bill to avoid a government shutdown at midnight. and with respiratory viruses on the rise and kids medicine harder to find, we ll look at how to keep your family safe during the holidays. we begin this morning with the dangerous winter storm battering much of the country that has up ended holiday travel for many americans. this morning more than 200 million americans are still under some kind of weather warning orred a size ri. the storm continues to move east expected to bring powerful winds and bitterly freezing temperatures after dumping blind ing snow on parts of the midwest. hundreds of thousands of people are without power this morning. meteorologists have categorized the storm as a bomb cyclone. the storm disrupting travel for folks looking to head out for the holiday weekend. according to flight aware, there are already more than 3,000 flight cancellations and more than 2,000 delays in the u.s. joinings us now is shaq brewster in michigan and meteorologist agie lasm
why the nichols family is criticizing the investigation. plus, we re talking to troy carter. dangerous weather across the south and midwest being blamed for at least one death in texas. we re live with what s expected to be a multi-day ice storm and where it s headed next. the high-stakes meeting today between secretary of state antony blinken and the head of hamas. and an exclusive interview with homeland secretary alejandro majorca. it s my hope they take that problem and they fix it. we begin this hour in memphis where more first responders are facing disciplinary action over the tyre nichols death. the memphis police department now says two more officers were relieved of duty after the brutal and deadly beating of nichols which was captured on video. one of the newly named officers preston hemphill was involved in the initial traffic stop and used a taser on nichols before he fled from police. his lawyer says he was never present at the second seen. lawyer
exclusive report reveals federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children were vitims of human trafficking amid allegations they were illegally employed to clean slaughter houses. we begin with a high stakes fiscal fight now underway here in the nation s capital. the treasury secretary said today could be the day the u.s. reaches its borrowing limit. once that happens, the treasury department will start taking extraordinary measures to make sure the nation pays its bills, but those measures could run out sometime in june. now it s up to congress to raise the debt limit. many republicans say they will not do so unless there are cuts in federal spending setting the stage for an economic showdown with democrats and the white house which insists the debt ceiling increase is nongauchable. it s something that should be done without conditions. we should not be negotiating around it. it is the duty, the basic duty of congress to get that done. so we re not going to neg
el paso s mayor says 2,000 migrants arrive here every day. most of them from venezuela. but some don t stay here for very long, as the city is bussing migrants to other parts of the country. just like the governors of texas, florida and arizona, but here there s coordination with the city of el paso and cities like new york, where many are being sent. yesterday i spoke with several venezuelan mite grans, including one who told me he s just grateful to have a place to go. one who told me he s just grateful to have a place to go. that s where i can work and make a life. if god sends me over there, god will open the doors for me and let me work. so i can work and help my mother and bring her. we ll have more on the situation at the border in just a moment. but we begin with a major development in the probe investigating those highly classified documents seized from former president trump s mar-a-lago home. overnight an appeals court lifted a judge s hold that prevented the j
i m jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. we ll shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20 hard-liners, seven, eight, nine, the math remains the same, more evidence the opposition is dug in. ballots 10 and 11, no show of momentum towards mccarthy. something his allies said he needed to demonstrate then and still needs to demonstrate soon. this farce in the house is also clashing with a deadly and sobering anniversary. lawmakers crowded the capitol steps earlier today to mark two years since the mob emboldened and incited by donald trump s many lies about the election tried to preve