the vast majority of parents in the united states understand that vaccines are the safest way to prevent your children from diseases that used to kill kids in the united states. as a practicing emergency physician, i have personally watched the disappearance of diseases as we have developed vaccines. you know, i've been practicing for about 20 years. when i talk to doctors who are a bit older than me, they've seen disappearance of many more diseases thanks to great vaccination. and most parents understand that. unfortunately, about 10 to 20% of parents are vaccine skeptical. i worry that we're going to have to have these kind of outbreaks to get folks to re vaccinate their kids. i do understand those fears. i worry that they've been taken in by folks who are making a lot of money off of spreading lies and distrust. um, i hope that outbreaks like this can help convince folks and and get them to do the research in the real

scientific literature where we show so clearly how safe and effective these vaccines are. >> and it is so sad that it would take something like this an outbreak, a child dying from this outbreak for people to wise up and learn the lessons here. um, but we are here in this moment. that is where we are. it's good to see you, doctor. thank you for coming in. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> cheers. in moscow this morning with the kremlin saying that u.s. foreign policy now aligns with theirs. this as leading democracies scramble to save ukraine. evacuation orders and a state of emergency. more than 175 wildfires burning across the carolinas with new severe weather on the way and first lady melania trump to use her first public remarks of this administration to talk about revenge porn. new details on

what she plans to say. sarah is out. i'm john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn news center. >> so where is president trump leading america next? that is a key question this morning with the nation now waiting to hear him lay out his vision during his first major address before congress. if this new term. one issue, front and center, of course, ukraine and its future as fallout over donald trump and president zelenskyy's oval office blowup deepens. this morning, new messages are coming in from all sides of this. zelenskyy saying that he thinks the u.s. relationship, quote, will continue that message after european leaders embraced, embraced zelenskyy over the weekend and also got together, scrambled to get together to try to do damage control and to chart a course forward here to

end russia's war in ukraine. the british prime minister now saying that europe is prepared to take the lead. he is confident, though he says that america will eventually come around to the plan that they are crafting to bring russia's war to an end. as for the kremlin, there are these words the new u.s. administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. this largely coincides with our vision, russia's vision there. cnn has also learned that the u.s. has suspended all offensive cyber operations against moscow for now. and here is president trump's latest viewpoint overnight posting this. we should spend less time worrying about putin. joining us right now is evelyn farkas, former deputy assistant defense secretary for russia, ukraine, eurasia and the balkans. there is there was a lot that happened friday, a lot that then happened over the weekend. and as i just laid out a lot more coming in just overnight on this, showing how important it is and kind of

what a tipping point this whole situation may be at. i mean, you hear that from dmitry peskov, the kremlin spokesperson, and over the weekend, evelyn, you had the trump administration out loud, largely dismissing concerns being voiced by democrats, republicans, a few republicans like lisa murkowski and the united states's traditional allies. let me play what secretary of state marco rubio said this weekend. >> how does it end? it's very simple. the only way it ends is if vladimir putin comes to a negotiating table. and right now, president trump is the only person on earth who has any chance whatsoever of bringing him to a table to see what it is he would be willing to end the war on. now, maybe. their claims are what they want. their demands will be unreasonable. we don't know. but we have to bring them to the table. >> evelyn, that leaves things where this morning. >> well, first of all, kate, i think that we do know what

russia's demands are. they want control over ukraine. they want to control them politically. they want to keep the territory. and they don't want ukraine to be inside of nato or really to have any meaningful security guarantee, because, again, they want to control ukraine. so those are their maximalist objectives. the question is whether president trump, the united states, you know, any other leaders can convince vladimir putin to compromise. we know that ukraine is ready to compromise. so it's a it's a delicate situation. i you know, i am alarmed, frankly, that we are giving russia a pass, meaning our leaders are speaking to the american people trying to paint russia as not threatening to the united states. let's remember, i'm sure you've covered this. you know, the russians are sitting on our nuclear facilities. they're sitting in our grids that president putin himself said, you know, that his country is at war with nato. so i think we need to maintain vigilance vis a vis russia. >> let me add another voice into this. we heard from the british prime minister, keir starmer, about what needs to happen now.

