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welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber, ahead on "cnn newsroom," the death toll in gaza climbs as talks to renew a truce between israel and hamas breaks down. a look at what could get those talks back on track. plus, donald trump isn't letting multiple indictments keep him from the campaign trail has he courts voters in iowa. and a huge snowstorm leads to cancellations and chaos at airports across europe. and the railways aren't faring much better. we'll have the latest. israel and hamas are now engaged in a third day of intense fighting since the collapse of a truce early friday. a renewed pause seems unlikely. both israel and hamas walked away from the negotiations on saturday, with israel saying the talks had reached a dead end. a senior hamas leader denied israel's claims that hamas was

still holding non-military women hostages, a dispute that led to the diplomatic breakdown. listen to this. >> translator: what we had of women and children were exchanged. and if there are any others, then we are not aware of them and have no ability to reach them. all we have left from the prisoners in gaza are soldiers and civilian men who served in the occupation's army. so, as a result, there will be no negotiations for the exchange of prisoners until the end of the aggression. >> the israeli military says its fighter jets and helicopters have been striking hamas targets across gaza, including tunnel shafts, command centers, and weapons storage facilities. it also says an idf drone targeted and killed hamas militants. as the idf campaign ratchets up in southern gaza, palestinians there are being urged to evacuate farther south. it was not scertain the message is being heard because of poor phone and internet connections across the region. here's what israel's prime

minister had to say on saturday. >> we determined safe areas in gaza, in coordination with international agencies, and with our american friends. we determined safe areas to where the population knows it can evacuate. we did it in the north and we will do it elsewhere. and this is important, because we have no desire to harm the population. we have a desire to avoid harming the population. we have a very strong desire to hurt hamas. >> the hamas-run health ministry in gaza says at least 193 palestinians have died since israel resumed its combat operations. it says more than 15,000 people have been killed in gaza since the war began eight weeks ago. a building in northern gaza where many displaced people had been sheltering was destroyed in an apparent israeli strike on saturday. cnn's ben wedeman has the latest. >> israel carried out a series of devastating strikes on northern gaza saturday, striking a multi-story building in the

jabalia refugee camp. witnesses say more than a hundred people, many of them displaced, were inside the building at the time. doctors report dozens were killed and many more remain under the rubble. earlier in the day, the arabic spokesman for the israeli military over social media had instructed people to leave immediately areas east and north of gaza city, including jabalya, but it wasn't clear if anyone got the message. later, there was another massive strike on a district whose inhab inhabitants had also been instructed to leave, again, dozens were killed. the war resumed friday morning with renewed fury and there has been no letup since. the palestine red crescent society reported that around a hundred trucks crossed over from egypt, carrying food, water, relief assistance, and medicine.

good news to the living. it won't make much difference for the dead. i'm ben wedeman, cnn, reporting from jerusalem. >> eliot gotkin is covering all of this for us from london. >> as we saw, the fighting continues and the humanitarian situation worsens. >> very much so. that week-long truce now seems a distant memory after fighting resumed with a vengeance on friday morning, pretty much the minute that it expired, with, we've seen barrages of rockets fired by hamas towards tel aviv and other cities in central israel and around the gaza strip. we've seen more than 400 air strikes by the idf on what it says were terror tunnel shafts, command centers, weapons storage facilities and militants themselves. we've heard from ben as well about the death toll just since yesterday lunchtime, that's the last figures that we have, hitting almost 200 palestines killed since those hostilitied resumed. and all the while, the humanitarian situation getting worse. and will no doubt continue to get worse, not just as the

temperature drops inside the gaza strip, but also as israel paves the way for ground operations in the southern part of the gaza strip. we heard from ben about aid trucks getting through, about a hundred getting through, carrying water, medicine, and food, but this is just a drop in the ocean in terms of what is needed. according to the hamas-run health ministry, there are three times as many patients in intensive care units than there are actually beds. the situation there very dire and expected to get worse, kim. >> meanwhile, eliot, the u.s. is continuing to push for another tr truce. >> it is. it wants more hostages released. there were hostages released on october 7th, they are still being hamas and other militant

