it s good to see you. i m yasmin dissident. we have a lot to get to this hour. new today, according to nbc news, china is considering what impact could this have on the ground in ukraine? what does this mean for peace talks with china proposing to mediate days ago? i will speak with one american on how his life has changed this past year after reporting from the war zone and helping ukrainians escape the deadly violence. new reporting on the origins of covid and the briefing lawmakers received from odni. plus, the medical breakthrough which could help tens of millions of americans survive not just covid but the common flu as well. we are also monitoring a mission happening in outer space. we will explain why it is now being dubbed as a lifeboat rescue. in our next hour, i m going to go one-on-one with former trump impeachment manager in january 6th committee member so lofgren with her thoughts on a speaker mccarthy handing those january 6th tapes to fox news, 40,000 hours o
good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 11th, we re live in the cnn newsroom, and you don t have to adjust your tv, we re actually in the same set in the same place. no split screen. right. great to be with you as well. up first this hour, president biden ordering an prague to shoot down an unidentified object over alaska, an operation that he is describing as a success, and right now, there are way more questions though about what that thing was that got shot down and actual details about it, and keep in mind, this is the second time in a week that a u.s. fighter jet has taken down an object after the chinese surveillance balloon was brought down last saturday. ten miles off the coast of alaska, the federal aviation administration issuing a temporary flight restriction in the area as the military took action. officials say they don t know what the object is or who it belongs to. the white house says president biden was first briefed on the situation thursday
european countries are suspending the use of a different vaccine over reports of dangerous blood clots in a small number of recipients. the vaccine has not been authorized for use yet here in the united states. the company expected to apply for that authorization quite soon. and dr. anthony fauci is keeping an eye on europe today offering a new warning as new cases in the united states are plateauing at a dangerously high level. about 50,000 cases a day. and he wants to make sure that we as a country don t end up in the same situation that europe is facing right now. europe is generally a few weeks ahead of us in the dynamics of the outbreak. and they had play towing and then they pull back a bit on their mitigation methods. the all of a sudden, it started to surge again. we want to mike ake sure that doesn t happen here in the united states. part of that equation is vaccines. let s start with the news coming out this morning about moderna s trials involving children. eli