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Hospitals will not be able to deal with it. not just they won't be able to care for the folks with covid, they won't be able to deal with the kinds of things that i take care of like heart attacks, people with strokes who have difficulty finding beds. that's what's at stake now. >> all of this is causing major disruptions during one of the busiest travel times during the year. there were nearly 1500 flights canceled and some cruise ships were forced to return to port. alison kosik is in new york with more on the cruise ships. first let's go to nadia ramiro with details on the flight cancellati...

Level of respect for international order that was not lost on the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. >> president putin has ordered that last step at the exact time as we are gathered in the council seeking peace putin delivered a message of war in total disdain for the responsibility of this council. this is a grave emergency. >> in a phone call with ukraine's president, president biden promised russia will be held accountable for what he called an unprovoked and unjustified attack. this afternoon president biden will deliver remarks to the nation but the whole world will be listening. >>...

Trying to keep track of everybody who is trying to protest and come out against this unprovoked attack by russia on ukraine. first let's go to mike memoli at the white house for us where administration officials are reacting to the dramatic escalation from vladimir putin. as we promised, keir, we'll be talking about this. mike, what is the white house saying about it? >> reporter: alex, as you can imagine, the white house is monitoring every comment coming from the russian president and every russian military move. we're hearing from a senior military official and from our colleague courtney...

Friday. government photos appear to show a home that caught fire after pieces of plane fell on it. it's not clear if those are the remnants of the ukrainian jet shot down. ukraine foreign minister is slamming russia for what he called horrific rocket strikes on kyiv. saying the city hasn't seen something like that since world war ii. ukraine says it blew up a bridge 50 kilometers north of the capitol to stop the russian advance. but as moscow tries to push further into ukraine, the u.s. and allies are taking aim at the russian economy. announcing sweeping sanctions to hurt russia's banks, stat...

Bare the consequences. america stands up to bullies. we stand up for freedom. this is who we are. make no mistake. freedom will prevail. >> cnn senior international correspondent is live in paris for us. with international reaction. first let's go to white house reporter in washington. and how much will the sanctions impact. what effect will they have? will they make a difference in the end. >> i think they will on the russian economy. the white house says these are unprecedented sanctions. the real question is whether they will have effect on vladimir putin. at this point that's an open quest...