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ukraine. a group of armed men have now taken over the key government building in the regional capital of crimea and have raised the russian flag. this is raising fears that russia may step in and into ukraine. let's go to our correspondent barbara starr. right now forces are active along the border with ukraine. is there real serious fear russia could potentially cross the line into ukraine? >> well, wolf, let's get right to defense secretary chuck hagel because there is an extraordinary optic out there. earlier today at nato headquarters in brussels secretary hagel issued a warning to moscow. and how many years has it been since a u.s. defense secretary had to do that? i want you to listen to what he had to say. >> i'm closely watching russia's military exercises along the ukrainian border, which they announced as you know yesterday. i expect russia to be transparent about these

activities. and i urge them not to take any steps that could be misinterpreted or lead to m miscalculation during a very delicate time, a time of great tension. >> a direct warning from the u.s. to the russian military. so what is going on along that border? well, russian forces now on alert conducting those exercises. the big worry, wolf, is as they move closer to that border with ukraine, as they move around and exercise and train, if that is indeed what they are doing, they get closer to the border if, if, they were to get orders to move into ukraine. they are that much closer, they could move very quickly, u.s. officials say, and it might be hard for u.s. intelligence to catch the first glimpse, the first information that they were on the move. the u.s. wants them to stay put. and they want plenty of time to engage in very, very assertive diplomacy with moscow to make sure there are no moves. wolf. >> and you can underline the

urgency you saw chuck hagel, the defense secretary, reading those carefully crafted remarks. those weren't off the cuff or anything. that was a deliberately approved statement that he was issuing to moscow. so what are the contingency plans? are there contingency plans? say russia moves troops into ukraine, what happens? >> the question is what would that look like? if there's 150,000 russian troops moving across the border in a massive movement, which the u.s. does not expect i must say, they have no belief that that's going to happen. that really becomes a massive worldwide crisis. not just a security crisis, but an economic crisis for the region. you could see investment and that sort of thing dry up very fast with that kind of instability. the big time to the u.s. we're told what if you get small units of russian troops, small incursions across the border to very select places?

what if in sebastopol, things just become a little more uncertain. this drip, drip, drip of instability. the u.s. right now we are told has no real option other than diplomacy and to use other countries also to convince moscow and convince the emerging government in ukraine not to engage in any destabilizing moves, not to take any steps that they can't move back from. wolf. >> let's see if the u.s. or the europeans call for an urgent meeting of the united nations security council. that would be an immediate first step if they sense something was about to happen. all right, barbara, thanks very much. this map illustrates the divide in ukraine. on the left the western side of the country people mostly speak ukrainian, on the eastern side closest to russia they mostly speak russian. kiev as you know is the capital. and there today the parliament has chosen a new prime minister to lead what's called the interim government. meanwhile we now know more about the whereabouts of the former

president, viktor yanukovych. here's cnn's phil black. >> presidented viktor yanukovych, a man who is now a fugitive in his own country, had requested personal protection from the russian government. and the russian government had granted that protection. on the territory of the russian federation. now russia media is saying that viktor yanukovych will hold a press conference in russia in the southern city on friday. meanwhile in the ukrainian region of crimea voted to dismiss the local administration and secondly calling for a referendum to determine if crimea should become an independent sovereign state. it is a separatist question. and one that the crimea will now apparently vote for on may 25th, the same day the nation of ukraine is scheduled to vote for its next president. phil black, cnn, kiev.

>> other international news we're following, an interesting new attraction in havana's harbor, a well-armed communication and surveillance ship complete with missiles. usually arrivals like these are highly publicized in cuba, but this one has been kept very low key. no one is talking about why this russian ship is in cuba right now. north korea flexing its muscles today by firing four, yes, four short-range missiles from a site near the border with south korea. the missiles went into the sea of japan, also known as the east sea. the missiles can travel around 120 miles, which would easily reach deep into south korea. the timing is key here as the united states and south korea just started their own joint military exercises earlier this week. the north korea test launch is just one of several foreign policy issues president obama's trying to juggle right now. we just touched on russia, then there's the syria civil war, nuclear talks with iran, reports

