Whats the latest youre hearing . Reporter you mentioned the human remains. Thats being looked at by the medical examiners office. When we asked last night at a press conference, the police chief did confirm that tissue was found, believed to be human remains. He wouldnt tell us exactly where in the blast site those were found, whether it had anything to do with potentially someone inside the rv. He said theyre still looking into all of that. And to keep in mind that the debris was really scattered across a large distance, and so its still difficult as theyre parsing through a lot of that. And we also have heard now of, of course, about the three people who were hospitalized. Those are three civilians, luckily with nonlifethreatening injuries. The city also reallytalked abou efforts of the First Police Officers that came to the scene. The six officers came to the scene, they heard that ominous recorded message coming from the rv telling people they had 15 minutes before a bomb would go off, and those officers really worked hard to evacuate people from that area. Now, we did hear from one of the terrified residents who lives right by the blast site about what she heard, about how she had to leave the house. Heres what she told Anderson Cooper yesterday about that experience. The bomb exploded while we were on our way back down there and we saw the fireball went all the way up past the at t, above the at t building. Everything shook. It was quite the blast. Reporter and it damaged at least 41 businesses, according to the mayor of nashville. He also said that one building has collapsed on itself and theres some issues with, of course, Structural Integrity all around because of the effect of this blast. Of course, another effect has been the outage of cell service and Internet Service for a large part of this region. There were issues yesterday with people getting calls through. Thats being worked on as we speak. But of course the investigators continue to work here and they ask people not only to give tips to Law Enforcement, to the fbi if they know anything at all, but also to stay away from this area. We are under curfew here. People are supposed to stay away from the investigation site, at least until sunday afternoon, john. Natasha chen live in nashville, thank you very much. Joining us now is Country Music artist buck mccoy whose apartment was destroyed in the explosion. I want to ask what happened yesterday, but first this is a saturday morning unlike any other. How are you feeling . Actually, today im not feeling good. I was just right outside where the blast occurred, and today im actually feeling a little bit more of a headache and im having some hearing problems because of the intense explosion. It was something that maybe yesterday i was a little bit more in shock and not feeling my senses, but today i feel like ive been beat up a little bit. I have some scrapes and bruises and some cuts on my feet, but i think im going to be all right. Well, it makes sense you would have shock in the immediate aftermath. Have you talked to your neighbors . Are they suffering similar symptoms the morning after . Yeah, weve started to get together and organize a little group of people that are today were starting to look for our animals. I was not able to get my cat out. I barely made it out myself. There was glass everywhere, large objects, wood, stuff to climb over and i was unable to get my cat. So today we got a Little Organization together of people that are going to be going to take a walkthrough and were going to see what is left and if theyre okay. The authorities are going to let you all theyve been calling and theyve been very supportive. Im staying with some friends right now just down the street from ground zero. This is a time for friends to circle the wagons. The authorities are going to let you all back into your buildings today to try to find pets and pick up personal effects . Yeah, thats the plan. Theyre putting together a small group of agents that will take us in and well try and find whats left in there. Some of the buildings are very insecure. These older buildings have just taken such a lick that i dont think some of them will be able to survive and theyll have to probably be taken down and rebuilt. Yeah, the images are just shocking and terrifying. Im so grateful that you and your neighbors are beginning to rebound today, but no question its going to be a long road for the neighborhood and for yourselves and we wish you all the best on the road ahead, and especially i know how much those pets can matter to folks. I hope they all will found as well. Buck mccoy, thank you for joining us this morning on cnn. Lets bring in former supervisory agent, a cnn Law Enforcement analyst and former lead bomb tech for the fbi in new york city. Peter, the crime scene covers several blocks and the destruction is massive. What are the kind of things you would be looking for as an investigator to gain some clues from the nature of this explosive device . Good morning, john. To answer your question, generally what will happen is the things youre looking for are components of the device and youll start what we call as the point of origin of the bombing or the crater. So that being said, where that vehicle was located, that will be sifted through very intensely. The components survive. People think things disintegrate. Its