this hour, we re tracking a deadly winter storm. temperatures plummeting to life-threatening lows on this christmas holiday. more than 55 million people remain under windchill alerts this morning. right now, blizzard conditions across the great lakes. at least 26 people have died from the arctic blast across eight states. in hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable after two straight days of snowfall. a very dangerous situation, driving bans still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. i want to remind everybody, there was a period, hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews. we could not send out department of public works crews, because it was too dangerous. bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning. even florida is feeling the chill. much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. power o
we ve been telling you, has been and remains predetermined. it s been that way since day one. instead of honest hearings on how to protect our institutions, our elected officials, to protect the people s house, the capital. instead of ever allowing riots that those that occurred in the summer of 2020 from ever, ever happening again, we see nothing but blind, never ending rage, what is seemingly an obsessive-compulsive cult like rage against donald trump. it never ends. clearly trump haters, for them, january 6 this just another excuse to smear donald trump, anyone who supports him. this is not about safety and security and securing the capital or get into the truth. this is never been about having a fair and serious hearing and proceeding so we can come up with solutions. today we heard more rumors, a ton of hearsay, and, wow, a lot of impeached testimony that we will get to in a second and this why hearsay is never admissible in a court of law, including this wild claim numb
that. make no mistake, tonight s so-called hearing is not in good faith, it is not an honest probe into the security breakdown on that fateful day, and we will prove that to you tonight. instead, it is a made-for-tv smear campaign against president trump, featuring sliced and diced video that fits their predetermined political narrative from the very beginning, accompanied by the biggest trump haters on capitol hill. every single person on this committee is on record hating president trump, and they all voted to impeach him. now, people who support donald trump were not allowed to participate on this illegitimate, hyperpartisan committee, and sadly, those running the circus are not interested in what went wrong. they are not interested in what actually happened. they are purposely omitting what is critical information. we will tell you about tonight, and we will show you tonight, that will reveal where massive security failures did occur, and beyond that, show you the people
could be a big hour. we ll watch it together. dana has this friday off. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. hello to you, gillian. gillian: the first hour went pretty quick. i m ready. bill: yesterday we got the ruling on the abortion drug, the supremes said you don t have standing to bring this case now. maybe it comes back in six months or a year. it was a unanimous decision. what is left here? there are by my count there are two weeks and maybe a few days and change if you want to extend the summer session by a few days into early july. they have done that in recent years. not suggesting they will do that this year. that s the window of opportunity we have for a number of significant cases. gillian: it s an option if they want it. bill: i mention immunity. you have a case regarding january 6th and three of the january 6th defendants who brought a case. you have another case about abortion restrictions. you have a second amendment matter on the line as well, an
About them. the wonderful job that they do. todd: you are a congressman. obviously that invokes the federal part of all of this like you mentioned. you did say look, after the fact, federal government resources will helpfully be there. i want to focus after the fact. fema resources go in coordination with the state resources to shake sure that lives are saved immediately following and like i said during the storm if it s safe enough to go in there and save people? well, that s why the declaration of emergency is so important. that unlocks those resources to be prepositioned, close to the impact zone. that s where you get 1200 national guard men and women. the coast guard coming in and prepositioning all of those resources. look, because we go through, this things like our electrical power grid we have spent a lot of money in hardening that so that the power lines don t get