ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds. needles to say it is a mess for holiday travelers. thousands of flights were canceled thursday. nearly 2700 flights already canceled today with hundreds more delayed. and look at power outage
van. what we re learning about the suspect, his possible motive. as we also learn the stories of the victims tonight. matt rivers standing by with late reporting here. and juju chang with the families tonight. the lives lost. and the scene inside that ballroom. also breaking as we come on the air tonight, there is late word coming in of another deadly shooting. this time, in des moines, involving students at a staff member. authorities say two students shot and killed. that staff member wounded. tonight, after the fbi finds more classified documents at president biden s home, after a 13-hour search, new questions. and what attorney general merrick garland said today when asked if president biden was being treated any differently than former president trump. mary bruce standing by at the white house. two back-to-back storms moving across the country. more than 20 states are on alert from arizona all the way east. snow and rain from philadelphia to new york to boston. and
could also search biden s beach house, as well. david? mary bruce live at the white house for us tonight. mary, thank you. we turn next tonight to the back-to-back storms sweeping across the country. more than 20 states on alert tonight from arizona all the way east. the first storm with snow and rain from philadelphia to new york to boston. as a dangerous new storm also takes shape tonight. drivers in maine warned to stay off the turnpiturnpike. schools closed and trees down by heavy snow, this is near albany, new york. and this second storm now moving in with a tornado threat for the south before it heads north all over again. chief meteorologist ginger zee is with us again this week tracking it all. ginger? reporter: david, biting cold and blustery wind behind that storm number one that dropped 15 inches of snow in maine. but we re going to look at that second storm, because this one s all be done. a little bit left for rhode island and massachusetts. then, that storm blasts t
ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds.