warns the risk of armageddon is the highest s been for 60 years with putin squeezed into a corner. all that plus kanye west thinks it s all a joke. i thought the shirt was a funny shirt, i thought the idea of wearing it was funny. laughing off what a start that many don t see him in. we are looking into that story ahead. we want to start with georgia and the senate race turned upside down. republican candidate herschel walker s campaign continues to be flagged by new developments surrounding allegations that the staunchly anti abortion rights candidate paid for girlfriend you have an abortion. let s bring in ali, walk us through what new information we re learning. yeah, lindsey we have some context here. we know that democrats control the senate by the slimmest of margins. keeping that holds could easily come down to this crucial senate race. in just the last few days it is turned from a state that was too close to call to being roiled with allegations. reporter: t
hello. i m pamela brown. welcome to cnn newsroom. the historic storm the new york governor called the blizzard of the century has now killed 25 people in the buffalo area. and a top erie county official says that number is likely to rise. he said the conditions have been so severe, their own rescuers needed rescuing. intense winds created whiteout conditions as 43 inches of snow dropped in just 24 hours. listen to what one family with four young kids faced, after they lost power and went in search of a heated hotel room. it was very intense. we tried to keep it together for as long as possible. because we didn t want to fight. it was like looking at a white piece of construction paper. you couldn t see anything at all. like absolutely nothing until you were probably about a foot away from even cars. with their bright lights on. you just couldn t see anything. not yellow traffic signs, not traffic. you couldn t see anything. you couldn t see a traffic light. you have t
holiday. freeze warnings still in effect in several states at this hour. blizzard conditions, at least 26 people have died in the actic blast, across eight state. in a hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable. still, a very dangerous situation. driving bans are still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. we want to remind everybody, there was a period hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews, because it was too dangerous. we will talk to that official in just a few minutes. plus, bitter-cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast and southeast, even florida is feeling the chill, much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. let s start in buffalo, new york. polo sandoval is braving is the cold temperatures there. merry christmas. reporter: merry christmas. it is in a recovery process right now, the sun finally came o
congressional correspondent ryan nobles. what have you learned about this with the january 6th committee? reporter: we know it s starting to happen, anderson. this was, of course, a big roadblock to the department of justice s investigation as it expanded into areas beyond the rioters that breached the capitol on that day and started looking into more of the efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. they were very interested in many of the interviews of the january 6 select committee had already conducted, but the committee was reluctant to hand over those transcribed interviews to the department of justice because they considered it their work, their property and they wanted to be able to make sure that they had it in their possession as their investigation moved forward. this became somewhat of a standoff between doj and the january 6th select committee, but now they re starting to find areas of common ground and the select committee chairman bennie thompson telling
of the efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. they were very interested in some of the interviews that the generals whigs committee has already conducted. the committee was reluctant to canned over those transcribed interviews to the department of justice, because they considered their work and their property, and they wanted to be able to have it in their possession as their investigation moved forward. this became something of a standoff between the doj and the january 6th select committee. and now they re starting to find areas common ground, and chairman bennie thompson told us today the first batch of information that they re gonna hand over to the department of justice is the information that they ve gleaned about this effort to file a fake set of electors that would ve been sent to congress had a january 6th. that s pretty significant, because we haven t seen a lot of detail about that aspect of the department of justice s investigation. so, it shows that inves