there, it will be found. And what the investigators will do, theyll look at patterns or paths of flight. In general heavier items tend to fly further. So they will use the narrow street where the explosion took place and they will comb that very methodically in a gridstyle format, moving from the origin and all the way down in both directions, up and down the street. These blast crime scenes are really a 360. Theyre a 365crime scene, so not only are they going to be looking to their left and right, but they have to look up, they have to look on top of buildings. Rooftops will be scoured and treated as crime scenes just like where the actual device or the explosion occurred. Theyll go inside windows of apartment buildings or parts of buildings where windows are cracked because thats where fragmentation or componentry from the device can be located. Authorities have yet to announce a suspect or a person of interest, but should the public be concerned that someone was able to assemble this much explosive material, all while flying under the radar . Absolutely, and thats a good way to determine it. We use the term, when i used to teach classes in the fbi to first responders, about responding to situations just like this, we used the term fly underneath the radar. Commercial and military explosive are very hard to get in the United States, theyre very well regulated. Im not saying it cant happen, but theyre hard to acquire. I cant walk down to my Hardware Store and buy a box of tnt or dynamite. But i can go to my Hardware Store or online to suppliers and buy precursor chemicals that can be synthesized and manufactured to make improvised explosives or homemade. Thats always a concern of Law Enforcement is individuals can go out there underneath the radar, as you said, buy things in small batches and building devices that will have as much power as youve seen during these crime scene photos. Theres still so much we dont know at this stage from this, frankly, bizarre but intentional bombing. What do you infer from the fact that a message was played warning people to evacuate the area . Theres been a lot of talk about that, and yeah, some people are saying that the bombers intent was to minimize damage to human life. But what i will tell you is in the bombing investigations that ive worked and ive assisted u. S. Attorneys in prosecuting, all that does is prove their resolve. That means that they were willing to set off a device. This wasnt an accident. They knew what the totality of the circumstances that this device would cause when it functioned properly as it did. You know, everyone has heard about the gunshots going out, were those pyrotechnics to wake people up, that will all be determined later when subjects are interviewed properly. But i dont take lightly the fact that they were warning the citizens down that part of nashville to get out of the area. All it does is show me the bombers, the criminals involved in this, they had resolve and they knew exactly what was going to happen, regardless of human life. Given all of that, and we want to emphasize that investigators have not implied terror, whether foreign or domestic, but is there anything revealed so far that you as an investigator might point you in that direction . Because thats really the key question. Yeah, it is. So every bombing in the United States is treated by Law Enforcement and then joined by the fbi as an act of terrorism. There arent too many devices or bombings that occur of this magnitude. This is not a small pipe bomb thats young kids kind of messing around with that type of device. This was a formal, deliberate act, whether it was meant or intended for that location where it detonated, that will be determined later. But this was a deliberate act and these things are treated as an act of terrorism until theyre proved not. Thank you very much for joining us. Youre welcome. Despite repeated warnings, millions of americans did travel over the holidays, raising concerns that the nation is weeks away from yet another devastating new spike in covid19 cases. Cnns alison kosik joins us now. Three weeks after thanksgiving, we saw that surge across the country. Now it looks like we could be in for another round of new infections. What can you tell us . Reporter that is the worry. They are coming off of a holiday, it is a holiday wen, but clearly the coronavirus not taking a holiday. Case numbers continue to spike between new york and california. Now theres this new travel restriction in place to try to keep this more infectious variant of the virus from coming to the u. S. But the reality is even dr. Anthony fauci believes that that new variant could already be here. Starting monday in the uk, all passengers must have a negative covid19 test within three days of boarding a flight to the u. S. