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i'm kasie hunt here in washington. a dangerous ice storm now crippling parts of the american south. in texas, reports of hundreds of accidents, some deadly, as roads turn into ice rinks. right now 40 million americans are under storm threat, freezing rain is raising fears of falling trees and power outages, and air travel is a mess, too. we have seen ground stops, about 1,500 flights cancelled so far, and more than 2,500 delays. we have seems tracking all of it. first, let's start with ed lavendara in dallas. ed, dicey, dangerous, deadly and, quite frankly, it is only going to get worse. what are you seeing out there? >> reporter: it has been an ugly morning and the rain and sleet and freezing rain is all kind of coming down sporadically. but -- expressway, highway 75 coming out of downtown dallas, we're on the far northern end of the city here. you can see just how little traffic there is -- some people driving --

other people driving rather slowly. it is very treacherous out there, depending on how confident you feel in driving. so far state officials are saying that the power grid here in this state is holding up well. they do not expect any issues. of course, everyone can remember two years ago how dreadful the winter storm experience was here. but the roadways have been a mess. we spoke with a couple by the name of amber and jason kelley. they were driving to the fort worth stock show and rodeo delivering three steer in a trailer. they leftwich tau falls at 9:00 last night. they were trying to make it there last night but they spent the entire night on highway 287 about 40 miles outside of fort worth. it was a long and frigid night from wichita falls. >> decided to leave last night about 9:30, and which would be a normal hour 45, two-hour ride. it has already been, what, eight hours i guess.

i'm sure we have at least three to four more hours. >> i think we came to a standstill about 11:00 p.m., and we didn't move, not one inch for seven hours or something. i mean hours. we did not move one inch. >> reporter: they finally made it to fort worth safely. it took them about 12 hours to go what would normally be a two, two-and-a-half hour drive. you can see on the roadway one -- dallas is not known for being an area that has a lot of equipment that can deal with this kind of stuff. so one of the street cruisers came by and sweeped off this street. you can see how much sleet and ice is accumulated here on the roadways so far this morning. as you mentioned, more expected to come the rest of today and into tomorrow as well. >> yeah. tough sledding out there, no pun intended. let's bring in gabe cohen who has been tracking the flight boards. gabe, what is the latest in the skies?

>> it has been another difficult day for air travel. at this point more than 1,500 flights cancelled today after 1,100 cancellations yesterday. it looks like nearly half of those cancellations are in texas, and the vast majority are from two airlines, american and southwest. both of them based in the dallas-fort worth area. these cancellations could very well cause at least some ripple effect across the country for air travelers as crews and aircrafts get displaced, get stranded and airlines like southwest and american try to reconnect those pieces. now all eyes are going to be on southwest after that meltdown around christmas. now, the past two days they've cancelled more than 12% of their flights because of this weather. remember, back in december they struggled ct their crews and theihas said since that december storm and that meltdown they've really improved their systems, not just their scheduling system, even their

de-icing procedures. he says they should be better prepared for a storm like this. now, to be clear there is no indication at this point this is another southwest meltdown in the making, but this is going to be a real test the next couple of days for those improvements that the ceo says the airline has made given how badly that system failed them in december. now, fortunately, this is the slow travel season so it should make it easier for southwest to play catch-up than it would have been in december during the holiday rush. >> that is a very good point. let's take a look at where the biggest concern is right now. meteorologist jennifer gray is tracking threats. jennifer, what are you seeing? >> well, we are seeing freezing rain and ice, anywhere from south texas all the way up through portions of oklahoma, arkansas. if you are expecting winter weather, this is the last thing you want. freezing rain is incredibly dangerous. it falls as rain and then freezes on all of the surfaces,

roads, cars, bridges, overpasses. we are talking about everything, even tree limbs and power lines. it doesn't look like much, buffer you can see just a very thin layer of that ice and your car can lose control completely. sometimes it is even hard to see where that ice is. so that's why it is incredibly dangerous. we could see up to half an inch of ice in these areas shaded in blue. you can see through san anglo and it will come in several rounds. we see the ice coming across the dallas metroplex and we will get a brief break, but it is far from over. we have had reports of ice, sleet all the way from texas to the ohio valley and it is not ending any time soon. we had half an inch to a quarter inch of ice across missouri. dangerous travels with where we are. up to half an inch, that's where you will see the tree limbs start to break because of the weight of the ice and we will

