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will only plant the seeds for the next war. >> u.s. facing global criticism for vetoing a u.n. resolution calling for a cease-fire. we'll look at how other nations are responding. plus, trump's gag order back on. an appeals court ruling the former president can't go after witnesses in the election interference case, but there is one person whom he can still attack. and the state of texas has once again pushed a pregnant woman from having an abortion. after a court order allowed her to move forward. we'll look at why this indicates is -- this case is so important. the united states facing fierce international criticism for vetoing the u.n. security council's latest attempt to call for a cease-fire between israel and hamas. human rights watch warned that the u.s. had put itself at the risk of complicity in war

crimes. the medical charity doctors without borders condemned the u.s. vote as, quote, a vote against humanity. the u.n. security council resolution had 13 votes in support with the uk abstaining. despite growing international pressure for a cease-fire, the deputy u.s. ambassador explained why the u.s. blocked this measure. >> we propose language with an eye toward a constructive resolution, that would have reinforced the lifesaving dip police we have undertaken since october 7th, increased opportunities for humanitarian aid to enter gaza, encouraged the release of hostages, and thessumption of humanitarian -- the resumption of humanitarian pauses and lay the found for a durable peace. unfortunately, nearly all of our recommendations were ignored. the result of this rushed process was an imbalanced resolution that was divorced from reality. we still cannot comprehend why the resolution's authors declined to include language condemning hamas' horrific

terrorist attack on israel on october 7th. an attack that killed over 1,200 people. we are very disappointed that for the victims of these hain use acts the -- hain out acts the resolution's authors did not offer condolences, it's unfathomable. nor is there condemnation of the sexual violence by hamas released october 7th. >> israel's u.n. ambassador thanked the u.s. for standing firm against the cease-fire, but on the palestinian side the vote -- the failed vote was seen as a major setback. britain was the only security council member to abstain saying it couldn't vote for a cease-fire that didn't also condemn what it called hamas atrocities committed on october the 7th. meanwhile, there's been no letup in the fighting since a truce expired a week ago. thick clouds of smoke and dust fill the sky of gaza as the israeli military continues

hitting what it calls hamas targets. the israeli military released this video of recent ground operations in khan younis, the second largest city in gaza. the fighting there described as house to house and tunnel to tunnel. the next video is graphic. as the israeli offensive expands, palestinian casualties are mounting across the strip. the hamas-run health ministry in gaza said one hospital in central gaza reported 71 fatalities in the past 24 hours. it claims more than 17,000 people have been killed in gaza since the war began. ivan watson is covering this from beirut. what reaction are we getting from that u.s. veto of the resolution? >> reporter: right. well, this was clearly a failure by diplomacy to try to put a stop to the fighting. the u.s. decision being the only member of the security council

to vote against a cease-fire revealed israel's growing international isolation, as well as its closest ally, the u.s., and its growing international isolation. then it created this unusual situation where you had the russian representative to the u.n. and major international human rights groups basically in agreement in their criticism of the u.s. veto of the cease-fire. now, the u.s. representative argued that a cease-fire, a stop to the fighting in gaza, would essentially, in his words, be dangerous because it would allow hamas to regroup, and at some point in the future carry out further attacks on israel. the israeli ambassador thanked the u.s. for its support. the criticism came first and foremost from the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. take a listen. >> instead of allowing this council to uphold its mandate by

finally making a clear call after two months of massacres, the atrocities must end. the war criminals are given more time to perpetuate their crimes. >> reporter: the palestinian prime minister said the use of the veto, quote, exposes the hypocrisy of claiming to care about the lives of civilians. the united arab emirates, they drafted this cease-fire resolution, and the uae deputy ambassador after the u.s. veto said, quote, this council grows isolated, it appears untethered from its own founding document. now, russia's representative went on to accuse the u.s.' claim that the u.s. would be responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in the future and, quote, history will assess what washington has done. and now listen to human rights watch, amnesty international,

oxfam, all criticizing the u.s. veto with the human rights watch saying that the u.s. is providing israel with weapons and diplomatic cover and, quote, the u.s. risks complicity with war crimes. max? >> and in terms of we're looking at the images, you know be the fighting just continues in the same way it has done in recent days. >> reporter: that's right. the israeli military says it carried out strikes against at least i believe it's 450 targets in gaza in a 24-hour period, with fierce fighting reported in the south of the enclave, around khan younis, where it's been described as house-to-house fighting. the hamas ministry of health in gaza reported that one hospital alone got -- received the bodies of at least 71 people killed in that 24-hour period, and more than 160 people wounded.

