for title 42 running out tomorrow. even the president predicts chaos. good morning, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with donald trump vowing to appeal after a new york city jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded e. jean carroll $5 million in her lawsuit against the former president. what else can you expect from a trump hating clinton appointed judge who went out of his way to make sure that the result of this trial was as negative as it could possibly be. i don t even know who this woman is. i have no idea who she is, where she came from. this is another scam, it is a political witch hunt. trump posted that and several other videos on his truth social platform after the verdict. carroll meantime called the decision a victory for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed. more from jean casarez in new york. reporter: a manhattan federal jury found former preside
crisis at the border. 150,000 migrants waiting to cross into the united states. a wave that could overwhelm the border patrol and humanitarian groups, with already strained border towns facing an influx that has been building for months. and it could hit in just 48 hours. we re going to take you there. the country are running out of time and money. hours from now, a critical meeting to avoid economic calamity. president biden set to meet with congressional leaders on the debt ceiling, but the two sides are nowhere near a deal and a catastrophic default could be just weeks away. and a mysterious object smashes through a roof and right into a home. officials say it is most likely a meteorite. a little gift from space. we are following these stories and many more, all coming in right here cnn news central. we are just about 48 hours from a border surge that has been months in the making. you can see people waiting to make their move. and this video that cnn took today from
Whiteout conditions are already here. Ice, wind, snow, power outages. Millions tonight feeling the impact of the onceinageneration storm. Plus, we have Breaking News. More transcripts just released from the January 6th Committees investigation. Everyone from the president s daughter to his Attorney General in a Top White House lawyer, what they all had to say, and how the committees final report puts the blame squarely on donald trump. And shocking government numbers out of china about covid cases. New infections reportedly in the hundreds of millions this month alone and growing. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im kate bolduan in for erin burnett. Millions are trying for the holidays as snowy conditions caused a massive pileup of roughly 50 cars. We are told at least one person died in this crash. And its not just in ohio, its across the country. Cars sliding, being abandoned on the streets of memphis, tennessee. Today more than 5,000 flights have been canceled due to severe
For maryland and was appointed by former President Trump. I strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a Special Counsel for this matter. This Appointment Underscores for the public, the departments commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Now earlier, President Biden confirmed that more classified documents from his time as Vice President were discovered. This time at his wilmiwilmingto delaware home. They were locked in his garage. Another document was found inside the house. Now the Attorney General revealed that the Justice Department learned of the second set of documents in december as this timeline shows here. It was in november when the president s attorney found classified documents in a d. C. Office that
And Briefing Materials on topics including ukraine, iran and the u. K. All of this at the center of a Special Counsel investigation. Lets get right to cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez, who is following all of this. Evan, what more can you tell us about these classified documents that were found . Not always a good thing whenela saturday. Not always when you fix a statement that was provided a day earlier. What the white house is now confronting, they have had to explain multiple times in the past week about the finding of these classified documents. And a lot of it, frankly, theyve known about the documents since at least december, that there were additional documents they chose not to disclose it. What we know is there was an additional five pages of classified documents, that they were found in the president s home in williamington. Thats in addition to one document they had disclosed just yesterday. And the issue for the white house is that now were talking about around