ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds. needles to say it is a mess for holiday travelers. thousands of flights were canceled thursday. nearly 2700 flights already canceled today with hundreds more delayed. and look at power outage
searched. a big break in the mystery shootings targeting democratic officials in albuquerque. police announced an arrest. the most wanted mafia boost. how he hid in plain sight from police. good morning. welcome to our viewers here in the united states around around the world, i m christine romans. the search for classified documents connected to president biden may not be over this morning. cnn says there could be more searches of other locations. arlitt saens has more. reporter: president biden refusing to answer questions. are you going to talk to the special counsel. reporter: the president is frustrated. this as more details about the classified documents at his wilmington, delaware, home come to light. bi biden s personal attorneys searching a room found one page of classified material. over the weekend the president s white house lawyer revealing he traveled to delaware on thursday evening and five additional pages with classification markings were discover
democrats need good news on the jobs economy. and mass layoffs at any moment. thousands of people who work at twitter this morning might not work there anymore by noon. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just four days left now until the high stakes mid-term election control of the house. senate and dozens of state governor s offices are on the line. president biden waking up in california. he s on a swing across the west coast trying to rally democrats in key races. mr. president, is your message getting through to the american voters? yes. tonight the president will be in chicago for another campaign event. former president trump also on the road. he held a rally there in sioux city, iowa, backing republican candidates. all but upstaging them with big hints about his plans for 2024. get ready, that s all i m telling you. get ready. get ready. let s begin with the president and cnn s jasmine wright. jasmine,
two other developments that we know of according to officials, the pilot had asked for a last-minute change of runway. there are two runways at the pokhara airport and the pilot asked for a change of runway. officials pointed out that there was no distress call when the pilot was talking to the air traffic control. for me, a very, very important and significant part this have was the fact of the impact, christine, that would be a lot worse. it was right next to a lot of homes and eye witnesses have spoken about fire and the explosion they heard. chilling to think of. vedica, thank you so much. the faa has launched an investigation to find out why a commercial airliner taxied in front of a jet taking off at new
he allegedly paid. the russian missile that destroyed a nine story building in dnipro carried a one ton warhead, a warhead designed to sink aircraft carriers. the devastating attack killed at least 48 people. dozens missing. claire sebastian has the latest. the u.k. is pledging a new round of military aid to ukraine. reporter: yeah. christine, that will for the first time include battle tanks. the u.k. says it s going to send a squadron of 14 challenger 2 tanks. the defense minister saying this will help ukraine alongside artillery and things like that to target russian command from a greater distance to try to help them break through. now clearly ukraine is hoping for more. obviously 14 tanks is not going to win the war on an 800 mile front line. they are increasing pressure on germany.