seems a little odd that the black kid are there with a white santa. it s all good. to each his own. you was scared of santa. he s got the cutest things. you can t really see my phone. there s a black santa and white santa stocking that we found. ryan, you re the best. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. so glad that you could join us this morning on the eve before the eve of christmas. good morning, everyone. poppy and kaitlan are off and i m here with the lovely and smart and talented sara seidner. i was wondering where you were going with that but you re good. we re going to catch you up on the five big stories this morning. more than half the population is under winter storm and wind chill alerts as a major storm moves across the country. it s not like a snow day when you were a kid. this is serious stuff. please take this storm extremely seriously. more than 820,000 power customers are in the dark, thousands of flights have been cancel
hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan. at this hour, we re tracking this massive winter storm sweeping across the united states. it is impacting the vast majority of americans today. just two days before christmas. the storm is bringing blizzard conditions. i mean i don t need to say it. you could see it. blizzard conditions and ice freezing rain and very strong winds to cities coast to coast. areas near the great lakes could see up to three feet of snow like buffalo. but the cold, record-breaking and life-threatening. more than 200 million americans are under windchill alerts. the storm has not knocked out power to at least a million customers so far and travel is starting to get back. more than 3700 flights have been canceled today and more than 2,000 others have been delayed. that is not even to speak of what the roads are like right now. we re going to get to. we have reporters stationed across the country. let s start with meteorologist al alice isson chinchar. up an dow
in georgia and lucas tomlinson outside the white house. but we start first with rich edson in harrisburg, pennsylvania, where all eyes are on the nail-biter race between fetterman and oz. rich, good afternoon. reporter: good afternoon, mike. this is a government union headquarters here in harrisburg, the capital city of pennsylvania, john fetterman just finished rallying supporters here, he s been highlighting union workers here, the union vote. of he was rallying with union officials and workers yesterday in the philadelphia area. he said at this rally here that he plans on continuing to recover from his stroke, and he wants to win this election. c. oz has never forgotten every day that i had a stroke. in january i ll be much better, but he will still be a fraud. reporter: oz ripped fetterman for refusing to debate, and when he agreed, did so only once, two weeks before election day, and after hundreds of thousands of early votes had been cast. oz and republicans natio
aircraft. you can see the breadth of the areas hit. president vladimir putin, the russian leader, threatened further harsh responses. this is following a huge explosion over the weekend on a strategic bridge between crimea, illegally annexed in 2014 by putin and mainland russia. and moments before the attacks in ukraine, duelling in the united nations general assembly where delicates are expected to vote on the annexed regions in ukraine. met with silence while the ukraine ambassador received applause after saying this translator: but my day has started almost 14 hours ago. we started 14 hours ago, because my country was under attack. my immediate family was in a residential building under attack unable to go to a bomb shelter, because there was no because russia has already killed some of my family members, and we see no end to that cruelty. in a rare public appearance today the top british intelligence officer sir jeremy fleming is expected to say exhausted rus
number one, but fears about crime are up there, too, and republicans are winning the issue by double digits. but should they be? the fact is the rates of violent crime are higher in oklahoma that s not true. under your watch than in new york and california. that s a fact. oklahomans, do you believe we have higher crime than new york or california? that s what she just said. well, here is a fact check. she s right. so should more democrats take joy hofmeister s lead and talk about what people are talking about around the kitchen table. steve bannon sentenced to four months behind bars for thumbing his nose at a congressional subpoena. he s heading home instead of to jail. we ll explain that in a moment. finally, if you re joining us from the west coast. look up. numerous ufo sightings over the pacific ocean by more than a dozen commercial pay lots. mysterious lights caught on camera. some of them 10,000 feet above where the planes were flying. what the heck is