after that, after that weekend gathering in london. let me play this. >> the uk is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air, together with others. europe must do the heavy lifting, but to support peace in our continent and to succeed, this effort must have strong us backing. >> and he stressed over and over again that all of this, whatever ceasefire, whatever agreement is reached, it must move forward. they must move forward together with the united states on this. how does that happen now, with the very clear animosity that that has been exposed between donald trump and president zelenskyy? >> well, i think both sides obviously are cooling down. and i think, kate, you know, diplomacy is diplomacy. you work based on the interests of your nation, and you put your

personal feelings about other leaders to the side. right. um, so it's it is clear that there is a possibility, of course, still for a negotiated outcome and for, you know, a cooperative relationships between the united states and ukraine. that's what the american people want. the question is whether our country, whether the united states will provide some kind of security backstop to use the prime minister's language to europe, because europe can maybe deter russia, but they need to show much more political will in order to do it. and and so the u.s. is the easy way to deter russia from making another invasion into ukraine. >> really quickly, the calls for president zelenskyy to resign. that was another very clear go to talking point from trump white house team over the weekend and continues to be right now. what does that inject into all of this? >> well, i think it's disrespectful. i mean, you don't call on a democratic leader of another country to resign because he's, you know,

speaking out and advocating for the interests of his nation and his people. and what the ukrainian people have basically given him a mandate to do. having said that, president zelenskyy said, i'll resign if you let ukraine into nato immediately. so he's not completely unreasonable on that score. um, but at the end of the day, it's not a serious thing to say. and, you know, it just seems like more personal. um, you know, personal fighting, if you will. >> yeah. it's great to see evelyn. thank you so much, john. >> all right. in all this is happening as president trump prepares to address congress and the country tomorrow night. let's get to cnn's senior political analyst, mark preston. mark, what do you expect the president to say? >> i think he's going to come out and he's going. >> to say, listen, i think that democrats i mean, they're a great party. and i think that we're all unified behind my agenda. that's clearly not what he's going to say. listen, he's going to go out and he is going to talk about how successful he has been in this very short time in office. he's going to talk about how bad the

biden administration has been over the past four years, probably the worst. administration ever. and thank god him and his administration has come through. but i will say this, john, a couple of things to watch for is to watch, to see how far donald trump goes in some of his misstatements, let's say, and let's see how much he exaggerates on what elon musk has done so far, because what elon musk has said he has accomplished and the savings don't seem to add up to where they have been selling. this whole idea of downsizing the federal government. >> look, i will say the wall street journal has a great article this morning with all kinds of jitters among republicans about how donald trump, the president, is not addressing the economy. so i am curious to see how he addresses the economy and where that goes going forward. now, what about democrats? we have a quote here from don beyer in politico, democrat from virginia, who's not going tomorrow night. and this is why he says he's not going. the notion of half my colleagues rising in standing and enormous clapping for things that i think are terrible for

the american people every couple of minutes will not be funny. i don't see that all contribute anything to the event. so how do you think democrats are >> well, to be fair, don beyer does represent a lot of federal workers in his district outside of washington, d.c., and no one's ever going to beat him in a primary. but i think there's an incredible amount of pressure, though, on democrats not to look like they are the party of opposition, just to be the party of opposition, but rather the party of opposition because they believe it's better for america. so i say that because going out and booing and acting childish, i don't think is going to play well for democrats. doesn't mean they have to agree with what donald trump says tomorrow. it doesn't mean they have to applaud at all. i would just suggest that they don't go out there and take it to about a seventh grade level. we saw republicans do that in previous years. didn't look too good. >> all right. mark preston, always great to see you in washington. thanks so much for being with us. and of course,

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those 175 fires. this is the biggest one here at about 1600 acres. but they're grateful that those conditions improved over the weekend, though it was just a disastrous scenario here as that visibility was an issue even ten miles away, closer to the beach, they were getting ash rained on them. and they're really here in the peak of the fire season. they were telling me about 3000 to 4000 fires have popped up across the state already so far this year. most of those fires, though, are just about ten acres or smaller, and they're able to get their hands around them with those rural fire departments. it's not just here in south carolina that they're dealing with fires. it's also in hard hit north carolina, where they were smacked by hurricane helene just a few months ago. now, residents there speaking to us, telling us about the conditions they're facing now. >> i mean. >> it's bad enough from. >> helene. >> but. >> now we've got this. and i mean the forest. it's just it's going to be really bad. >> back here in south carolina.

