it s heading. mike tobin at o hare airport in chicago with nightmare people trying to get on the plane. we begin with fox weather correspondent max gorden in new york just south of buffalo tonight. good evening, max. good evening, mike. along the shores of a very angry lake erie. all day today, waives have been crashing over the railing behind me as 14 to 18-foot as well as have come ashore. part of the parking lot that we are standing next to right here has been coming apart actually and neighborhoods near us have had to be evacuated because of a storm surge that has pushed through and caused flooding. now, of course with this bomb cyclone we have also had to deal with very heavy snow and extremely gusty winds. the gusts of 72 miles per hour was recorded at buffalo, niagara international airport. also experienced white outside conditions zero visibility and shut out operations at the airport no flights, in no flights out. of course, road conditions are also very treacherou
going green we meet the teenage entrepreneur, who rents real christmas trees each year to save them from being thrown out after the festive period. hello and welcome to bbc news. a fierce arctic winter storm has triggered emergency alerts across large parts of the united states, and forced the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights. forecasters say the cold snap could bring the coldest christmas in decades. presidentjoe biden has encouraged everyone to heed warnings and bring forward christmas travel plans where possible. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports. this is what it looks like when a bomb cyclone descends on north america. these huge banks of snow in north dakota are the result of an intense blizzard that swept through the state. conditions that are set to engulf almost the entire country, just in time for christmas. but this is no winter wonderland. the storm could prove deadly. great swathes of the us will experience some of the lowest temperature
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
weekend. mike toobin at o hare airport in chicago with a nightmare. we begin with max gordon in hamburg, new york, south of buffalo tonight. good evening, max. reporter: good evening, mike. all day today, waves have been crashing over the railing behind me as 14 to 18 foot swell. the parking lot that i am standing next to right here coming apart in neighborhoods near us had to be evacuated because of a storm surge pushed through and it is causing flooding. this bomb cyclone, we had to deal with heavy snow and extremely gusty winds. a gus of 72 miles per hour was recorded at the buffalo international airport. white out condition and 0 visibility and had to shut down operations at the airport, no flights in and out. road conditions are very treacherous right now. the city of buffalo banning all vehicle traffic and other counties across western new york saying don t go on the roads, tens of thousands of people are without power. this storm is packing quite a punch here in west
colic invited today to become the first congress in the history of united states to hold someone in contempt for complying with our demands and their target is the attorney general of the united states. attorney general garland gave us the special counsel report on president biden in full. he made the special counsel available to us in committee for hours of testimony where he answered all her questions and provided the full transcript of the president s voluntary five hour interview with the special counsel, all 250 pages of it. the whole world can read president biden s interview and his answers on edited but that s apparently not enough. now they want to hold the attorney general and content are not turning over the audiotape of the interview that we have the verbatim transcript of. and why is that important? in case you lost the thread of this madcap, wild goose chase, america. remember this is an impeachment investigation. do they think the holy grail of the 118th cong