hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber, live at the cnn center in atlanta. >> and i'm michael holmes in laviv in western ukraine. coming up on "cnn newsroom." >> if russia further invades your country, we will impose swift and severe economic sanctions. >> reporter: as russia amasses an army around ukraine, the u.s. vice president warning of major consequences if the kremlin invades.

plus, while the u.s. and other parts of the world start relaxing covid restrictions, hong kong is being overwhelmed by staggering new covid cases. and the beijing winter olympics wrap up in just hours. american skiing star mikaela shiffrin had her dreams of winning another medal dashed. welcome, everyone. we begin here in ukraine where the standoff with russia shows no signs of easing. president biden is set to discuss the crisis with his national security council in the coming hours. all of this as western leaders make an 11th hour push for diplomacy. the french president, emmanuel macron, spoke with ukraine's president zelensky on saturday. that came ahead of a phone call with russia's vladimir putin.

mr. zelensky also addressing the crisis with other world leaders at the munich security conference this weekend. >> faster! >> go, go, go! >> on the front lines, though, no signs tensions are cooling. a cnn team on tour with ukraine's interior minister coming under mortar fire on saturday. the latest example of escalating cease-fire violations in eastern ukraine. and some in the west warned the worst could soon come. >> there were many people who would want to think hopefully about the situation. but i think we need to prepare for the worst-case scenario. and that worst-case scenario could happen as early as next week. >> reporter: a similar sentiment echoed by u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin, who told abc news, he does not believe putin is

bluffing. >> there's a number of options available to him. and he could, he could attack in short order. and i don't believe it's a bluff. i think it's a -- i think he's assembled the right kinds of things that you would need to conduct a successful invasion. >> now, as we just mentioned, the ukraine president, volodymyr zelensky attended the security conference and shot down with christiane amanpour and she asked him why he decided to leave his country at such a vulnerable time. >> i'm not sure how many people in this room expected you to make the decision to leave your country and come here today. what was so important for you to be here and what do you know about vladimir putin's intentions that perhaps the

united states or others don't know? because they think that he's made the decision to enter your country? >> translator: thank you for this question. and thank you for your -- for the invitation. it is very important when ukraine is being discussed, for ukraine, for this information to come from the mouth of our country. i am the president and our team, it's important for all of our partners and friends not to agree about anything behind our back. and i do believe in our partnership. and i do believe that this is the case. the fact that the partners are sharing with us the information that we are very grateful for that, by the way, for the cooperation of our intelligences. but we are in this tension for many, many years now. we do not think that we need to panic. we think these risks are,

indeed, very high, because we have more troops, 150,000 troops on our borders, yes, indeed. that's a big risk. but a very big risk if we respond, if we to respond to one provocation or the other. on the other hand, i think that russian federation, and when we are talking about russia, this is the people, the whole people of russia. so i think that they will not be able to start to go to war against ukraine. and although on the temporary occupied territories, we have a lot of provocations and we see them. we see this through the mass media there, disseminating different provocative information. we need to preserve our stability. we need to keep calm and be adults. i think from these times, ukraine army is more adult than

others. >> well, joining me now here live in la viv is a global affairs analyst. a senior fellow at the atlantic council. good to have you here on set with us to talk about this. before we get going, i mean, it's an important day. ukraine has been at war for eight years and that was sort of precipitated by the events in the mydan, which was it. so it's a significant day in tlard. >> absolutely, michael. on the way here, i saw many of the churches are commemorating the anniversary of the slaughter of the so-called heavenly hundred. and tomorrow is the anniversary of the illegal annexation of crimea. on the one hand, putin might take advantage of this numeralology, so to speak, to do something. but on the other hand, they're commemorating this. one quick thing on that, michael. a lot of ukrainians tell me very few people, if any, have been prosecuted for that mass slaughter so many years ago. >> when it comes to the current situation, let's talk about putin's intent.