so far, no structures have been burned, although they've been threatened. those flames getting really close to some buildings here and some homes. residents were evacuated briefly, but as of about 430 yesterday afternoon, they were allowed to return back to their homes. but with this being the peak of fire season, officials here warning residents that things could change at any moment. kate. >> nick, thank you so much. nick is in myrtle beach, south carolina for us. let's get to derek van dam, who is in the new cnn severe weather center, with much more on this. they say conditions are going to be improving, helping them out a little bit there. right, derek? >> yeah, that's right kate. but certainly the last thing that appalachia appalachia needs, especially considering hurricane helene from september of last year. and now with these fires knocking on the doorsteps, of course there is improving conditions. they were at its peak on saturday, but they have improved since then. and now we have a new round of extreme fire weather this time further west, we're looking at parts of texas and into new mexico. this

extreme fire threat today preempts a major storm that is going to sweep across the nation in the days to come. a whole host of hazards from blizzard conditions, the extreme fire risk, but also the severe storms threat that will follow this cold front as it advances eastward, drawing in moisture from the gulf of mexico, getting the spin in the atmosphere necessary for tornadic development, especially for the day tomorrow. we're highlighting this area louisiana, southern arkansas into mississippi as our target point for the potential of stronger storms. the potential here for ef two tornadoes, that's winds in excess of 111mph. shreveport. jackson. you need to keep a close eye to the sky. then the storm system advances eastward overnight tuesday into wednesday morning. we have a line of storms through atlanta and then entering the eastern seaboard by the middle parts of this week. so this is a multi-day, severe weather setup that we're facing, kate. and this is not the greatest news considering the job cuts that have just gone

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considered really ground zero for president trump and elon musk's purge plans of the federal workforce. officials with musk's doge team are effectively now in charge of opm, running a shadow operation for musk, leaving career employees feeling blindsided in the process. cnn's rene marsh has this new reporting for us on this. she's joining us now. what are you learning? >> well, kate, it's been some time. >> really drilling down into what is happening. >> inside this. >> agency that went. >> from. as you. >> said. an obscure. >> agency to now driving a. >> lot of the. communications for doge and many current and former opm employees describe. >> an. >> agency that has. >> been. >> captured by members. >> of elon. >> musk's department of government efficiency, or doge, and some of those doge appointees have. >> deep. >> decades long. >> ties to musk and his businesses. and those are the individuals. >> calling the shots. we're told that. doge members have. >> isolated themselves on the fifth floor. they arrived at the

agency. >> on inauguration day, and soon. after that, top career officials. >> had their admin authority. on key data systems related. >> to personnel. >> information of more than 2 million federal workers revoked. those emails that we've reported so much about that have been sent directly to federal workers asking, what did they do last week? and also. the email offering a buyout if they decided to resign. i am told that career staffers at opm had nothing to do with these communications. they're all coming from doge, operating on the fifth floor of the agency. even career hr officials, i'm told, weren't even aware of the email communications until they either heard about it on the news or heard about it from other employees who had received it. and as a recently departed opm employee tells me, they say, quote, the federal workers at opm don't even know what's going on, and we are getting blamed for allowing elon musk and doge into opm. it's very well known within the agency that it's the shadow opm, not

the career employees pushing the buttons. not only is opm ground zero for elon musk and his vision for the federal government, though, kate, these career employees also tell me it's the testing ground for many of those actions that we are seeing. uh, across the government, they test them first at opm, for example, uh, on inauguration day or the day after, i should say, many of those members of doge asked career employees to do an exercise in which they would cut some 70% of their workforce. and just last week, we now see weeks later, opm sent a memo along with omb, asking agencies to plan for large scale reductions in its workforce. we know that social security administration, for example, announced that they plan on cutting some 7000 jobs. so, again, not only is this agency being run essentially by doge, but it's also the testing ground for many of the actions that we have seen so far. kate. >> renee, thank you so much for your reporting on this. john.

