it is tuesday, december 27th. don is off. we are glad to be here. what a day. you got home okay yesterday. yeah. but airports are insane so i feel for people like that passenger there, on hold over six hours. unbelievable. plans unravelled for airlines. more than 60% of flights already canceled today. the death toll is rising in buffalo, new york, after a blizzard crippled the area and residents are still digging themselves out of the snowstorm this morning. we re live on the ground where officials say conditions remain dangerous. and china taking a big step reopening its borders after shutting out much of the world nearly three years. the other covid restrictions they plan to lose ahead, plus this i m not a criminal. not here. not abroad, in any jurisdiction in the world have i ever committed any crimes, but he is admitting to embellishes his resume. congressman santos is admitted to lying about parts of his past but will still take office next week, though. an
confronted and killed the gunman. as for how she viewed herb responsibilities that day, how she saw her duty to protect the children inside, listen to this moment from shimon s report, as captured on video of her outside the school that morning. reporter: an officer asked her children attend robb elementary. elizondo s response my son is in day care. he is not old enough. yeah, no. if my son had been in there, i would not have been outside, i promise you that. my son had been there, she said, i would not have been outside. i promise you that. we spoke about her employment by the school district by the guardian of a 10-year-old who was in the school and murdered that day. someone who has been holding a vigil outside uvalde school district offices, demanding answers. i ve been out here for 192 hours, eight days. and my ask is simple. it s to suspend any officers that were there until an investigation is completed. and i ve just gotten nothing but the runaround. so
those are on southwest. the airline now apologizing, but as you can imagine that s little comfort for people who may miss out totally on seeing their loved ones this holiday season. i m beyond frustrated. and hurt. because i can t see my dad. my mom is in the hospital and i wanted to be there for her once she like got discharged. unfortunately because of the situation they are saying that the closest flight is the 29th. are you going to make it home today? no, likely not. i mean, i heard someone say over the intercom not to expect to get a flight within the next four days. that s definitely not what i wanted to hear. people just missing their family and loved ones. the log jam starting with the powerful winter storm that hit western new york the hardest. look at that. this morning people in buffalo struggling to get food, water, medicine, after days of driving bans and closed stores. we are going to take you live there in just a moment. let s go first to our team co
he will meet face-to-face with the king and crown prince, what changed? inside politics, the biggest stories, sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday, i am abby. the top lawyer in the trump white house spent nearly 8 hours under oath with the january 6 committee on friday. pat cipollone is a critical witness to key episodes of the committee investigations, he was in the room during conversations about seizing voting machines, installing a new attorney general, and issuing last-minute pardons, and he was also with the president during the capital riot. january 6 committee member, so, told cnn that pat cipollone was careful, but candid. a committee spokesman, also says that pat cipollone testified about nearly every topic that they are investigating, and that he underscored trumps supreme dereliction of duty . it was videotaped so you can expect to see some of it in public hearings this week. let s discuss all of this and more with our panel, m
during the pulse nightclub shooting? reporter: kaitlan, this, too, appearing to have been a lie and this is significant. this is not just about a personal biography, a deeply tragic event that occurred in this country and now says the victims of that shooting never worked for him. take a listen. did anyone who worked for you perish in the pulse nightclub shooting. that worked for me directly, no, but we did have people who were hired to work for the company at the time who during -i was in florida during the pulse nightclub shooting. at another nightclub that evening not too far away but, yes, we did lose four people who would be coming to work for the company in orlando. no, congressman so this is sort of a word soup salad here, but it is a lie. this morning we are left with more questions than answers. questions remain about his charity, claims that his grandparents died in the holocaust.