. they're told they won't be able to for at least another two weeks over the weekend, hundreds were reportedly arrested at vigils and protests throughout russia cnn's melissa bell has been following this for us. melissa, there is global pressure on putin. there is internal dissent, domestic demonstrations. but as usual, the russian leader appears unmoved i'd move to the kremlin explaining that this really has nothing to do with them. we've been hearing from dmitry peskov, if it is about the penitentiary authorities, the officials who will be in charge of the inquiry that's now been launched to try and figure out what happened to alexei navalny. and that is another reason being given, of course, for his body being kept as long as 14 days, there were those

very harrowing scenes earlier today, when alexey navalny's mother went to the investigative committee up in the town that is closest to this arctic penal colony where he took his last breaths on friday hoping to get some answers, hoping to get access to her son's body. in fact, none of that. she was turned away without getting anything at all. and it is 14 days now until the family will we'll be able to get to the body themselves, which means of course, that for now, we're left with the family and alexey navalny's surrounding the contributors of people that work with him alongside him in his party, largely in exile, fears that he has been poisoned. that is the allegation is being made by alexei navalny's widow, who's come out more fortunately today in a nine minute video message than she had ever before, really putting herself for the center and suggesting that she may well be willing to carry on his fight would it i call upon

you to share not only grief and the endless pain that has enveloped us and does not let go. >> some yeah, >> i'm asking you to share my rage anger, hatred for those who dared to kill our future yes. i address you with alexei's own words in which i believe very much it is not shameful to do little. it is shameful to do nothing. it is a shame to let yourself be intimidated yulia navalny says, words appear to have been heard by many people in >> russia when making their way bars to try and put down flowers, trinkets, whatever they can in memory of alexei navalny. but an important reminder of the kharge. they're showing themselves and doing it as a fact fact that there have been hundreds of arrests across russia over the course of the weekend. one religious leader was hoping to go need a prayer, was taken to a police station where he suffered cardiac arrest. there is no room being

left for the grief that is in and of itself. a direct challenge in many ways it's to the kremlin's authority and this just a month, of course, boris, before vladimir putin stands for the fifth term that it is widely expected he will get given the lack of any credible opposition being allowed to stand melissa bell. thank you so >> much for the update, brianna, on the front in ukraine, russian troops are believed to be regrouping after capturing a key town in the east. it's a stark warning of what could be at stake as ukraine supplies dry up and additional ukrainian aid is hung up in washington, we have cnn's fred pleitgen with more on this. fred explain that the significance of this russian advance >> either brianna well, i think there's several things that are really significant about this town that we're talking about right now is called adiivka, which is in the east of the country. it's very close to where the main towns are called a donetsk and the ukrainians have held this town since 2014. so it was one of the best four to five by places that the ukrainians had. and now the russians were able to

overrun the place after a massive assault that literally took months. the ukrainian saying since about september or october of last year, the russians have been going at this town and the ukrainian say that the russians suffered huge losses in trying to take this town. but there's other things that are significant about it as well, because there's two things that frontline soldiers tell us are big problems for them and big reasons why they lost this town. one of them is a lack of manpower on the frontline, but the second thing is obviously directly related to united states, and that is a a lack of ammo of massive lack of ammo. in fact, one frontline soldier telling us they said, look, if we had add even okay. not big supplies of artillery shells, we probably would have been able to hold a town, but in this case, they are not. the other thing about the russians taking this town. it could also be a foreboding of things to come the russians are also pressing in several areas in the south of the country where the ukrainians made some gains last year, but also in other

places in the east and in the northeast, the ukrainians finding it increasingly difficult to hold the russians back, the russians using not only their soldiers that they have a lot more of, but also artillery, also increasingly a briana using aerial glide bombs as well, very heavy ordinance that are destroying a lot of ukrainian positions. of course, very difficult for those ukrainians to hold the line there. brianna and fred, president biden, as well as president zelenskyy are drawing a line between military aid being hung up in the united states >> congress and what we've seen in abdivka is it that directive align? >> i think it's difficult to say. i think it could be part of what's going on there. certainly the ukrainians unequivocally are saying that they probably would've been able to hold that town if they would have had more ammunition, especially 155 millimeter artillery shells, that's something that you hear from pretty much all the units that are on the ground there. but if

