good friday morning to you, it is christmas eve eve. i m jim sciutto. let s begin with the massive winter storm slamming the u.s. with dangerously low temperatures, record-breaking wind chills and heavy snow, only becoming stronger today. the storm stretching from the canadian border to the mexican border is expected to become what s known as a bomb cyclone as it moves into the great lakes today with intense pressures matching that of a category 2 hurricane. right now across the country hundreds of thousands are without power, travel plans upended for many going into the holiday weekend. more than 3,100 flights canceled already today. dozens of governors creating emergency response plans heading into this holiday weekend including opening temporary warming shelters just to get people out of the cold. i will speak with one of those governors, kentucky s andy beshear in just a moment. let s get to our team covering what s being called a once in a generation storm. we begin in u
east quite quickly, with some showers coming into the north and west, but compared with this week, really it day. with temperatures back down to what they should be at this time of year. does it last? no. the weekend brings in this low pressure which is the remnants of storm martin which will bring wet and windy weather at times to us as well as some rather large waves on saturday night into sunday. saturday brings another land of rain eastwards, slowing down as it approaches the south and east. brighter weather following on behind. temperatures about average. because it is bonfire evening. are we going to get any dry weather? probably, between our weather front which is starting to clear away and the next a group of showers coming in. a rather unsettled picture this weekend, some large waves on saturday night and into sunday and some rather large amounts of rainfall potentially in the south and east once again. we will keep an eye on that. and that is it from the bbc news at
his critics, though, ask one simple question, and i quote one of them. who the hell is an unelected, failed minister to tell any of us what to do? well, that s what i hope to discover in this conversation, at a moment when anything could change, and almost certainly will in politics. david frost, lord frost, welcome to political thinking. thank you. great to be here. well, let s begin with what is on everybody s mind. your old friend, the man you advised and whether he, borisjohnson, can and should be our next prime minister. what do you make of the speculation? well, boris is remarkable guy, and he can do things that other people can t. so i don t find it at all surprising that we re getting this sort of noise about, will he come back? could he do the job? i think the party needs to think quite hard before it, it kind of goes down this road, you know? who knows? it s not really for me to say. but, you know, there was a reason why he left office and there s a reason why
he lies about it. his own son tells herschel walker to stop the lies after new allegations suggest serious hypocrisy on abortion and reveal the scam of the christian rights family values brand. trump called the three justices, he picked my justices, he asked the supreme court to intervene on his classified documents, and i have two very special guests tonight, former attorney general eric holder joins me as the supreme court hears a case with major implications for what s left of the voting rights act, and john fetterman on his race for united states senate in pennsylvania. it is getting tighter and could decide which party wins control. we begin tonight with family values. as exemplified by perhaps the most iconic family in american sitcom history. the adventures of ozzie and harriet starring the entire nelson family. here s ozzie. here s harriet. here s david. and here s ricky. here they are, america s favorite family, the nelsons. yes, that s right, ozzie and harri
banks stocks might run out. 169 food banks have told the guardian that the number of people seeking emergency help has already grown dramatically and they re predicting bleak weeks ahead. itjust dramatically and they re predicting bleak weeks ahead. it just feel like we are facing a bleak winter. the winter doesn t we are facing a bleak winter. the winter doesn t seem deeply worrying and the winter doesn t seem deeply worrying and the position that people have been and the position that people have been thrown into does seem. thabs been thrown into does seem. that s looking at the poorest end of the spectrum. they probably won t be managing the spectrum. they probably won t be managing any more. there was a story on the managing any more. there was a story on the telegraph the other day when the fuel on the telegraph the other day when the fuel price calf lifted in october. 50% of uk families in fuel poverty. october. 50% of uk families in fuel poverty. so