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world. ahead on cnn newsroom, all eyes are on the sky. we're tracking the suspected chinese spy balloon flying across the united states. we'll have a live report on what the chinese are say ing about this incident. officials are advising people to stay indoors. if you go outdoors, be advised that exposed skin can get frostbite in as little as a few minutes. >> more than 20 million americans for impact from what wou could be the biggest cold snap of the season with windchills in new hampshire reaching negative 100 degrees fahrenheit. president biden previewing his platform for a possible 2024 reelection bid. this as the u.s. releases a blockbuster jobs number report.

the u.s. military believes a suspected chinese supply balloon will finally leave u.s. air space in a couple days, or it could be sooner. some weather models show the winds pushing it out over the atlantic as early as today. the pentagon has been close let tracking the large object and concluded it's carrying a payload of surveillance gear. officials are advising against shooting it down for now, but say that could eventually happen. china has apologize d and said the balloon entered air space by accident. beijing claims it's a science balloon, but the blowback has been swift with postponing a planned trip to beijing on friday. the balloon is very big, about the size of three city buss. the u.s. military is concerned if it were shot down, it would create a large and hazardous debris field that could harm people and property on the ground. cnn has reporters all over this developing story.

tom foreman is tracking the balloon from washington, d.c. will ripley has a look at secretary of state antony blinken postponing his trip to china after the fallout. i want to start with alex at the state department with what he's learning there. >> reporter: u.s. officials tell cnn the u.s. has not ruled out shooting down the chinese spy balloon once there's no risk to civilians below. but secretary of state antony blinken telling reporters that china's flag rant violation of u.s. sovereignty forced him to post his trip to beijing. >> i made clear the presence of this balloon in air space is a clear violation of u.s. sovereignty and international law. it's an irresponsible act and that the prc's decision to take this action on is detrimental to the discussions that we are prepared to have. >> reporter: it would have been the administration's highest level trip to china so far. the state department said the rare chinese apology today and

the claim the balloon was for civilian purposes floating off course did not change their mind. >> i can only imagine what the reaction would be in china if they were on the other end. and what this has done is created the conditions that undermine the you were of the trip. >> reporter: the balloon is flying at 60,000 feet equipped with solar panels for power and a surveillance payload. the pentagon says steps have been taken to protect sensitive intelligence targets beneath it, which may include silos of missiles the scattered across montana. u.s. defense officials have been tracking the balloon closely for several days debating whether to shoot it down. advising president biden it would be too dangerous. >> we assessed it. it does not propose a risk to people on the ground. out of caution, cognizant of the

potential debris field, right now, we're going to continue to monitor ask review options. >> reporter: satellite and other data caught the balloon may have originated in central china with weather patterns pushing it out into canada and down into the united states. it has been crossing montana and into missouri. with current conditions, it could continue east and enter the atlantic ocean from north carolina. it can maneuver itself and has changed course. currently floating over the central u.s., officials say, while offers more on its precise location. and they have. curiously training eyes and c cameras towards the skies. pilots reported seeing the balloon flying by reporting sightings to air traffic control. unless this balloon is shot down or somehow brought down, the pentagon does believe it will

remain in u.s. air space floating across the country for the next few days. they will continue to watch it and keep all options open. meanwhile back here at the state department, secretary of state antony blinken saying he will reschedule his trip to beijing when conditions allow. what those conditions are precisely, they will not say. it's clear that the temperature between the u.s. and china does need to come down for that trip to happen. cnn, at the state department. >> ripley is following this story from thaiwan. we that beijing is clauming it's a weather balloon. what more are they saying? >> reporter: they are saying this was an accident. and it is a believable explanation when you think of the greater context of the importance of this blinken visit that has been postponed. a visit that beijing has been preparing for ever since november. that meeting at the g-20 where they talked about the importance of communication to avoid miscalculation and missteps and

misunderstandings. it does seems these lines of communications are open now because secretary blink spoke directly with his counterpart about this balloon when telling the chinese he was going to postpone his trip. it is postponed, not cancelled. whether it is a weather balloon or spy balloon, it's a distraction from the long list of contentious issues that the the u.s. and china need to discuss when they get together including tensions over the democracy of taiwan, semi conductors and the necessity for cooperation on issues of global importance like climate change. >> and i'm just curious in terms of the actual people in china r they aware of the story? are they talking about it? what are they saying? sdwl they are talking about it on social media, but the spin inside china is this is being blown out of proportion. this is not a major story.

