b good evening and thanks for watching. today president biden told ukraine's president that the united states and its allies would respond quote, swiftly and decisively to a new russian invasion into the country. diplomatic efforts to diffuse the crisis are ongoing, but the u.s. warns an attack is expected and soon. this weekend, some airliners began suspending flights. today a charter jet lliner carrying more u.s. troops from the 82nd airborne division arrived in poland to bolster

nato's presence there. cbs has been following the story for us and is at the white house tonight with the latest developments. good evening, christina. >> reporter: good evening. presidents spoke for about an hour by phone daddy and both men agreed for the need for continued diplomacy with russia. but cbs news learned the biden administration is preparing to pull all u.s. personnel out of cakiev in the next 24 to 48 hou. with almost all the force ss it e sulaid todaytional a russian invasion could happen at any time. >> diplomacy is still open and available. but if russia chooses to move, we're prepared to respond. >> the u.s. has threatened unpres cedented economic and political consequences. but so far that threat hasn't stopped moscow's massive military buildup. >> things are sort of building now to some sort of crescendo opportunity for mr. putin. >> saturday's phone call produced no major breakthroughs. the state department has told

all americans in ukraine to leave the country immediately. but the streets of ukraine's cap capital are calm and the president says the biggest threat to his country is panic. cbs's taib is there. >> here in the capital of cakie life is carrying on as noral. >> but the u.s. says if russia makes a move, cakiev will be at risk. a full-scale invasion would come from the north to isolate the skplal other major cities. the east and the south, where russia is beginning live fire exercises that blank et almost the entire coast and christina, what is the u.s. doing to try to deescalate the stuation and why hasn't the white house pulled the trigger on those sanctions they talked about? >> the white house says those sanctions are the arrow in its quiver and they don't want to

take their shot but that's republicans on the hill and even the ukrainian president di disagree, saying moscow should face consequences now before it's too late. >> christina for us at the white house. thank you. today canadian police a arrested the remaining protesters who were blocking the embambassador bridge between th u.s. and canada. it's one of several critical world er crossings that have ben block aded by protesters. the standoffs have hurt economies on both sides of the boarders. cbs's chris van cleave has the latest tonight from windsor, ontario. >> it's been an all day effort but you can see canadian police are out in force. they are pushing back. the last few protesters away from the embambassador bridge, important tep tstep to get traffic and trade flowing again. officers took advantage of frigid morning temperatures in windsor to break the block ade, clearing protesters who have closed a vital trade route with the u.s. for a week. police made more than two dozen

arrests near the embambassador bridge to detroit. its closure cost car makers more than 700 million. >> they'll have to carry me away. >> jennifer was among the last to leave. she says she lost her job after refusing to comply with canada's vaccine mandate. >> this is a hill i'm willing to die on. for my children, for your children. >> across canada, a third weekend of protests over the country's vaccine mandate and covid restrictions. it started with a trucker convoy and blockades of keyboard er crossings nationwide. thousands gathered in ottawa. and in toronto, police closed downtown streets. >> our freedoms are being stripped way. >> u.s. authorities are on alert after a department of homeland security bulletin warning of possible trucker protests around the super bowl. windsor police tell us their plan is to have the bridge open before monday morning's rush-hour. that will be welcome news for automakers. analysts say it could take them

months to catch up wifrom just five or six days of disruption. >> wow. we will see what happens. chris, thank you. they're dancing in the streets ostreets of los angeles as matthew stafford and the hometown rams defeated the cincinnati bengals and super bowl 56. alice preston has more. >> it was matthew stafford and joe burrow and stafford struck first with this 17-yard to touchdown pass to o'dell be beckham, jr., later lost it a knee injury but found him on this 11-yard touchdown pass. down 13-3, the bengals tried some razzle tasle. at the half the rams were up 13-10. 12 seconds into the second half long to higgins and the bengals had their first lead of the game. the time running down and trailing by four, stafford leads

the rams down the field and capped it off with another t touchdown to cooper, who was later named game mvp. the bengals got the ball back but donald gets to burrow, final score rams 23, bengals 20. the game was played at the brand new $5 billion sofi stadium. educator evans has that part of the story. >> with a price tag of more than $5 billion, sofi is the most expensive stadium ever built in the u.s., a state -of-the-art facility that can overshad ow te city it calls home. inglewood, california. still reeling from covid. angela and johnson own the s serving spoon, a fixture in i inglewood for nearly 40 years. but the pandemic hit business hard. >> roughly a 40% drop in revenue but our cost of goods went up pretty much the same amount. >> donations from customers and residents kept the restaurant open. other businesses weren't so lucky.

