the benign photogenic events that can delude us into misunderstanding what lies ahead. there are hundreds of thousands of scores to be settled in this country. blood debts to be repaid. the u.s. military doesn't want to get into the middle of that, but if it doesn't, there are likely to be lynchings and massacres that will sicken the world and make the establishment of a new government hideously complicated. it is good that people are finally able to believe that saddam's regime has been crushed. the military victory was difficult enough, but now comes the hard part. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i'm laila harrak. a search by the fbi reveals more classified documents at u.s. president joe biden's home in

delaware. in israel, more than 100,000 people take to the streets to protest the government of prime minister benjamin netanyahu. we're live in jerusalem with the latest. and the welcome core allows american citizens to sponsor refugees resettling in the u.s. i speak to one afghan man about how he and his family are acclimating to life in america. >> live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with laila harrak. political problems are rapidly mounting at the biden white house. the president's personal attorney says an fbi search of mr. biden's private home in delaware has turned up even more classified materials. his republican critics in congress are already sharpening their knives. the president and first lady were not home at the time the

materials taken by the fbi add to a growing list of classified documents recently recovered from places connected to the president. a special counsel is investigating. for more on friday's extraordinary search, here is cnn's arlette saenz. >> reporter: more materials bearing classified markings were found at the personal home of president biden in wilmington, delaware, on friday, marking the latest developments in the ongoing classified document saga. the president's personal attorney, bob bauer, released a statement detailing how the justice department carried out a nearly 13-hour search at that wilmington home. sources later said that it was fbi officials who conducted that search, really representing a remarkable moment to have the fbi searching the home of a current sitting president. now, bauer detailed how the president signed off on providing access to that home to the justice department, and he also described what exactly the search entailed as these

officials had access to the living, working, and storage areas at the wilmington, delaware, home. bauer went on to say in his statement, "doj had full access to the president's home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades. doj took possession of materials it deem within the scope of its inquiry, including six items with classification markings and surrounding materials, some of which were from the president's service in the senate, some of which were from his tenure as vice president. doj also took for further review personally handwritten notes from the vice presidential years." this marks the fifth known discovery of classified documents at locations to president biden. the very first coming on november 2nd when his personal attorneys searched a former private office at the penn biden center. there were later discoveries

made at that wilmington, delaware, home. but this search on friday marks the first time the justice department was involved in searching premises tied to president biden. now this all comes as the white house has faced some scrutiny for the way that they have handled this situation. the president had been asked on thursday whether he had any regrets about the way that they've been handling this, including the disclosure of when these discoveries took place. the president said he had no regrets and that ultimately, he believes that there is no there there with the documents and that that is what the investigations will turn up. now, one thing that the president and his attorneys have consistently tried to stress is that they are trying to cooperate in every manner possible with both the national archives, the justice department, and now the special counsel investigation. trying to draw that contrast with the way that former president donald trump has handled classified documents at his mar-a-lago home as he is now under investigation for

obstruction by his own special counsel. but certainly this drip, drip, drip nature of this story, the slow trickling-out of information has created some complications for president biden and his white house. >> for more, i want to bring in attorney and legal affairs commentator areva martin. she joins us now from los angeles. from a political perspective, this is not looking gate. what does it really mean? what's the significance of the fbi carrying out this search as opposed to joe biden's own attorneys conducting their search? >> what we know is that joe biden's attorneys have been very forth right in contacting the national archives and the department of justice whenever documents were found. we know now that documents, classified documents, were found at an old office that joe biden used after he left the white

house, at a garage at one of his homes, and now documents were removed as recently as yesterday from one of his homes. but this means that joe biden is cooperating and that he gave the department of justice full access to conduct a very thorough search of his private residence. >> do we have an understanding of what these documents are that have been seized today? >> there hasn't been much reporting about what's contained in the documents. we know that some of the documents were marked "classified" and the reportings say those documents along with materials related to them were actually retrieved from biden's home. still no indication about what those documents are. and even how they got into biden's private residence, his office, his garage. >> how important is intent in all this? if this was accidental or careless handling of documents, as opposed to intentionally removing documents. is it treated differently, h

