i will be signing a national emergency. there's rarely been a problem. they sign it. nobody cares. >> soon after president trump declared the national emergency for border wall funding the lest of challengers to mr. trump's announcement is rapidly growing. plus, taking a stands against sexual abuse the vat cal dismisses excardinal theodore mccarrick from the priesthood. we have a live story on this from rome. people find their polls closed across the country after the country's elect tractor-trailer commission delayed the presidential vote. we'll get the latest on what that's about. >> we are live from cnn world

headquarters in atlanta. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. >> i'm natalie alan, "newsroom" starts right now. >> and we begin at the white house declaring a national emergency is a big deal, so when the u.s. president made good on his threat to do that, to fund his wall the lawyers and a lot of other people packed. >> within hours the first lawsuit was filed. it was made by the government watchdog group public citizen. >> mr. trump acknowledged he faces an uphill battle the might not succeed. strangest of all, he may have sabotaged his own case by admitting he didn't really need to do this. we get more from cnn's jim acosta. >> reporter: trying to take a victory lap after a stinging defeat in congress, president trump declared a national emergency at the border to start

tapping into administration funds to build his wall. but the president may have already undercut his case when he indicated his real motivation is to speed things along. >> i can do the wall over a longer period of time, i didn't need to do this i don't have to do it for the election. i have done a lot of wall for the election 2020. >> reporter: at the end more than 1 billion, he's sure to combine 8 billion for the law. congress accused critics of lying when it pointed out most drugs come nook the u.s. come into illegal ports of entry. >> when you listen to politicians, particularly certain democrats, they say it all comes through the port of entry, it's wrong, it's wrong. it's a lie. it's all a lie. >> reporter: but the president was once again hyping a threat at the border making all sorts of unproven claims of his own. >> women, girls, you can't take them through ports of entry. you can't have them tied up

through the back seat of a car, a truck, a van. they open the door, they look. they can't see three women with tape on their minds or three women whose hands are tied. >> reporter: the president lashed out when the facts were presented to him. there is a lot of department of homeland security data that shows border crossings at a near record low. but there are still undocumented immigrants. >> excuse me, you don't really believe that stat? take a look at our federal prisons. >> reporter: i believe in facts and statistics. the president sound pet lant over the likelihood that democrats will take him to court for congress. >> and we will then be sued and they will sue us in the 9th circuit, even though it shouldn't be there. we will possibly v get a bad ruling and another bad ruling, we'll end up in the supreme court, hopefully we'll get a fair shake and win in the supreme court. >> reporter: he also mimicked china over the autocratic

company punishes drug dealers. >> i asked president xi. i said, you have a drug problem? no, no, no i said you have 1.4 billion people, what do you mean have you no drug problem? >> no. we don't have a drug problem. i said, why? death penalty. we give death penalty to people that sell drugs. end of problem. >> reporter: and the president bristled at the notion that conservative media stars are actually calling the shots when it comes to his policy. >> look. sean hannity has been a terrific, terrific, supporter of what i do. not of me, if i change my views, he wouldn't be with me. rush limbaugh, i think he's a great guy, anne coulter, i don't know her, i hardly know her. >> but there are cracks in his wall of conservative support. >> the only national emergency is our president is an idiot. >> reporter: the president all but stopped on his feet when he

was asked if he is making up this, many. he has more questions at a news conference, such as the growing number of republican senators raising concerns about the president's declaration saying it may be unconstitutional. jim acosta, cnn the white house. >> within hours of the president's declaration, congressional democrats were demanding to know the legal basis for making such a claim. >> the house judiciary committee has already fired off a letter demanding answers, and the house will look to block the president's legislation. here's what two of those democrats told cnn. >> reporter: their judiciary committee will do an investigation of donald trump's authoritarian power grab. the framers of the constitution are rolling in their graves right now. they specifically gave the power of the purse to the house of representatives. there is notice way to override the power. would interview these witnesses. we want to know what basis they have for this national

