might very well be in my home district. you've heard from some republican senators. >> yeah. i mean, there's a you know, there's a medical research stuff in alabama where people are freaking out about the cuts to all of that. um, i do think it's funny, though, because this goes this is sort of like the shutdown fights we get in washington every too often. um, it is there are all these stories saying americans will the backlash will come when they close down the national parks. there's a cautionary tale there for republicans, and we've all made it. and i understand it. there's a cautionary tale for democrats there. if americans don't notice, the federal government is being slashed until it affects the national parks. it means the government is doing a lot of things that americans aren't paying any attention to at all. >> and that's and there will be some cuts, frankly, that that american people welcome. uh, thanks so much to all of you for joining me this morning. i'll buy your coffee. thanks to all of you for joining us. i'm jim sciutto, cnn news central starts right now.

>> living in a disinformation space. president zelenskyy isn't mincing his words after president trump uses russian. talking points and falsely accuses. ukraine of starting the war with russia. >> power, like no president. >> has ever. >> seen. president trump signs a new executive order. >> trying to seize. >> control of agencies and parts of government created by congress, created to be independent. >> and talk. >> about being in the right place at the right time. a fiery crash on an arizona highway leads to a stunning rescue, all caught on camera. i'm kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner. this is cnn news center. all right, the breaking news, some of the breaking news we're following this morning.

ukraine's president zelenskyy speaking to reporters in kyiv, saying that president trump is living in a, quote, disinformation space. this is after zelenskyy became aware, of course, that president trump falsely blamed ukraine for starting the war with russia. >> i think i have the power to end this war, and i think it's going very well. but today i heard, oh, well, we weren't invited. well, you've been there for three years. you should have ended it three years. you should have never started it. you could have made a deal. >> let's get over to let's get to kyiv. cnn's nick paton walsh is standing by. nick, talk to me about what we're hearing from president zelenskyy this morning because he is saying quite a bit. and this what we just heard from one of these things, we just heard from him going to just add to the tension now in these negotiations. >> yeah. i mean, look, it is startling to hear the president of the united states suggest that ukraine started the war. that was an unprovoked invasion

by by russia, long telegraphed by the biden administration. something was about to happen. but it is essentially this narrative that we keep hearing from the head of the white house, which i think is leaving so many here in kyiv deeply concerned. and we heard from president volodymyr zelenskyy himself, describing exactly what he's hearing from trump, blaming some of that on the influence of hungarian slovakian officials. they're pro-russian essentially. here's what he had to say. >> unfortunately, president trump, i have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have great respect for the american people who always support us, unfortunately lives in this disinformation space. >> now, as part of that, interestingly, he referred to the polling numbers that president trump mentioned last night, suggesting that zelenskyy was at 4%. now, that is incredibly low and untrue. zelenskyy went on to challenge that, saying, look, our polling says i have 57% popularity. they say they'll be doing work in

the weeks ahead to show again that that remains the case. elections here exceptionally fraught, frankly, and dangerous in wartime. like this. zelenskyy went on to say that he believes that the saudi arabia summit essentially ended the long isolation of putin, something imposed by the west after the invasion and many events that led up to it as well. and he also said to me in a plea essentially around what security guarantees could look like if the u.s. won't put troops on the ground and wants to pull it back from military assistance. well, he said, look, send us air defense, send us patriot missiles every night. we're being hit around ukraine by russian ballistic missiles. and these are simply days sometimes. and we count the number of missiles we have left to intercept them, and we don't have enough. so a really heartfelt plea here, i think, from a president who is waking up daily and finding the narrative around this war changing in ways that are so massively from a broadly accepted truth. today in kyiv, donald trump's presidential envoy to ukraine and russia,