legally? >> absolutely different, inadvertent removing documents from the white house or some other location, versus potentially removing those documents then failing to return those documents once requested, once you have been put on notice that you have classified documents in your possession. that's why it's so important to distinguish this case involving joe biden from that involving former president donald trump. both cases look pretty bad on the surface. but when you start to dig into the cases, you see they're very different. we know that over 300 documents marked "classified," as many as 25 marked "top secret," were retrieved or provided to the department of justice or the archives from donald trump. but only after an extensive back and forth between the national archives and donald trump's team and only after a search warrant was executed at his florida residence. we also know donald trump said

that the documents in his possession were his own personal property. he even went so far as to suggest he had declassified these documents by thinking it in his own mind. contrarily, biden said he didn't know how those documents got there, but as soon as they were discovered by his private attorney, the appropriate entities in washington were notified and cooperation began instantly by the sitting president. >> still, the optics aren't great, are they? biden said last week, there is no there there. with this investigation, given what we know so far, is there something there? >> i don't think there's anything there as it relates to any criminality on the part of joe biden. obviously from a political standpoint, this drip, drip, drip doesn't look good for the president. you would think that his team would make sure that there has been a thorough search of any place -- home, business,

garage -- any place documents could have been stored so that all of those documents, if they exist, can be turned over. but politically looking bad, and being a criminal offense are two completely different things. false equivalency that the republicans are making is hypocritical. some of the legislators who are calling for an investigation of joe biden were not making the same pleas, not calling for an investigation of donald trump, and in fact were downplaying of donald trump's possession of documents despite the very different circumstances and donald trump's efforts to prevent the intelligence community from reviewing those communities or from actually having those documents turned over to the intelligence department. >> in conclusion, what's the significance of this moment? a special counsel investigation of a sitting president believed to be planning to run for re-election while there is a separate special counsel investigation of his potential opponent. have we ever seen anything like this before?

>> clearly, laila, this is an issue of first impressions where you have a former president and sitting president both being involved in a matter that involves classified information. so no, this isn't a matter of first impression, but it's important to distinguish between the differences between the cases. i don't think this is going to have impact on joe biden's efforts to run again or be elected again as president of the united states. >> areva martin, thank you so much for joining us. some republicans in congress are already pouncing on the documents case and can be expected to make it a hot-button issue as president biden heads into the second half of his term. but he'll be facing those adversaries without his white house chief of staff, ron klain. klain has been a close adviser to mr. biden for decades and his departure signals a major

shakeup in the white house staff. sources say klain is expected to step down after next month's state of the union address. but the timing isn't ideal for the president, who must now find a replacement. among the various names being circulated for the job are two cabinet officials. agriculture secretary tom vilsack and labor secretary marty walsh. george santos, the embattled u.s. congressman who admitted to embellishing his resume, is again denying claims that he once performed as a drag queen in brazil. last week a brazilian drag performer shared these photos of a person dressed in drag, claiming that it was santos back in 2008. saturday the republican lawmaker was asked about the allegations, and here's how he responded. >> congressman, were you ever a drag queen in brazil? >> no, i was not a drag queen in

brazil, guys. i was young and i had fun at a festival. sue me for having a life. >> during that exchange, santos also refused to answer questions on his debunked assertion that his mother was at the world trade center on 9/11. political pressure is piling on germany to supply advanced military equipment to ukraine. the three baltic republics -- latvia, estonia, lithuania -- urging berlin to budge on its opposition to supplying leopard tanks to kyiv. meanwhile, germany's defense minister has ordered an audit of the entire fleet of leopard tanks, saying it's needed to make sure they can be activated on short notice. inside ukraine, russia is

keeping up its grueling offeoff offensive. as ben wedeman reports from inside the embattled city, ukrainians are fighting tooth and nail to keep it. interio interior. >> reporter: in the trenches, a mortar crew is at work, hoping to repel russian forces on the verge of encircling the city. drone footage shows the impact of their rounds on enemy positions. the refrain among these troops, "we need more." >> the world speaks about dance, dance, dance. yes, of course dance is more powerful for our time, i feel. but now is 21st century. we need not only dance, we need retaliation. >> reporter: around bakhmut slowly and steadily, the russians are gaining ground.