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo raised the decision by the cdc for passengers to be tested who are flying from the uk, testing people for covid19 before they get on planes is common sense. We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past and we must continue to do everything we can to keep new yorkers and americans safe, kwoe cuomo said friday. The centers for Disease Control centers for Disease Control announced the new restrictions for travelers. But Research Shows the role may only have a small impact on the new strain of the coronavirus. According to researchers on the cdcs covid19 response team, testing three days before a flight might reduce the risk of spreading the virus by just 5 to 9 . Pfizer and moderna are testing to see whether their vaccines work against the new variant, which thus far has not been detected in the u. S. Southern california is grappling with surging covid19 hospitalizations and deaths as the state passes another grim milestone, reporting more than 300 new covid deaths for a Third Straight day. In Los Angeles County, a person dies every ten minutes from covid19, countys Public Health director says. I think people dont think coronavirus will happen to them. They think coronavirus will happen to another family. But there is no safety other than Public Health measures that we have been preaching from the mountaintops. Reporter as christmas comes to an end and we head into the new year, experts say the safest way to celebrate is is at home with the people you live with or online with friends and family. For those that host a new years celebration, the cdc suggests staying outside, limiting the number of guests, wearing and making extra masks available, and keeping background music low to avoid shouting. What weve just seen, the amplification events thats happened in the u. S. , we had thanksgiving, we had labor day, we had halloween, and each one of these events brought lots of people together and just gave the virus more fuel to move through the population. So christmas is going to do a similar thing. Reporter in the days leading up to christmas, tsa says that more than 1 Million People moved through security checkpoints at airports across the country. Its stoking worries from Health Care Experts that we could see another spike in coronavirus cases on top of the spike that were seeing right now. John. Lets hope not. Stay smart and safe. Alison kosik, thank you very much. Up next, millions of americans lose their jobless benefits today as the president refuses to sign a multitrillion dollar aid package. Also ahead, after pardoning a spring of criminal loyalists, well look at who else the president might absolve before his term ends. With state of the art tools and technology, to genuine parts made for the perfect fit. Whether its our place. Or yours. 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President trump says a bill negotiated by his own treasury secretary is no longer good enough and his demand for bigger payments failed in a vect vote. Senator Lindsey Graham spent christmas golfing with the president and now hes signaling he supports those 2,000 checks. Whats the likelihood that more republicans get in line . Reporter well, john, grahams reversal is sure to put pressure on more republicans allies of the president to consider backing his effort to upend the relief talks that took weeks, because the president really didnt give any advance warning to lawmakers on capitol hill that, although he sat on the sidelines for all of the talks about what the relief bill would look like, he was going to try to wedge this lastminute opposition in there and there was no plan b for republicans, because they voted for the bill under the impression that the president supported the 600 amount for individual checks. Thats what his own treasury secretary brought to congressional leaders as the white houses proposal. But i want to read you what graham tweeted after he stepped off the golf course with the president yesterday. He wrote after spending time with President Trump today, i am convinced he is more determined than ever to increase stimulus payments to 2,000 per person and challenge section 230 big tech liability protection. Section 230 provision is the reason why the president vetoed the defense spending bill past congress, despite the president s pleas to have a reveal of section 230, and the spending and relief package also passed congress with a veto proof majority. But nonetheless, the president is back on twitter this morning railing against one of its key provisions, writing, i simply want to get our great people 2,000 rather than the 600 that is in the bill. Also, stop the billions of dollars in pork. Just to be clear, the billions of dollars in pork that the president is talking about is not in the relief bill, its in the spending bill that was the legislative vehicle for that. The spending bill very closely reflected what was in the president s own Budget Proposal and what has been in previous spending bills that he has signed, so its unclear where his lastminute opposition to things that his own Budget Office proposed is coming from as well. And, john, as if this wasnt complicated enough, if the president doesnt sign this package by monday, were looking at a potential Government Shutdown because the government will run out of money. So a lot of pressure on whether the president puts his signature on this legislation. Weve asked the white house whether he plans to sign it or veto it and have received no clarity about what the president s plans are. Such an important point. The president is in effect negotiating against his own administrations position at the 11th hour, with peoples benefits and a shutdown looming in the next several days. The president entering coronavirus negotiations at the 11th hour was a surprise. The president s pardon spree was perhaps less surprising, but equally stunning. On the list