Thats more than 70 of the american population. 80 Million People says subzero weather without factoring in the windchill. In minnesota, they will drop to a historic 70 degrees below zero. Theres also a 66 degree windchill in minnesota and state county. And highway crashes in michigan as well. This multicar pileup left parts of some cars under tractor trailers and snow reduced visibility in buffalo, as you can see, near zero. State offices closed in manage manage and wisconsin. U. S. Postal Service Deliveries suspended in all or parts of ten states. Schools in most of the regions closed today. Check before you head out. A live look at Lake Michigan from chicago. Frozen over. It looks pretty. That is lifethreatening cold. Amtrak cancelling all service to and from chicago today. City officials there adding 500 shelter beds for the homeless. Lets bring in meteorologist Pedram Javaheri live in the weather center. Pedram, you look at piers in Lake Michigan they look like solid ice cubes. It
On very different grounds. And the sales for the holidays, what it means for the most widely known stocks on the planet. You probably have apple shares somewhere in your 401 k . Good morning, everyone. Im christine romans. Good morning, im dave riggs. 4 00 a. M. In the east. It feels like 50 below in minneapolis. Cold does not describe the truly lifethreatening conditions for a huge swath of the u. S. More than 300 million americans will see temps below freezing. Thats more than 80 of the population. In minnesota, those windchills will drop to a historic 70 degrees bls degrees below zero. Theres a windchill of minus 62 in swift county. And the state patrol reported 153 crashes during the storm. This multicar pileup captured by a facebook user. Oh, my goodness. And blowing snow reduced visibility in buffalo to near zero. School is cancelled in states, postal delivery. And check before you head out and if you dont have to, dont. Lets bring in pedram jav jere. A lot of people cant relate
We heard from the president and secretary of state and secretary of defense today. None of them including the president , i spent 25 minutes in the oval office with him we go into the actual details of the intelligence. Neil apologize for that. We hope to get that connection going soon. The defense secretary is defending the u. S. Air strikes on the rainy and general moments ago. Back to john at the white house how they are responding. John roberts, are you with me . I am. I was saying today that between the president , the secretary of state, and the secretary of defense, or heard from three of the top officials about the attack against soleimani and friday. None of those officials including the president i spent 25 minutes with him in the oval office we go into any details about the actual interior distance. The gang of eight will be briefed on what the u. S. Knew prior to the attack being ordered. President trump insisted he was planning what he called big and bad attacks. As with t
Party. Shes desperate. She got thrown out is speaker once before. She lost 61 or 63 seats, recordsetting number of seats. I think its going to happen again. Dana pelosi facing growing scrutiny over her strategy to withhold sending the articles of impeachment to the senate, karl rove saying that the speakers venturing into treacherous constitutional territory. I asked him about it. Speaker nancy pelosi wants to usurp the constitutional role of the senate. As the speaker of the house, she has said the constitutionalists away set aside for the United States senate to try the impeachment of a president. The longer it goes on, the more petty and partisan it all looks and the less people are going to have confidence in what the a hosted. G. O. P. Senator Lisa Murkowski getting attention from the media after saying she is disturbed by Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnells coordination with President Trump on impeachment. The first in republican ranks. Senator murkowskis remarks of the first
Between Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell im going to take my cues from the president s lawyers. And Speaker Nancy Pelosi ill send them over when im ready. Pelosi finally moves to send articles of impeachment to the senate having won no republican concessions. She should have sent them a long time ago. What will the senate trial look like . Ill talk to one of the jurors, Democrat Michael bennet of colorado. And 22 days to iowa. Iowa. Iowa. Iowa caucuses. Will the impeachment trial hamstring the senators running as a new iowa poll shows what now looks like a fourway sprint. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief correspondent andrea mitchell, Time Magazine columnist david french, yamiche alcindor, and steve inkeep, host of nprs morning edition. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. Think of this as a three i morning, iran, impea