groups inside the gaza strip. we've had 110 hostages released including 86 israelis. the u.s. believes that there are something like eight u.s. citizens still accounted for. one woman and seven men. now, the reason it seems for the breakdown of the truce and those hostage negotiations is that israel said that hamas was still holding 15 women and two children. hamas, as we heard in your introduction, claims that all of those women that it is still holding are all idf soldiers, something that israel denies. hamas also claims that all the men they're holding are all current or former idf soldiers as well. what is clear is that israel's position is that the operations against hamas will continue until those hostages are released, at the very least. hamas saying that there can be no more negotiations, no more

release of hostages in exchange for palestinians being held in israeli prisons, until there is a cease-fire. so we seem to be at an impasse. according to a senior administration official that spoke with cnn, he said it's totally unacceptable what is going on, hamas not releasing those hostages, saying the onus is on hamas to live up to the terms of the deal and release the young women without further delay. statement, the u.s. in his words will pursue every effort to secure the release of those hostages, all the hostages, but in particular, those ones who are also u.s. citizens. kim? >> appreciate it. eliot gotkin in london. thanks so much. the u.s. vice president is reaffirming the support for the legitimate military objectives. despite this, kmaamala harris ss the human cost has been too live. >> president biden and i have also been clear with the israeli government in public and in

private many times. as israel defends itself, it matters how. the united states is unequivocal. international humanitarian law must be respected. too many innocent palestinians have been killed. frankly, the scale of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from gaza are devastating. >> and pressure is coming from another israeli ally, this time from french president emmanuel macron. he spoke in dubai, saying israel's right to self-defense doesn't give it the right to attack innocent people in gaza. the israel defense forces says it doesn't target civilians, but macron is pushing israel to better clarify its goals to itself and to the world. here he is. >> i think we're at a moment where israeli authorities will more precisely have to define their goal and the final outcome they're trying to achieve. what does the total destruction

of hamas mean? does anyone think it is possible? if this is the case, the war will last ten years, and i don't think that anyone is really able to define that goal. so it will need to be better defined. >> i want to bring in martin keir, a lecturer at the university of sydney and the author of "hamas and palestine: the contested road to statehood." thanks so much for being here with us. so if one were to think of hamas as a brain, the two hemispheres were the political and the military wing in gaza. do we know who's actually in charge here and do they share the same agenda? >> well, i think they do. hamas is made up of a number of constituent elements. its political bureau has elected members from the w, the prisonea and from its armed wing. it is, i suppose, difficult at this stage to accurately define

who is in charge at the moment, who is running things, as far as the defense of gaza goes i would imagine that the military wing would be running the defense, but equally, the political wing and other members in the west bank and other constituent members would also being briefed and would have a clear hand in hamas' overall strategy. >> in terms of the military wing, what do we know about the men who are leading it? >> very little. understandably, they keep their identities secret, because israel is will openly target those members for openly resigs its occupation in the seize of gaza. mohammad dief is normally the head of hamas' armed wing and there's very few photos of him, very few announcements or any

sort of discussions by him. though he did release a press release after the attacks that clearly set out the circumstances that led to hamas' attacks. >> so we suspect where they are and might that indicate where most of the hostages are being held? >> most of the political wing reside outside of the occupied territories in neighboring arab states. >> specifically, the military wing, rather. >> the military wing would be mostly in gaza, where they are is unknown. but they exist in the west bank and jerusalem as well as gaza. >> we played the clip of president macron saying if the israeli goal is to destroy hamas, the war will last ten years. is he right?