of recipients, Trump Supporters convicted of financial crimes, blackwater mercenaries and longtime allies who kept quiet during the russia investigation. Joining us is Doug Brinkley and cnn legal analyst elliot williams. Its great to have you both. Doug, lets dig in. Put this in perspective. There have been ethically dodgy pardons before, but has any president rewarded law breaking in this way before . No, weve never seen anything like this. Donald trump is simply emptying the jails of all of his corrupt cronies and hes willing to do it in a willynilly fashion. I think there will be many more to come because he hasnt come to grips with the fact that hes lost power. I mean, over the holiday here he has been fired by the American People while hes golfing with Lindsey Graham, so hes kind of simply, john, you know, pardon anybody that he knows or he possibly can or destroy any legislation. Hes just in a steamroll of destruction mode right now. But i suspect youll see 50, 100, and maybe even thousands of pardons of people because he likes that he has the power to do that. A steamroller of destruction home. Elliot, democratic senator chris murphy suggested doing away with president ial pardon power altogether. Do you think thats remotely realistic or what is your preferred prescription on this . Senator murphy is a great senator, but he just needs to calm down about this issue. Heres the thing. The pardon power is a very important power written into the constitution as a check on our criminal justice system. And to the extent we have a problem today, its not the pardon power, its donald trump. Its a president who has chosen to exercise power in a manner that is objectionable to the American People and some might say unlawful, but hes not violating a rule. Its a power that by way of example, think of it this way. If someone gets into a car accident every time they drive their car, you dont ban cars for all people. What you would do is make it harder for that person to have access to a vehicle or make cars safer or take their license away or whatever. And there are other remedies other than take away the pardon power. Congress could, number one, restrict the pardon power, congress could take a look at sentences and provide a mechanism for making some of these nonviolent drug offenses that are often what people are pardoned for, make those more possibly. Congress, and frankly the American People can elect president s who arent going to abuse their powers. But this rush to take away a very important power that exists in our constitution for an important purpose, even if some president s have misused it, is a little bit misguided and premature. Doug, lets dig into the history of this. The founders did create a fairly broad pardon power, but the debate in the constitutional convention, they were warning against a lot of things that this president is trying to do. So let me give you one specific. Do you think it is constitutional to have a president pardon himself preemptively . I do not. I find this to be abuse of power going on now. I think its going to have to be addressed. When the fbi did abuses in the j. Edgar hoover area, and we had the committee, this is not we will lose our face of democracy around the world. The idea that we can have a president who then just empties the jail of any political crony, meaning you can do any crimes for the president and know youre going to get a get out of jail free card goes against democracy. I agree, donald trump is the problem but the founders probably couldnt have imagined somebody quite this scandalous, the type of person as donald trump that would be willing to do this at the same time the pandemic is going on, at the same time the pope yesterday, john, said take care of the poor during this covid crisis, and you see trump refusing to do it. He is playing out his malignant selflove on a National Stage now and this pardoning has got to be addressed once he leaves the white house because we cant keep doing Something Like this every four years. To that point, even nixon didnt go this far. Elliot, do you buy that open question, that the president , of course he cant pardon himself. Wh. Number one, i think any serious attorney who has looked at this knows that the president cannot pardon himself. Think about it in the law. One person would be essentially the judge and jury of their own crime and he could preemptively immunize himself for everything in his life, so thats out of the question and the idea that theres a debate about that is nonsense. Another really important thing, not to get lost here, is theres a process that exists in the federal government for checking pardons that donald trump simply isnt doing. What the Washington Post reported is that the president is basically caring for his friends at fox news and reading things in the paper and deciding to pardon people on that basis. Theres an entire pardon of the Office Attorney that recommends pardons on the basis of how recent its been, what was the severity of the crime, has the person accepted responsibility, are famous people pushing for this. The president is just disregarding all of that. So what we need is our sort of and this is exactly what doug was getting at, more teeth behind the checks that get put on the president. But i think the framers could not have like you said, could not have anticipated donald trump because they just assumed people would yeah. Let me push you on the prescription here, because the president has disregarded the entire democratic norm of the Justice Department recommending people for pardons. So it goes back to the question of how do we strengthen the guardrails so that future president s cant just disregard them entirely, and can anything be done retrospectively to review a president s pardons . Sure. So congress can put more teeth around anything. The only way to get rid of the power would be to amend the constitution. But congress can certainly put guardrails on when the president can issue one, who he can issue one to, as long as it doesnt say that all black people cant be pardoned or something that would break the law. Congress can look at sentences and so on. So think of it this way. Like the Obama Administration issued clemency to about 2,000 individuals, many of whom were nonviolent drug offenders and so on. This is an important remedy that we need to protect. And i think congress what we need to do is ensure that congress is providing the check on the president that the framers intended, that the branches of government would make sure that no one and i dont want to give donald trump a pass, this is crazy behavior that we should not tolerate, but a lot of this fleeds needs to f other branches of government to ensure that bad leaders arent allowed to run wild with the laws and powers that were kind of rational when they were drafted 200 years ago. Were at the tail end of a presidency and there are president s who have had lower approval ratings, nixon, truman, carter. How do you think donald trump will be looked at in the eyes of history . How do you think hell be ranked . Theres no question hes going to be on the bottom of the barrel. He carries the eye of impeachment with him like andrew johnson, the fact of the matter is that he lost by a significant margin to joe biden. He bungled the big crisis of his presidency, covid19. Hes most synonymous with the xenophobia, racism, disuniting of america, not uniting it. So youre looking at him being ranked the worst or in that area of a james buchanan, warren harding, the bottom rung of them. The question is will trump come back, did he stage a comeback and say it wasnt about my oneterm presidency, its about a revolution that i was running and i reclaim the white house in 2024, and then history would have to reassess him in a different way. Right now hes a flaky onetermer. James buchanan or warren g. Harding, thats cold. Add andrew johnson. Doug and elliot, i want to thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. Next, cnn is inside a california hospital that is near its breaking point as the state recorded nearly 40,000 cases in a single day. 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The state of california is in crisis. Four out of five regions in the state are under stayathome orders that will likely be extended due to rising cases of covid19. Yesterday california added more than 39,000 new cases, a 2 increase from the previous day. The state recorded over 300 new deaths for the third consecutive day. In Los Angeles County, a person dies every ten minutes from covid19, according to health officials. In Southern California, icu bed capacity is at 0 . That means they have no more room for covid19 patients. Officials are urging residents to stay home as the increase in cases and hospitalizations continue to strain the system to its breaking point. Sara sidner has been on the front line of the crisis in california and here are some of the terrifying and heartbreaking stories shes been seeing. Reporter this nurse is preparing for battle against the insidio insidious invisible enemy theyve been fighting for months. Covid19 is now sending so many people to the hospital in california, there are no more intensive care unit beds open here at harbor ucla medical center, so they moved coronavirus cases into the emergency room. Some are so sick, theyre hooked up to no less than eight ivs, pumping in vital medicines to save or soothe them. Very exhausting. Its like a neverending struggle. Its really tough right now. Reporter before his shift started, nurse resurrection learned one of his covid19 patients had died. The patient had no family visits and no breath left to say goodbye. He has no family, this patient had no family that were able to come and see him. Its very sad around the Holiday Season for everyone involved. Reporter everyone here has been exposed to the trauma of loss over and over again. But the patients just keep coming. Whats it like right now for yourself . Its a disaster right now for our staff. The patients are extremely sick, this is a horrible disease. I hope i wont cry because its been ten months of this and we are inundated. Reporter they cant send patients out to other hospitals in Los Angeles County because in the most populated county in america, there is not a single licensed icu bed open. All 2,500 are full. At last count, all of Southern California had zero icu capacity. Theres no break. Theres absolutely no break. And even during july it wasnt so bad, but this time were seeing large numbers. Reporter nancy blake says this is so much worse than the first two surges of the virus because now theyre getting their normal amount of emergency patients, plus a large number of coronavirus cases. In the past two weeks, california