hundreds of thousands without power, more than 4,000 flights canceled. winds so treacherous the airport in buffalo, new york, had to shut down. cnn is live with the havoc being wreaked nationwide. and the january 6th committee out with its final report spelling out why donald trump, in their view, was the one solely responsible for the riot and should be discaqualifi from holding office ever again. new transcripts from the committee. why cassidy hutchinson said she was disappointed and disgusted with her first round of testimony under oath. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the national lead and this nightmare weather scenario before christmas crippling conditions stretching coast to coast with snow and ice in cities such as seattle and portland, oregon to the massive bomb cyclone system moving east. nearly 180 million in the u.s. are in areas with temperatures below freezing. 70 million are in areas below zero. this system is so powerful meteorologist
this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. russia unleashing missiles across ukraine. few cities were spared in what could be the broadest assault since the invasion began. dozens more injured. v vladimir putin is posting about the strikes. he said they re in retaliation over the weekend of a key bridge linking russia to annexed crimea and accusing ukraine of terrorism as imangs like these are broadcast all over the world. the ukraine president is holding emergency talks with g-7 leaders today about how to respond to this. let s get straight to fred pleitgen live in kyiv. cities all over ukraine were bomb bombarded but look at what is behind you. even a playground in kyiv. reporter: when he was dressing the security council is that he said that the russians hit command and communications infrastructure of the ukraine military. but as you could see behind me, this is definitely not command or communication infrastructure from the ukrainian military. this is a pl
weather wreaking havoc this holiday weekend, many in the united states are facing their coldest christmas in decades. right now more than 175 million people are under windchill alerts. the arctic blast extend interesting montana all the way down to, get this, yeah, florida. some temperatures in the midwest dipping into the negative 30s, even atlanta is seeing negative windchills. the bitter cold proving extremely dangerous. at least 15 people have lost their lives across the country so far. in tennessee, people are seeing intermittent power disruptions as the bone-chilling weather pushes the state s power grid to the absolute max. more than 840,000 customers are now without power nationwide. whiteout continues make it too perilous to travel. new york officials are issuing a driving ban for several counties amid blizzard conditions there, and if you are trying to fly this weekend, i got to give you some good luck and a prayer because pacific raceways than 1,700 flights have be
him and he deserves it. he put these people through hell. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is friday, august 5, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where we re getting more revelations in the january 6 investigation including this cnn exclusive. donald trump s lawyers are now in direct talks with the justice department for the very first time. sources tell cnn that they are discussing the claims of executive privilege which he hopes will stop members of his inner circle from testifying about their conversations. we know that the federal investigators have subpoenaed trump s white house counsel pat cipollone and his deputy patrick philbin to answer questions about schemes to overturn the 2020 election and there is more, sources tell cnn trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be indictments on the horizon. the former president apparently skeptical grilling his legal team about whether they think that he will actually
No doubt like many other people around the world, we have been surprised and increasingly concerned that Noam Chomsky has not commented publicly on current events for around one year; in particular, on the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. The most recent major interview we could find was this from 5 June 2023 with Piers Morgan.