see power outages with that. once again, here is the radar. you can see a lot of ice across the dallas metroplex. here all of your warning, your watches, your winter weather advisory still in place. as you go forward in time you can see a bit of a break for dallas picking up across little rock, memphis, nashville and another wave of this is expected across west texas even into dallas by the time we get into wednesday morning. so far from over. >> far from over indeed. everybody, thank you very much for those updates. now let's go to memphis because we have new information about the initial police report from the deadly tyre nichols beating. videos of the incident that were made public flat-out contradict several claims that memphis officers made in that early report. cnn's nick valencia has been tracking this. nick, we already knew that the footage contradicted the memphis pd's first public statement about the arrest, but now there are more inconsistencies showing up in this initial report.

i mean does this represent the makings of a potential coverup? >> well, we have reached out to the district attorney's other in shelby county to see if they're investigating this as being a filed false police report. we have not heard back. importantly, the bottom line of this these initial claims, the alleged claims made in the initial police report directly contradict what we all saw with our own eyes. most importantly, this report was written in the hours after the tyre nichols stop and most importantly it makes no mention of officers kicking or punching tyre nichols while he is on the ground. it actually alleges that nichols was the violent one. it says he was an aggravated assault suspect, that when officers approached him he was sweating profusely and irate and refusing to exit the vehicle, and then it goes on to say that nichols grabbed for detective martin's gun. it was martin, one of the five officers, former officers, has now been charged with second degree murder, that was listed as a victim on this initial police report. it went on to say that nichols

pulled at the officers' duty belts, again making no mention of officers punching or kicking nichols. we all saw that there was really no indication that nichols was fighting back. we are learning, actually trying to figure out who authored this report, who in the police department wrote this report. we have reached out to the district attorney's office to try to get more information on that. we want to show you this video of officers talking amongst themselves immediately after the arrest had happened. >> going for my gun, too. so i'm like -- >> he grabbed martin's gun. >> look, got him out of the car. hey, bro, you good. swung, pow. almost hit me. reached for my gun, slammed for the car. >> it almost looks like the offersers are trying to get their stories straight after they beat nichols up. we are trying to get more answers and have reached out to officials for more answers. >> these come after another round of memphis personnel who were involved were relieved of

duty. do we know what role those people may have played in this? >> two officers were named as having been relieved of duty. it is the local's way of saying they're on administrative leave. these officers were put on administrative leave weeks ago and we are just learning about them this week. we asked the memphis police department why. they didn't directly respond to the question but did say they're committed to transparency in a statement and told us we should expect more personnel actions in the coming days. meanwhile, you remember last week two emts were put on administrative leave. they have been fired in addition to a third person who was the driver of a fire engine that responded to the scene. the memphis fire department saying their investigation revealed that these individuals were told that they were responding to an individual who had been pepper sprayed. we know it was much, much worse than that. but according to their investigation, memphis fire saying that these three fire department personnel did not adequately assess nichols when they arrived at the scene and did not meet the expectations of the memphis fire department. the bottom line here is that the fall-out continues here over

tyre nichols' death. we should expect more actions in the coming days. >> and i'm sure we will be relying on your reporting throughout. nick valencia, thanks very much for that report. >> thank you. vicky terry is the executive director of the memphis naacp. vicky, thank you so much for being here. i just want to start. i mean are you surprised by the memphis pd's initial accounting of the incident and the fact that it doesn't track at all with what we now can see in the videos? >> i am totally horrified. this is absurd. i was just listening to your other caller's comment and this is my first time hearing the report. so after seeing the video, we all know that this is a lie. the report is falsified, and i don't know who turned it in, but, as he said, you could see them -- it was as if they were trying to get their story

straight when they were conversing after, you know, they had beat tyre nichols. >> and i mean weren't body cameras supposed to prevent this sort of thing? i mean these officers should have known everything that happened would have been on tape. >> it seems as if they forgot they had the body cams on, and then the sky cop cam, i think that caught a lot of everything. so one individual, i don't think he had his body cam on, but then there were others that did. if you saw the beating, there were other individuals that were just standing around that did not render aid, but it was a lieutenant from the fire department -- not the driver. the lieutenant was the one that was fired, two emts and a lieutenant. they were the ones fired f. from my understanding the driver was not fired because the driver

