hello and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and right around the world. i'm isa soares in london. just ahead here on "cnn newsroom." >> he continues over the last 24, 48 hours. every day he gives himself new capabilities, new options. >> he wants to show he has capability. >> escalatory not a deescalatory action. >> war games, russia and bell ra rus hold joint military exercises as tensions between

ukraine and russia show no sign of easing. we are live in kyiv and moscow. plus, skating on thin ice. russia's biggest skating team wins gold at the olympics but the celebration is on hold over allegations of doping. and donald trump faces another investigation over allegedly handling classified documents whampt this could mean for the former president. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is thursday, february 10th. we begin with new details about what caused the tragic death of actor and comedian bob saget. his family said he died as a result of head trauma. saget was found det while on a

comedy tour. authorities have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head and went to sleep thinking the injury wasn't serious. no drugs or alcohol were involved in his death. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta walks us through what may have happened. >> that's the first thing i think of. it's sad. it's quite possible, plausible mechanism that someone would hit their head significantly enough to cause bleeding either right on top of the brain or between the layers, either a subdural sort of hematoma. i can show you an image of what this looks like but basically what happens is in this situation, it's sad. it's sad to talk about this. some of the veins that are on top of the brain, they can tear as a result of that head trauma. hitting your head pretty forcibly on something when you may say that really hurt. if i were in a different situation, i'd go get it checked out. instead it sounds like he went

to sleep thinking it was not that serious. that's what i read in that statement. that bleeding accumulates over the next several hours and someone loses consciousness and subsequently they die. he was alone so obviously no one checking in on him. it's just it's an unusual situation a little bit the way that it's sort of been outlined. it's pretty tragic t. can happen just the way that i described. >> incredibly tragic indeed. bob saget's family thanking the public saying, quote, as we continue to mourn together, remember the laugh and laughter. be kind to everyone, let the people you love know you love them and face difficult times with hugs and love. bob saget was best known for his role danny tanner on the sitcom "full house." >> you know what? from now on, there's going to be a new danny tanner, somebody who everybody likes and they want to

be around. norman, it's the dawn of a new man. yeah, natural. spontaneous. care free. primitive. ahhhhh! >> more recently he was featured in "how i met your mother" and he repriced the role of danny tanner on "full house." ♪ ♪ turning now to beijing where team u.s.a. celebrating some big wins as another day of competition heats up at the winter olympics. we'll get to that in just a bit but first a potential scandal threatens to overshadow upcoming events on the ice. the medal ceremony for the figure skating team events that should have been held on tuesday have still not happened.

there are reports it's because of a positive drug test. let's get more on this. ivan watson is following this from hong kong. ivan, what more do we know about a positive drug snes critically, what's the iov saying here? >> the ioc is not saying very much. we have no real official explanation for why the medal ceremony for the gold-winning russian figure skating team has been postponed since tuesday. the ioc spokesman says little more than there's an active legal matter. this is what he says when journalists ask bhim it. >> i'm sorry to disappoint you, but even if i comment on who is handling this, i can talk abstractly about responsibilities. even if i went on who is handling this matter, it tells you what type of matter it might be. i'm not going to. there's a legal issue going on. i can't say anything more than that. >> the same thing goes for the

international skating union saying it cannot comment if anything has to do with doping. that leaves us to try to fill in the gaps here. a number of sources have told cnn sports analyst christine brennan that somebody, an athlete who is a minor, has tested positive for prohibited substances. now there is only one minor on the six-person russian olympic committee skating team and she was a breakout star in these winter olympics. the 15-year-old camila valiyeva. the russian new hampshire rbc sports, they say one of the six skaters on that team in december tested positive for a banned substance called trimedizine. it's a banned metabolic modulator. the spokesperson for the russian foreign ministry has issued a

statement calling valiyeva a miracle and also kind of saying that there's some evil forces at work trying to cause harm and saying that the russian government is going to stand by any athlete who is targeted by these evil forces. so we're trying to fill in the gaps here. we don't know when this sample could have been taken. we don't have exact confirmation of who this might have involved, however, the russian olympic committee is -- a team from russia that isn't operating under the russian flag with the russian national anthem, that is because of past doping problems that has been meated out from the russian team. a spokesman has issued this statement, we don't have all the details but in situations like this, it's about more than gold, it's about the integrity of fair sports and accountability. worth noting that the u.s. team got silver in the figure skating