many here are counting on the stadium to help reviet talize t city of 110,000 people, more than 90% black or hiss panic. the mayor fought to get the stadium built here. >> there are about 3200 apeoplea day went to work there. >> but in the long run, some critics say, football stadiums don't pay off. >> a football stadium is just an economic loser. the money stays within the rams. it stays within the nfl. it doesn't trickle down very far. >> what is the future for businesses like yours here in inglewood? >> in inglewood, definitely on a great trajectory and we're very, very happy to be a part of that. >> sofi stadium is set to host college playoffs next year, and the opening ceremony for the 2028 olympics. carter evans, cbs news, in inglewood. >> time will tell. quite a resspectacle in the sky over los angeles last night. take a look. the nfl staged its first ever

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thanks so much for staying with us. president biden spoke by phone with ukraine's president, as the u.s. and applllies step up th diplomatic pressure. president biden has vowed to impose crippling sanctions on moscow if it invades. but despite all of that, the u.s. has intelligence that russian commanders have been ordered to be ready to move into ukraine by wednesday. the state department has urged all americans to leave the country.

>> ukraine's armed forces may be small compared with russia's, but they are fimighty. the president oversaw the exercises held not far from russian-occupied crimea, a territory seized eed by vladimi putin eight years ago. the u.s. is now warning of an all-out invasion of ukraine and says there is mounting evidence that russia is poised to attack again. this time with a multiaccess assault using ground troops, amphibious forces, air strikes and ballistic missiles. but he says those dire warnings are doing more harm than good. >> the best friend for enemies that is in our country and all this information doesn't help us. >> as thousands took to the streets of cakiev, calling for peace, the u.s.ically pulled military and other personnel out of the country, along with the

uk, canada, australia, and nearly a dozen other nations following suit. russia's military buildup in the region is only growing, with enormous live fire military drills in neighboring bellarus. the war games are mere miles away from the thousands of nato and allied troops in the region. in what wis the largest militar buildup on the continent since the cold war. haunted by the kaychaotic scram to evacuate frm afghanistan, president biden has vowed he will not send in troops to ukraine to rescue trapped americans. with the state department urging all americans to leave immediately. now the deep conskepticism heri ukraine is dwarfed by russia's massive military buildup as attempts to end this crisis with diplomacy intensify. >> that again was m tts. the possibility of war in europe

comes as the continent is dealing with another spike in covid and some countries decided to drop all restrictions. chris has more on the story from copen hagen, denmark. >> covid cases are soaring in denmark. it's past that's meant shutting down the entire country. this time the government is taking a different approach in the opposite direction to the enviof some but to the horror of others. ♪ imagine a long time ago in a glalaxy far, far away, with the term souper spread er event haso meaning. welcome to denmark. the land that's dropped all of its covid restrictions. social distancing? so long. facemasks, forget about it. but if you thought covid had disappeared, think again. the scandanavian nation has one of the highest levels of the omicron variant in europe. but that's not stopping the

prime minister. >> if you ask me for just one answer, why and how denmark is able to lift restrictions? it is because of the vaccines. >> more than 80% of the population is fully vaccinated, and nearly 100% of the elderly are boosted. voluntearily with no need for mandates. >> i am not afraid. >> are you vaccinated? >> yes. three times. >>idans endured two years of lockdowns and they're not overwhelming i cus. at least not for now. the world woorld health organization warned it could backfire. >> now is not the time to lift everything at audonce. >> what makes you so certain that the w.h.o. is wrong and that denmark is right? >> they are not wrong. we can be right at the same time. so if you get the same vaccine

rate, then maybe you can do what we have done in denmark. >> so you wouldn't recommend doing this in the united states? >> no. certainly not. >> at the moment, there are only about 30 patients in denmark's i canus. if those numbers shoot up, the government says it will reconsider restrictions and possibly even a fourth dose of vaccine. ♪ for now, denmark is enjoying life coming pack to normal. as it waits for the rest of the world to catch up. >> other countries are following suit, like nearby sweden and norway has recently dropped most of its restrictions as well. of course, people are still catching covid here. one of the latest people to test positive, none other than the queen of denmark herself. she's 82 years old. so far only has mild symptoms. >> that was chris reporting from the overnight vinews will be rit back in two minutes.