general keith kellogg, stepped off a train. he's got a three day visit here. i asked him on arrival what his message was. well, he said, look, they're here to listen and they're here to talk about security guarantees as well. but there are big questions here, frankly, in ukraine, about the sustained nature of aid from the united states and exactly where this peace track that primarily has been between the u.s. and russia over the past 72 hours, where that leaves ukraine and where that leaves peace here as well. >> nick paton walsh, thank you so much, john. >> all right. developing this morning, trying to seize more power than any president has ever had, at least in certain areas. the president signed a new executive order trying to take the independent out of independent, giving him more direct authority of agencies created by congress to be, yes, independent. the securities and exchange commission, the federal communications commission, the federal trade commission. under this new order, the white house now says it will review or change agency budgets as necessary to advance the president's policies and

priorities. let's get right to cnn's alayna treene at the white house. this is part of just a bigger move to expand presidential power. >> it is. and it's the latest example, really, of what the president is trying to do to really push the boundaries of what the executive branch and directly his power, really, from the oval office is over a series of federal agencies. but look, this was a sweeping order that the president signed in florida yesterday, really directing a lot of these independent regulatory agencies to now move under the direct control of the white house. it's also something, though, john, that is likely to face a series of legal challenges, like a lot of the other executive orders we know the president has signed since taking office. now, the order suggests that the president's power expands to direct control over the nation's. you know, communications, financial, trade, regulatory agencies. again, all agencies that congress designed to be

independent of the executive branch. some of these agencies, you tick through some of them, but i'm going to read them again for you, includes the federal trade commission, the federal communications commission, and the securities and exchange commission. now, some context on these as well. we know that a lot of these agencies were created and designed to protect american consumers. we know, you know, they regulate big banks, they regulate stocks. they also can have fines on different companies, media fines, for example. so a very broad power that these different agencies have. and again they've all operated independently as part of something that congress and donald trump's previous predecessors have designed them to be. now, all of this again, is really been the latest push in a broader effort by the president and his trump administration to really broaden and centralize the power of the executive branch. this is something that the president kind of addressed when discussing this executive order yesterday. take a listen. thanks. >> don't forget, i got elected on the basis of making our

government stronger and smaller because we have millions of people that obviously they're paying millions of people that shouldn't be paid. >> just quickly here to john, one really interesting part of all of this is where russell vought, donald trump's budget director, but also a key architect of project 2025, comes into this. essentially, this order would direct, uh russell vought to have broad supervising power over these different independent agencies. it also would give him power to. withhold funding for any projects or initiatives that conflict with trump's policies and priorities. so, again, a massive change here and one that could potentially set up a supreme court fight over this, that could ultimately, if donald trump's administration is successful, give him far more sweeping powers than we've seen. presidents before him have. >> john alayna treene, the effort is quite clear. thank you so much for your reporting, sara. >> all right. president trump

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doj's access to federal data, as musk and his team slash agencies and fire thousands of employees. it is abundantly clear that president trump is loving what doge is doing. he praised his billionaire buddy in a joint interview with fox news. take a listen. >> you write a beautiful executive and you sign it, and you assume it's going to be done, but it's not. what he does is he takes it. and with his 100 geniuses, he's got some very brilliant young people working for him that dress much worse than him, actually. they dress in just t-shirts. >> you wouldn't. >> you wouldn't know. they have 188. >> wait a minute. >> so he's he's your tech support? >> no, no, he. >> is actually. >> but he's much more than that. >> i actually am tech support though. >> but he gets it done. he's a leader. yeah, he really is. he gets it done. >> it was a love fest with a backhanded compliment. cnn's katelyn polantz is with me now. this gave us a real look into how trump feels about doge and about musk at this point in time. >> it does. sarah, one of the things that.

