that. one dead in texas and another in arkansas as powerful winter storm cripples the mid south. 360,000 residents are still without power. voters say the country is more divided than ever. dysfunctional family is what 81% say describing america today. when it comes to the economy. 66% disapprove of how president biden has been handling the inflation crisis. where is everybody going? to gobbler s knob. it s groundhog day. it is groundhog day. janice: punxsutawney, pennsylvania, the crowd have been here since 3:00 a.m. we will find out if there are going to be six more weeks of weather anything can happen. brian: you are looking somewhere in pennsylvania. punxsutawney, easy to say, tough to spell, where a bunch of people. steve: good scrabble word. brian: they want to have fun. brian: seeing grown men in groundhog hats. brian: it s acceptable. tomorrow it won t be. so don t try it. but right there, a bunch of people. some strangers, all willing to
clerk in wisconsin. she spent the last 15 years running elections. here she is holding a mock election in 2011. she is trying to figure out how much extra time voters need to cast ballots under the state s iner you voter id law. i m madison city clerk. and today we re having a mock election invi the city county building to time various scenarios with voter id and figure out how to do the best practices for 2012 before we actually have an election. she said she chose to do this work because she wanted to combat voting inequities in madison. she encourages every new wisconsin election clerk that comes to herwi for training to similarly find their why. quote, they have to focus on why they re doing this work. what it comes down to is making votingak accessible to those eligible to vote. that s why we keep showing up daye after day. her why is more important now than ever. in 2020, mary beth contemplated not showing up. she almost quit. that s because after election day 2020,
president is stunning. now, think of the near nonstop negative coverage trump s given by the regime media. so i m thinking to myself today imagine if this poll looked like if the press were even a smidge fair. in other new york times polling data spells doom for the democrats as well. in the generic ballot republicans now hold a four-point lead over democrats, that s a five-point swing towards the gop since september. it s devastating. and perhaps most significant and there s a lot of significant stuff in this poll, the biggest shift came from women who identifyed as independent in september they favored democrats by 14 points, now independent women backed republicans by 18 points. i thought that was a typo but it s not. and on top of that, almost two-thirds of americans believe we re going in the wrong direction. 64%. now, at this point, i think it s good to remember where things looked back in june and july after the court overturned rowe and liberals were really hopeful ev
messages saying that she which her job. she had something down in kansas. left behind a puzzling computer trail. emails, text messages, so active on social media. nobody can locator. she did not want to be found. exactly. a mom turned ghost. was she missing? or hiding? i wanted to know. taunts, threats, violence my leg is soaked with blood. oh, jesus. a deadly mystery that would lead three moms and one man. you were the last one to see her? it was as if i had already done something, and he already knew it. he was a drilling me with the ironies. it was almost an obsession to get it solved. a heart stopping case of jealousy, secret identity, and murder. it is like, they are on edge. what s gonna happen next? it was dark when they started searching, dark and cold. the 5th of december, 2015, just across the night black mystery from omaha, back and forth when the chopper, as a proud the park, big lake park, iowa, looking for shooter. 9-1-1.
coming up on cnn, the four-time indicted twice impeached one term president donald trump takes the stand as a defendant in the new york civil trial accusing him, his son s, and other trump organization executives of business fraud. and it s now been one month since the horrific hospitality on israel as war rages on. even official says the death toll in gaza from israeli airstrikes defies humanity. live from cnn center this is cnn newsroom with john vause. wherever you are around the world, thank you for joining us this hour. we begin with a historic day in a new york courtroom. for the first time in more than a century, a former u.s. president has taken the stand as a defendant and donald trump stayed true to form. during four hours of testimony insulting the court, insulting the judge, and insulting the prosecution. while repeating his favorite and in collect claim from the campaign trail calling is criminal charges part of a criminal witch hunt and election interferen