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i'm george howell. the "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast, our top story, venezuela's humanitarian crisis takes another deadly turn. officials say that five people were killed near venezuela's border on saturday as troops clashed with protesters trying to bring aid to the country. at least two trucks carrying aid were set on fire on a bridge here. opposition leader juan guaido who organized the protests indicated the president nicolas maduro was responsible. he urged troops not to support maduro's regime. >> translator: your loyalty, members of the armed forces, who burns food in front of the hungry. how many of you, soldiers, have sick mothers? how many of you have children in school without food? you don't owe any type of obedience to those who sadistically because there is no other expression for it celebrate that aid doesn't enter a country that needs it. you don't owe any type of loyalty. >> so far more than 60 members of the armed forces have defected from the ma

i'm george howell with the headlines., venezuela's opposition will try to bring food and medicine in from neighboring countries. they are closed columbia and brazil's border. near the brazilian border, two people were killed in a squirmish with venezuelan troops. >>> no word on robert mueller's sentencing for paul manafort. the former campaign chief is due to be sentenced for conspiracy to defraud the united states and con spearty to obstruct justice. the filing was due several hours ago. i's expected to give us a revealing look into mueller's investigation. in the u.s., singer r. kelly turned himself into chicago police. you can see the video there, after he was indicted on ten counts of sexual abuse. the case involves four victims andesites incidents from 1998 to 2010. kelly previously denied similar accusations. he is expected to be in court saturday. >>> now, to nigeria where the polls are open this hour, but there have been problems. today's voting comes after a week's long delay. the presidential and parliamentary e

. >> i'm george howell from "cnn newsroom." >>> 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. the lawsuits are flying. the u.s. president barely uttered the words national emergency and the lawyers came out fighting. members of his own party warned it was a terrible idea. >> president trump declared a national emergency days after congress refused his demand for funding. he will face a gauntlet of legal challenges. cnn's jim acosta reports, he may have already sabotaged his own case. >> reporter: try to take a victory lap after a defeat in congress, president trump declared a national emergency to tap into administration funds to build a wall. the president may have already undercut his case when he admitted the motivation is to speed things along. >> i could do the wall over a period of time, i didn't need to do this, but i have to do it faster. i have done a wall for the election. 2020. >> reporter: more than $1 billion authorized by congress, they are free to secure 8 billion for the wall. the president is still selling the wall claiming most illegal drugs coming into the u

i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta.ues here on cnn right after the break. breathe right strips are designed to simply when nighttime nasal congestion closes in, open your nose right back up. ♪ breathe better. sleep better. breathe right. think only specialty stores have what's new? olay has this season's hottest debut. like new clay stick masks. all mask, no mess. olay hydrating facial mist. for hydration on the go. and our breakthrough brightening eye cream. boosted with vitamin c. get your new beauty fix. only by olay. >>> tension mounting. shields have gone back up again and the protesters are recommending people start to move back. >> a bid to get aid in peacefully failed for what venezuelans are left with. >> prosecutors from special counsel robert mueller's office effectively throwing the book to paul manafort and told a judge he should says up to 25 years behind bars. >> a judge bed the bond for $1 million. will he able to get that money and get out of jail before his next hearing which will be monday?

i'm george howell. cnn "niceroom" starts right now. >>> our top story, venezuela's humanitarian crisis is heading towards a showdown. in just a few hours' time the opposition will bring aid from neighboring nations. but the sitting president, nicholas maduro, is doing everything he can to stop it. his company has closed the borders to colombia and brazil, already the standoff near brazil's border has been violent. local officials say two people were killed, 17 others hurt when venezuelan troops opened fire. more than 50 countries backed the opposition and have condemned the venezuelan president n. a statement, white house press secretary sarah sanders says the violation of human rights by maduro and those following his orders will not go unpunished. she says the united states urges the venezuelan military to uphold its constitutional duty to protect the citizens of venezuela and the military must allow humanitarian aid no peacefully enter the country. she says the world is watching. >>> meantime, aid is

