about dozens of people being let go at the consumer financial protection bureau. what are you hearing? >> yes, we're talking about the consumer watchdog that has been effectively sidelined by the trump administration in the past week. and cnn has learned that, yes, dozens of employees at the cfpb found out last night that they're being terminated effective immediately. so we're talking about mostly term employees. these are people who are working at the cfpb for a specific amount of time, but they are still considered career employees. one source told cnn that the technologists who have been hired in recent years to work on a.i. and other issues, have been hit particularly hard, and this is obviously part of a broader effort by the trump administration trying to cut red tape. so there's a lot of deregulation going on. they're also trying to slash the size of the federal workforce. but let's not forget that these are real people, right? these are moms and dads and their their careers and their lives have

just been sort of turned upside down in the past week. >> we've got a lot more reporting on on on more firings beyond the cfpb as well. great to see you matt. thank you so much. a new hour of cnn news central starts now. >> all right. breaking news. this is a disturbing story. we're just learning that a teenager has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. and two terror related charges for allegedly plotting a valentine's day school shooting inspired by the parkland massacre. a federal prosecutor resigns in defiance of a justice department order to drop the corruption case against new york mayor eric adams. the new accusations of an attempted quid pro quo and dangerous flash floods and mudslides in parts of burn scarred california after a powerful storm slams the state, that storm is now moving east with the potential for new damage across the country. sarah

is out. i'm john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> a lot we're tracking this hour, including this this morning, a wave of layoffs across the federal federal government is setting in thousands of people across across the federal workforce now out of work as the president as the trump administration moves ahead with its plans to dramatically shrink the size of the workforce, the exact number is not yet known. but sources say that job cuts are deep at both the department of energy and the department of veterans affairs and at the va, talking about more than 1000 jobs. now cut. cnn's alayna treene is at the white house tracking all of this. elena, this is exactly what donald trump and elon musk says was coming. but what are you hearing about this now, as we're hearing from the va and the new secretary of the va himself. >> and he goes on. >> that's right. they did.

well, i'll say i'll put it this way. they had so far been trying to say that all of these federal workers, many federal workers, were going to be given that option to go on paid leave. and really, up until this week, all of the layoffs or so-called layoffs, i should say that we've seen have been for paid administrative leave. this is different. these are firings. and we did report last week that they were expected, but they are really beginning to come in huge numbers across all of the federal government. now, you mentioned some of the agencies we know, as you said, at the department of veterans affairs, but we also know the department of education, the department of energy, the small business administration, all of them also, in addition to other agencies really facing this same problem. now, the new reporting we have is who was targeted in this recent, you know, round of layoffs. and it was mainly probationary federal workers, essentially those who have been in their jobs for less than a year or less than two years. in some cases, if we pull up the data, it's about 200,000 people who have been in their federal

government jobs for about less than a year. that's according to the data from the office of personnel management, which is under the white house. but look, one thing that's been interesting about this is this whole talk of probationary or not, we know there was actually guidance that was issued by opm. like i said, a white house agency that was actually warning that different agencies didn't actually have to or wouldn't be required to actually fire all of these probationary employees. instead, they were arguing it would be based on their performance. but that's not exactly how we are seeing it play out. i'm going to read you just some of the statement we got from an opm spokesperson. they said, quote, agencies are taking independent action in light of the recent hiring freeze and in support of the president's broader efforts to restructure and streamline the federal government to better serve the american people at the highest possible standard. now, one thing that was also interesting, kate, is just from talking to our sources who have either been impacted by this or are seeing these happen in real time at their agencies, we are learning that these firings are

happening by email from their managers, but some of them are being group are fired by group on some of these video calls. one just one example is that opm employees said that they were fired as part of a more than 100 person microsoft teams call. just to give you some insight in how this is actually playing out inside these agencies. now, another thing, of course, is where do the unions come in at all of this? we know that the unions are arguing that they're going to fight this at every legal avenue available to them. one, the president of afge, the american federation of government employees, they said that these employees were given no notice, no due process, no opportunity to defend themselves. so there could be some legal challenges like we've seen with some of these other recent moves by the trump administration to push back on this. but all to say, we are starting to really see these layoffs hit all different parts of government. from my conversations with trump administration officials, this is just the beginning. we are expecting to see more of these. kate. >> yeah, projected that it was going to happen, saying it was coming, and now it is setting in