course the us supplies that vet are lacking now are only one of the factors that make it so difficult for the ukrainians. a lot of up and countries that also been pledging to send more artillery, ammunition. that is something that's been very slow in the making and it's causing some of the supplies there to trickle. so certainly the us not supplying aid, the ukrainians will say is definitely a big factor on why they're struggling on the ground. there are some other factors as well. manpower of course, also a big factor for the ukrainians. but one of the things that you hear again and again and again from ukrainian troops that are on the ground. and i was in the adiivka aereo only about 23 weeks ago and they say they simply need more ammo, they need especially more artillery ammo to be to hold those russians back. because right now it's extremely difficult for them also to try and hold back the russian infantry with some of those assaults, ground forces do because the russians just simply throw bodies at the ukrainian positions and they say they are able to hold most of them up. but at some point they get overrun. brianna yeah.

>> fred, thank you so much for that report. we appreciate it. boris >> today, president biden said he may hit the kremlin with more sanctions over the death of alexey navalny, it would be the latest in a long list of efforts by the us and western allies to take action against the russian government. the problem is the oil riches keep flowing. and a key us ally is one of russia's biggest buyers. cnn's nick paton walsh has that story blue tranquill, a world away from ukraine's frontlines >> we headed >> out to where russia may be filling its war chest to a record high crude oil tankers sometimes engaged in opaque, secretive transfers. these two under sanctions, busting suspicions in the past. the big one from russia's black sea coast, transferring crude to the smaller one, which also came from russia

>> yeah, hey, you got a feeling of how hard it is to keep track of all of this. just try occurring out here in the blue expanse, massive trade, billions of dollars of oil some of which ends up helping the kremlin fund its war. tens of millions of barrels of crude likely transferred like this last year. and where it ends up often unclear which is the point that's probably above 60 million barrels that are being transferred in the middle of the ocean purposefully. so you really needed to have a reason because it's much easier not to do that. >> these two have a messy past. so the shipping monitor that led us to them, the larger tanker that you guys saw is actually owned by a large company that bought a lot of these tankers when russian sanctions came out, right? and so they've been heavily associated with what we call the dark fleet, which is these tankers that are servicing

russia iran, venezuela, and other sort of sanctions concerns. so the smaller one actually has an interesting history itself. it was once owned by a sanction person >> russia is richer than ever but before last year's budget was 320 billion. about a third of which spent on its invasion of ukraine sanctions were meant to dent oil paying for war. but instead, india has stepped in and is now buying 13 times more russian crude oil than before the war worth $37 billion. last year, says one estimate exclusively given to cnn india buying russian crude isn't sanctioned, but as buying so much, russia might need to dodge some sanctions to ship it all we asked an artificial intelligence firm, winwood, to analyze all global shipping last year for direct shipments between russia and india. and they found a huge 588 a

separate analysis by pollster global for cnn revealed over 200 other ships that left russia last year and did a ship to ship transfer off the greek coast to another boat that then went on to india. >> ship to ship transfers. are done legally, but they're also used as an illicit tactic. to evade sanctions, to sort of try and confuse the authorities as to where this oil is coming from. and who's buying it at the end of the day >> india says these shipments fuel its economy without raising global prices by competing with the west for middle eastern oil but there's a complication for the west here is india refines the oil and sells those products on the biggest buyer of products from russian crude last year. according to exclusive new data obtained by cnn do united states over $1 billion worth from india way more if you add what us allies also imposing sanctions on russia also

import. >> so we've seen an increase in 2023 or 44% of oil products that are being made from russian crude oil flowing into those countries that impose sanctions on russia it's just such as the us, uk, and eu >> but russia's even on the make from the refining this indian port and refinery, van dinar sent an estimated $50 million of refined products to the us last year. and guess, who owns nearly half of it? rosneft. the russian state oil giant, enriching the kremlin putin, earning money on the crude. probably the shipping, but also the refining and the resale >> really you're talking about something which is amazing, the lucrative and therefore that to do that as a person or as a company is it's absolutely huge for the traders and they could just make 1020, 3,040 million within four or five months. i'm not sure there's any other opportunity in the world