china is beefing up its pacific fleet. and of course afghanistan and the status of u.s. troops in that country. let's bring in our chief international correspondent, the anchor of amanpour. christiane amanpour, let's start with russia, some are concerned we might be on the eve of another cold war. you've talked about the treaty that forbids russia from getting involved in ukraine. so what if anything would stop vladimir putin from getting involved? >> well, there doesn't seem to be any notion that he is actually going to do so though just like secretary hagel the secretary general of nato, ras mussen tweeted a similar warning to russia talking about taking every step not to have any miscalculation and warning russia not to do anything that could be misperceived. the interim authorities in ukraine have also called in the

russian -- in kiev and they have issued him a demag about what's going on as well. interestingly the information barbara starr has the u.s. right now says it only sees russia's military exercises "within the normal range." it does notd see any of the kind of massive planning russia would have to do in terms of planning and logistics and securing air and land and rail and road corridors to incur into ukraine. of course the russians are saying they will not intervene militarily. where does this leave everybody? still a very tense crisis in the ukraine. and what we're hearing from people who have been actually mediating and certainly were at the beginning of this crisis the number one russia along with the u.s. and the uk does have a treaty not to interfere, basically respecting ukraine's borders and its independence. and also the interim government is being urged to reach out to the ethnically russian parts of ukraine and to make sure that

the new ukraine is one for all ukrainians including those who have russian ethnicity, including those in the crimea. so, yes, it's very intense right now. but a lot of intensive diplomacy taking place along those lines to try to make sure it remains stable and this crisis doesn't spill out of control. >> when you think about it, christiane, ukraine a very -- north korea, missiles being launched, china, will u.s. troops stay in afghanistan next year, all of these are huge, huge headaches, problems for the president of the united states. which will you rank as the most serious right now? >> well, the big problems of course we're talking about an administration who does not want to intervene and is in fact pulling back from all sorts of engagements. you mentioned afghanistan. i just spoke to the former afghan form minister who is one of the main contenders for the presidential elections to

succeed hamid karzai. and he says it's time to repair relations with the united states. basically referring although not directly taking a dig at his former boss, but you know the personal relations between president obama and president karzai are very poisoned. the whole idea of president karzai refusing to sign onto a security arrangement that would leave the u.s. residual force. all the other presidential candidates in afghanistan want that residual force, all say they would sign such an agreement should either one of them be elected. the majority of the afghan people want that residual force of u.s., you know, personnel to stay beyond the 2014 withdrawal date. so most people think it's going to happen, but again, it's very much on a knife edge. if there is no residual force then begs the question could afghanistan turn into what iraq is today? incredibly violent, incredibly unstable with civil war, you know, festering there since u.s. pulled out all its troops couple of years ago. the other more positive thing perhaps counterintuitively

that's going on is the diplomacy between iran and the united states and the other nations involved. by all accounts that still is moving to try to, you know, restrict and restrain iran's nuclear program in return for those eventual sanctions relief and bigger deal in the future. that seems to be progressing in the way that all sides have launched it right now. we'll see how that ends up as the talks get, you know, broader and deeper and more and more complicated. >> yeah. what's so depressing to me and so many others, christiane, is that after 13 years of the united states deeply involved in afghanistan deploying 150,000 troops at one point, spending hundreds of billions of dollars building up an afghan military and police force, you are absolutely right without the u.s. there they would crumble basically, it would deteriorate into a civil war. and it's a disaster that situation. 300,000 afghan troops unable to

get the job done. it's pretty depressing hamid karzai's legacy a disaster. no doubt about that. christiane amanpour, thanks very much. officials in new jersey releasing texting between two key figures in what's called the bridgegate scandal. you'll hear what governor chris christie's top aides joked about with a port authority. and later hillary clinton's stepping into the spotlight in a politically critical state. you're going to find out about her comments in florida and why they're making news today.

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the visiting foreign minister of germa germany. presumably they'll be speaking about what's going on in ukraine right now and serious fears here in the united states, potentially. let's hope it doesn't happen, the russians could intervene militarily in their neighboring country of ukraine. we'll monitor what the secretary of state and german foreign minister have to say once they start speaking. standby, we'll go to the state department. in the meantime check other news we're monitoring. attorney general eric holder in a washington, d.c. hospital right now. he was taken there earlier today after feeling faint. he also had shortness of breath. moments ago the white house press secretary jay carney talked about holder's health in the white house briefing. >> got anything to say about the attorney general being hospitalized, the president made aware? >> the president has been made aware. and i think the department of justice has put out a statement that as a precaution when he felt faint earlier today he was taken to washington medstar

