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>> around the world, good day to you. we begin with what the u.s. president calls as a witch-hunt, but some serious accusations are being raised, giving us more insight into the russia investigation and the focus does seem to be sharpening. >> it does. here's what we have learned so far. court filings relating to the sentencing of michael cohen show mr. trump directed his one-time attorney and fixer to payoff two women to keep quiet about alleged affairs. the filings also shoko enhad more contact with russia than he acknowledged in earlier statements. all that happened during the 2016 election. >> what is still unclear, though, is how this will affect the special counsel's investigation into russian election interference. in any case, lawmakers are speaking about their next steps, if there's any proof that mr. trump did something illegal. listen. >> if it's proven, are those impeachable offenses?

>> well, they would be impeachable offenses. whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question, but certainly they would be impeachable offenses because even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office. that would be the, the -- that would be an impeachable offense. >> if someone has violated the law, the application of the law should be applied to them like it would to any other citizen in this country. and obviously if you're in a position of great authority like the presidency, that would be the case. i don't know if it's going to reach that point or not. we have to wait and see. but my decision on that or my position on that would not be a political decision. it would be the fact we are a nation of laws and no one in this country no matter who you are is above it. >> the justice department basically say that the president of the united states not only coordinated, but directed an illegal campaign scheme that may have had an election altering impact is pretty breath taking. but that was just one of the things we learned from michael cohen this past week.

>> meanwhile, donald trump is busy narrowing down his list of candidates for a new white house chief of staff. and trying to steer attention away from the cohen revelations. >> cnn's sarah westwood is following developments from the white house. >> reporter: president trump spent this weekend rayamiiling against the paris climate accord, going against his fbi director, and basically talking about anything other than prosecutors linking him directly in court filings submitted friday to illegal payments his former attorney michael cohen made during the presidential race. now, trump had attempted to tout these latest documents as vindication because they didn't contain evidence of russian collusion, but they did tie the president directly to illegal payments that he had initially denied knowledge of. now, all of this comes against the backdrop of a major staff shake up at the white house. the president told reporters on saturday that his chief of staff, john kelly, would be leaving the white house, ending months of speculation about

kelly's future. and the president's top choice for that job, nick ayers, chief of staff to vice-president mike pence, will also be leaving the administration. after discussing seriously with trump the prospect of replacing kelly. now, ayers and trump disagreed on the time frame for ayers holding that job. our colleague caitlyn collins reports ayers wanted to hold the job on a temporary basis until the president could find a permanent replacement for kelly. trump wanted a two-year commitment from ayers. the president is considering four different names to become his new chief of staff. one of them may be congressman mark meadows. he's a particularly close ally of the president's on capitol hill. and cnn is also told the president aims to make this decision by the end of the year. sarah westwood, cnn, the white house. >> and for some perspective on the situation we are joined by

steve urlanger. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, rosemary. >> president trump has been implicated in two crimes relating to his former attorney michael cohen, making illegal payments of her money during the presidential race. what could this mean for the president's future, do you think? >> well, he's individual number one and individual number one is in some trouble. this was -- there are two investigations, at least, going on. this was the one into michael cohen from the southern district of new york, which is different from the actual mueller investigation. but it basically -- if mr. trump were not president, i think he'd be indicted for a crime. but the convention is you don't indict a sitting president because he's in charge of the whole government, including the justice department. so, if he will be charged, it would have to be up to the house of representatives and not the justice department. >> right. and former fbi director james comey said this in front of a

live audience at new york city's 92nd street y. let's just bring that up. >> i hope donald trump is not removed from office by impeachment because -- it would let the country off the hook. and it would drive into the fabric of our nation a third of the people believing there was a coups. that said, if the facts are there and the legislative -- two houses of congress think it's appropriate, that's fine. >> so, first comey says he hopes donald trump is not removed from office by impeachment, then he says it's fine if that's what congress decides to do. what did you make of that and how likely do think impeachment is at this point? >> well, you can see why comey frustrates people. the fact is what he said is absolutely true. at least from his point of view, he would like mr. trump to be defeated in a real election rather than impeached. i think the chances of