emergency, what kind of communications they v. we want to request documents, we believe the president and his staff are acting in violation of the constitution. >> i am sure we will pass a resolution disapproval in the house. pursuant to the emergency statutes. >> that mandates under the emergency statute, the senate consider the emergency disapproval within 15 days without the ability to filibuster. i anticipate there will be a majority vote to disapprove the resolution. >> i misspoke, i want to be very clear, the house moved to block the president with legislation. we will see how that moves forward. >> there are already about 650 miles, a little more than a thousand kilometers of a physical barricade built between the u.s. and mexico, that includes the texas city of el paso. an area the president has cited as justification for more border wall. >> president trump has argued

that crime rates and illegal immigration that dramatically declined because of the border wall there, but critics tell a different story. listen. >> in 2008, that border wall demonstrably made us less, not more safe. el paso as you know has always been for the past 20 years one of the safest cities in the united states of america. before a wall it was, after a wall it was. so if the wall didn't make us safer. if it costs a lot of money to tain contractor maintain, if it cuts us off from our community, our land, our water supply, then it serves no real purpose and it should come down. >> joining me now is cesar blanco, a democratic member of the house of representatives. he joins me via skype from el paso, texas. thank you so much for joining us. >> good morning, natalie. >> you represent and liver in a border city. is the president's declaration of an emergency at the border valid? >> no, it is not.

i am literally here in my home, which is about a couple of yards from the existing border wall and we're one of the safest cities in the country. most of the cities along the texas-mexico border are among the safest in the country. so the president's statement is false. >> so where is it coming from? what about the number of illegals trying to cross into el paso? do you not see that as a problem as the president illustrates? >> no what the president has been saying is inaccurate. the numbers from u.s. customs and border protection have indicated that migration has decreased throughout the years. and we really don't see that type of problem here. most of the people that come across overstay their visas. so i think it's a symptom of a broken immigration system in the united states.

i think that the border wall is something that this president has campaigned on and hasn't really been able to deliver, so now he's calling a national emergency because he needs to fund a wall for his pace. >> -- base. >> well, he visited your city, el paso, recently. he has continued to talk about dangerous people, criminals, drug dealers coming across the border, in fact, he did that on friday. let's listen to what he said. >> in el paso, they have close to 2,000 murders right on the other side of the wall and they had 23 murders. that's a lot of murders. but it's not close to 2,000 murders, right on the other side of the wall in mexico. so everyone knows the walls work and there are better examples than el paso. >> so how do you explain what he is talking about there? >> well, there is violence on the other side in mexico. there has been zero spillover

violence in the united states. we continue to be one of the safest cities in the country and i think he's using information from mexico or the situation to mexico to legitimize the necessity for a wall on the u.s.-mexico border. look, i grew up here in el paso, texas. i have family in juarez. our community is a food community. we go back and forth and visit each other, visit juarez and visit and have lunch and visit there, folks from mexico come across, we co-exist as that community. we are two cities that are binational. we're right on the mexico border. we share the same community. we don't have that type of violence on this side of the border in el paso. >> according to fbi crimes data and city law data analyzed by the newspaper there, the el paso

times, violent crime peaked in '93, border fence construction was began if 2009, crime dropped falling 34% between '93 and 2006. then in 2006 to 2011, violent crime went up again by 17% but dropped again around the stop of operation hold the line, which stationed hundreds of border control agency around the border surrounding el paso. so that's the situation, is that accurate and what is working for el paso? >> well, what's working are a combination of things. our local law enforcement, meaning our sheriffs department, our police department, in coordination with federal law enforcement agents, the u.s. border control and u.s. customs, they are coordinating. they do a phenomenal job of

protecting our communities. we utilize technologies, drones, cameras, sensors and the like to continue to keep our communities safe. a wall is a mid-evil approach to a modern situation and i think that we need to go beyond that and be smart about it. there are republicans, one of them congressman will herd that i agree has the same ideas that i just laid out before you. to there are ways to protect the border is smart. a mid-evil approach with a wall is ineffective. >> we appreciate your statements there. thank you. >> thank you. now, cnn has learned exclusively that the special counsel's team has interviewed the white house press secretary, sarah sanders. the subject of that interview, though, it is not clear. but it could have something to