>> all right. one area that has been severely cut is the national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa for short. the agency forecast severe weather emergencies across the country. we hear a lot from them every hurricane season. and their forecasts save lives. with us now is tom de la barreto, former public affairs specialist and climate scientist at noaa's office of communications. he was laid off last week. we're sorry for what you're going through. how did you find out you were getting fired? yeah. >> um, i found out on. >> last thursday. >> i got a. boilerplate email. >> about 3:45. >> p.m. >> that kind. >> of. >> followed that the opm. >> directives that said that, um, i'm a. >> probationary employee, so. >> i can be. assessed and that. >> my skills and abilities no. >> longer met. >> the agency's need, which is ridiculous. talk to us about the agency and the impact that these cuts will have. i cover hurricanes every year, and i know how people depend on these

forecasts. but what will the cuts? how will the cuts impact that? yeah. noaa, it stands for the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. so if you. like the oceans or you. >> are impacted. >> by. >> the weather. >> in any sort of. >> way, which. >> really. means everybody. >> you're going to be impacted by this. >> a ton. >> of people. >> got fired. that's basically. >> going to lead to a short staffed agency that was. already short. >> staffed. >> now trying to do more. >> with less. >> and that is just asking. >> for a. >> disaster to happen. we know extreme weather is going to happen. hurricanes, tornadoes, snowstorms. and now we're asking an agency to basically try and forecast these or make the. >> public aware. >> of the impacts, but do it with less people. you're just asking for a mistake to happen. you're asking for burnout to occur, and it's just pointless. when you look at the the the importance of what noaa does. >> you say that the cuts will actually end up costing money. how? >> yeah. so noaa has been well

known that a dollar into noaa leads to there being many more dollars coming out because of just exactly what noaa does. noaa makes sure that people and places and communities and buildings don't suffer disasters as strongly as they otherwise would. noaa is in charge of making sure that fishery industry is as healthy as could possibly be. it's also in charge of making sure coastal areas are not as impacted by erosion and sea level rise. so by basically getting rid of these things or making it more difficult for noaa to do its job, you're basically going to cause there to be more money being spent and more damage is being felt than otherwise happening. >> why do you think noaa was targeted? >> i think this is a clear, across the board attack on science. they don't like necessarily what noaa does as it relates to climate change. um, and they don't like necessarily the fact that we help people because of the fact that we just help people. we there's no ulterior motives at noaa when we're trying to help the

american public. at no point at noaa has anyone ever said we're not going to give important information, data, and resources to a community based on who that community voted for. but we do know someone has done that. the president has done that when it's related to wildfires out in california. so i think there's a lot of issues with just the fact that we help others purely because we want to help others, and because we're trying to help people deal with increasing extremes as it relates to climate change. >> you're going to protest today in front of the noaa building. what message do you want to send? what do you hope to accomplish? >> i think it's important for people to know just how integral noaa is into literally everything that they do. the forecasters at cnn are really great forecasters, but they're utilizing noaa data all the time. whether they're talking about observations, whether they're talking about who can determine whether a tornado is an f2 or, uh, ocean impacts or hurricanes. and i just want people to know that when it

comes to who cares about the american public, it's federal workers. we do federal workers care so deeply about the american public, because it's all we've wanted to do since we were kids growing up. i wanted to be a meteorologist when i was eight years old, and i was able to live out that dream. and i want the american public to know that noaa is still going to try and do everything they can to make sure that you're safe. but now we're having an issue where, um, they're going to have to do it with one hand tied behind their back. >> what's next for you personally? >> well, i'm going to a protest later today. i'm going to keep speaking out about the importance of noaa and helping to represent those who are fired, and also the amazing people who are still left at noaa. and then i'm going to keep looking for jobs as it relates to communication about weather and climate. it's what i love to do, and i'd like to keep doing that. what do. >> you just give me a sense of what this next hurricane season will be like with these cuts? >> so, um, they were firing at

the aircraft operations center at noaa in lakeland, florida. that's where the hurricane hunters are. they i believe the flight director was fired. um, from aoc, uh, there were technicians fired, people who are engineers as well. so we know every single year, sometimes those hurricanes. airplanes sometimes break down or need to replace the part that's going to be harder to fix. now we have less people to do that. we don't have the ability necessarily to fly all the planes 24 seven than we did before. um, we're also looking at, just in general, more stress on the national weather service. who are the folks who make these forecasts? and we know there are firings across weather forecast offices across the united states, across the gulf of mexico as well. so basically, you're taking a situation that's already fraught. hurricane season that's so important. we always see the impacts of this every single year. and now you're saying, oh, let's tinker with this. that's a horrible idea. in no world does that make anybody safer. >> uh, tom diloreto, we appreciate you being with us.