thursday, yevgeny, head of the wagner group, claimed his troops and only his troops took a village south of the city. in a dugout, this officer, nicknamed koleso, explains wagner's tactics. "they attack at night. the first wave is less trained, but we have to use lots of ammunition against them," he says. "the next wave of troops has night vision, is better trained and better equipped." tactics seemingly from a different day and age, inflicting mounting casualties on ukrainian forces. this soldier was critically wounded when his armored personnel carrier was struck by russian fire. much of bakhmut is now a ghost town. the sound of shelling, the danger, constant.

we're inside this tunnel inside bakhmut taking cover because there's incoming rounds just nearby. the few civilians left, resigned to their fate. "people die from strikes everywhere in kyiv and dnipro," says val hen tina. "if that's your destiny, death will reach you anywhere." on a hill above the city, the soviet i've era t-72 tank fires into the distance. its sound and fury perhaps not enough to turn the tide. ben wedeman, cnn, bakhmut, ukraine. live from london, is the

ukraine leadership disappointed by germany's decision not to send leopard battle tanks to ukraine, despite the many, many impassioned pleas by president zelenskyy? >> i would say disappointed and frustrated. a major sticking point, how much should ukrainian provided? where is the red line? how many weapons are too many weapons that could potentially tip over and escalate this deflect? clearly germany not yet ready to make that ok, to give that green light to proside those help ard tanks to ukraine. that does not only impact germany. there's about 2,000 of these tanks spread over 13 different european countries. those countries cannot send those tanks to ukraine, even if they wanted to, without preauthorization from germany. estonia's foreign minister tweeted about this, making a statement clear to germ 90. i want to read his tweet ear. "we -- estonia, latvia, lithuania -- call on germany to

provide leopard tanks to ukraine now. this is needed to stop russian aggression, help ukraine, and preserve peace in europe. germany as the leading power has special responsibility in this regard." let's talk about what these leopard 2 tanks are and why they're so important to ukraine. these are seen relatively easy to use stanks that are easy to maintain on the ground. we've heard about potential standoff between germany and the united states with germany indicating the united states should sent its abram tanks. the u.s. saying those tanks simply are not as practical on the ground. that update from ben wedeman in the city of bakhmut, that is what ukrainian forces are facing. they are concerned in the coming months, as the country heads towards the spring, the warmer months, that russia is going to launch a counteroffensive. this is very much an infantry war, so it is those tanks that could help spearhead and protect those on the ground governments

for ukrainian soldiers. the ukrainian president and first lady joined mourners at a memorial service saturday to honor the freen people killed in wednesday's pokt crash. the victims' coffins were carried to the ceremony in kyiv where they were draped in ukrainian flags. families wept as they placed nowers on the caskets and kissed photos of their loved ones. president volodymyr zelenskyy and his we've offered condolences to the mourners and paid tribute to the victims. after weeks of protests over voel's new far-right government, demonstrations saturday in tel aviv are the biggest yet. we'll have the latest in a live report. with two max-strength pain relievevers. ♪

