city and north towns from 4:00 a.m. today through 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. the city of buffalo is impasseible in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondary and side streets haven t been touched yet. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long-storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. julie: adam is in the fox weather center. the snow particularly in western new york. it is unbearable. you see a lot of cold stretched across the entire country as we still see feels-like temperatures in new york city at 12 degrees. six degrees in columbus, still back across the northern plains in the negatives. some spots as low as negative 30 again this morning and then the deep cold settled well down south across the country where most folks even across texas are waking up for temperatures below freezing. 23 degrees in atlanta and it stretches as far down across much of the state of florida
parade in the city s downtown area came to a halt after multiple shots were fired. witnesses describe a horrific scene with terrified people running. some ran inside and others hid behind dumpsters and underneath cars. the gunfire started just 14 minutes after the parade began as the band was playing. pictures show multiple victims lying in the street with blood on them. here s how one witness described what they saw. a little after the band went through we heard pow, pow, pow. everybody thought it was fireworks or the military was going through with shotguns. i said something is wrong. i grabbed my dad and started running. i turned and saw a girl shot and i saw her die. i ve never seen anything like this. we were hiding behind the dumpster in about an hour. one man hiding with us had been shot in the head, he had bleeding all over his face. i m just happy that s all that happened. another girl was escorted out was shot in the leg. we went out to get our car keys and the st
floats. then it just opened up, that familiar, you know, semi gunfire. just a rain of shots. nbc s rehema ellis has been monitoring this. rehema, what do we know right now? reporter: not much more than what you talked about, steve, because this is unfolding as we speak. you pointed out the police are looking for a suspect. this event happened, this mass shooting happened just a short while after the fireworks, the fourth of july festivities, were getting under way. as you reported, there are reports of several people who were shot. we do not at this point have an exact number of how many people were shot or if any people were killed in this incident. as one person was saying there that we just heard from, people were enjoying a fourth of july festivity, a parade, in highland park. this is a community about 25 miles north of chicago. when they heard these sounds ring out. the guy was saying there, you heard a pop, pop, pop, and he said it was like a rain of shots that just
doing important things always does. melanie, i hope you weren t up all night following these twists and turns. getting this bill out of the senate, they ran into some head winds and rocks along the shore in the name of senator kyrsten sinema. how did it play out? as chuck schumer put it, it was a bump on the road. there was some drama before this bill got to the finish line. senator kyrsten sinema was concerned about the 15% corporate minimum tax, impacting small businesses. so she joined in on a republican amendment to address that issue. but it also included an extension of the state and local tax deduction. schumer was told some democrats would not vote for the final bill if those changes were in there. so behind the scenes, democrats were scrambling to come one a solution to prevent this deal from falling apart. they came up with letting sinema support that amendment and added in a different way to pay for the changes. that is the reality of a 50-50 senate. they needed
this is an embarrassment to the senate, to the country, to the founders, and all that they profess to hold dear. comedian and veterans advocate jon stewart is here, standing up for veterans and explaining why this could be a matter of life and death. plus, right now the january 6th committee is interviewing high profile names from donald trump s white house, and they re in talks to speak with even more. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. heightened fears that the u.s. economy is on the verge of a recession or is already in one. the numbers released this morning show the u.s. economy shrank for the second quarter in a row. that is the common definition of a recession. this comes just hours after the federal reserve raised interest rates once again, forcing americans to pay more for loans or credit card bills. the official rules of whether we re in a recession will come from the national bureau of economic research. but joe biden is dismissing these concerns. he says