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guardian has this picture of a young football fans, the paper saying that women's euros are encouraging more girls to take up the game. one of the most read on the bbc news website is a story about the brazier, the son ofjade goody, who has landed a role in eastenders. we will go back to that issue on heart transplants. we will be talking about this later today, families who are experiencing the issues of waiting times for heart transplants growing. a donor heart is the only way to save beatrix's life. her parents, terry and cheryl, know what the painful reality of that means for the donor family. because they lost their baby, isabelle — and they, too, were asked about organ donation. i vividly remember...
i think i might have actually had her in my arms when the doctor came in, and my overriding emotions at that point in time were i wanted nothing to do with it. i wanted isabelle to be left in peace. for that to be the first moment in time that you broach the topic of organ donation, when your emotions are protective... it's a really, really difficult thing. but cheryl knew immediately that she did want to donate her daughter's heart. i didn't have any doubts. i knew straight away that my answer would be yes. and now they are desperately hoping for a donor heart to save 18—month—old beatrix. she was... she was at death's door. um... and we did lose herfor a little moment in time. i could have a phone call saying, "cheryl, there's a heart, you need to get her ready to be taken up the picu."
not be able to reach their friends and read relatives in mariupol, as you mentioned. i think it's shifted from shock and sadness, fear, to being very, very angry at the kremlin. now, they're just angry at all russians. there's just a huge hate that is being built, and understandably so. i remember being in odessa a week ago, just talking to a woman here at a restaurant. she just started crying talking about bucha. not understanding how it was all possible. i think people, they do scroll constantly, they're very aware of everything going on. constantly checking the news. it's just, every day kind of feels like a new low for them. >> thank you, isabelle.
more than 4 million people have now fled ukraine from neighboring countries. estonia has welcomed several thousand refugees and is offering them a new temporary home aboard a cruise ship. cnn's scott mclean has more on this. >> reporter: passengers on board the isabelle are usually shuttling between latvia and sweden, but for at least the next few months isabelle listen docked in estonia and will be home to some 1,300 ukrainian refugees. almost all of them are women and children. there are kids in every corner of the ship, using the ballroom for a soccer match, learning to ride a bike or learning remotely. the ship's dining room serves three meals a day, the duty-free shop has turned into a storage room and everywhere you look people are trying to adjust to their new surroundings. most of the people on board this
you should leave. and obviously, that's not really how my job works. my job is to stay and document what happened. but it's a weird feeling there because on the surface, it looks very normal, but people are getting nervous as kind of it sees that that area is going to come into play soon. >> it is -- it's not just very hard, it's impossible to put your feelings aside as a journalist when you're covering a tore like this, but when you have your heart in because your family is actually that is a hell of a challenge, we thank you for living up to it and doing it. isabelle, we thank you for your time tonight. the key thing that ukraine's leaders say they need to fight russia is more weapons from the west. today, ukraine got good news from the u.s. but some members of congress say it's still not enough. congressman jason crow joins you
now, we have seen that gun violence directed at law enforcement officers in new york city. we saw two police officers there shot and killed. the gun the suspect used was stolen. fred? >> isabelle, thank you for brings that to us. appreciate that. thank you for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. the "cnn newsroom" continues with jim acosta right now. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim accosta in washington. the threat of war hangs over russia and ukraine, ukraine offering a new torism slogan. stay calm and visit. all while buildup of russian troops at its door step reaches levels not seen since the cold war. warning an invasion could have horrific consequences adding to
wedge in nato wherever he can. nic robertson, thank you so much. we want to go to isabelle now. she's from fort bragg. isabelle, talk to us about the u.s. deployment. >> good morning to you. president biden's formal order came down on wednesday. and less than 24 hours later, we saw the first deployment happening here out of fort bragg. now the plan is for overall 2,000 soldiers and para troopers to deploy. leading up on c-17s and heading to eastern europe, specifically germany and poland. that is the plan. on direct orders from president biden. this is the most significant move from the u.s. thus far. and it's acting on the potential of russian president vladimir putin invading ukraine. russia so far has refused to draw back tens of thousands of troops there as you heard from the border. but the pentagon has been clear.
alert and at the ready to go there. >> good informed point to make there, isabelle. very good. thank you so much. still ahead, outrage and demands for more transparency in minneapolis after another police shooting results in the death of a black man. what happened and why the attorney general is now stepping in after a quick break. re with neutrogena® retinol pro plus. a powerful .05% retinol that's also gentle on skin. for wrinkles results in one week. neutrogena®. for people with skin. trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin' high ♪ ♪ you know how i feel ♪ (coughing) ♪ breeze driftin' on by ♪ ♪ you know how i feel ♪ copd may have gotten you here, but you decide what's next. start a new day with trelegy. ♪ ...feelin' good ♪ no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy.
you're going to have to find an opportunity to vote, here are your resources, here is the game plan, but what they told us is that many smaller counties in texas don't have enough employees to do that. so there are people who will potentially get rejected and never get notified at all. if you are not notified you don't know that you need to find an early voting site or voting day or location for march 1st. that's what they're most concerned about and that's part of the bigger picture that they want the doj to look into. >> but, you know, i'm already looking at problems down the road because if people don't necessarily know that their mail-in ballot has been invalidated but they are worried about a it and they go and try to vote day of, you will have a whole big mess because they will say people voted twice, right? there are a lot of issues here. >> reporter: absolutely. and the election staff are pretty panicked about their day-to-day work load right now. isabelle who you just heard from