the fourth time in just a month. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, we begin with a brutal winter storm that s been hammering much of the southeastern u.s. with freezing rain and snow. and the northeast is next. as many as 80 million americans were under winter weather alerts on sunday, stretching from georgia to maine. and the effects of this system could cause problems for days to come. states in the appalachian region are seeing heavy snowfall and high winds. parts of north carolina got as much as a foot of snow, or about 30 centimeters. and at least 25 counties declared a state of emergency. down in florida this system spawned tornadoes on the west coast, which destroyed at least 28 homes and damaged dozens more. downed trees and power lines knocked out power to nearly 300,000 customers across the southeast on sunday. more than 150,000 along the east coast are still in the dark. and more than 3
becomes the agenda of the nation? why is that? this is the united states of america, not the united states of the democrat party. i think the reason is that democrat party and media are one in the same, democrat party is always driving not to reform but to alter our liberty, families, economic system and governing system. right from the beginning, during the civil war, during segregation. never content. the party is always pushing, pushing, pushing. and often pushing illegalities for their power. this is all about power for the democrat party. now we debate voting rights. to enshrine the democrat party authority. this is not voting rights. we have a war on free speech going on, why? we don t have a war to spree speech against democrats. it is against anyone that challenges them. no matter their intelligence or expertise, we cannot have a competition of ideas, that is now forbidden, and academic freedom in the colleges and universities? have you seen who the tenured professo
procedure combat teams use as they prepare to breach a building and it s instantly recognizable to any soldier or marine who has served. looking at that level of coordination, it s frightening to see just how close we came to a coup and a year later, our democracy remains at risk. today, that risk isn t from a group of men making their way up the capitol steps but from a coordinated, nation-wide attack on voting rights in this country. tomorrow, the u.s. marks martin luther king jr. day, every year we celebrate the life, work and legacy of the civil rights giant, but tonight, on the heels of another federal voting rights failure, i want to play these words from king in 1963. i think the tragedy is that we have a congress with a senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. they won t let the majority vote and certainly don t want the majority of people to vote because they know they do not repre
this hour, honoring the legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. fight for voting rights in washington and state capitals throughout the country, where does it go from here. also, follow the money. new details about the billionaires behind the brain trust. plus hopeful signs the omicron variant may have crested. but that doesn t mean america s hospitals are out of the woods. and from box office hit to owning the internet, the magic of disney s encanto. imagine today, 296 days before november s midterm election we re actually having a conversation about expanding ballot access. tomorrow, martin luther king jr. day, the family will lead a march for voting rights in washington. they want congress to pass the freedom to vote act that would make election day a federal holiday and expand mail-in voting and early access to the polls. this legislation would truly double down on our democracy. but instead, republican-led states want to make it harder to vote. 19 states have pass
and we begin with the breaking news. tennis star novak djokovic has lost his bid to stay in australia and defend his hitle in the australian open tennis tournament. he now faces deportation. we want to go straight to our paula hancocks who s been watching all of this unfold from melbourne. paula, obviously dramatic moments there and yet the judges were categorical saying, look, we re not here to decide the merits of the government s case, that s not for us to decide, but they looked at what the government had put forward and found that, in fact, it was reasonable and that means that right now at this hour, right, paula, novak djokovic isn t exactly a freeman. he needs to be deported. reporter: that s right, paula. the very fact there were three judges hearing this case and it was a unanimous decision as you say. it wasn t up to them to decide the merits of the argument. they were just there to look atz the legalities. this is what we had beforehand, that the best chance for