team event. don't know what would happen if it's possible there could be a disqualification. one final matter, the spokesperson for the ioc didn't say anything about if somebody tested positive, would they still be allowed to compete in future events? that raises a whole heap of additional questions. still waiting for official answers here, isa. >> so many questions about what might have happened, who might be involved, who was involved and valiyeva was in the headlines all week. ivan watson in hong kong. thank you very much, ivan. later we'll go live to beijing for the latest medal winners. former u.s. press drumpd could face another investigation, this time over his handling of official white house documents.

a source tells cnn that the national archives, the custodian of presidential papers, wants the justice department to look into whether trump violated the act. they retrieved 15 boxes of letters. here's what two experts had to say about whether trump could face legal jeopardy. >> the mishandling statute, which is the one that penalizes people in government positions for taking classified information knowingly and bringing it to a place that's not authorized to keep it, that is a criminal statute. punishable by a year in jail or some sort of a fine. yeah, i think it steps up here seriously. it these donald trump actually has quite a sophisticated understanding. the need to preserve documents.

especially the need to preserve classified documents. it takes away the whole ignorance that this was an accident. i didn't realize what i was doing. i didn't realize the significance of these documents. >> the justice department has not said whether it will open investigation. peter navorro is the latest to be investigated. >> reporter: the january 6th select committee has its site on yet another close trump ally. this time it's the former white house trade adviser peter navorro. navorro is someone who has been brazen to stand in the way of the certification of the 2020 election. he wrote about it in his book. the committee wants more information about who navorro was talking to in that period of time and what if any troel played in full meanting the violence on january 6th.

navorro out of the gate is already defiant as it relates to the committee's request. seems to be indicating that he is not prepared to cooperate in the fashion they would like him to cooperate. navorro said quotas the domestic terrorists are well aware, president trump has invoked executive privilege and it is not my privilege to waive. the committee has had difficulty getting some of trump's closest advisers and associates to come before the committee. they have had some success with those close to the former vice president mike pence. they're willing to do whatever it takes to get the individuals to cooperate. they've held steve bannon and mark meadows in contempt of congress. ryan nobles, cnn, white house. trump is not happy with mitch mcconnell.

he has pushed back as legitimate political discourse. he views january 6th as a violent attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power putting him at odds with many in his party who wish to downplay the mob attack. in a few hours we'll get a better sense of just how much u.s. inflation exaccelerated in january. that is when the consumer price index will be reported. it will show a 7.2% increase. the price of goods keep rising as global supply chain prices increase. maersk says it's not getting significantly letter. making supply chain issues worse is the trucker strike. ford and toyota are halting some production because of the

blockade at the ambassador bridge. major supply route. now the department of homeland security is warning law enforcement across the united states that a possible convoy of truckers could impact the super bowl and the state of the union address. canadian officials are looking for ways to clear the blockade and end the 13 2k5i protest of ottawa. we spoke with the protesters there. >> i want all these mandates gone and i'm not leaving until all of the mandates are gone. >> reporter: what is the stuff you can't do right now as a nonvaccinated person? >> i live in quebec. i can't go skiing. i can't go to walmart. i can't go to canadian tire. i can't go to home depot, i can't go to restaurants. i can't go to bars. i can't go to the gym. >> reporter: truckers have brought the country to a stand still right outside the national

parliament. >> i was hired on for a transport company out of ontario. i was let go due to not willing to get the vaccines for my job and, i mean, that's not right for companies to be able to decide that and take away our right to earn money and support our livelihood. >> >> reporter: now this is all happening despite these protesters re7g a small my in order and the primary advocacy group for truckers which has condemned the protests said 85% of truckers who reg gu larl 4ri6 cross -- >> why is it important to be here? >> because if you're -- >> reporter: despite the fact these people might be part of a minority in canada, they are

receiving a lot of support from right wing figures in the united states. >> we are aware of the funding and organizing and the demonstrating. >> the canadian truckers are heroes. they are patriots and they are marching for your freedom and for my freedom. >> reporter: this is very much a 21st century protest, playing out on the internet and on the streets. false and highly official a items for here like this. >> because you're not vaccinated, is there stuff you can't to snb you if you want to compare canada to anything, it's like hitler's germany and we're the jews, eh? one of the things is get a group of people you can get angry

