ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds. needles to say it is a mess for holiday travelers. thousands of flights were canceled thursday. nearly 2700 flights already canceled today with hundreds more delayed. and look at power outage
shouting wherehe is nancy? when he entered, the house speaker was not there atno the time. th new video appearers to show a smashed glass back door where the suspect may have enteredashe their home. police respondedd glas to a wele check. if that we re not sure whether that wa s pehome alarm or a call from paul pelosi.lo we re waiting on those details. it happened aroundarou twond thirty in the morning when they encountered this. our officer ours observed mit pelosi and the suspect both holding a hammer. the suspect pulled a hammer away from miss pelosi from and violentlmry assaulted him with it. our officers immediately tackleour offid the suspect, din him, took him into custody,nd requested emergency backupendere and rendered medical aid. wa sd o is not clear from the chief s comments who was initially holding the hammer or whether the suspect brought itte grab him and used it to enter a home or whether mr. pelosi perhaps grabbed it after he heard somebody breaking into t
jacqui: i m jacqui heinrich, more details on suspect and his past. he s expected to be arraigned on tuesday. christina coleman with the latest developments, hi, christina. christina: we are here in front of the home of the philosophies and you can see there s very easy access to it and that unfortunately is what the suspect took advantage of. paul pelosi suffered fracture to skull and injuries to right arm and hands, fortunately he s expected to make a full recovery. he s expected to be okay. he underwent a successful surgery to repair the school fracture yesterday. house speaker nancy pelosi arrived at san francisco general hospital to be with husband, was in washington, d.c. during the attack. yesterday president biden condemned the attack and he also commented on paul pelosi s condition. i spoke to the speaker, she said that he s doing okay. he went to the hospital, was operated on and he seems to be coming along well. he s in good spirit and the whole family is there. c
it is a done deal, billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning. john berman is off. and according to sources, musk immediately fired twitter s ceo, the chief financial officer and the company s top lawyer. musk first agreed to buy the company in april, then he spent months trying to get out of the deal, which was finalized just before today s deadline. musk attempted to reassure advertisers, posting an open letter on twitter why he bought the platform, saying, quote, there is currently great danger that social media will fracture into far right and far left wings that will splinter our society and overnight he tweeted the bird is free. reporter: there is a lot of uncertainty at twitter. employees aren t sure what to expect after musk came in, took control and fired the top executives. unclear who the top team is, maybe employees will learn more at an all-hands mee
this is america s newsroom. terrible situation there. she was not in san francisco at the time so she got a call and it happened sometime in the middle of the night. we ll get more details, we believe, this morning and we ll bring them to you. bill: if i m correct, their home is in pacific heights in san francisco. high living as you know and a home in napa valley. this happened in san francisco according to the reporting. you think about crime and how we ve been talking about it for two years. lee zeldin is the republican candidate in new york. a month ago he had a random shooting in his front yard where his two daughters were home. point being depending the circumstances of this story, crime hits everybody. dana: there was also the home intrusion and robbery of the democratic candidate in los angeles running for mayor, her name is escaping me at the moment but she also remember had the gun stolen from her home. still don t have information about how that happened. b