hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, february 26. i m amara walker. good morning. i m boris sanchez. we are so grateful that you are spending your morning us with, starting your week with us. i am pumped to be alongside amara. how are you doing? same here. good to be with you. it s our friday. i am doing great. plenty to get to this morning. here is what we are watching. one thing that has been made clear to me is that everyone wants this contamination gone from the community. the epa stopping the removal of all contaminated material from that toxic train derailment in ohio as a battle now looms over how and where it should be moved. there is an outcry from neighboring states and the white house is responding, too. the war in ukraine is now in its second year and marked by fierce fighting in the east. our alex marquardt is there with troops from around the world who joined the front lines to fight russia s invasion. see
our alex marquardt is there with troops from around the world who joined the front lines to fight russia s invasion. seems like it goes in seven, eight-year kind of cycles, you know, every cycle we just get ha ham hammered. a powerful storm hitting parts of the west with feet of snow and flash flooding and now that mess is headed east. more than 10 million people under the threat of severe storms and we have got your forecast. and we begin this morning in ohio where cleanup of hazardous waste from the east palestine train derailment has been halted. the epa is now saying it must review norfolk southern s plans for disposal of the contaminated material. this is coming after officials in texas and michigan said they did not know the toxic waste would be dumped in their