and it is just the beginning. elena, thank you so much for your reporting, john. >> okay. this morning, questions over what some see as overt politics at play in the justice department. manhattan's top federal prosecutor, danielle sassoon, quit, along with five other senior department officials in washington protesting demands from the department of justice to drop the prosecution on corruption charges against new york city mayor eric adams. now, sassoon's eight page letter not only defends the case, but it really goes on to make new allegations. i'm joined now by shan wu, defense attorney, former federal prosecutor. i'm just going to jump right in to one of the things that danielle sassoon said in her resignation letter. she's talking about the idea of a quid pro quo. eric adams offering help on trump's immigration plans in exchange for putting off the case, she wrote, rather than be rewarded, adams advocacy should be called out for what it is an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case. although mr. bové and he is the justice

department official involved here, disclaimed any intention to exchange leniency in this case for adams assistance in enforcing the law. that is the nature of the bargain laid bare in mr. bové's memo. she is basically saying there were like quid pro quo discussions here, and the justice department was part of it. chan. >> yeah. and i think, john, the really. >> disturbing part of it is. >> really on the receiving end. >> of that offer. >> so adams attorneys. >> are, of course, going to dispute that there's some sort of corrupt motive. they're just trying to pitch things for their client, and there's a little bit of a question as to what is the thing of value that they'd be offering under this sort of bribery type notion here. but what's really disturbing is the reaction of doj, uh, for example, the idea that, as miss sassoon also notes that both borrowed any note taking, uh, during that session and then actually collected the notes

like a, you know, schoolteacher collecting, you know, drawings from kids, it's quite obvious that it looks as though he wants to suppress any record of that exchange. uh, and it is very inappropriate. uh, don't know if it rises to the level of criminality. obviously. it's kind of a moot point. and steele j would determine that. uh, but it's very inappropriate for the department to engage in that kind of overt political bargaining. >> yeah, that's the thing. i'm not suggesting this would be a new charge levied against eric adams or anyone for that matter. but the fact that it's happening at all, and the fact that danielle sassoon is mentioning it in her resignation letter is notable, maybe even more notable is the response from justice department attorney emil bove, who, we should note was a donald trump defense lawyer who lost in in new york city, uh, in the in the in the hush money case here. he just went after sassoon. he said, quote, in no valid sense. do you uphold the constitution by disobeying direct orders, implementing the policy of a

duly elected president and anyone romanticizing that behavior does a disservice to the nature of this work in the public's perception of our efforts. basically, what sassoon and many others in this position say is, you know, our job is to uphold the constitution. is he saying, no, your job is to do what the president says. >> yes. i think that's exactly what he's saying. and, you know, on a technical level, i mean, he calls her insubordinate in this remarkably personal attack. uh, his letter responding to her that he says, you're being insubordinate. you have to follow orders. you know, he's technically right. i mean, she's saying i'm going to resign if you don't change your orders. uh, but it's quite heroic, actually, what she's doing. and you know that remark he makes, like, you know, no one should romanticize what you're doing. it's obvious he's worried about her really becoming kind of lionized for having taken this stand. and i think it's all the more important that she not only is she a conservative person politically, and she's appointed by the trump

administration to be interim, but she's a career prosecutor. uh, you know, the analogies to the watergate era saturday night massacre. they're correct. but those were two high level people. the attorney general there, the deputy attorney general. these are career people, including the head of public corruption and the head of the criminal division. taking this stand to resign rather than do something that is against their conscience. >> she's got a rock solid conservative credentials, a member of the federal society clerked for scalia. just one last question here. the judge in this case, what's the discretion of the judge now overseeing this case, especially given how much odd has gone on here? >> the judge actually has a lot of discretion. the judge could refuse to accept the dismissal. i mean, theoretically, the judge could even appoint appoint like a judicial special prosecutor to take it over. highly unlikely. i mean, if doj is not behind it, it's really dead in the water. but importantly, the judge can call the doj officials on the

carpet to explain why are you dismissing this? i need some basis for this. and that obviously could be a very embarrassing, damaging situation for doj. >> chan woo, nice to talk to you this morning. thanks very much. >> kate chan. you're following more breaking news out of munich, germany now, where vice president jd vance just spoke and he is also set to meet with ukrainian president zelenskyy just in a few hours. zelenskyy moments ago now citing ukrainian intelligence, says russia is preparing to attack a nato country as soon as next year. now, vice president vance was speaking this morning and in his remarks did not clarify or really even address the comments, that it's getting a lot of attention. when he spoke to the wall street journal about the options that the trump administration is or is not considering in order to bring an end to russia's war in ukraine. the vice president, pointing to both military and financial options as tools of leverage. if russia is not negotiating in

