world, i m laila harrak. at the vatican the first holy mass of the new year will commemorate the late pope emeritus benedict. we re live from st. peter s square. and the year begins with flooding and evacuations in california as over 25 million could be affected by extreme weather. details and the forecast ahead. and defiance as ukraine enters the new year untd a barrage of russian missiles. we will hear from the ukrainian and russian leaders on two very different visions of what lies ahead. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. from new zealand to the u.s. most of the world has now ushered in 2023 with a mix of hope, excitement and flare. hours ago new york held its traditional ball drop in front of a jam packed times square. it was a spectacular show complete with fireworks, music and a ton, literally a ton, of confetti raining down on the crowd. celebrations were also held across europe, africa and asia and in the next hour hawa
in places, still potentially deadly. pamela brown here in for anderson tonight. it is hard to imagine that some parts of western new york could see another foot or more of snow on top of the nearly four feet you see in these pictures on your screen. winter storm warnings there and else well, still in effect. buffalo s airport, still closed. the entire eastern part of the country, still in a deep freeze. almost 4000 flights canceled today. nearly 2600 tomorrow. nationwide, at least 49 people have lost their lives in this massive storm. 27 and in the buffalo area alone. we have live reporting from cnn s polo sandoval and lucy kavanaugh and denver international airport. let s start tonight with polo sandoval who has been right there in the worst of it from day one. paula, what is the latest on the ground? today, those rescues also continued. in fact, governor kathy saying that police officers carried out some 550 rescues at least over the weekend. but we also learned about thi
Afternoon. This is the latest from the newsroom. Angela rayner is the new shadow deputy Prime Minister and levelling up secretary. She replaces lisa nandy, whos becomes shadow cabinet minister for international development. International development. Shabana mahmood takes the role of shadow secretary for justice liz kendall takes work and pensions and steve reed takes environment, food and rural affairs. It comes as the keir starmer reshuffles his top team, which began earlier afterjim which began earlier after jim mcmahon said he would step down from his post as shadow environment secretary. An independent review says former cabinet minister sir Gavin Williamson should apologise to mps for bullying the former chief whip. He sent offensive chief whip. He sent offensive Text Messages to wendy morton after he wasnt invited to the late queens funeral. The panel late queens funeral. The panel says sir gavin should also take part in appropriate behaviour training. The Prime Minister trainin
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The snow expected to startd stt falling in just a matter ofr hours later tonight. Onig tuck, whats the deal . Hey, lets get right to it. G. Heres the bottom line. M youll need a broom not aro n shovel. This is any other going to be a major eanvey nt. Otrvent since yesterday the timing on tn this has changed a little bit. Looks like it wants to arriveket a little earlier this eveninghie than what we thought yesterday y so towards the tail end of thed rush hour tonight perhaps pha between 8 oclock and midnight h will be kind of prime time. Ime. There it is developing to our west and you can see snow showers back into ohio and kentucky parts of and ys ibands well. Well that was headed in ouratas headr direction. So a little sunshine here l early. Ittl then well cloud up. Again prime time tonight for tor some snow showers, some light sh snow across the area betweenetwe about 8 oclock and midnight and by early tomorrow morningor this whole system will be outte of here. Of by this time tomor