just ahead, california s governor declares a state of emergency in 13 counties after a week of heavy snow. till you re actually physically walking on the street you don t understand it. i mean look at my window. and fears are growing that many residents may be stranded. plus demanding answers in greece as the death toll from the train collision continues to rise. we ll bring you the latest on the investigation. ohio s governor visits the east palestine cleanup operation where nearly 2 million gallons of liquid waste have already been removed and now reports of rail workers getting sick. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. snowstorms, tornadoes and floods, it s all in the forecast for the u.s. as severe weather looms across the country. parts of the west coast are trying to thaw out from a massive snowstorm moving east now. areas in california have seen more than 100 inches of snow in the last week prompting the governor to declare a
hire, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on a very busy day of news and more details on what promises to be a blockbuster hearing on the january 6 hearing and we ll have much more on that. we begin with the verdict in the alex jones trial where a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to the family members of the sandy hook victims, people who suffered from the lines that alex jones started spreading hours after the massacre. harry lipman joins us, a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. let me just not go the down the rabbit holes of alex jones but the families had pain and suffering from the massacre being described as a hoax and the nearly billion dollars in damages does nothing, nothing to deal with their grief but it was as signal, it seems harry, that the jury felt that it was represent henceible. even his defense attorney said in close, nicole. this is a despicable human being and, of course, he s the vilest vermin out there on
line before he came here to the new york city area to potentially target officers on years eve. cory, as you can imagine, this place was bustling, it was packed. tens of thousands of people here at the times square area. there were certainly a lot of chaos shortly after this knife attack. officials are saying they were able to secure the area quickly. and then they carried out this press conference earlier this morning with an update. take a listen. one officer, any year veteran, suffered a laceration to the head. the second officer who graduated police academy on friday was also struck in the head. resulting in a skull fletcher and large lacerations. one of the officers fired their service weapon. striking the subject of these shoulder. the three officers removed to bellevue hospital rivalry for to report that they are in stable condition. cory, we are still waiting for an update on those officers. but they are expected to survive. officials are saying that there is no l
texas decided to deposit migrant asylum seekers, some o them children, on a freezing cold sidewalk north to go. three buses filled with more than 100 migrants arrived in d.c., late saturday night, where they were unceremoniousl dropped off outside the vice presidents official residence. they were sent there by th republican governor sent texas greg abbott, to make a political point of what happening at the souther border the buses were filled with families, with children, man of them wearing nothing warmer than a tee shirt we have it did not tell anyone ahead of time that he was gonn do this is the relief agency me the migrants from the vice president s home when they arrived. welcome them with food, warm clothing, and blankets they had been tipped off b another ngo working along th border, who made sure th migrants did not arrive in the freezing cold, on christmas eve, with no one to help them once they, arrived volunteer drove all of them to shelter to nearby church to wel
speak with overnight tweeting damar hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest with a hit, a gae versus the bengals and on the field he was transferred to the uc medical center for further testing and treatment. he is currently sedated and listed in critical condition. the initial reaction of many was that they had never seen something like this before and damar hamlin briefly stood up on his own after making a tackle and before collapsing back onto the turf. now, an ambulance being brought out on the field. before he was rushed off, hamlin received cpr several minutes and many players visibly shaken and some of his teammates in tears. both teams coming together for an on-field prayer before returning to the locker rooms. again, suspended the game over an hour before the game postponed as everyone awaited updates on damar hamlin s condition. holding an nfl conference call with the decision just after midnight. players, frankly those coming to the game all traumatized. what was most i