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thousands more took to the streets in jerusalem and other cities. protesters are opposed to mr. netanyahu's new government and a series of planned judicial changes which would allow parliament to overturn high court decisions and give politicians more power in appointing judges. cnn correspondent what das gold join us from jerusalem. this wasn't the first week protesters came out? >> no, it wasn't. and we're seeing the momentum growing. if these protesters want to achieve what they want to achieve, which is to stop these judicial reforms from happening, and for many of them ultimately to topple this government action this is what they need is momentum. they need this public pressure campaign because they don't have many more options. benjamin netanyahu and his allies have a pretty comfortable majority in the israeli parliament. last night as you noted, over 100,000 people took to the streets in tel aviv and several

thousand more in other cities around the country, including jerusalem. this is a significant amount more than last weekend where some 80,000 took to the streets in tel aviv. it was absolutely pouring rain but that didn't stop the protesters who wanted to come out, who are against these planned judicial reforms. for many of them, opponents of these reforms, they see them as the destruction of the independent judiciary, the destruction for many of them, the beginning of the end potentially of israeli democracy. benjamin netanyahu and his backers say these are long-needed reforms, that the supreme court has begun to overreach and is run by a bunch of elites and that this will restore balance between the three branches of government. but coming out last night were several of the top opposition leaders, the former defense minister, and including at a time former prime minister, contractori lipid. here's what he had so say, take a listen. >> translator: what you see here today is a demonstration in support of the country. this is a demonstration for the country. people who love the country have

come here today to defend its democracy, to defend its courts, to defend the idea of coexistence and common good. there are people here who love israel, who came to demonstrate for a jewish state according to the values of the declaration of independence, and we will not give up until we win. >> laila, something new that happened this week that probably helped propel more people to the streets is on wednesday of last week, the high court in a 10-1 ruling ruled that one of benjamin netanyahu's ministers, the minister of interior and health, could not serve because of his previous convictions. last year convicted on tax offenses. he resigned from parliament, served a suspended sentence. to the court he said he wouldn't return to public office. the high court said he could no longer serve. there had been a question, would benjamin netanyahu potentially defy the court and not fire him? israeli media is reporting at a cabinet meeting that's supposed to take place in the next hour or so, benjamin netanyahu will be dismissing this interior

minister but as part of a coordinated process in cooperation with him. >> hadas gold reporting from volume, thank you so much. in peru, police have cracked down on protesters in a university in lima, accused of violently invading the campus. some were handcuffed and places on the ground as police cleared the area. demonstrators condemned the raid, blaming the unrest on the country's president. >> translator: we are outraged by what we are going through. it is insurgency. this is what she is doing to us why? we are her brothers, we share the same blood, why is she setting this trap for us? why are they killing sinus. >> authorities say the protesters on campus also participated in the nationwide demonstrations which have rattled peru in recent weeks. on saturday, the unrest forced officials to suspend entry to the famous machu picchu ruins. authorities say they have now

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♪ welcome back. i'm rail ha ha rack and you're watching "cnn newsroom." new york city will soon open a fifth relief center for immigrants due to a mass influx of asylum seekers.

right now the city has nearly 28,000 asylum seekers in its care and is at its breaking point, according to mayor eric adams. the new center will be located at the brooklyn cruise terminal and offer on-site medical care, food, laundry, and a place to stay. it's expected to open soon and will serve about 1,000 asylum seekers, specifically, single adult men. meantime, the biden administration unveiled a new program just days ago that allows american citizens to sponsor refugees resettling in the united states. it's called "the welcome court." it allows groups of at least five individuals to apply to sponsor refugees and help them acclimate to life in the u.s. with the support of nonprofit resettlement organizations. the program is similar to one in 2021 that helped afghan refugees resettle in the u.s. joining me now is mary

brooks and ibrahim amirzad. ibrahim and his family migrated to the u.s. from afghanistan in 2021. mary is their sponsor. welcome, mary and ibrahim, so good to have you with us. mary, i want to open the conversation with you. the welcome court matches sponsors with refugees just like you and ibrahim were matched more than a year ago, i understand. tell me about that moment when you picked up the family from the airport and took them to their new home. you don't really know each other. you've never met each other. how does that work? >> it was very interesting, laila. first of all, thank you for having us. it was amazing because we didn't know each other, and they arrived after a 36-hour trip. they were so composed and clearly so resilient. we had many members of our sponsors circle there, two of

