from the war zone including reports of explosions in russian occupied territory. also tonight, a serious setback for talks on raising the federal debt limit and avoiding a catastrophic default. with negotiations now on hold, i ll ask the former treasury secretary larry summers what the president and the congress add leadership should do next as time for reaching a deal is running out. and new insight tonight into senator dianne feinstein s health and mindset after new confirmation of medical complications she faced. i ll speak with her former senate colleague barbara boxer amid growing questions about senator feinstein s ability to serve. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with two of the most pressing matters for president biden as he meets with key allies in japan. the war in ukraine, and the threat of the united states defaulting on its debt. cnn s chief whit
the images coming in at this hour. the british flag lowered to half staff. a double rainbow appearing over buckingham palace amid news of her death. tributes pouring in from around the world. president biden tonight saying queen elizabeth ii was more than a monarch. she defined an era. maggie rulli, james longman from london to balmoral in scotland, and mary bruce at the white house. and we look back. queen elizabeth in her own words. what she said at just 21 years old, the commitment she made, her promise. her profound words right here tonight. we also have the other major news this thursday night, the deadly shooting spree in memphis. also, longtime trump ally steve bannon charged in new york. state prosecutors accusing him of stealing from donors who gave money thinking that money would build a border wall. they thought they were buying bricks with their names on them for the wall. millions of dollars. the wildfires and the heat. more than 70 large fires burning in
hemmer. great to be with you. julie: he is my old office buddy but now in california. next time you come here. john: it is a lot nicer here in the west than the east. the pre-christmas blizzard paralyzed buffalo, 50 inches of snow falling and even more is on the way today. worsening road conditions that are already dangerous or nearly impossible. many people had to abandon their cars, others were stranded inside their homes. but the snow not the only problem, check out this restaurant. completely covered in ice. we won t know. it s heavy and that s what i m nervous about. nothing broke, no windows broke, no leaks. and none of that was touched. the only problem is the parking lot got beat up pretty bad. max gordon with fox weather is braving the conditions live in buffalo this morning. good morning, max. good morning. well, here in buffalo people woke up to several inches of additional snow, not what people want to see here after more than four feet piled up and mo
city and north towns from 4:00 a.m. today through 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. the city of buffalo is impasseible in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondary and side streets haven t been touched yet. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long-storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. julie: adam is in the fox weather center. the snow particularly in western new york. it is unbearable. you see a lot of cold stretched across the entire country as we still see feels-like temperatures in new york city at 12 degrees. six degrees in columbus, still back across the northern plains in the negatives. some spots as low as negative 30 again this morning and then the deep cold settled well down south across the country where most folks even across texas are waking up for temperatures below freezing. 23 degrees in atlanta and it stretches as far down across much of the state of florida
senator chris murphy and ben o rourke, the current candidate for texas governor. we have a lot to ask both of them, but first. one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he had been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese