seems a little odd that the black kid are there with a white santa. it s all good. to each his own. you was scared of santa. he s got the cutest things. you can t really see my phone. there s a black santa and white santa stocking that we found. ryan, you re the best. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. so glad that you could join us this morning on the eve before the eve of christmas. good morning, everyone. poppy and kaitlan are off and i m here with the lovely and smart and talented sara seidner. i was wondering where you were going with that but you re good. we re going to catch you up on the five big stories this morning. more than half the population is under winter storm and wind chill alerts as a major storm moves across the country. it s not like a snow day when you were a kid. this is serious stuff. please take this storm extremely seriously. more than 820,000 power customers are in the dark, thousands of flights have been cancel
that means. have you not seen i don t really watch i like older traditional movies. i like the black and white old movies. i want to see scrooge, i want to see it s a wonderful life , i want to see rudolph. that is not new. it s from 1983, sorry, and it s set back in the 30s or 40s. i was in high school. it s new. we are not going to put ages here. a favorite nonreligious christmas song. all i want for christmas is you mariah carey 4%, jingle bells 4%, the christmas song 2%. all i want for christmas, i have never heard that song. all i want for christmas is you i love mariah carey but when it would come on the song i would say i never heard that song, what is it? because it s always on the radio. he threatened me by saying
donald trump, who just reannounced or announced his re-election not re-election, he will be running in 2024, chuck schumer 71. so a lot of elderly lawmakers. i mean, this generational shift was needed yesterday, wouldn t you say? well, that is definitely the feeling of the younger members of congress. you have seen a lot of people leave over the years because they get elected at a younger age, perhaps in their 20s, 30s or 40s, and they serve for a few terms but it doesn t really seem to be a chance for advancement because of the way congress is set up. and it really is run by octogenarians. that s the way the chambers operate. and so we ve seen people who felt that they could have been in line for speaker leave congress previously or even run for the senate or do different things because they feet there was no chance for advancement. this is the chance now.
pull through, he said. barker, who has been hospitalized for three weeks isn t out of the woods yet. in missouri, covid-19 hospitalizations have more than doubled since the start of june and the number of icu patients has more than tripled. according to the a.p. many patients now are younger, in their 20s, 30s or 40s, and sicker than ever before. nearly everyone hospitalized is unvaccinated. meanwhile, a significant number of american health care workers are among the millions of people still unvaccinated. nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez joins us now with a look at why. what did you find out? you would think these are the people that know the most. reporter: good morning, about one in four health care workers in this country still have not been vaccinated. this is bell view hospital in new york and health care workers rallied here last week against
date. we saw the money go in, received the heroin, and the money went out. so we were able to close the loop. what we didn t realize is that we were going to be causing a very large controversy in the province of nangahar by taking his books. he was working with a lot of other people. as a result of taking his books, basically we shut down the bank of jalalabad. it was their version of wall street. maybe the way it would have been run in the 30s or 40s in the united states, but it was still a business. we were actually contacted by high-ranking members of the afghan government saying you have to give the books back so that commerce could continue. so we spent a lot of time copying all the information out of the books and in a short period of time had to give them back because they were guests of the afghan government. at that point haji bagcho was in afghanistan. november 2007 dea f.a.s.t. did