i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell. >>> u.s.-backed forces say a victory against isis in its last syrian enclave could just be days away. with isis cornered, president trump has issued this warning on twitter. he says european countries must take back hundreds of isis fighters or the u.s. will be forced to release them. he says the fighters could then permeate europe. >>> russia is investigating what caused a building collapse saturday in st. petersburg. russian news outlets say this video shared on social media is the moment the roof and walls caved in. thankfully it sounds like everyone made it out okay. an official says no one was found in the rubble, and there are no reports of missing relatives. >>> in the united states, actor jussie smollett says he's angered and devastated by reports that he actually orchestrated an alleged hate crime against himself. law enforcement sources tell cnn two men arrested earlier this week and released are now cooperating with police who now believe smollett paid the two men to stage the attac

i'm george howell. the u.s.dent is set to hold his second summit with the north korean leader kim jong un. and when mr. trump touches down in vietnam, he will have some heavy diplomatic lifting to do, you could say. despite that president trump said that he is in no rush to rush talks of denuclearization along with the north. our will ripley takes a look at what's at stake with this week's summit. >> reporter: you can feel the buzz here in hanoi, the vietnamese capital that will host the historic second summit between the u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un later this week. we know that kim's train is heading for vietnam right now but his security detail has already arrived, the north korean equivalent of the secret service getting everything ready for their supreme leader to make his arrival for an official state visit where he will tour and really inspect sights in vietnam that are examples of this country's really impressive economic growth, rapid economic growth that has occurred

i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "newsroom" starts right now. >>> and we begin with breaking news that russia is suspending its inf missile treaty. >> this comes one day after the u.s. says it would withdrawal from the agreement unless russia complied within 180 days. the russian president vladimir putin said this, quote, we have a tit for tat response, american partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the treaty, so we are suspending ours as well. they announced they are engaged in research and technological development work and we will do the same. we get more now. >> reporter: the united states announcing today it is suspending one of the last nuclear arms treaties between the u.s. and russia. >> we provided russia an ample time to mend its ways and for russia to honor its commitment. tomorrow that time runs out. >> reporter: the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or inf was signed by president reagan and mikhail gorbechev in 1987. for the past years, the u.s. accused russia of viol

i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell.s around the world "erin burnett out front" is next. thanks, for watching cnn the world's news leader. >> see you later. camaraderie. and you should be mad at tech that makes things worse. but you're not mad, because you have e*trade, who's tech makes life easier by automatically adding technical patterns on charts and helping you understand what they mean. don't get mad. get e*trade's simplified technical analysis. >>> a terrifying situation here in aurora, illinois. multiple people killed. multiple civilians injured. and five police officers injured by gunfire. >>> robert mueller asking a federal judge in virginia throw the book at paul manafort, arguing that the former trump campaign chairman deserves up to 24 1/2 years in prison. >>> for the first time, we learned that actually the special counsel's office on the record was investigating roger stone as part of this. >> sarah sanders, interviewed by the special counsel, the president's press secretary sat down with mueller last year

i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "newsroom" starts right now. >>> our top story, the embattled governor of virginia, now claims he was not in a racist photo from 34 years ago. 24 hours ago ralph northam admitted to being one of the people in this very offensive picture. he also tried to justify it as simply the culture of where he was living back in the 1980s. >> but calls for the governor's resignation are getting louder by the minute. his old boss, the former governor terry mcauliffe, says it is time to step down. and northam didn't do himself any favors with the news conference he held on saturday, as you'll hear with our jessica dean who has this report. >> reporter: governor ralph northam really digging his heels in during a press conference on saturday, continuing to say over and over again it was not him in that racist photo that was found in his medical school yearbook. and that he could continue to earn back the trust of virginiaens and move forward. >> today, i am not ready to ask virginians to grant forgiv

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