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this is the planning effect. good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. the nation pauses today to remember the life and legacy of civil rights leader dr. martin luther king jr. members of his family are in the nation s capitol to make another push for voting rights legislation. as the senate is set to make what may be a futile effort to push those bills through. we ll talk with democratic texas congresswoman, shelia jackson lee about what comes next. meantime, we re learning more about the gunman who held several people hostage in a texas synagogue for nearly 12 hours. on the eastern seaboard, an messy start to the week for tens of millions of people as a winter storm brings heavy snow, ice, rain, and wind to the region. and a former haitian senator is arrested in connection with last year s assassination of the country s former president. we ll take a closer look at the deteriorating situation on the ground in haiti. and we begi ....
on alert this morning. a powerful winter storm is bearing down. more than 80 million people are under winter weather alerts. we ll tell you when and where you can expect to see the effects. sunday, january 16th. we are so grateful to have you. thanks for waking up with us. great to see you as always. you too, boris, after your double duty yesterday. yeah. had to do an extra hour. no problem with that. i know. we start with this dramatic hostage stand offin texas. we re happy to report all four hostages are safe after nearly 11 tense hours at a synagogue near dallas. investigators say that suspect entered the congregation beth israel sin fa going to in colleyville, texas, during its sabbath morning service and took the rabbi and three others hostages. the services were being livestreamed at the time. one hostage was released several hours into the standoff. after hours of negotiations an fbi rescue team breached the synagogue freeing the remaining hostages an ....
maine. a potentially dangerous mix of snow and freezing rain blanketing major roads. airlines cancelling more than 2,700 flights. the severe weather also causing significant delays. power now knocked out for more than 267,000 customers across georgia, alabama, florida and the carolina. this storm expected to shift up the east coast now with some cities like pisi expecting up to four inches of know. let s go now to cnn meteorologist tom seder who is monitoring the movement of this storm. tom, tell us how things look right now. well, jessica, we are in day two of a three-day event. you can see where the winter warnings are in effect now. from areas of the deep south all the way up towards say maine. mississippi to maine really. but yesterday it started it as the system dug out areas of the dakotas. 8 to 12 inches of snow. des moines, iowa, 14 inches, snow all the way down through areas of arkansas and memphis hit good and then can you still see the snow falling in areas ....
on to the national stage a little more than a year ago and flirtation before and since with one of this country s two mainstream political parties. first, though, all we learned since last night, which is a lot. some of which, helps further bury false notions about the insurrection that we have all the been literally hearing since day one. for starters, remember the initial refrain subsequently amplified that these weren t really trump supporters but were antifa? in fact, a lot of former president s supporters still seem to make that argument. well, according to page 22 of the indictment, rhodes responded on on his signal chat channel to a claim that antifa broached the capitol according to the indictment, rhodes replied nope, i m right here, these are patriots. keep that in mind as you think back to how many times over the last year, you heard lawmakers try to whitewash the insurrection with variations on the theme that the people who stormed the capitol weren t real ....
first when stewart rhodes, the head of the oath keepers and another defendant, edward vallejo pleaded not guilty to seditious conspiracy. now, you know these men are two of the 11 suspects accused of plotting to basically try to use force to top congress from carrying out the job of certifying the presidential election. you know, the thing we all assume will happen after a free and fair election. and that same thing that s part of a peaceful transition of power. the kind of thing that stops us from being addict tatership when someone says, you know what, no, i would rather stay right here. the reason the charges are so serious, well, because the stakes are too high not to be and believe me, i know from experience that charges alone won t convince a jury. proving your burden is no cakewalk. why? well, for the same reason i just said, the stakes are too high and it remains to be seen frankly of whether the government can meet its burden of proof on these charges, but i te ....