do with how sanders composed statements she made about the russia investigation. >> she told cnn the president urged me like he has everyone in the administration to fully cooperate with the special counsel. i was happy to voluntarily sit down with them. but that might not be completely accurate. the source says, the white house did not immediately agree to let mueller's team interview sanders. meantime the special counsel's office says it now has everyday former trump campaign adviser roger stone had direct communications with wikileaks. >> earlier, court filing versus only outlined his attempts to contact intermediaries, stone wanted e-mail from russian hackers that could help donald trump's campaign and the special counsel team paul manafort you see here deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars. >> 69-year-old manafort was

convicted by a virginia jury last year for bank and tax fraud and other crimes related to money he wered from ukraineian politicians. for more about it, here's evan perez. >> reporter: paul manafort could spend the rest of his life in prison if a judge follows sentencing guidelines endorsed by special counsel robert mueller's prosecutors the guidelines call for 19.5 and 24.5 in virginia. a jury convicted the former trump campaign chairman guilty of financial crimes, including tax and bank fraud. he is turning 70-years-old this year. the prosecutors say he shouldn't get a break balls of his iage. they say manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law. manafort separately pled guilty to federal charges here in walk. but a judge has voided the plea agreement after ruling that manafort lied to investigators and to the grand jury during the

time that he was supposed to be cooperating. a newly released transcript from a hearing in d.c. federal court centers on the importance of konstantin kilimnik in manafort's case. he was manafort's business partner in ukraine and special counsel robert mueller says that kilimnik is essentially a russian spy. manafort's lawyers have tried to push back against that saying that kilimnik also met with u.s. diplomats suggest that perhaps he was a double agent. during a sealed court hearing a few days ago, the judge says, it doesn't matter. she says that manafort lied about his communications with kilimnik. the judge says kilimnik is the link between the russians and the trump campaign, which goes to the heart of mueller's russia investigation. evan perez, cnn, walk. the u.s. vice president mike pence takes to the world stage to speak to leaders at the munich security conference. we'll take you there live to germany ahead. plus the vatican drugs that

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of the priesthood. >> a church trial found the former archbishop of washington guilty of sexually abusing minors. mccarrick previously denied the decision. the pope says the decision cannot be apeeled. we are following this live in rome. tell us more about his importance and the latest significance to kick him out of the priesthood. >> reporter: well, this is an extraordinarily significant move, it is unprecedented. the coloquial term is defrocked, that is kicked out of the catholic priesthood. of course, it is because the accusations of sexual abuse, both of minors and adults that have been lodged against former cardinal mccarrick. over the summer, pope francis accepted mccarrick's resignation as a cardinal. he became an excardinal. today she an ex-priest.

this is essentially the most significant penalty in church law that can be imposed upon a cleric. it's the catholic equivalent of a death penalty. clearly the vatican hopes this will send a signal of resolve in seriousness. we should note this comes a couple of days before a keenly anticipated summit of presidents of national bishops conferences from all over the world is going to begin here in rome, convened by pope francis to try to get on top of the clerical sexual abuse scandals. george. >> put this into context, it does seem like it's one after another after another. is this putting more pressure on the pope and the vatican to address there problem differently? and more directly? >> reporter: yes, i absolutely think that's the case. and we should say that you know the vatican wanted to have this verdict against mccarrick

announced before that summit in order to sort of have it out of the way. the difficulty is the mccarrick case is not out of the way yet. because the questions most people have aren't whether mccarrick, himself, was guilty. who knew what he was up to? who allowed him to remain at the peak of power in the catholic church for 20 years, despite persistent rumors he was engaged in this kind of conduct. in other words, what the catholic church needs is accountability, not just for the crime of sexual abuse, but also the coverup. i suspect you will hear a lot of talk about the accountability question in the wake of today's decision. it will certainly be a part of the subtext for this high profile summit of bishops that began in rome on thursday. until that piece of the puzzle falls into place, george, i don't think anybody will be prepared to say the job has been done. >> all right. certainly this, a big move by the pope, jan allen live for us