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>> this morning, the white house is going full court press on defending president trump's blowup with the president of ukraine. yet a new poll shows that more than half of americans still are backing ukraine in its fight against russia. that poll, conducted before that disastrous meeting took place, but still offers a good sense of where, good sense of where the american people are right now. cnn's harry enten is looking at it all for us. he is joining us right now. what are you seeing in terms of how americans feel about trump's handling of russia's war against ukraine? >> yeah. >> i. >> think sometimes. >> kate, we get a little too complicated. >> in. >> our questions. >> so i think the. >> easiest way we. >> can kind of just ask this is, do americans like the way. >> that trump. >> is handling his job and compare it to how they felt about joe biden? so this is the net approval rating. you look at joe biden back in 2024. he was. >> 22 points underwater. >> holy cow. you look at donald trump. it's just a different planet entirely. i mean, the gulf between these two is wider than the gulf of america or mexico, depending on which side of the aisle you stand on. he's

at plus two. so look at this particular point. americans are giving donald trump the benefit of the doubt. he's doing considerably better than joe biden was doing on the handling of the russia ukraine conflict and so on. the simple question i think americans are saying, okay, donald trump is doing all right on this. >> what about specifically on how they feel about bringing the war to an end? >> yeah. okay. so, you know, look, questions on this can be quite complicated, but i think this kind of gets at sort of where the american trend line is. americans on the russia ukraine war want a quicker end of the war, but russia keeps its captured land. look at this 50%, 50%, bare majority, bare majority coming in here. support you. ukraine's right to fight, even if it means a longer war. that's at 48. this is very, very close. but the trend line on this question is so important because that one quick end of the war look at this. you go back to august of 2022. it was at 31%. now we're at 50%. i mean that is a rocket ship upwards in terms of the americans who want a quick end to the war, even if it means russia keeps the captured

ukraine land. americans are moving closer and closer to wanting a compromise, even if it means that ukraine doesn't really get what it set out to want, at least at the beginning of this war. >> and americans views on russia are shifting as well. >> absolutely. i mean, one of the reasons why we're seeing this is americans who say russia is an enemy. you go back to 2023, it was 64%. and that cbs news yougov poll. >> it was. >> down to 34%. now there is a chunk that believes that russia is an unfriendly nation, but the percentage who believe that they're either an ally or friendly, that's up to 34% as well, basically equal to the percentage who say that they're an enemy. so views on russia have become, let's say, a little less isolated in terms of wanting russia to be way out there on their own, thinking that they're an enemy at this particular point. they're starting to see russia a little bit more friendly. and i think that's part of the reason why americans want to see a compromise at this particular hour. >> it's good to see you, harry. thank you. thank you. john. >> all right. with us now is senator chris van hollen, a democrat from maryland. senator, thank you so much for being with us. obviously you watched. you

heard what happened in the oval office on friday. you probably just saw those poll numbers there from harry. what is your advice to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy this morning if he's listening? what do you think he should do? >> well. >> john, it's good to be with you. i've also seen recent polling that. shows the american people by 80%. still distrust putin, right? they know that he is a bad guy. so i think we need to be careful on how we approach these polls. look what happened in the oval office the other day was reprehensible, right? because we watched the president and the vice president bully president zelenskyy, who has always said that he appreciates american support. i was part of that meeting that took place just before his meeting with the president, with other senators, and he again bent over backwards to talk about how grateful he was to the united states. so, look, if i'm president

zelenskyy right now, number one, i need to continue to solidify my support in europe because i will tell you, john, right now, donald trump, president trump does look like he's very much in putin's camp. i, i didn't think we would see the day when we had the russians openly gloating, openly gloating, as they are today and the day before about the trump administration's position, saying, wow, the americans accept our vision. well, that vision is one of continuing aggression against the people of ukraine and their continuing efforts to be an autocratic regime. so if you're zelenskyy, you are in a tough spot. he was willing to sign the most recent version of the minerals agreement. and if the trump administration wants to proceed, i'm sure he's willing to proceed. excuse me as well.