on israel's northern front, much less intense front in the fighting, where it is exchanging artillery fire on a daily and nightly basis with hezbollah militants based in the south of lebanon, the cross-border fire has continued. the israeli military says that a number of projectiles were fired from lebanon into israel, and that it carried out retaliatory fire. it also said that it carried out air strikes with fighter planes against what it described as, quote, operational command and control centers inside lebanon. meanwhile, hezbollah claimed to have scored a direct hit on an israeli security site just before midnight local time. max? >> ivan in beirut. thank you so much for joining us. now the trauma of the war does not spare anyone, especially gaza's children. cnn's ben wedeman has more on that. >> reporter: 8-year-old muhammad is doing his daily chores --

fetching water, collecting scraps of paper and plastic to start a fire, to help his mother cook their daily meal. he'd rather be elsewhere. "you think i like it here," asks muhammad, "of course we don't. it's terrible. i want to go home where we had food and water." that buzzing comes from israeli drones hovering overhead. they never go away. "he's been deprived of his childhood," says his mother. "he can't live like a normal child. he can't go to school. he misses his friends." more than anything, the children here miss a sense of safety. overnight israeli warplanes struck the yafah mosque. no one was there, but everyone heard it. in the camp the best parents can do is keep the kids' minds off the danger.

[ speaking in a non-english language ] >> reporter: "i play with them, i joke with them, distract them from their misery," says ahmad. "when they hear the bombing they're terrified." there is no escape. these children have already seen too much. [ speaking in a non-english language ] "we miss our town, we lived well," he says. "now all we see are dead bodies everywhere." there are flow basic services -- no basic services here. the garbage piles up in the street. says muhammad, "we go from one place to the other, and they keep bombing us." yet they still play as the drones buzz overhead. ben wedeman, cnn, jerusalem. the rafah border crossing from egypt into southern gaza effectively the only humanitarian lifeline for the more than two million people living in the besieged enclave. the palestine red crescent society says 100 aid trucks and

11 ambulances donated by turkey reached gaza through that crossing on friday. the u.n. says researcha is essentially -- rafah is essentially the exclusive area where they can distribute aid. they've had to stop giving out aid in khahan younis dueue to t intensity of fighting there. senior officials with the world food program visited gaza on friday and met with residents. they described desperate scenes of people with nothing to eat or drink, overcrowded shelters, and the sound of bombs exploding throughout the day. >> people are really desperate, and there is fear in there -- fear in the children's eyes that we see it. you can almost smell the fear. they don't know where go. they have nowhere to stay. and we have no answers for them. and that's most frustrating part really of being here, not being able to help. >> earlier i spoke with carl skar, director of the world food program, one of the officials

who visited in gaza, visited gaza on friday, as you saw there. he described the immense humanitarian crisis. >> it is really crowded. there are crowds movining south from the north, from the active military operation, and there are people everywhere, on the streets. and the shelters are -- are overcrowded, and people are camping on the streets. and there is really the sense of desperation. you know, many have never -- not even for -- not eaten for several days. the survey we did during the seven-day pause showed half the population in gaza are starving. and there was this sense of fear that i tried to explain, that you can see in the people's eyes. you can almost smell it in there. they're asking us, you know, what's going to happen next to us? what are you doing? there are very few answers. >> we're seeing aid being distributed there. rafah probably the area getting the most aid or at least some aid. what stories were you hearing