good faith. cnn's nick paton walsh is back with us. every time you go off camera, there is a new statement that we need to add to this conversation. now, hearing this from president zelenskyy about what he's hearing from ukrainian intelligence, the threat that nato faces now from russia, he says. but add it all up, nick. what are we learning today? >> yeah, i think, in short, we're learning that there is certainly not a cohesive plan in the trump administration that all of its officials are reading from. it seems to be morphing constantly. let's go to president volodymyr zelenskyy's comments. first about an attack on a nato member. look, we don't know what he's basing that on. and essentially it is a prediction based on the widely held thoughts across europe's nato allies. and frankly, in the biden administration, too, that if russia has a ceasefire, it will simply regroup and rebuild, that it's retooled its economy so much towards the war in ukraine that the idea of it getting what it wants on the eastern part of ukraine and then calling it a day is far fetched. there's a risk to europe's nato

members, particularly maybe in the baltics, on russia's borders, if the united states steps back as a guarantor of european security, exactly what hegseth said that they would do back in brussels on tuesday. whether that still stands or not, we don't entirely know because hegseth has rolled back some of his comments, it seems from brussels to. we know also that zelenskyy is concerned that the united states is trying to put itself in the middle between russia and ukraine. in his words, he wants us to be as it has been for the last three years, on ukraine's side, trying to get russia to agree to things in a peace deal. and we also know that this point, he does not believe trump has a fully formed official plan for peace. we also have been hearing now from jd vance, the vice president, who launched a remarkable policy idea in an interview with wall street journal in which you said he suggested tools of leverage could be both economic and military, essentially holding out the idea. it seemed that u.s. troops in extremists might somehow be on the ground in

ukraine if russia didn't treat peace talks seriously. the polar opposite of what pete hegseth secretary of defense, said in brussels when he said no u.s. troops would go to ukraine, he was talking more about peacekeeping, but frankly, that's a softer version of their deployment anyway, in which the europeans are being asked to do potentially more of the work as well. so the bigger picture here, really, kate, is that we don't really understand exactly what the concrete blocks of the trump administration's policy for peace here is. we know that trump and putin have spoken. we know that since those conversations trump did last night suggest that i'm paraphrasing here that essentially ukraine wanted to join nato, and that's why russia invaded, that's revisionist. that wasn't why russia had a strategic goal in invading unprovoked in 2022. so things are constantly morphing being clarified by trump's own administration. it seems. jd vance talking more a cultural war in the speech he just gave in munich. and this all plays into putin's hands. he wants the uncertainty. he wants the

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some see musk's approach as unusual. others see it as dangerous and illegal, as he now faces multiple lawsuits. everyone, though, now looking at how musk is using his own social media platform as a tool in his plans to purge the federal government. joining me right now is will oremus. he covers technology for the washington post, and he's been reporting on elon musk for years. will, thanks for coming in. how is elon musk in what you've been tracking? how is he using x to promote and push forward with his government cutting plans? how is he utilizing it as a tool? >> yeah, it's really. >> been key to. >> his strategy. >> so, you know, if you're going to go in and try to take a scalpel to government programs and cut out the waste and the fat in a really careful way, that would take a lot of time. it would take probably a lot of listening. that's not the approach that musk and doge have taken. they're taking a sledgehammer to certain agencies that they target, and in order

to justify that, musk is rallying supporters and putting out talking points on his social media platform x, where he is, of course, the loudest voice with the largest following. and, uh, he what he does is when doge, uh, takes on a new agency, musk will put out, uh, tweets that suggest the agency is fraudulent, that it's criminal, that the people in it are evil, that it's part of a liberal conspiracy. and then a lot of people who rally around musk on x will take up those talking points, amplify them, add to them. and before long, it's it's a whole narrative. >> that gets to something that you wrote that i think is kind of focus helps to frame and focus the conversation which you wrote with musk's u.s. doge service, remaking agencies on the fly x is emerging as musk's own digital mar-a-lago, and i'm wondering what that's going to look like even in, you know, weeks to come.