hospital center to undergo further evaluation. and he is resting comfortably and in good condition. he is alert and conversing with his doctors. the president was notified and of course wishes him a speedy recovery. >> as do we. let's go to our justice reporter evan perez joining us right now. what else do we know about the attorney general's condition, evan? >> well, wolf, he was in his normal morning meeting at 9:30 this morning with some of his top staff when he complain about feeling faint and shortness of breath. he excused himself of the meeting, went next door to his regular office. and that's when his fbi security detail insisted that he go to the hospital. they called an ambulance. he was taken by ambulance to washington medstar hospital. i'm told by someone who was there that he was joking with some of the emts as he was being rushed to the hospital. and he is now in the hospital. he's resting comfortably. he's joking, talking to his

doctors. so it appears whatever it was he's now in good shape. right now we don't know exactly what caused this, just that he complained of some faintness and some shortness of breath. >> and he's generally was regarded as pretty good condition, not overweight, tall and seemed to be just fine. so let's hope it's nothing serious. and you'll continue to monitor it for us. update us, evan, when you get more information. let's hope he's out of the hospital fairly soon. other news including new information that's now surfacing about the new jersey so-called bridgegate scandal. documents have just been released revealing conversations between a former top aide to the governor of new jersey, chris christie, and the port authority official who ordered those notorious lane closures over at the george washington bridge. our investigative correspondent has been looking over these new documents just released. what are you seeing? >> well, wolf, i'll tell you the new information, it comes from documents we've seen before but had been previously blacked out.

today the committee investigating said some of the information should not have been redakted. so they released new versions of both text messages and e-mails between a number of key players. the most interesting exchange involves a discussion between bridget kelly, now she was the former top christie aide since fired by the governor, and david wildstein. in these texts they joke about of all things causing traffic problems. now, wildstein sends kelly a picture of a rabbi and says "he has officially ticked me off." she replies clearly can't we cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we? and he jokes flights to tel aviv all mysteriously delayed. now, the rabbi, gentleman by the name of mendy sppz carlebach. we reached out to the rabbi, but we haven't heard back. there's also a separate exchange that's interesting. it's between wildstein and a

port authority police officer. and that shows us that wildstein was on the bridge the first day of those lane closings. >> any other telling details released in these new documents? >> well, i'll tell you, wolf, there was a top christie appointee to the port authority, bill baroni, and we see he texts wildstein at one point and asks are we being fired? that came about a month before he resigned. we're still going through all these documents and have a full report on "the situation room" later today. >> the fact they're joking about traffic problems to tel aviv, obviously, you know, not good -- not looking good for these two. thanks very much chris frates. hillary clinton, did she drop any hints about another run to the white house? later, a look back at frantic effort to revive obamacare. "time" magazine takes a special behind the scenes look at the disastrous rollout of the

website. we'll speak with the reporter who broke this story.

arizona governor jan brewer's getting a lot of feedback on her decision to veto a controversial bill that opponents called anti-gay. the measure would have allowed businesses to refuse service to gay and lesbian customers if they felt it violated their religious beliefs. senator john mccain tweeted i appreciate governor brewer's decision to veto. several criticizesed bill saying it was about religious freedom

and not bigotry. here's brewer explaining her decision. >> i have not heard one example in arizona where business owners religious liberty has been violated. the bill is broadly worded and could result in unintended and negative consequences. >> hillary clinton wasted little time applauding the veto of the arizona bill. she commented on the decision during a speech at the university of miami. >> thankfully the governor of arizona has vetoed the discriminatory legislation that was passed. [ cheers and applause ] recognizing that inclusive leadership is really what the 21st century is all about. >> dana bash is joining us right now. she also touched upon the affordable care act. what did she say about obamacare? >> this is really fascinating. the only reason we know about this is because our colleague went down and figured out he

could actually go in and listen to what she was saying and what was thought to be a closed event. but it wasn't. and so what he heard her say is she was actually open to some changes to obamacare, specifically some of the things that we've heard from the president but more importantly from republicans. like the idea that businesses that have 50 or more employees those are the ones who have to offer health care, concerned that people -- businesses aren't hiring to keep below that threshold. maybe that should be changed. and the other is the concept of the 30-hour marker as a part-time versus full-time. maybe that needs to be addressed because, again, businesses are cutting back on workers hours to avoid having to bear the burden of obamacare. so those are the things she talked about very note worthy, i think, because those are also things that some of those who are also facing voters this year, some democratic senators, are discussing. but she really did according to dan who listened to her speech back the whole concept of obamacare because she said you can't in her words throw the

