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just ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> i'm 22 and i have not seen this much. >> it has been a mess. >> if you don't know how to drive in the snow, stay home. >> some of the top hosts at fox news were peddling false election claims. certainly helpful but doesn't get them to the finish line. there is a new sheriff in town. the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, fu , februar, 1:00 a.m. in california. and on both coasts and states in between, millions will be waking up to extreme winter weather.

new york's governor says parts of her state could see up to a foot of snow. the great lakes can also expect cold wet weather. and in michigan, hundreds of thousands are still without power after a winter storm passed through on monday. >> and there is a blizzard warning in the sierras. several feet of snow over the weekend left some residents trapped. people there also are running out of gas, baby formula and other vital supplies as they face road closures. >> we're running out of baby formula. we're just kind of up the creek right now if it goes on another two days where they don't plow this. >> letting you know that there is absolutely no gas to be found up here. >> we're just out here on our own. usually by now plows come by. just seems like we're being forgotten about. >> meanwhile homore than 600 students returned home after being trapped at camps due to

the snowstorm in southern california. >> just so grateful to have her home. >> when they announced it late last night, we all started crying. we were very homesick. and it is more than snow and ice. since sunday there have been nearly 200 storm reports with multiple tornadoes, accompanied by high winds and hail. the state of oklahoma is reeling from at least nine reports of snow on sunday, one leveled everything in its path. >> and you can see the tornado in this video taken in illinois on monday. five tornadoes were reported in states. one of which hit the city of champaign. rupert murdoch has admitted under oath that some fox news anchors endorsed false claims about the 2020 election being stolen. >> and these are the anchors

that murdoch said spread the lies about the election fraud. murdoch made it clear that he doesn't believe the right wing talk network on the whole promoted the lies. >> but the fox corporation chairman said he wished fox news had issued a more forceful response. he said i would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing in hindsight. >> when asked what the consequences should be, murdoch replayed th replied, they should be reprimanded and maybe got rid of. >> and this is as a voting company is suing fox news of $1.6 billion of unproven fraud claims. and fox could be in real trouble. >> i think this really actually exposes the fact that fox is not at its core a news network. news networks, they deliver the

truth as they know it to viewers. they do the best job to attain the truth. sometimes it is not perfect, but that is what they do. in this case we know behind the scenes top personnel knew the narrative they were pushing to viewers was not true and we have evidence now that shows that they did this in search of profits so they didn't lose viewer ship. >> when it comes to the u.s. battle against inflation, treasury secretary janet yellen says so far so good. >> she said the fed's efforts to bring down inflation while maintaining a strong labor market appear achievable, but still more work to do. >> look, inflation still is too high. but generally if you look over the last year, inflation has been coming down. and i know the fed is committed to continuing the process of getting it down to more normal levels. >> those comments from yellen

coming during a surprise visit to kyiv. she met with president zelenskyy to discuss u.s. economic systems and efforts to impose severe sanctions on russia and she stressed aid to ukraine is now more vital than ever. >> and she also said that washington is committed to providing more than $10 billion by september as ukraine's budget deficit is expected to hit $38 billion this year. and in just a few hours time in moscow, russian president vladimir putin is set to chair a meeting of the federal security service,. >> and this as a key ally is set to kick off a visit to china. alexander lukashenko is set to hold talks starting today. >> clare sebastian is joining us with more. what if anything can we expected to hear in terms of outcomes from vladimir putin's meeting and also within the winder context of all these discussions about whether or not china will

get more involved in backing russia in this invasion? >> yeah, i mean, this is a meeting that he will chair of the board, putin himself a former intelligence agent, used to work for the kgb. he is officially going to summarize the work from 2022, the report that says strategic priorities will be the fight against terrorism, corruption and border security. the things to look out for is the messaging that we've seen increase in recent weeks. really stepped up in recent weeks about how this is a defensive operation, how this is an existential battle for russia. this is how he is trying to sell this to his people now that we're into the second year of this war. that is this about defense. we did hear putin in december address zer ssecurity services called for them to step up against the traltsitors and spi.

