Melissa First News Today

newsroom. dangerous winter storms, pummeling the united states coast-to-coast. how the storms are disrupting travel. and bracing for possible escalation, ahead of the anniversary of the invasion, as russia and china reaffirm their ties in moscow. plus -- rying tensions in the northeast after a raid by the palestinians leave 11 dead. were live with the latest. millions of americans are feeling the chill from the maive winter storm system coast-to-coast. snow, winds and ice have knoc...

Every inch of nato territory, as the leaders reaffirm their support for ukraine. >> as natos eastern flank, youre the front lines of our western defense and you know what is at stake in this conflict. not just for ukraine, but the freedom of democracies throughout europe and around the world. >> cnn correspondents are standing by for all developments. i want to go to kyiv and melissa first. were on the eve of the one-year anniversary. what is the mood like in kyiv? and what are authorities expec...

Zelensky, where madrid expects to send six tanks of its own, to arrive here by february or march, when the training periods have been completed. as we look ahead to the one-year anniversary, its a case of hoping for the best. as ever, in the course of the last year, preparing for the worst. >> absolutely. melissa, thanks. on wednesday, we saw russia suspend its participation of the arms treaty. now, theres reports that putin is moving to strengthen russias arms forces. what are we learning abo...

Its so disgusting. but then when you walk it back, he is done in the state of virginia. we do have one term governors in the commonwealth of virginia, so i dont know if that plays into his calculus of whether or not he sticks around. but he needs to go for the sake of the common will as well as democratic party. >> harris: i want to get to this. "new york times," the governors refusal to resign plunge virginia into political turmoil and created a crisis for national democrats who have a sealed t...

>> but, nancy, was it funny haha or oh no? >> the oh no moment was when he asked april ryan to arrange the meeting with the cbc. i only wish she didnt say that cbc stands for congressional black caucus. he didnt know! >> going to the bannon and rosie this evening. one thing that makes it funny is it was an element of surprise. it was a surprise when melissa first came out and just nailed the spicer. it was a surprise when kate mckinnon and played jeff sessions. and theyve set up bannon to be a s...

To you. yesterday we saw just how uninformed and ridiculous -- >> but, nancy, was it funny haha or oh no? >> the oh no moment was when he asked april ryan to rararrange meeting with the cbc. i only wish she didnt say that cbc stands for congressional black caucus. he didnt know! >> going to the bannon and rosie this evening. one thing that makes it funny is it was an element of surprise. it was a surprise when melissa first came out and just nailed the spicer. it was a surprise when kate mckinno...

What happened to flint, michigan where water is still unsafe to drink under a donald trump presidency. thank you all for being here. im going to start with melissa first, as the citizen living in flint, living through this for now two years going. what do you expect out of this just passed bill in congress? does it make you feel hopeful and have your pipes been addressed? >> no, i have a copper service line so even though my newest lead test from virginia tech is 1,400 parts per million, were no...

People cant pay for water they cant use, and what we have been able to negotiate is just to have people pay for their sewer, well we can use it to flush, we know that, and for things like washing clothes, those kinds of things, so were continuing to press for that. and thats why the point that melissa brought up, we have only been able to prioritize certain areas in the city of flint to start replacing those lead service lines, and if we had the funs that were going to be getting now, we can loo...

Push back that nothing would happen, but i believed that we could make some things happen because i know with myself and our michigan delegation, we were going to get this done. right now what the state has done in addition to some of those credits in the $25 million to get us started, thats whats been put in place. but like the congressman said, we need much, much more. so we have got to continue to impress upon them that the city of flint deserves more because this was a situation that we did ...

Its not just service lines that are damaged, inside the homes are damaged as well as everything coming from the water treatment plant. so we need a full upgrade for our city, as well as these bills dismissed, the shutoff notice hit just the same time that i got the notice that my lead was so high. my water is going to be shut off because the state is forcing them to shut off our water. we still need our water to shower. >> the idea many months ago was that the state was going to help out the cit...