>> is so striking. >> about this. >> is that people. >> really are having. >> a hard time. >> even though trump. >> is out. >> there talking about doge and musk. musk is appearing in. >> the. >> oval office. >> people are. >> having a. >> hard time understanding what doge is and what doge does, especially in the. legal context. so you're seeing right now not just. >> judge tanya chutkan. >> that judge very much loathed by trump, who had presided over his criminal case in washington, d.c. now she's saying, i can't step in right now to curtail the work that doge is doing at agencies accessing data systems, potentially being involved in hiring decisions or personnel decisions across the government. she can't do it because nobody has enough information to show that they have imminent, irreparable harm. it is hard to get a court to step in at an early stage and parse something the executive branch is doing. and so that's why you're seeing judges like judge chutkan say, i have to stay hands off at this point. by my count, she's the

fourth judge in washington, d.c. to not step in on a temporary basis like this to curtail doj's work. either work with computer systems or other work they're doing, accessing data at agencies. but judge chutkan does have some strong words for the lawyers from the justice department representing the administration. she is saying in this case, when she is ruling that she can't block things, she is saying that the court is aware that doj's unpredictable actions have resulted in considerable uncertainty and confusion for plaintiffs and many of their agencies and residents. it remains uncertain when and how the catalog of state programs that plaintiffs identify will suffer. so this is a case brought by several attorneys general in various states against doge trying to limit elon musk's role and responsibility and abilities in the federal government. judge chutkan says it's possible they

have a pretty good case. it's just something that she can't work with right now in court. but she also said something very important. sarah. she told the justice department lawyers they have to be careful what they represent to her. we've seen lawyers from the justice department scrambling to nail down the language on exactly what doge is when they're trying to explain it in court. and she had to remind these lawyers that they must be truthful in her order yesterday. >> all right, katelyn polantz, thank you so much for the reporting there, john. >> all right. here are some quotes. time for him to go. eric adams is a traitor. 100% compromise. that's what some new yorkers told the times. as the fate of new york city mayor eric adams hangs in the balance, and a setback for america in the area of defense. defense compromised. >> i don't know. >> if there's going to be three fights off the start. i mean, we'll see how it, you know, gets going, but i'm sure the intensity will be the same. the passion will be the same.

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that's still the case for donald trump after this decision. >> well, first of. >> all. >> it's a good decision. it's amazing to me that donald trump has to go to court to fight off attempts to keep the duly elected president and his appointees from having access to the federal government. i mean, this is, after all, the people that we elected to run the country, and they have to go into court and fight to run the country. i mean, it sounds crazy. so i think it was a the only decision she could make because it's patently ridiculous. when democrat attorneys general go to partisan judges or any judges for that matter, and try to stop the duly elected government from operating, that's number one. number two, this effort is nothing more than an attempt to control the federal bureaucracy and restore some political oversight to the federal government. that is all they are trying to do. so ultimately, i think people are happy with it, and i think they're finding some things that, uh, need to be uncovered. and the more that they're transparent about that, and the more they put that information out to the american people, the more popular it's going to become. >> but do you still think he thinks she's the most evil

person? >> i don't know. i mean, how can you make it? i mean, i don't know what i don't know what kind of person she is. i never met her. and i try not to cast aspersions on people. i don't know, but i know this. how can you make any other decision than the one that she made? he's the president. these are his appointees going into the federal agencies that they were elected to run. so what does it matter what he said as a matter of a political statement before? as long as the result here is they get to run the federal government, just like the people asked for. >> her decision. another blow to democrats trying to stop the way that doge is doing business. but democrats have been in the past for a long time saying that the federal government is too bloated. what do you make of what's happening here? >> no, i mean, i think that the actions that you saw by these democratic attorneys generals were the. >> simple fact that. >> you. don't have any. >> oversight with these employees. >> of doge that you don't have the the guardrails that are normally in place when you have government employees. this take for example, we don't have any financial disclosures to talk

about the conflict of interest of someone like elon musk, who is going in and just dissembling federal agencies that either one, he has a vested interest in, a financial interest in, or two were investigating him. and so when you look at those clear conflicts and not having financial disclosures, that then poses the next question, which is what is he doing with the information he ascertains what is he doing with the data that he gets? is he using it for his own personal needs or good? i mean, we don't have those answers because they don't have those disclosures. we don't know the conflicts, and we don't have the oversight. judge chutkan and i chuckled a little bit over here when scott, uh, stumbled over partisan judges. no one's fishing for partisan judges. she's an amazing jurist. she's one of the brightest jurists we have on any bench in america. and so for trump to cast aspersions on her, not my friend scott, but for trump to do so simply because she was ruling over, uh, his criminal proceeding. she is actually feeding them out of the same

