hospital or things took a turn for the worse. kate is keen to protect her kids from this but it is all over the front of the papers, in "the telegraph" or "the mirror." this is a reference to how william is also giving up his public diary to support the family. let's pray that you're both okay, so that's the headline in one paper. people have been alarmed about the amount of recovery time kate needs from this, more than three months in total it could be and here in "the sun" royals rocked by kate op. in reference to my point three out of the four of the top royals are out of action in public. it's down to queen camilla to be the face of the entire monarchy. the idea is they continue their

symbol of continuity and stability but that's been rocked this week. >> our good wishes to them all for their health. we appreciate the update. "cnn this morning" continues right now. things are really heating up in new hampshire. >> nikki haley is counting on democrats to infiltrate your republican primary. >> i know trump threw a temper tantrum about me last night. >> she has a welcome audience in undeclared voters this is a two-person race. >> trump unleashed making a mockery out of a manhattan courtroom. >> the judge telling him, i hope i don't have to consider excluding you from the trial. trump replied, i would love it. >> it's not about winning the case this is about voters and nothing else. for the fourth time in less than a week, the u.s. has carried out strikes against the houthi militants in yemen.

>> the houthis have given no indication they will back down. >> the actions are illegal and reckless and they need to stop. >> reporter: president biden hoping to break a stalemate for immigration and aid to ukraine. >> if the bill looks like some of the things that have been rumored, of course it's dead in the house. >> any party that says do it my way or no way, we're not going to get anything done. good thursday morning. i'm phil mattingly with poppy harlow. donald trump is firing right on nikki haley as he seeks to deliver a knockout blow, the primary five days from now. trump is co-opting haley's message he's the only one who can beat president biden in november. >> if she wins, biden wins. a vote for nikki haley is a vote for joe biden and a democrat congress this november. that's what will happen. >> and the clock is clearly

ticking down for haley to stop the march to the gop nomination. they are urging her to escalate her attacks, be more aggressive. haley took a swipe at trump's age. >> the majority of americans have said they don't want their options to be two 80-year-olds for president. we've got to move past that. >> new hampshire looks like it is quickly shaping up to be a two-candidate battle. ron desantis pulling staff and resources out of the granite state and instead sending them to south carolina for next month's primary in an apparent last-ditch move to try to save his campaign, his super pac is laying off staff, scaling back plans to compete in nevada and super tuesday states. last night trump predicted desantis won't be in this much longer. >> what the hell happened to ron? does anybody know what happened? i think i happened to ron. i think he's going to be gone. i think all of those -- that applause was funny. i think you can probably save him a week or so.

i think he will be gone. >> desantis is not in new hampshire today. he's home in florida for the day. so is trump. he's there for his mother-in-law's funeral. nikki haley will be the only one campaigning in the granite state today where we find our omar jimenez. good morning. what does this mean for the desantis camp? >> reporter: for starters, we're not expecting to see much of desantis over the next week, and his campaign claims they are in it for the long haul, focusing on later states that come after new hampshire. nikki haley has an opportunity they're hoping to capitalize on. she's the only one with campaign events in the state today. shee she has a meet and greet in a few hours. donald trump juggling the courtroom and the campaign. >> i'm thrilled to be back in

the great state of new hampshire. >> reporter: the former president rallied voters in new hampshire after he willingly spent most of the day in a new york courtroom hearing e. jean carroll testify against him in her civil defamation trial. >> that's a nasty man. he's a nasty judge. he's a trump-hating guy. >> reporter: trump clashed with judge kaplan who threatened to throw him out of the trial for speaking with within earshot of the jury. "i understand you are probably very eager for me to do that," the judge told trump. trump responded, "i would love it." >> i had no idea who she was, nor could i care less. it's a rigged deal. it's a made-up, fabricated story. >> reporter: carroll is seeking more than $10 million in judges after trump was found liable for his defamatory statements about sexual assault allegations. >> chaos follows him, and we can't have a country in disarray