he would be well aware that invading a country is one thing. holding it is another. in that sense, what do you think he is calculating? what is he weighing up? >> a lot of factors here. you know, weather, sanctions, things like that. but i think that the west right now, the only real powerful thing they have in their arsenal right now are the sanctions, i don't think the russians are taking it very seriously. hence, i'm beginning to lean in with zelensky, thinking that maybe some of those sanctions should be unleashed right now. especially, for example, lifting those golden visas that so many russians got in the united kidnapping come, things like that. that kind of thing would get back to putin right away. >> what do you make of the increasingly frequent clashes along that line of contact east of thor country in the donbas, fire being exchanged. how much of a flashpoint could that be in the context of what might spark a full-on conflict? >> michael, i have a really, really horrible feeling about this. i have been in the donbas, i

have been on the rebel side, i have stared these thugs in the eyes as part of the osc. they're capable of anything. they have no morals. they will only kill their own people, if need be. what they're doing right now, it's the russian playbook, evacuating people, saying that the u the ukrainians are ready to attack them and they'll use that as a precontext to build up this even more. i think the russians coming in informally to that occupied area and making a push to the south. >> we've already seen the so-called false flag and that kind of stuff. these evacuations, which were very choreographed. that whole disinformation part of it is key in all of this, too. that's what leads to false flag -- >> yeah, absolutely. michael, it has to be said, the other thing that worries me, the russians have very long arms sp into the ukraine. we've seen people, the ukraine dissident and journalist.

and what really worries me, as as well as a former western ambassador to ukraine is that there is a list of civil society acti activists, of intellectuals in kyiv that they would like to neutralize if they make a big push towards the capital. >> the ukraine still very much wants to be in nato. that is a key sticking point for svladimir putin. do you see a situation where the west might lean on ukraine a little and sort of encourage them to say, we'll give up nato aspirations? everyone i've talked to here say, that ain't happening. but do you think that might be something that the west might try to get ukraine to do? >> i'm afraid so. i think that would be the next step of the west, to pressure ukraine to either temporarily, at least, drop its nato bid, or to move ahead with the minsk accords, which it doesn't like, and grant some kind of autonomy to the occupied areas. but i can tell you, there's a lot of controversy with that nato suspension possibility here in ukraine. some people say it will drop people out on to the streets.

others, last night here told me, if that's what we have to do to keep the calm, prevent an invasion from happening, perhaps it is worth exploring. >> can you see a situation where it's not a full invasion? perhaps partial? where he nibbles around the edges, as you say, the donbas, and perhaps a lot of people thinks he wants a land bridge to crimea. take mariupol, or do you think he'll go all in or not? >> i hate to speculate, but i think that they'll take over the donbas, which is an economic basket case, but anyway, but then that land bridge. the one thing crimea really needs right now is water. they don't have it. getting that land bridge would connect crimea to a water supply from ukraine. very, very risky. a lot of blood would be spilled. but at the end of the day, the only thing that knows what's going to happen is mr. putin and perhaps he doesn't even know at the moment.

>> michael, good to see you. thank you. right now, critics say russia is using that disinformation campaign we were just talking about in order to justify a possible attack on ukraine. cnn's nick paton walsh breaks down that strategy for us. one that, of course, russia has used in the past. >> reporter: wars come with their own fog. chaos, phone lines down, panic sowing confusion. but in eastern ukraine, that fog has long been found. amplified with false narratives critics say part of moscow's strategy. >> we have reason to believe that they are engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in. every indication we have is they're prepared to go into ukraine, battack ukraine. >> reporter: sometimes it is easy to spot. a leader called on people to flee friday's escalating

violence into russia, but the video of this speech, which mentioned friday's date, was, in fact, created on wednesday, according to its metadata. a similar speech from the neighboring separatist area luhansk had the same timing issue. so, unless the same technical fault occurred both times, both leaders seem to know midweek how bad things would get by friday. making the call for civilians to flee a lot less spontaneous. then an explosion hit the city of donetsk, but the blast fed a narrative of violence mounting around the separatists. then there is the mass exodus of civilians from separatist areas, planned for hundreds of thousands, but so far, a lot less. pictures on russian state tv.

they get 10,000 rubles or $130 on arrival in russia. and however many really arrive, it is the sort of pretext russia used in the past to justify assisting separatist rebels. this video is quite dramatic and separatists said it was of clashes with polish saboteurs, trying to blow up an ammonia storage plant on friday morning. but the video's metadata shows that it was created about ten days earlier. another technical fact that doesn't fit the separatist narrative. a separatist news crew was at hand, too, to capture this. another pablast at a pipeline. the cameraman could have miraculous timing, or it could fit into the slow pattern of misinformation. which grows often in advance of the violence in eastern ukraine and provides a signal of what is to come. the direction in which the fog of war is being found.

