tornados tear through texas and louisiana, right now more than 60 million people are still under the threat of severe storms. ammunition on the agenda today. president biden meeting the german chancellor and sending more firepower to ukraine. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just hours from now, tau alex murdaugh will stand in a courtroom to learn his fate. a judge will issentence him for murdering his own wife and son. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. the jury heard six weeks of testimony but took less than three hours to convict him. murdaugh now facing a possible 30 years behind bars. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is, it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina.
tank standoff. who will blink first over sending crucial fire power to ukraine. former ambassador nikki haley says it s time for a new generation to lead. guess who she has in mind for 2024? good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. president biden saying he has no regrets over the way the white house handled the discovery of classified documents at his private think tank office and delaware home. as we found we found a handful of documents were failed were filed in the wrong place. we immediately turned them over to the archives and the justice department. we re fully cooperating, looking forward to getting this resolved quickly. the president s first remarks in a week on the classified document discovery. cnn s jasmine wright live in washington this friday morning for us. jasmine, mr. biden spent about 30 seconds addressing the documents, the very end of the comments on storm re
and some of the most extreme far right members of the gop will have real power in the house thanks to kevin mccarthy s desperate deal making to become speaker. and also ahead, another tragic scene in ukraine. we ll have the latest on a deadly helicopter crash outside kyiv. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 18th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin in washington where the white house is making efforts to tamp down criticism about a perceived lack of transparency in the classified documents case involving president biden. in a phone call with reporters yesterday, a spokesman and senior adviser fielded questions. and both republican and democratic lawmakers have called on the white house to explain why it took until this month to inform the public that classified material had been found at the penn biden center in washington, d.c. and the documents were discovered back in early november. when asked yesterd
hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we start in north america where at least 50 people are now known to have died due to the severe arctic freeze, that continues to affect the us and canada. one of the worst hit areas is the city of buffalo, in new york state, where the governor called the storm an epic, once in a lifetime event . the bbc s, emily unia, has the latest. the arctic storm pummelling the us and canada caused christmas chaos for millions. thousands of flights were cancelled, and roads and railways were closed or impassible, preventing people from reaching friends and family. emergency services battled treacherous conditions to carry out rescues. fatalities have been confirmed across the us. one of the worst hit areas was new york state, especially in buffalo and hamburg in erie county. snow blanketed streets, and driving was banned. more than two dozen people are now known to have died in the greater buffalo region. anyone who declare
hello, and welcome to bbc news. at least 50 people across north america are now known to have died in the severe arctic freeze that continues to affect the us and canada. one of the worst hit areas is the city of buffalo in new york state where the governor called the storm an epic, once in a lifetime event. emily unia has the latest. the arctic storm pummelling the us and canada caused christmas chaos for millions. thousands of flights were cancelled, and roads and railways were closed or impassible, preventing people from reaching friends and family. emergency services battled treacherous conditions to carry out rescues. fatalities have been confirmed across the us. one of the worst hit areas was new york state, especially in buffalo and hamburg in erie county. snow blanketed streets, and driving was banned. more than two dozen people are now known to have died in the greater buffalo region. anyone who declares victory and says it is over. it is way too early to say this at