about other parts of the territory? >> reporter: well, i can say that the humanitarian operation is really on the brink of collapse. you know, law and order are breaking down also in the south. and that stemts from this debts operation, not enough food is coming in, and food is maybe the most sensitive commodity. so you see the desperation around the distribution sites. people don't know when they will get their next delivery. and so you know, it's almost to a point of violence. it's not safe for our staff. they really live this crisis while they are also trying to tackle it. and so we need a step change. >> if you'd like to know how to help with humanitarian relief efforts for gaza and israel, please go to cnn.com/impact. you'll find a list of vetted organizations providing assistance there. cnn.com/impact. the hamas-run health ministry in gaza says it has identified more than 300,000 cases of 15 infectious diseases

in shelters across gaza. according to the ministry, most are cases of upper respiratory tract infections and diarrhea. other diseases identified include scabies, measles, meningitis, and acute viral hepatitis. the u.n. says nearly two million people have been displaced across gaza since october, that's about a 5% of the enclave's population forced from their homes by the war. >> where should i take my kids and my things? ev ever place i go i buy essentials, i behavioring. in the end, we -- buy everything. in the end, we leave everything behind. why should we get displaced? >> the u.n. warns overcrowding at shelters and poor sanitary conditions cause a risk of diseases spreading. police in new york are looking for an attacker who beat a man while slewing anti-semitic slurs. there shows the attacker entering the subway after he punched the 40-year-old in the

head several times and took his cellphone. it happened on thursday, the first night of hanukkah. and it's just the latest in a series of violent incident that's have spiked since the israel-hamas war. new york mayor adams spoke out against the hatred and the intolerance. >> i want to be clear, everyone in our city, in this state, in this country has a right to practice their faith in peace. here in new york city, we assure that right is protected. since the terrorist attack in israel on october 7th, the has been on heightened alert, and as we celebrate hanukkah, we're going to continue. >> federal court reinstated donald trump's gag order in his election interference case, and he's not happy about it. what the former u.s. president is saying just ahead. and on the other side of the political divide, a new federal charge or new federal charges

filed against joe biden's son. what are they, why do they matter, next.

former u.s. president donald trump vowing to appeal a gag

order ruling in his federal election subversion case. friday an appeals court largely upheld the gag order, except now it doesn't apply to comments made by or about special counsel jack smith or the justice department. the lengthy opinion came from all three judges who heard his appeal nearly two weeks ago. cnn's evan perez breaks it down for you. >> reporter: an appeals court has largely upheld the gag order against former president donald trump in the federal election subversion case saying he can be barred from making certain comments about witnesses, as well as prosecutors, the court staff, and their family members. trump immediately vowed to appeal the ruling all the way to the supreme court, calling it a violation of his first amendment rights. in this ruling, the three-judge panel from the d.c. appeals court said that they didn't take this step lightly, recognizing his status as former president and of course as candidate for president, but they said mr. trump's documented pattern of

speech and its demonstrated real-time, real-world consequences pose a significant and imminent threat to the functioning of the criminal trial process in this case. the judges went on to say that trump is a criminal defendant like any other, and, quote, he must stand trial in a courtroom under the same procedures that govern all other criminal defendants, that is what the rule of law means." the ruling friday also pushed back on trump's efforts to try to delay the trial which is set for march. the former president calls the prosecutions against him election interference, but the judges said that to allow trump to delay the case would be, quote, counterproductive, create perverse incentives, and unreasonably burden the judicial process. evan perez, cnn, washington. we expect to see the former president take the stand again on monday. he'll be the final defense

witness in the civil fraud trial against him. his adult sons and his company. the new york attorney general is suing trump for $250 million. seeking to bar him from doing business in the state. this will be his tenth appearance in court for this trial which began in october. lawmakers in washington are reacting to news that the son of the u.s. president has been hit with new federal charges. the chairman of the house oversight committee told cnn that hunter biden may have been indicted to protect him from having to face questioning by the committee next week. biden is accused of scheming to avoid paying more than $1 million in taxes. prosecutors say he instead will -- he instead spent lavishly on things like escorts and drugs. paula reid has more. >> reporter: president biden ignored questions friday about the latest criminal charges filed against his son. >> any comment on the new charges against your son? >> reporter: those new charges laid out in a 56-page indictment