>> look, you noted that that russia is gleeful this morning, and they are they are celebrating what happened in the oval office. what do you think happens if this trend continues? where does this go? >> well, it trends in a very dangerous direction, meaning that our friends and allies in europe and other places around the world will see that we're just totally unreliable. and who knows what will happen when when nato if if it splinters. i mean, you have elon musk out there, you know, calling for the end of nato. so what we're watching, in my view, is a big realignment. you have president trump, who no longer believes that the united states is the leader when it comes to defending and promoting freedom and the rule of law and democracy. however imperfectly we've we've done that. he is discarding that whole paradigm.

he sees himself more like putin or xi as this like strongman who is going to. dis, you know, abandon our friends whenever he thinks it's in his personal interests. in my view, that's not america first. that is america in retreat. >> and again, i know you voted to confirm a former senator, marco rubio, your former colleague, as secretary of state. if you can still hear me, i see you adjusting your earpiece. how do you feel about your vote to confirm senator rubio as secretary? now? >> well, i regret that vote because, you know, when it was senator rubio, senator rubio was somebody who understood that putin was the aggressor and the russians were the aggressor. he didn't go around calling zelenskyy dictator, but it seems like he's had a, you know, a total lobotomy or heart transplant. i don't know what it

is. but first of all, he allowed elon musk essentially to take over the operations of the state department. we saw how they're trying to dismantle i.d. that was an elon musk initiative. uh, and now he is just parroting donald trump. now, if that's why he took on the job just to do the dear leader thing with donald trump. um, then i'm extremely disappointed. but that seems to be the direction that he's headed. >> are you going to go to the president's address to congress tomorrow night? will you be in attendance? >> i decided to attend, but bring a guest. this is the head of democracy forward. skype harriman. they're the organization that has successfully brought a number of these lawsuits against the lawbreaking spree. by musk and trump. they brought this one of the suits to stop the effort to

illegally freeze, you know, appropriations monies that congress had already approved of for all sorts of local priorities, as well as one of the lawsuits with respect to protecting federal employees against these illegal firings, where where the administration is just lying when they send out these letters saying that people are being fired for poor performance. when we see that their most recent reviews are glowing reports. so these are just lies, john. in any event, i'm going to bring her as my guest, as a symbol of our efforts to block the illegal actions of trump and musk. >> and i know later today you're going to be demonstrating outside noaa. we just had an official who had been fired from noaa last week who i think will be there as well. why are you attending that demonstration? >> well, for two reasons. number one, i think it's important to show solidarity with all the

patriotic federal employees who do good work on behalf of the american people. but the other is to help get the word out and build momentum around the country where people are really getting more and more upset about what's happening. and for for a good reason. i mean, noaa, for example, what they're doing will make us less safe, right? they're provide all the information from the national weather service. they're our eyes and our ears for hurricanes and tsunamis. and if you if you blind yourself or you plug your ears, bad things happen. people get hurt. people can die. so we're getting that word out. you're seeing john. these town halls across the country where republican members of the house or the senate are finally being confronted by angry constituents. and that's because those constituents are understanding exactly what the threat is right now. you've got

donald trump, who promised to bring down prices. he promised to cut prices. instead, he is cutting services that are important to every american that help every american. national weather service being just one and instead rigging the government to help people like elon musk, who, by the way, the other day just got another billion dollar contract from the faa. >> senator chris van hollen from maryland. we appreciate your time. thank you so much for being with us. kate. >> a little bit of good stuff for you this morning. a group of former players of the cincinnati bengals coming together to make it a little easier for one world war ii veteran to get around his home, 104 years old, army veteran richard stewart. he recently fractured his hip, making it hard to move around the home. the former bengals players then teamed up with a nonprofit called operation ramp it up after stewart's daughter reached out for help. stewart thanked the group as he tested out the new ramp outside his door.

