for more news, download the cbs news app on your device or it's wednesday, january 26th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." no reason for panic. ukraine is offering up a different message to the world as russia continues to threaten an invasion. it feels like a war zone when there are fires everywhere, and it's a battle. >> pushed to the brink. we go inside a hospital overwhelmed with covid patients as concern grows about a new omicron subvariant. breaking his silence, a capitol police officer who led rioters away from the senate chamber on january 6 gives his first interview since the attack. good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.

there are new efforts for a diplomatic breakthrough in the tense standoff between russia and ukraine. officials from both countries along with france and germany will meet today to discuss the ongoing situation. the white house said it was imminent that russia would invade ukraine, but moscow says otherwise e even as it conducts military drills by the border. laura podesta is here in new york with more on this. laura, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie.uctill he's amaps e bordere n spokman s.f cresnsn. from korean. the message from leaders -- keep calm and carry on. ukraine's president this week telling his citizens there's no reason for panic. with russian troops conducting live fire drills near the border, the u.s. and nato are preparing for the worst. >> if he were to move in with all those forces, it would be

the largest invasion since world war ii. it would change the world. >> reporter: president biden says he may soon deploy 8,500 u.s. troops to eastern europe and threatened vladimir putin with economic sanctions if russia invades. >> we have no intention of putting american forces, our nato forces in ukraine. but we -- as i said, there are going to be serious economic consequences if he moves. >> reporter: the latest shipment of u.s. military aid to ukraine landed in kyiv last night. nearly 300 javelin anti-tank missiles and other munitions. >> putin is gambling wildly -- >> reporter: andrea kendall-taylor, a senior fellow at the center for a new american security, says putin may have miscalculated the global response. >> he has gambled on the fact that the u.s. would be distracted and that the alliance was too fragile. >> reporter: there are growing concerns the conflict could cause russia to cut off oil

a senior administration official says the white house is working with suppliers around the world in order to prevent an energy shortage in europe. in a show of bipartisanship, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell gave president biden a show of support yesterday saying the administration appears to be moving in the right direction. anne-marie? >> all right, laura podesta in new york. let us hope so. thank you, laura. well, the new york city police department is mourning the death of a second police officer days after he was shot in harlem. officer wilbert mora's death was announced yesterday by the police commissioner. he was 27 years old. officer mora and jason rivera were shot on friday during a domestic dispute call. the gunman opened a bedroom door and shot the officers as they walked down a hall. another officer shot the suspect who died earlier this week. and the u.s. coast guard is searching for 39 people after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized off the coast of florida. a good samaritan callee coast guard yesterday morning after rescuing a man clinging to

a boat about 45 miles east of fort pierce. the man told officials that he and 39 other people left the bahamas saturday night before the boat capsized during a storm. migrants often use the islands of the bahamas as a stepping stone to reach florida. turning to the coronavirus now, and a new subvariant of omicron has been discovered across the globe. for now it's not considered a variant of concern, but experts are looking into it. meantime, the number of hospitalizations and deaths here in the u.s. remain a concern. kris van cleave explains. >> reporter: a new look inside an oklahoma city e.r. overflowing with covid patients. dozens are waiting for icu beds, but every single one at four of the state's largest hospitals is full. police officer brandon owens has been in the icu and on a ventilator for more than two weeks. >> he's spent 14 years in the military. he did three deployments overseas. we never expected this to be something that would get him

down. >> reporter: the situation is so dire it prompted this warning -- the oklahoma city health care system is at a breaking point. >> it feels like a war zone when there are fires everywhere, and it's a battle trying to take care of the wounded, trying not to get wounded yourself. >> reporter: dr. julie watson is the chief medical officer at integris health. monday its hospitals set a new record for covid patients as the state's vaccination rate lingers at less than 55%. do you feel like you'd be in a better situation if the vaccination rate in oklahoma was higher? >> there's no question in my mind. our icu physician and you were talking, he's seeing mortality rates up to 50% in icu patients who are unvaccinated. up to 50%. >> reporter: the cdc says new data confirms omicron causes less severe disease than previous strains of the coronavirus, but it is so infectious it's causing hospitalizations and deaths to rise, something oklahoma is

seeing right now. is this as bad as it's ever been for your hospital? >> i would say yes. this is our fourth wave, and it's demoralizing to not be able to do your job the way that you were trained to do when our job is to save people's lives. >> reporter: many of the people we talked to here in oklahoma declined to answer any questions about vaccination status, and now we're learning that scientists around the world are monitoring a new subvariant of omicron that's been found here in the u.s. they don't know yet just how dangerous it may be. kris van cleave, cbs news, oklahoma city, oklahoma. police in london are investigating lockdown parties at 10 downing street. officials will look into a number of events over the past two years to see if any government leaders violated covid restrictions. prime minister boris johnson is facing calls to step down after he attended a series of parties in 2020 when most social gatherings were banned in