mr. trump, from what we know now, being convicted in the senate, is almost nil, which means that house now run by democrats would probably be ill-advised to impeach him. i think that's the view, but they are going to make his life very, very difficult with all kinds of investigations. and those could, with mueller, turn up things that do lead to impeachment. but i doubt it very much. and if he's impeached, i very, very much doubt he would be convicted. >> right. and of course, the other big topic, a major cheick up at the white house. president trump confirming saturday that his chief of staff john kelly will, indeed, leave. now, the president had hoped to replace him with vice-president pence's chief of staffer, nick ayers. but he turned down the offer. one of the four names now being considered is congressman mark meadows. what might he bring to that role at the white house, do you think? >> well, the first thing you

have to bring, i think, is discipline and patience because this is not a disciplined president. he's not going to be restricted by his chief of staff. he's going to come out and say what he wants. and he's going to treat what he wants, and sometimes you have to row him back. what kelly managed to do was at least control the access to mr. trump in a more intelligent, disciplined way, and to structure the policy process. but any new chief of staff is going to have to cope with a president who, as he has said himself, trusts his own instinct more than the brains of anyone around him, that includes his chief of staff. >> steven urlangeer, always great to get your perspective and analysis. thanks. >> thanks, rosemary. >> this week marks a critical test for brexit with the british

prime minister hoping to get her brexit deal approved by parliament. >> despite calls for a delay, parliament will vote on her brexit deal tuesday. by all indications, it will be rejected. the prime minister faces opposition, a heap of opposition, in fact. not only from within her own conservative party, but also from labor, from the liberal democrats, the scottish national party, and northern ireland's democratic nationalist party. >> the vote is going ahead and that is because it's the only deal and a good deal. don't let the enemy be of the good. the party like me campaigned in the referendum to take back control of our immigration policy, to have a say on things like not sending money to the e.u. this is a deal that does that but it does it in a way that balances the need to keep the supply of goods flowing. >> and there are protesters on both sides of the issue. brexit supporters say this deal

doesn't do enough to free the u.k. from the e.u.. and remainors don't want brexit at all. let's go live to london, covering all angles of this story, with our anna stewart outside number 10 this hour, and santos at abbington green. anna, let's start with you. first, the pressure is certainly on the prime minister to garner support. and a new report that was published is not helping her cause. >> reporter: yes, across party report, george, from the brexit parliamentary committee. let me read a bit. she has failed to offer clarity on the future. and put forward no realistic proposals for a hard irish border. a really damning report going to the last 36 hours before this vote. and it is a vote that she is expected widely to lose. of course, the question is what happens to the prime minister should she lose this vote. that really depends on the

defeat, george. if it's a small defeat, she can probably stay in position. she'll probably get sent back to brussels to renegotiate for a better deal which is something she said is not possible. she can't get a better deal. if it's a big defeat, 14u7b seats or mo-- 100 seats or more could she face a confidence vote in the party, a lack of confidence from the house of commons itself which could pave the way for a new government, even a fresh election? will parliament ask her to, you know, initiate a second referendum? there are so many scenarios here. the one thing that's looking pretty sure is that she's not going to win this vote and it is going to happen. because we have plenty reports over the weekend saying it might not. but downing street today is adamant, this vote will happen 7:00 tomorrow. >> all right. the uncertainty, though, that you just spoke of, let's cross over to our colleague nina dose santos. pressuring her fellow m.p.s to get on board or risk losing

