it up. you got to do what you got to do. thank you. and thank you at home for joining us. i m whitney wild, christine romans coming back on monday. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is friday, december 30th, don is off today. recovery, though is in sight. we ll see. i think a lot of people will be skeptical, but that is what southwest airlines is saying this morning as they hope to resume regular service today with, quote, minimal disruptions. and airports are still trying to figure out what to do with the piles of unclaimed luggage. we re live at chicago s midway international airport. and vladimir putin and xi jinping holding a meeting. also the house january 6th committee releasing a new batch of transcripts and what we re learning about texts involving donald trump jr. and lindsey graham. a new claim from congressman-elect george santos is putting his own mother s death into question. that s right. this morning we start with sou
[ a moment of silence ] [applause] [ silence ] all right. a beautiful picture of the palace of westminster where big ben was chiming the bells for a moment of silence to begin for the celebration of the late now queen elizabeth ii. tomorrow the funeral gets under way. back now to katelyn collins and kate williams. we saw the moment of silence recognized from downing street to hyde park where you could hear a little bit of the bell tolling. katelyn, the president of the united states is there. he paid tribute earlier today even remarking after signing that condolence book. people come to take in the moment of what this means and reflecting upon the queen s legacy and president biden himself did that earlier today. the first stop in london and went to see her lying in state as we you people waiting in line to do so. over a dozen hours in line. he signs the condolence book and talking about what it was like when he met her and described him as someone that reminded him of h
pictures of and the storm is still going strong. chad meyers is standing by with the latest on the track but we begin with laila santd ysantiag on the scene for us. reporter: on the southwest part of the island hurricane fiona made landfall. we are dealing with rains and wind gusts and flash flooding right now on the ground. but the big story in terms of impacts to the u.s. citizens on the island is there is an island wide power outage going on for an hour and they don t expect that power as this natural disaster comes in. the timing here is part of the story. remember nearly five years ago to the day i stood here as hurricane maria left the island without power for months. the video is dark because there s no power but listen to the exchange. [ speaking nonenglish ] she says when the power goes out she gets real anxious and tense and worried. she is worried what she will find at her house. reporter: the governor saying that mud slides are part of the concern and urging
beings. good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world i m brianna keilar is john berman. the migrant battle getting more heated with president biden now weighing in. he ripped gop governors of florida and texas for flying and busing more migrants to liberal areas in the northeast. the president speaking at a congressional hispanic caucus event last night. instead of working with us on solu solution, republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props. what they re doing is wrong, un-am un-american, reckless. he said there s a process saying republicans should not use political stunts to interfere. this comes after florida governor ron desantis took credit for sending migrants to martha s vineyard. abbott and desantis are strident critics of the biden administration. it s not clear why they organized flights for migrants from texas but he made clear he doesn t want them in his state. we are not a sanctuary state, it s better to go
coy, nice to see you. thanks for joining me. i m christine romans. new day starts right now. new evidence, new testimony. i m john berman with brianna keilar. that is the promise from the house january 6th committee as it holds its last public forum before the midterm elections. it comes as there s new reporting in a separate investigation. the mar-a-lago documents case. cnn is told donald trump directed an employee to move boxes at mar-a-lago after he received a sup pena for classified documents. and we re told, the committee is going to hammer home that trump remains a clear and present danger to the united states. sarah murray has more. we re expecting this to be their closing argument. reporter: that s right. while we are not expecting to see live witnesses at the hearing, we believe we ll see new video as well as new emails from the secret service. the house select committee investigating january 6th preparing its closing arguments ahead of the midterms. ther