with. >> reporter: there is a lot of people streaming here live documenting every moment on social media. >> take those cams off of that truck. is that your property? >> in an effort to clear the protesters police have begun confiscating gas canisters. >> my name is jim kerr and i give a hit. how do you feel? hi, my name is jim kerr, i care about human beings. how do you feel? >> the main problem i have is all the censorship. there is censorship everywhere. people's accounts get taken down. even this convoy, a lot of groups started and people are even live streaming and i heard yesterday in the restaurant my feed was cut. my feed was cut. >> reporter: facebook shut down

some groups and bridge news found they were being administered by a hacked account that had belonged to a woman in missouri. whoever was really running the troops wanted to control things. a self-described christian fundraising platform. organizers say the money will help keep the truckers on the street. >> . >> we want those great canadian truckers to know we are with them all the way. >> reporter: trump indicating he is supportive of truckers descending on washington, d.c.

>> reporter: the question is how long before protests like this come here? >> will we need our own trucker rally to end all of this insanity once and for all? >> what is the main goal, the main objective of the truckers there? >> freedom. >> reporter: tony o'sullivan, cnn, ottawa. the white house and top health experts are working on how to best steer the u.s. into a new phase of the pandemic but a growing number of states are tired of waiting and they're already rolling back restrictions especially when it comes to masking. for now the white house is saying masks should be worn in schools. >> if you are a parent, a teacher, a student living in a state where that is no longer recommended, should you still follow the ctc guidelines?

>> this is where we would advise any american to follow the cdc guideline. >> from california to illinois to new york, all of these so-called blue states have signaled they are ending mask mandates. transmission remains high and daily case counts averages more than 2,000 a day over the past week. just ahead right here on the show, russia's biggest military deployment to blael rus. we are live with the joint exercises on the border to ukraine. you have both of 240er stories. you are watching "cnn newsroom."

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ten days of joint military exercises are underway in belarus featuring an estimated 30,000 russian troops. the drills are adding to the fears that russia could eventually move into ukraine but the kremlin says the larger than

usual exercises are a response to unprecedented threats from nato. russia's top general is on hand. diplomatic efforts to ease tensions are shifting to british leaders today. the u.k. foreign leader liz truss is meeting with david lavrov in moscow. u.s. officials insist russia is showing no sign to de-escalate. moscow added another 2,000 troops if you look at the preparation for the military exercises. more of an he is karks la tori not deheescalatory is happening. this is happening at the border as that is disappointing for us.

>> we are live in kyiv. and nic robertson is in moscow. good morning. just a few days ago you and i were flaerg president macron of a possible deescalation and now we're seeing not just military drills. give us a sense of what putin may be thinking here. >> reporter: he's trying to put the focus for the reason and necessity of such scale of forces at the moment and the military exercises, trying to put it through. nato's threat, unprecedented, thaems how they determined is if they the military. we heard it from the defense secretary. the russian cheap of defense staff as well saying that russia

currently around ukraine has more than half of its combat forces deployed. he's saying it's your aggression. this is why you must give in to our demands that ukraine cannot become a member of nato and nato forces need to go back to 1997 positions and levels. this has been his message at the beginning. it continues to be his message. of course, the british foreign secretary today liz truss who is meeting with sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, is urging russia to take a diplomatic path and avoid the potential of wider further bloodshed. >> melissa, i know these exercises, you talked about this happening but scaled up like nic said. do these military dress rehearse

alls add to a sense of escalation? more escalation versus deescalation which is what would be expected at this point? >> reporter: they do, isa, not only because of what they mean for belarus's border with ukraine. if you have a map of belarus you'll see that it also has a border with poland. we know as part of the exercises some are going to take place in union x which is very close to the border of ukraine where there is an airfield. we noah take aircraft and antiaircraft missiles have been sent. we know this from independent satellite images that have been september for the exercises. we know some of the exerr sielss will be taking flas of france. we've been hearing or the