it doesn't make china look great that they lost control of a balloon. the chinese making a rare admission of regret saying this is because of the westerly winds blowing this off the scheduled route. but they are accusing some poll tugss and media in the united states of blowing this issue out of proportion, taking advantage of it as an opportunity to attack and discredit china. which is usually what china says whenever they are criticized for anything. what makes this situation different is that china act knocked on the eve of the visit this balloon was a mistake and many analysts i have spoken with seem to agree china has little to gain from this massive or hovering over the heartland of america. there's not a lot of valuable intel they can gain, even if they hover over sensitive areas, that they don't already have.

>> interesting to get that perspective. thank you so much. thousand to the deep freeze that's grip ping the midwest. more than 20 million people in the northeast are under windchill warnings or advisories. some areas setting records as temperatures are forecast to keep falling. the new national record for lowest windchill was likely set in mount washington, new hampshire, a few hours ago at minus 108 degrees fahrenheit. if confirmed, it would beat what meteorologists considered to be the record of minus 105 degrees set in alaska. officials say treat this like a blizzard and stay inside to avoid frostbite or worse. one resident demonstrated how cold it was by attempting to eat a plate of pasta. look at this. >> in the winter, there's nothing like hot buttered pasta. it's 5 below fahrenheit.

it doesn't really get a lot cold er than that. not in vermont, any way. >> the windchill in boston will be 32 degrees fahrenheit. that's where a thmaud athena jo. >> reporter: it's not just boston. weather is affect ing the northeastern corner of the united states. it's some of the coldest air in the northern hemisphere. it could break records in some areas with nearly 25 million people under windchill warnings or advisories. city and state officials are urging folks to stay inside and to bundle up, if you have to go outside. the coldest temperatures are expected here in the overnight hours from friday into saturday. and the city could see windchills that put the feels like temperature as low as around negative 37 degrees else is celsius. there's an increased threat of

hypot hypothermia, which can be deadly. everyone should be heeding the warnings of officials and staying inside as much as possible. athena jones, boston. that arctic blast will linger most doift saturday. temperatures are expected to warm up by sunday. meteorologist jennifer gray has the forecast. >> the arctic blast is also impacting portions of the northeast and new england in the u.s. where some areas are seeing their coldest temperatures in decades. across the northeast, we are going to see places that could have frostbite set in within five to ten minutes on exposed skin if you're outdoors. 30 below. this is for a windchill. ten minutes is all it takes. so we are going to see temperatures that match that. this is 6:0 in the morning on saturday. you can see temperatures 30 and 40 degrees below zero. that's the windchill.

frostbite can set in in 10 to 20 minutes. by the time we get to the later in the afternoon, temperatures will only warm up a little bit. still dangerously cold. so windchill warnings,en windchill advisories still in effect of and those extend up into canada where they are also fooeling the extreme cold. this windchill, what happens when you don't have any wind, the heat basically radiates around your body. it keeps you warmer. when you have a lot of wind, that heat will blow away from you. so you aren't able to hold that warmth in and you get cold much faster and it becomes a dangerous cold. so lows tonight across the northeast and new england, boston at 7 below. new york city in the single digits. portland, 14 below. that doesn't factor in the windchill. it will feel much cold er becaue winds are going to be blowing at 15 to 25 miles per hour across

this region. however, temperatures will warm up quickly. that's the good news. this isn't going to be lasting long. we'll see temperatures drop down to 7 below seethe roe. up to 18 on sunday. not drop ping too much sunday night. and just like that, temperatures go back above average. leaders from the european union announced more support for ukraine. what they have offered the country. plus former prison inmates lead the charge for russia in cain, but they became expendable goods and paid a horrific price.

