very good to beac you for another hour. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we re continuing our breaking news coverage of a legal setback for special counsel jack smith in his election interference investigation into the former president. the supreme court has just put out a single line order statement denying smith s request to immediately settle trump s presidential immunity claims, meaning the issue now heads to the court of appeals in d.c. we do have the date for those oral arguments. so what this decision all means for timing and how quickly the supreme court could take up the case once that court rules, there s a lot to get into. we re going to dive in right now joining us, justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and msnbc legal analyst, and former assistant d.a. with the manhattan district attorney s office, catherine christian. ken, first off, were we expecting a sidestep like this? because that s essentially what it is. it s a punt, if you will, from the su
reporter: but christmas in buffalo did come with some unexpected holiday hope on friday a bus full of korean tourists heading for niagara falls got stuck outside their buffalo area home. i said come on in everybody because you re going to be here for a while. reporter: without hesitating the couple welcomed ten strangers in for two nights sharing homemade korean food and the bills game with new friends. you might have saved those people s lives what do you think of that? i feel very grateful we were able to help them because it could have been a very terrible outcome. and i feel like we made ten extra family members reporter: meanwhile, the bills themselves digging out when they got back from chicago. now millions waking up to another frigid day as the northwest braces for more heavy rain, ice, and mountain snow some signs of warmth amid this terrible storm. now to the travel chaos that s still unfolding, thousands of flights canceled over the weekend and the ri
good monday morning. i m hallie jackson in washington we re coming on the air learning more people have been killed in a massive winter storm with emergency workers only starting to get to some of the hardest hit areas now. we just got an update from officials near buffalo we will bring you live what they said we are looking at western new york buried under several feet of snow. the governor describing it all as a war zone. i know how hard this is but western new yorkers are tough. we know how to deal with this. we will get through this together we ll have more on that in a second new tension on the korean peninsula after north korea fires drones over soak soak for the first time in years. how the south is responding. plus, the first christmas holiday inn ukraine since the war began. the defiant message from president zelenskyy later in the show here at home with holiday shopping season over, the return the gift season is kicking into high gear. what you should know abo
torn gaza. in east jerusalem as negotiations for the release of hostages in gaza looks set to restart. war of words. special counsel jack smith has asked a judge for a gag order against donald trump. why he says the former president could pose a danger to law enforcement. motion denied. what a judge s new ruling means for alec baldwin and his manslaughter indictment. from the ashes. the five-year journey for this centuries old piece of notre dame now back where it belongs. and later, riding the waves. the program that is helping veterans navigate life s sometimes choppy waters. yeah! you re doing it! announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with adriana diaz. good evening. i m christine johnson in for adriana. thank you for joining us. it has been another day of dark, ominous clouds and dangerous storms brewing in the midwest along with hail in mississippi, flooding in arkansas, these storms could produce some severe weather. let s get to the la
after years of delicate work to secure the church, now restoration of the interior is finally under way. there are 1,200 tons of scaffolding in here, 15 stories high, leading up to where the spire will eventually be rebuilt. but within what is now this vast construction site, flashes of quiet beauty are starting to return in this row of painted chapel saints and angels painstakingly returned to their former brilliance by teams of crafts people incredible how vivid these colors are and here a completed wing offers a glimpse of the future, what the rest of the cathedral will look like when finished. all of paris watched the moment notre dame s iconic spire fell this is the roof where the spire once stood, now preparation under way to bring it back to life this is the hole in the cathedral creeling where the spire came crashing down these wooden hangers will be used to support new stone arches, and from here the spire