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populations of arab-americans and muslim americans progressive congresswoman rashida tlaib is directing people in her home state to vote committed in next week's primary instead of casting a ballot for president biden. plea is the first palestinian american woman to serve in congress and has been protesting the administration support for israel's war in gaza. >> it is awesome or to create a bode plot. something that is a bullhorn to say enough is enough. we don't want a tree that supports warm or the bombs and destruction. if you want us to be louder than come here and both uncommitted joining me now is former congressman for michigan democrat and 11 congressman. thank you so much for being with us. you have already voted uncommitted in early primary voting, but you say that you will vote for joe biden in a general election. can you just explain? and why you were making this choice?

because obviously, this isn't going to affect whether or not he is president again, right? he is going to ultimately get your vote in the general. so just take us through your decision making process on this well, for sure it's good to see you, briana. so here's the here's the situation joe biden must win in november, we cannot let donald trump anywhere near the white house, again, to win in november. joe biden pretty much has to win michigan unless joe biden changes course on gaza. i don't see how he can win michigan. so the best way for me to help president biden is to help all these people who are so frustrated you know, the danger on february 20 is not that they're going to vote for someone else. they're going to stay home, bring on their checked out of the system. there's so mad at the

president so you mentioned representative to leave before her 30 elected officials in michigan had already supported this campaign. and so what we're saying to all these people, if you're mad, if you're upset, don't stay home. come out and express yourself. >> it's over months until the election in november. brianna, there's plenty of time we need to say to the president, this is enough death, enough destruction. gaza is being leveled. >> their >> 28,000 people dead, women and children being killed at the fastest rate of any conflict since world war ii more journalists killed than in any other conflict on record and on and on. and so we need joe biden to become what i think he can become, which is one of the greatest peacemakers of modern times by helping these people who have to be able to share this land to see each other as fully human we

need self-determination for the jewish people. my people, we need self-determination for the palestinian people. there's a little piece of land that they share and we have to help them figure this out so to speak to that a little bit, if you could, what does the president need to do? how does he need to adjust in your estimation? to win back voters who are upset with him over the issue, especially in michigan, while also balancing that with his support from jewish americans who want to see hamas eradicated so that it can't launch another october 7 like attack absolutely. >> so i'm going to switch back to my time on the foreign affairs committee here, brianna. i think joe biden, who was the chair of the senate foreign relations committee for so long, who's known every israeli leader, going back to golda my year. and is known the palestinian leadership. he has a chance here her to say, okay, we're ending the carnage. we need a ceasefire. >> and

>> then he should call together the eu egypt, jordan the countries that have recently made peace have come to terms with israel called them all together and bring the israelis and palestinians before them and say this war has to end. in fact, the occupation has to end. we're starting right now with time limited for you all to figure out a two-state solution or the kind of solution that hiba husseini and others proposed for two non geographic states and federally in confederation. one secular state where israelis and palestinians can be together. it's up to them to choose it, but we need to say that time for that kind of diplomatic offensive is right now. and joe biden is actually the perfect person to lead it. >> you hear american officials light tony blinken, like president biden, talking about

the necessity for a two-state solution according to allies, in the region or according to allies in the region >> you heard >> president biden saying that how israel has been prosecuting the war in gaza is over the top. and that notably came after a number of his top aides went to dearborn, michigan and met with muslim american and arab american leaders in the community how is that being received by people there in michigan who are in a lot of pain who have family members in gaza. how are they hearing that? >> so such a great question, brianna, i guess the first my first reaction is to point out this isn't just about air of americans and muslims. if you add up the young voters, 18 to 29 the african-american voters in this state, air of americans

and muslims. obviously there's some overlap, but that adds up to like 2 million people. a fifth of all michiganders. >> and we need to to reach these people, and it's not going to happen through messaging or smart politics. so that's my message to the administration is we actually have to change course. it's not being received well so far and let me give you one example about how actions talk louder than words, right the new york times reported in great detail about how israel has been dropping 2000 pound bombs in areas precisely where they told the palestinians to flee. and the times reported that us military officials say, we wouldn't do that. we haven't done that in decades. we don't drop 2000 pound bombs on densely pop delighted areas. we didn't do it, for example, in syria and iraq when we were going after isis okay, brianna, we have sent 5,000 more 2000