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says surrendering the city isn't an option. russia isstepping up attacks. but a ukrainian intelligence officer says that bat sl a preview of what's to come and fighting could significantly pickup as early as this month and vladimir putin wants to capture the donbas reregion by march. now to a battle that one ukrainian sol engineer compared to fending off the zombie attack. he's talking about where former prison inmates are used as canoned toer. fred pleitgen has that story. some images in this report are graphic. >> reporter: ukrainian reenforcements on the move around the em battle city. while russians have made garngs kyiv is sending in some of its toughest combatants. they are vowing stiff resistance.

we consider it ourback mutt our sources. back mutt our sources. russia's gains have come mostly thanks to this man. it's the most effective fights force often using convicted for straight from russian jails for suicide is the assaults on ukrainian positions. the u.s. and ukraine say troopers who refuse are often shot on the spot. a claim wagner has not denied. after taking a small village north of bakhmut, they brack about the appalling conditions. the guys swam across the river,

he says. their hands and feet froze, some lost their limbs, but they went ahead and did not ask for evacuation while visiting a new wagner training center in an occupied part of ukraine, he admitted he wants more fighters, ruthless, brutal and expendable. here they finish their training, he said. first, they make them into baby eagles and here they become tenables. but those appear to be dying by the minutes. they purport to show scores of wagner fighters littering the hills around bakhmut. the drone kmapder tells me wagner's assault tactics are extremely wasteful. they mix in prisoners with no combat experience. then they send their own special forces to attack our flanks.

while ukrainian troops are on the back foot, wagner's attrition rate might be so high they can't find enough convicts to use as cannoned toer. 77% is the number of combat and non-combat wagner losses in the current campaign, she says. that includes killed, wounded, deserted and captured. fred pleitgen, ukraine. more than 60 russian prisoners of war are headed home after being rereleased by ukraine. that's according to a russian state news agency. it says they were released after a difficult negotiations by the uae. the agency says some of the troops belong to what it

describes as a sensitive category, but there's no explanation as to what that means. the wife of american aid worker killed in ukraine says her husband died while doing what he loved. pete reid was killed in bakhmut on thursday while working with global outreach doctors. that's according to global response medicine. the humanitarian aid group reid found. she posted he was evacuating civilians when his ambulance was she shelled. when asked for comment, the state department only confirmed the death adding that the department is providing assistance to his family. european union has announced additional support for ukraine and tougher sanctions against russia. it happened as officials visited to reaffirm their commitment to the country. scott mcclain reports. >> reporter: delegates at the first ukrainian summit since the full-scale invasion began were

welcomed by air raid sirens. the blare across the city. the summit itself came with new commitments from europe around a half a billion dollars in new assistance, new money to help demine recaptured areas and train thousands more troops and even millions of energy-saving lightbulbs to cut down on energy use of its russian attacks on the grid. what ukraine was hoping for was some kind of a signal their eu membership might be fast trapped. president zelenskyy says his country deserves to start negotiations on that this year. but ukraine's potential membership comes with conditions. one of the biggest is cracking down on corruption. the weeks leading up to the summit were filled with anticorruption raids and investigations and today police announced charges against the heads of two companies accused of defrauding the defense ministry out of more than $3 million. cnn, london. the u.s. has announced that

funds from the forfeited asset ises of a russian oligarch will go towards aid in ukraine. the announcements was made on friday. he was joined by the prosecutor jrt general. millions were seized as sanctions for working for the russian government. >> today i'm announce ing i authorized the transfer of awe sets in ukraine. these forfeited assets follow the announcement made of the indictment of designated oligarch on charges. that time i also announced the seizure of millions of dollars from ab account of the financial institution traced. yesterday the u.s. district court for the southern district of new york ordered the funds

forfeited to the united states. with my authorization today, the forfeited funds will next be transferred to the state department to support the people of ukraine. is. >> the suspected choo these spy balloon we have been telling you about could be on its way out of u.s. air space in the coming hours. we'll take a closer look at how it was tracked and what we have learned about it. plus an encouraging sign for american workers as the u.s. economy added a stunning number of jobs last month. stay with us. sp have arrived. saving the world from epic dangers. whilile we feed the hero in everyone. spspend $30 on your next visit to ihop and get a fandango movie ticket to see marvel studios: ant-man and the wasp: quantumania in theaters february 17th. ihop. let's put a smile on your plate. find your beat your moment of calm