power. as anna pointed out there. but as of now, the prime minister does not look to have the votes. >> reporter: no, she doesn't. but over the last few weeks, what she's been doing is engaging in this strategy of trying to coax a rebellious back bench of m.p.s in her office to brief them on the specifics of the deal to try desperately to convince them, but also claim she has the support of the people, people who want brexit to take place. and she says that essentially voting down this deal would be frustrating the brexit process and not giving people what they had voted for a couple of years ago. she's claimed that she's had about 3,000 letters of personal support from ordinary british citizens who can see the difficult position that she's in, trying desperately to wrestle with this most complex of deals for the country. and as anna was pointing out, yes, it isn't looking particularly favorable in terms of the parliamentary math, but there is the possibility potentially of some kind of amendments being voted in by the

house. of course, the question then becomes whether or not brussels would buy them if she had to take a slightly amended deal back to the e.u. to say, look, this is what my parliament would go for. in the meantime, further complicating the issue, george, is the fact that the european court of justice is also this very morning set to rule on whether or not the u.k. would be allowed to unilaterally remove itself from the brexit process by cancelling article 50. so it may be that by the time the m.p.s actually vote on things in about a day and a half, they will be armed with further arguments from the ecj. george? >> all right. at this point looks like the vote will proceed as planned for tuesday, deal or no deal, as the game show is. we'll see what happens there in london. thank you both for the reporting. we'll keep in touch with you. >> well, japanese media are reporting former nissan chairman carlos ghosn has been indicted for allegedly under reporting his income. >> reports say nissan has also

been indicted as a corporation along with other former top executive greg kelly. both were arrested three weeks ago after an internal investigation by nissan revealed acts of misconduct. a nissan spokesperson has declined to comment. >> cnn has exclusive new details about the killing of jamal khashoggi. we will have the latest evidence that the journalist's killing was planned. >> plus, the french president emmanuel macron faces a serious test of his leadership as the public outrage and yellow vest protests grow louder. missed out on this. don't worry, the biggest deal is happening right now at t-mobile. when you buy one of the latest sumsung phones you get a free 50" samsung 4k tv. seriously, no! [announcer]seriously! t-mobile is giving you a free 50" tv.

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back the c.i.a.'s take on who is responsible for khashoggi's death at the saudi consulate in istanbul. here's what he told cnn's state of the union. >> we don't need, you know, direct evidence that he ordered the code red on this thing. the bottom line is there is no way that 17 people close to him got on a charter plane, flew to a third country, went into a consulate, killed and chopped up a man, and flew back, and he didn't know about it, much less order it. >> key u.s. senators were briefed by the c.i.a. on their assessment of khashoggi's killing, and they were horrified and said so publicly. and now a source has given cnn a briefing on a transcript of an audio recording of khashoggi's final moments. >> cnn's nic robertson was provided with details of the translated transcript, reproduced in this report. it correlates with the c.i.a. finding that the saudi team sent to istanbul came with the intent to kill.

>> reporter: cnn can now reveal jamal khashoggi's last words. "i can't breathe. i can't breathe." these previously undisclosed details of what happened that afternoon in october come from a source who has been briefed on the investigation. the source has read a full transcript of an audio recording of khashoggi's horrific final moments. within moments of his fateful steps into the consulate, khashoggi recognizes someone, asks why they are there. the answer, "you are coming back." according to cnn's source, the turkish transcript identifies that person as abdul aziz metreb, an official working for crown prince mohammed bin salman whom khashoggi knew. khashoggi is clearly alarmed and

replies, "you can't do that. people are waiting outside for me." according to the source, the conversation ends right there. the transcript indicates noises as people set upon khashoggi. very quickly khashoggi can be heard saying, "i can't breathe." he repeats it again, "i can't breathe, i can't breathe." what happens belies initial saudi claims. his death was a grave mistake. cnn's source says it's clear from his reading of the transcript khashoggi's murder was no botched rendition attempt for the execution of a premeditated plan to murder the journalist. but it is what happens next that is really horrific. the transcript records many voices, and noises, then says, "scream from jamal."