has seen a 63 increase in hospitalizations and in just one day, around 40,000 new infections were reported. This as 98 of the state is under a stayathome order. That is clearly not what is happening. What effect does that have on your staff . Theyre angry, because at the very beginning it was people were, you know, saying nurses are heroes and great job and now theyre not listening to us. Theyre not wearing their masks, theyre saying its a hoax, and i have to say im a Glass Half Full kind of person. My glass is empty right now. Reporter youll remember new york at the beginning of the pandemic when they had refrigerated trucks because they needed space for bodies. Now at this hospital they have the same thing and this one has just been turned on. Bud amidst the signs of suffering, there were signs of hope. Health care workers lining up to get their first dose of the vaccine, each sending a message as to why theyre getting inoculated. The first day it arrived, the mood soared, but soured by the afternoon as more patients crushed into the emergency. Are you okay . No, its the worst ive ever seen. Ive been a nurse for 40 years and its the worst ive ever seen. And some of the things these nurses are seeing where their patients are dying, theres no Family Members that are holding that patients hand, or theyre on the other side of an ipad where the family is crying. Our thanks to sara sidner for that. Covid vaccinations are set to begin across several european nations beginning tomorrow as a newer strain of the virus continues to pop up. Lets go to paris this morning. France is one of several countries preparing to distribute vaccines tomorrow so give us a sense of what youre hearing from people on the ground there. Reporter look, theres still a lot of Vaccine Hesitancy and not just in france, but really across the continent. This trust issue is going to be major for all european governments and theyre going to have to handle this. In france earlier this month, it was estimated that about half the population was willing to get the vaccine, right, give or take, which means that the other half is either unwilling or unsure. Now, these attitudes may change as the vaccine starts to be rolled out, the eu begins its Vaccination Program on sunday. And by the way, john, that is an absolutely huge undertaking. Were talking about almost half a billion people across the continent, 450 million across 27 member states. As this begins, if the news continues to be good as it has been by and large from the Pfizer Biontech vaccine, which is the one approved here, then its possible that people will start being a little more trusting of this vaccine. But thats where we stand for now. Still a lot of hesitation as we go into this. To your point, this extraordinary operational achievement, but a lack of trust can be deadly and thats what were dealing with here and around the world. Tell me a little bit more of what we know about this positive case of the new variant that was found in france. Reporter thats worrying news for france and its been found in several other european countries. That person actually traveled from the uk to france a week ago, the same day that i did. And this was the timing was important and thats why im particularly a tuned to it because i had the same timing. This was before the uk pressed the panic button because of this variant and put large sections of its population under the strictest tier four restrictions. So at the time that we traveled, there was no hindrance to that travel. And that person then arrived in france and tested positive for covid19. And because that person was coming from the uk, that positive test then got sent for dna sequencing and thats how we found out on Christmas Day that that person actually did have the new variant of the vaccine. The person is asymptomatic, the person by all accounts feels fine and is back in isolation and now theres Contact Tracing going on, all his contacts being contacted, as it were, to make sure this doesnt spread any further, john. 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Dont settle for silver 1 for diabetic dry skin 1 for psoriasis symptom relief and 1 for eczema symptom relief gold bond champion your skin georgias two Senate Runoff elections are in the frenzy with the candidates spending nearly half a billion dollars since election day on radio and tv ads. The contests are on track to be the most Expensive Senate races in u. S. History and its Democratic Candidates were raising the most money. Cnns ryan noble has more on this t. A half a billion dollars is an unbelievable amount of money, but does it really make a difference in the race were seeing on the ground or is it primarily the media buyers who are benefiting . Its good to be the owner of the local television station in the state of georgia because so much money is being spent on television ads. You cant turn on the tv without seeing an ad from one of these four candidates, but it is hard to quantify the impact that all of this money being spent is having on the race itself. There isnt a lot of available public polling because its so difficult to poll this type of a race. Weve never seen two runoffs happening at the same time with also the balance of the United States senate hanging out there as a possibility at the end of all of this. So we really dont know and we probably wont know