unsealed thursday. prosecutors allege hunter biden engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. they allege the younger biden had money but spent it on drugs, escorts, and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, if short everything but his taxes. the case was supposed to be resolved with a plea deal that fell apart over the summer. >> i'm cooperating completely. and i am absolutely certain, 100% certain, that at the end of the investigation that i will be cleared. >> reporter: the case stems from hunter biden's lucrative overseas business dealings. he did eventually repay taxes he owed along with hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties and fees, but prosecutors say that when he did finally file his returns, he included false business

deductions in order to reduce his tax liability. his lawyers claim prosecutors have vowed to political -- bowed to political pressure to bring charges against the president's son. in a statement his attorney, abby lowell, said, "if hunter's last name was anything other than biden, the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. ft. in a fewly released podcast -- newly released podcast he said the pressure comes prosecute republicans' intent on undermining his father. >> they are trying to in their most illegitimate way but rational way, they're trying to destroy presidency. and so it's not about me. and their most base way, what they're trying to do is they're trying to kill me knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle. >> reporter: the indictment does

not include any evidence linking these alleged crimes to president biden. but gop lawmakers continue to push forward with their impeachment inquiry and pursuing an interview with the president's son. >> my concern is that weiss may have indicted hunter biden to protect him from having to be deposed in the house oversight committee on wednesday. >> reporter: now that claim doesn't really pass muster because hunter biden did not use the indictment he was already facing in delaware to avoid sitting down with lawmakers. he has committed to a public interview, something the lawmakers on that committee have so far rejected, insisting first on a behind-closed-doors deposition. so they appear to be at a stalemate. it's unclear when if ever he will appear for an interview on the hill. it's unclear when he will appear in federal court. initial appearance has not yet been scheduled. paula reid, cnn, washington. it's the economy, stupid, a phrase made famous by bill

clinton's campaign more than 30 years ago. the battle cry seems more relevant than ever as u.s. president joe biden heads into an election year with low approval ratings for his handling of the economy. biden took jabs at his predecessor, donald trump, while speaking at an infrastructure event in las vegas on friday. >> all this project stands in stark contrast to my predecessor. he always talked about infrastructure weak. [ laughter ] four years of infrastructure weak, but it failed, he failed on. my watch instead of infrastructure week, america's having infrastructure decade. decade. [ cheers ] over $1.3 million, trump talks the talk, we walk the walk. [ applse ] >> in a recent cnn poll, only 33% say they approve of biden's handling of the economy, down three points from the month

before. i'm max foster in london. for our viewers in north america, more news in a moment. for our international viewers, "african voice: playmakers" is next.

welcome back to our viewers in north america. i'm max foster in london, and this is "cnn newsroom." in a ruling issued late friday,

the texas supreme court has temporarily blocked a pregnant woman from obtaining an emergency abortion. kate cox, who is 20 weeks pregnant, says her fetus was diagnosed with a fatal genetic condition and complications with her pregnancy are putting her health at risk. a lower court ruling issued on thursday would have allowed cox to obtain the procedure, but texas' attorney general, ken paxton, asked the state's high court for an emergency stay. he has also threatened to prosecute anyone who helps facilitate the procedure. earlier kate cox's attorney spoke to cnn about what the next options are medically. take a listen. >> well, i think what attorney general paxton's activity over the last day shows is that the medical exceptions to texas' abortion bans never really existed in practice because what we have here is a set of doctors and a real patient, this is a real person going through a heartbreaking situation now with her family, where not only is she suffering the loss of a

pregnancy, but she is dealing with the real implications for her health and her future fertility, and her doctor says the care you need is an abortion. the attorney general is attempting to practice medicine i guess and second guess the judgment of those physician who's have, you know, put their lives on the line. what would you do if you were her doctor? and the second that this lawsuit was filed, that we got this order, the attorney general personally threatened you and every hospital you've ever worked at? it's unimaginable and shameful. >> joining me now, lindy lee, political strategist and woman's co-chair of the democratic national committee. she joins us from philadelphia, pennsylvania, very early. welcome to you. >> thanks for having me. >> i just want you to listen to what the district court judge said at thursday's hearing before the newest pause. >> the idea that miss cox wants desperately to be a parent, and