defense troops. therefore the border with be bel belarus. i can't think of a time when active nato troops have been as close to one another as they are going to be over the coming day. by the geography and size of the exercises, isa, vladimir putin is putting pressure not just on ukraine but now far more directly on nato itself. >> it does seem like we're very far from any sort of compromise after weeks of talks. we shall keep an eye on any sort of developments. thank you very much. follow us up to the report on the four-month investigation of the deadly terror attack at kabul aircraft. cnn reviewed medical records, analyzed video, photos and audio

and spoke to 70 witnesses, families of the dead as well as doctors and survivors. they insisted some of the dead and wounded were shot. they say warning blasts were fired but the shots did not hit anyone. cnn hired a forensic damaged that the bill wasn't have been that powerful. we spoke with wolf blitzer about our investigation. >> i want to be clear, u.s. investigators didn't speak to any afghans or any of the five kabul hospitals that cnn spoke to over these past few months. they didn't speak to any of the victims who have medical records of gunshot wounds so how can you speak direct -- even in the

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm isa soares. if you're just joining us, let me bring you up to date with our top stories at this hour. russia has begun ten days of joint military drills. u.s. officials insist russia is showing no signs of de-escalating the crisis to ukraine. the kremlin says this is a response to an unprecedented threat of nato. bob saget's family released statements saying he died of head trauma. he was found dead in early jan january. we'll have both of those stories at the top of "early start" in 20 minutes. football's biggest stage, the super bowl, is three days

away. the commissioner is talking about racism in the league. cnn's brian todd has the story for you. >> reporter: nfl commissioner roger goodell facing tough questions about racism in the league at his annual pre-super bowl news conference. >> racism or any form of discrimination is against our values. >> reporter: goodell admitting the league has fallen short in hiring enough minority head coaches. in the wake of the class action lawsuit filed by former miami dolphins head coach brian flores against the league and three franchises. >> i think we've made a lot of progress in a lot of areas but not at the head coach. that is something we have focused on to try to get the kind of results that we would expect and we fell shormt of that. >> flores fired as the miami dolphins coach accuses the new

york giants in for a sham interview. in the case of the giants, a head coaching job they decided to give to someone else. >> it was humiliating. disbelief and anger. >> he accuses the dolphins owner of offering to pay him to lose games which the owner denies. >> all of those to me were very disturbing. integrity of the game was an element. >> we're going to talk to other people and have them come in and evaluate it. it's hard to evaluate your own policies and procedures. >> reporter: flores's attorney said the rooney rule doesn't work and is basically a scam with teams interviewing minority candidates only as window dressing and then hiring the coach they want. >> do you not feel some personal responsibility for not having

made more progress? >> the answer is, yes, i do. as a league, i don't think there's a subject we've discussed more frequently than the ownership over the last four or five years. it has been at every league meeting other than two. >> reporter: about 70% of the nfl's players are black but out of 32 teams, only two have black head coaches. >> why does the nfl and its owners have such a difficult time at the highest levels in hiring black people into important positions? we believe people who have come in have been successful and we have to do a better job. >> one is skeptical. >> the nfl owners do not want to hire black coaches. the reason why they don't hire black coaches is because they've never hired black coaches unless they've been forced to. >> reporter: the nfl is also

conducting a new independent investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against washington commanders owner daniel snider who's been accused by a former team employee of making inappropriate physical contact and trying to force her into a limousine. roger goodell said flat out he doesn't see any way a team could do its own intervention. the price tag for a super bowl party could be up to 40% -- 14% higher than last year thanks to inflation and depending how many you have. the biggest offender is steaks with a 21% jump in price. ground beef and potato chips also seeing a price hike. consumer experts suggest making

cheaper items. the excitement is building. so is the heat. the temperature on game day could be something no super bowl has ever seen before. pedram javaheri has that. good morning, pedram. >> good morning, isa. what a weekend of weather. high wind alerts in place. that means we have a santa ana wind event developing across the region. winds going to be impressive and the warmth going to be associated with the heat, isa. heat advisories for the month of february is pretty unusual and unprecedented for the records across the region to see the alerts in place. temperatures as warm as 91 degrees continuing through the afternoon hours for sunday.

as many as 30 record temperatures and into oregon. in the 70s in some spots. when it comes to super bowl weekend, a lot of people looking at the forecast. this time of year it should be 68 degrees. temperatures going to be into the middle 80s approaching record territory. super bowl sunday, 86 degrees kickoff time. temperatures into the middle 80s. that would go down to t the-certainly the impact will be limited for the folks inside the stadium. an impressive amount of heat for a super bowl sunday. india's prime minister is feeling confident that his elections will come out on top.