baby out with the bath because there are so many good things in it, like for example preventive care, the young invincibles, those who are 26 and so forth making sure they have health care. >> how can it be a closed event at the university of miami when there are hundreds of students, tv cameras inside. what does that mean closed event? >> it was a couple evens. she had a couple, one was open with tv cameras. this was earlier in the day in orlando, florida. it was a meeting, sort of an event with health care i.t. people, which she was invited to. a lot of sort of technical people. a lot of sort of as dan put it big brains in the room. >> separate not the university of miami. >> separate event. >> a closed event at the university of miami did not make sense. >> that's not where she talked about the obamacare. >> at the university she had some fun talking about her twitter feed the way she describes herself on that twitter page. and she specifically was asked about that tbd, to be determined, element she

mentions. >> let's watch. >> well, i'd really like to, but i have no characters left. i will certainly ponder that. >> tbd, to be determined. she was talking about characters, 140 characters in a tweet. >> right. she was trying to have a little fun with the fact she doesn't have any room. but to continue having a little fun with what she does have on her twitter profile, check this out, i think we have it to put up. i mean, look at it. virtually nothing she doesn't have. wife, mom, lawyer, women and kids advocate, floor -- do you know what floor is? former first lady of arkansas. took me a while to figure that out. so on and so forth. she has everything in the world on there. tbd is supposed to be a teaser and she continued with that at this event. but by all accounts just in watching what was that open event with the kids at

university of miami with her old friend who is the president of the university, she seemed to be creating the outlines of what could be a stump speech talking a lot about the need to get involved, really appealing to the young people there, talking about her experiences when she was young, about listening to and watching mlk speak. and so certainly she's not -- she's teasing everybody, but she also seems to be honing what she might want to say if and when she does run. >> since she's been first lady of united states, maybe tbd is president of the united states. >> we'll find out. you know what, it's tbd. >> whether she wants to be, i suspect she would like to be. all right. dana, thanks very much. the incredibly rocky rollout of obama care, there's now some new behind-the-scenes information about how it all played out, what top officials knew and didn't know. and president obama's backup plan, that's coming up next. and take a look at this, a new white house push to help young men of color.

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4 million and counting, that's where obamacare enrollment numbers stand right now. hard to believe just a few months ago the website healthcare.gov was in truly critical condition, barely surviving as major glitches kept thousands of potential customers from signing up, even logging on. "time" magazine's new cover story, code red, goes behind the scenes during those very tense weeks when the white house was

scrambling to revive the site and save president obama's signature health care program. it details how top administration officials were completely clueless about the problems ahead of the launch and reveals the president came close to actually scrapping the site altogether delaying implementation of the entire program. let's discuss what we've learned from this article with the author of the piece, "time" contributor steven brill. i guess anybody who reads the piece is going to be shocked once again that the signature issue that the president of the united states had, they had three years to get this website ready and they were all clueless. how could this happen? >> well, they were worried about making sure that people showed up to enroll and completely ignored the question of what would happen if they did show up. they just took the assurances of the people at the department of health and human services, you know, that everything was

wonderful with the website. don't worry, it's a go, even though it's a really complicated major e-commerce venture to launch. and, you know, they were more concerned with policy and with marketing, the political challenge of getting people to enroll, than they were with, you know, the basic nitty-gritty of running a government. >> how close was the president to actually delaying or scrapping the entire thing? >> well, on approximately october the 17th he asked his chief of staff and his other top aides to find people who could parachute in and give them an assessment of whether they should scrap the whole thing and start all over or whether it could be fixed. and it took that group who parachut parachuted in until the 23rd of october when they went to the president and said, yes, we can fix this. the good news is that the mistakes that were made are so obvious. and there are so many of them that are relatively easy to fix

because they are so obvious that we think if you give us until november 30th we can get this thing back on track. and this wonderful team of, you know, really unknown people, you know, dressed in sweatshirts and t-shirts basically came in and redirected all the engineers who had been working on it. and they got it fixed working day and night, through thanksgiving and right up to christmas eve. >> name names. who was responsible for the blunder in the healthcare.gov rollout? >> just name anyone who was involved in it until october 17th and you've got people responsible. now, you know, ultimately the president himself has said that she's responsible. and he's right. if you're running an enterprise or government and there's something that is this high a priority, it wouldn't hurt to, you know, dig down a little bit into the details and meet the actual people responsible for the technology and make them demonstrate to you or to your