spoon of justice, she said, and found like like scott said, that there was no legal ground for this, uh, impediment to go forward, but for trump to call her names when he, she was giving him justice in the criminal proceedings. not fair. the second thing i have to point out really quickly, sara, is this doge is incompetent. whether or not you're talking about firing individuals who are over our nuclear arsenal or firing those regulators who are in charge of controlling the avian bird flu, we've seen nothing but incompetence from doge. and so while the judge may not be able to stop them, the utter incompetence of these 20 somethings running around in federal government with no experience firing people, they should not, the american people will stop them eventually. >> all right, zelenskyy says donald trump is unfortunately living in and these are his words, a disinformation space. and trump is using russian talking points, blaming ukraine for starting the war with russia when it was russia that invaded ukraine unprovoked. scott, the president of ukraine, is basically saying the president of the united states doesn't

know what the truth is. it's quite a statement. what do you make of it? >> yeah. well, first of all, um, i think what everybody wants is the war to end and for the killing to end and for us to have some peace in europe. that's number one. number two, i do think ukraine needs to be at the table for whatever peace talks occur. i think that's vital. uh, and i heard secretary of defense hegseth say that the end goal for the united states is for ukraine to be free and prosperous. i take him at his word. and for that to be the case, they have to be at the table. number three, i agree with you. russia did invade ukraine, uh, here. and they are, you know, ultimately on the geopolitical stage, they're the bad guy. and i think we should all understand that. so as this unfolds, i'm not going to prejudge the outcome here. but i do also take donald trump and his people at their word, which is that they've been handed this mess. the war didn't start on their watch, but they would like for it to end on their watch because they think a peaceful solution to this and a peaceful europe is better for the world at large. it's better for all of our economies, it's

better for our security. and if they can get there, uh, ultimately, in a way that allows ukraine to remain free and prosperous, that's the statement the administration, i think that will be a great thing. >> bakari, what do you make of this? uh, these comments by zelenskyy are pretty stark. >> yeah. i mean, i question the leadership we have when you have pete, who goes out there in his first foray into the world stage and makes one of the biggest gaffes we've seen of any defense secretary by simply coming out and saying that, uh, ukraine won't have a spot in nato that's not on the table, even prior to discussions are being had. i think even republicans have castigated hesketh for that. uh, kind of i mean, that just elementary error that he made. and so it shakes our faith. i do agree with scott on on one ukraine. excuse me, russia is definitely the aggressor here. uh, they are the bad guy on the world stage. i agree with scott on two. ukraine has to be at the table. you can't have discussions without that. but three i do question the motives. i question the experience. i question the

intellect of donald trump and his team. because you can't go out here and simply give russia, uh, the territory they want. you can't prevent ukraine from joining nato and allow russia to do nothing. so, uh, wait and see. we'll see what happens. >> we have a little bit of an agreement, which is a shocker on this wednesday, scott jennings, bakari sellers, thank you. >> both so much time. we agree before lunch. >> excellent. i like it i like a little agreement. it's nice. all right. thank you gentlemen. okay. >> today, the case of the new york city mayor eric adams will be before a judge. this time, a federal judge will consider the justice department's directive to dismiss the corruption charges against him, a move that had the top prosecutor on that case accusing adams and the trump administration of a quid pro quo. this will be also the first public meeting on this since seven federal prosecutors resigned in protest over the doj's move, and four deputies to mayor adams resigned as well. and it comes just after new york

governor kathy hochul convened a meeting with democratic leaders yesterday to discuss whether she should take the extraordinary move of removing adams from office herself. joining us right now is donovan richards, the queensborough president and one of the leaders who met with the governor yesterday on this very issue. thank you so much for coming on this morning. what is your takeaway from your conversation and your meeting with governor hochul? is she leaning towards removing eric adams or not? >> well, good morning, caitlin. and today is really a defining moment, uh, for eric adams. >> mayor adams. >> uh, 2:00, obviously, he's going to go before judge hoe and the doj. >> and really. >> the conversation yesterday was centered on how do we make sure that we have a new york city that is actually functioning? uh, right now, it feels like a lot of chaos and controversy. and we need a city that's really functioning because people are hurting out there. in light of a lot of these initiatives, the trump