this law might actually cause her to lose that ability is shoc shocking, and would be a genuine miskacarriage of just. >> your reaction, lindi? >> oh, that is absolutely right. denying her an abortion ironically would destroy her dreams of completing her family. he wants nothing more than to -- another baby. she wants nothing more than to be pregnant again. denying her an abortion would so damage her physically that she might even lose her uterus and never be able to bear a child again. of course, advocates against reproductive rights tend to sacrifice common sense and compassion for religious extremism. they're operating in a logic-free zone. and texas' attorney general could ken paxton, and his fellow republicans only pretend to

uphold family values because this woman wants nothing more than to have her third child. and women shouldn't be forced to carry a dead or dying feet uend of story. >> let's hear from kate. she's spoken about how painful this entire process has been. >> hard time, you know, even with, you know, being hopeful with being the decision that came from the hearing this morning, there's still -- we're going through the loss of a child. there's no outcome here that i take home my healthy baby girl, you know. so it's hard, you know. >> and she's not alone, is she? so many people have had this experience. >> max, you're so right. and that a woman who is 20 weeks pregnant and deeply suffering from a slew of medical complications that landed her in three different emergency rooms in the past month, that somebody like her, who is in dire -- such

dire straits has to spend her days filing lawsuits simply to have health care is an utter travesty. this should not be happen going 2023 in the united states of america. unfortunately, this is where we are. and i want to ask for those who pride themselves to being plo life and pro family, why are you threatening to push a pregnant woman who wants nothing more than to have a family, than to be a mother again? why are you threatening her and her doctors with a $100,000 fine and a first-degree feloni? >> yeah, another case, a woman in kentucky filing an emergency class-action lawsuit, asking a judge to allow her to terminate her pregnancy, as well. do you see these cases as a test for other legal action in more states that have more restrictive abortion laws? >> thank you for bringing up the kentucky case because these are examples of people filing individual cases seeking a court-ordered abortion in

aftermath of the the attorney overturning the roe. i'm so heartened to see women not giving up. not just in the court of law, mind you, it's also at the ballot box. we saw this in wisconsin when the supreme court justice who supported abortion rights won by more than ten points, 11 points. we saw this with issue one in ohio. we saw this in kansas, ruby red kansas of all places. so republicans and forced birth extremists are going to be shellacked time and time again. and they keep doubling down. i say -- keep doing what you're doing because women are going to come out in droves and show you that our rights will not be denied. >> yeah, and there's -- a stark fact here, the report about -- that's out this week, found nearly one in five people who had an abortion in first half of 2023 traveled across state lines for their care. that is double what we had just in 2020. >> that is a startling fact.

i want to remind everybody of the 10-year-old girl who lived in ohio, she was a rape victim. and she had to indiana to see abortion care. that is just -- that is miscarriage of just is an understatement. the fact that they went after her doctor, dr. bernard, caitlyn bernard, simply for providing a 10-year-old girl abortion care. and i want to remind everybody, abortion care is health care. it is indistinguishable. women should not be traveling across state lines for health care. we shouldn't have to be groveling and begging for our own lives. >> okay. lindy lee, really appreciate your thoughts and for getting up with us. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. now in michigan, a 17-year-old convicted of shooting and killing four of his classmates has learned his sentence. ethan crumbly will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. the sentence was handed don't after survivors and the victims'