whom had been refugees themselves, so it was very emotional. what really struck me the most is how trusting they were. because they didn't know us. we said, come this way. we put them in a car. we said, we'll take all your luggage. and they just got in and we took them to their new home. it was really a very profound moment for many of us. >> i imagine. ibrahim, you and your family have had to leave everything behind. that must have been really hard. >> translator: we left our country, we left all our family, and we came. and from there, we are starting back at zero. with everything that i studied, everything that we had, we left and came with what we could carry in our hands, and we're here to start our life over. as you just outlined, the

struggle is real for you and your family. resettlement processes is quite complicated. and for anyone starting a new life anywhere, it's a struggle. how has mary helped ease the transition for your family and your new life that you've started now in the united states? >> translator: when we left the camp, we had such a hard time. and when we came here, the sponsors circle did more than we could have ever imagined. everything that we needed, they gave us shelter, she gave us clothing, they fed us, they have since helped us learn how to drive, they've set us up with services, doctors appointments. my children are in school. they've helped us completely acclimate to our new life. and because we have them, our transition has been so much smoother than we ever could have

hoped for. >> mary, what compel ths you to answer that call? it's one thing to host an individual. hosting an entire family, that requires a lot of logistics, arranging the right type of accommodation, finding schools, paperwork. ibrahim outlined a lot of the things that you've helped his family with. how did you prepare? >> the way that i found out about the sponsor circle for afghans was through social media. when i read about it, i realized that it was the same values of a nonprofit that i had worked for before called flight pony express, founded by dr. carol weiland conner. their motto is "all of us taking care of all of us." that really inspired me. i thought, this is a way i can really make a difference. i called five of my friends, and

thankfully they said, we're in. so we began to go through the s pr proprocess of getting aproved. it takes more than five people, and we found along the way that everybody wanted to help. i think that's the thing that surprised me the most. >> ibrahim, you and your family have embarked on this new life. you've had to adapt to a new language, learn a new language, a new culture, a new country, finding work. how is your wife and children, are how are they settling? what has been the best part of this experience, what has been some of the most difficult challenges that you had to face moving to the united states? >> translator: our life, the hardest part was leaving afghanistan and leaving our family and leaving everything behind. with the help of the sponsors circle and mary, and as she

said, all of the volunteers, we have been so lucky to see very little hardship. the hardships that we see are trouble with paperwork, trouble with getting people to call us back. sometimes there's a little language barrier, but that always remedies itself. truly, the sponsors circle has helped us really not experience a lot of the hardship that many new refugees do. and we're incredibly thankful we have a peaceful life, we have a village of volunteers and sponsors that are with us every step of the way. and we have a new family here, thankfully. >> how does it make you feel hearing that? >> well, it's overwhelming. because, as i said, as much as we have been able to help the

amirzads, we've gotten so much more in return by welcoming them and by just having the pure joy of being with them and watching the kids grow up and welcoming a new baby, watching ibrahim get back into his profession of nursing and watching faqira come to the point she wants to learn to drive. it's just joyous. >> what would your advice be, mary, for people who are currently considering hosting, helping, supporting refugees, whether families or individuals? what would your advice be? >> i think the first thing is, don't be afraid. i think sometimes people are afraid that they're going to get caught in something. not to be afraid. the sponsorship circle of paradigm has worked beautifully.

and welcome core is only going to be more so. and i'm sure provide more possibilities and more support for sponsors. because i just think lots of people want to do something, they want to help, and there's no more impactful way to be able to make a difference for a family than to catch them at this time when they're their most vulnerable and bring them into your family and make a difference for them and for generations. >> mary brooks and ibrahim amirzad, we'd like to thank you both. it's been a privilege getting to know you. thank you for sharing your experiences with us. >> thank you so much. there's much more to come on cnn, including new details about the suspect in the killings of four idaho college students. 20 gallons of water. skip the rinse wiwith finish quantum. its activelift technology provides an unbeatable clean

