Winter storms from the Pacific Northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, weve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. Coastal flooding, gail forced winds, Blizzard Conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the Ohio Turnpike that took one life at least. Were also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. C cnn Polo Sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at ohare. We begin with Polo Sandoval. What can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what theyre facing tonight . Reporter it is going to be a very long frigid night, Jim For County officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of Stranded Cars Inn erie county and rescuig people inside. Officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9 30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay home but sadly,
winter storms from the pacific northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, we ve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. coastal flooding, gail forced winds, blizzard conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the ohio turnpike that took one life at least. we re also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. c cnn polo sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at o hare. we begin with polo sandoval. what can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what they re facing tonight? reporter: it is going to be a very long frigid night, jim for county officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of stranded cars inn erie county and rescuig people inside. officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9:30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay
between the president and the vice president, is that correct? yes. when i entered the office the second time he was on the telephone with who i later out to found out to be the vice president. could you hear the vice president or only hear the president s end? only hear the president s end. at some point it started off as a calmer tone and became heated. the conversation was pretty heated. did you hear any part of the phone call even just the end that the president was speaking from? i did, yes. all right. what did you hear? as i was dropping off the note, my memory, i remember hearing the word, wimp. he called him a wimp. i remember he said, you are a wimp. you ll be a wimp. wimp is the word i remember. it s also been reported that the president said to the vice president, that something to the effect that you don t have the courage to make a hard decision. something like that. like you re not tough enough to make the call. something to the effect th
then, you said at some point, there was a telephone conversation between the president and the vice president? is that correct? yes. when i entered the office, the second time, he was on the phone with who i later found out to be the vice president. did you hear the vice president, or only hear the president s end? only hear the president s end. it was a calmer tone and then became heated. the conversation was pretty heated. did you hear any part of the phone call? like the end of the president. as i was drops off the note, i remember hearing the word wimp. e called him a wimp. i don t remember him saying you will be a wimp. it s been reported that the president said to the vice president, something to the effect of you don t have the courage to make a hard decision. i remember it was something like that, yeah. being not tough enough to make the call. the wording is wrong. i made the wrong decision four or five years ago. the word that the president call
States. reporter: when snide ydney p repeated these theories, hope hicks told the committee the president muted his speaker phone and laughed at powell telling others in the room this does sound crazy, doesn t it? the committee laying out trump s failure to act for 187 minutes during the riot writing president trump did not contact a single top national security official during the day. trump responding to the report calling ait a witch hunt and still falsely claiming he won the 2020 election. republicans will take over the house in short order. what is next for the committee? this is pretty much the end of the road. this is what they were aiming for. they issued the report. we re expecting the transcripts to trickle out as we head toward the end of the year and the change overin congress but of course, the real next thing that we ll keep an eye on are the on going criminal investigations.