families had their emotional day in court. cnn's jean casarez was in pontiac, michigan, with the details. >> reporter: families final getting their chance to be heard. >> our family has been navigating our way through complete hell. >> almost feels like time slows down and everything around you speeds up. it's been two years already, but it feels much like yesterday. >> reporter: madison baldwin's mother describing the moment she learned her 17-year-old daughter was dead. >> on november 30th, 2021, is a day that has forever changed my life. it burns into by body like a cigarette burn. i looked through the glass, my scream should have shattered it. my daughter's lifeless body was laying on a cold metal gurney. >> reporter: after speaking in court, nicole bosoleis told cnn she felt her daughter was with her today. >> i felt like she was saying, "i'm proud of you, i'm proud of you for taking the higher

route," you know, not going down that path of anger. >> reporter: madeleine johnson didn't know walking to class that day would be the last time she would see her friend. >> i didn't think that good-bye was going to be permanent. i thought it was good-bye for an hour, i'll see you next class. >> reporter: at first, kiley osage thought a balloon popped, then realized she was shot. >> i fell right to the ground. i remember hearing screams. i saw running, but i couldn't run. i was already down. >> reporter: right next to her, hannah st. julianna. >> realizing that i wasn't alone, i kept trying to reassure her someone will come help us, don't worry, just keep breathing, just please stay with me. i said that to her 1,000 times. >> reporter: hannah died from her injuries. her father spoke directly to the shooter of the future he stole. >> i will never think back fondly of her high school and college graduations.

i will never walk her down the aisle as she begins the journey of starting her own family . i am forever denied the chance to hold her or her future children in my arms. >> reporter: in addition to the four students killed, seven other people were shot that day but survived. including riley france, who was hit in the neck, and molly darnel, a teacher at the school. >> i can no longer sleep without having flashbacks of a bullet entering one side of my neck and exiting the other. >> because i came within your line of sight, you intended to kill me. someone you didn't even know. >> reporter: the shooter was sentenced to life in prison without parole. >> there is utterly nothing that he could ever do to contribute to society that would make up for the lives that he has so ruthlessly taken. >> i want the person who did this to know that madison would have been your friend.

i want you to know that she would have treated you with nothing but kindness had you not killed her. i'm not sure how much emotion you're capable of feeling, but i hope you regret it, and i hope that it eats aaway at you and that you feel even a fraction of the loneliness i've felt the last two years. >> what you stole from us is not replaceable. but what we won't let you steal from us is a life of normalcy. and we'll find a way to get there through forgiveness and through putting good into this world. >> reporter: this case may be over, but the criminal charges against the shooter's parents, james and jennifer crumbly, are set to go to trial this next year. this is a precedent-setting case because never before in this country have the parents of a school mass shooter been charged with the crime itself. they are both charged with involuntary manslaughter, saying they had noticed that their son had mental issues, he was asking for help. nonetheless, they got him a gun,

and days later he committed that mass shooting. the trials have been severed, so they will get individual trials now. it is believed the first parent will go to trial january 23rd, 2024. in pontiac, michigan, jean casarez, cnn. still to come, u.s. lawmakers call for three college presidents to be ousted after they refused to say that calls for genocide cannot be tolerated on their campuses. details next.

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>> reporter: shots fired outside temple israel, a synagogue in albany, new york. >> we were told by responding officers that he made a comment, free palestine. >> reporter: no one injured, but nerves frayed as anti-semitic incidents are on the rise. mafid alkadr, 28, being investigated for a possible hate crime. >> i've directed our state police as well as the national guard to be on high alert. >> reporter: the big apple seeing a spike in incidents motivated by hate. >> the numbers don't lie. we have a 250% rise in ethically motivated hate crimes in newew york city over the past two months. [ chants ] >> reporter: anger and fear on college campuses, some of the nation's finest schools, mit, harvard, and the university of pennsylvania. their presidents facing withering criticism after failing to take a definitive

hard line against calls for genocide during pro-palestinian protests on their campuses. >> ms. magill, at penn does calling for the genocide of jews violate penn's rules or code of conduct? yes or no? >> if the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment, yes. >> reporter: a protest outside the office of university of pennsylvania president liz magill making clear there is no room for nuance on calls for genocide. penn's president facing calls to resign. harvard's president, claudine gay, issued a full-throated apology for her testimony. >> we embrace a commitment to free expression and give a wide berth to free expression even of views that are objectionable. >> reporter: that apology in the harvard crimson, the student newspaper, gay explained in part calls for violence against our

