over a million people are without power from texas to the east coast as bone chilling temperatures kick in. more than two hundred million americans are currently under warnings or advisories. this massive winter storm is causing holiday travel chaos. transportation secretary buda jen says it is going to be days before this gets sorted out. yesterday, about 10% of flights canceled. now, of course, that means 90% of flights were not canceled, but, you know, if it goes above two percent, we consider that a lot. so 10% means just a lot of disruption for a lot of passengers now getting back to normal. but we re seeing, again, over the middle of the country that extreme cold and then the east that that wind and snow coming. it s going to be rough for certainly the next couple of days. when it comes to aviation. so far , over twenty six thousand flights have been delayed and nearly 9000 canceled since wednesday. mike tobin is at o hare airport in chicago with the latest. hi, m
the iraq war was a mess. we withdrew and lost the piece, and then ice is popped up, and we had to go back in. at this point, america was sick of the mideast, and we took our soldiers and bases out of there. but we can t leave without a plan in place, and i we are begging. and beggars can t be choosers. here s what i mean. all american presidents have made the pilgrimage to saudi arabia to make sure the royal family kept the oil flowing and kept prices down. remember when george w. bush held hands with the saudi crown prince? or when barack obama bowed? and then he said it never happened. [laughs] maybe he just dropped his wallet. they rolled out the red carpet for donald trump, projecting his face on the side of the ritz. they let him touch that glowing orb, remember that? and don t forget trump s ceremonial sword dance. jesse: [laughs] at these times we had leverage over the saudis because we had troops, bases, and carriers in the middle east, not to mention sweet arms
Repeatedly the last couple weeks. Reporter when officers arrived he threatened them as well. He answered saying he had a gun and he would kill them. Reporter he took off out a second floor window when he first pointed a gun at an officer. He ran and stopped a car on nichols avenue. He got the vehicle at gunpoint. The officers point a gun at him and the suspect did also. He was shot. He was taken to hospital where he was pro understanded no dead. The gun found on scene was allegedly the same gun pointed at police. Also breaking tonight, one of the three inmates who escaped from a california prison is back in police custody. He actually turned himself in today. Out of jail. Reporter Police Arrested the inmate in santa anna, california, where officials said he made his escape. He backed down a person on the street telling her he wanted to turn himself in, he had been behind bars since december. He escaped from jail with two other inmates last week. They are trying to track down two other
Welcome to the lead. Im erica hill in for jake tapper. We begin with the poll tiblitic. Another huge blow to President Trump. His financial gatekeeper Allen Weisselberg granted immunity, the highest ranking executive at the Trump Organization who isnt named trump. One source telling Cnn Weisselberg knows where all the financial bodies are buried. He is mention and the Inthat Moux Cohen trump tape. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all the info regarding our friend david. You know . So that im going to do that right away. I have come up to spoken to me. Spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with so where are we . With the funding. The news after trump lashed
recording of last month of a conversation with trump two months before the 2016 president ial election about payments to former playboy model karen mcdougall. And ive spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set it up with where are we funding. Reporter another person on the tape . National en
Lets get to it. And first from the news deck thises in afternoon, we could be stuck with this president ial weirdness for a long time to come. Maybe even into the hot of the summer. Thats the warning from rube rubes Campaign Manager suggesting the fight for the republican could end in a battle on the convention floor, something we havent seen for four decades. The race has narrowed a lot but even after iowa and New Hampshire there is still seven who say they arent going anywhere. Most of them are right now in South Carolina,q2c ahead of the first in the south primary. Doing well. Where the candidates actually stand is really anybodys guess. Donald trump had the lead in those last polls, and now acts like he sees jeb bush as a real threat. After weeks of pretty much ignoring bush, trump again has remember i called him a low Energy Person . He is a low Energy Person. I said he is a stiff, and i said if he was in the private sector he wouldnt be able to get a job. The Bush Campaign has st