on friday alone. in los angeles, new cases, they are tripled in the last week. and the surging infections making a real mess of holiday travel for so many people. several major airlines canceling hundreds of flights this morning citing staffing shortages. and we are monitoring all the developments. nadia, you are in atlanta. what is the situation for travelers there right now? good morning. it is ererily quiet here simply because delta for one canceled about 250 flights on wednesday. so some people were able to get those cancellations earlier this weekend a try to make the changes as best they could. but really we re seeing cancellations happening all across the country with major airlines, delta canceling some 283 flights. united 238. and jetblue, 120. just for christmas day so far. but over this entire weekend, we re looking at more than 1,000 flights being canceled here in the u.s. and you can imagine that impact on travelers. i listened to some of them, their frustratio
thursday morning near port-au-prince. russian ballistic missiles slammed into an apartment complex in a university build and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy hometown today. officials say six people were killed. 75 others wounded. back in the u.s., the judge presiding over a georgia grand jury investigation into former president donald trump has rejected his bid to disqualify the prosecutor leading the inquiry and blocked any indictments stemming from the probe. the judge also denied his request to quash a special grand jury report that included recommendations on whom to charge in connection with a campaign to overturn georgia s 2020 election results. and stocks were up on positive earnings reports. the dow gained 100. the s&p 500 finished ahead 7. the nasdaq rose 29. bret: this was a big day in the biden family business scandal and the investigation of it. a former associate of hunter biden sat for a closed door trindz interview before the house oversight commi
city. different story out in the suburbs, erica, where they could see up to a foot of snow. this winter weather advisory from here until saturday, at 1:00, the illinois department of transportation says they have up to 1800 vehicles and pieces of equipment or more to try to mitigate the storm for drivers and residents, erica. this is discuss the prelude because next week our weather team is reporting that it could get shockingly cold. we are talking 30 below with a windchill this some areas of illinois, erica. whitney wild, thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. i know it s going to be negative 15 on monday. i don t even know what that is. i ve been campaigning here for 11 months now. and back in october, in november and december, i m like, it is so cold and everybody kept saying it s mild. i totally get it now. i know it s going to be cold but here s the thing, you re never going to have an opportunity to have your vote pack more of a punch than you will on
undergoing a blistering cross examination by the prosecution. they are trying to poke holes in his claim he did not kill his wife maggie and youngest son paul. on the stand murdaugh admitted he lied to police about where he was in the moments leading up to the killing and confessed to being addicted to opioids and stealing from clients. we ll have more in a few moments. first, it is hard to believe it has been one year to the day since russian troops and tanks rolled across the border and ukraine still remains in place. translator: if we all do our home work, victory will be inevitable. i am certain there will be victory. i don t think, i want it this year. we have everything for it. we have the motivation, certainty, the friends, the diplomacy. we are helped by our friends for our shared values so this war doesn t spread, so this aggression doesn t spread. in addition to vowing ukraine will see victory, president zelenskyy met with wounded soldiers at a kyiv hospital t
i don t know exactly where paul went, but he left the house, too. okay. how did maggie get down there? i don t know exactly. but on normal occasions, she would drive, drive a buggy, drive a four wheeler, or very common for her to walk. okay. how about paul? paul wasn t much of a walker, but he would use all of the others. okay. i mean, could be any way, you know? i don t know exactly. i wish i could help you with that. so they left and went down to the kennels? well, maggie went to go to the kennels? and paul left? i m assuming paul left, because, you know, of what happened. i assume paul went to the kennel. and what did you do once maggie and paul left? i stayed in the house. i was watching tv, looking at my phone, and i actually fell asleep on the couch. okay. what time did you woke up? i don t know exactly what time, but when you will get my phone, i think one of the first things i did when i got up was call maggie because i was going to my mo