welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i m whitney wild in for christine roman. a dangerous new storm system headed to the west coast with heavy rain, mountain snow. the pacific northwest will get it first. california gets it tomorrow. right on the heels of the storm that shut down a stretch i-70 in colorado for nine hours leaving drivers stranded. meteorologist chad myers is live in the weather center. chad, these storms have millions of people under alerts right now. there is no relief. there are still two more in the west to come on shore monday into tuesday. the storm that was in denver has taken its energy and focused it down here near lake charles. bumpy weather in houston and beaumont. we ve had two to four inches of rainfall and snow in the high sierra. more snow, more rain and flooding. flash flood watches for rising rivers in parts of california and then when you get up to the higher elevations, winter storm warnings are posted. i m
losing daily because of the war. a grieving zelenskyy today. good day here in washington. house republicans responsible for putting kevin mccarthy through 14 failed speaker votes have been rewarded with coveted committee assignments for their efforts. the 21 holdouts who spent days wheeling and dealing with mccarthy and his top lieutenants will play major roles in prominent committees, includes homeland security and oversight. george santos will serve on two committees, small business along with science, space and technology. house republican leadership continues to dismiss calls from within their own party for him to be removeremoved. joining me now ali vitali, yamiche alcindor and susan delpercio. ali, take us through what s shaking out in the republican the rebels getting what they want. george santos getting appointments. marjorie taylor greene getting back on committees. it s a new congress now. signments have shaken out.ms republicans getting a late start to it bu
we are just three days away from election day. pittsburgh, i am here to ask you to vote. it is no coincidence that we have three presidents in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. you must vote republican in a giant red wave. most important of all is the senate race where democrats are trying to flip a seat. i m running to serve pennsylvania. he s running to use pennsylvania. i want to go to washington and bring balance. georgia is often referred to as the center of the universe as a true battleground state. he has failed as a senator! he doesn t know hard working people. he doesn t know struggling people. the startling new admission from tehran. iran s foreign minister saying iran did provide a limited number of drones to russia, but it was in the months prior to the conflict. i m alex marquardt in washington. pamela brown is off. thank you so much for joining me here in the cnn newsroom. let s begin this hour on the campaign trail. that s where we fin
circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. this appointment underscores for the public the department s commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. let s bring in wall street journal columnist dan henninger and kim strassel do you think merrick garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come? well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. i mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of kevin mccarthy house speakership roll forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the united states after one has already been appointed a special council to inv
tony fauci effectively defended lockdowns, masking s, and vaccines. in fact and the fall of 2020 he won an emmy award for his daily covert briefing. he was and actually celebrity, and everybody said so within weeks of getting that emmy, it began to fall apart. a number of women came forward to claim that he had once said impolite things in their presence. by the standards of his many scandals in office it seemed like nothing. that for reasons they never explained, democratic leaders, leaders of his party in washington took the scandal seriously. they described his behavior as sexual harassment. the people who hang out enemies even took back their awards and scrubbed his name from their website. he was too immoral to shares with hollywood actors, and that is pretty immoral. what did he do wrong? he outlived his usefulness to the party and that s what he s dead. he stayed too long. he was in his 60s, white, male , he was someone his demographic profile record the democrat party