nick paton walsh, cnn, poland. all right. that'll do it from here in lviv in western ukraine. let's send it back to atlanta and kim brunhuber. kim? >> thanks so much, michael. much more to come here on cnn. police in canada take on demonstrators in the capital using pepper spray as protests enter their fourth week. plus, our will ripley is following the beijing olympics as we're hours away from the closing ceremony, will? >> and there is a plot twist. a big milestone for china when it comes to the medal count. what it means for the winter games. ours to australia. mucinex lasts 12 hours, so i'm good. now move! kim, no! mucinex lasts 3x longer for 12 hours.

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ever won at a single winter games. we're now about three hours away from the closing ceremony, to what's turned out to be an historic competition. cnn's will ripley joins me now from taipei, taiwan. so will, china views these games as a resounding success, but how do the u.s. and the western world see it? >> yeah, it's interesting how polarizing these olympics really are. because from the chinese perspective, they beat the u.s. in terms of the gold medal count, which is highly significant for a winter games. more medals won by china than any other winter olympics in their history. also, there was no major embarrassment. you know, the peng hsueh tense player saga that led up to the games, there was never any major -- aside from questions at press conferences, peng hsueh gave an interview, it was a very carefully controlled interview, she announced her retirement. everything went, from the chinese perspective, according to plan. they denied human rights abuses,

they denied suppression of free speech, they denied running re-education camps for uighurs and the whole long list of questions that reporters want to ask china, but couldn't actually explore these topics, because they were kept inside this hermetically sealed olympic bubble. the bubble, by the way, contained covid. and it didn't allow covid to go from inside the bubble and outside, vice versa. from the chinese perspective, not to mention paris figure skating, a resounding success. freestyle skiing, they had eileen gust from the u.s. or from california competing. she's a darling now of china. they call her the snow princess. all of these things from the chinese perspective make this a fantastic games. but from a lot of other athletes. they had to get tested dozens of times before they could go to the competition. some of them, you know, these tests were so sensitive, that even if they had had covid long ago, the tests came back positive, and then they're put

into these really small isolation rooms, which really camped their ability to train. not to mention the fact that because of that bubble, which was so effective at preventing covid transmission out into china and back, you know, into the bubble, but it succeed a lot of the excitement and happiness out of the experience, according to athletes who were there. and members of the media, as well. because they could never actually explore china. all they could see were their hotels, the transportation of the venues, looking out the bus window, and then the venues themselves. even the crowds. there were only basically people who were invited to these half-empty stadiums. no international fans were there to cheer on international players. a lot of broadcasters like nbc didn't send any of its talent into beijing, because they were afraid that they might get quarantined. and these participants are greeted by people with hazmat suits, instead of walking into an olympics, it was described as, it felt like they were walking into some sort of, you

know, some sort of outbreak movie, you know, where there's an -- in fact, we are in the middle of a pandemic. that's the reality of life. and certainly, you know, it was somewhat that way in tokyo when i was there, but what's described in beijing, kim, just vastly different. much more intense, for sure. >> yeah, absolutely. and the closing ceremonies, just a couple of hours away. just 20 seconds or so, i know they're supposed to be pared down compared to previous years. what are you expecting to see? >> well, i think one highlight for the american audience is going to be bobsledder elana meyers taylor. she's now the most decorated plaque athlete in winter olympics history. she took home a bronze in the two-women bobsled. she's going to be the team usa flag bearer. but yes, you are going to see a smaller closing ceremony, even smaller than the pared down opening ceremony. nothing can compare with beijing 2008.