this has all been about population at home, control of information. there is barely any free media left. border security is now part of it. so i think that you can look out for more of that. clearly the intelligence agencies are a key part of that. in clare, thank you so much. the u.s. energy department new assessment about the origins of covid-19 creating controversy in beijing and washington. >> a spokesperson accused the u.s. of stirring up arguments and politicizing the issue of covid's origin. washington officials agree the energy department's report is the minority view among the federal agencies. >> dr. gupta says more information is needed. here is what he shared earlier. >> they have studied

coronaviruses for a long time. one of the lead researchers in wuhan is known as the bat lady because she's been studying bats and coronaviruses since the days of sars. so what i think we need to know is were the coronaviruses similar, identical or related. and you need to do genetic sequenci sequencing. and there were blood samples taken from workers in the lab at that time. if you were able to go back and look at those blood samples and say did they show antibodies to the covid virus, that would be another pretty definitive piece of data. aen you' n and you'd want a complete forensics investigation of the lab. but these things that we don't have still. that has been the lack of

transparency that so many people have been talking about. i think the answer to the question everyone is asking is knowable. but we don't know it because we don't have all the data. hong kong is set to end it covid mask mandate, a restriction that has been in place since the start of the pandemic. as of wednesday masks will no longer be required. kristie lu stout reports. >> reporter: this is one of the last places on the planet where you still have to wear a mask. but after almost three years of both indoor and outdoor use in public, hong kong is finally dropping the mandate. i still have to wear it today because the mandate is not fully scrapped until wednesday march 1. the top leader made the announcement tuesday. >> in order to give people a very clear message that hong kong is resuming normalcy, i think that this is the right time to make this decision. >> reporter: for much of the past three years, they and their

neighbor macao have followed the policy. macao dropped their restrictions on monday. and face masks they say have played an important role if reducing transmission. but now that most people have been advavaccinated, the legal mandate is now past due and they can determine on their own whether they want to wear one or not. this is coming after the government dropped its hello hong kong campaign to bring back tourists and international businesspeople and starting wednesday they can breathe easy with the mask mandate effectively over. kristie lu stout, cnn, hong kong. still ahead, florida's governor flexes his political muscle, details on ron desantis' power play against disney as he eyes a presidential run. and emotional triaestimony the trial of murdaugh.

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head of the u.s. environmental protection agency will return to east palestine, ohio today for the opening of a new community center where residents and business owners can get update on the cleanup efforts. >> this is as the federal government ramps up its response to the disaster. miguel marquez reports. >> reporter: federal teams going door to door in east palestine conducting health surveys, over a dozen wells being drilled around the site of the spill to track where chemicals in ground water may be moving. only 11 train cars now remain at the crash site, those part of a federal investigation. hundreds of air tests in homes and air monitors in towns show no signs of contamination. city and private wells being continually tested also so far no sign of contamination. >> you should have water, soil, in-home testing before you move

back in. and as always keep your receipts. it is up to each individual, repr renter, homeowner what do there. >> reporter: but the waste and getting rid of it providing one of the more difficult hurdles. soil now being shipped to two epa approved facilities in ohio. >> moving forward waste disposal plans including disposal location and transportation routes for contaminated waste would be subject to epa review and approval. >> reporter: the solid waste from the train derailment will be incinerated at an approved company in east liverpool, ohio about 20 miles south of east palestine. >> we have a 2-year-old daughter and of course that is a concern. but again, i think that this is a state with a facility take that can handle this type of waste.

>> reporter: and now going to east liverpool and vicery after norfolk southern's plan was rej rejected. >> we think that there is a better way. >> reporter: a texas facility will dispose of the waste already there and in michigan, they had five truckloads returned to east palestine. ly gel mmiguel mar keez, cnn, n. and latest deadly shooting happened on a highway outside of jericho monday a day after israeli settlers carried out attacks against palestinians. >> at least one palestinian man died in those attacks ws which e after two brothers were shot

