cnn newsroom starts right now. good morning, it s saturday, december 24th. merry christmas eve. i m whitney wild in for amara walker. and i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. and you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin with a frustrating start to a holiday weekend. more than 200 americans are under winter alert with an arctic blast with heavy snow and ice. the storm has placed enormous strains on america s energy infrastructure. this morning where more than 500,000 homes and businesses are without power. and authorities in tennessee have ordered 15-minute rolling blackouts to manage demands. now, officials in states are blaming the winter storm for 15 deaths. they re reminding drivers, if you don t need to travel, stay off the road. across the country, snow, ice and powerful winds have caused multivehicle crashes and left drivers stranded on roads and highways. many spent hours in freezing conditions but it is not just the snow and ice. in new jersey, in several co
Cant we use them . Thats wow. One of the reasons why he has he just doesnt have Foreign Policy experts around him. Trump asked three times . In an hour briefing, why cant we use Nuclear Weapons . From wondering about the use of Nuclear Weapons to stealing war plans, to reportedly spilling secrets about Nuclear Submarines, donald trump has a long history of problematic behavior with classified intelligence. Well have more on that one reporting. Nuclear, nuclear intelligence, willie. This is, again that and his love of autocrats is a bad mix. Yeah. I mean, we all remember that disturbing time when we said he was ill fit, but, you know, this is a guy that has been reckless with intelligence from the very beginning. I mean, one of his first visitors in the white house, he had the Foreign Minister of russia and the Russian Ambassador to the United States. What did he do . He spilled classified secrets that we got from another country. Had no reporters in there, no u. S. Reporters there, but
Population, more people likely to need care all year round, but particularly in the winter . Yes, no getting around the fact people get ill overwinter, but it does sound like this is worse than usual. Speaking about, as Melanie Wasjust saying, record numbers of people in ambulances turned away from hospital as they do not have resources to help them. In record breaking territory, that does not sound good. One of the interesting elements of the story in the telegraph is they are speaking about trying to encourage hospitals not to talk about this in overly alarming terms, not to speak about, what do they cold, black alerts . The guardian speaking about how the red cross is saying the nhs needs to take action to make sure we are taking better ca re of to make sure we are taking better care of people. Terms like red cross and black alert in relation to the nhs, nota and black alert in relation to the nhs, not a good look. In addition, some of the stories, looking at individual stories, lyi
Up next our documentary series doc film looks at how Global Warming may be opening up the arctic and reviving old rivalries omarion evanston ill be back with more news at the top of the hour hope you join us then. Language courses. Any time. W. B. The arctic is often described as a vast expanse of eternal ice but in some parts of the region thats no longer the case. This is alice muir island in the canadian arctic. This strip of coastline was once covered with ice but the nearby glaciers are melting so we can see more and more of the land that lies beneath them. Some researchers predict starting in 2050 the arctic will be ice free in summer so what will happen to the region is all that ice melts. Almost for me to rise should she look. The arctic helps to determine the climate for a much wider area including parts of the us due to Climate Change due to the ice receiving. The wall maps in retreat to the arctic in the center. That will cause massive changes here and in other parts of the
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