is supposed to stay, you know, in the vehicle. >> right. so as you were sort of outlining there, we have now seen nearly a dozen police or first responders who were part of this arrest or tied to it in some way that were relieved of duty. what do you want to see happen next? what does accountability look like here? does it mean charges for other people? how do you want to see this unfold? >> yes, of course. i think there will be charges of others, and i just want to make sure that everyone that was there during the incident to be held accountable, because for you to just stand around and watch an individual beat to death, which was exactly what happened to tyre, he was beat to death. and you did not aid, you didn't aid him in any kind of way. you didn't say, tell any of the officers to stop, then there is something wrong with you as an

individual as well. >> so the memphis police have now disbanded the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit. that's what it was called. that was tied to this deadly beating. it is not unusual. i mean it is not just memphis that has this kind of aggressive unit on the force. i mean there's a "new york times" op-ed that argues even if these units were, quote, the residents of the units they patrol must live in fear of crime or live in fear of the police. is that how the black community of memphis feel, that the existence of this university is a lose/lose situation? >> i can't say that. i can't say how they feel. but i know some people are frightened of the police. i think this unit, even though it has been disbanded, i think we need to go back and investigate and make sure that there weren't others that have

been, you know, beat or harassed by the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit. i think it definitely needs to be something to make sure this hasn't happened before, which it probably has but i'm not sure. >> that's an important point. vickie terry, thanks for your time today. we really appreciate it. >> thank you so much. up next, can the united states stop the surge in mid east violence? secretary of state antony blinken trying to do just that as he meets with israeli and palestinian leaders. what he said to palestinian authoritg monkeys, a dead vulture and a dangerous leopard let loose. it has all happened recently at the dallas zoo? police may have a break in the case. he past... by relieving pressure points and supporting your body in a way no other mattress can.n. experience the mattress ranked #1 in customer satisfsfaction by j.d. power, four yeyears in a row.

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come out of it, but there's the expectation now that things are going things could continue in the spiral of violence and potentially get worse, especially when you look ahead on the calendar because ramadan and passover are coming up and those traditionally are clash points in this region. kasie. >> it is a good point. thank you for your reporting. we appreciate it. meanwhile fierce fighting in eastern ukraine as russian forces try to take control of a key highway and cut of ukraine's supply group. the wagner group has been fighting across ukraine. they have roughly 50,000 fighters there. most are convicts promised freedom in exchange for their service. their merciless tactics have proven to be successful but vladimir putin could pay a price. their victories have given them more influence in russia. some russian military officials are now taking orders from wagner commanders, and the

oligarch who is the group's figure head has been openly critical of russia's military and bureaucracy. cnn's sam kiley is in kyiv. sam, this group is known for brutal tactics in ukraine. it is not just on the battlefield but in their own ranks, too. >> reporter: yes. i think brutal tactics rather than skillful tactics. in many ways the, quote, unquote, success will wagner is using the crudest possible form of tactics, which is to recruit the lowest of the low, prisoners, murderers, thieves, rapists, give them the option of fight, die or get amnesty, and send them to war very poorly led, very poorly armed, and in human waves. this is not a sign of russian strength but rather of weakness. i think that was brought out with anderson cooper's recent interview with one of the officers of the wagner group. this is what he said about

fighting. >> there is a question of how to persuade new recruits who arrived at the front lines and decided what is going on there and decided they don't want to fight to go ahead and fight. they would wind up those who did not want to fight and shoot them in front of the newcomers to develop their self-preservation instinct. >> reporter: now, if that is your methodology for motivating soldiers you are really on the back foot here. there is the sense of the wagner boogieman. there's a sense in russia that the mercenary organization might pose a threat to the military establishment within the kremlin. but the alternative argument is that the military establishment are using these men as cannon fodder in order to make very small, incremental gains around not very significant strategic targets at enormous cost, possibly a cost that can be hidden from the russian public but not indefinitely.

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now to capitol hill where battled republican congressman george santos is now confirming that, as he says, he asked to be taken off of his committee assignments, at least for now. >> nobody tells me to do anything. i made the decision on my own that i thought best represented the interests of -- >> of course, all of this follows a string of santos lies that have been exposed since his election. so, you know, i question whether we can -- how much can we believe what he says now? let's get to cnn's melanie zanona. it is great to see you. what is speaker mccarthy saying about all of this. >> reporter: speaker mccarthy says this was santos's decision to temporarily step down from his committee assignments and he did not pressure santos into making this decision. we are told that santos and mccarthy met last night in mccarthy's office where the idea did come up, and then santos