again, cream,thenasping, noises are identified as saw and cutting. then a voice turkish authorities identify as dr. sale mamd al tuba ke, the head of saudi arabia's interior ministry. he says, "if you don't the noise, put your earphones in or listen to music like me." according to the source metreb, the apparent leader of the team, makes at least three phone calls during the murder to a number turkish officials identify as being in the saudi royal court. only metreb's side of the conversation can be heard, but there is no sense of panic or of an operation gone wrong. metreb tells the person in riyadh, "tell yours" the source takes the source to mean your

boss or your senior, "the thing is done. it's done." cnn reached out to saudi officials to get a response from those named in this report and were told saudi security officials have reviewed the transcript and tape, but nowhere in them is there any reference or indication of a call being made. a saudi source close to the saudi investigation says both me treb and tabeki deny making phone calls. while the transcript is a smoking gun tying crown prince to the killing, as said, there is not a smoking gun, a smoking saw. nick robinson, cnn, london. >> and cnn shared our source's detailed description with the office of a senator who was briefed by the c.i.a. last week, and we were told that the cnn

report of the transcript was consistent with the briefing the senator received. >> that report is disturbing, to say the very least. >> it certainly is. >> yes. moving on now to france, the french president emmanuel macron, he is hoping to convince the yellow vest movement to work with his government, and that's a tall order, as many people there have called for his resignation. >> protesters say the cost of living is too high and mr. macron's government only takes care of the rich. more than 130,000 yellow vests held rallies across the country on saturday. >> protesters clashed with police in several cities, including paris and marseille. the french president emmanuel macron's challenge now is to find a way to ease the growing crisis, especially as the anger becomes directed at him. >> mr. macron is set to meet with business leaders and trade unions in a few hours from now, likely calling for national unity in a televised address.

well, sophie is the paris bureau chief for the economist. she joins me now from the french capital. thank you so much for being with us. >> you're very welcome. >> president macron is expected to address the nation. how likely is it he can convince angry protesters to work with his government if that, indeed, is his message? >> well, it's going to be extremely difficult for him because, as we've seen already, in response to the previous weekend of protests, he did actually give in to the protesters' demand, which is to cancel a plan increase in the carbon tax, on fuel, and that made no difference at all because the protesters were back on the streets on saturday and there were scenes of violence again in paris. so, you know, it is very difficult. it will take more than just one or two measures. i think he's got to do something for people's pockets so that they feel that they are not squeezed and so taxed. the middle classes here in

france. but i think he also has to do something in terms of tone and style. people feel he is a president too remote from their concerns and he's going to have to shift that tone, i think, if he's going to be able to find the right words to address people who are angry with him personally. it's sort of a double challenge for him this evening. >> right, indeed. protesters insist the cost of living is just too high in france. you mentioned the tone there. is there a sense that president macron is tone deaf and missing the point? >> well, you know, when he was elected, he very much wanted to install in france this kind of grand presidency in a way, he's almost a gall-like figure, someone who does sort of give france a sense of dignity and feel good about their president, that he represents them well on the world stage. but with that came something that's perceived as remote and aloof and disconnected. and i think that that balance,

he's not got that quite right. and this is why there is such an anger that people feel he's not connected with ordinary people's lives, that he doesn't care, that there is a sort of indifference towards these concerns, which is why finding the right words -- macron is -- he's very, very smart. he's a real intellectual. he's a philosophy graduate. and sometimes his vocabulary, his language just feels very different and very kind of disconnected from the way ordinary people think and talk and express them self. and that for him is a real challenge, finding that common touch and finding a sense that not reacting too much is a kind of rational leader, but as someone who can speak from the heart. >> all right. sophie, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> still ahead, we investigate how a largely overlooked cause of global warming may be playing out. how beef could be harming the earth. >> and later, a dangerous winter storm is battering the southern united states, disrupting travel