in rome. thank you. a warehouse in illinois was the scene of the latest tragic example of gun violence in the united states. police say an employee there was being fired from his job when he went on a rampage at the facility. he killed five fellow workers and wounded five police officers and another employee. >> police say that he used a handgun in the 90-minute attack. he was trying to hide when officers found him and killed him in a shootout. a bystander said the gunman was shooting, quote, everybody with a weapon that had a laser site. u.s. vice president mike pence will take the stage soon in germany. he is leading the u.s. gel delegation at the munich security conference interest leaders from all over the world are coming together to discuss the greatest threats to global peace, but this year the united states is somewhat isolated for its approach to several foreign policy issues.

cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson is covering the conference. what are the issues at the forefront of this year's meeting and what a role does the u.s. is likely to be brooched by mr. pence when he speaks? >> reporter: well, i think very likely the audience will hear maybe what mike pence spoke about a couple of days ago in warsaw. >> that is that the united states really feels at odds at the moment, particularly britain, france and germany because of the creation of the financial instruments to get around the sanctions put on iran. that's a point of attention, we heard chancellor murkel talking about the interconnection of things, global warming, the big issues president trump opted out of on the noble stage, he opted more isolationism, more bilateral arrangements than the

multi-national global talks. institutions that help keep world peace and world order. so there are tensions and differences. the u.s. delegation here. the biggest in years, that has been noted by the audience here, interestingly, when there was an introduction for that u.s. delegation earlier on, nancy pelosi when her name was announced, there was a huge round of applause from the audience. we get a sense of where sympathies lie, not so much with the trump administration, mike pence arrived in his speech coming up, as you say, people here anticipating it. we will also be hearing from the russian foreman around the same time as well, so, of course, maybe some interesting comments both ways there. >> you know, there are so many issues right now that the next summit with north korea, troops pulling out of syria, eventually the united states, historically, though, nic, how important,

though, is this conference? >> reporter: you know, the trends you hear discussed here at the conference tend to be the issues that come up over the next couple of years. so what's being discussed here -- and i think everyone here seems to recognize that this is a moment of change. not that the change is coming, but that it's happened. it's happening to the global order. a re-alignment of the global order. programs a sense of a new cold war, a multi--- new cold war. china is seen in the ascendancy at the moment. the united states under president trump is seen as a disruption to the past global order at the moment so all of that is a sense of change. but what you hear being spoken about a lot is about the technologies of the future. the game-changing battlefield technology is what we are talking about the inf,

internuclear forces agreement, it looks will be ending this summer across a number of issues, particularly artificial intelligence and how that will apply to the battlefield. so there is a huge amount of change coming. the global order. but the systems that will fight the coming wars. >> fascinating. you will be covering it for us. we are about to hear about the u.s. vice president, nic robertson, thank you. >> it's interesting to think about global warming, ai, the pros and cons around that. >> an unknown. still ahead, mexico wouldn't pay for it, neither would the u.s. congress so president trump found another way to do what he threatened to do all along, he declared a national emergency. we will fact check the president's claims ahead for you. >> we have tremendous amounts of drug flowing into our country. much of it coming from the southern border.

when you look and when you listen to politicians, in particular certain democrats, they say it all comes through the port of entry. it's wrong. it's wrong. it's just a lie. it's all a lie. they say walls don't work. they work 100%.

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of sexual charges against minors. he is the highest removed from the ministry. he previously denied the accusations. in illinois, police say an employee at a warehouse is being fireed from his job when he went on a rampage with a husbaandgun there. he killed five people before police found him and killed him in a shootout. rival parties are condemning a delay of nigerian elections. in a last minute decision they postponed it until next week. they said it was necessary, but some question that. >>. the u.s. allies fighting isis, they say the terror group is about to lose the best in the country. they say they have cornered isis in a small area. the troops say there are still