>> yes, hamas is more than just an islamist movement. it is an expression of palestinian nationalism and an expression of palestinian resistance to israel's occupation. in many respects, israel may be able to limit severely hamas' capacity to resist its occupation particularly in gaza, but it would be almost impossible to eliminate hamas as a movement. >> so a survey by arab barometer found 44% of palestinians in gaza said that they had no trust in hamas at all. do you think that the water will have people rallying behind hamas, or will support for them drop even further, not to mention, using their own citizens as human shields? >> ichk broadly speaking, there'll be an increase of

support for hamas, because it is actively resisting israel's occupation. i think we need to understand the circumstances that led to hamas carrying out these attacks on october 7th. and the fact that any prospect of a sovereign palestinian state had almost disappeared and palestinians were faces the very real prospect of disappearing of a separate nation. and hamas' goal, its legitimacy resolves around resisting israel's occupation. so this is hamas' effort to get the palestinian question back on to the front of the international minds of the international leadership, which they've done in no uncertain terms. yes, prior to the october 7, there was a lot of disquiet with hamas and its governing in gaza, primarily because of its

inability to ameliorate the effects of the siege. >> we really appreciate your insights with this. martin keir in sydney. thanks so much for speaking with us. >> thank you. in paris, the anti-terrorism prosecutor is investigating after a german tourist was killed and two other injured by an attacker wielding a knife and hammer near the eiffel tower. a 26-year-old french national was arrested a to the scene. the interior minister said he told police he was upset about what has been happening in gaza. authorities say he's been sentenced to prison in 2016 for planning another attack. all right. now an update on one of the three palestinian students who was shot while taking a walk in the u.s. state of vermont last weekend. elizabeth price, the mother of 20-year-old hisham awartani says that the bullet has lodged in his spine. he's set to be released from the hospital next week and will

receive rehabilitation care. hisham and two friends were shot while visiting a relative over the thanksgiving holiday. the suspect, 44-year-old jason j. eaton is under arrest and pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted second-degree murder. the attack is the latest in the reported rise of anne-arab, and anti-muslim residents. still to come, the u.s. outlines plan to significantly cut methane emissions, as countries at cop-28 make a wave of commitments to combat the climate crisis. we'll have the latest from the summit in dubai, next. and a powerful snowstorm is causing travel headaches in parts of europe. we'll have the latest in just a moment. please do stay with us.

the biden administration has finalized a rule to significantly cut the u.s. oil and gas industry's emissions of methane, a powerful planet-warming gas. the announcement comes a mid of wave of commitments at the cop-28 climate summit in dubai, including a pledge from at least 117 countries to triple renewable energy by the year 2030. david kenzie joins me now from dubai. lots of grand pledges today, including the u.s. plan to cut

methane emissions. what stood out to you? >> well, it's significant, because it gives a powerful regulatory tool to the u.s. government, to crack down on sloppy practices of oil and gas companies in the u.s., in particular, when they inadvertently and on purpose release methane into the atmosphere. a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. the leadership of the climate team at the white house is hoping that this move will also lead to a more global effort to reduce this dangerous gas. in a made-for-tv moment, a critical climate change summit hosted by the uae, a major oil producer. >> we cannot say for burning planets, fire holes of fossil fuels. >> a new u.n. report shows that global efforts to cut emissions are wildly off track.

there are growing calls at cop-28 for concrete plans to phase out the use of fossil fuels. now in a major announcement from the white house, new rules from the environmental protection agency to slash methane. a dangerous by-product of the oil and gas industry, and by nearly 80%. >> we've got to get the receipts, make sure we're making the progress we need to make in this critical decade. >> are you hoping that these new rules will be inspiring other countries to follow suit? >> absolutely. we've seen that on the basis of strong domestic action in the united states, countries are coming along, adapting the same play book and scaling those solutions worldwide. >> chief among them, china. the white house is hoping to build on the momentum of president biden and chinese president xi jinping's meetings last month. >> china's got a step up in a big way to take a chunk out of