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♪ mom. ♪ welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom live from atlanta. i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. let's update you now on the main stories we've been following this hour. a drive-by shooting in the west bank sunday left at least seven people wounded including a pregnant woman. officials said the shots were fired at people standing at a bus stop near the entrance to an israeli settlement. nearby soldiers fired at the vehicle, but it got away. >> in the united kingdom,

brexit, theresa may's brexit minister, says tuesday's vote will go on ahead as planned in parliament, even though it appears it will fail. the prime minister warned a rejection of her deal could leave the country in, quote, uncharted waters. >> another top u.s. republican is breaking with the white house and slamming saudi arabia for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. on cnn's state of the union, senator marco rubio said there's no way the saudi crown prince was not aware of the killing, and that he very likely ordered it. >> the most important number you may not have heard of. 1.5 degrees celsius. if the earth's temperature rises any more above that, the global results could be disastrous. >> nations gathering in poland are working to keep global

warming under 2 degrees, but experts warn that may not be enough. >> at 1 1/2 degrees above preindustrial levels, the effects of climate change grow more and more rapidly. cnn is exploring the consequence of past inaction and what comes next if warming doesn't stop at that critical threshold. >> turns it out some of the contributors to climate change are not that obvious. >> our payton walsh notes one predictor is beef production. >> reporter: what do you eat? what does it cost you? the planet. your children's future. how does it affect our struggle to limit global warming to just 1.5 degrees celsius? texas is the beef capital of america, the world. meat was once a luxury, but now it's at the core of life here. it's a tribal symbol.

meet bivo the steer, the mass could you tell. grill out, burger, sausage, steak, ribs. excess is the point. >> so beef and climate change, how are they related? >> don't ask me today because this is delicious. >> reporter: beef and dairy are a key overlooked at greenhouse gas emissions. it must be curtailed if we want to live as we do now. this amphitheater of teenage dreams grows now, but we may see these excesses, the heights of being everywhere and cheap and in their lifetime. >> think about it this way. half a pound of beef causes as much greenhouse gas to be emitted as driving 55 of these cars for one mile. if mankind were on this planet for the length of this football game, it would have this much time left of the game to fix it.

we drive out as the sun rises over beef country. 12 million cattle in texas, where the extraordinary toll as something so natural as beef on the planet emerges. you have to make drastic changes by 2030 to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees. if we don't, beef and dairy will cause 10% of greenhouse gases. if we do meet 2030 targets, it will be 30%. either way we must act. america's hunger is hit on natural edge here, radically compressing the cattle space to ro roam and time to fatten. the first thing that hits you is the smell. there are so many so tightly packed together. there are 19,000 here on this feed lot. fed the corn that gives their flesch the fatty taste we're used to. and their nearly 1.5 billion cattle on earth, one for every five people.

the united states and world will likely this year eat a record amount of beef. we're going the wrong way. but it is the bottom line, livelihoods that understandably matter more here. >> now, when i said global warming, you said "they say." do you believe it or do you think -- >> i don't believe it >> reporter: why not? >> i just don't. >> why? >> i just -- it's hard for me to believe that global warming has something to do with the rainfall. >> reporter: what would it take to change your mind about that? >> there would have to be a drastic change in our weather, because i don't feel that our drastic change -- yes, we have -- go through some droughts, but that's just a normal period. we go through droughts. we have rainfall. we go through winter. we don't have -- you know, here the last couple years we haven't had much winter. it does president get that cold down here. and in years past, we used to go months and months of freezing weather. even down here in east texas.

>> reporter: you're seeing it get warmer down here already. you want it to be really bad before you believe the scientists, right? >> yes. >> reporter: wherever you roam here, the land is a nured to the land of beef. dust, and the endless acres seem haunted by the corn that went before. nearly 100 acres of corn are planted, grown, fertilized, and transported around america. the biggest producer in the world. eating cattle corn adds to the animal's emissions from burping, farting and manure. the most potent nitrous oxide, it's not just cattle using up land. pigs, sheep, animals take up as much of the planet as most of the united states, europe and sydney, australia why combined. put it another way, the land mass of africa. >> they have the ribs. pork loin. i got ribs.

