about president trump. novak djokovic, this is not about tennis but vaccinations. we ll have a live report for you from sydney. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is friday, january, the 7th. we have the heavy snow, brute ly cold temperatures. pictures here which can bring to you from the u.s. capitol this hour. really causing delays and disruption right across the united states. it s from coast to coast. more than 60 million people are being impacted, a storm moving into the northeast is wreaking havoc on really travel schedules. tracking flight aware reports more than 2000 u.s. flights have already been canceled. federal government offices in washington, d.c. and the district s public schools are closed because, of course, the storm. kids in boston are also getting a snow day. part of the city could see up to a foot of snow starting early friday morning. and ending just afternoon. meanwhile, maryland,
house and helped persuade the united nations that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which of course iraq did not. powell, a lifelong republican, broke with his party to endorse barack obama for president in 2008 on meet the press with tom brokaw. i think he is a transformational figure, i ll be voting for senator barack obama. he then backed joe biden for the white house in 2020, after leaving the republican party and speaking out against former president trump. we have to make sure that our top leadership, especially the president of the united states has to be an example for the rest of the country that we are one nation, one people. joining me now, nbc news correspondent courtney kube at the pentagon, and john letterman. as proud as he was being secretary of state, he always wanted to be referred to after he left the state department for the rest of his life as general powell. that s a really interesting point. technically as the secretary of st
running ads distancing themselves from president biden. for lifting a trump era policy. plus, a warrant issued today for the alabama corrections officer last seen leaving jail with an inmate, charged with murder. cnn has an exclusive look inside his now empty cell. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start today with our world lead and the besieged city of mariupol, ukraine, where some civilians are finally finding a way out after weeks, months of a relentless russian bombardment. ukrainian officials say there were two planned evacuation corridors, one for people around the city who want to leave and another for those who had been trapped inside the azovstal steel plant. but it remains unclear if either of those corridors held. this is new video of a large smoke plume over the city of mariupol today, and a commander at the steel plant tells cnn the complex has been under constants fire since early this morning. ukrainian officials say around 100 civilians were succ
that an institution charged with protecting our children is tearing families apart. then, can social media helped dismantle democracy? we are about to find out. two of the smartest people i know we ll explain why. velshi starts now. good morning! it is saturday april the 30th. day 66 of russia s unprovoked invasion of ukraine. i am a velshi. this morning, we will go back in time to talk about a tiny place in eastern europe that could become key to the war that is now ranging across ukraine. geographically, transnistria is a in area in eastern moldova. it is looking between the east and the west and the ukrainian border in the east. the area encompassing transnistria and present a model that was touched taken by the soviet union in the early part of world war ii. it was then captured by the access powers and controlled by romania for a period of time. it was taken once again by the soviets in 1944, becoming the moldovan soviet socialist republic. months before the offi
mitchell. that begins right now. and right now on andrea mitchell reports, stuck in port. a massive shipment of humanitarian aid still docked in cypress as gazaens start the day and holy month of ramadan. and the rift between president biden and benjamin netanyahu deepening as the white house sits on a red line on rafah and slams the prime minister s policies. israel more than helping israel by making the rest of the world it is contrary to anything it stands for. and i think it is a big mistake. so i want to see a ceasefire. first dueling general election rallies turn nasty with donald trump in georgia mocking the president s childhood challenge with stuttering. this hour the president heads to new hampshire, another potential swing state. and snl ripping katie britt s republican response to the state of the union and her misleading story about migrant trafficking at the border. every dedale about it is real except the year, where it took place, and who was preside