emissions. >> even as the biden administration pushes the energy transition, u.s. oil production is breaking records, churning out more than 13 million barrels a day. >> it's really hypocritical, both the emirates and the u.s., but you can't be committed to the paris limit if you go on expanding fossil fuel production. >> there are announcements and bold actions. are they lining up? >> no, they're not. one of the big concerns that many have about the process here is that we're seeing an awful lot of announcements, which are never followed up. zpl well, the announcement from the u.s. is backed by a regulation, so it should mean it's enforceable, but there are many other pledges that are happening at these cop meetings, kim, that will need a close eye to make sure that they act

actually -- what they're promising actually gets delivered. the main issue that thing is in the background in all of these discussions is whether there will be a promise of a phaseout of fossil fuels that will be watered down to semantics, but crucial to have concrete actions to stop fossil fuel productions in the coming decades, if we are wanting to end the climate crisis. kim? >> big difference. we'll see what happens. david mckenzie in dubai. thank you so much. appreciate it. flights in munich, germany, have now resumed after heavy snow blanketed the region saturday and shut down the airport. some 200 flights were already canceled for today. more than 700 flights canceled saturday. buses, trams, some train services in the city were also suspended. officials say it's the most snow that's ever fallen in december in munich in close to a century. residents were asked not to drive unless it was absolutely

necessary. in some parts of southern bavaria, people were told to stay inside, but the snow didn't stop some people from enjoying the outdoors. have a look here. >> translator: i have to say, i think it's great. if you're traveling by car or train or have a flight, that's bad, of course, but it's wonderful that it's snowing again. but it's bad for those who have destinations they're trying to reach. >> it might have been a pretty site to some, but there have been more reports of road accidents due to icy conditions and the national rail service operations will be severely impacted through monday. and snow blanketed the czech capital of progress with weather services reporting nearly 30 inches of fresh snow in some places. it caused power outages and disrupted traffic across the country and at prague's airport, but the snow did provide a picturesque backdrop to the opening of the annual christmas market. officials in the philippines say an explosion during a mass inside a gymnasium has killed at least four people and injured more than 40 others.

the philippine president condemned the deadly bombing and blamed it on foreign terrorists. it happened on the southern island of mindanao. it has long been a hotbed of encourage against the philippine government. meanwhile, residents in the southern philippines are recovering from the shock of a powerful earthquake. the 7.6 magnitude quake rocked the island on saturday and sparked powerful aftershocks. have a look. >> it also caused some damage to buildings, including to this grocery store, despite the scary scenes there, there have been no initial reports of casualties. the quake did trigger tsunami warnings and small waves were observed as fwraer as japan. authorities say those advisories are now over.

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this is "cnn newsroom." i want to get back to our top story. the resumed fighting between israel and hamas. israel's relentless bombardment of what it calls hamas targets is now in its third day since a truce collapsed early friday. the idf says fighter jets and helicopters have been striking hamas installations across gaza, including tunnel shafts, command centers, and weapons storage facilities. israel is urging thousands of people in southern gaza to keep moving south, but internet service in gaza has been spotty at best, and it's not clear gaza gazans are getting the message. the pause in fight worked out last week isn't likely to be repeated again assume. on friday, both sides quit the hostage negotiations in qatar with each blaming the other for the breakdown. some of the israeli hostages freed by hamas joined a rally in tel aviv on saturday calling for the release of hostages left behind. thousands of people showed up as posters of those still held in gaza were on display. family members of hostages shared the pain of waiting to see their loved ones again.

>> it's a nightmare for us that our families are still in captive, still in gaza. although some of our family members came back to israel this week, at least three of them are here, but two more are still in gaza and we came here in order to stand with them and fight with them. >> israeli farmers tell cnn they are struggling to find workers. the israeli government believes thousands of foreign farm workers have fled in fear after many were killed or taken hostage. nic robertson has the details. >> reporter: in a staf room on a dairy farm, a respectful recovery is underway. ten foreign workers murdered in here by hamas october 7th. the farm's camera recorded others taken at gunpoint. later found executed.

