One minute you're landing, kind of waiting to see your friends and your people, and the next minute you're physically upside down and just really turned around.

But it sounded, I mean, it was just cement and metal.

The most powerful part of today was there was just people.

No countries, no nothing.

It was just people together helping each other.

A blessing there that no one was hurt, but that was a man who was on the Delta flight that

overturned yesterday after landing in Toronto. The question is, what went wrong? We'll have the

latest on that crash just ahead. Plus, U.S. and Russian officials are holding diplomatic talks

right now in Saudi Arabia and negotiating possible terms to the end of the war in Ukraine.

The question is, are peace talks legitimate without any Ukrainian officials at the table?

And another top federal official is resigning after denying Elon Musk access to sensitive data.

The question is, will a judge today limit his Doge team's access and ability to terminate

employees? It's way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that admittedly had to hit the snooze button a few times before actually waking up this morning. I'm Ali Vitale on this Tuesday, February 18th, and we'll start with the news. We begin with the diplomatic talks between the U.S. and Russian officials over in Saudi Arabia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meeting right now with a Russian delegation led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The group is supposed to discuss options for ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

But the talks have drawn criticism for not including any Ukrainian officials.

But still, this is the first face-to-face meeting between a U.S. Secretary of State and their Russian counterpart since January of

2022. Meanwhile, leaders from across Europe met in Paris yesterday to align their position on

Ukraine after being excluded from those talks between the U.S. and Russia. Hosted by French

President Emmanuel Macron, the leaders of the U.K., EU, and Germany were in attendance, among

others. Macron spoke with President Trump before the meeting, EU, and Germany were in attendance, among others. Macron spoke with

President Trump before the meeting, and then he later spoke with Ukrainian President Zelensky,

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