england. a spokesperson for johnson said that he will cooperate with the investigation. and a capitol police officer who was praised for his efforts during the january 6 riot is speaking out for the first time. officer eugene goodman confronted the mob inside the u.s. capitol and led them away from the senate chamber. he's credited with possibly saving lives of senators who were forced to evacuate. and he talked about that day in a new podcast. >> it could have easily been a bloodbath. so kudos to everybody there that showed a measure of restraint with regards to deadly force because it could have been bad. really, really bad. >> goodman, who's an iraq war veteran, was honored with the congressional gold medal last year. he remains with the u.s. capitol police force. remarkable. coming up, running for re-election, house speaker nancy pelosi says she will seek a 19th term in office.

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"the sacramento bee" says the house speaker nancy pelosi will run for another term in congress. the 81-year-old california democrat said the upcoming election is crucial and democracy is at risk. her announcement ends months of speculation on whether she would retire. she has served 18 terms in office, but it's unclear whether she will run again for house speaker. in the past, progressives have called on pelosi to step down and allow someone else to represent san francisco. "the boston globe" reports that concrete fell from an overpass right on to a driver's windshield. 64-year-old leonard brown said he was driving on route 28 in somerville yesterday when the chunk of concrete smashed on to saw e dama..ornow un puler and e biggt piec slab nded on his rear dash. >> how close was it to you? >> oh, it went right by my head. if i would have had anybody else in the car they would have been

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covid-19. a statement said the 74-year-old singer is experiencing mild symptoms despite being vaccinated and boosted. his shows had been slated for today and tomorrow, but they will be rescheduled. the announcement comes less than a week after his farewell tour restarted after being delayed for the pandemic and again for the singer's hip surgery. cooperstown is calling. there will soon be a new addition to the baseball hall of fame. >> calling you from cooperstown, new york, to let you know that baseball writers have elected you to the national baseball hall of fame. [ cheers ] >> that's boston red sox legend david "big papi" ortiz. he celebrated with loved ones yesterday after receiving the good news. he played 20 years in the minimum wagers and won three world series championships. some not elected to the hall of fame include barry bonds, roger clemens, and sammy sosa, who are

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our top stories this morning -- officials from russia, ukraine, france, and germany will hold diplomatic talks today amid the standoff between russia and ukraine. yesterday moscow conducted more military drills near the border. the white house said it was imminent that russia would invade ukraine. and the u.s. coast guard is searching for 39 people after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized off the coast of florida. a good samaritan was able to rescue one of them. the man told officials the boat capsized during a storm after leaving the bahamas on saturday night. few stories affect more americans than the rising cost of groceries. overall they've gone up 6.5% compared to a year ago, and now

the price of orange juice is also on the rise. here's manuel bojorquez. stay small, won't get any bigger -- >> reporter: it's called citrus greening, a disease affecting florida orange groves spread by an invasive insect leaving trees looking like this -- it kills it from the inside? >> yeah. all the roots are going to go first. when you have no roots, no leaves, no fruit. >> reporter: brian faryna's family established this grove near orlando 70 years ago. it's hard for him to imagine that the state is forecast to have its smallest orange crop since before the family laid down roots here. this is what you devote your life to. >> all of our land is citrus. we hear numbers like that, it's devastating. >> reporter: there is no known cure. in fact, in groves like this it's safe to assume that most trees have some degree of it. one telltale sign, the amount of fruit that's fallen to the ground or is unusually small.

at its peak, florida produced 244 million boxes of oranges a year. it's set to produce only 44.5 million this year. but demand for orange juice grew nearly 50% at the start of the pandemic. so prices for orange juice concentrate already up nearly 14% will likely climb higher. >> lately actually have been drinking less orange juice because prices are going up. >> reporter: what do you foresee in your future? >> that's a million-dollar question. we're going to stay in it, and we have diversified. we're making sure we spread ourselves out and try to find different ways to keep agriculture in our family. >> reporter: so they've added other crops and have even set up this store to try to supplement the family income. but other farmers have sold their land to developers, and over the last 20 years the number of acres harvested for oranges in florida has dropped y more than half. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, florida. coming up on "cbs mornings,"

a preview of antonio brown's first network news interview with nate burleson. as the former buccaneers wide receiver shares his side of the story about walking off the field during a game earlier this month. plus, first on "cbs mornings," country music legend dolly parton talks with gayle king about her newest project. and "queer eye" star jonathan van ness stops by the times square studio to tell us about the new netflix show, "getting curious with jonathan van ness." that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. ♪ ♪

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