president will hold a press conference the morning after an hour-long phone call with president biden as more than 130,000 russian troops continue to build along their border. while in houston, a suspect is in custody after three more officers are wounded after this violent shoot-out. and right now, just two blocks from here, the funeral in new york city for nypd officer jason rivera is getting under way after he and his partner were killed responding to a domestic violence call in the bronx. and this morning, 75 million people are under a winter storm watch from north carolina up to new england as a massive bomb cyclone i ll need to define that takes aim, bringing hurricane-force winds and possibly up to 2 feet of snow. we have got to start this morning s broadcast with the intensifying speculation at this hour over who will replace supreme court justice stephen breyer. with the process of choosing a nominee under way and president biden doubling down on this campaign
jeanne moos, cnn, new york. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we begin this hour with 70,000 people estimated stranded in the nevada desert. they came for the normally sun-soaked and raucous burning man festival, but extreme weather crashed the party. a storm dumped two or three months worth of rain in just 24 hours. one death during the downpour is being investigated. attendees are now bogged down in thick, ankle-deep mud, making driving impossible and walking a slog for many people. they re being told to conservative water, food, and fuel at this point. earlier on someone, one woman described her efforts to escape the mudfest. it was kind of a crazy thing, but i hitched a ride with an atv that was heading out that needed to get somebody more important than me out. they were willing to let me sit in the back. so got a ride out to the main road. then when i got out there,
right now on andrea mitchell reports, former president trump back in court after storming out this morning, fuming in the middle of closing arguments in the e. jean carroll defamation and damages case with the jury watching it all. while nikki haley scheduled two south carolina rallies this weekend. donors pour millions into her campaign, defying trump s appeal to write her off. and the u.n. s highest court pressures israel to stem the loss of lives in gaza but does not come down hard on israel, as cia director bill burns crosses the atlantic, trying to pose a deal to free the hostages. and critical funding for border. israel and ukraine. it s all hanging in the balance as mr. trump tries to get senate republicans to scuttle a border compromise that was weeks in the making. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. donald trump back in a manhattan courtroom for closing arguments in the e. jean carroll defamation trial. earlier today, the former president le
el paso, texas. he s now sending migrants to three u.s. cities including new york. border officials say that more than 11,000 migrants crossed in to the u.s. illegally in just 24 hours. now images of overcrowded facilities in eagle pass reportedly holding five times the recommended amount. what needs to be done to stop it? we re on it. welcome, everyone. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. this is your world. we have fox team coverage with griff jenkins, gillian turner at the white house. we begin with griff in eagle pass, texas. charles, let me tell you, ground zero here has never seen these kind of numbers. i ve spent a lot of time in eagle pass, texas. they ve had more than 2, 200 cross through here in the last 24 hours, just in eagle pass. that 11,000 number, you were showing, they have never seen that. we ll show you from the drone camera, looking live now at what is the remnants of several hundred that crossed earlier. it was a dramatic morning. they build up 100,
from five swing states that is concerning for democrats and the white house. we ll go through those numbers on a potential 2020 rematch. and there is new reporting for donald trump s plans on revenge if he gets a second term in the white house. he has already figured out who he is going to arrest. wonderful. it s about as authoritarian as you can get. also, the biden poll numbers, they looked about as bad as barack obama s in 2011 at about this time. barack obama was losing to mitt romney in several swing states. we still have a long way to go. also ahead, we ll tell you about the potential key endorsement for florida governor ron desantis in the republican presidential primary, as donald trump will be on the stand today in the $250 million fraud trial against his company. plus, we ll show you what ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy had to say about the state of the war and his invitation to donald trump. and we ll have the latest on the diplomatic trip overs