administration is bringing down the line, whether it's targeting the di, whether it is, uh, the attacks against public education or even clawing back money that was meant for new york city to address the migrant crisis that we encountered, uh, over the course of the last two years. >> but in your conversation with the governor, did you do you have an inkling of where where, how she is leaning or if she was gave a timeline of when she will decide? >> well, i think today is a defining moment once again for for mayor adams, this court case is going to determine a lot. uh, within the democratic party. i think i've heard minority leader hakeem jeffries, uh, say the same exact thing. and then, you know, obviously she wanted to hear from leaders such as myself who represent areas that, uh, mayor adams particularly has done relatively well in southeast queens, uh, central brooklyn. you know, it's not easy to unilaterally remove the

second african american mayor. uh, so if she's going to do that, she definitely will need the support of individuals such as myself, um, who don't take this lightly as well and want to see this case resolved. >> um, other leaders in new york city have come out to say that mayor adams should resign. um, where do you have. i have not heard you say that you believe he should resign. do you think he should resign or be removed? >> well, innocent till proven guilty. mayor adams was not convicted of anything. what i'm watching for is, uh, to see if there are mass resignations in the days to come as well. >> you don't think four deputies are resigning in a mass resignation? >> well, it's definitely troubling. but remember, new york city also operates with, like, 50 commissioners, right? so you still have commissioners in line. you still have 400,000 workers who are showing up daily who are driving the city. so i want to make sure that those commissioners are in line and

they're continuing to work with us. and next week we have a bevy of initiatives that we're rolling out with many of adams administration commissioners. so i can say that the city is still functioning. my job has not gotten harder, but these deputy mayors who many who i know, certainly bring a breadth of knowledge to this, to this business and to our city, and we need to see them replaced immediately. >> i, i heard you say that the mayor needs to send a straightforward message that he has the capacity to govern in the best interest of new, of new yorkers. what could eric adams say? that you could actually trust that he's not, that he is acting in the capacity of the values of new yorkers, and not just acting to stay in the good graces of the trump administration. that's a step that no one has defined yet. what could he say to you that you could trust? >> well, i represent the most diverse county in new york city, queens county, 2.4 million residents. and the mere fact that, um, you know, mayor adams is being paraded around by the

trump water czar home on the couch of fox and friends saying, i'm going to be up your butt. that that specifically was very troubling. the mayor needs to come out and specifically say, we are going to be here to preserve the values and protect immigrants around new york city. you know, my father became a new york, uh, citizen, uh, in 2020. the first election he can vote in was mines. as the borough president of queens, the most diverse county. we need to see, uh, mayor adams doubling down. you know, we've seen memos in the past few weeks that have said, well, well, move aside. if i.c.e. comes into your schools and comes into your houses of worship, that is totally unacceptable. and we need to hear the mayor come out with a clear message that we will not allow our values to be challenged by the trump administration. >> what's the timeline like? what's the timeline on when you'll accept that? or you're going to call for him to step aside? >> well, today is, like i said, is a defining day for myself. and i know many other leaders

are watching very closely today. um, and of course, it's not about your words. it's about your deeds. and he needs to double down and funding and making sure that all the essential services that are there to support immigrant communities. >> donovan richards, the queens borough president, thank you so much for coming in. look forward to hearing your thoughts after today, john. >> all right. we're just learning a major developments from ukraine. president zelenskyy lashes back at president trump, who accused ukraine of starting the war against russia. that one where russia invaded and then life threatening record cold hitting a large swath of the country 50 degrees below normal. that is cold.