nearby. and they consider it actions of terror. >> it really does feel like it is out of control to some extent. it is very hard for the two sides to have discussions around this. >> reporter: especially when you consider this attack that killed this american israeli, originally from connecticut. he had moved to israel a few years ago but then we understand went back to the states and attended columbia university. he was driving along a highway that is near the dead sea, normally very quiet part of the west bank. many tourists use this road in order to get to spots such as je jericho, the dead sea or the desert. it is not a typical flash point for these sorts of attacks. but military saying while he was driving along the road, some attackers in vehicles shot at several vehicles, there were no other injuries except for this

man. they fled the scene, they set fire to their vehicles and there is still a manhunt under way for them. that attack actually is rather similar to the attack that happened on sunday when two israeli brothers were killed. but where that attack took place is known as a flash point because it is a route that off often israeli settlers use. and so it has had incidents in the past. but that attack also happened while two brothers were in their car in traffic and shot at point blank range. and in the same area israeli settlers went essentially on a rampage, dozens if not hundreds setting fire to homes and vehicles. we know of at least one palestinian man shot and killed and several others were injured. the israeli military says that these types of revenge attacks as they call them, they consider them acts of terror. and i think that is important to note because it actually puts them in line with what

palestinian officials often call settler attacks and also call them terrorism attacks. the israeli authorities say they have arrested something like eight people in connection to those attacks, but just the scales the number of settlers that were there, the types of attacks, violence of those types of attacks is bringing up a lot of fears that this sort of tit for tat revenge attacks is a new phase that the conflict is entering. and it is not even the end of february and since the beginning of the year, 14 israelis have been killed, more than 60 palestinians have been killed. we are at a 20 year high of violence in this israeli palestinian conflict and over and over again i'm just hearing more and more comparisons to some of the worst violence the region has seen. and there was a summit and they are trying to bring some sort of calm to the ground, there not a lot of calm.

>> all right. thank you. murder trial of murdaugh will resume today prosecutors calling more witnesses. the defense wrapped up on monday and they presented almost two weeks of testimony to try to prove murdaugh didn't kill his wife and son. dianne gallagher reports. >> the defense rests. >> reporter: the defense resting its case in the alex murdaugh murder trial with its final witnesses, the defense calling two experts to the stand trying to poke holes and create doubt around the state's time line of what happened the night of june 7th when maggie and paul murdaugh were killed. a pathologist questioning how of death was initially calculated. >> by far the best methodology is to do a core body temperature. >> and ambient temperature. >> yes. >> so tell me what you would learn by sticking your hand under the armpit of a deceased? >> you wouldn't learn anything. >> reporter: and a crime scene analyst.

>> the individual who shot first with the shotgun was stunned, probably blood and material in his eyes and splay bemay have b injured and would have taken some degree of time to recover. >> reporter: floating the two shooter theory. >> to me it is structurally difficult for the same shooter to have two long arms and no practical reason for that to happen. add that to what i believe happened to the shooter who fired first, i think it tips in favor of the possibility of two shooters. >> reporter: the state pushing back. >> and you referred to paul being shot in the back of the head kind of like an explosion. >> correct. >> and i'm not a physicist or anything here, but when you fire a shotgun, things are going in the direction that the gun is fired, right in. >> correct. >> so there wouldn't be just like a boom explosion like from

a bomb. >> actually that is more exactly what it would be like, yes. >> reporter: closing out the day and the defense's case, emotional testimony from the final witness, alex murdaugh's younger brother john marvin murdaugh who testified about cleaning the crime scene the next day. >> y'all can imagine what i experienced. it had not baby een cleaned up. i saw blood, brains, pieces of skull. and when i say brains, it could just be tissue. but it was terrible. >> reporter: and they went back to the testimony where he agree admitted to lying. >> i would say yes, he lied. >> reporter: the jury is actually going to the murdaugh family property where the murders happening, the judge granting the defense for that

trip over objection from the state. but that is not going to happen until the state finishes its rebuttal period. the prosecutor telling the judge they plan to call between four and five witnesses on tuesday. dianne gallagher, cnn, wa walt walterboro, south carolina. campaign style video and feud with disney, florida's governor grabs more headlines. details after the break. there is a new sheriff in town and accountability will be the order of the day. and i'm the founder r of the stay beautiful foundation when i started in 2016 i would go to the post office and lirally fill out each person's name on a label and now with shipstation we are shipping 500 beauty boxes a month

