damage to the south carolina coast where it struck today as a category 1 hurricane. this is the cherry grove pier in north myrtle beach, one of two that partially collapsed today. and just as on the florida gulf coast and later in orlando ian caused significant flooding in the charleston and myrtle beach areas and knocked out power to about a third of a million customers in south and north carolina. so we ve also just received some new video in of a high wave sweeping several people off a pier in miami. we have a big wave and about five people so that s in miami still from the high tide and the waves being kicked up by ian. six people were hurt in that. no one, thank goodness, was killed. state-wide, the death toll is now at least 42, and that is expected to rise. and the damage especially in places like fort meyers beach became even more apparent today. it is so severe that a coast guard commander told our wolf blitzer his chopper crews simply do not have monday landma
But, listen, the classified has even more to worry about because the county six committee, they will have at least one more hearing planned before they submit their full report. According to Committee Chairman bennie thompson, they are debating inviting some pretty big names like former Vice President mike pence and maybe even trump himself. We are going to dig into all of this. Joining me now is elie, he is the justice correspondent for the nation. He is also the author of the bestselling New York Times book, allow me to retort, a black eyes guide to the constitution. We have to give you all your flowers, elie. When all of this is going down the paschal of weeks, you were the only person that i wanted to talk to about this and get your take. Im a little confused by the multiple lenses here. An appeal, the doj is no longer appealing fighting a Special Master and they are only asking for a small state for part of the order. What do you think the dojs play is here . What is the reasoning
trump for their own financial benefit ises a toupding. the values of asset bis whatever means necessary to increase trump s reported net worth. the lawsuit seeks roughly a quarter billion dollars in penalties and seeks to bar trump and his children from serving as executives at any company in new york. and while this is a civil case, criminal charges could be next. the attorney general said her office is making criminal referrals to both the irs and the u.s. attorney in the sosh district for possible federal crimes. every day people cannot lie to a bank about how much money they have in order to get a favorable loan to buy a home or send their kid to college. if they did, the government would throw the book at them. why should this be any different? it is a tale of two justice systems. one for every day working people, one for the elite. a statement sent from trufr s attorney to nbc news says in part, quote, today s filing is neither focused on the facts nor the law, ra
bitterness and fury. the extreme maga republicans in congress have chosen to go backwards full of anger, violence, hate and division. it s a bill that will cut your cost of living and reduce inflation. take time to get inflation back to normal levels. i will accomplish what i said i would do, a more humane policy based on family yoonfication. don t come don t leave your town or city or community. rich: border encounters up 33% from a year ago. inflation up more than 7%, stock market down nearly $7 trillion. julie: that s as americans are reeling and the president is taking a break vacationing in the caribbean. the white house isn t completely vacant. we have peter doocy there. 2/3 majority of americans in a recent fox news poll say 2022 was a bad year. and that just does not compute with the folks at the white house. we have this photo that the white house posted that shows a huge stack of bills president biden signed to close out the year. the text accompanying those
the weather outside is still frightful and in places still potentially deadly. pamela brown here in for anderson. it s hard to imagine that some parts of western new york could see another foot or more of snow on top of the nearly four feet you see in these pictures on your screen. winter storm warnings there and elsewhere still in effect. buffalo s airport still closed. the entire eastern part of the country still in a deep freeze. almost 4,000 flights canceled today and nearly 2600 tomorrow. nationwide, at least 49 people have lost their lives in this massive storm. 27 and the buffalo area alone. we have wide reporting tonight from buffalo and denver international airport. let s start tonight with paula who has been right there in the works of it from day one. what is the latest on the ground? today those rescues also continue. in fact, new york governor saying that state police officers carried out some 550 rescues at least over the weekend. but we also learned about wha