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morning jolt of instant cooling sensation. it's comeback season. it's the news. >> welcome back. >> but it's also kind of not the news. >> we don't fact check here. we don't care, man. >> wants all the information on this show. so terrible. >> have i got news for you saturday at nine on cnn. >> i'm pete muntean at reagan. national airport. this is cnn. >> since taking office almost exactly one month ago, president trump has made clear he is moving full steam ahead with his interpretation of presidential powers. and to do so, he is leaning on the supreme court's decision last year that granted him broad immunity from criminal prosecution. is this now something of a blank check? cnn is new reporting on this. president trump's legal team and the justice department have cited that supreme court decision. now, in several major filings to justify their moves. cnn's jim biskupic has all of this and new analysis on this for us. joan. good morning. what are you finding?

>> good morning kate. yes, he is taking a very muscular approach across the board and using as sort of a tool in all this the supreme court's decision from last year. we now have this week before the supreme court. the first test of the trump agenda. it involves his effort to file the head of a watchdog agency. and as he claims, that he should be able to fire a biden appointee who supposedly has a five year term. and he was just appointed last year. donald trump is picking up the immunity decision from last year. last summer, as you remember, that was the case where the justices gave donald trump presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for his election subversion case. it was a criminal case. but the president now is trying to use that ruling to enhance his powers across the board. and in this firing dispute, he is saying that

essentially he can sideline congress and the courts. here is part of what he picked up from that ruling last year to make his case right now before the court. he says, as the court observed just last term, congress cannot act on and the courts cannot examine the president's actions on subjects within his conclusive and exclusive constitutional authority, including the president's unrestricted power of removal with respect to executive officers of the united states, whom the president has appointed. now, trump's actions here in court, kate, are parallel to what he's been doing in the oval office, signing scores of executive orders, making all sorts of claims about his power. the kind of consolidated power of the executive branch, as i say, kind of shoving out the other two branches. and it is part and parcel with another line. we heard from him just this weekend

when he asserted, he who saves the country does not violate any law. i think that that goes to show just how president trump is trying to flex his muscle and trying to use past this past landmark from the supreme court to do it, to amass more power to the exclusion of congress and even the courts themselves. kate. >> yeah, also seems to be also triggering more cases that will likely be heading straight back to the supreme court. it's good to see you, joan. thank you very much. as always, john. >> all right. breaking this morning, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy pushing back against president trump really in the strongest terms he has used. >> unfortunately president trump i have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have great respect for the american people who always support us, unfortunately lives in this disinformation space. >> president trump lives in this

disinformation space. this comes after president trump tried to kind of rewrite history, blaming zelenskyy for russia invading ukraine. with us now is gabe amo, democratic congressman from the state of rhode island. he's the vice ranking member of the house committee on foreign affairs. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. do you agree with president zelenskyy and how wise is it, do you think, for him to be so critical of president trump? >> well. >> first off, thanks for having me, john. look, i think president zelenskyy is accurate. and even beyond that, president trump is not only living in a disinformation space, he is governing, advancing and growing. this a historical version of reality where he is blaming ukrainians for their plight, blaming them for russia's invasion. and i think

it's it it's incumbent on us to speak truth. and so i agree with president zelenskyy's goal in advancing that and setting the terms here, that donald trump's weakness relative to vladimir putin should not be something that changes and rewrites history. >> let's listen to what president trump said. one of the things he said that president zelenskyy might be referring to as misinformation. listen. >> i think i have the power to end this war. and i think it's going very well. but today i heard, oh, well, we weren't invited. well, you've been there for three years. you should have ended it three years. you should have never started it. you could have made a deal. >> you should have never started it, he said of ukraine. congressman. >> well, we are all witness to history. we know that's false. this is the typical rhetoric of donald trump. lies. and frankly, a disgraceful betrayal of an ally, an ally who we have

