welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we begin with continuing drama on capitol hill. day two for the chaotic and his tor historic fight for the speaker of the house. i ve never seen this. the house has adjourned until 8:00 p.m. after mccarthy failed on his attempt not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six, six attempts to win a majority of votes in the house to become speaker. a source says republicans believe there may be a path forward between the promccarthy and anti mccarthy republicans to negotiate, to choose a house speaker. let s go to manu raju on capitol hill. i am hearing as you are hearing from members of congress, you re hearing from them off the record i guess and hearing from them on camera, who are saying yeah, they think there actually might be a way forward. some are saying that too, on the record chip roy being one of them. others are suggesting there is not. there is still very little room for error for kevin mccarthy but mccarthy just le
hello. i m pamela brown. welcome to cnn newsroom. the historic storm the new york governor called the blizzard of the century has now killed 25 people in the buffalo area. and a top erie county official says that number is likely to rise. he said the conditions have been so severe, their own rescuers needed rescuing. intense winds created whiteout conditions as 43 inches of snow dropped in just 24 hours. listen to what one family with four young kids faced, after they lost power and went in search of a heated hotel room. it was very intense. we tried to keep it together for as long as possible. because we didn t want to fight. it was like looking at a white piece of construction paper. you couldn t see anything at all. like absolutely nothing until you were probably about a foot away from even cars. with their bright lights on. you just couldn t see anything. not yellow traffic signs, not traffic. you couldn t see anything. you couldn t see a traffic light. you have t
the doj to appoint a special counsel. anybody vet this guy? yep. the fbi grilling biden aides about how top-secret files ended up next to his corvette. we re also learning the same house was hunter s hangout pad. that s right, the drug-loving first son lived at the property propertyfor years and even had s credit card statement sent there. he d never be careless about classified information, right? do you think it s irresponsible and reckless of him? irresponsible is not to disclose when you have documents. he s certainly done that. biden people are bringing forth the documents. they re not obstructing access to them or knowledge about them. why did he not inform the american public two months ago? do you think that was a mistake? i don t know what you re saying right now. seem much more measured with this than the trump documents. you called for transparency with the trump documents. bottom line i said that night it s premature to comment on what should be done
she was scared. how much time did they come talk to you? 30. plus two tantalizing cruise. this object had blood on their hands. and the trail on twitter. it is very powerful, you can almost see this happening in realtime. could she help solve her own mystery? she s fighting him off. it was almost. i want to jump out of my seat. never in 1 million years would you expect something like that. on long island, about ten miles down the the pensacola and the elites of the hansen s, is a blue collar beach town. some called, the poor man s paradise. but life was rich for these brothers and sisters and masticate york. the youngest sister was missing. we just want you to come home safely. and for better or for worse, this family would go to extraordinary likes to find her. they have to scour those woods right there. there s me had five of the biggest guys you can probably imagine. we re going door to door, we on answers. every seat so many people, so
headquarters in new york city, a huge turnaround, the cook political report has new analysis showing it s a toss-up. that s a pretty stunning shift from months ago, where headline after headline predicted a republican wave. thanks to a string of legislative wins and galvanizing issues like abortion, democrats now have motivation and momentum on their side. on the other side, many far-right republicans are struggling, unable to connect with moderate i m at wegner s. my wife wants some vegetables for crudite. this is $20, and we have joe biden to thank for this. john fetterman has been fund-raising off that video all week. this is the kind of thing that mitch mcconnell to admit he has concerns. i think there s a greater likelihood that the house flips than the senate. senate races are different. they re statewide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. looking at various numbers, you can see the shift happening in real time. politico shows democrats up fo