ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds. needles to say it is a mess for holiday travelers. thousands of flights were canceled thursday. nearly 2700 flights already canceled today with hundreds more delayed. and look at power outage
we, therefore, the lord s spiritual and temporal of this realm and members of the house of commons together with other members of her late majesty s privy council, representative of the territories, the citizens of london and others, now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim that prince charles philip arthur george is now, by the death of our late sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful leige lord charles iii, and his other realms and territories, head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith, to whom we acknowledge all faith and obedience with humble affection. beseeching god, by who kings and queens do reign, bless his majesty with long and happy years to reign over us. at st. james s palace, the 10th day of september in the year of our lord 2022. god save the king! [cheers and applause] three cheers for his majesty the king! hip hip! hooray! hip hip! hooray! hip hip! hooray! reporter: goo
great to have you here. was it in your opinion the economy ultimately or did boris johnson just lie himself out of office? your thoughts. partly policy. he was elected as a conservative but governed as a liberal. the state increased taxes went up. the net zero agenda was putting out the price of energy. we weren t self-sufficient. and there s policy considerations here. ultimately in the united kingdom tell untruths. you cannot tell lies and get away with it. it started over the parties governing at number 10 downing street when the rest of us were living under draconian lock down. we continue visit our moms, for example. over the sex scandal involving a senior conservative politician and in the end, people just said he s lied to us. that is not good enough. we ve had enough. we saw support just disappear over the course of the last two or three days. trace: to those that say it wasn t as much the scandals or the lying or the appointment of his chief deputy whip, chris pi
the american public knows that once that runs out, they may be headed they be running into a brick wall. martha: well, certainly we ve never seen anything like may of 2021 when the u.s. savings rate went to 23%. americans don t save a third of every dollar. that s been sitting in the pipeline. they re going through it, no question. if you look at the confidence numbers, they don t actually look that bad for the current conditions. you ask charles: expectations though. they re concern about the outlook. charles: expectations versus current conditions are at the biggest gap since 2000. i think the american public is brilliant, doug. they know things before the folks in the ivory towers on wall street and the folks on d.c. so play it out for us. i think the federal reserve is meeting season. everybody thinks they re going to hike rakes again. feels like a difficult like we re living on borrowed time. well, you know, i don t have a great news story for you here.
number, he was like, look, if we re headed for recession, the american consumer doesn t know it. they say they feel lousy about the economy, but they keep spending and they re spending on experiences, getting raises, job hopping. so there s what we feel about the economy and what the numbers are actually showing. there s over at the chamber of commerce they call it secondhand pessimism. the economy is stronger than the headlines reveal. what do you say about that? i think that absolutely makes sense. i think when these confidence numbers come out, consumer confidence, it looks very low on the surface. consumers say they don t feel good about the economy but i think a stage you have to look at, it s a core confidence indicator. the first thing you do is go to the job expectations and wage expectations indexes. those look very different from the rest of the confidence numbers. people will tell you they feel very bad about this economy and