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there are new developments concerning that suspected chinese spy balloon being tracked across the u.s. the pentagon now says there's a second chinese surveillance balloon somewhere over will tin america. a u.s. official says one doesn't appear to be heading to the united states. in a rare public aknowledgement, china called the intrusion an accident and claims it's only a science balloon, but the pentagon says it's a surveillance aircraft. on friday secretary of state antony blinken responded by postponing his long-planned trip to beijing. the high altitude balloon is being pushed along by the jet stream. new models suggest it could be blown over the atlantic some time today. tom foreman shows us how the object has been tracked over the last few days. . . >> it came in through canada, and dropped into montana where

it was spotted in a couple places. i want to note that north dakota, south dakota, i used to live as a kid,'re areas of interest here, we know it moved on from there. at least based on the photographs we have seen to be spotted down here in missouri, near kansas city and a little bit further on. it's about 11 miles up. so it's pretty big. but we don't really know every place it's been. we do have a prediction on where it's going, and that is carried by the jet stream. you can see maybe the little jogs there. it's expected to sweep down this way over st. louis. maybe a little corner of tennessee, virginia, then over north carolina and out to sea. how fast, that will depend upon the jet stream. there's no indication that this thing is wildly ma nooufable,

but it maybe within a range. data shows the u.s. economy is in better shape than many predicted. it added half a million jobs in january, nearly three times as many as analysts expected. meanwhile, the unemployment rate fell to 3.4%. that's a level not seen since before the moon landing in 1969. the strong jobs report bucks a trend of five consecutive months of monitoring job growth. january's gains were influenced by seasonal factors and subject to future revisions. friday's jobs report revealed there are nearly two open positions for one person seeking a job showing workers still have the upper hand. joe biden touted the strong jobs report during a rally in his home state of pennsylvania. he was there for the democratic national committee's winter meeting in philadelphia ahead of tuesday's state of the union speech and with an eye towards the election. we have more from philadelphia.

>> reporter: president biden offered a preview of a possible 2024 reelection message. as he rallied democrats here in philadelphia on friday evening. the president's trip to pennsylvania comes as the white house has made a concerted effort in the week leading into the state of the union to try to tell some of their accomplishments from the bipartisan infrastructure law to historic investments in climate change and progress made when it come ss to gun safety. even as the president focused on those accomplishments here, he also ramp ed up his attacks on republicans. take a listen. >> jobs are up. wages are up. inflation is down. covid no longer controls our life. but now the extreme maga republicans in the house of representatives have made it clear they intend to put it all at risk. >> reporter: the president has been eager to draw a contrast with republicans on a host of issues, including social security, medicare and the economy. on friday he received welcome

newstology that incredibly robust jobs report that prompted the to say the state of the unit isson is and the state of the economy is strong. the president is preparing for the state of the union address on tuesday. the white house is planning to travel across the country in the following days including stops in wisconsin and florida. cnn, traveling with the president in philadelphia. there are new developments in the killing of tyre nichols, who died after an encounter with police. the department says another officer has been fired for violating multiple policies, including personal conduct and truthfulness. he could be seen on body camera footage tasing nichols. two first responders have been suspend ed for failing to rende emergency care and treatment. while they have a week to request a review, official says they are waiting on the results of a state investigation before they recommend anymore charges. five former officers already

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controversy in florida over race and history are being taught in school. at the srpt of the issue is an advanced placement african-american studies class. the republican dwov north threatened to block the course under a law called the stop woke act. governor ron desantis says the curriculum has a political agenda. we spoke to those who say the law is covering up history. >> look at this traffic. for 42 years not knowing this man was killed from that moment, it's never the same.

>> reporter: the mayor is a black father beaten to death by white police officers in miami in 1979. what the officers were acquitted, riots followed. >> it happened right here? >> right here. >> reporter: fst places like this that are central to this historian's teach the truth tours, to shed light on the history many students don't learn about in the classroom. >> there's an frt in florida to cherry pick history. when you start cherry picking history, you need to make sure you don't have somebody doing it who hates cherries. >> reporter: the latest controversy, an advanced placement african-american studies course. the college board that oversees the program has revised its official course work. florida's department of education had rejected the initial proposal to the pilot course saying it was inexplicably contrary to law and lacks educational value. the republican governor ron desantis up to this point has been very critical of the pilot program. >> we have history in a lot of

