than the country. . i appreciate your time. dateline white house picks up with nicole right now. it s 4:00 in new york and yes, it s groundhog day, the crisis in the house of representatives and the united states of america is in its third day. there still no speaker of the house of representatives which means there are no members of the house of representatives. that despite and evening of negations. kevin mccarthy has lost eight votes to be speaker and is on track right now to lose the ninth vote. that s despite making a series of unbelievable concessions, things that were off the table sunday night and into monday, to the holdouts in his car gets caucus, a major allowance to the hard right republicans, he said he would lower the number from 5 to 1. he said he previously not accept that. congress and matt gaetz, he nominated donald trump for the speakership and described the power to remove the speaker as anyone, anywhere, anytime, raising questions about whether anybod
but the threat of violence also looms directly over the jewish community like never before in recent american history. attacks on jewish institutions, they are up 61% from 2020 according to the anti-defamation league. just yesterday, the fbi warned of what it describes as a broad threat to synagogues in new jersey. the new york times reports that as a result of a warning, the new york police department immediately announced it had stepped up its monitoring to ensure the safety of every area that encompasses our jewish citizens and synagogues. of course, we all know that none of this is happening in a having vacuum. it s bubbling through sports, culture and our politics. they re the anti-semitic outbursts on social media by kanye west. there s the refusal by kyrie irving to disavow a post he made linking to a documentary filled with conspiracy theorys about jewish people. he s been suspended for at least five games. a statement from the team reads in part kyrie irvin
third hour. this is we made it through the stretch hour. the power hour. the power hour. the seventh thing inning str we re so glad everybody is with us this morning. i m glad to be next to you too. it is going quick. it is already 8:00. speak for yourself. i did two hours and now it is three. i m so glad to be here with you guys because you guys mean, i think we all help each other make each other better and we hope we make you better at home. there is a lot to get to this morning. welcome to the program. we re going to give you some news now including these baseless conspiracy theories circulating about the attack on paul pelosi. we re going to debunk them one by one in a cnn fact check coming up shortly. midterm elections, we re one week exactly away, but a lot of votes already cast in early voting. republican leaders gaining confidence that this is going to cut their way. chris sununu of new hampshire running for re-election, he ll join us this hour to t
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. and i m bianna golodryga. president biden is in florida to rally democrats ahead of the midterms. meantime two major developments in the two separate investigations involving the former president the supreme court has just rejected senator lindsey graham s request to block a subpoena into the 2020 election in georgia where a district attorney is demanding that he testify before a grand jury. the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection they could be one step closer to getting former president trump to testify. the committee s in discussions with president trump s attorneys, and he has an obligation to comply and we, you know, treat this and take this very seriously we haven t made determinations about the format itself but it will be done under oath, it will be done potentially over multiple days, we have significant questions based on the evidence that we developed and as i said what we know already
the dangerous arctic blast now slamming across the earth. with it, snow, ice, howling winds and all before christmas. we ll have a full forecast for you. we ll also tell you about in kansas city, delays here. driving in was wild, with all the weather, and, you know. winds and rain. there s the people hoping to fly home for the christmas holidays. may simply not make it. we ll also update you with the travel delays in your world. and there s a not nativity display at the vatican, and it sends a message of hope to the people of ukraine. very good day to you. we begin, of course, with the massive winter storm that s barreling across united states. 11 people so far have died from the storm. at least 200 million people are under winter weather advisories. it s an arctic blast that s knocked out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses. it s brought with it a combination of frigid temperatures, gusty winds, heavy snow and ice. and as a result, hundreds of t