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welcome back. these are the top stories this hour. later today head of the environmental protection agency will head back to east palestine, ohio to open up a welcome center for residents, this as the agency have taken over full control of the cleanup efforts. at least 15 million people are under winter weather alerts in the east. blizzard conditions on the west coast, and heavy snow? san bernardino county is causing gas and food shortages. local affiliate's reporter is on the ground in california. >> reporter: highway 15 closed for hours because of snow on the ground and low visibility. meanwhile drivers wondering when they will be able to get through. for drivers heading up highway 50, it is hard to miss the heavy snow and strong winds those

conditions have led to low visibility. chains were required for much of the day and crews eventually had to block the road because of multiple spinouts and near mightoutmi whiteout conditions. many travelers praying they can get to their destinations. >> waiting for magic, you know. i hope that i'll get to tahoe. >> reporter: trying to walk or ski your way through? that won't work either. several drivers are parked right by the highway 50 on-ramp. >> here is my dinner. >> reporter: and some are eating food to pass the time. but locals say this is a traffic nightmare. >> just people coming up from sacramento area or san francisco trying to get up to tahoe, making it horrible for us. so i'll just say just stay home, don't come up here please. >> reporter: plows removed snow

from the parking lot of the safeway and residents are wiping off their cars too. >> i'm used to it. >> reporter: but what a lot of people are not used to is snow falling like this, some came to see the sight. >> i brought my granddaughter up to see the snow. she's been wanting to get out and see it. >> and i want to throw snowballs at grandma. >> reporter: as crews work to clear the roadway most drivers are following the most basic rule. >> we're just taking it slow and easy. >> reporter: with even more snow expected tuesday, officials are warning anyone who does not need to travel here in the sierra to avoid the area if possible. max and bianca, back to you. >> incredible scenes there. the u.s. supreme court is set to hear oral arguments in

two cases challenging joe biden's student loan forgiveness program and the decision is expected by late june or early july. the program has been on hold as legal challenges play out but promises to deliver debt relief for millions of borrowers. >> ahead of those legal challenges, student loan borrowers gathered outside the supreme court on monday. members of congress also stopped by to push for action. >> i hear the same thing from constituents up and down my district. 60 and 70 years old. paid back student loans for decades and barely making a dent. so the supreme court tomorrow has to do the right thing and we need president biden to speak up tonight and call on the supreme court to do the right thing and cancel student debt, all of it. >> florida's governor has signed the bill that gives the state more control of the disney

self-governing district. ron desantis is effectively publishing disney for speaking out against a law that limits sexual orientation and gender identity in classes. is this as the governor is eyeing a potential run for the white house. as jeff zeleny reports. >> reporter: florida governor desantis inching ever closer to a highly anticipated presidential launch with a new campaign-style video. >> freedom is worth fighting for. >> reporter: and a new book that serves as a roadmap for a potential 2024 republican primary. in the courage to be free, obtained by cnn, desantis plants his flag as a leading alternative to donald trump and pushes back against the former president's often made assertion that he alone is responsible for the governor's success. >> i do not think republican primary voters simply follow an endorsement from a politician they like without any individual analysis. but i do believe that major endorsement can put a candidate

on the radar of gop voters in a way that boosts a good candidate's procspectprospects. >> reporter: he said it was his debate performance that led to his come from behind victory. ♪ as the republican presidential field takes shape, desantis is making an early splash. >> florida is where woke goes to die. >> reporter: holding up his florida record as a blueprint for a national platform like the parental rights and education ability which critics have dubbed the don't say gay bill that led to his feud with disney corporation. >> today the corporation kingdom finally comes to an end. there is a new sheriff in town and accountability will be the order of the day. >> reporter: the governor went to walt disney world's backyard to sign a law effectively punishing the entertainment giant for speaking out against the desantis agenda. he uses that fight to bolster

his view that big business, a long time ally of the gop, has become too woke in his characterization and should be called out by a new class of republican leaders. corporate america has became a major protagonist. the battle lines almost invariably find large publicly traded corporations lining up against leftist causes he writes adding old guard corporation republicanism is not up to the task at hand. while desantis is not planning a formal campaign announcement until at least may, aides tell cnn he is trying to capitalize on a hunger among many republicans eager to find an electable fight. he's become a combat difference figure in the culture wars for which he offers no apologies.di figure in the culture wars for which he offers no apologies. >> if you're not on offense, you are basically a sitting duck and they take pots at you all the time.