and a world on fire and go through four more years of chaos. we won't survive it. >> reporter: back in new hampshire, nikki haley is focusing her campaign squarely on donald trump, hitting back after a number of policy and personal attacks by trump, including using her birth name nimarata in a post widely seen as a racist dog whistle. >> i know trump threw a temper tantrum last night. >> reporter: trump hit haley for the support she's drawn in the state. >> nikki haley is counting on democrats. the radical left democrats are supporting nikki haley because they know she's much easier to beat than trump. >> reporter: meanwhile, with no clear path in new hampshire and two debates canceled, governor ron desantis appears to be shifting his focus to south carolina. his super pac beginning layoffs and setting the stage for a likely final stand in haley's home state. >> i want to pick up, everyone

will help me get delegates. that's what we want to do. >> reporter: we were at a town hall yesterday and he was still asking for votes despite essentially leaving the rest of the week. when he was asked about that, he said he would probably be back sunday, to use his words. bottom line, this is an opportunity nikki haley is hoping to capitalize on and she got her two-person wish. the question is, can she, again, capitalize and pose what could be the most serious threat to the president we have seen. >> a two-person rate. with the state left to herself, we'll see what happens. omar, thanks. the justice department set to release findings of the independent review of the police response to the massacre at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, where 19 children and two teachers were murdered in the 2022 shootings that has left the community with so many questions. as to why it took 77 minutes for authorities to act and stop the

gunman. >> victims' families met with the u.s. attorney, merrick garland. one father saying all they want is accountability. >> accountability is what we all want. we want people to be held accountable for what they didn't do that day. that's all that's left to do. >> our cnn reporter has covered this from day one, you have spoken to the families from day one. what are they telling you after this meeting with the ag? >> reporter: so they were really happy to have someone finally sit with and to talk about what happened that day. they spent two hours with the attorney general and then one of his deputies, vanita gupta. they said it was a tough meeting. it was emotional at times. they want accountability, the

families. they feel perhaps they're on their way here. and one of the key things i'm told from family members, they were told last night, the department of justice stressed the fact one of the problems on the day of the shooting was there was no command structure, no one was essentially in charge giving orders. one of the parents of one of the kids who survived spoke after the meeting. here is what he said. >> i'm hopeful that you see all the people here that this will expand by 1,000%, not only the people in the united states but around the world will see the abysmal failure law enforcement had. >> reporter: the other thing here, phil and poppy, is that it is taking so long for these families to get these answers,

and the fact they've been victimized in so many different ways by state officials, by local officials. that is something the department of justice stressed to them that they're trying to put an end to, they're trying to deal with, and hopefully by meeting with them and today releasing this report later this afternoon will finally, hopefully, give them closure. we will be hearing from the department of justice later this afternoon as well. they will be having a press conference in uvalde. and then after that we are going to hear from family members as well once they get the report and start reading through it. it will be a tough day in uvalde throughout, really, today and then the rest of the week as many of them will be reliving all of this. >> i'm so glad you'll be there with them on a day like today. your reporting is the reason they got some deserved answers. thank you, shimon. another round of u.s. air strikes in yemen, the fourth in

less than a week, forces trying to stop iran-backed houthi militants from attacking shims in the red sea. >> the houthis struck a u.s.-owned and operated vessel in the gulf of aden. let's bring in our natasha ber bertrand. is this the fourth round of strikes? >> reporter: the fourth round in a week and the third round the u.s. has carried out unilaterally without conjunction with allies. that's significant here because the u.s. appears to be taking matters into its own hands when it comes to defending shipping in the red sea. now last night's strikes were aimed at 14 houthi missile launchers and taken out by tomahawk missiles launched by u.s. navy ships as well as by a guided missile submarine and the reason the u.s. conducted these att attacks, the second round this week, is, according to central command, the missiles presented an imminent threat to merchant

vessels and u.s. navy ships in the region and could have been fired at any time prompting u.s. forces to exercise their inherent right to defend themselves. this is similar to an attack carried out earlier this week on houthi anti-ship missiles. they launched essentially preemptively as they saw the houthis preparing to launch missiles. the u.s. is taking the initiative, seeing the houthis preparing, putting the missile launchers on targets and taking them out before they can actually launch the attacks. >> natasha, i think the question i have particularly, the efforts have moved to this scale is what is the longer term game here? is it to take them out one at a time, or is there some broader, bigger picture they're looking at? >> well, that's the big question. the rounds of strikes have not been working. the houthis did launch additional attacks over the last several days targeting u.s.

