in a dispute over legal aid funding despite warnings of misconduct disciplinary proceedings if they don t turn up to work. major us companies including disney and jp morgan tell staff they ll cover employee travel expenses for abortions after a landmark ruling by the supreme court banned them. one woman has died and a man is in hospital with life threatening injuries following a gas explosion that destroyed a house in central england and damaged at least three others. obviously that is really sad and tragic. notjust for the individuals involved, notjust for the local community but especially the family and friends of the individuals who have been affected by this. and we ll be live at wimbledon as the first day of the tournament gets under way. big names on courts today include novak djokovic, andy murray and emma raducanu. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky is addressing g7 leaders in bavaria by video li
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good afternoon. A major new deadline hangs over washington and the heads of federal employees across country. Just one week from today the federal government face as midnight shutdown and unless a funding bill can be passed and signed by the president. With every passing hour that looks more unlikely. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy sent lawmakers home for a long weekend after federal agencies becoming a formal process preparing for a shutdown of Military Personnel. Their paychecks could be delayed for weeks as a crisis grows at the Southern Board Perp federal officials sending more resources to help with this weeks surge of migrants crossing into the u. S. Today House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy conceded he has to win over republicans hardliners but hopeful theyll fall in line to pass a Stopgap Spending Measure and prevent a shutdown. Finally agree on this, and shutting down i dont see and cnn chief Congress Correspondent manu raj
conspiracy theories about them. the first day of deliberations wrapping up a short while ago after giuliani opted not to take the stand. vladimir putin is vowing there will be no peace in ukraine until russia s military goals are received. krrn was inside the russian president s marathon end-of-the-year news conference, his first since the start of the war. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin tonight with the war in gaza, president biden stressing just a short while ago that he wants israel to, quote, be focused on how to save civilian lives. we ll have more on the mounding u.s. pressure on israel to be more targeted in its battle against hamas. cnn s alex marquardt is standing by live in tel aviv. first i want to go first to clarissa ward who made a truly extraordinary excursion into gaza. cnn is the first western media outlet to gain independent access to southern gaza without an id
Million people are under windchill alerts extend across significant portion of the united states. In New York the Buffalo Bills are in need of Snow Shovellers ahead of tonights in need. One shoveller tweeting this photo, if youre going to the game tonight, brace yourself. Youll have to shovel all of this off your seat. As we say, john, go bills. I was going to say, youre completely objective. Completely objective when it comes to the Buffalo Bills. Lets go, buffalo. In iowa temperatures forecast to stay at or below zero. Well below zero, which is obviously one of the biggest issues facing Caucus Goers tonight. Lets get to our meteorologist in the weather center. What are you seeing, allison
Republican establishment candidate. And this time around people might say, well, Donald Trumps not an establishment candidate. To some extent he is. The party is Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is the party. It is sort of following in this fashion. Exactly. Donald trump the establishment whether you like or not, jim. Yeah. All right, harry enten, i heard you had a little lobster earlier. Thanks so much for finishing that quickly. It was delicious. Was it the kind where they took it out of the shell and put it absolutely, im very lazy. That is the lazy mans lobster. That is my favorite. Chefs kiss. Go bills. Thanks. On monday. Not tomorrow. Thats right. Tune into your show. Thats exactly right. Thank you. Youve learned well. Thanks so much. In the meantime, what remains to be seen is whether the dangerous record breaking cold will impact the iowa caucuses. Lets go to our Cnn Meteorologist with the latest on this winter blast. What are you seeing over the