than half of everyone in the u.s. will face dangerous bitter cold temperatures today. plus, the january 6th committee s final report is out which says that donald trump is to blame for the violence on capitol hill. we ll have more. for the first time, vladimir putin uses the word war to describe his invasion of ukraine. live from london, this is cnn newsroom, with max foster and bianca nobilo. we begin with a huge winter storm bearing down across much of the united states. more than half of the u.s. population, about 117 million people are under windchill and winter weather alerts across the country. dangerous rigid conditions, bitterly cold wind, snow and ice making trip for treacherous travel conditions ahead of the holiday weekend. in south dakota, more than 500 miles of two interstate highways are closed because of high winds and blizzard like conditions. air travel is becoming even more chaotic, as more than 2700 flight scheduled for today have already been cance
hello, welcome to cnn newsroom. we begin with this monster winter storm. its core is hovering over the great lakes, and its trailing arctic air is causing power outages and dangerous travel conditions two days before christmas. life-threatening windchills have permeated all the way to the gulf coast, over 70 million americans are experiencing below freezing temperatures, that includes the entire state of texas. this video s from kentucky where the governor has just confirmed three people have died as a result of this storm. and this from our affiliate whbq in memphis, tennessee, their high today, 16 degrees. it s usually around 52 this time of year. the city s enforcing rolling blackouts to reduce the strain on their power fwrid. and damaging winds grid. and damaging winds have knocked out power to a million customers nationwide. and look at this the storm system causing heavy flooding in parts of new england. just a harrowing sight for a region expected to hit freezing
mike pence admits that he too had classified material at his house. will the justice department appoint another special counsel as lawmakers react now to the pence news? and california s three mass shootings in three days. the latest, a case of workplace violence. what led a gunman to allegedly target his co-workers as we learn the identities of 19 killed in less than a week. plus reversing course. sources tell cnn the u.s. is now ready to send its abrams tanks to ukraine as germany also softens its opposition. so what changed? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown. jake tapper is on assignment. we start in our politics lead with a story first reported by cnn. roughly a dozen classified documents found at former vice president mike pence s house. a lawyer for pence found the papers at pence s indiana home last week, according to sources, and turned them over to the fbi. the documents were not stored in a secure area of pence s home and the discovery directly contradic
been $10 trillion. nobody is putting up that money. bytedance for accessing private data through users tiktok account. tiktok is scrambling to regain trust. trojan horse for the chinese communist party. really add costumes. williams christmas soul against the jaguar. i wish it could be christmas everyday. i wish it could be christmas every day. brian: we haven t done much to signify the coming of christmas besides santa, besides the tree. besides the myriad of trees downstairs and virtual celebration that is happening in our studio electronically. christmas just a couple days away according to reports. and santa is getting a little cocky going that circle as if to say i have plenty of time to get it all done. don t worry about me. will: i agree. i find it cocky, especially some of the americans might have trouble flying today. santa cruzsasanta cruzing arouns slay. carley: santa won t have travel issues because he has rudolph to guide him. brian: elf when
for himself. the big guy was in the big apple today. but no, he was too busy patting himself on the back, raising money with his rich friends. local officials are fuming over the situation. they say lefty activities are stoking unrest by filling the migrants heads with nonsense about the new shelter. for all men, it s only four bathrooms. if one gets sick, everyone gets sick. it s very ugly. the beds are horrible. they re a piece of fabric, like a military bed. jesse: mayor eric adams has had enough. he went to the new facility to show it s really not that bad. doesn t matter if it s ellis island, any of our ports, it is all rooted in the american dream. you pursue the dream here. when you meet someone walking through, i just had to come here when i started hearing all the rumors about it was too cold. my brother got on shorts. it s warm inside. about the food not being there. you know, healthy food. even the snacks are healthy. we need to stop the anxiety. jesse: bu