>> reporter: he won't plan an announcement until at least may, that is after the legislative session when he can have more bills signed in to law that he can tout out on the campaign trail. but the book tour is coming now. he is hitting the road going to texas, california and points beyond trying to make the case to republicans that he is in the view an electable fighter. of course that is drawing a distinction between him and the former president. jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. this spat between the governor and disney is fascinating because disney is part of this reedy creek impro improvement district which is a self-governing district. >> and they have the same authority as local authorities with planning and things. and he's stripped it away. been there since the 60s today. one of the quotes is the corporation kingdom finally comes to an end desantis said. when is he announcing? >> we don't know, but all this

controversy is obviously helping to -- allegedly in may. but this is just putting him -- getting him more name and brand recognition. a new study links high levels of a common artificial sweetener to increased risk for heart attacks, strokes and death. it is a zero calorie sugar substitute used in a variety of foods and beverages. >> and the calorie control council argues that the study from the cleveland clinic looked at people who were already at high risk for heart disease and that the results contradict decades of research showing that the sweetener is safe. researchers say more study is needed for the general population. just ahead, voting is done it in africa, but anger over how the election was handled is growing. we'll go live to nigeria.

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former nigerian president accuses the electoral commission of corruption. complaints of voting irregularities continue to grow as the results slowly trickle in. many polling stations still haven't uploaded their results more than 24 hours after polls had closed. we'll speak now to stephanie in lagos. this is not quieting down the story about irregularities. >> reporter: max, this one is going to run and run. this is the election that was supposed to launch nigeria as a mature democracy, a place where they have a handle on running elections.

there was a much wanted new technological platform that would upload results in realtime, and that would make the process trantransparent. but former head of state has come out to say that the results are doctored and he is not -- you know, not confident about the integrity of these elections. let me read to you what he had to say about these elections. he said it is no secret that the independent nigerian election officials at the operational level have been allegedly compromised to make what should have worked not to work and to revert to manual transmission of results which is manipulated and results thered. now, max, we haven't seen evidence that he has seen to lead him to write this. there is a lot of unverified social media videos that showsc.

but the inec chairman is saying take your complaints to court. we are carrying on with the results announcement. 13 states have been announced out of 36 so far. and he is carrying on that process and not really listening to the complaints. >> stephanie, thank you for joining us from lagos. british. will be visiting a coca-cola factory today and expected to speak about the new trade plans for northern ireland. and this is a contentious headache issue that has been lingering for years after brexit, about 1200 days i counted this morning. rishi sunak says the deal will allow both sides to begin a new chapter, it is hoped that it will resolve the issue of border

checks within northern ireland. >> imagine if he achieves that. >> and there will be some obstacles, but by and large, it looks like political success. and meanwhile there are critical shortages of certain staples that has led to rationing that could last until may. and isa soares has the story. >> reporter: row upon row of empty baskets. empty shelves. supply gap has hit uk supermarkets. shortages affecting shoppers nationwide. >> i went for lunch and i couldn't find tomatoes or lettuce. >> quite annoying when you want to have a day in and you can't get it. >> everything i want is gone. nothing there. >> reporter: to deal with the shortages, major british supermarkets are imposing limits on items like tomatoes,

cucumbers and peppers. uk minister for the environment affairs say the disruption should only last a few weeks. meanwhile encourage people to eat more seasonally. let them eat turnips, she said. >> i'm conscious that consumers want year-round choice and that is what our supermarkets and growers around the world are trying to satisfy. >> reporter: supermarkets are blaming the recent shortages on poor weather conditions in key growing regions. britain produces a fraction of the food it consumes relying instead on overseas imports. an key supplies in southern europe and north africa in particular spain and morocco have seen harvests hit by extreme weather conditions. while climate change plays a significant role in warmer than average temperatures, the government faces another inconvenient truth. brexit, the cause of widespread supply chain disruption.