pound bombs to israel since october that's what i mean about actions speaking out or than words, why we found bomb attic offense and mosal fighting isis, i believe in the entire campaign, it's a very, very different story, just before i let you go, i do want to ask you. it is as you mentioned, a diverse voting bloc, it's not just arab americans and muslim americans. it's, it's young people people, it's african-american voters and others who are so key to the democratic base is the white house hearing you when you are saying that president biden could lose the election over this issue? >> i think that there is a lot, there are a lot of discussions going on. >> but what >> really matters is that joe biden, joe biden takes the bulk of the horns and changes things. >> you know >> richard nixon and jimmy

carter, president's as different. is that made blasting change in america's place in the world by their efforts on, with nixon, china, with carter israeli palestinian conflict. i feel confident joe biden can do that as well. but the time is now and that's what many, many michigan voters are going to tell him between now, because we have early voting. and next tuesday on election day itself, february 27 will all eyes on your state. so we're of course, very interested in talking to you, former congressman andy levin. thanks for making the time time for us >> thanks so much. bianna, take care nearly the >> entire state of california is under a flood threat right now as torrential rain is drenching the state, what officials are now telling residents plus kids are getting caught up in a violent crime spike in our nation's capital well, here in washington dc, it is being called a crisis will

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crime issue here in dc >> or brown of the crime stats pain a really alarming picture if we can put those up, a dc has been dealing with this general violent crime surge. it was up 39% last year. robberies up 67% and carjackings nearly doubled in dc in 2023. but what's really caught my eyes in the data is how many kids are caught up in this 76% of armed carjacking arrest last year were minors under 18 years old, 65% of robbery arrests we're kids and it has sparked a lot of fear because we are seeing videos every week of people being car jacked or mugged in different neighborhoods. the district. and in many cases, it's being done by groups of people, some of them are kids. just last week, dc police arrested a 40 who they say was part of a group that was carjacking ride share drivers at gunpoint, brianna, 14 years old, not old enough to have a learner's permit. and yet

participating in carjacking according to police. and i've heard from a ton of people across dc, the nation's capital, who are now actively changing their own behavior, trying to stay safe. given how seemingly brazen and random a lot of these attacks tax have felt. >> yeah, i know that you actually spoke to some of the most at-risk kids and the community about what is fueling this >> yeah, we wanted to hear directly from some of those kids about what is causing this crisis. so we actually went to court with a group of boys who were there in the gallery to see their seventh contain your old friend gets sentence for attempted robbery. they were there with a mentor who's been working with them for the past a year or so since another friend of theirs was killed, just trying to keep things from escalating. and i asked them about what is causing this and what kids are saying. take a listen. here's what one of them told me what do they say when it comes to carjacking or robbery? what are kids saying about it? >> they really know thing not because all they think they

don't gain the car knows data impacted due to other people. >> they think it's not a big deal. yeah, the thing is not a big deal >> in quite a few people echoed that brianna, that a lot of kids don't think there are serious consequences for these crimes. and local leaders here have faced a lot of criticism for dropping arrests and prosecutions and what some consider lenient laws giving kids a slap on the wrist and now officials here are taking some tough on crime measures to address this crisis. but no doubt the issues clearly run deeper, brianna, and we get into a lot more in our full story, which is set to air next hour in the lead with jake tapper all right, game really looking forward to that. thank you so much >> financial advice columnist recently went viral for her personal story titled the day i put $50,000 in a shoebox and handed it to a stranger. new york magazine's charlotte cowles recounts how she got a call from crooks spinning an

elaborate scam that she totally fell for it. yeah. and it really was quite elaborate. she says that it started with a color posing as an amazon employee who convinced her that she was a victim of identity fraud and then she spoke to someone pretending to be from the federal trade commission mission, followed by a person claiming to be a cia investigator who got her to withdraw the $50,000 that she had in her savings account and then handed over for safekeeping i wanted to tell this story because there really is no stereotypical scan victim and i know this from my own personal experience, obviously. >> but >> also the hundreds of emails that i've received from other people since the story came out. other financial professionals their doctors, their lawyers, their government employees, there are people of all walks of life who this happens too. and this is also backed up by data and research that's done on scan victims. there really is no one type of

person who's vulnerable well, this story certainly house people talking. so we're going to talk about it now with financial therapists, lindsey, brian podbean. lindsey what did you think when you heard charlotte story? she is after all, a financial advice columnist, a pretty savvy person by all accounts, and yet she fell for this scam yeah. >> i think brianna was the charlotte sharing her story. the first thing i thought is this is an incredibly brave person to come forward and to name what happened, especially given the line of work that she's in. and as she shared to normalize and validate that this can happen to anyone regardless of your level of edges her however, savvy you think you are regarding scams a part of the reason lindsey that it was successful is that these scammers, new very specific personal information about her >> they exploited it. >> this is actually what she told cnn >> about the way that this went down.

