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
and good morning, everyone. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington following the continuing devastation from historic floods in kentucky. at this time at least 30 people are dead. thousands more are still trapped in their communities. with residents desperate for food, shelter, electricity, and clean drinking water. this morning kentucky governor andy beshear updating reporters on the devastation and search for survivors. i got to talk to some of the families here and the other places too. they don t have anything. i mean the clothes on their back, but happy to be alive and grateful for the folks that are helping out. on capitol hill, senate democrats are hoping to sell their colleague kyrsten sinema on a health care package than casts hundreds of billions into the climate and energy sectors. she has tremendous, tremendous input in these pieces of legislation. this is something everyone has worked on in the last eight months or more, and she basically insisted
around the clock to find families who still may be trapped, some residents losing everything. animals are without people. homes are destroyed. we need as much help, please, i m begging anyone who sees this, help my town, help my people. cnn s joe johns is live for us in hazard, kentucky. and the debris field is tremendous, joe, and we heard the governor there say they continue to look for people because so many remain unaccounted for. what are you finding? reporter: that s right, and they say it s possible this could go on for weeks, not days. so they say a picture is worth a thousand words, fred. and i just wanted to show you where we are. we are in hazard, kentucky. you look behind me here, there s the foundation of a house. believe it or not, before the flood there was a house there, a woman inside told us she started feeling the house moving around 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. she gets out, and then the rushing water essentially d demolishes the house and sends the de
this press conference under way right now with kentucky governor andy beshear talking about the devastating floods. 25 fatalities across five counties. that number will continue to grow. and to be refined. remember, we don t have cell service in some areas to please be patient as we get new information or if it changes. we continue to pray for the families that have suffered ununfathomable loss. some have lost almost everyone in their household. rescuers at the kentucky department of fish and wildlife has been the forefront of these recovery efforts. they ve had to ultimately gather the bodies more than just about anybody else. so, please also pray for those first responders. the mission has been specially challenging and what they re experiencing firsthand is tremendously stressful and difficult. we thank them for what they re doing. deaths include four in breather county, two in clay, 14 in knot, two in lecher, and three in perry. again, those will continue to rise. if th
plus president biden meets with the saudi crown prince and says he did raise the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. now the crown prince is firing back. plus more than half the country is seeing high community spread of coronavirus. and now some cities are reconsidering mask mandates. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, july 16th. i m kristin fisher. i can t believe it s already july 16th. we re halfway through the month. it s flowna by. this whole year has flown by. i m boris sanchez. we start with new revelations, the january 6th committee digging into reports that the secret service deleted text messages sent the day before and during the insurrection. the committee issued a subpoena to the secret service yesterday after meeting with the inspector general of the department of homeland security. we should note this is the first time the committee has subpoenaed an agency in the executive branch. and earlier this week a gov