jewish community, threats to our jewish students, have no place at harvard and will never go unchallenged. anger and fear running in all directions after three palestinian students were shot in burlington, vermont, last month. jason eaton, the alleged shooter, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder. the case is still being investigated as a possible hate crime. the question for the president of the university of pennsylvania still very much an open question. the board of trustees met on thursday, they came to no conclusion. but it is expected in the days ahead they will say whether she will stay or whether she will go. the pressure is mounting. back to you. >> miguel marquez there. still to come, severe weather expected to make its way east in the u.s. in the coming days. the three forecast for you just ahead.

a strong storm system could grip most of the eastern u.s. this weekend. cnn's chad myers has our look ahead. an unusual time of year, but kind of the way spring tries to bring warm air to the north, pushing away the cold air, while

the wintertime tries to push the cold air down and the warm air away. it's the same clash between the air masses. and so we will see the potential for severe weather today, especially tonight. and likely really after dark tonight. there is the area here that we most likely will see a tornado risk, small, but still the threat of gusty winds over 70 miles per hour, and even the potential for some hail there. the rain does move up the east coast for tomorrow. could be a blustery day for a lot of nfl games tomorrow afternoon for sure. and then snow back out into the colder air behind it. that's where the cold air will be. it does look like all the big cities will just be wet, not white. but you get into the poconos, the adirondacks and catskills, certainly there will be snow. and by sunday, there will also be some wind along the east coast as that low tries to run up the east coast and make kind of a small nor east coastal low. here's the above normal temperatures for yesterday

moving away, colder air moving in. by the end of next week, again above average temperatures in the plains starting on monday. >> chad myers for you there. an ancient prison bakery has been uncovered in the ruins of pompeii in italy. the newark logical discovery shows enslaved people and donkeys were in prison together. the pompeii archaeological park says they used to manually run a mill grinding grain to produce bread. indentations in the slab flooring forced the donkeys to walk in a circular motion, grinding the grain almost like a clockwork mechanism. they say lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice. but sometimes in life things are even more remarkable, and they can happen. this is wayne murray who's just won the $10 million prize in the new york lottery's 200 times squatchoff game. pretty incredible, but especially so because this is the second time in less than two years that murray has won that

amount on a scratch card. both tickets were bought at the same convenience store in brooklyn. to bput it into perspective the chances of winning $10 million on the game are one in 1 37b9 5 million. in both -- 1.5 million. in both cases he took the lump sum payment of more than $6 million. wonder if he can make it three for three. good luck to him, say. dozens of kids in missouri being granted an early wish from a very special santa. the children not only got to see the jolly old elf, but they got to speak with him in american sign language, a sporting good the chain has been recruiting a signing santa every holiday season for eight years in collaboration with the deaf awareness group. adults say it's magical to see kids included in the fun when so many of them often aren't. seventh grader robin exclaimed, "i like signing what i can. i am chatting with santa." brilliant. the retired american tennis great chris evert has been

diagnosed again with cancer. the disease will force her to miss her job as an analyst at espn for the australian open. evert was world number one for seven years in the '70s and '80s and won 18 grand slam singles titles. she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in january of 2022, completing her treatment several months later. she admits the diagnosis is not what she wants to hear, but is glad cancer -- the cancer she's got now was identified early. she hopes to return to her broadcasting career and duties later next year. oscar-nominated actor ryan o'neal has died. he was 82. o'neal's son patrick posted an announcement on line saying his father died peacefully with loved ones by his side. o'neal's big film break came in 1970 playing opposite ali mcgraw. >> what makes you so sure i went to prep school? >> you look stupid and rich.

>> actually, i'm smart and poor. >> the "love story" turned both into major hollywood stars and o'neal an oscar unanymously nation, too. the -- oscar noimination, too. the line everyone remembers, "love means never having to say you're sorry." o ryan o'neal dead at 82. "cnn mornings" next or "african voices change makers."

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