celebrate all of these nominees live cnn heroes announced our tribute. once again, control usually shunts, cnn heroes of 2022. i hope you go out and vote! the news continues. i want to hang it over to jake tapper, and cnn tonight! the united states of america faces a far-right militia accused seeing to overthrow the government. its biggest test yet. federal prosecutors today rested their historic case for their role in the u.s. capitol attack on january 6th, 2021. over the last month, the justice department presented witness testimony and shocking videos, and damning text messages and more all of it evidence that prosecutors proves the five defendants attempted to carry out a coordinated conspiracy to try to legal transfer of power and keep donald trump in the white house. now why is this case so different than the hundreds of other cases facing alleged rioters in january 6th? two words, seditious conspiracy. that s a rare charge. it s one that has been put in the books
of cnn this morning. it is sunday, december 25th. of course you know, we ve all been waiting for this beautiful morning. i m amara walker. good morning and merry christmas to you as well. thank you for spending part of your holiday morning with us. just ahead this morning, fighting racism from a one horse open sleigh, after getting hate mail for put putting up a black stanta in his yard santa in h yard, one man fights back. and how dollar stars are quickly becoming the go-to destination for shoppers. and we re going to introduce you to this year s cnn hero of the year, with a heart warming moment as she accepted her award. first let s get you caught up with this morning s headlines with whitney wilde. good morning and merry christmas to you, if you re celebrating at home. we begin with this brutal weather storm. at least 22 deaths are blamed on the storm and more than a quarter million people are without electricity. more than 3,400 flights were cancelled yesterda
are reviewing a 180-page manifesto authored by the suspect and posted online. he describes himself as a fascist, and antisemite who picked up these beliefs from the internet, including this racist conspiracy theory that claims whites are being culturally replaced by non-white groups and immigrants. he turned those words into action police say unleashing terror on workers, shoppers going about their weekend. witnesses describe a horrifying scene. the suspect fired while live streaming the attack. the store security guard tried to stop the shooter and lost his life. the fire chief showed up at the scene to find out his mother did not make it out of the store alive. victor, this is just a horrendous crime. it is just heartbreaking to see what s happened there in buffalo. this alleged gunman traveled hours to carry out this attack. what else are we learning? reporter: heartbreaking indeed, jim. there are a lot of broking hearts here. the music you hear in the background is gosp
so boost your bottom line by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities.™ this is don lemon tonight. prior primary season heating up. we ll look at the races. major shifts in the battle field in ukraine. translator: russia lost almost 27,000 soldiers, many of them young conscripts. russia lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles and a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters, drones and all of the prospects as a state. cnn cannot confirm those numbers and big news in the tech world, elon musk says he is putting his $44 billion deal to buy twitter on hold. i want to get to tom foreman with a look at the key primary races just days away. tom, what can we expect? hi, don. five states to keep an eye on on tuesday and we ll start in the wild, wild east because pennsylvania really is wild. republicans thought that this race for the open senate seat, there was going to come down to dr. oz endorsed by donald trump and david m
200 events across all 50 states. rallies are in response to a leaked u.s. supreme court draft opinion revealing a majority of justices poised to strike down roe v. wade. if overturned, constitutional protections for abortion rights would be likely eliminated in 26 states. we have reporters covering this in several key cities today. cnn s shimon prokupecz is live in the nation s capital. paulo sandoval is covering the event in new york and nadia romero. and the rally began just near the washington monument. there on the mall. later protesters will be marching to the u.s. supreme court. tell us what you re seeing right now? reporter: yeah, so that is the expectation that at around 2:00 the thousands of people expected here, their permitted for about 17,000 people. at around 2:00 they are expected to march to the supreme court. but right now what is going to take place here this morning, starting here shortly, are speakers. speakers are going to take the stage and we re seeing