midnight. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 30th. new year s eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we ll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and the failure to do that in many cases. we ll take a closer look at former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. plus, after thousands of canceled flights and a reputation now in tarts, southwest airline says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. we ll tell you what the company is saying it plans to do to somehow make things right.
Despite a second major lake-effect storm hitting the Buffalo region in less than a week, Bills quarterback Josh Allen had no trouble getting to practice on Wednesday morning because much of the snow was falling north of his home. The storm is not expected to impact the game, with Sunday’s forecast calling for no precipitation, with partly cloudy skies and a low of 11 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-12 Celsius).
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are hugging and saying good-bye and not sure if they will ever come back. reporter: millions of ukrainians suddenly became refugees. but as the year progressed, ukraine s military took back land that had been lost just months earlier. steady progress in a long war, now doctoring the dark days of winter. in america, winter stormed in early. we ve seen over 50 inches of snow in under 24 hours. a record-breaking snowstorm dumped nearly 7 feet of snow on the buffalo region, while in florida, hurricane ian pummeled the coast with winds that reached 155 miles an hour. you can t withstand this kind of stuff. reporter: just shy of a category 5. these cars were all nicely parked and they re now all floating freely. reporter: it would be florida s deadliest hurricane since 1935.