i m michael holmes. this is cnn newsroom. first to germany where the death toll has jumped to at least 81 in dangerous flash flooding in the western part of the country. in one district alone, 1300 people are assumed missing. some regions receiving more than a month s worth of rain in just 24 hours. at least 12 people have died in belgium, meteorologists describing it as the heaviest rainfall in a century. nina dos santos is tracking developments. weeks and weeks of rain. what is the impact of the floods? reporter: that s right, michael, the impact as you see is loss of life, severe devastation to a number of buildings, infrastructure is being blown up. across one part of the three stricken regions of germany, one of the most populous regions, we re seeing some of the telephone lines having been cut off, hundreds of thousands without power, indeed running water and basic supplies. it is a pretty dramatic situation and in one part of the vehicle stricken part of the countr
to do this again. breaking news overnight, the world loses a hero in the fight against apartheid. a closer look at the life of nobody pell peace prize winner desmond tutu. a lie bray shuts down but it has nothing to do with the pandemic. the new way people are trying to ban books and how some librarians are reacting. after almost two years of bad news, things are finally starting to turn around for movie theaters, how they re trying to get you back in the seats in 2022 and how the comeback is being led by your friendly neighborhood spiderman. good morning. it s december 26th. i m lindsey reiser. i hope you all had a wonderful christmas. hundreds more cancellations at airports yesterday meant people stranded trying to get to their christmas destination or back home. 2,800 flights canceled yesterday or alone. overall about 5,000 flights have been canceled over the holiday weekend, and it s mostly because of the omicron wave hitting airline workers. that s leading to sta
replacing his campaign manager. what can you tell us? so to the campaign that just keeps resetting here. the campaign manager who s been with the governor for a long time, helped run his gubernatorial re-elect, has been demoted. she s now a senior adviser. his chief of staff, the guy who ran the official side has been moved over to be campaign manager. james is very much in line with the governor. he s sort of the same policy and political school of thought. very conservative. so i think this is kind of an indication that the campaign is going to start, continue to focus on a lot of things it s been focused on. really the issues that brought him to a point where he could run for president and was perceived to be a potential front-runner, at least at one point. matt, thank you for the latest there. in new hampshire, former president trump is expected to speak within the hour even as his defense team rather battles with doj prosecutors over suggested limits on government ev
they just think the government s ask is too broad. both parties have until 3:00 p.m. today, right now, to agree on a date this week to show up in d.c. for a hearing on the order and while jack smith gave tomorrow, thursday, and friday, donald trump s team is asking for another extension. this time in the next week. the judge has said she wanted the matter settled before this weekend. so how does she respond on the day? how does she respond to the arguments as well? both for and against the order? and what does she do if donald trump refuses to comply with her order? her ultimate order. jail time is normally an option for contempt of court. could that really be on the table? if not, what else could be done to keep an antagonistic defendant in line? we have news on the grand jury that indicted trump next week. they ve met again today. what does bernie carrick have to do with it? he just met with the special counsel s team. what was he asked? joining me now is nbc news justice a
thanks you for joining us this hour. there s a lot going on. fiona hill is going to be joining us live tonight. fiona hill, of course, with senior director for russia and europe at the national security council during the trump presidency, which means she had a somewhat terrifying front row seat to some of the weirdest things and the u.s. president has ever tried to get away with. fiona hill is here tonight, as there have been dramatic developments today about the informant who provided the central allegations at the heart of congressional republicans efforts to impeach president biden this year. this informant today was sent to jail indefinitely by a federal judge in california. he is in jail awaiting trial. prosecutors arrested and indicted him a week and a half ago, alleging that his statements to law enforcement about president biden and his family not only were lies, but this man had been fed lies and disinformation about president biden by russian intelligence. despit