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everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. a deal to avoid a debt default is about to be revealed. president biden and speaker mccarthy are finalizing an agreement to raise the debt limit. president biden saying this earlier today. i m about to go in and call mccarthy now at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. i think we re in good shape. house leaders expect the bill to be voted on as soon as wednesday. speaker mccarthy is confident the deal will pass. february 1st i sat down with the president. i said let s work together to be able to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending, to let mark be able to work again, cut red tape, get some work requirements to help people get back into work. i think this agreement frames all that from limit, save, grow. it doesn t get everything we wanted. we did a conference call with our conference and over 95% were overwhelmingly excited about what they see. they re getting a ....
achieve a, quote, major break through. they re building up an extensive system of trenches in the south. tell us what you re seeing. yeah, there has been an extraordinary network dug possibly according to this british intelligence report the largest we ve seen since world war ii across the southern area of vap wreegsa and we ve driven along the ucrayian side of it for quite a past number of weeks here. often these are deep trenches followed by a significant sand back backed up by razor wire and these dragons teeth peer med shaped pieces of concrete form a complex set of defenses but certainly a challenge. there ll be very much in the mind of ukrainian forces as they probably in the days ahead if not already in the days behind begin the counter offensive in these areas. we simply don t know the full details of their plan to be honest, and weather is potentially playing into it. there s been an extraordinary lack of videos from ukrainian military over the past weeks the ....
facing tough questions over the railway company s safety practices in the wake of the train derailment in east palestine, ohio, and now he has explaining to do before congress. shaw has apologized more than once for derailment, and he has said that the company is making changes, and they will do right by the people of east palestine. and let s get to the testimony from washington. and sunlen, what have you heard so far? some frustration from the residents of east palestine, but we did hear from the ceo of norfolk southern, and the company and the person who has specifically had so much criticism in the aftermath of this train derailment, and we have heard from mr. shaw. he said that he is deeply sorry of what happened, and he promised to see this through, to get it right for the residents there, and he said point-blank, it is clear that the safety mechanisms that we had in place were not enough. this is more of what he had to say. i am determined to make this right. ....
hazardous conditions as members of both parties call for more safety regulations. shaw admitted that the company s current systems are lacking. it is clear the safety mechanisms in place were not enough. the events of the last month are not who we are as a company. so shaw s company is now responsible for not one but two high-profile train derailments in ohio in just a matter of weeks. according to one senator on the committee, 20 derailments involving a chemical spill over the past eight years. this week, the ntsb launched an investigation into norfolk southern s safety practices. cnn s sunlen is on the scene. you re here in washington. i mean, these senators in this hearing today, they did not go easy on shaw. reporter: they certainly did not, kristin. you could sense their frustration as they were asking some very sharp questions of the ceo, andy shaw, of norfolk southern, and they went right after him about the accountability, trying to hold his feet to the fi ....
why he s taking the risk talking to cnn s christiane amanpour in an interview be behind bars. new details about mitch mcconnell, treated for a concussion in a d.c. hospital now after a fall. i m jake tapper. we begin with putin s brutal war on kroukraine. strikes reaching nearly every corner from kyiv to lviv, the worst russian barrage since january, punctuated by a variety of russian missiles, including six rare hyper sonic missiles, eluding air defenses. officials say in total, 84 missiles were launched. at least 11 people in ukraine were killed. russia claims the strike was retaliation for what it calls terrorist actions by ukraine in a western russian town last week. cnn cannot independently verify russia s claims or confirm evidence of such an attack. for the sixth time, renewed fears of a nuclear catastrophe. europe s largest nuclear power plant in zaporizhzhia shelled, forced to run on backup power. cnn s ivan watson is on the ground in ukraine s capital for us ....