top aides who are technologically sophisticated, make them demonstrate to those people that, yes, it works. i think it was a combination of not talking to the right people and all the people around the white house and around the agencies not wanting to give any higher-ups the bad news that maybe we should wait. which also brings up another issue. no one ever launches an e-commerce venture like this all at once. they should have launched it in one state or maybe, you know, a region of a state and then a state and then a region of the country. you never rollout something like this, you know, by turning the button on and, you know, asking everybody to show up. >> so, steve, clearly the president was blindsided by this, but was his chief of staff blindsided with the secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius, where were they? >> i think they were all

blindsided. the chief of staff as i report in the article called someone the night before october 1st and said i think we're going to knock your socks off with this thing when we turn it on. and, you know, he was right but not quite in the way he meant. >> certainly a lot of people were clearly had their socks knocked off by the rollout, which was a huge blunder. but you got to give -- and i think you do, jeffrey zion, that team, they came in and rescued that whole website, didn't they? >> they did. if we're going to blame the president as the man responsible for the bad launch, i guess we have to give him the credit for bringing in the people who fixed it. >> we certainly do. excellent article by steve brill. he doesn't write a lot of these articles, but when he does you always learn something. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. great to be with you. up next, giving young men of color a boost. the president is making good on a promise. he's launching a plan right now to help those at-risk. and later, those nutrition labels on the food you buy are getting a makeover. we'll talk with the fda commissioner and our own dr.

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right now at the white house a focus on young african-american and hispanic men president obama launching an initiative called my brothers keeper. don lemon is at the white house watching this story unfold. map out the program, don, for us. what is it specifically designed to do? >> well, it's designed to help young black men, young men of color really, black and hispanic men, who really fall at the bottom or the top, however you want to look at it, when it comes to unemployment, incarceration, school dropout rates. so the president wants to take this initiative called my brothers keeper. and he wants to make it nationwide. but what he is doing now is he met with a group of youth in chicago last year. and he said they really touched his heart. and he touched their hearts as well. and after speaking to them he said he wanted to come and do

this initiative nationwide. so here's what it entails. so far they've had $150 million -- and this is money that has been donated by philanthropic organizations and business organizations, community leaders from around the country. so far $150 million. and now to add to that they're going to try to raise $200 million at least over the next five years to try to figure out what works specifically. what will be different about this time, what they can do differently about this time. the president will go into the east room, wolf, 3:25, and make that announcement. and, wolf, this used to be your beat. you know that there's something big when you start to see big names, big faces roll into the white house. i've been here for a couple of hours. i've run into magic johnson, who will be participating in this, i ran into the former chief of staff rahm emanuel. and i've run into a number of

people, mark muriel, former mayor of new orleans, as well here all really having a stake in this particular initiative that we will get more specifics from the president in just a short period of time. >> yeah, this is really important stuff that the president is doing right now. i know you're going to have a lot more later in the "the situation room," don. thanks very much for coming to washington and reporting on this important story for our viewers. coming up next, the plan to overhaul the nutrition labels on all the foods we all buy. our own dr. sanjay gupta standing by with details. [poof!] [beep] [clicks mouse] nice office. how you doing? good. automatic discounts the moment you sign up.

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secretary of state john kerry has been meeting with the german foreign minister at the state department. moments ago kerry spoke out on the escalating crisis in ukraine and fears russia could

intervene. >> obviously ukraine is at the forefront of our minds. we spent a fair amount of our lunch talking about ukraine. i'm very grateful to the foreign minister for his leadership, his personal leadership, his engagement with several other foreign ministers who went to kiev and became engaged and helped to shape particularly with foreign minister schteimmeyer's agreement. the united states is really appreciative of that kind of leadership. it's a shared burden. and i know that together with our french and polish colleagues, and i talked earlier today with polish foreign minister together we were able to make -- create a framework within which this change was able to be carried out after the

huge violence that took place in a mostly pae lly peaceful way a that. >> kerry clearly concerned though as other u.s. officials including defense secretary chuck hagel about russian intentions. we're monitoring this situation closely for our viewers. other news, the obama administration today unveiled a plan to overhaul nutrition labels on the foods all of us buy. this would be the first upgrade since the government started requiring the labels back in 1990. the first lady, michelle obama, says the idea is to make it easier for all of us to eat a bit healthier. >> as consumers and as parents we have a right to understand what's in the food we're feeding our families because that's really the only way that we can make informed choices by having clear, accurate information. and ultimately that's what today's as you heard today for the first