23 foreign workers on this farm, mostly thai, some nepalese, brutally killed. some of them taken through this door. >> every time i come out, i have -- i see the safe room where ten foreign workers were slaughtered and living quarters where another six or seven were killed. it's always there. >> stevie marcus runs the farm, gaza close across his fields. his surviving foreign workers all fled, and that's a problem. >> basically, the foreign workers run the farm. >> reporter: he has 730 calves and cows, 350 producing milk. a shortage of skilled labor is limiting productivity. >> we have four volunteer workers -- >> but this is a technical business, as well. you need skills. >> right.

we're doing the bare minimum, making sure they have food and clean water, milking them. >> this is where the thai workers were living. it's completely torched and destroyed. according to the thai government, before october 7th, there were about 5,000 tye workers in what they describe as the danger zone around gaza. so you got your weapon after the attack. >> yes. >> why is that? >> because we need to protect ourself. >> yassi is a vegetable farmer. his farm, close to gaza, too. half of his foreign workers fled, volunteers saving his cr crops. >> can't stop smiling. all the time tell them i thank them and am grateful. without them, everything would -- >> reporter: everything would die. you would lose the whole crop without them. >> reporter: and that could be bad for the whole of israel. according to israel's farmer's

federation, 40% of vegetables consumed in israel are produced close to gaza. it's what motivated abby leibovich to use his day off from his tech job in central israel to help on the farm. >> it feels like they need us to help and come and support them, because without them, the markets would be mempty. >> reporter: danny is on a day off from his tech job, too, came despite the dangers of rocket fire from gaza. >> here they don't have enough people, people are afraid to come next to the gaza strip, fear of bombs, you know, if something happens, we only have 15 seconds. >> reporter: yasi knows his farming on borrowed time. eventually, the volunteers will go back to their regular routine s but can you really make a business here in the future if there isn't additional security? >> no. no, no. nobody will come here. >> reporter: at stevie's dairy

farm, the same concerns. >> at the end of the day, everyone -- no one's going to come and live here if it's not safe. and that's not just for the farm, it's for -- it's for the whole population. >> what does being safe look like here? >> quiet. >> reporter: and that seems a very, very long way off. nic robertson, cnn, israel. los angeles police say they've arrested a suspect in connection with the murders of three homeless men over the last three days and a fourth homicide in a nearby community. the news comes just one day after authorities asked for the public's help with identifying a suspect >> 24 hours ago, we announced there was a killer on the lose. now he is in custody. >> cnn's camilla bernal has the latest from los angeles. >> authorities here in los angeles say they have identified

and arrested a 33-year-old los angeles man that they believe is responsible for four different killings in four days. three of them being unhoused individuals. according to authorities, this started last sunday and they say he killed unhoused individuals both last sunday and monday in the early morning hours, and on tuesday they say he's responsible for a follow-home robbery and then killing a father two of young children. then on wednesday, they say he killed another unhoused individual, but authorities were looking initially for the person responsible of the follow-home robbery and killing. and they were able to stop this individual thanks to a traffic stop. and they say they were able to arrest him there. but it was days later that they connected the dots and also believe that he was also responsible for the killing of the unhoused individuals. here is what the l.a. chief of police had to say.

>> our investigation has documented mr. powell's vehicle as being at the murder scene of all three homicides. and mr. powell's physical appearance is consistent with the imagery recovered to this point. >> after he was pulled over, authorities were able to recover the murder weapon. and they say they're still trying to gather evidence that they say will help an eventual prosecution. they say that is now the focus. as of now, they do not have a motive, but they will continue to work on this case for that eventual prosecution. camilla bernal, cnn, los angeles. >> all right. still to come, former president trump and florida governor ron desantis canvass for votes in the hawkeye state on saturday with just six weeks left until the iowa caucuses. that's coming up. stay with us.

