good morning it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific i m jose diaz-balart i ll be joined by the next two hours by yasmin vossoughian live outside the manhattan da s office in new york city where we re facing a week certain to go down in history about two hours from now former president donald trump is set to leave florida for new york city where tomorrow he will become the first former president arraigned on criminal charges. this, of course, centers on the alleged hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels who says she had sex with trump which he denies sources tell nbc news the former president faces about 30 related to documents fraud the major security prep is under way in follower manhattan has authorities gear up for the unprecedented arrest of a former president. trump s former fixer, michael cohen, making his own prediction over the weekend mayhem. i expect complete and total mayhem we begin in manhattan with my colleague, yasmin vossoughian ahead
what the audience at cpac is hearing. plus we have a stunningly quick verdict in the alex murdaugh murder trial. we ll get expert analysis on this case in just a moment. and also ahead secretary of state antony blinken meet briefly with his russian counterpart for the first time since the start of the ukraine war. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 3rd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin in south carolina where a jury has found disbarred lawyer alex murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant, indictment for murder fc code 16-3 verdict guilty. the jury of seven men and five women deliberated for less than three hours before unanimously finding the 54-year-old guilty. murdaugh was also convicted of two counts of weapons possession. the defense and prosecution addressed reporters outside the courtroom. we re very disappointed with the verdict.
threatening to destroy them. classified documents found at former vice president pence s home. washington wonders who s next. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning. we begin with a wave of reported tornadoes, more than a dozen of them, wreaking havoc across southwest texas and southeast louisiana. oh, my god. in the suburbs east of houston, only one injury reported, remarkably. but officials are calling the damage catastrophic. house is gone so the whole top section of the house is completely ruined. so it s toast. the house will be torn down now. kind of hard to take but, hey, we re alive. that s the main thing. we all ran to the restrooms and just watched the whole building fall. luckily the restrooms didn t fall. that was the only thing that kept us alive. reporter: numerous cars and tractor trailers overturned. buildings smashed. roofs torn off. one nursing home had to be evacuated and power
for the gifts you won t forget. happy holidays from mercedes-benz. see your mercedes-benz dealer today for exceptional offers. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i m john vause. coming up on cnn newsroom. just one man. without donald trump there would be no january 6th, the final report from the january 6th select committee lays out the case against the former president. just in time for holiday travel, a cyclone bomb is bearing down on much of the u.s.. a slip of the tongue or a change in foreign policy? for the first time, vladimir putin uses the w word as in, war in ukraine. live from cnn s center, this is cnn newsroom with john vause. > an 18 month investigation, thousands of interviews, documents, emails, phone records, and the house committee investigating january 6th has finally released its full report. it s 845 pages long with the main conclusion donald trump and his allies took part in a number of schemes to overturn the 2020
hundreds of thousands without power, more than 4,000 flights canceled. winds so treacherous the airport in buffalo, new york, had to shut down. cnn is live with the havoc being wreaked nationwide. and the january 6th committee out with its final report spelling out why donald trump, in their view, was the one solely responsible for the riot and should be discaqualifi from holding office ever again. new transcripts from the committee. why cassidy hutchinson said she was disappointed and disgusted with her first round of testimony under oath. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the national lead and this nightmare weather scenario before christmas crippling conditions stretching coast to coast with snow and ice in cities such as seattle and portland, oregon to the massive bomb cyclone system moving east. nearly 180 million in the u.s. are in areas with temperatures below freezing. 70 million are in areas below zero. this system is so powerful meteorologist