migrants are camping out in freezing temperatures as the white house asked the supreme court to live title 42 today. nearly 60 across 12 states with a massive storm over the holiday weekend. ranging from the great lakes all the way down to rio grande. the death toll 28 in western new york where blizzard conditions left parts of the state buried under 4 feet of snow backing up in the thousands. 500,000 are waking up in the dark this morning. carley: cleanup efforts in buffalo as president biden approves emergency declaration for the storm. even more snow could be in the forecast period and the mayor of buffalo is slamming looters who destroy stores during the blizzard. people who were out looting and people are losing their lives in this harsh, winter storm is just absolutely reprehensible. i don t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror here they are the lowest of the low. ashley: looters did not appear to be an
we re going to talk about that a little later on. we should keep these christmas songs going today. [jingle bells] excellent op-ed. we will get to that first of all good morning to you. griff: good morning, no debate whether or not christmas season ends or continues in the superdome. we were showing the will superdome because it s a cool shot. joe: that song is one of my guilty pleasures songs. that s on my gym play list right there. i m not going to lie. rachel: i thought are a lot more manly songs. joe: there are hate songs got balance it out so you don t stay mad at the weights all day. griff: meet iron like meet me in the middle is that how it works? [laughter] joe: probably more like that than you guys realize. griff i didn t have we have to highlight just off air before we started complimenting joey s pocket square those us in this business have to wear a pocket square because it looks good. you have pheasant feathers? these are peacock and others. thi
following too close. we have confirmed those reports are accurate, wolf. interesting. i know you re staying on top of this story. thank you very, very much. and erin, i know we re going to turn back to our top story right now. the bitter fight for speaker of the house. that s right, wolf. and a good evening to all of you. i m erin burnett. welcome to a special edition. because right now we are in the midst of an open revolt over who will become speaker of the house. and i m wolf blitzer here in washington. it has been a very, very historic and dramatic day here in washington.ngressman kevin m far unable to secure enough votes to become the next speaker of the house. it s been such an incredible day to watch. here we are making history. he lost the support of 19 members in the first two votes. as we re sitting here, wolf, in the third vote he loses nanothe one. this is not how this is supposed to go. it s not how it ever has gone. it s a bruising rebuke of mccarthy who
taken no more than a single ballot on the first day in session to elect one. today house republicans, who are now in the majority, could not muster the votes needed to make their leader, kevin mccarthy, the speaker. instead, in a test of his capacity for humiliation, he sat there, smiling at times as votes were cast three times and results were read. the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. [ applause ] acclimation. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. no persons have received a majority of the whole numbers votes cast by surname. a speaker has not been elected. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname. a speaker has not been elected. a speaker has not been elected. well, after the third rejection, republicans moved to adjourn until noon tomorrow. and this could all begin again. in 1923, it took nine ballots to choose a speaker. the record is 133 over two mo
just a short time ago cnn s manu raju reported that there would be a republican conference meeting tomorrow morning. that, however, we understand has now changed. i want to go to cnn s melanie zanona at the capitol with the new reporting on that and mccarthy s frame of mind as well. melanie, what have you learned? reporter: well, things have not moved in kevin mckarth chriss direction since that third ballot where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for kevin mccarthy and his allies. we ve seen supporters going into his office. we re told he has been working the phones. he is still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i just spoke to a gop lawmaker, this is some breaking news here, this is a lawmaker who texted me, this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they had just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that member to flip. so