different shapes and sizes. people that have participated to make the country great, people that have stood up when it wasn't easy, and they all deserve to be taught. but abolishing prisons being taught to high school kids as if that's a fact, that's not appropriate. >> reporter: last year florida passed legislation known as the stop woke act championed by ron desantis. it barred instruction that suggests anyone is privileged or oppressed based on their race or skin color. the objections to the course stemmed from course a year ago for the pilot program. the department of education provided cnn a copy and a list of the objections all related to unit four titled movements and debates. concerns including black queer studies, movements for black lives, literary thought, citing concerns about specific authors and scholars. >> this course on black history,

what's one of the let lessons about? queer theory. now who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory. that is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids. >> reporter: the newly released framework does not include any of the authors or scholars that the state listed as a concern. queer theory and black lives matter still mentioned in the course, but only as ideas for potential student project topics. we asked the co-chair of the development committee for the course if any changes were made because of the objections of the state of florida. >> no. if that were the case, if the state of florida or any state itself could single handedly all theer the curriculum of african-american studies course, or any course for that matter, it would undermine the integrity of the process we have in place.

>> i learned a lot. >> reporter: these students say they have been waiting for a course like this. they all attended a teach the truth tour and say they wouldn't know as much about their own history if it weren't for the courses taught by dunn. >> we learn about the same people every year. george washington, martin luther king jr., rosa parks. i feel like it's just the same stuff being taught to us. it's like, okay, they can know this, but that's it. if we don't learn this, history might just repeat itself and it's going to keep going on and on. we have to learn in order to stop it. >> reporter: some parents welcome the scrutiny. she wouldn't mind if her daughter took the course, but some things are best taught at home. >> some things like the queer studies, that may or may not offend sol of the children and make them feel uncomfortable. >> reporter: professor is part of a lawsuit against the stop woke law being uncomfortable is a part of learning and understanding the history that

is often overlooked. >> it looked like what happened here. might have been massacred at this spot but every community in this country has spots like this. places where blacks have been abused and forgotten about. this is not unique to miami. >> for more, i want to bring an attorney at the firstoundation individual rights and expression. thank you for being here with us. the ap class we were seeing there, it's being taught in 60 high schools. next year, 500 high schools. then they will be adopted by which schools they want to do it. we heard in that piece wasn't of the most compelling arguments for this class. the person who said if they don't learn about this, history might repeat itself. so what's at stage here? >> i think that one of the important things to remember is while the state has considerable

leeway to figure out or to assert what then content of a high school or k-12 course should be, ap courses are about college credit. if you're going to be taking a college-level course, you should probably expect to see clelk-level concepts and be mature enough to think critically about them. if a state is going to start limiting the ideas that are going to be in what are essentially college-level classes, if every state gets veto over those ideas, you'll wind up with only the most vanilla, boring ideas in a history course. and a history course shouldn't be bore ing. history is not boring. >> how do you respond to the main criticism and the main pillar of the stop woke act, it could cause anguish to people of

a certain race. >> history is full of anguish. and history is full of pain and full of reprehensible conduct. the only way to learn from history is by looking directly at it. that's going to make people uncomfortable. and if you're taking essentially a college-level class, you should feel uncomfortable. if you leave a college level class feeling comfortable about history or about whatever topic you're study ing, maybe say for mathematics, you should feel uncomfortable in those courses. >> a the lot of the spotlight recently has been on florida, but as of last year, i think eight states have passed laws restricting school crick lull about subjects like race, gender, sexuality and inequal tu. it seems to be a really con

concerted national effort here. what effect is it already having? >> i think that if you look at most of the states that have want doed these types of l regulations, most are focusing on k-12 courses. when you have states that are primarily focusing on k-12 courses, you're seeing sol pleadover into higher education. so in oklahoma, there was a community college. to remiend viewers, oklahoma ha a very significant history of abusive race relations, including the tulsa is riots. but a community college there in response to a law that was primarily about k-12 institutions, cancelled a class on race relations because a parent complained about it and the college claimed they needed to ascertain whether or not the subject matter of the course was prohibited by a state law.

and it only took national outrage to get the college to back down from that. >> you talk about a lot of these efforts focusing on k-12, but we see conservatives reshaping colleges. ron desantis overhauled the board, which was a left leaning college. now he's trying to make it more conservative. i think i saw 39% of bills in 2022 targeted higher ed compared with 30% in 2021. so why do you think the focus is hift shifting slightly towards colleges? >> it's hard to say. i wish the folks would shift elsewhere. colleges are supposed to be where you have unfeddered debate and get ideas or you ebb counter ideas and theories that you might not agree with.

