>> a milestone tomorrow marking two years since russia's invasion of ukraine live with america's new crushing sanctions on the kremlin ahead of the anniversary chaos and confusion in alabama after the supreme court's controversial ruling that frozen

embryos are children more ivf clinics in the state pause clinics. nikki haley's home state showdown at&t reveals what caused the massive outage yesterday the u.s. withes it first lunar landing in over 50 years and why more younger adults are saying cheers to sobriety it is friday, february 23rd and early today starts right now good morning i am richard lui today the united states will impose over 500 sanctions against russia and russian assets targeting russia,s it enablers and war machine

good morning to you. why is the united states doing this what are the sanctions >> reporter: good morning, richard. the state department spokesman explained they are connected to the upcoming anniversary of the invasion by ukraine and now to navalny's death. in the meantime this will be the single biggest bunch of sanctions imposed since the start of the war in ukraine. mooning that probably it will target individuals and money president biden on thursday met with the widow of alexei navalny, yulia navalny and navalny's daughter, dasha in california and spoke to reporters in the meeting and let's take a listen to what the

president had to say >> he was a man of incredible courage. it is amazing how his wife and daughter are emulating that. we will be announcing the sanctions against putin. one thing that was made clear to me is that she will continue to fight. >> back in russia alexei navalny's mother said she was finally allowed to see her son's body in the morgan but the authorities blackmailed her saying unless they agree to a secret funeral -- --

> reporter: ivf patients in alabama, devastated, furious and scrambling as more clinics abruptly stop ivf procedures gabby has spent more than $20,000 on treatments and is hoping to create embryos with her husband as soon as possible. her clinic, alabama fertility informed her it was putting all new ivf treatments on hold >> i broke down in to tears. i was inconsolable we started to call every clinic we could think of. i am not stopping this cycle >> reporter: she packed her bags jumping on a plane to texas completing her treatment at a different clinic there megan and her husband, walker, received word the embryo scheduled for transfer this

friday couldn'tmove forward. now she is as the clinic will not release the seven frozen embryos for use elsewhere. >> we are not allowed to transfer them out of alabama everything is shut down. even though these are apparently my children i don't have access to them. ivf accounts for 2% of births in the u.s. the alabama supreme court's ruling creates legal liability for destroying embryos in the state left the medical community in limbo leaving clinics with a difficult decision

laura jarrett with that for us in new mexico the manslaughter trial is on for the armors on the western film "rust" where a gun went off held by alex baldwin in rehearsal the spec laid out the case in stark terms. >> you will hear testimony she routinely left guns and ammunition lying around unattended the prospect of live ammunition on a film set is incomprehensible and something that should never happen >> the lawyer of gutierrez blamed the studio for hiring gutierrez-reed as armorer and prop assistant police are investigating the death of a jogger. the woman was found with visible

injuries and they expect foul play she was a nursing student at nearby augusta university. police have no suspect they say there is no immediate danger to the community at this time tomorrow is a big day for the republican party nikki haley trailing significantly to donald trump in her homestand. what kind of final pitches are we seeing from the candidates? >> donald trump and nikki haley will be holding multiple events across the state today donald trump was in nashville, tennessee. here is what the two had to say about each other >> he is not talking about the influx on the border or wars

around the world all he is doing is talking about herself. >> she is hurting the party. think of it, if she is not running they are not talking about us she is not doing well. >> i have been speaking to voters here in south carolina. some have concerns that former president trump hasn't focused on the issues enough take a listen. >> debates are important we need to know who the candidates are we don't know what he stands for, expect for himself. when it comes to nikki haley she is driving the issues and putting them to the forefront. >> detectives held their primary

here earlier in the month. a super pac is encouraging democrats to get involved in the process tomorrow >> donald trump is once again claiming presidential immunity as he urges a federal judge to throw out the classified documents case in florida. they argue that jack smith was unlawfully appointed and the scientist under which trump is charged is too vague after launching a week ago the u.s. returned to the moon for the first time in a half century.

the first part of the mission was a success and it was not an easy feat. >> it is really, really difficult to land on the moon. now they are navigating communications issues. it will only have 12 to 13 days before the solar power runs out. east coast is waking up to a slick commute. good morning >> good morning. it is finally friday we are waking up to rain the rest of the country looks food good. part of the southeast in the mid-atlantic into the northeast where we are dealing with a bit of snow hence the reason for the

slick commute. by late into the afternoon hours it will be gone for most meanwhile, mild temperatures for dallas, oklahoma city. that is where we are headed. we start to see cooler air filtering in kansas city, tulsa, 80s in for .

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