reading faces, biological and environmental reasons why that could be, but that s what they found. poppy, kaitlan? elizabeth cohen, thank you. fascinating. cnn this morning continues right now. we didn t get any texts or any message telling us it canceled before we came. flight s canceled. hang out with pops a couple more days. call my boss and tell him, i m sorry. hope this wasn t a bad decision. good morning, everyone, who s not at the airport today. don is off this morning. as you can see there, it has just been chaos at the airports over the last several days and it s not changed as flights have been canceled, travelers have been stranded. southwest airlines forced to scrap more than 60% of its flights today. also, the death toll is rising amid a record-breaking blizzard in buffalo, new york. we re live on the ground there. also this morning, ukraine s foreign minister is aiming for a peace summit in the new year. could russia potentially be invited to the
they by potentially reinforcing this image of extremism that hurt republicans so much through purple states. there are others, but for me those are the biggest known unknowns for 2024. and that last one is a great question because you have heard republicans, you know, they have been basically chomping at the bit to take over the majority for obvious reasons. but with such a small majority, you negotiation i heard from republicans who say, we re concerned about what these investigations look like and what path this goes down and do we look like we have a strategy that we have it together or we don t know who is going to be the house speaker next week when the new congress takes over. good point. ron, thank you very, very much. thank you, guys. happy holidays. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning. it is 8:00 a.m. eastern. we re so glad you re with us. it is december 27th. welcome to cnn this morning. all right, so we will begin with
can t know the answer to that are going to influence 24. we know which questions are the key ones to know about for 2024. the known unknowns. the biggest is what happens in the republican party. do they nominate trump again or do they tear themselves apart and not nominating him? second, what happens to the economy. we know voters are dissatisfied with a economy of high growth, unemployment, but high inflation. all the predictions are we ll have the opposite in a year. much lower inflation, but higher unemployment. will voters be more satisfied with that? what do they think about biden s health. do they think he s up to the job for another four years? can either party break out of the demographic and geographic trends that we have seen that have essentially left us in something very close to a stalemate over a decade. and finally, does that republican house do more damage to biden through their investigations? or they do more damage to the gop brand through the way
unvaccinated democrats are acting a lot more cautiously. in this party break down of how concerning you are of getting the vaccine? among those who were some what corncerned of the coronavirus. 82% of those folks received one dose verses 64% of republicans who are some what concerned of receiving one dose. among those who were not concerned of the virus at all, 69% of democrats. which is still a high number. considerably higher than republicans so that even when you control for how worried you are about the virus, democrats are far likely to receive a vaccine dose. harry, fascinating to see. briana. a federal judge issued an injunction geagainst the cdc s
so did three conservative southerner democrats. but to have over a third of your own party break with you is no where near where we are in terms of the republican parties loyalty to to president trump. i actually think that nancy pelosi is playing in as brilliantly as anyone might in a position she is in, that in politics and in the supreme court and when you move toward the supreme court i do think there is such a thing as ripening and making sure the issue is ripe before you push i don t think it s ripe yet. yeah, and i guess. 57% of the people in the country are against impeachment at this point. she s also got a couple of dozen new members of the house who are democrats who ran in trump districts and won. right. and you put them at peril if you move right now. right. now, of course, before the nixon impeachment proceedings the public wasn t in favor. this is the discussion whether you need to present a formal hearing to watch and observe to