>> yeah. you know, if you if you want to see most government officials, you you go to their office, if you want to see if you want to see musk, you want to talk to musk, you go to his office and his office is on x, and he has even joked about that. uh, democratic leaders have posted on x saying they demand to hear from musk as to what doge is up to, and he'll respond with an image of himself as the godfather, uh, on x saying, you know, here i am. uh, what can i do for you? um, he's, also made x, a place where conservatives who have a cause that they would like to get onto the trump administration's agenda can reach him. so the the followers who often amplify musk and add to his posts and support his posts, will will also post their own suggestions for what doge should take on next. we've seen musk also use x as a place to solicit public opinion on what he should do next, he said. should doge audit the irs and he ran an x poll. and of course,

most of musk's followers being musk supporters, the answer was a resounding yes. and at the end of the poll, he said, all right, you know, irs is next on doj's list. >> yeah. you know, as one everyone can understand those. the polling on on x, the former twitter not scientific um with no methodology at all. this gets to a key question as he continues with this role, which is transparency and what they think of transparency, because elon musk said has said this week leaning pointing to x that he thinks or at least says that he is being transparent with the doge effort. let me play this. >> well, we. actually are trying. >> to be as transparent. >> as possible. in fact, our actions we post our actions to the doge handle on x. and to the doge website. so all of our actions are maximally transparent. in fact, i don't think there's been i don't know

of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the doge organization. >> a lot of people, if they're being candid, are very skeptical of the definition of transparent that he is using. i mean, do you see any evidence that he is being transparent? >> it's a certain type of transparency. um, i was talking to, uh, the open government advocate, alex howard, who called it weaponized transparency. so you you offer transparency into the things that you want the public to know. sometimes, arguably too much transparency. uh, you know, putting out there things that haven't been vetted or fact checked. there was an example yesterday where, uh, musk seemed to be upset about reporting that the news agency reuters did, and he said, let's look into what funding reuters gets from the government. and again, he has a circle of people who follow him and back him up on x, and they started digging into it, and one of them posted a screenshot of a government contract between

reuters and the department of defense. the scope of work said it was for large scale social deception, so musk seized on that and said, look, the government is paying reuters to perpetrate large scale social deception. what a scam. this is incredible. well, the contract was real, but what was actually being paid for was a different branch of reuters that doesn't do journalism, that does data analysis. and what they were doing was looking for evidence of large scale social deception and highlighting that so that the dod could understand when there were influence campaigns. many people have pointed this out to musk that he had it totally wrong. uh, there's there are community notes, which are these crowdsourced fact checks that are proposed on x but have not been shown on x, and he has only doubled down on it. so either he's not listening or he doesn't seem to care that he has mischaracterized this contract. >> and that is not the first example of having like maybe a syllable accurate in what you're looking at. and then the rest of

the detail, which is just completely factually inaccurate, then saying he'll be wrong sometimes and he'll correct it, but we don't see that it's like slash first and then clean up the mess later. but let's see what happens and what starring role he continues to play. well, thanks so much for coming on. still ahead for us it's valentine's day. just a heads up in case you forgot. but vendors in l.a. in l.a .'s flower district say immigration raids are keeping shoppers away and shrinking sales. also, eagles fans flooding the streets in philadelphia this morning as the super bowl victory parade gets ready to roll. >> like a relentless weed. moderate to severe ulcerative colitis symptoms can keep coming back. start to break away from uc with tremfya with rapid relief at four weeks, tremfya blocks a key source of inflammation at one year, many people experienced remission and

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>> it is valentine's day, one of the biggest days of the year for lovers, but also flower vendors across the country. the president's immigration crackdown is casting something of a shadow for them. cnn's julia vargas jones is live in los angeles at one of the the biggest flower exchanges in the country. julia. >> the biggest flower market in the country. john. actually, and we are feeling that. we're hearing from vendors here that there has been a lull. it's been very slow today. they're hoping that this bump from valentine's day will help them make up for the loss in sales. we did speak to the president of the farmers of the flower market here. take a listen to what he had to say about this. oh i apologize. well, i'll tell you, john, what he told us. he told us that basically the fear of

immigration raids, the potential actions happening here in los angeles has driven vendors to actually buy less products. so there is fewer roses, for example, and specific kinds of roses here in los angeles for sale today, because vendors were fearful that there wouldn't be enough people. now, this flower market here, it doesn't just serve people like you and me who are coming here to buy their dozen roses for their valentines. it also serves a lot of people who will come here to buy and sell these. we sell them around los angeles throughout downtown los angeles. this is a heavily immigrant community, and we heard from vendors here, from the administrators here, that this is an immigrant powered operation. so, of course, that the fear of immigration actions happening here in los angeles is affecting them. another issue that's in the minds of flower vendors and wholesalers and

