- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? get t thbestst rult t poiblele. call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome, everyone. i m rosemary church in atlanta and we are following a major development in breaking news out of the national football league. about an hour ago the buffalo bills confirmed it was a cardiac arrest that brought down player damar hamlin in monday night s game. the bills said his heartbeat was restored on the field and that he remains sedated and in critical condition at a cincinnati hospital, a closer look now at what happened. hamlin who plays safety collapsed after a hard tackle in the first quarter of the game against the cincinnati bengals which has since been postponed. hamlin is number 3 and wearing white. watch as he makes the tackle and you can see him stand up fairly quickly, but then he falls backwards. an ambula
the united states and around the world. welcome to cnn newsroom. the final stretch. 16 days to go until the u.s. elections, the candidates are pulling out the stops and pulling in high-profile support. xi jinping secures an unprecedented third term, cementing his iron grip over china s future. we re live in beijing and taipei with the latest. and ukraine s power grid under attack with frigid winter just around the corner. russia takes aim at critical infrastructure. a live report from kyiv is just ahead. the u.s. is just over two weeks away from the tightly contested and deeply consequential midterm elections. at stake this november, control of congress. and by extension, the president s political agenda. joe biden s democratic party currently holds 220 seats in the house, and to keep its majority, it must hold on to 218 of them. right now, though, republicans have a slight lead in the polls with 18 seats still up for grabs. in the senate, 35 seats are in play. cnn
good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m whitney wild. and i m martin savidge. live pictures right now. take a look at buffalo where a blizzard warning is still in effect and will be until tomorrow morning. all of the impacts and when we can see some relief coming up. laying blame of the insurrection at the feet of donald trump. a look at the 845-page report coming up and the legal implications. explain all of that very soon. flu cases are rising, but medications to treat the virus could be hard to come by. the steps the biden administration is trying to take to combat that problem. a devastating setback for girls and women in afghanistan as the taliban exercises its power. that s ahead on cnn this morning. good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it s saturday, december 24th. we begin with the frigid and frustrating start to this holiday weekend. more than 200 million americans are under windchill alerts with an arctic blast dlinking freezing tempe
coming up we ll have more on that story coming up. the president appeared hesitant to announce his run in 2024. does he still appear to be leaning that way? i ve not made that final decision but it s my intention to run again. we have time to make that decision. kevin: in the meantime, the president is focused on issues that really matter to voters. coming into question tonight with a new monmouth university poll showing a staggering 63% of those surveyed saying they wish biden would get the memo and focus on what really matters. that story is just ahead.in tige claims made by mr. biden during his speech about the economy friday, claims that aren t quite standing up to scrutiny. lucas tomlinson has more. hey, l.t. reporter: president biden took a shot from republicans. it s mega-maga trickle down. mega-maga trickle down. the kinds of policies that failed country before and will fail it again. reporter: the university of pennsylvania says it could cost more than $1
republicans take a key step today even though they failed so far to find any evidence of wrongdoing by president biden. and now the supreme court will have to rule on the election subversion case. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is tuesday, december 12, and in just hours president volodymyr zelenskyy will start a series of meetings on capitol hill with senators and members of the house. he will urge them to pass billions in proposed military aid to his country that have been hung up over republican demands for major changes to the biden administration border policy. speaking to national security officials yesterday, zelenskyy said the big winner of a stalemate in washington is russia. if there is anyone inspired by unresolved issues on capitol hill, it is putin. this is a last ditch effort to break the stalemate as republicans and democrats refuse to bunch on border policy. clare sebastian is joining us live from