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six people were arrested in downtown atlanta saturday after what started as a peaceful protest resulted in property damage. there were no injuries to officers or civilians, but windows were broken in three buildings and an atlanta police department cruiser was set on fire. the protest was in response to the fatal shooting of an activist and the shooting of a georgia state trooper. that happened on wednesday near a proposed atlanta police training facility. opponents of the project, who have dubbed it cop city, have been camped out in the forest for months in an effort to stop construction. "people" magazine is reporting new details about the suspect in the murders of four idaho college students. it says he followed some of the victims on social media and visited a restaurant where two of them worked in the weeks before the killings. cnn's camila bernal has the

story. >> reporter: a couple of new details in this case, and they are important because police have not yet confirmed whether or not there was any type of relationship between bryan kohberger and the victims, whether or not there were any interactions. "people" magazine is essentially putting some of those connections in place, saying that all three of these female victims were followed on instagram by bryan kohberger. the magazine also saying that at least one of them received multiple messages on instagram in the weeks leading up to the murders. now, "people" magazine saying that they reviewed this instagram account that has since been deleted. they also went on to say that bryan kohberger went to the restaurant where two of the victims worked. we'd previously reported that two of the girls worked at mad greek, and what the magazine is saying is that bryan kohberger went to the restaurant, ordered a vegan pizza, and also demanded that his food not be touched by

other animal products. it is unclear if the girls had any interactions with him at the restaurant. it is also important to point out that the restaurant says that the report, the "people" magazine report is untrue. they released a lengthy statement and i want to read part of it. they say, "we all decided collectively to support the families and not share anything that could potentially harm the investigation or cause the families more stress." in addition to the people at the restaurant not wanting to speak out, there is this broad and sweeping gag order, which means essentially everyone connected to this case with direct knowledge of what happened is not allowed to speak publicly. other things to remember is that bryan kohberger has yet to declare a plea. he also is expected to have his preliminary hearing in june. and there is evidence against him, according to police, specifically that surviving roommate who places him at the house, at the scene of the crime

when those students were killed. camila bernal, cnn, los angeles. for the past few weeks, we've been telling you about atmospheric rivers drenching california in rain and burying it in snow. but is all of this moisture enough to end the golden state's historic drought? cnn meteorologist allison chinchar takes a look. >> california has had a tremendous amount of rain and snow in the last few weeks. and while that's made big improvements in the drought for the state of california, it hasn't removed it entirely. so let's back up three weeks. three weeks ago, 7% of the state of california was in exceptional drought. that's the highest drought category possible. 35% in extreme drought, the second-highest category possible. but now fast forward to the current drout drought monitor after all of that rain and snow has come through. notice the top two drought categories, we now have 0% of

the state. however, 90% of the state is still in some level of drought. and that's because they were just in such bad shape before, even with all of the improvements, it's not enough to remove the drought conditions entirely. when we talk about how much rain, it's very impressive amounts. honeydew, california, in the last three weeks picks up nearly 50 inches of rain. boulder creek 35. oakland, california, over 18 inches. which set a record. multiple cities set records across that three weeks because of how much rain was there. one of the biggest benefits is all the reservoirs across california finally starting to see those numbers jump above where they normally would be this time of year. it wasn't just the rain but also the snow. very impressive amounts there. mammoth mountain, california, picking up over 240 inches of snow. donner pass, 180. that homa picking up 106 inches

of snow. the skiers love the snow, but the snowpack has a more important reason for paying attention to it. and that's because the snowpack accounts for 30% of all of california's fresh water supply in a given year. so yes, it looks pretty, it's great for the ski resorts. it's also good in the long-term for the state as well. short-term forecast, we do anticipate that california is likely going to stay with drier conditions up at least until the end of this month. once we start the month of february, however, we will start to see those above-average moisture rates coming back into play. here's the thing. they will still need more rain, even on top of what they've already picked up. as we mentioned, you still have much of california in drought conditions, and not just california but a lot of the surrounding states also dealing with dramatic drought conditions as well. how the buffalo bills are preparing for the first game against the bengals since damar

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order as people celebrate the year of the rabbit. while this holiday comes almost exactly three years after the first covid-19 lockdown began in wuhan, china. transportation officials estimate more than 2 billion passenger trips will take place during the lunar new year season. there were over 26 million on saturday alone as people traveled to see family for the first time since the zero covid restrictions were put in place then abruptly lifted last month. here's how one traveler explains the new found freedom. >> translator: of course, it's way better after reopening. we have been in lockdown for three years. it was really bad luck for wuhan being locked down three years. since everyone has gotten covid already, we can have a proper and good chinese new year, so that makes us quite happy. >> there have been growing concerns that millions of people traveling for the holiday could spark a new surge of covid

infections. one government scientist says the possibility is minimal because, he says, 80% of the people in china have already been infected. peking university research shows about 64% of the population are likely to have been infected with covid-19 as of january 11th. the buffalo bills and understand bengals are going to meet for the first time since the near-fatal collapse of damar hamlin. cnn sports coy wire has more on the story from buffalo. >> reporter: this bills/bengals playoff game in buffalo is going to be intense. it's the first meeting between the teams since damar hamlin's near-fatal collapse when they met 19 years ago. it's going to be emotional for bills players and bengals, like dee higgins, the player who collided with him. he was ask the what it would be like if he were able to see demarre. >> you know, chalk it up, laughs

and giggles, you know. going to be happy to see him. hopefully talk to him a little bit. just chop it up a little. >> obviously what happened was -- you know, that's always in the back of everybody's minds. but now it's win or go home. i think that's what everybody's mostly focused on. >> toward more wins for either team means a trip to the super bowl. the bengals were runners-up last season. bills are 13-1 in home playoff games since 1970. bills mafia will be rocking. through damar hamlin's story, the world has come to know how special of a young man he is. joyful, full of love, wanting to help others. that's inspired so many fans around the world to do the same. i caught up with two women, they've never b.e.t. met before, but they launched "hearts for hamlin and higgins," a life-saving campaign encouraging people to get train fog cpr,

also raising money for the american heart association. damar hamlin in his number 3, they've become this symbol for spreading love everywhere. this mural is two stories high. people show up all day long to get photos. the artist says it's dedicated to the people who came together to support demarre and buffalo, saying bringing people together is what buffalo does best. the power of sport, bringing people together even from opposing sides to uplift, inspire, unite, and create positive change together. the second man to walk on the lunar surface is likely on his honeymoon right now. former u.s. astronaut buzz aldrin married his longtime love on his 93rd birthday. this former test pilot announced his nuptials on friday on twitter writing, "we were joined in holy matrimony in a small private ceremony in los angeles and are as excited as eloping

teenagers." his 63-year-old wife is executive vice president of aldrin's company, buzz aldrin ventures. aldrin walked on the moon july 20th, 1969, second only to his crew mate, neil armstrong. good luck to them. that wraps up this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm laila harrak. kim brunhuber publics up our coverage after a quick break. neuriva plus is a multitasasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain healtlth. to help keep me shsharp. neuriva: think bigger. we all need fiber for our digestive health, but less than 10% of us get enough each day. good thing metamucil gummies are an easy way to get pbiotic, plant-based fiber. with the same amount of fiber as 2 cups of broccoli. metamucil gummies the easy way to get your daily fiber. i control my septic system. it does not control me. i do not fear 2-ply. i will use rid-x monthly to help prevent a backup.

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