it's not possible in the age of covid. 7:00 a.m., 8:00 p.m. local time here is when it all kicks off. >> thanks so much. will ripley, appreciate it. police in canada's capital say they're ramping up tactics to try to end pandemic mandate protests that have choked the area around parliament for weeks. >> we are looking at video of people running after police used pepper spray on crowds. police say they've arrested around 170 people, including protest leaders. they have also issued thousands of tickets and towed dozens of cars. some protesters have voluntarily left the area around canada's parliament. some die-hards insist they'll stay, despite a stern warning from police. listen to this. >> this occupation is over. we have advised them that if they peacefully leave, they may go home. that still exists. we also indicated that we would escalate and forcefully remove people from the streets, if they did not comply. some of that is what you're

seeing. >> meanwhile, the government says that it will give up to $20 million to businesses that have lost revenue due to those blockades. after nearly two years of strict pandemic rules, australia is ready to welcome tourists from abroad. fully vaccinated international travelers will be able to fly into the country beginning monday. prime minister scott morrison says pack your bags, come and have one of the greatest experiences you can ever imagine. in england, prime minister boris johnson is set to lay out the new plan for living with covid. downing street says all regulations that restrict public freedoms will be repealed. they're calling it a move away from government intervention to personal responsibility. hong kong is stepping up efforts to contain the runaway spread of covid cases. it's overwhelmed the city in recent days, and some of the strictest quarantine and tracing measures in the world don't seem to be working anymore. one top official says the city is in full-scale combat to contain the newest wave.

>> reporter: a medical team from mainland china arrives in hong kong to help fight a surge of covid-19 cases in the city. relief, in the form of supplies and additional manpower that couldn't come at a more critical time in hong kong. hospitals here are in a desperate state. too many sick people, not enough space. more than 90% of hospital beds in the city are full. over the past few days, many patients were forced to wait outside under tarps and tents and cold, wet conditions. one hong kong resident says that he was shocked by the scenes. >> it's crazy. it's kind of unbelievable that it could be -- that out of control. >> reporter: on saturday, the chief executive of hong kong's hospital authority apologized for the situation and said most patients have now been moved indoors or to other facilities. hong kong chief executive carrie lam says hotel rooms and public housing units will be used to help with the overflow.

soon, 10,000 isolation and treatment units will be built with the help of crews from the mainland. back in wuhan, in early 2020, chinese workers built a hospital with more than a thousand beds in just ten days. lam says there will also be a testing blitz. >> one of the measures that we are planning, planning very seriously, is a mandatory universal testing. so we will test everyone in hong kong. >> reporter: food supplies across the city have also been disrupted after many cross-border truck drivers tested positive for covid. but officials say the shortages are beginning to ease in some areas, as shipments from the mainland arrive. carrie lam also announced that hong kong's leadership election, scheduled for march, will be postponed to may to allow her administration to focus on the health care crisis. still to come, we'll look at why ukraine's president is pausing -- pushing for the west to announce what sanctions it would impose on russia before a possible invasion and not after. .

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welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber live at cnn center in atlanta. >> and i'm michael holmes in lviv, ukraine. appreciate your company. now, the british prime minister, boris johnson, has just warned that russia is planning, quote, the biggest war in europe since 1945. now, he made those remarks during an interview with british media. mr. johnson urging moscow to de-escalate tensions before it's too late. but in ukraine, the tensions keep rising. >> faster!

>> go, go, go! >> that's ukraine's interior minister along with a cnn news crew and other journalists faciface ing mortar fire. this was in eastern ukraine and it happened on saturday. thankfully, no one hurt in the incident. but it shows that a russian invasion of ukraine is likely to happen and quite possible very soon. now, in germany, the ukrainian president attended a key global security conference in munich on saturday and spoke with cnn's christiane amanpour in a wide-ranging interview. he said that new sanctions against russia should be spelled out in detail. now, not later. have a listen. >> we had a discussion some time ago with one of the leaders of one of the leading countries,

and we were talking about the sanction policy. we had a different vision on how sanctions should be applied, when russian aggression will happen. and we are being told that you have several days and then the war will start. and i said, okay, then apply the sanctions today. yes, they say, we apply sanctions when the war will happen. i'm saying, fine, but you are telling me that it's 100% that the war will start in a couple of days. then, what are you waiting for? we don't need your sanctions after the bombardment will happen. and after our country will be fired at. or after we will have no borders. and after we will have no economy or part of our countries will be occupied. why would we need those sanctions then? what is this about? so when you are asking, what can be done, well, lots of different things can be done.