merchant vessels in the red sea. posing a threat to u.s. navy ships there as well. and soap the question now is, is this going to continue this kind of escalating tit for tat and how does that factor into u.s. concerns about this escalating even further into the region? now pentagon press secretary pat ryder was asked just yesterday about concerns that this conflict could widen beyond gaza and israel given the attacks we continue to see from the houthis on commercial shipping in the red sea. here is what he said. >> clearly there are tensions in the middle east. there have been tensions there since the israel/hamas conflict has kicked off. but to answer your question, no, we currently assess the fight between israel and hamas continues to remain contained in gaza. >> reporter: now the pentagon has said, for its part, they will continue to do what they can to defend their own assets and red sea shipping, but the

question remains if they aren't taking out enough of the houthis' capabilities to keep up with the attacks they have been launching, then how do you eventually deter them? that is the big question the u.s. military is grappling with at this point. >> for sure. or does it inflame the situation? natasha, thank you very much. donald trump lashing out in court loudly calling a did he have nation lawsuit against him a, quote, witch-hunt. the four key words he also said that reveal the campaign game he's clearly playing now. pakistan striking iran in response to iran's deadly attacks there yesterday. why this could inflame an already very tense middle east.

i would love it, four words. the embodiment of saying the quiet part out loud. four words that laid bare the reality of donald trump's political strategy. the four words came during a contentious and remarkable exchange with new york federal judge lewis kaplan after kaplan threatened to kick trump out of the court for, quote, disruptive

comments. i would love it, trump said, throwing his hands up in the air. i would love it, he repeated. in a normal proceeding, it would mark a surreal moment for trump on trial for civil defamation after a jury has found he was civilly liable for sexual assault, was clearly for effect. trump wasn't even required to be in attendance. in fact, he didn't attend the last trial at all. for a presidential candidate who has transformed his avalanche of legal issues into a clear cut and, for now, successful primary campaign strategy, the decision to detour from new york city -- to new york city from new hampshire on consecutive days as intentional as it gets. he said as much after his dominant win in iowa. >> if i didn't get indicted all these times and they didn't unfairly go after, i would have won. it would have been much closer. >> it is not subtle nor is it normal. it is the plan, one that has corresponded with major boosts

in fund-raising, major bumps in support. just a few days before a potentially decisive new hampshire primary, a growing sense of inevitability as the republican presidential nominee, which takes us back to those four words in the new york courtroom. the judge's threat to eject trump was an action the former president appeared to be actively courting. kaplan saw his audible exclamations for what they were noting with clear awareness. quote, i hope i don't have to consider excluding you from the trial. i understand you are eager for me to do that. trump captured this moment with absolute precision. four words, i would love it. >> thank you, phil. very satisfying. legal analyst and former u.s. assistant attorney, elie honig and former southern district of new york division chief, both appeared before

judge kaplan. good morning. thank you, guys, very much for being here . to the brilliant question phil asked you last hour, if trump were anyone else, would he have gotten thrown out of that courtroom yesterday? >> yes, eventually. i do think judge kaplan would have given the warning that he gave, but he probably gave a little longer leash because of all the reasons that we know, the pushback if he is thrown out will be even greater and because judge kaplan is smart enough to know, as you just relayeded, that this is exactly what trump wants. he wants to be thrown out so he can be perceived as the victim, and judge kaplan is smart enough not only to know it but to say it out loud himself. he's the first judge, i think, to really sort of call trump on his bluff in that way. >> and just so people understand, judge kaplan -- i don't know a better word for