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voting is underway in india's most populus state in an election viewed as a mid-term referendum. the polls will remain open. they have about 200 million residents and a larger population in all of russia. join us with the latest. this is important as it can be seen, like we just said, as a barometer of modi's popularity. how is he expected to fare here? >> reporter: oh, absolutely. when it comes to narendra modi, he seems to be absolutely confident that he will get 300 plus seats that the state assembly is calling for. what's interesting though is the size of the population of this

state, isa. let me just tell you, it's an independent country but this will be the eighth largest country in the world. now in 2017 he came to power in this state and it's being led by a monk politician. it helped modi get the votes he needed. he's hoping the same will happen in the year 2024. this once did have 80 seats. now this is known for stirring and accused of stirring anti-muslim sentiment.

this has created controversy as recent as wednesday. >> translator: stay conscious. if you miss, our efforts will fail. >> reporter: it will take time for them to turn into west bengal. this is what he's talking about. now these two states and the union territory are known to have a significant muslim population. there you see it's as recent as wednesday. this state is the reason why he could win 2024, the national elections, if they win this time. this is essential and crucial for any future aspirations that narendra modi holds. >> thank you very much. good to see you. still to come, team u.s.a. is celebrating some exciting wins during today's competition

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♪ ♪ it has been an exciting day of competition for team u.s.a. at the beijing winter olympics. nathan chen claims gold in men's figure skating hanging onto the league after setting a world record with the short program. it was a huge day for another american athlete. snowboarder chloe kim wins gold in the women's halfpipe. let's start with coy wire. let's start, first of all, with what was a fantastic day and flawless performance for nathan chen. >> reporter: isa, i don't know if you saw it but it is awe inspiring. he's like a unicorn out there wearing ice skates. nathan chen generally known as the most dominant figure skater on the planet the past several years, isa. he's been on this collision course with this moment since the last winter olimb picks when he fell short and the quad king

reined supreme. gold for team u.s.a. the three-time defending world champ landed five quadruples. it is an incredible long program performance. he won by a huge marge again. nathan chen, he's a student at yale. he now officially does it all. he snags his first ever individual olympic medal. had to point out impressive in this as well, japan finished two, three, four. also want to talk about a repeat performance. chloe kim has done it again. team u.s.a.'s star defending her olympic gold in the snowboard halfpipe becoming the first woman to ever win two goellds i the event. how good is she, isa? she said afterwards she was playing it safe on the first of three runs. she had the worst practice of

her life. she still scored a 94 playing it safe. the commentators said that's enough for gold. she doesn't have to go anymore. she got to see her family virtually afterwards. that was a big moment because they have been big and supporting her. she talked about her big win as a 17-year-old in her olympics debut, how much the pressure had gotten to her. she was asked about it after this big moment and that journey and coming to grips with feeling all of the pressure. >> after my last olympics i put that pressure on myself to be perfect at all times. that caused a lot of issues at home. i was sad and depressed all the time. the biggest depression for me is to be as open as possible. i hope that maybe one day a little girl can hear my story and be inspired to keep going, to never give up.

>> and one more. johannes strolz just did something his father did 50 years ago. winning gold. james crawford earns bronze. johannes strolz and his father hubert are the first father/son combo to win gold in the same discipline. >> fantastic news. if that was her playing it safe, coy, i wonder what she can do when she doesn't play it safe, right? thank you very much, coy wire. we'll speak again tomorrow. now tempers flair as the housing party is going to fire the plant. a former tesla employee was awarded $137 million after a

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all right. here we go. it is thursday, february 10th. 5 a.m. in new york. thanks for getting an "early start" with us. i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. we begin this morning with turmoil at the beijing olympics. a doping scandal. a russian figure skater tested positive for a performance enhancing drug. that positive test only coming to light after the russian olympic committee won gold. now the medal ceremony for figure skating on hold. christine brennan who br