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From kiev. and businesses that won't serve gay people. a bill allowed just that in the u.s. but will the governor sign it. and ted nugent apologizes or does he for using a racism term to describe president barack obama. the only thing is there is a bust, you'll hear the rocker's explanation. all right. one day after citing a landmark peace deal, ukraine's president has left the capital city of kiev. and the parliament has unanimously voted him out of office. but in a television interview earlier today from eastern ukraine, president viktor yanukovych said he will not resign. all of this ...

Dramatic moments. you're in the "cnn newsroom." we're glad to have you with us. welcome to saturday. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. the saturday air moves through my lungs much easier than the monday air. we're going to get to arizona which everybody is talking about. also to ole miss. but we have to start with the fast-moving developments in ukraine. >> you're looking at pictures here we're going to pull up. there they are of ukraine's chapter kiev. protesters are still at the city's independence square there. and they're saying they're not going anywhere until their president all...

Effectively been negotiated the, they still don't trust the president viktor yanukovych. the people are saying they're going to say here until they're pretty sure this agreement, this compromise, will be followed to the word. and some will say they'll stay here longer until president viktor yanukovych is removed from office. >> phil black, keep us posted. meantime, president obama is watching every move. president obama spoke to vladimir putin about the situation. that is before the president left kiev. what is the latest, alise on how washington, how the white house is watching the incremen...

Stopped for now but protesters are still taking action, toppling statues of vladimir lenin. kiev has been the center of violence for days now. phil black is there live now. phil, what is the latest? what more is the president saying and where is he exactly? >> reporter: sure, fredricka. let's start with breaking news first. this concerns the former prime minister of this country, yulia tymoshenko. they're saying she has been released. this is significant. she's the former prime minister of the country. sheian against yanukovych to be president in 2010. in 2011, she was prosecuted, convicted an...

Protesters yanked down statues of lenin who, of course, led the russian revolution. and they accused president yanukovych of wanting too close of ties with russia. we like in alise labbot. alise, the ukrainian president, we know, has left kiev. he's reportedly saying he will not resign. he's digging in. what does all of this mean at this point? >> reporter: well, he may be digging in, christi, but it's really unclear whether he can maintain his grip on power, because you see in the last couple of days about a third of his party in the you're cranian parliament has resigned. there are a lot of ...