this morning starts right now. this breaking overnight, hunter biden is facing nine new criminal charges as federal investigators say he avoided paying $1.4 million in taxes, instead spending that money on an extravagant lifestyle, how high the political cost may be for his father. donald trump set to testify monday in his new york fraud trial after calling it a disgrace to america. why his own lawyer is telling him not to take the stand. plus, shots fired outside of a synagogue before the first night of hanukkah, what the suspect said just before he was arrested. cnn this morning starts right now. it is friday, we re so glad you re with us, i m poppy harlow, with phil mattingly in new york. the 2023 campaign trail is running through the courthouse or courthouses, hunter biden facing nine new federal criminal charges, accused of failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes, in 2016, through 2019. and instead spending his money on things like drugs, escorts, pornogr
new york, back through michigan, that s where the winter storm warnings are. the warm sector of this thing is really big. it s 0 clulded, which means heavy rain up and down the east coast. overnight tonight, it s going to be really heavy in spots and still messy in the morning in places like boston and bangor. we ll probably see a foot of snow when this is done across parts of maine, northern new england, in through northern new york. manhattan, other big cities across i-95 continue their snowless streak, but everybody in the east is going to get the cold tomorrow. david? rob marciano with us, as well. thank you, rob. now to the other major news this wednesday night, the teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student, tonight arguing the school was warned three times on that very day that the boy could have a gun, and that he was making threats. her lawyer tonight now revealing a chilling timeline here, also revealing the teacher still has that bullet lodged in her chest. here s ou
people stand around and wait the arrival of 2023. phil. yeah, i think the temperatures is a decent trade-off. 13 hours those folks hanging out behind you. god bless you, man. that is a next level of effort. thanks very much. reporter: there is nothing like it. the question, will the weather cooperate for tonight s new year celebrations? for the forecast cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. what are we looking at? the answer to that depends on exactly which city you are planning on doing your outdoor festivities. we have a lot of cities with rain in the forecast today. that does include new york, but also boston, washington, d.c., raleigh, even several cities on the west coast from an entirely different system. we are talking san francisco, l.a., san diego, all also looking for rain in the forecast for today. the question is, is it still here at midnight tonight? so let s take a look. you can see through the rest of the day, especially mainly this afternoon, you have a lot of tha
reporter: really across parts of the rockies. that is where the winter weather advisory and warnings are that continue in effect throughout the day and some for areas tomorrow. but i want to focus on the storm that caused headaches over the east. it produced several tornados across parts of the southeast and heavy rain up and down the east coast and we have lingering heavy rain in portions of eastern maine. but it is quiter now and a little on the windy side quite wind gust up to 40 miles per hour and tree branches down in buffalo, new york. a lot of activity behind the storm even though it is dry out there. temperature-wise you will start to notice they are dropping across parts of the east coast.
we re a little higher in elevation here up in the catskill mountains. the higher elevations turned over to snow a lot sooner. we saw heavy rain up and down the northeast, parts of new jersey, where the ocean waves battered the beaches, caused coastal flood. we saw three to four inches of rain in most areas. up in massachusetts, wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour. that combined with the rough surface especially along the coast caused a lot of coastal flooding. now we re on the back side of the storm. it s the colder side of the storm. we are going to see off and on snow showers throughout tomorrow. the highest elevations could walk away with about 1 to 2 feet. that s good news for the ski resorts. that s good news for the ski resorts. nbc s dylan dreyer watching this nor easter for us. appreciate your time. the senate s torture report. we ll talk to some of the we ll talk about some of the disturbing techniques that were revealed and what the impact