>> it unfolded very gradually. an incrementally over, over five hours on the phone and i think that what these people do is they're very good at targeting people, figuring out there one specific vulnerability everyone has one at least, and then exploiting that and for me it was my family and they had very intimate details about me, about my family members. they knew where i lived. they need the last four digits of my social security number. they knew about my son. and it was terrifying how do scammers access that kind of sensitive information? i'm i'm i'm assuming it's somewhere out there on the internet >> it is somewhere out on the internet, boris, a lot of this information is available about most of us, but what she's specifically talking about regarding her social security number, not as much theme of her child or her address is often sold on the dark web,

which sounds like it's something out of a sci-fi movie. but these scammers are incredibly adept at finding this information and using it to leverage a person and make them much more vulnerable than they might be, right there triggering their nervous system. they're triggering their fight or flight and they're pressing none. they're tender pain points that make them more susceptible to this. >> what are the telltale signs of a call or an email or attacks being part of a scam well, i think that's exactly it, brianna is we have to be really cognizant that there are no one red flag or one group of red >> flags that happened in all of these cases, these scammers are incredibly smart and they change up their strategy time and time again as charlotte shared in her piece, when she took a step back back as soon as she handed over that box and started talking to others about it, she realized pretty quickly that it was a scam, but in that moment, they are pressing on all of your pain points to make it really frightening now, in hindsight, she said some of the things that were red flags were

things like high level government agencies calling me other red flags were things like checking with my credit bureau, checking with my bank, and saying like there actually wasn't an identity theft. actually, nobody had open cards in your name. so there were some red flags that she saw in retrospect, but in the moment it can be really frightening. >> yeah, no question about that. lindsey, brian pod van. thanks so much for the time thank you so much for having me >> of course. >> so ahead. it is presidents day and a new survey is ranking the top presidents in us history, named by political scientists. we're going to show you who's number one and who came in last >> being a journalist is the best job in the world asking challenging questions of the folks who run the world is ukraine going to win this war? >> yes, of course. >> you're ready. >> the lead with jake tapper, cnn next >> why choose a sleek cover smart bet

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one of the first projects i did was looking into these rankings and donald trump back then ranked 44th, that a 44. now he's 45th out of 45th. >> and >> again, it's not much of a surprise to me that the historians ranked biden excuse me, like donald trump so low because the fact is academics overall while tend to be more democratic. we can see this in some recent new hampshire results. it's not just that they tend to be democratic. you can see that university new hampshire, and dartmouth college, of course, where i went to school, donald trump got very low percentage of the vote in the general election. but even among republicans in the republican primary this past time around, joe biden, excuse me, donald trump did quite poorly, so not much of a surprise to me that trump did so poorly in these rankings. >> so harry, who took number one not much if a surprise, we consistently have a one-two-three. that's very similar to this. but number one in your rankings is the 16th president of the united states, abraham lincoln. number to fdr number three, george washington

was a little surprised. i might have thought george washington would be a little bit higher, but i will note it's not just that these top three that we have. i also like to look at movers over time and we know that these rankings can change. so if you look back in 1960 to someone like ulysses s grant was 30th, now he's up to 17th someone like andrew johnson, which 23rd ahead of grant back in 62. now his 43rd. so these things can change his historians put things into perspective, but i'm not really much of a surprise to me that someone like andrew johnson, who really did not do particularly good after the civil war has fallen in the rankings, we'll just have to wait and see where donald trump is in 2030, 40 years down the road, because the fact that it's historians can change their minds i'm still waiting to see william henry harrison have his de, a short sweet presidency of 30 days, the shortest ever. and yet he's frowned upon by history you know what the fact is. 30 days, 39 days, whatever number it was, not quite nearly enough,

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