it -- he's scary. there are 40-some judges in the courthouse. >> terrifying. >> when you went into judge kaplan's courtroom, okay, i'd better be on my game. he is smart. he takes no guff. it's interesting to see the dynamic in there. >> can we remind people what this is actually about. we have spent, and to some degree we play into it, talking about trump's antics and whether or not he should have been kicked out, not that he was found liable for sexual assault, liable for defamation. what's this trial about? >> that's such a great point. the dramatics are all over this, so the core of what this is about is e. jean carroll sued donald trump, it's a civil case, not a criminal case, for, in the first trial that happened last year, for sexually assault, and the jury found in e. jean carroll's favor on all but one of the claims she made. this is the same thing but it has to do with earlier statements he made while he was president. the core of this is what happened in that department store as alleged by e. jean

carroll which a jury found was sexual assault and donald trump's later comments a jury found was defamatory. what we're doing here is the jury is deciding how much money, the damages donald trump owes e. jean carroll. >> can i add, because it is so important to talk about what's happening in the courtroom and not his antics, e. jean carroll is having to face the person for the first time face-to-face who a jury has found raped her. that is really hard to do under any circumstances. both of us have been with victims who have had to do that when there's no one watching. having to do that when it's the former president, running for president, powerful person who is trying to intimidate you, which he clearly is -- he's trying to intimidate the judge. i think he's trying to intimidate the jury. he is also trying to intimidate her. and injust think we have to tab

take a moment and say she is brave doing this. it takes so much courage doing this. and it's probably a lot harder than she's letting on and that people can see. she's a survivor, and she's facing the person who assaulted her. >> to your very important point, let's read a little bit of what she said when she was asked about the social media attacks that she endured after all of this. it makes it hard for a girl to get up in the morning. i know i'm old. i know i'm 80. i know i'm not a pretty, young woman, but it makes it tough to go on with the day. that gets lost a lot of times, doesn't it? >> even when we're talking about what the trial was about, we're talking about damages, we're talking about money. her attorney said, how much will it take to get him to stop? but this isn't about money. she really wants him to stop. the sexual assault the jury found happened on one particular day, but the bullying and the

harassment and the damage has been continuing since then, and it continued in the courtroom in front of all of us. i think that makes him look small. it's different than him bullying the judge, doing what he did in the ag case. i think when you do this to someone who is a survivor, who is an older woman, it, i think, makes him look small. >> i think we'll see that reflected in the jury's award here. they're allowed to assess how much emotional damage and suffering has this victim been through, and we'll see that when we get a verdict. >> important point, we will hear in a couple of days. thank you. the youngest hostage taken on october 7th turns 1 year old today. what his family is doing to celebrate him as they work to have him released. and the ceo of boeing promising the company will, quote, get better after the midflight blow-out of a door plug on an alaskan airline 737

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welcome back. boeing ceo dave calhoun is vowing the company will learn from the alaska airlines incident that forced the emergency landing right after takeoff when part of the main body flew off mid flight. calhoun promised boeing and its partners, quote, will get better during this town hall meeting that he had last night with contractors who built the 737 max 9's fuselage, and this comes as the national transportation safety board is still trying to determine whether bolts were even installed on the door plug that blew out. the chair of the ntsb, jennifer homendy, joins us now. am i right in that? are you still trying to determine that, or do you have an update for us this morning? >> that's right. our on scene work in portland has been completed. we've moved the door plug and the components back to d.c. but we still have a lot to work out. >> you will brief lawmakers right after this. it's closed door, a closed door briefing with senators.

i wonder what you're going to tell them? >> so meeting with the house and we have had a similar meeting with the senate. their focus, rightfully, is ensuring the safety of the flying public and also asking the ntsb what the breadth of our investigation is and ensuring we have what we need to conduct our investigation, and so we'll talk about everything from how the door plug was manufactured and its structure based on the diagram we sent out publicly all the way through production and quality assurance. >> can we talk about production and quality assurance? here is what we know, right, we know this part of the fuselage was made by a company named spirit aerosystems in malaysia. they had spung off from boeing about 20 years ago and goes to a

supplier factory in kansas and then to boeing in the state of washington. i just wonder if outsourcing, having things from here and here and here and coming together, do you have any concerns about how these planes are coming together now? is that a question? john tester, the senator from montana, said they need to figure out what caused the problem because it may be systemic. >> well, that will be participate of our investigation. when the ntsb conducts an investigation, we go very broad, and we're very meticulous. we don't start to narrow until we begin our process of the investigation, and so we will look at everything from manufacturer through delivery and past delivery what alaska even did with the plane after they received it because there could be work that was completed then, too, and we'll want those records. >> the faa has grounded these boeing max 9s until they deep it

