the beat starts with ari melber. has it ever happened to you a tickle in your throat? i was going to say, real quick, do you want a lozenge? i just chewed one. my dentist will be so mad. i don t know if i should share this but i used to do a show on msnbc, and one of my coanchors would get on me about putting the cough drop on the paper in the commercial and then back and forth. i was like, i m going to conserve it. it was here a second ago. i chewed it up to clean up for you. america appreciates your voice, i think, so let s keep it. thanks, ari. have a great show. nice to see you, nicolle. you re welcome. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. notwithstanding our voices and whether we keep them or lose them, i can tell you i m going to use my voice to tell you about two legaling aments surrounding president trump. we can tell you the wall street journal and cnn are reporting that trump s chief of staff mark meadows has been officially subpoenaed by spec
of scaled back celebrations because of covid. many parts of the world have already ushered in 2023 with dazzling celebrations. just seconds from now, the clock will strike midnight in paris, the city of lights, especially tonight. let s go live to paris right now. now let s go to times square. how is the crowd looking there, gloria? reporter: pamela, it s so exciting. six hours to go. the big crystal ball is being put up right now. i just want to direct our viewers attention right to the top of one times square. that is where the big crystal ball is coming up. you can see it on the screen. 11,000 pounds of waterford crystal. this tradition goes all the way back to 1907. that is when the first crystal ball went down to mark the beginning of the new year. people here are excited. they have been waiting for hours. six more hours to go. i want to show you some of the crowd here. people have been lining up, bundled up. they re excited. this is a really big moment. we re get
details about the suspect arrested in the brutal killings of four idaho college students. a source telling cnn police were tracking 28-year-old bryan kohberger as he drove across country from idaho to his parents home in pennsylvania around christmas time. the arrest comes seven weeks after those four university of idaho students were stabbed multiple times as they slept. a source telling cnn that dna found at the scene was entered into a geneology database and that helped crack the case. the suspect identified as a graduate student in criminology who made a chilling social media post trying to solicit information from criminals to try to understand how emotional and psychological traits influence decisionmaking when committing a crime. now now, i understand you just spoke with the suspect s attorney. what are you learning? that s right. he only has one attorney at this point. it s the chief public defender for monroe county, northeastern pennsylvania. his name is jason leb
welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i m whitney wild in for christine roman. a dangerous new storm system headed to the west coast with heavy rain, mountain snow. the pacific northwest will get it first. california gets it tomorrow. right on the heels of the storm that shut down a stretch i-70 in colorado for nine hours leaving drivers stranded. meteorologist chad myers is live in the weather center. chad, these storms have millions of people under alerts right now. there is no relief. there are still two more in the west to come on shore monday into tuesday. the storm that was in denver has taken its energy and focused it down here near lake charles. bumpy weather in houston and beaumont. we ve had two to four inches of rainfall and snow in the high sierra. more snow, more rain and flooding. flash flood watches for rising rivers in parts of california and then when you get up to the higher elevations, winter storm warnings are posted. i m
the wettest part of the uk in recent others, heavy thunderstorms rolling into the sussex coast, 19 millimetres of rain a day few others at shaw on a port and now the heavy, fun to be showers are pushing north. but there are gaps in the rain, not every bit of ground is getting a decent soaking, some areas are staying dry. more rain further west, somerset has had some heavy falls. this afternoon we will see thunderstorms hanging back across the west country but perhaps more of a focus for the midlands and east anglia. behind the showers in the south east there could be thunderstorms in their own right, notjust thunderstorms in their own right, not just as thunderstorms in their own right, notjust as part of thunderstorms in their own right, not just as part of that thunderstorms in their own right, notjust as part of that band. it is becoming drier. floods in northern ireland this afternoon but quite a legacy of cloud. largely fine for scotland and northern ireland overnight, t