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people on the street, killing at least one, injuring several others. police do say a suspect has been arrested. this happened in mannheim. that's in germany's southwest. one witness told cnn he saw a black car drive by at high speed, and then he heard people screaming, let's get right to fred pleitgen for the latest on this. fred, what are you learning? >> there, johnny? >> and that. >> large scale police operation. >> is still very much going on there in that city of mannheim, which you. mentioned was. >> in. the southwest. >> of germany. there's choppers in the air. >> there's a big. >> police presence there on the ground as well. one of the things the police have been saying is that there is indeed one person who is in custody right now, but they're not sure whether that dangerous situation is over, whether people there are out of danger. and i can tell you from the online. >> apps that. >> they have there in that area, that that warning. >> is still out there. >> for people to not go into the central city of mannheim. now, from the latest that we know, apparently all. this took place around midday local time in the pedestrian area of the city of mannheim. it's near a tram

station. the tram sort of goes through that pedestrian. >> area there. >> it apparently seems as though that car rammed into. >> a group. >> of people at a fairly. >> high speed. >> you were mentioning that one eye witness from some of the video that we've been seeing from the scene, it seems as though it was a compact car that did all of this. the police indeed saying that there is one person who is in custody at this point in time, and they're not saying whether or not this was well, they are saying it was an attack, but what exactly is the motivation for this attack, why all of this happened? but of course, we do know that right now, the security situation in germany has been fairly tense over the past couple of weeks. the past couple of months, as there have been a string of attacks that took place, some of them involving vehicles. one of the biggest ones, of course, a christmas market attack that took place in the eastern city of magdeburg, but also as the munich security conference was getting underway in the southern city of munich, there was another ramming attack that took place there as well. so it does come during a tense security situation. but again, right now the police are saying they are still working that situation.

john. >> all right. fred pleitgen in berlin, we know you will keep your eye on this. please keep us posted. thank you. kate. >> let's focus on on the middle east right now. israel has announced it will stop the entry of all humanitarian aid into gaza in an effort to get hamas back to the table, turning up the pressure on the terrorist group to agree to new terms on extending the ceasefire agreement. the initial phase of the truce expired this weekend. cnn's jeremy diamond is much more for us on all of this from jerusalem. and what is the latest here, jeremy? >> well, kate. >> israel. >> is very much trying to change the dynamic here in the negotiations with hamas, essentially putting aside what was supposed to happen, meaning negotiations with hamas to get to phase two and three of this agreement, which would entail an. >> end to the war. >> the release of all the remaining hostages, and the withdrawal of israeli troops from gaza, and instead trying to force hamas into accepting. >> a very. >> different type of. >> proposal, one that the israeli. prime minister says. >> was put forward by. >> steve witkoff. >> president trump's special envoy for the middle east, and

the proposal that the prime minister is proposing here is. >> to. >> extend phase one of this agreement to see half of the remaining living and dead hostages released in exchange for seven more weeks of. ceasefire that would take us. through the holy muslim month of ramadan, as well as the jewish holiday of passover. but as israel does so, it is also saying that hamas, in not immediately accepting this proposal, uh. therefore going there, therefore going to turn the pressure up on them. and the way that they are doing that is by stopping all humanitarian aid from entering the gaza strip, which, of course poses a major risk to the civilian population in gaza. that move has quickly been assailed. as a violation of international law by a number. >> of human rights. >> groups, as well as the united nations. egypt, one of the key mediators here, accusing israel of using humanitarian aid as a, quote, tool of blackmail. but the white house, for its part, seems to be supporting israel, with the national security council spokesman, brian hughes, saying in a statement we will

support their decision on next steps, given hamas has indicated it's no longer interested in a negotiated ceasefire, hamas has made very clear that they are interested in keeping this ceasefire alive, but they want to do it in the way that it was supposed to be done, meaning getting to phase two and ending the war in gaza. kate. >> jeremy, thank you so much for the latest on that. stay close to it, john. >> all right. new this morning companies bracing for new tariffs on three of the country's biggest trading partners canada, china and mexico. some people weighing some companies weighing whether to pass on higher prices to consumers. others, though taking a different approach. cnn's vanessa yurkevich is here with that. what approach are we talking about? >> well, you. >> can take two approaches, right. as this is a time of economic uncertainty, you have tariffs that are looming. inflation heated up in january and consumer sentiment fell. people are not feeling great about the economy. so consumers are probably going to tighten their wallets. we saw that in january with retail sales falling by nearly 1%. so companies are either going to have to absorb some of these

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