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things like flowers, candy, diamonds perhaps. but it's also a day when many couples decide to tie the knot. so there is a small town apparently in montana where you can get married without even showing up at the wedding. >> we're gathered here today -- >> it's valentine's day, and love is in the air. as evidenceded but this intimate and informal wedding that took place just last week in big fork, montana. >> i do. >> i do. >> with the power. >> but there's just one thing. these aren't the brides. they're actually stand-ins for a real bride and groom who are thousands of miles way. so how is this possible? because an obscure montana law that permits double proxy marriage, a legal wedding where neither person even sets foot in the state. >> everywhere you go, people g?

let meand this down to you. >> peg alison has been flett head county clerk of district court since 1993, which means she oversees all legal mar marriages. it was about a decade in her tenure before she had heard about this law thanks to a call from a lawyer looking for a creative way to marry a couple that was overseas. >> i think i literally said to him on the phone, you're kidding me. >> the law has been on the books since montana became a ter territory. likely started to let young miners who arhad come west for work marry their sweethearts back home. at least one person has to be a member of the military. >> it's a complete bizarre piece of code and as far as i know there is not a single other state in the union that allows duble proxy. >> and here in flat hhead count it's become a big business.

80% of all weddings in this picturesque corner of the treasure state are actually by double prox can i, including 295 last month alone. >> in 2019, we did 1200 and covid hit. so in 20 20, we went from 1200 year to 4200, and then in 2021, we did another 4300 of them. ♪ >> proxy marriages. this is tom. may i help you? >> with covid this phone didn't stop ringing. we had to shut the phone off. we weren't getting no rest. >> it got insane. >> tom and teresa ran armed forces proxy marriages out of her home in big fork. it's one of just a hand ful of companies that perform these marriages. before the pandemic, they say they averaged around 40 weddings per month. how many of these weddings did you help sort of facilitate last

year? >> close to 2,000, i think. >> you stop counting because it becomes a lot of work. >> for $750, the conkennedys wi help a couple file all the necessary paperwork to become legally married in montana. and it might sound like an odd way to walk down the aisle, but it worked out for reachel and hr husband michael. he's currently overseas, but they got married last march head of his deployment. unsure if they'd have time for a more traditional wedding. >> we just got an e-mail saying congratulations, you've been married. and my mom and i were in the kitchen and she ended up putting a paper towel on my head and started singing the wedding song. >> being legally married allows reachel to know more informatio about her husband's where aabou when he's deployed. and there are other benefits to being married in the military.

for one, getting a basic housing allowance, which helped jacob seeford and amin a save to buy their first home. >> for us as a couple who is just starting out, it sounds you can make it sound trite that this financial thing was important to us. but that really helped us out. >> they got married in december of 2018, amin a, a political campaign er, was home in florid while jacob, then an air force senior airman, was stationed in korea, with tom and teresa's help, they took the plunge, but that didn't mean amin a was quie ready to tell her family that she'd gotten married. in montana via the internet. >> they just blinked and my mom had to take some time to accept that i kept it from her, but knew that when we did it, we had goals in mind, we had a vision, and that we knew we were each other's person.

my dad was oh j, this is great. >> do you teresa, as proxy, take aian to be your wife? >> i do. >> you're standing in for someone. you're doing something that we feel is a patriotic duty on our part. >> so much so that tom, teresa, and their employee, reachel bodeic, perform actual vows on behalf their clients. even though there is no legal requirement to do so. >> do you reachel, as proxy, tae ryan weaver to be your husband snnch i do. on the day we were there, teresa and reachel said i dos on behal of five couples. >> really felt honored to be asked to do that because i know that it means the world to the people that we're marrying and it's such an easy thing for me to do. >> another stack of licenses. >> meanwhile, peg alison, who at one time had ever heard of this law has a new problem.

double proxy marriages shhave become so popular, she worries her office might not be able to keep up. >> so we should probably just stop the interview right here so that you won't have anything to air.

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>> that is the overnight news for this monday. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm duncan. have a great week. ♪ bl! >> this is cbs news news flash. following a nearly week-long shut down, the busiest brooarde crossing between the u.s. and canada is reopen. protests against restrictions forced the closure. the shutdown interrupted business in both countries. i'van wrightman was died. best known for producing "ghost g busters" and his family says he passed way peacefully in his california fahome. the los angelesrams have won their first super bowl championship since returning to the city. the team beat out the bengals sunday. game mvp cooper caught four

passes. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connect to tv. i'm alice preston, cbs news, new york. b it's monday, february 14th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." >> pass caught -- touchdown. >> hollywood ending. the rams beat the bengals in the final minutes to win the super bowl. the biggest story lines including how coach sean mcvay made history. breaking overnight, ivan reitman degrees. a look back at his career and some of the iconic movies he produced and directed. no major breakthroughs. president biden talks with leaders from russia and ukraine. how the u.s. is preparing ahead of a possible invasion in ukraine.

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