i got brisket. i got sausage. >> reporter: so how do we change, or can we? there is hope, and it is both distant and tiny. enter cultured meat. it hasn't seen any cow. it grows in a dish and is developing fast. >> in 2013 it had -- this would be about $20,000. two, three years from now it's 25 cents. >> reporter: what does it taste like? >> this tastes like meat. >> reporter: most meat is getting funding from food giants and even the co-founder of google. by 2021, he hopes this might be served as an alternative. and years later become the mainstream. the process is natural to a point. giving a single stem cell taken from a cow, all the nutrients it needs to divide again and again, but no instruction as with a living cow to stop. 10 billion cells are formed and woven with these fatty cells for flavor into one burger.

or even a steak one day. are you vegan yourself? >> i'm not. i should be, but i'm not. >> reporter: you like meat? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: is any of this -- >> it's sinful, i think. >> reporter: we really need to do something about this to avert all the environmental effect of meat production. >> which is going to increase. in 2050, we will need 70% more meat on this planet than we currently have. >> reporter: but it can't come soon enough. and however naturally we make beef, we can't change soon enough either. consider this. it's never going to happen, but if we all went vegan tomorrow, we would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25%. a huge change to cure part of the problem. are we even ready for that or more to keep existing as we do now? >> a spokesman for the u.s. meat industry said they have made

changes and are leading the way in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. >> they say u.s. meat farming proportionately emitted less gas than other countries, and that a drastic reduction in meat consumption would impact human health. >> payton walsh reporting from texas joining us live. ian from the global summit. nick, this conference kicking off to a bit of disappointment with the united states, russia and saudi arabia coming together on this. >> reporter: extraordinary, george. it's not a bit of a disappointment, really. this is a key scientific report that says that we need to do our very best to keep global warming at 1.5 degrees celsius in order to stave off catastrophic potential impact on our way of life by 2030. that was something which the same climate change group here had, in fact, commissioned. and instead over the weekend, the united states, saudi arabia,

russia and kuwait got together and stopped a vote here which would have welcomed that report. essentially blocking it from being properly adopted here. really as a piece of science. now the u.s. spokesperson here says it never really endorsed that report. that is the trump administration's position, quite the contrast of the obama administration amongst those who, in fact, commissioned it. it's a disappointing tone set here frankly because that key disagreement, that essential refusal to accept a piece of science may overhang the next week. and this next week has some incredibly important work ahead of it because while the paris agreement was kind of a sort of theoretical embrace of the need for substantial change, this is the meeting where they workout what it looks like on paper, what the, quote, rule book is, what the technical things they have to do are to meet those particular climate goals. and sadly, i think we're looking at a week here where there is a lot more work to do on that, and still people perhaps troubled by these four countries preventing

that key scientific report from being embraced, george. >> all right, nick. again, you see governments, u.s. president, denying climate change, but the data, the science, it all proves, it all says this is a real thing. it is a real thing. nick payton walsh live for us in poland. thank you for the reporting. >> and we'll take a very short break here, but still to come, his approval ratings used to be sky high. but it seems the honeymoon is over for south korean president moon jae-in. we will look at what's behind the change in popularity. we're back in just a moment.

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welcome back, everyone. well, many looters see a dip in popularity in their second year in office. south korean president moon jae-in is no different. >> that's right, his critics say he's too concerned with north korean relations and not focused enough on issues at home. our paula hancocks has this report from seoul. >> reporter: it is one of the images of 2018, the south korean

leader hand in hand with the north korean leader at the dmz. moon jae-in's approval rating topped 77% shortly after this summit, but has since been on a downward trend despite further summits and photo ops a plenty. ♪ ♪ the labor unions once strong supporter of moon now find reason to protest. a 52-hour-workweek down from 68 hours was welcome. subsequent adjustments the government said were necessary for smooth implementation were not. this protester says, we thought we were the ones who put this administration into office. but now it's aiming its knife at us by changing the labor law for the worst. students are another group credited with putting the president in power. >> i hoped by the time i graduate there would be a lot more opportunities created by president moon. >> we don't feel like next year is going to be different from this year, and we don't think it's going to actually have any

