our friend martha is back today. martha: good morning. it is a deadly epidemic. we have covered it extensively. it reaches all states, all walks of life, all kinds of families. the powerful opioid known as fentanyl is an indiscriminate killer took the lives of all these people whose faces you see on the screen right now and teens at a record pace. in 2021 fentanyl was identified in 77% of as lessent drug deaths. cartels have an enormous business. they will stop at nothing turning the drug into a weapons of mass destruction. lindsey graham says it is time to fight back. here is what i would say. america is under attack of the our nation is being attacked by foreign powers called drug cartels in mexico. this is the largest attack on american s homeland by a foreign power in the history of the nation. 70,000 americans were poisoned by fentanyl last year. we need to take the gloves off. they are at war with us. we need to be at war with them. bill: we go to texas, school di
midnight. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 30th. new year s eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we ll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and the failure to do that in many cases. we ll take a closer look at former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. plus, after thousands of canceled flights and a reputation now in tarts, southwest airline says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. we ll tell you what the company is saying it plans to do to somehow make things right.
hello and a warm welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i m paula newton ahead right here on cnn newsroom. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california, having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. 15 ballot votes later, and kevin mccarthy is finally the new speaker of the house. when you look at all the drama and of course the historical background of this long battle. and new details on the group of murder investigation in idaho. look at the painstaking hunt that finally led the suspects to capture. plus, cnn s andy scholes joins us here live on the set to discuss damar hamlin s remarkable recovery and what he said to his buffalo bills team. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so it took 15 ballots and an evening of high drama, but kevin mccarthy finally secured enough votes to become speaker of the house. never in modern times has
debate over who pays the cost when people go off the grid. the customers putting in solar are generally shifting cost on to people who are poorer than they are. and later, in a league of her own, this baseball icon kept a secret for decades until her reveal went viral. they called me up the next morning and say, we love you for what you are. good evening, and thanks for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight in akron, ohio where the 4th of july sell brgdsbr celebrations were canceled due to the investigation into jaylin walker, killed in a trail of bullets after a traffic stop. police released the disturbing body cam footage which shows officers fired dozens of rounds as walker ran away. this weekend, hundreds of people protested in the streets calling for justice. alice preston has been covering the developments today, alice? jereka, the officers under investigation on paid leave after the attempted traffic stop and deadly pursuit. the police union says those
p > over 35 locatio tp the the potential to sd temps. yep yesterday was un. we used to think o elderly and pregnant women vulnerable to heat. ar anand now it s vulnerable to heat. ar anand n all of us. > the presidenti init is m tr the ba.5 variant. r >p r i m sun i sound. r >p he he ha at all rightp why hitting him? they re using force. they re using a taser. they re wrestling him. we definitely have nightmares. and new russian air strikes on a ukrainian port just one day after both nations approve a grain export deal. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom. it s 8:00 here in washington, and some 85 million americans spent today under heat warnings and advisories. blistering temperatures baking much of the nation from its mid section to the northeast. and many of these places in the triple digits. extreme heat is helping fuel a wildfire near yosemite national park. the oak fire has raced across 9,500 acres. there is 0