the lead starts right now. tensions continue to escalate in the middle east, new details and images just coming in as cnn learns of a new terrorist attack and tell aviv as israel strikes after a barrage of rockets hit along its borders, plus supreme court justice clarence thomas tries to explain after a bombshell report revealed his many family trips on a god in a private jet, all paid for by a billionaire republican mega donor. and thomas never disclosed almost any of it, plus vice president kamala harris dispatched to tennessee one day after state house republicans expelled two democrats. two black men who were protesting on the floor, but they did not expel the other democrat on the floor with them white woman. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we have some breaking tragic news from israel. you re looking at live pictures from tele viv after one person was killed and six wounded from a quote terror attack in a popular thoroughfare. in the city. israel says all of the v
but tickets are still available. that didn t land. florida has joined iowa, utah and arkansas to become the fourth state this year to pass universal school choice. it s such a big deal it got randi weingarten to finally wash her hair. today governor right side signed a bill disbanding the state s education account to all k 12 students regardless of race income background or even zip code. now that they have school choice, florida s parents biggest worry will be that their kids will be eat eaten by python. that wouldn t be a worry for me. so the good news is those funds could be used for anything from private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, home schooling, online theory and, in florida, alligator rappelent. as proponents put it it if you understand students and not systems which force public schools to compete in something other than best drag queen. [cheers and applause] greg: yeah. yeah, man. the hell? florida is the sixth state nationwide to approve such options and
hand. wax off, left hand. jesse: eventually the time will come when we know that person is ready to take over. show me wax on, wax off. jesse: when barack obama s time was finally up, it was time for joe biden to become the sensei of the democratic party. he had to bring in somebody new into the dojo, and chose kamala harris. why? because she shatters. you ve shattered so many barriers, and did it mostly on your own. and thank you to president biden. [laughter] you can judge a strong man when he has strong women around him. ha-ha-ha. jesse: joe put kamala to work right away. fix the border. we ve been to the border. we ve been to the border. you haven t been to the border. and i haven t been to europe. i understand the point you re making. jesse: he presented a new task. he tried to make her a diplomat, and sent her on her first mission. we defend the plan. jesse: kamala liked simpler things. here s the thing, who doesn t love a yellow school bus,
this is a southern version of a mafia story. enough evil had been done by the family. it s gone too far this time. i have an alex murdaugh on the line. hampton is a small raul community, very few stop lights, country folk. generations and generations of families, the same families. not a whole lot going on, you know. not a whole lot of jobs. a lot of poverty. people like me, we work for our money. we wasn t born with a silver spoon in our mouth. nobody ever had any reason to leave that part of south carolina, and nobody had any reason to come to that part of south carolina. small towns generate big fish in small pools. hampton is pretty much historically dominated by one family, the murdaughs. murdaugh, that name means power. they are a great american family who has a successful law firm and had deep roots in their community. money. position. power. the murdaughs have had control of hampton county for close to a century. they have held the position of t
than half of everyone in the u.s. will face dangerous bitter cold temperatures today. plus, the january 6th committee s final report is out which says that donald trump is to blame for the violence on capitol hill. we ll have more. for the first time, vladimir putin uses the word war to describe his invasion of ukraine. live from london, this is cnn newsroom, with max foster and bianca nobilo. we begin with a huge winter storm bearing down across much of the united states. more than half of the u.s. population, about 117 million people are under windchill and winter weather alerts across the country. dangerous rigid conditions, bitterly cold wind, snow and ice making trip for treacherous travel conditions ahead of the holiday weekend. in south dakota, more than 500 miles of two interstate highways are closed because of high winds and blizzard like conditions. air travel is becoming even more chaotic, as more than 2700 flight scheduled for today have already been cance