safe to fly. i'm interested, jennifer, what do you think? what will tell you they're safe to fly? >> for the ntsb, our entire mission is to determine what happened, why it happened and to prevent it from happening again. we believe we need to know that to ensure safety. now the faa, they're the regulators, they focus on regulating safety in our skies. i will say we have an incredible safety partnership. the administrator has taken bold, decisive action. we've been in constant communication. i've been in communication with the secretary and rightfully, their main focus as is ours, is on safety and not rushing through this. >> okay. that makes total sense. i just wonder are you 100% certain the ntsb can determine exactly what happened here? do you see what i'm saying? if you can't pinpoint it, can

the planes ever fly again? >> absolutely. we have incredibly high-skilled workers from our labs to our investigators and we are very comprehensive, very meticulous in our work. we cannot rush through this, which is what we've been emphasizing. you want to make sure we are getting the right answers to get to the right solutions. that's why it takes time. >> we have just a couple days, in the middle of all of this for lawmakers to avert at least a partial government shutdown. you're a government agency. what would a shutdown do to this investigation? >> it would stop the investigation. now that the planes have been grounded and we have the evidence we need according to the law there would be no eminent threat to life or property, so the law would prohibit us from continuing the investigation. we would have to pause and even

a long-term full-year cr, continuing resolution, would put us in a very difficult position as an agency. >> jennifer homendy, thank you. we look forward to hearing more after you speak with lawmakers today. after a critical meeting with president joe biden, mike johnson pouring cold walter on potential aid and a border deal. live at the border to discuss that impact next..

texas will not surrender, that is a quote from the texas attorney general, ken paxton, echoing william travis at the

alamo saying the state will continue to block the u.s. border patrol's access to public park near the southern border that texas took chrome of a week ago and now state authorities have begun arresting migrants. >> that comes as house speaker mike johnson told cnn any deal will be dead on arrival in the house after he met with president biden and other top lawmakers yesterday. lawmakers insist ukraine must be tied together. talking about the impact of inaction on alcoholism. let's begin with rosa flores live in eagle pass, texas. the immediate impact of what's happening in washington, as you see it on the ground, how would you describe it? >> reporter: here in eagle pass it means more razor wire like the one up see behind me in a public park where people go and enjoy the river. they can't do that anymore. it is also cities like new york

and chicago and denver that are seeing a huge influx of migrants, and so, phil, it's municipalities having to do the pasch work for the federal government because the immigration system is broken. >> can you talk, rosa, about the arrest we mentioned you learned more about overnight? this is a battle between the federal government, which has jurisdiction over immigration, get in there, or is it just state patrol handling it now in that part? >> reporter: poppy, that's what's fascinating this is texas just upping the ante. they took over shelby park and now they are arresting migrants for criminal trespass. border patrol does not have access to that area which means the state of texas is determining the outcome of what migrants have to face first. in this case, according to texas

dps, single men and single women are being arrested for criminal trespass. they have to deal with the state charge first, families and children are turned over to u.s. border patrol. this is the state of texas determining the outcome because border patrol is not in that area. and that just speaks to this sparring relationship between the state of texas and the biden administration, and we're trying to figure out what's next because the deadline given by dhs to texas, to give access to border patrol, was yesterday. that expired. we're waiting to see what the next move is by dhs. poppy, phil? >> fred, over to you, our senior national correspondent. yesterday a u.s. senator cited your piece on bradley fighting vehicles to underscore the difficulties ukrainians are having, how they're trying to respond to not having any idea

whether more aid is coming. on our show, was talking about your piece. what are you seeing on the ground? how are ukrainians responding here? >> reporter: it's a huge concern for the ukrainians, this u.s. aid. it's not clear whether or not there will be more of that military aid. you can see that transcend the entire battlefield in ukraine. you would be surprised if you go to the frontline areas how much american gear you see there, not only the bradley infantry vehicles, cars, trucks, hummers, mraps, everything that needs to stay in the fight. one of the areas i've seen a big impact of all this already is we were at one of the most active front lines here in ukraine, where the russians are constantly trying to assault. we were with an artillery unit with a u.s.-provided howitzer. they said because of ammo shortages they are only able to shoot half as much as they used to be able to shoot. before it was 50 to 60 rounds they were able to fire per day.

