bill: a plot to get to. shannon: this vehicle that bill mentioned has now made it to the floor of the ocean and we talk about these banging noises. they say they are in the area where they were heard. although other people say sometimes the sounds echo from very great distances. so it is tough to say. this is part of the last ditch effort to rescue these passengers in the final hours. bill: great question coming up. the vessel went missing sunday with a dive to the titanic. the search has grown roughly twice the size of the state of connecticut at this point. martha: the experts say the sub may have drifted. it depends on what its navigational ability is at this point whether it has battery and technology to control it in any direction. they also say it may have attached or hooked onto part of the wreckage. there are many pieces of the stern, the bow of the titanic and all sorts of pieces that fell off during that wreck. that s one of the problems in trying to find
richard preston. we begin in the united states where eight people have been killed in the country s latest mass shooting. the incident took place at a shopping mall in allen, about 20 miles, 35 kilometres, north of the city of dallas. this is the moment police officers hurried shoppers out of the mall, eyewitnesses described a man dressed in black and armed with an assault rifle shooting apparently indiscriminate leave. the government has not been identified and was shot dead by police at the scene. has been no word about possible motive. three more people are currently in a critical situation in hospital. a short time ago emergency services gave this update. my name is jonathan this update. my name is jonathan boyd, - this update. my name is jonathan boyd, divisivel this update. my name is i jonathan boyd, divisive for this update. my name is - jonathan boyd, divisive for the jonathan boyd, divisive for the allen fire department. i want to speak to the medical part of a re
operation good. thank you for joining us. dana: important story there. a dramatic and highly dangerous chase along the southern border. a large group of migrants bailing out of a truck followed by a high speed chase as migrants surge across both borders north and south in record numbers. you won t believe the story coming up. welcome in a new hour of america s newsroom. bill hemmer is off today. sandra is joining me. i m dana perino. sandra: we ll chat about last night s game. nice to start the week with you. officers along both borders are facing deadly danger and happening on a daily basis as president biden s border policies a tract people from the world. you see what s happening along the southern border and how easy it is and how those individuals that are coming across our borders illegally are rewarded being released into the country and provided with all the resources to live in the country. we ll continue to see the numbers increase not just at the southern b
top of the hour. i m jim sciutto. in short, it is cold. the powerful winter storm battering the u.s., expected to grow even stronger and colder today, covering nearly half of the u.s. population. parts of the country could see the coldest christmas in decades. sub-zero temperatures hitting hard out west. here is the owner of a local towing company in montana speaking with cnn this morning. it is cold up here. if you ain t prepared for it, it could be really bad. i ve been here 20 years and this is the worst i ve ever felt. wow, tough time to be a towing company. right now hundreds of thousands of people are without power. that is tough in the cold. many of them in the southeast. travel plans upended for many going to the holiday weekend. more than 3500 flights canceled already today and counting. here is the transportation secretary pete buttigieg. lots of things are so important to us around the holidays. our traditions, our loved ones. but of course, the most importan
condition as he recovers from covid. dr. anthony fauci is standing by live. we will discuss. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the guilty verdict in steve bannon s criminal contempt trial. the former top trump adviser convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the january 6th committee s subpoena. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz is joining us from just outside the federal courthouse here in washington. katelyn, give us the latest. reporter: well, wolf, steve bannon was convicted today, even though he had vowed this was going to be the misdemeanor from hell for the select committee. it was not that. by the end of the day, we had two criminal convictions of steve bannon. now, these were both misdemeanor charges, but congress writes the law, and when they wrote this law, they said that it would be punishable by a minimum