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saturday. cnn's kristen holmes was at trump's rally in cedar rapids and has h report. >> reporter: former president donald trump really delivering his most forceful repult of president biden's argument that a second trump term would be bad for democracy. he even made a veiled reference to the speech that he gave that maga would be bad for institutions and the country as a whole. listen to what some of donald trump had to say. >> joe biden is not the defender of american democracy. joe biden is the destroyer of american democracy. if joe biden wants to make this race a question of which candidate will defend our democracy and protect our freedoms, i say to crooked show and he is crooked, the most corrupt president we've ever had, we will win that fight and we're going to win it very big. very big. >> reporter: he also at one point said his campaign was a righteous crusade to liberate

our republic, which leads to the question that what exactly is joe biden doing that is anti-democratic. the former president had a list of several things, which included forcing people to buy specific cars, went on a long tangent about electric vehicles. at what one point, he talked about the first amendment and subpoenaing these social media companies. but the main crux of the argument was really about donald trump himself, claiming that president biden is using his administration to come after the former president. this referring to these multiple charges against former president trump, including his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. so really trying to flip this narrative. but again, using an argument that we have heardo over and ovr again from the former president. but i will note, we are just about six weeks out from those iowa caucuses. and all polling that we have seen shows trump with a very dominant lead, when it comes to those caucuses. and when we were here at this

event, there was an earlier speaker who asked the crowd if anyone had ever -- if this was their first time caucusing. and about half of the people here raised their hand to say, it was. showing that donald trump still has a lot of support, but even a lot of new support, despite those charges and his ongoing legal problems here in the state of iowa. >> so, as kristin just said, desantis is trailing badly, but leaving no stone unturned as he tries to pull off a political miracle. he campaigned in every one of iowa's counties. he says it was about more than just drumming up votes. here he is. >> i don't think doing the 99 counties is just about the caucus. like, yes, obviously, we're going to use that to win the caucus, but i think it has significance beyond there. one, by the fact that i'm willing to do this, that should show you that i consider myself a servant, not a ruler. and that's how people who get elected should consider

themselves. >> so desantis isn't just struggling in iowa, he's far behind in national polls, as well. and during his debate with california's democratic governor gavin newsom on thursday, newsom had this reality check. >> there's one thing, in closing, that we have in common, is neither of us will be the nominee for our party in 2024. >> cnn's senior data reporter, harry enten breaks down the latest poll numbers for us. >> let's take a look nationally. at the beginning of the year, you look back to march, it was a dead heat between donald trump and ron desantis. ron desantis was a little bit ahead, but well within the margin of error. take a look at where we are now. donald trump is over 40 points ahead of the governor of florida there's simply put, no historical analogy that ron desantis could look at and say, he's going to be the nominee. every single person in trump's position in the national polls has gone on to win. and at this particular point,

i'm not sure why i would disagree with history. but at this point, it seems like the florida governor is not made for prime-time, at least in a presidential campaign. >> cultural wars are not only an issue for those who live here in the u.s., but they're also taking center stage in russia. fred pleitgen has more on a recent ruling from the country's supreme court, which limits the right of lgbtq communities there. >> repeporter: as vladimir p pu continues s his brututal invasif ukraine, at home, the kremlin is prosecuting a legal war against the lgbtq community. russia's supreme court now labeling its member as extremists. >> the court decision to ban the activities of the international public lgbt movement and its structural subdivisions should be subject to immediate execution. >> that means this may be considered extremist behavior in the future. saffron is a drag artist, often

performing at an underground club. >> what scares me is that a large layer of interesting ideas, interesting people, and interesting creativity will be lost. i fear for the safety of these people. if they continue to do what they are doing, they could be in danger. >> sodomy and pedophilia, that's how kremlin-controlled tv has been labeling the lgbtq community for years in a sustained media blitz. >> sorry, i don't want to talk about this. i won't even say this disgusting word out loud. i'mhmhomophobe. my shohot. they would be shot for what they do to each other. >> reporter: combatttting what seeses as non-tradaditional ses bebehavior propagated by the u. and its european allies is part of russia president vladimir putin's rationale for the war in ukraine and one of his propagandada points inin a confrontation with the west. >> putin's styling himself as