we can even provide you the list. the question is about willingness. the question is not about introducing them today. the whole world understands that tomorrow there is a high probability of escalation by western federation, and if western federation is not pulling out, their militarizing, that would be a powerful step. if they are pulling back, then there will be no question, that's a soft option. i'm talking about diplomats that cannot apply sanctions automatically. i'm talking about the logic. if they pull back their troops, there will be no sanctions. but today, even the question of just making it public, preventatively, just a list of sanctions. for them to know what will happen if they start the war, even that question does not have

the support. >> a member of ukraine's parliament also went to the munich conference. earlier, i asked her if she's happy with the level of support ukraine is getting from the west. she says, more can be done by the country's allies. >> though ukraine is really grateful for the support that we are receiving during the last few months, we see that right now is the time for more critical measures and more active actions. we see that putin is going through with his strategy and he is able to move really rapidly without having to align with any democratic rules or procedures, right? so we -- the events are unwrapping very fast. and the democratic countries need to start asap on the procedures that are required to protect ukraine right now.

the actions that we see, they need to be economic sanctions on putin and his closest circle, and additional military support. and the guarantee for no-fly zone in ukraine in the near-term future. >> i wanted to ask you this. when it comes to diplomacy, we see a lot of russian officials speaking with european leaders. you see american leaders speaking with russian leaders. do you feel ukrainians are involved enough or being heard enough directly, or is everyone talking around ukraine. >> so for dploinls, there is this goal that nothing about ukraine without ukraine. however, in reality, we often see that this does not happen. and those president zelensky

ames to have a direct negotiation with putin, we in ukrainian parliament are persuaded that the discussion and the stable where all the countries sit need to at least have zelensky, putin, biden, and uk representative, probably boris johnson. that would be at least configuration where we have enough of strong support from our allies. >> the show of force overseen by mr. putin and his allies, the president of belarus. it comes as officials in the u.s. fear that belarus could be a staging area for a possible russian attack. more now from cnn's fred pleitgen. >> reporter: russia's army on the offensive in major live fire drills with belarusian forces inside belarus, but close to the border with ukraine, practicing

for a massive onslaught, the commander explaining their obje objective. today at the live fire demonstration, a defensive battle was shown and then a counter-strike to restore the force's position along the front line, he says. these troops are part of the more than 150,000 soldiers that russia has amassed around ukraine. washington fears that belarus could be one of the launching pads for an attack on ukraine, even though moscow claims that it has no such plans. in these very tense times, russia is really flexing its military muscle, not just with these massive drills in belarus, but in exercises elsewhere as well, involving some of russia's most elite combat units. >> reporter: vladimir putin himself oversaw nuclear drills near nato's borders, involving some of russia's most dangerous weapons, like the king jol hypersonic air-to-ground missile, or the intercontinental

ballistic missile, yars, fired from a mobile launcher. russia fired missiles from air, land, and sea, showing off the kremlin's nuclear arsenal. the main goal of the ongoing exercise is to work out actions to guarantee defeat on the enemy. the widespread military power play comes as the u.s. believes that vladimir putin has already made a decision to invade ukraine. >> i believe that we should continue to try up until the very last minute, until it's no longer possible, but i think, i think if you look at the stance that he is in today, it's apparent that he has made a decision and that they're moving into the right positions to be able to conduct an attack. >> reporter: russia denies it will attack ukraine, but its leadership, so far, has not announced any timeline for the withdrawal of the massive forces it has placed around ukraine.

fred pleitgen, cnn, belarus. >> that'll do it from us here in lviv in western ukraine for now. let's toss it back to kim brunhuber in atlanta. kim? >> thanks so much, michael. a second covid booster shot might be on the horizon for americans, but while we're still dealing with the pandemic, the u.s. is also experiencing another public health crisis driven by synthetic opioids that's even killing kids in middle school. that's ahead. plus, our live coverage of the standoff in ukraine continues as peer fears of a ru invasion reach a fever pitch. that's just ahahead in our next hour. stay with us. detergent alone, can't. baa

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least four people. >> reporter: people have grown up thinking a prescription pills are safe. whatever it is, you've got pills for it. so we all trust the pills. especially when they're young. looks legit. >> reporter: you didn't know to say to alex, one pill could kill you? >> exactly. we had no idea that one pill would kill him. we had no idea about fentanyl. we talked to our kid. if talking to alex was all it took, that kid would have lived forever, but we weren't talking about the right thing, because we didn't know about it. >> reporter: and where did a 14-year-old, a child, get illegal drugs? >> he told us he had connected with his dealer through snapchat. >> reporter: buying drugs on social media is so common that the dea has worked to figure out which emojis teens use to make the purchases. >> if you put a cookie, rocket, and candy bar together, it looks innocent. but what i just said is i received a large shipment of highly potent xanax bars. >> so these two together mean xanax? >> yep. and this means bring it to school. >> yep. >> reporter: snapchat says it