other, like, positive changes in the economy as well. >> reporter: one of his main focuses is north korea at this point. do you approve of what he's doing with north korea? >> not really. as of now it seems his priority is the north korea policy, and that's not what students are really interested in. >> reporter: we spoke to moon in his first year in office, and he laid out his plans. what's your legacy, what would you like that to be? >> translator: a president who had achieved a true democracy, and also a president who had established korean peace, a president who had achieved an economy that is more equal and fair so that it's inclusive. that's how i want to be remembered. >> we do have domestic issues like unemployment, falling birth rate and all these other sort of social and political issues that also need to be tackled. >> reporter: the blue house says it doesn't watch these ratings too carefully. and to be fair, approval ratings in the second year of a

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well, a winter storm is burying parts of the southern u.s. in snow. some areas in north carolina are seeing record snowfall. hundreds of flights have been canceled, and the roads are becoming treacherous. >> and we know the storm has also turned deadly. one person killed when a falling tree hit the car that the person was driving. more than 25 million people are now under winter weather alerts from the state of oklahoma through virginia. >> let's turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri. he joins us now with the very latest on this. pedram, it seems a lot of snow coming very, very early. >> it is, yeah. when you look at the calendar, we're still a couple weeks away from the official start of winter in the northern hemisphere. of course, when you're talking about this sort of snow, it is

record breaking in a few spots as you noted. in virginia in particular, we've had reports of at least a foot, in some areas 2 feet of snowfall in the latter portion of fall. and, again, at least 18 million in some areas when you count areas back toward the west, over 20 million underneath the winter weather threat here for residual snow showers still into the forecast going into monday. in fact, schools across places such as charlotte have closed for monday as well as the state of emergency remains in place for every single county in the state of north carolina. you notice wintry mix in place, pushing away from the coast line, cold enough air in place here to re-freeze some of the snow, even after the temps climb above freezing over the next few hours. here we go with cancellations. upwards of almost 1800 flights were canceled, about a thousand of them out of the charlotte area. you notice 3,000 flights were delayed out of the united states into the u.s. as well associated in large part with these winter weather event that was in place. here we go with the totals. the white top region picking up the highest amount of 2 feet in

the past couple of days, while we had snowfall totals across northeastern georgia up to 8 inches. while you work your way into western north carolina into parts of virginia, that's where the highest amounts were observed, historic in a few spots. roanoke, richmond, virginia among the high totals we've seen in the month of december. of course with all that heavy snow coming down across sometime regions, trees coming down as well. we had a quarter million customers even at this hour without power right now across virginia and the carolinas. system on the move with it, still a risk here for some ice again, and some wet weather that's been in place. in fact, when you take a look at the precipitation totals, parts of georgia, parts of alabama on into mississippi, significant rainfall just on the cusp of what would have been significant snowfall. of course, it was exactly 12 months ago that places northern georgia and alabama picked up significant snows. temperatures there sitting now into the middle and upper 30s at this hour, even down on the gulf coast. mobile across the panama city, 10 to 20 degrees below average for this time of year, into the

low to mid 40s at this hour. we do expect the trend here to want to warm up a little bit. in fact, the average this time of year in atlanta is 55. aiming for 43 come monday afternoon. raleigh at 38 and 55 is more in line with normal temperatures. the long-range forecast going towards christmas eve and eventually christmas day looks to want to warm temps up just a little bit, so it looks like the beginning of december may very well at least for the eastern u.s. be colder than the end of december if it all plays out based on what it looks like now, guys. >> all right. >> pedram, it does make you wonder what january and february are going to look like, doesn't it? >> might be a long winter. >> no, pedram. all right, thank you very much. well, we end this hour with a story of loyalty in the face of adversity. a dog left behind in the deadly california camp fire, that dog found protecting the ruins of his buried, burned home there in california. wow. >> madison's owner found him waiting there when she was

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