on capitol hill, nicole diantonio, back to you. >> thank you so much.'s >>> we are hearing from a lot o people with a lot of questions. joining me now is real estate professor thomas gorski, thank you for being with us. to the person who has their money in first republic, right off the top, you heard from one of our viewers saying i will keep my fingers crossed. are they safe? >> first republic depositors ar safe. their deposits are guaranteed, so they have nothin to worry about. if anything, it is the deposits of other banks that would potentially worry about the banks. >> what do you mean other? what are the other worries? >> silicon valley bank and first republic bank are not really isolated incidents. there are at least 200 banks at similar risk of ur surepo migdecide toey. why is this the case? well, the fed raised the interest rates, the assets of the banking system to client by about $2 trillion. there is significant number of banks wit a current value asset , less than the value of their liabilities. in the u.s. system, we are talking $9 trillion

. >>> the bye demonstration will and a national covid health emergency declaration, as nicole diantonioreports, it could mean some people could lose their healthcare coverage. >> i have today declared that the coronavirus is a public health emergency in united states. >> reporter: when they declared a public health emergency in january 2020, no one could've imagined it would last for more than three years, and more than 1 million americans. and the covid vaccine and new treatments mean the public health emergency will come to an end at midnight tonight. >>> january 20, 2021, it has declined by 99%. >> and now that the emergency is over, and giving out free to americans and they will remain free with gradually everyone at least through 2024. >> people could be limited with the pandemic, the guidelines are ending, 24 million americans may lose the coverage and with need to reapply. >>> kids and recently pregnant women, totally, disabled, may need to reapply for medicaid. >>> in danger of losing their insurance. >>> just because the emergency is over doesn't mean that covid is no longer a

nicole diantonio is live with the developments. >> reporter: president zelensky denied any involvement in the attack on the kremlin saying their focus is on defending their country. russian forces unleashed a wave of drone attacks on several ukrainian cities. ukrainian air defense officials say they destroyed more than a dozen including those heading tom kyiv. the latest assault followed an alleged double drone strike on the cream line when russia claims targeted president putin >> inflammatory statements. >> reporter: john sullivan -- >> this could be the russian government doing it itself to rally the russian nationalists who are disappointed, i think it's fair to say, with how the war in ukraine has gone to date >> a top russian official is accusing the u.s. of masterminding the drone attack. >> it's ludicrous. we don't eve know what happened here. >> reporter: some forces in moscow are calling for the direct targeting of ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy himself. earlier thursday, zelenskyy made an unannounced visit to the international criminal court in the netherlands calli