it s heading. mike tobin at o hare airport in chicago with nightmare people trying to get on the plane. we begin with fox weather correspondent max gorden in new york just south of buffalo tonight. good evening, max. good evening, mike. along the shores of a very angry lake erie. all day today, waives have been crashing over the railing behind me as 14 to 18-foot as well as have come ashore. part of the parking lot that we are standing next to right here has been coming apart actually and neighborhoods near us have had to be evacuated because of a storm surge that has pushed through and caused flooding. now, of course with this bomb cyclone we have also had to deal with very heavy snow and extremely gusty winds. the gusts of 72 miles per hour was recorded at buffalo, niagara international airport. also experienced white outside conditions zero visibility and shut out operations at the airport no flights, in no flights out. of course, road conditions are also very treacherou
hundreds of thousands without power, more than 4,000 flights canceled. winds so treacherous the airport in buffalo, new york, had to shut down. cnn is live with the havoc being wreaked nationwide. and the january 6th committee out with its final report spelling out why donald trump, in their view, was the one solely responsible for the riot and should be discaqualifi from holding office ever again. new transcripts from the committee. why cassidy hutchinson said she was disappointed and disgusted with her first round of testimony under oath. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the national lead and this nightmare weather scenario before christmas crippling conditions stretching coast to coast with snow and ice in cities such as seattle and portland, oregon to the massive bomb cyclone system moving east. nearly 180 million in the u.s. are in areas with temperatures below freezing. 70 million are in areas below zero. this system is so powerful meteorologist
over 1 million people are without power. from texas, to the east coast as bone chilling temperatures are kicking in. more than 200 millions americans are currently on no warnings or advisories. this massive winter storm is causing holiday travel chaos. transportation secretary pete pete says it is going to be days before this gets sorted out. yesterday, about 10% of flights were canceled. now of course that means 90% of flights were not canceled. but you know, for goes about 2% would consider that a lot, so 10% means just a lot of disruption for a lot of passengers. now it will getting back to normal but we are seeing again over the middle of the country that that extreme cold in the east that that wind and snow is coming. and is going to be rough or certainly, the next couple of days when it comes aviation. so far over 26,000 flights have been delayed, nearly 9,000 canceled since wednesday. mike tobin is at o hare airport in chicago at the latest. jaime. hello there
is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay. now congress i didn t say over. go to the paragraph before. wow. how would you like to be ivanka stage managing that? back in july, the january 6th committee played raw footage of the outtakes of former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot when he was choking on every word. this morning, the day before he called them patriots, beautiful, this, that, the other. wow. this morning, the committee s full final report has finally been released. we re going to go through it all. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s friday, december 23rd. everybody s off. i m here. i hope you re not bothered too much by that. we re going to get through it together. we have former aide to george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. and the host of msnbc politics nation and president of the national action network, the hardest working m
to know. more than 30 dead in buffalo. anger and frustration and now questions mounting about the response. were residents adequately warned about this monster storm? the national guard going door-to-door and more than 400 pieces of snow equipment on the ground to reopen streets. calls for prayer around the world for the former pontiff. pope francis saying his predecessor s health has taken a turn for the worse. one nation overdosed. the break glass tool that high schools are turning to do stop fentanyl overdoses in their hallways. and the incredible come back. a varsity athlete attacked by a shark. how she recovered to swim her way to a state title. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester on a very busy night. we are tracking two developing stories right now. one of the worst airline meltdowns in recent memory and for southwest it is far from over. the airline canceling more than 2,500 or 62% of it