i m julián castro, in for alicia menendez. welcome to american voices. we begin with paying a hefty price for pushing a big lie. on friday, trump s former personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, was ordered to pay a whopping hundred 48 billion dollars for defaming to georgia election workers. elie freeman and her daughter shaye moss. by repeatedly and falsely accusing them of election fraud, during an emotional testimony on wednesday, freeman said those lies unleashed a mob of angry trump supporters after them. she was flooded with racist and violent threats. forcing her to moveut of her home. many of those messages were shared with the jury. and they listened. the jury unanimously decided giuliani was liable for defamation. intentional affliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy and punitive damages. after the verdict, freeman and moss said their lives will never be the same again. the flame that giuliani lit with those lies and passed so many others to keep that flame b
Cancellations. Over 4000 delays nationwide. The airport in buffalo, ne york has completely closed dow to the weather and will remain a closed until tuesday meanwhile, the president and first lady are spreading the warm this christmas. Many parts of the day callin u. S. Troops stationed around the world thanking them fo their sacrifice. We will be looking into what i the 1. 7 trillion dollar bill that Congress Passed on th Holiday Weekend as well as the final report released by the january Six Committee means fo former President Trump in 2023 lets start this hour with a severe winter storm that has left travelers scrambling to get to their destination Thi Christmas and then home, hopefully. Nbc shimmery stone joining u from Reagan National airport with how travelers there are very jesse curtis joins us from New York City with the latest on the storm as well. Shemarri, lets start with you for those who were able to mak it for christmas, tomorrow begins potentially throwing th dice can yo
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it s more than 800 pages which was followed by 46 transcripts of witness testimony on top of all the that we re gonna start with sever weather in our breaking news story right now. meteorologist angie will giv us the latest forecast then we go to nbc corresponden shaquille brewster, joining us from benton angie, let s get you first first of all, you understand where shaq is that very, ver well what has changed you ve been watching the storm since the early hours, 7 am on words, iran for o clock in the afternoon eastern. what is changed? a lot of people have seen their winter weather alerts an advisories drop off. the people, like in buffalo, i places along the lakes, have not seen those warnings an watches come down. they re still dealing with blizzard conditions. while many locations have seen improvements, there are a lo of places are still getting hi in hard. buffalo has a nearly stationar lake effect snow bands sitting over top of them they ve been dealing with this