until january 5th. But just take a look at these numbers. Right now it is the Democratic Candidates who are raising more money. Jon ossoff and Raphael Warnock both over the 100 million mark. David purdue and Kelly Loeffler have raised more than 60 million. This doesnt tell the whole story because there are hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into georgia from outside groups across the country. Mitch mcconnell and his leadership pac spending hundreds of millions of dollars. Stacey abrams, the former democratic candidate for governor in the state of georgia has raised tens of millions of dollars, and the other part of this that is really important is that candidates are already encouraging people in georgia to get out and vote. Early voting has already been in the works, its now going on two weeks where voters have been able to cast their ballots. Were heading up to january 5th. That is election day. This is expected to be a very tight election and, john, as we mentioned, the balance of the United States senate is what is going to finally be determined, john. Stakes dont get any higher than that. Ryan nobles, thank you very much. Now, for some, today would be a good day to stay inside and sit by the fireplace because freezing temperatures are making their way across the northeast this morning. Wind chills are near, if not below zero. And a new record in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, which had the snowiest christmas in 85 years. Cnn meteorologist alisson chinchar has the forecast. Thats right, john. And pittsburgh was one of the few places that had a lot of snow on Christmas Day. Look at this, multiple states actually reporting over a foot of snow on Christmas Day. Again, including indiana, michigan, as well as new york. We still have more snow in the forecast for today, thats mainly going to be focused across portions of the state of maine, as well as the great lakes region, especially update new york, portions of pennsylvania, as well, where theyre picking up as much of a foot of extra snowfall. This is the more widespread concern for the weekend, youre looking at current wind chills. It feels like it is 1 degree right now in pittsburgh. Thats taking into consideration not only the temperature, but also the wind gusts. Columbus, 4. Buffalo also looking at 4 degrees. Chicago it feels like its only 12 degrees right now. 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Franchesca died december 24th of complications from cancer. In her short live, she was an outgoing, bold and curious baby. Her eyes followed whatever her parents were doing. She loved eating and being held closed. A brooklyn based sesame street fan, she enjoyed taking long walks around boston, attending Speech Therapy and petting, grabbing, her cat. One of her favorite activities was to practice rolling in her crib from side to side. She loved seeing her parents and greeting them with the worlds biggest smile and an excited kick when she woke up from a nap. Her many smiles sent a thrill through the world. She was so generous with them, even when most of the smiles back were covered by masks. And even when she faced challenges that would scare an adult like a cancer diagnosis or being born with hearing loss, in her First Six Months of live, she visited Prospect Park at least once a day while she often napped while her dad carrying her. She wore a big red bow on her red. Her mom excitedly got to dip her feet in the Atlantic Ocean and experienced that franchesca was very indifferent. She was able to experience joy even while in treatment. She met the silly geese and ducks that loiter in the parks near the hospital and visited the duck statue and the boston public garden and read the book many times. On one recent walk along the charles river, she experienced her first ride on a swing, something that she was also completely indifferent to. Everyone at boston Childrens Hospital treating franchesca with remarkable love and kindness. Doctors and nurses would gasp will joy at her smile. She adored Music Therapy and had some of her first laughs playing with el mmo. On halloween she dressed up with her nurses in a homemade pasta costume. Franchesca showed her parents such a kind of love they never knew before and will never forget. She is survived by her parents, her buddy, her grandparents, her aunt and uncle and cousins. And the family has asked that any donations be made in honor of franchesca to the pmc winter Cycle Charity event which happens next month. 100 of every dollar goes directly to the dana farver cancer institute. The entire cnn family has been pulling for franchesca and keeping her family close in our thoughts and prayers and this is heartbreaking news for all of us. Now we ask you to join us in sending our love as we try to lift them up in the difficult days and weeks and months ahead. You can honor baby franchescas memory through donation to their charity, but also through a recommitment to simple kindness and compassion, while remembering to hold your loved ones extra tight tonight. Appreciate every moment and take nothing for granted. Andrew and rachel, stay strong. We love you. And know that franchescas memory will always be a blessing. Thanks for watching. Cnn newsroom continues after the break. Centrum minis may be small, but they pack a punch. 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