sellers here is the potential for tariffs. the majority of these flowers, they're coming from south america. they're also coming from canada, but they're coming from mexico, from colombia. it countries that have seen threats of their tariffs from the trump administration. they're saying that if there is any kind of economic impact, this place, which moves around $1.1 billion annually in the six block radius, this would be heavily impacted. and it's not just the sales, john. it's the jobs of the people that work here. and they have been here for over 30 years. >> ripple effects, to say the least. julia vargas jones thank you so much for your reporting on this, kate. >> also this morning, parts of southern california are cleaning up after a storm brought heavy rain and flooding to an area still reeling from those devastating wildfires last month. we're going to show you some time lapse video showing just how bad the mudflow can get sliding down a hill, flooding the area below. and also, we want to show you this mudslide

and debris sweeping a car, not just sweeping it away, but sweeping it into the ocean in malibu city after city, facing a dangerous mess. >> hey, guys, you got a second one right there? this crew is about to get wiped out down there. oh, right there, right there. get out! get. >> out! i mean, showing how immediate it is and how terrifying it is. just saying. the crew is about to be endangered. my goodness. a flood watch is still in effect for some in the area. let's go over to cnn's allison chinchar tracking all of this. that video really shows how quickly it can go from just watching it to a very, very dangerous situation. and also it doesn't take. much rain. i think that's the. >> key thing. a lot of these areas got between 2. >> to 6in. >> of rain. >> and you think those numbers can possibly. >> cause this, but it can. especially when it comes down in a very. >> short period of time. and for. >> some of these areas, that's

exactly what happened. so it takes not only the water, but a lot of the mud and the debris and just spreads it all over these roads, streets and even into the neighborhoods. it is still raining right now across california, not just southern california, but central and northern california. also still looking at the showers. but this system is going to gradually spread off to the east. so you can see all of that moisture continuing to spread across the rest of the country, so that by the time we get to saturday, we have the next concern that's developed and that's going to be severe storms across the southeast, and not to mention the potential for very heavy flooding across the tennessee and the ohio river valley as we go saturday, but also even into the very early hours of sunday. re'a look at the potential for the severe storms. this does include damaging winds and yes, even some possible tornadoes for places like atlanta, nashville, memphis, back down through shreveport, louisiana. and then the flooding concern also includes the southeast. but you can see the bigger concern stretches farther north from memphis, up through nashville, louisville, and lexington, kentucky. >> all right. so much to keep an eye on. thank you. alison john. >> all right, so the chances of earth being struck by a football

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that could have gone a certain way. a man named adrian went kayaking off the coast of chile last saturday, and he almost died. a humpback whale, literally swallowed. apparently that's disputed. just put in the whale's mouth. but i'm going to say swallowed. the 24 year old. >> got a whole department investigating whether he can say it was swallowed, or just positioned gently in his enclosed mouth, because it's important distinction, apparently, is very important. >> new guidance. it was only for a few moments because the whale said he tasted yucky and spit. adrian back out. adrian's poor father captured the moment on video. they were able to paddle away. adrian is fine and i know you are wondering, what the heck does it feel like to be swallowed by an enormous whale? adrian's take on the whole experience was the following. he's kayaking, and then he didn't know what was happening to him. thought he was going to die. and then suddenly he's back on the surface of the water. and he described the whole thing as slimy. and there we have it for

the day. >> so here's the thing. there's a good chance that maybe this didn't matter at all, because happening now, there is the chance of an asteroid the size of a large building that could slam into the earth, and the chances of it hitting earth are double. double what they used to be. that's according to the european space agency. don't ruin this. the space rock has a 2.2% chance of hitting the planet in 2032. now. >> subtraction. >> do subtraction. others think that's not a lot, but it's literally double what it was according to the previous estimates. with us now is adam frank, professor of astrophysics at the university of rochester. the chances of us getting hit by an asteroid is double. i should also say the author of the book little aliens. professor. the double the chances. little book of aliens. book of little aliens. big book of little aliens. little book of big aliens. it's all there. what's going to happen when the asteroid hits? professor. >> wait. can we go back to the whale? that was amazing. >> thank you. adam. thank you.

