canada and all around the world. i m kim bruun hoover. we begin with breaking news with what some call a once in a half century extreme weather happening right now in florida as we speak up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of south florida in the past few hours with more in the forecast. well, that led to a flash flood emergency, the highest possible level of flood warning. so what you see here is the ford lauderdale hollywood international airport, which is partly underwater and closed until at least noon on thursday , the city of fort lauderdale has activated its emergency operations center and plans to issue a local state of emergency. officials also say airboats and high water vehicles will join rescue operations in the coming hours. for the latest, we go to meteorologist separately, ritz here in atlanta, who s keeping an eye on all of this? obviously relief folks in florida used to storms , but you know what we re seeing now so unusual. take us through what they
comcast business. powering possibilities. hello, everyone. it is the top of the hour. thanks so much for being with us. i m kate bolduan. it is the storm impacting pretty much everyone in one way or another across the country today. more than 200 million americans under windchill alerts and holiday travel plans are getting much more complicated by the hour for so many people. life-threatening cold has pushed all the way to the gulf coast and the mexico border and with more than 70 million americans facing temperatures below zero today, blizzard warnings remain in effect for more than 11 million people, mostly near the great lakes. areas near buffalo could see up to three feet of snow. they ve been getting walloped already this season and making matters worse, the damaging winds that knocked out power for more than a million customers from texas to new england, all of this is wreaking havoc on typically one of the busiest travel days of the year. more than 3,900 flights have
happening right now, martial law. putin is cracking down on several regions. another sign that his war is losing momentum. hours from now, president biden will announce new actions to tackle gas prices, including another release from strategic oil reserves, as voters say inflation and rising prices are key issues heading into the mid terms. let s begin in ukraine. earlier this morning, i wrote with a cyberexpert, and asked what he thinking of the move for martial law. it s an act of desperation. things are going from bad to worse. he s losing more and more territory in these four recently annexed territories. just yesterday, the new head of the russian ground forces said they have to make some hard decision where their position is particularly untenable on the right bank of the river. that s probably an indication they re looking to withdraw potentially from that. what putin is trying to do there is forestall t. of course, any further loss of territory, desperately tryi
and charm, it is you, lawrence. i trust you will get to them of, what the wife of clarence thomas, the activists, an election denier, ginni thomas, said in those four walls. we might not but we are going to try. we will do the best we can with congressman schiff, and then andrew weissmann will join us with the latest ruling of judge today. i saw the discussion of, it alex, and i want to try a different take. i am prepared with professor weisman, and a law professor, and he will grade me on this. one, it doesn t matter, and it was a criminal investigation, on the classified documents. and to, they might be right. donald trump should be able to protect his right to a criminal defense in court on the question of what about these documents, possibly, being planted. the normal place for that to come up, is in cross-examination of fbi agents in court. it may be that it is a good thing, that he is allowed to continue to hold on to that, all the way through a criminal trial, becaus
a law professor at nyu of so he will grade me on this. but i think one, it doesn t matter, it s kind of an academic ruling at this point since the investigation investigation on the classified documents. good evening. and two, she might be right. donald trump should be able to protect his right to a criminal defense in court on the question of what about these documents, possibly, being planted. the normal place for that to come up, is in cross-examination of fbi agents in court. it may be that it is a good thing, that he is allowed to continue to hold on to that, all the way through a criminal trial, because, would we be running the risk of reversible error in an appeal if donald trump lost that right to that argument, now, through a special master? all of that is for, professor weisman, later, actually coming right up in our first segment. i guarantee, politically, the ultimate legal outcome. we will hear donald trump repeat a lot, his claims, that may be something happen