informed the rest of the party of his decision during a closed conference meeting earlier this morning saying he wants some of the controversies and investigations to be resolved until he serves on the two assignments. here is a little bit of mccarthy's reaction to all of that. >> we had a discussion and he asked me if he could do that. i think it was the appropriate decision. he will have a voice here in congress, i mean until he answers all of those questions, then he'll at that time be able to be seated on committees. >> reporter: now, we should point out that kevin mccarthy is the one who decided to give george santos committee assignments in the first place, despite the fact that santos lied about his resume and he is under investigation for his finances, but this has all become a huge distraction for republicans. it has become a huge political liability, and it also comes as republican leaders are struggling to lock down the votes to kick democratic congresswoman ilhan omar off his committee. perhaps santos deciding to temporarily relinquish his

committee seats could alleviate pressure on republicans. but one other thing i want to point out, kasie, is up until this point santos has been really defiant. we are starting to see a little crack in that, but he is still refusing to step down as a congressman. he is refusing to resign and he continues to insist he did nothing wrong or illegal. kasie. >> it was really interesting, melanie. it shows you there is clearly pressure building on him within the republican congress, otherwise no way this would happen. thank you so much for your reporting. really appreciate it. meanwhile, americans spend the most money on health care, but it is not paying off. a new report shows that people here in the u.s. have worse health care compared to people in other high-income countries. the bad diagnosis doesn't stop there. cnn medical correspondent dr. tara narula joins us to talk about this. dr. narula, always great to see you. there are several alarming findings we are to break down here. first, let's walk through, how

much more are americans spending on their health care? >> a lot more. so this database basically comp the u.s. to other high-income countries. when you look at the numbers in america we are talking about $11,911 . you can look at the full screen, compare it to most of the other countries where we are talking about the range of $5,000, $6,000, $7,000. in south korea it is as low as $3,900. clearly the expenditures are very, high. when you talk about outcomes, which i know we will, it makes it a hard pill to swallow to see how important the outcomes are. >> what did the report discovery specifically about death rates? >> here in the country we have the highest infant and maternal mortality rate. we have the highest death rate from assaults, and that includes gun violence. highest rates of obesity. third highest rate of suicide.

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long island just outside new york city yesterday, and now marino f marine officials are trying to figure out how it died. the 41-foot hump back named luna was a fixture in the atlantic. experts had been monitoring luna for decades. cnn's jason carol is on the scene. what can you tell us? these pictures are sad to look at. >> reporter: they're incredibly sad to look at. i want you to take a look behind me. we won't go too far into it for obvious reasons, but right now what they're doing is using backhoes to try to move the mammal. they will have to break the mammal apart in order to -- what they're going to do is actually bury him. we know it is a male. they will do that right up there. you can see they've already started to dig out some of the sand there where they can eventually do the burial. that will take place later on this evening. what is really alarming, not just to see that this whale had beached himself, but this has happened several times, at least

eight whales have beached themselves over the past several weeks in the new jersey/new york area which obviously has a great number of people, especially environmentalists alarmed wondering what is going on here. i want to bring in don claven. he is the town supervisor here in hempstead and he has been watching this since 6:30 yesterday, is when this huge mammal beached himself, 6:30 yesterday and died about half an hour later, correct? >> right here on the beach. a 40-foot whale. we haven't seen a whale in decades of this size coming to this area. we were able to bring in the heavy equipment, move the carcass up for today. they're doing the autopsy, noaa is doing the autopsy to hopefully make a determination why this young whale beached himself. after that's done, working with both state and federal officials, we will be burying the whale up here in the dunes. >> reporter: it is incredibly sad. you see these majestic creatures, and when you see one of them beach himself or

herself, something like this happens, you know, hearts go out. when you see something like this happen. but then when you hear it has been eight over the course of several weeks, some red flags being raised. >> you know, it is a concern. you said it. when i got down here yesterday morning and 7:30 you were just amazed with this creature of god, this size on this beach. within a moment you are saying you are heartbroken because it has passed away, but the question is why. why did it do this? that's why this autopsy is so important. you know, i read the paper. i watch cnn and other news outlets where they are covering this. this is an alarming number, and residents and people deserve an answer why it is. if it is, you know, something in the water, great. if it is some environmental reason or some other reason, it needs to be determined so we can rectify it. >> explain to us very quickly what is happening now. i see you have the backhoes here in action, a lot of heavy equipment out here. this young male weighed several,000 pounds, we are told, correct? so a lot being done to move and get into position for burial.