>> because of the interruption, it means that there is less food coming in from europe, we're producing less food, so basically our food security is in real trouble. >> reporter: labor shortages due to a lack of migrant workers and soaring energy rises following the invasion of ukraine have pushed the gap even wider as farmers struggle with front end costs. and those costs are passed on to the consumer. consumers already grappling with record high grocery prices and the worst cost of living crisis in decades. isa soares, cnn, london. still to come, efforts by the u.s. and canada to ban tiktok amid security concerns, we'll have the details. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving moneyey. shipstation n saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless.

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further inland inflicting greater damage on deciding like charleston, savannah and even new york city. powerful new aftershock in southern turkey has killed at least one and injuring more than 100 others. 95 the gnitude hit monday. >> and the quake has left more than 50,000 and left thousands more homeless. nada bashir has a look at what is being done. >> reporter: amid the rubble, there is quiet. buildings teetering on the edge of collapse. the air thick with dust as excavators comb through the destruction. there were no more survivors to be rescued, only bodies to be recovered. for the living, life has changed

forever. and all that remains is trauma of the earthquake. the moment the earthquake happened, our electricity was cut off. it started to rain and hail fell from the sky, she tells me. i pray no one ever has to witness such a moment, homes cracked and collapsed in front of us. this family has lost everything. three generations now housed in this small tent they are among the hundreds of thousands of people displaced across southeast turkey with camps like this about banding each day. every effort is made to provide families with a semblance of normality. hot meals, medical care and even psychological counseling are provided at this humanitarian

h hub. but there are also many smaller camps with little in the way of infrastructure or even shelter. this 73-year-old tells me that he has not only lost his home, but he has lost loved ones too. now his family is living on the street. many of the families still waiting for a tent at this camp are syrian. already made refugees by a cruel war at home. now some say that they feel they are being sidelined in favor of turkish families.tents to the i you are ki turkish families but still no tents for us. they say the turkish families say first. aren't we all brothers and sisters? this earthquake affected all of us. her sister-in-law says that they along with their young children

have spent every day and every night on the streets since the earthquake struck. accounts like this have been shared with us by numerous syrian families. the authorities and volunteers alike have told us that no distinction is made between turkish citizens and syrian refugees. the hope for many now is that this will all be temporary, but aid workers tell us that these camps could be in place for years and the threats of yet another earthquake still hang over the already shattered population. this is a significant challenge ahead for the turkish government, the scale of the destruction across southeast turkey is hard to put into words just how fast the destruction has been. and of course hundreds of thousands of people are now living in these tent cities. president erdogan and his

government have pledged to rebuild within a year, and we're already beginning to see that work under way. reports of excavation work. government say that they will build at least 30,000 new apartments beginning in march, but of course there are concerns that these buildings may not be safe, some saying that this is too hasty. nada bashir, cnn. and the white house has told federal agencies they have 30 days to ban tiktok from all u.s. government-issued devices. the move brings the executive blanche branch into compliance with a bill last year. >> and the canadian government is banning tiktok from all official electronic devices over cybersecurity concerns. review of the app found an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security over fears that tiktok could be forced to share the data with the chinese government. twitter is laying off another 10% of its staff according to the "new york

times." twitter had about 7500 workers before elon musk bought the company. that was last year. and the price tag was $44 billion. >> now the twitter head count is under 2,000 people according to the "times." twitter didn't immediately respond to request for comment on the "times" report. the social media company has been losing advertisers since musk took over. >> but as musk reportedly fires more staff, he is once again the world's richest person. >> and he had been iunseated by the ceo luxury brand. musk was worth about 187 build which now edges out number two. and this is interesting because musk actually broke the guinness world record for most money lost. thanks for joining us here.

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welcome to our virs in the united states and around the world. i'm christine romans. right now nearly 50 million people are under winter weather alerts across the northeast, the same storm that brought tornadoes to the plains is now dumping snow on cities l