time since the nutrition label was developed two decades ago, we are overhauling the labels to make them easier to read and understand. >> bringing in the chief medical kor respondent sanjay gupta. you had to chance to compare them to the old labels. what are the major differences? >> the most important thing is the type of information that people want in labels is going to be more emphasized. let me show you what we have now and what the proposal is. this is a proposed label. it's not set in stone. calories are clearly at the top. that will be bolder. you will see calories. that's total calories as opposed to calories from fat. you have to at the calories from other areas. you have the total calories very clear and some of the nutrients that americans are deficient in. vitamin d. a lot of people are told they need more vitamin d. that will be more clearly

labeled. one of the biggest things is you dealt with this and the look at the numbers and say this doesn't look so bad. you have a few food items and there is actually eight servings. you have gone through four servings. you are eating far more calories than you thought. if it's likely you will seat the food in one sitting, you will not not only the per serving, but the package information as well and make your conscious mind go online and think twice about what you are eating. >> if you are buying a 20 ounce bottle of a soda like coke or pepsi or diet whatever it is, the old labels would have the servings with eight ounces and now they have decided that people are not only going to drink ounces, but drink more than eight ounces in. >> it's trying to better reflect what a serving means in today's

day and age in the united states. as you mentioned, unlike people who buy a 20 ounce drink like that are going to stop at the one serving mark. have a clear idea of what they just took in. they are probably going to drink the whole 20 ounces. you take ice cream, for example. i don't know if you can see this, but you might guess how many servings this is. this is 12 servings, but people may be able to get or five servings and they will better reflect what is likely in terms of a serving. not that they encourage people to eat more, but that they know what they are eating. >> big changes and a 90-day review. we will see how many are implemented. what goes ochl as usual, thanks very much. >> any time. >> don't forget to make an appointment every weekend for sanjay gupta md. saturday and sunday only here on cnn.

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. we will play you one of the most memorable on the big screen. turning his passion into finding vets and homes when they return from the battlefield. more on the mission in today's impact your world. >> i thought i would tryout my sea legs. >> you ability got no legs, lieutenant dan. >> before he played lieutenant dan in forest gump, he was a passionate supporter of the military. >> i have a long history of working with veterans starting with the relationships that i have in my own personal family. my dad served in the navy and my two uncles were in world war ii. my grandfather served in world war i. >> worry the success of forest gump, they began to identify with him. >> how many veterans we got here? >> he formed the lieutenant dan band and entertained troops around the world with the uso. the actor said his call to

action became very clear after 9/11. >> our men and women started playing to iraq and afghanistan and started getting hurt and killed and having vietnam veterans in my family, it was troubling to think they would come home to a nation that didn't appreciate them. >> he started his own charity dedicated to veterans. the foundation helps build customized homes for the severely wounded and helps vets find civilian careers. >> i have met hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of wounded veterans and continue to not let their circumstance get them down. countless lieutenant dans out there that inspire me every day. >> the actor seth rogan is known for making audiences laugh, but he took on a serious topic in a visit to capitol hill and testified about his mother-in-l mother-in-law's battle with alzheimer's. >> after forgetting who she and her loved ones were, my

mother-in-law, teach are for 35 years forgot how to speak, dress herself and go to the bathroom by herself all by the age of 60. >> he shared a lighter moment when he explained why he decided to get involved in a serious cause. >> it's because of this lack of hope and shameful stigma that my wife and friends of myself decided to do something to change the situation. we started hilarity for charity. it's a fund we have as a part of the alzheimer's association to help families struggling with alzheimer's and support cutting edge research. that's right. it is so dire, it caused me, a lazy sfl involved and self medicated man child to start an entire charity organization. >> seth rogan will join us on the lead later this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. eastern. check it out. a quick check of the markets.

the dow is up 70 points and stocks dipped a bit before bouncing back. we will watch for you. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i will be back in "the situation room." newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> here we go. thank you very much. i'm brooke baldwin. top of the hour, i want to take you to ukraine. the u.s. is confirming and keeping a close eye on the threat russia might pose there. the fear right now is repetition of cold war tactics. russia reenstated the promise they were there at the boarder and has nothing to do with ukraine. >> we believe that everybody now needs to step back and avoid any kind of provocations and we want to see in the next days ahead obviously that the choices ru