it's about thinking, discovering these ideas and grappling with them and figuring out what your view on it is. the only way to do that is to be exposed to the broadest possible range. >> we'll have to leave it there. appreciate your insights. thank you so much. >> thank you. an nba superstar wants to leave his team. why kyrie irving has reportedly asked the nets to trade him. stay with us. i have modererate to severe crohn's disease. now, there's skyrizi.i. ♪ things are looking up ♪ ♪ i've got symptom relief ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ ♪ control is everything to me♪ feel significant symptom reli with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements at 4 weeks. skyrizi is the first and only il-23 inhibitor

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basketball superstar kyrie irving has asked to be traded from the brooklyn nets. according to espn is, the point guard made the request ahead of thursday's trade deadline after he and his team failed to reach a deal on a contract extension. he's scheduled to become a free agent this off season. caroline manno has more. is his time with kevin durant really over? >> it seems to be that way. wherever he goes, controversy isn't far away. this is surprising news he wants out of brooklyn after being

voted starter in the all-star game, but with his team in fourth place in the eastern conference, you thought that maybe the drama was subsiding somewhat. now according to multiple reports, he's telling the team i have to go. i want out of brocklin. i want it done in the next six days before the deadline on thursday or he's going to leave in free agency in july. he also asked before the season began, but he's an eight-time all-star in the final season of this $136 million contract. but he's had a very difficult go of it in brocklin. the nets rescinded a $200 million extension offer. after he refuse to meet all of the covid-19 vaccination ambassador dates he play ed in just 29 games and three months ago he was suspended for failing to disavow anti-semitism in the wake of a link that made global headlines. he apologized for that.

he completed a list of team issued tasks and returned after missing eight games. cnn reached out to the nets and his agent for comment, but no update yet on this time after that shocking news. there's some rumors that he could be headed to l.a. to meet up with lebron james, who is in pursuit of the all-time scoring record. that's set to continue on saturday. the lakers traveling to new orleans to face the pelicans. lebron 63 points away from the record. he would need a really impressive performance to catch it so far. he needs a career-high performance. his highest was 61 points while he was with the heat in 2014. but there's also a chance he might not even play. he's recently been experiencing some injury issues, a little bit of left ankle soreness. he's going to catch the record, there's no doubt about it, but it might take a couple games to get there. kareem has held that record for nearly 39 years.

that was eight months before lebron james was even born. just incredible the way he's done it. elton john singing saturday night's all right for fighting. between the magic and the medicine timberwolves. if you look at the top of the screen, you can see austin r rivers and mamba getting into it in front of the bench. things going from bad to worse. a brawl breaking out. punches were thrown. when it was all over, five players were rejected from the game. so the magic won 127-120 the final there. and lastly, there's a lot of demand for tom brady memorabilia since he announced his second retirement. and that includes the sand this he's sitting on in this message. somebody found this exact location where then seven-time super bowl winner recorded this

emotional good-bye message to football and to fans. they listed that sand for sale on ebay. the incredible part is thats of saturday morning, the bidding for the bottled sand has reached nearly $100,000 with more than eight days until this auction closes. it remains to be seen if the winning bider will pay that kind of money, but there have been more than 100 bids so far. just another example of how popular the quarterback is. i don't know if i would pay $100,000 for a jor of sand. >> i have some sand i'll sell to you for half price. carol, thank you. sticking with the super bowl, despite food inflation be being up 12% over last year, the cost of a super bowl party could actually go down this year. so according to the food report, you should load up on wings and guacamole, chicken prices are down.

even steak and shrim washing it down with cheap suds beer is up 11% from a year ago. and if you have to drink alcohol, wine and spirits are also up, but by less. super bowl is just ought days away. that wraps this hour of cnn newsroom. you can follow me on twitter. ness in this morning is next. for the rest of the world, "vital signs" with dr. sanjay gupta. one dose of ubrelvy works fast it can quickly stop migraine inin its tracks within 2 hours without worrying if it's too late or where you aree unlilike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blocks a protein believed to be a cause of migraine. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. most common side effects were nausea and tiredness.

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