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hard. this tragic accident serves as a reminder of the danger and the risks that our police officers put themselves in on a daily basis to protect our community. >> 44-year-old officer nicholas villa died in the crash. he was a 14-year veteran of the force and leaves behind a wife and a daughter. and there was a dramatic helicopter crash at a crowded florida beach saturday afternoon. have a look at this harrowing scene as the chopper narrowly misses swimmers and sunbathers. it happened near the popular south beach in miami. police say three people were onboard, two of them were taken to the hospital and reported to be in stable condition. the third person wasn't hurt. we don't know what caused the crash. an investigation is underway. storm eunice is still battering parts of europe this weekend. we'll look at the damage the storm has left behind and have updates on the powerful system ahead. mucinex lasts 12 hours, soso i'm good. now move!

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janeiro. hundreds more have been displaced by flooding. more rain hit the area saturday, hindering rescue operations. rainfall on tuesday afternoon alone was more than the historical average for the entire month of february. the united kingdom and parts of northwest europe are beginning to recover in the wake of storm eunice. >> it was a little bit disconcerting, because our apartment was swaying. like, my workstation, my screens were moving in the wind, even though everything was closed. >> the deadly system tracked in from the central atlantic, pummeling ireland and the british isles on friday and moving across europe even now. experts call it one of the worst in decades with record-breaking hurricane-strength gusts. and now, parts of the u.s. are dealing with heavy winter weather this weekend. in the northeast, snow squall warnings were in effect in several states as an arctic front brought intense snow and winds, mocking out power to tens of thousands of homes can

businesses. but now there's a new storm gearing up in the west. joining me now is meteorologist derek van dam. derek, what are they looking at? >> growing up, kim, in the midwest, i've been stuck in snow squalls before. that's something you don't want to mess around with. you can go from clear visibility down to a couple of feet in front of you in a matter of seconds. extremely dangerous, especially if you're on the roadways, and that's what residents around new england had to deal with yesterday. now we have a new winter storm, a very active weather pattern clearing up across the east coast. clearing up, new york to philadelphia, but it's across the north. this is setting the stage for our next winter weather maker. in fact, we have winter storm watches for minneapolis, winter weather advisories and warnings stretching further west. you could see this long band of precipitation, mainly snow across the north. and this is the dividing line between the cold arctic air to the north and the slightly milder air to the south. this storm is going to help fuel

severe weather development across deep south by monday to tuesday. heads up, arkansas, into mississippi, alabama, and tennessee. basically, the same locations that were hit hard earlier this week. we have the potential for another round of severe weather, including tornadoes, again, for the early parts of the workweek coming up. there's our snowfall totals across the north. you can see, it could accumulate more than a foot just north of minneapolis, but the big draw card here is really the cold temperatures that will settle in across much of the country. you can see that clearly, in the four-day forecast. minneapolis goes from 41 on sunday to 9 degrees on wednesday. we're talking about nearly a 50-degree temperature drop across denver and other locations, as well. look at amarillo, texas, for instance. i want to take you into the southern hemisphere. this is the southwest indian ocean, just off the coast of madagascar. they are facing yet another tropical cyclone into the country's capital, 120-mile-per-hour winds with the system. so we're talking about 160-kilometer-per-hour winds with this storm as it moves in a

general southwesterly direction, eventually making landfall local time late monday night into early tuesday morning. it will bring strong, powerful winds, equivalent to a category 3 atlantic hurricane, for instance. and on top of that, the rainfall will be excessive, creating more flooding. i have to remind you that this area has already been pummeled by several tropical cyclones within the past month. so it is an active season for them, to say the least. kim? >> all right. we'll br te tracking that. thanks so much. appreciate it. i'm kim brunhuber. i'll be back along with my colleague live in ukraine with more "cnn newsroom" in just a moment. please do stay with us. two loads of snot covered laundry.

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