the defender of what he called traditional christian values, vp as he recently praised russia's cultural diversity. >> our diversity and unity of cultures, traditions, languages, and ethnic groups simply does not fit into the logic of western racists and colonialists. >> the lgbtq community has long faced violence and arrests in russia, but some lgbtq activists believe now things could get much worse, as vladimir putin gears up for a presidential election next march. >> it seems to me this is part of the presidential election campaign, but the elections will pass and the court decision will remain. >> fred pleitgen, cnn, berlin. just ahead, when two college football dynasties collide for a championship trophy, it could only be one winner. we'll have more on that ahead. stay with us.

the pacific northwest could get heavy rain and snow over the next few days, but it's a different story in the northeast. here's cnn meteorologist alisa rafa with the details.

>> some of these cities in the northeast are not only breaking the record, but completely shattering and obliterating it. in new york city, it has been 656 days since they have seen at least 1 inch of snow. the last record for this stretch was 383 days. so almost doubling it. the last time that new york city had more than an inch of snow was back in february of 2022. so again, very significant. and it's not just new york. washington, d.c., philadelphia, baltimore, all taking the top spot for the longest stretch without more than an inch of snow, well over 600 days. richmond virginia tops out the top four on that list with 684 days. just incredible to see, and looking a the forecast, we're not looking at snow anytime soon. some rain in new york city by sunday, temperatures below average through a lot of the extended forecast here. but overall, not really looking at any snowmakers anytime soon.

not the case, though, for the pacific northwest. a series of storms will bring heavy rain and snow going through the next several days. we'll find some of this rain and snow really setting up, going into sunday. some of that rain could be heavy at times from portland into seattle. you know, a little bit of a break, but again, another storm, like train cars on its heel going into monday and tuesday with the heavy rain and the snow setting up. what's happening is, we have an atmospheric river setting up. that's when that jet stream or the path of storminess really just sits over the pacific northwest, really pumping that moisture. and storms just one after another. a level 4 out of 5. this could be hazardous, talking about river rises and mud slides. we're looking at some 3 to 7 inches of rain in the low lands, but up in the high elevations, could be looking at up to 10 inches of rain. where it's cold enough, looking at 2 to 3 feet of snow. so some pretty significant snow totals up in the pacific northwest going through the next several days.

it was a battle between two big college football teams. number 8, alabama, upset number one georgia with plays like that, the crimson tide beat the bulldogs, 27-24. georgia fought hard, but came up a little short, as bama snapped their win streak. >> the message that i would send is, we won the s.e.c. we beat the number one team in the country, which everybody thought on the committee was the number one team in the country. and they won 29 straight games. i think this team is one of the four best teams and one of the teams that's deserving to be in the playoff. >> as we saw, alabama proved to be too tough for the georgia national bulldogs, so now, everyone waits to see who they put in the playoffs. all right.

i want to give you a look at this, a light show of holiday colors put on by mother nature. the aurora borealis, otherwise known as the northern lights, lit up the skies over northern china friday. just beautiful. the brilliant array of red and green could be seen from beijing, inner mongolia, but also parts of north america including parts of the u.s. mainland. scientists point to a strong geomagnetic storm and they expect more and stronger geomagnetic storms in the months ahead. a double take as a famous climatologist jane goodell came face to face with her look-alike on friday. have a look. goodell's wax station is displayed in paris, which features likenesses of everyone from queen elizabeth to brad pitt. the facsimile is decked out in green camouflage clothes and she's credited with discoverying similarities between humans and primates, including their use of

tools, their wide range of emotions and their close family bonds and says the statue brought back good memories. here she is. >> this reminds me of the time when i used to be able to live in the forest with the chimpanzees. this is how i was dressed and i always had my binoculars with me. so it reminds me of the best days of hmy life. >> i'm kim brunhuber. i'll be back with more "cnn newsroom" in just a moment.