now they say it's about 20, in best case 30. already a big impact happening there. if you listen to the president of this country, volodymyr zelenskyy, he said, of course, if the u.s. doesn't provide further aid, it will weaken ukraine. there could be some gains for the russians, though the russians are losing a lot of people on the front lines now, but it certainly will mean more ukrainians will get hurt and more ukrainians are going to die on the battlefield but possibly, also, in places like where i am now in the cities of ukraine because, of course, one of the things we have seen over the past year is attacks on civilian infrastructure in ukrainian cities. one of the things that's preventing that is air defense provided by the allies, but, first and foremost, by the united states. if missiles, for instance, are not going to keep coming to the ukrainians, could have a massive impact here in this country. there's a huge concern among civilians here in ukraine and among the military as well, the

folks we've been speaking to say that the u.s. aid they're getting absolutely key to keeping them in the fight and for holding the russians off, guys. >> and getting more of that aid contingent on a border deal where rosa is at the center of all of it. rosa, fred, thank you very much for looking at the real impact of this funding fight in washington. next week's republican primary in new hampshire not the only one to watch. andrew yang here to discuss why he is backing the campaign to unseat biden as the democratic nominee.

this morning democrat dean phillips set to hold events in new hampshire for a long shot campaign to challenge president biden, not just republicans, democrats as well. democrats in the state hold their primary next tuesday, but president biden doesn't appear to be worried. he has no plans to travel to the state and is actually going to north carolina today to talk about his economic plans. more importantly, biden is still polling far ahead of other challengers despite not even being on the ballot in new hampshire. they say they will write his name in. biden didn't file in the state because the democratic national committee at biden's behest changed the rules to put south carolina and its primary first. joining us now is 2020 presidential canndidatecandidat. i appreciate your time, andrew. great to see you. you said earlier this week in an

interview it's a matter of whether dean phillips can get big enough fast enough to have an impact on the race. what creates the big enough and fast enough, and is it possible before the primary? >> there's really one factor, phil, and if people hear about dean phillips on the ground here in new hampshire, we have a poll that was released yesterday that said that dean is at 28% in new hampshire with about 56 name i.d. when people find out there's a 54-year-old three-term member of congress running against joe, they get excited. so the question is whether new hampshire voters will tune in. i think they will, and i think dean will surprisingly big number. >> what is the threshold he needs to hit to have a chance to move this forward? >> i was talking to our cnn colleague s.e. kupp and she said

if he gets above 30% that is undeniable. i think he's going to either come close to that number or maybe even push past it, but even my driver on the way to the office today said there's another democrat running who is not joe biden? what he said is what we're thinking, joe biden is a good man, has been a fine president, but he should step aside for the next generation. polls show the president losing to donald trump by eight points in georgia, eight points in michigan, nine points in north carolina. i think that's why he's heading to north carolina, phil, because his numbers are crumbling across the board in the swing states. >> to that point, if you look at the particularly democratic electorate but the electorate that gave joe biden the victory in georgia in 2020, it makes him competitive, makes democrats competitive in north carolina, the cornerstone of that electorate is it's a black electorate.