>> as you see, this is sizable. what is taking place right now, the backhoes have broken the body into several pieces. you are watching noaa as well as the atlantic marine conservation society going through the carcass as part of their process. then when they are done, they will break the body up and get it into the burial location. >> very good. thank you very much, don. i really appreciate you coming out and doing that for us. you know, in terms of questioning, there's been a lot of questions obviously about what is going on here. environmental groups trying to draw some sort of a link between these beached whales and wind farming off the coast, but we're told by noaa they've seen no link between the two. back to you. >> it is really tough to see. jason carroll, thanks for that report. really appreciate it. what is going on at the dallas zoo exactly? police in texas are investigating a string of suspicious incidents over the past several weeks and it now includes the apparent theft of two monkeys. all of this started on january

13th when a clouded leopard disappeared for several hours, prompting a frantic search and the closure of the zoo. she was later found near her habitat. but around the same time officials discovered damage to a fence holding langer monkeys. none of them were harmed or escaped, but then last weekend this endangered lapid-faced vulture named pin was found dead from unusual circumstances inside his enclosure. he was just one of four vultures at the zoo. he had been living there for 33 years. finally, just yesterday officials reported a pair of emperor tamrin monkeys were apparently stolen after their habitat was, quote, intentionally compromised. dallas police tweeted a picture of this man and his doritos who they say they would like to talk to in connection with the missing monkeys. they released surveillance video showing him at the zoo.

joining us now is ron mcgill. he is a long-time wildlife expert, conservation and communications director at zoo miami. ron, thanks for being with us. i mean have we seen anything like this before? what is going on? >> no, we haven't. you know, i mean right now it is all speculation because there's an investigation going on, but the indications would suggest to me that there is -- all of these incidents are connected and that, you know, it has either got to be some kind of disgruntled employee which i lean to lean towards only because dallas zoo is a world-class zoo, an accredited institution, a lot of security in place, security cameras everywhere, and for all of these these to be circumvented to p ha i tend to believe it is something that is familiar with them to circumvent those things. >> it does seem unlikely your average person would know how to navigate a zoo to actually cause this kind of damage. so let's say something like this does happen at the zoo where you are. i mean is there a standard

protocol when you discover an animal has gone missing? >> absolutely. generally speaking, animals if they do escape from a habitat, they generally, like was suggested with the clouded leopard, they stay around that habitat because that's where they find their security, where they find their food, where they know how to live. like with the leopard they are usually found near their habitat. what is strange about the monkeys is they're not being found. these are tropical monkeys, only a pound, nine, ten inches long, from the tropical forest of the amazon basin. they're not going to survive in dallas weather without the food and comfort given to them by the dallas zoo. >> very, very sad. let's talk about the pin, the endangered vulture that was found dead. it had been there for 33 years. what does it mean to lose a creature that is special by itself. >> vultures by itself are special. their population are declining

worldwide. these animals, though a lot of people see them as not the most appealing animals, they play a critical role in keeping population goes healthy by eliminating bacteria and things like that. to have an animal die from unnatural causes as they're stating, to have it reflecting on someone it has to be someone with a grudge against the zoo, an extremist trying to make a point and trying to do so has brought nothing but harm to the animals. >> it is terrible. the leopard situation could have been really bad. i think a lot of people were relieved to hear you say that they're likely to stick close to their habitat if something like this happens. i almost fill silly asking this, but if a normal person comes across something like this what are you supposed to do in that situation? >> well, kasie, let me put you a little bit to rest. a clouded leopard is a small

leopard. it is not an animal that is not dangerous to human beings. >> good. >> that's another thing interesting about the cases. every animal that's been affected here, these are all animals that don't pose a direct threat to human beings. it is like they're trying to make a statement here. you don't see somebody trying to let out a tiger or a lion or a bear or something like that. the leopard is a small, highly endangered cat. it doesn't really present a danger to human beings. so i don't want people -- i know people think right away, oh, my god, leopard, spotted cat, it is going after a human being. that's not the case with the spotted leopard. it would avoid human confrontation almost at all costs. >> it is across the board a story of tragedy happening to these valuable, special animals. ron mcgill, thank you very much for providing us with that perspective. we appreciate it. and you might call them hot wheels that are just too hot. cars so easy to steal that insurance companies are refusing to cover them. we'll tell you the makes add models coming up.

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