good evening. at the top of the hour chris cuomo is off tonight, the last night of brutal cold weather in texas. even as temperatures rise millions of texans like these people lining up for water are still in dire straights and for some the hard times could linger. according to state officials nearly 15 million people have seen water service disrupted. homes have been damaged or destroyed by flooding from ruptured water lines. people have died from hypothermia, carbon dioxide and other weather related accidents. supply chains are catching up for grocery stores, but we re still waiting for that to happen and folks are exhausted, shell-shocked from what happened. they ve been battered. they re barely beginning to recover. we re just beginning to learn the extent of the toll. the latest information i have is ten hypothermia deaths in harris county alone. we ve got around 600 cases of carbon monoxide poisonpoisoningr deaths as well. very frustrated and exhausted residents. they
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millions of americans in the the state of texas are struggling to find drinking water after deadly winter storms left them without power for days. while the lights have largely come back on, more than half of the state s residents are being told to boil their water if they have any at all. long lines are now the normal mass water distribution sites as store shelves run bare. the damages are adding up as frozen pipes burst and frigid temperatures persist. u.s. president biden says that he will sign a natural disaster declar declaration. omar jimenez has more. you never used your fireplace before this? no. reporter: jen studebaker and her family were burning chairs, pieces of book shelves, before eventually scavaging for bits of wood without even a means to cut it. that hammer is what we were splitting it with. reporter: using their nearly abandoned fireplace now as a means of survival. this is the head of the futon bed so it would be closer to the heat and he d all
ari melber starts right now. i m glad i let you go because i remember you have your own show to anchor. thank you. our thanks to nicolle wallace and the whole team there doing this cover nl. we continue the breaking coverage of the first ever federal indictment of a former president. today the justice department unsealed an indictment of defendant donald trump of 37 counts. we re covering this historic and unprecedented development with our legal experts who have been pouring over this 44-page indictment since it was first unsealed this afternoon. the nation heard from special counsel jack smith for actually the first time ever today. a prosecutor known for his work and today his actions, indicting the former president after about seven months on the job. and he spoke clearly and concisely about this indictment and national security crimes. today an indictment was unsealed charging donald j. trump with felony violations over national security laws, conspiracy to obstruc
is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay. now congress i didn t say over. go to the paragraph before. wow. how would you like to be ivanka stage managing that? back in july, the january 6th committee played raw footage of the outtakes of former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot when he was choking on every word. this morning, the day before he called them patriots, beautiful, this, that, the other. wow. this morning, the committee s full final report has finally been released. we re going to go through it all. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s friday, december 23rd. everybody s off. i m here. i hope you re not bothered too much by that. we re going to get through it together. we have former aide to george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. and the host of msnbc politics nation and president of the national action network, the hardest working m