migrants are camping out in freezing temperatures as the white house asked the supreme court to live title 42 today. nearly 60 across 12 states with a massive storm over the holiday weekend. ranging from the great lakes all the way down to rio grande. the death toll 28 in western new york where blizzard conditions left parts of the state buried under 4 feet of snow backing up in the thousands. 500,000 are waking up in the dark this morning. carley: cleanup efforts in buffalo as president biden approves emergency declaration for the storm. even more snow could be in the forecast period and the mayor of buffalo is slamming looters who destroy stores during the blizzard. people who were out looting and people are losing their lives in this harsh, winter storm is just absolutely reprehensible. i don t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror here they are the lowest of the low. ashley: looters did not appear to be an
happening right now, carlos? reporter: two new developments since we last joined you in the prior hour. the first is we re finally getting reports of some of the damage here in broward we re told a family of five had to be taken from a home up in pompano beach, north of where we are, after a tree fell into their house. we re told the entire family is doing okay. we re getting our first look at the search and rescue teams down in miami. and they ve provided us with some video of one of their teams going, essentially, neighborhood by neighborhood looking for folks that may be stranded in their cars because of all the flooding brought on by this tropical system. we re talking about nearly a foot of rain that has hit parts of miami-dade county. in miami aillone, which is wher we saw a lot of flooding in the downtown area and financial district, cars have been towed the entire night because of getting stalled from 7 to 8 inches of rain that fell in the morning hours. we re told
of events, just a few days ago officials said the door had been left ajar. there are also new questions about the police response. ksat has obtained audio of the school district s message alerting parents of an active shooter incident. parents, there is an active shooter at robb elementary. law enforcement is on site. your cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus. both the school s facebook post and the audio message according to ksat came during the time that officers were inside the school and apparently believed the situation had become a barricade situation. cnn has learned that chief pete arredondo has stopped cooperating with investigators, failing to respond to a request for a follow-up interview, but he was sworn in as a city council member on tuesday. also funerals will be held for irma garcia and 10-year-old joée manuel flores jr. family and friends will also gather today at visitation and rosary services for nevaeh bravo, jayce luevanos an
clarifying another key detail of what happened that day. a teacher say he did close the door that the killer used to get inside the school but the door was not locked. this contradicts an earlier claim by police that the teacher had left the door propped open. the town of uvalde is also continuing to honor more of the victims today. funerals today for a teacher who died protecting her students and also one of the young students killed. let s begin with cnn s shimon prokupecz who is live in uvalde. shimon, you spoke with the police chief. what more did he say about all of these questions that are swirling? reporter: well, he s not answering the key questions as to why he made the decision not to send officers in to take the gunmen down, right, the dps, head of the dps, the department of public safety who was running this investigation told us on friday that he was the on-site commander, that he was the one making decisions, and he was the one who ultimately decided that the
store you are watching our live continuing special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict. in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow, i m here with my colleague, stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes, in a courtroom in downtown manhattan, just after 5:00 eastern time this evening, a foreperson of the journey rose and delivered the jury unanimous , guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal the scheme to correct the 2016 election. the scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight, it is official a criminal scheme, he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions, we enter uncharted territory as a country, for the first time, a president has criminally convicted and for the first time for one of our two main political parties is about to