hey, everybody. good to see you. i m yasmin vossoughian in for my friend chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now defense secretary lloyd austin doubling down on u.s. support for israel, insisting the united states will not dictate a timeline or terms for how it goes after hamas. this message, despite the growing fears at the white house and austin s own concerns that israel s bombing campaign will ultimately backfire, creating more terrorists than it kills. what happens now? what are the chances senate negotiators can break a decades-old impasse on immigration in just a couple weeks? the unbelievable amount of political pressure on lawmakers as they try to navigate what one senator calls, quote, the most complicated area of the law in the entire country. some horrific holiday weather making things miserable for millions of americans right now. the storm that soaked the carolinas now slamming new york, boston, even bangor, maine. torrential rai
it doesn t make any sense. it took my father, you killed my father. someone is going to pay for this. there are easier ways to die. i got a call from a cousin, saying. he s in the hospital. how did he look? horrible. he drank something sweet, and deadly. there was no question. the real question, why would he do it? stressed, out something was going on there. what happened to ray? soon, it wasn t just doctors and the families asking the question. it was detectives. most likely not a suicide. he had enemies. he received a surprise package. this man sent my data bob. a surprise phone call from a it s josh mankiewicz from day line, is there anything you want to say? no shortage of suspects, just a shortage of detectives. all kinds of things go wrong and murder investigations. but the police department running out of money, is not one of the things you think of. now. i preston. i did what i had to do. would she ever find justice? it s your
Winter storms from the Pacific Northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, weve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. Coastal flooding, gail forced winds, Blizzard Conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the Ohio Turnpike that took one life at least. Were also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. C cnn Polo Sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at ohare. We begin with Polo Sandoval. What can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what theyre facing tonight . Reporter it is going to be a very long frigid night, Jim For County officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of Stranded Cars Inn erie county and rescuig people inside. Officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9 30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay home but sadly,
Im paula reed in washington. For a ferocious freeze complicating Rescue Efforts after a deadly winter storm pummeled the u. S. Freed warnings in effect across the u. S. Snow and sheets of ice. The storm blamed for at least 26 deaths. Roads impassable in Upstate New York after a monstrous blizzard. For nearly 12 hours it was almost impossible to go anywhere in a vast majority of the community. This is an area with approximately 500,000 residents between the city of buffalo and the suburbs. It was such that we had to pull Emergency Rescue vehicling off the roads. The bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations. This morning parts of the south seeing the coldest christmas in decades and making a mess of holiday travel. 1,800 Flights Canceled again today. We have a team covering this all tracking the latest Winter Weather developments but beginning in buffalo, new york. Paw lo sandoval is there. Last time we spoke we did see some trucks on the road. Whats the latest there . Reporter
Sound of ripping throughout the nation. Theres going to be a lot of ripping. Carley that sounds like a problem for you. Todd i got home yesterday, instead of saying welcome home, honey, we missed you. My wife says you were too loud during the 8 00 hour. Im going to ratchet it down a little this hour. Merry christmas to you and yours. Griff Merry Christmas. Thank you for having us into your living room now. I have confirmation in my living room, which is in washington now, i was questionable if santa was going to come, he apparently came to the jenkins household. You can see here with lots carley lots of gifts. Griff i got so many gifts. Carley are those all for you . Griff i assume so. Who else would they be for . Carley you have two daughters. Griff i do. Madeleine and mckenzie, Merry Christmas to you guys. Todd i called santa a dirty name yesterday, he didnt deliver to my tree as nicely as yours. Griff theres one thing about the tree. If we can show it quickly, that carley pointed ou