that's what wins in georgia. that's what gives democrats a chance in north carolina. why is dean phillips, a white guy from minnesota who doesn't talk a ton about these issues, why is he somebody who can do better than biden in those states? >> if you look nationally at biden's approval rating, it's been declining in all groups as one example, he's losing to trump among latinos, which is a traditionally democratic constituency. the same polls show a generic democrat winning over trump by six, seven, eight points. it's common sense, that if you want a fresh 54-year-old non-polarizing figure, all of a sudden most americans would say, hey, i prefer that over trump, you know what i mean? if that's the matchup. unfortunately, joe biden right now has a lot of baggage associated with him from his age, from inflation, and from

the fact that many people look back fondly on the trump economy rightly or wrongly. >> i wanted to ask you on saturday a hedge fund investor bill ackman endorsed phillips. thaes ackman very critical of dei, on tuesday said he expected phillips to remove the reference to dei from his campaign site. the reference was removed replaced by another framing. phillips was asked about this by brianna keilar yesterday, this is what he said. >> i believe in diversity. i believe in equity, i believe in inclusion. what has inclusion done for the black community in this country. what have both parties done to close the racial wealth gap? i want to take it a step further. i made that change to restorative justice. if a donor came to me and told me to do something, i would tell the donor to go pound sand. >> the idea that he made the change and it happened to correspond with bill ackman

saying wh saying, you understand why people might be a little skeptical of that. >> you know, if you spend time with dean, you understand he cares very deeply about these issues. it's why he's proposed and signed the medicare for all bill, which by the way would help families of color disproportionately. he's for a baby bond of a thousand dollars for every american child which would help communities of color disprop disproportionately. dean is about soflg these problems for real. the enhanced child tax credit lifted millions of kids out of poverty. that's why dean is running, and i'm pumped to make that case to the folks not just here in new hampshire, but in south carolina and fmichigan in the days ahead >> it will be fascinating to watch this play out. 30% according to se cup. andrew yang, appreciate your time, sir, thank you. >> come to new hampshire, everybody.

democracy in action. this might be our last shot at upgrading from the rematch that none of us wants. >> daunting. >> no lack of enthusiasm there from andrew yang. a great conversation, phil, thanks for that. so buffalo, new york, no stranger to snow, but the latest forecast projects winter weather that has even the biggest bills' fans on alert. >> must be wolf blitzer. and donald trump's presidential immunity appeal slows down sentencing for january 6th convicts. how trump's challenge could impact some of those convictions as well. stay with us.

so at least 40 people have been killed in nine states. this is following back-to-back winter storms. the threat far from over. what's called lake effect snow, which is very dangerous, those warnings are now in place for over a million people in western new york. 30 million people across the united states facing these winter storm alerts as well. alisa rafa is joining us in buffalo. people know how to handle snow there. when it's potentially an issue for them, it's really saying something. >> reporter: oh, absolutely. they were getting 2 to 3 inches in 30 minutes at some point yesterday, snowfall rates could continue to be 2 to 4 inches per hour, and the weather service says that's calmed down from what it was yesterday and the overnight, as that snow band just continues to kind of wallop

buffalo and the north and south cities, just keep oscillating up and down. i mean, we drove in last night, and it looked like a winter wonderland. still no trucks allowed on i-90 because they're concerned about some of the road conditions. the sabers are playing tonight because they couldn't get through the snow yesterday, and schools have been closed again. the bills have a game on sunday, and we're hoping and thinking those fans could get out there and do another round of shoveling. but some of these snow totals have been insane. we're talking 3 to 4 feet. i have my little trusty ruler here that's taken me through multiple snowstorms across the country. we're in a drift right now, but i lose my ruler just about in a drift or about a foot of drift right now, and for some other places near watertown, my ruler would do no justice. you need a yardstick for some of those totals that have been 20, 30 inches from some places like wacha wa na, west seneca, and up towards watertown, just incredible what some of these

totals have been. i want to show you the radar. you can see both bands that are continuing to pump over lakes erie and ontario. we have this cold, arctic air that's coming across, the ice free and relatively warmer lakes. that's what pumps the moisture into the cold sierra and gets all of that snow on shore of the lake. when you look at that snow depth, you can see where those two bull's-eyes are, just the totals that are racking up. incredible to see this much snow, this is their second round of it. if we look at the ice on the great lake, it is well below average for this time of year. typically we would see about 20% of ice coverage. we're only at about 8 and that's what fuels the snow as it continues through the day today, guys. >> alyssa rafa, thank you very much. welcome to cnn, we're so happy to have you here on "cnn this morning," thank you. >> thank you. and we continue right now. >> nikki haley is coun