supported. you heard senator roger wicker, chairman of the armed services committee, say very clearly that vladimir putin is a war criminal. there is a bipartisan agreement in congress. when i talk to my colleagues on the foreign affairs committee throughout congress that we should not acquiesce to putin's demands. yet donald trump again demonstrates weakness. and at the end of the day, this is a betrayal of our allies. we're leaving europe alone. in addition to ukraine, we need ukraine at the table, and we need this to be an actual negotiation. if that is what is going to resolve this conflict. >> i want to read you a line written by peter baker in the new york times today. peter baker writes, quote, for more than a decade, the west has faced off against the east again in what was widely called a new cold war. but with president trump back in office, america is giving the impression that it could be switching sides. what

do you think of that? the idea that the u.s. is switching sides in this cold war. >> well, look, that is a real questioning of our values. and that is only the case because of donald trump's failed leadership. and just 30 days, he has turned his back on those who we have been linked with in setting forth an agenda of freedom and democracy in this world. and so i hope that the better angels speak to the president, secretary rubio, and those around the table to bring in ukraine, to bring in our european allies so that we can have, uh, the alliance that we deserve, not an allegiance with vladimir putin and his aggression. >> do you think secretary rubio agrees with president trump that ukraine started the war? >> look, i've seen a lot of what secretary rubio has said before.

and, you know, i think sometimes things change when people get a new title. and all i can say is, i would hope that some of his past rhetoric about needing to stand up to russia actually reflects itself in what we see at the table in the coming weeks. >> congressman gabe amo, the pride of pawtucket, rhode island. i miss mccoy stadium. thanks so much for being with us this morning. appreciate your time. sara. thank you. >> all right. the ultimate case of being in the right place at the right time. a fiery crash leading to a stunning rescue. all of it caught on a police officer's body camera in mesa, arizona. >> here, here, here. >> get out of the way! get out of the way! >> and i hit it two more times

and it broke. >> that was officer brian larson there with his baton, jumping into action after a cement truck slammed into an suv, causing fire to erupt with the driver of that suv still trapped inside. an off duty firefighter then steps in to pull the woman from her car. >> the thought. >> of. >> a human life. perishing by flame. you know, it's just i you know, i was just like, i'm not going to let this happen. she clung to me on the side of the road, and i just held her, and i just told her i had her. >> sweet. the pickup truck's driver, by the way. sustained. just moderate injuries. after all that, she is expected to be okay. and investigation, of course, into that crash is underway. all right. also on our radar this morning, rapper asap rocky found not guilty of two felony assault charges. his emotional reaction playing out in court. >> not guilty.

>> jardiance. >> you saw him jump there he was jumping over to hug his longtime girlfriend and mother of his two children. superstar rihanna. prosecutors had charged him with firing two gunshots at a former friend in 2021. the rapper eventually thanked the jury for what he said saved his life. and chinese officials are apologizing for failing to make good on their promise of a winter wonderland. visitors were promised snow at a popular tourist attraction in sichuan, china. instead, they found a bit of a mess of cotton wool and foamy water. pictures posted online shows wisps of that cotton. you see it there, scattered on the ground. the roof was blanketed with what looks like a blanket or some sort of bedsheet. officials admitted the cotton did not achieve the expected effect. you know, there are lots of other places to find snow, that's for sure. for us. >> and there's also ways you can create snow, too.

>> true. >> there are. i've seen it at many a ski mountain. but you know what i'm going to say. >> no. >> you do not get an a for effort on this one, i really can't. i was going to try. >> and you were trying to be kind. and i did not let. >> you can not. >> be disappointed. >> exactly. you want to talk about snow? we've got a lot of it over here, though. more than 100 million, 100 million people are under cold weather alerts this morning. temperatures are plunging all over the place and plunging by as much as 50 degrees below normal in parts of the u.s. at least 27 states are now expected to see record lows. cnn's derek van dam tracking all of this for us. um, and derek, conditions. they're getting particularly tough in kentucky right now, which honestly, kentucky needs no more harsh weather for quite some time. >> i didn't think it could get worse. >> but we. >> had warned. >> about this for the past couple of days. >> after this. >> past weekend's flooding. now we're seeing heavy snowfall in some of those. >> same hard. >> impacted areas. here's a look at the roads. >> across portions. of kentuck