thank you so much. >> exactly. but it doesn't matter, because that's exactly what it's going to look like when the asteroid hits. >> that's right. swallowed by an asteroid. first of all, uh, um. >> happy valentine's day. >> to everybody. um. >> so this asteroid, you know, space is full of this. these asteroids, these are construction debris left over from the assembly of the solar system. and we've been mapping them for a while. and when we find new ones, we don't really quite know their orbits. so, you know, we do our best to understand them, and we do our best to project what's going to happen. this one has a small probability of hitting earth. it was 1%. now it's up to 2%. but that's only because we're just figuring out its motion through space. so as time goes on, we're going to get better data. and if you look to the past, that number is going to actually go down. so this is not the asteroid of death. but sooner or later there will be an asteroid of death, which is why we're

doing this mapping of the solar system. >> at what point does one become concerned that we have we are about to encounter the asteroid of death. like what percentage is enough that we should start panicking? >> yeah, well, that, uh, is exactly why nasa and the european space agency are doing this kind of detailed mapping. we only know about 7 to 20% of the this size asteroid, what we would call city killers. um, we've only been able to find, you know, somewhere between 7 and 20% of those. so once we have them all mapped out and we really understand their orbits, at some point we may find one that has a high enough probability that we really should be worried. and then, you know, once you start getting to 20, 30, 40%, then you've got to you've really got to start worrying about it. but that, you know, we're not even close to that now. so i don't think anybody should be losing sleep. we have bigger problems right

now than this asteroid. >> and but when you do start worrying about it, is that when you put the two shuttles on the launch pad with ben affleck and bruce willis. i mean, what does this knowledge do? >> they've done. do they do, like, evasive maneuvers now? right. >> what do you what do you do when the asteroid is coming? >> well, you know, one of the things nasa is doing is studying how you might be able to divert an asteroid. so, like, two years ago, we did this project where nasa fired a satellite at two asteroids orbiting each other and hit one of the asteroids to see whether or not the orbit could be deflected a little bit. and it was successful. so we actually now know that there is the possibility, if we got there soon enough, that we might be able to just push the asteroid a little bit off. um, so this is the future of the science that we have to do for this is really work out whether or not this kind of method could work. be ready to have, you know, missions ready to launch if we found something like this. and i want to point out this is why you have science. it's amazing. you know, the dinosaurs didn't

have this. um, that's why they're gone. um, that that we can do this, and it requires funding science over long periods of time. so you can figure this kind of thing out. >> i didn't think you'd be dunking on the dinosaurs, but i really do appreciate that, adam. >> frank. but also highlighting the importance of science and potentially funding science for years to come. adam, thank you so much. want to go to philadelphia? let's do it. let's do it. philadelphia. live pictures of philly right now. they're hanging. they are worried about an asteroid. no, they are not. they are getting ready for a parade. the eagles super bowl, super bowl parade. it's already a party, and it hasn't even begun. sandi freeman live with us right now. how fun. how much fun is it, danny? >> listen, if an asteroid came down to philadelphia right now, we would welcome them into the party. that's how good philadelphia is feeling right now. >> you would have. >> booed it. it's always sunny in philadelphia, especially.

today. >> because. >> because the. >> birds are philadelphia. champions. you guys. look at this right here. we got we got probably about millions of people here on the park right now, the ben franklin parkway. we're ready for this parade to start in just a little bit over an hour. we're ready for jalen hurts. we're ready for saquon barkley. we got sherri. >> right here. >> sherri. where'd you come from this morning bethlehem. how excited are you to see the birds today. >> i'm so excited. >> i can't. >> even tell you. >> now what does it mean to you to see the birds win their second super bowl in only a couple of years? >> it's phenomenal. i couldn't be. >> more proud of the birds. >> they did it. i'm so proud of them. that's wonderful. >> sherri. >> describe the environment out here for me. >> what's it feel like? >> insane. this is really the coolest day ever. >> what was your favorite part of the. >> super bowl on sunday? >> oh, when the confetti. came down, that was when it really hit that we did it again, so that was great. >> sherri, thank you so much. i'm excited, you guys. >> this is. >> philadelphia right here. this is the spirit. we're ready to celebrate. parade starts at 11. but this party is going well

into the night. john. kate, go. birds from philly. >> i feel like he should interview himself. i'm danny freeman here with eagles fan danny freeman. what do you think of the eagles winning? i think it's really great. what do you think? i mean. >> yeah i want i want to do any reporting. >> i get enough buffalo bills. >> oh 56 don't. >> go propaganda from harry enten enough patriots propaganda from john. it's time for the birds to get their say. >> birds are having their say, and i want any assignment i get to ask the question. how excited. are you? >> it's the best. >> all right, you have fun with that. we'll be watching. well, we've got an amazing picture from the sky. the bird's eye view, if you will. haha! >> it was awesome. thank you all so much for joining us. happy valentine's day. cnn newsroom. >> asteroids and. >> eagles and love. >> and love. that was every single person took. cookbooks, corporate. fat cats. >> swindling socialites.

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