severe winter weather. but that national weather service because they once in a generation storm, also causing chaos for travelers coast to airports are packed tonight with some 8000 flights either canceled or delayed at one of the busiest travel times of the year. we have team coverage charles watson is tracking in an lancet. the first to alexis and mcadams live in new york city tracking this cold snap, alexis. hi brian. if tonight another cold night here in new york city. it s nothing compared to other parts of the northeast are dealing with. buffalo, new york was slammed and we are learning about more deaths as authorities are still searching for people who have been stranded on the road for hours. the historic storm is not over yet in buffalo. take a look here on your screen this is a people been dealing with for days they are. this is what look like again this afternoon. at least 12 people have been killed during this winter blast. snowplows trying to make their way th
the gavel. this morning, he was not able to bring along a handful of far right lawmakers who oppose his nomination and are demanding more big power concessions from him as the price for going forward. we may have a battle on the floor. but the battle is for the conference and the country. that s fine with me. i don t see how a few people maybe it s 5, maybe it s 20 sit because they want a gravel that they can t earn. that s not what the constituents voted them for. this as house democrats united behind hakeem jeffries, with a new younger ship team holding business cards to play as the republicans dissolve into chaos. why is choosing a speaker important? the house cannot form committees or do work on any legislation until there is a presiding officer. it s been a century since it has taken more than one roll call vote to fill the position. at this hour, we don t know how many votes it will take to elect the next speaker or how long it will drag out and da minute dimi
anti government protests continue in the sri lankan capital as the new prime minister names his cabinet. and the more you look at the stars, the more you discover! we ll explain how a powerful new space telescope is expanding our view of the universe. hello and welcome. the former trump strategist steve bannon has been found guilty of contempt of congress by a court in washington. the charges were brought after he defied a summons to testify at the congressional hearings into the january the 6th riots at the us capitol building. he ll be sentenced in october he could face up to two years in prison. but, speaking outside the courtroom, he remained unrepentant. i want to start by thanking the jury. we respect their decision today. i really want to thank the hard working citizens that had to take an entire week off. we respect their decision. we may have lost a battle here, but we re not going to lose this war. in the closing argument, the prosecutor missed one very important
tonight more problems for the president. and jimmy. in the country here s what happens in some of our favorite tunes. a big saturday show is swapping out some lyrics coming up. but first the left of melted down when elon musk made his 44 billion-dollar offer to buy twitter. remember this? the thing is the enjoyment they get out of being in this town square is being able to harass people. elon musk i guess he misses the old south africa and the 80s. he wants that back. it seems to me that it is about free speech of straight white men. so let them have it. you do not have to be transparent you could secretly ban one party s candidate or all of its candidates. or turn down the reach of their stuff. the rest of us might not even found out about it until after the election. delta billionaires determining the deal because twitter misled him he says, the media s melting down again. and so are some twitter employees. one worker telling nbc news quote it feels like
january 6th, gas prices have doubled, drug o.d.es have reached their highest point ever come of the u.s. economy is careening toward the devastatind scariest and least noteworthy of all, this country has never in its history been closer to a nuclear war. if the other networks cannot be bothered to cover any of that tonight, instead they ve interrupted their regularly scheduled programming to bring you yet another extended prime time harangue from nancy pelosi and liz cheney about donald trump and qanon. the whole thing is insulting. in fact, it s deranged and we are not playing along. this is the only hour on an american news channel that will not be carrying their propaganda live. they are lying and we are not going to help them do it. what we will do instead is try to tell you the truth. we ve attempted to do that since the day this happened. we hated seeing vandalism at the u.s. capitol year and a half ago and we said so at the time, but we did not think it was an insurrec