thousands of people in the area and nearby and civilians are being used as human shields. even though the sdf expects to declare victory in the coming days. u.s. president trump has made good on his threat to declare a national emergency after congress denied his demand for border wall funding. now lawsuits have already been filed to stop the president from diverting federal funds and congressional democrats will bring up legislation to disavow his emergency declaration. >> whether or not the president overstepped his authority may rest with the u.s. supreme court. if he wins, he could access an additional 6.6 billion to fund the wall he wants to build on the mexican border. the president makes a lot of claims and how it will protect, he says the u.s. from crimes, illegal drugs and illegal immigration. >> as our tom foreman reports,

some of his claims don't seem to be very accurate. >> reporter: one of the president's chief claims to his fans that always gets a lot of applause st. idea that the wall has already been started. >> we are right now in construction with wall in some of the most important areas and we have renovated a tremendous amount of wall, making it just as good as new. that's where a lot of the money has been spent on renovation. >> the second part of that statement is true, there has been renovation as there has been under every president and that's all there has been. there has been no new wall construction. this is a fact. there may be some started next month on a tiny part of it. for him to make the claim with the other one there makes the statement as left misleading. el paso had a giant crime problem. they built a wall and the crime

was solved. >> when the wall went up, was it better? you were there. some of you. it was not only better, it was like 100% better. >> go to el paso. they have a huge wall arc huge barrier. they had a huge spike in violent crime. it went way up and came way down. the problem is the wall was built down in this area. the crime went up after that it had nothing to do with the wall that. claim by the president is simply false. one more he likes to make is about how much drug traffic is coming in over that open land out there, where there is no big perrie perrier. >> a big majority of the big drug loads, don't go through ports of entry. they can't. you can't take big loads. you have people. we have capable people the border patrol, law enforcement looking. >> we don't know when he says

big drugs, big leds? monetary values? we do know this, the drug enforcement official he is citing there say most of the drugs come through the official ports of entry. look at heroin the majority is through personally owned vehicles entering the united states at legal ports of entry followed by tractor-trailers. you need some prove? here's the pictures the dea shows those loads coming in here. in fact the only type of drug coming in illegally that is more likely, according to dea, to come over open land where maybe a wall would slow them down or stop them is marijuana. so again this claim by the president is false. >> let's talk about mar about that with natashastadt. this national emergency, it not

so much. let's listen to how he answers this question with reporter peter am sander with nbc news here in the states. >> i could do the wall over a longer period of time. i didn't need to do this but i'd rather do it much faster. >> i didn't feed it but i'd rather do it much faster. keeping in mind it took the president some five minutes to even get to the issue of the wall. he picked through a number of other topics before he spoke about it. in these few plain words he seemed to contradict his own emergenc emergency. we may be having some trouble. >> i'm sorry, i wasn't sure if you had another clip for me. it's a political emergency for trump. it's not a national security emergency. an emergency of his own making. there is nothing about this that would constitute a national

emergency. national emergencies would need to be something that is extraordinary. a rare event, where the threat is imminent. where it could have a geographic scope of affecting all kind of american citizens and this doesn't even come close to passing that criteria and he admitted it, himself, which i was sort of amazed by it. he admitted that you know i didn't need to do it, but i just needed to do it faster so clearly this is driven by his need to satisfy his base and to satisfy the right wing media that was so critical of him when he caved earlier regarding the shut down. so he is making this a lot worse than he needed to. >> let's get a kens of what people are saying about this most recent poll that gives a sense of people you know answering the question should trump declare an emergency to build the wall? well you see 66%, natasha, say no 31% say yes. the majority of people in this

poll taking, krielting against this keeping in mind the poll taken before the emergency was declared. but looking at this as a gamble, that tasha, whether the president may or may not get what he wants, does this constitute a win for him in the eyes of his base, or if it doesn't happening, if the wall doesn't get built, does that then work against it? >> it does constitute a win for his base. that's really the only win that will come from this. because as thele who revealed, 66% of the public does not want him to do this they don't want him to build a wall by declaring a national emergency. i think the republicans will likely support him on this, senator mitch mcconnell says he will support trump on this issue. they are not looking at the long view what does this mean for the next president? it could be a democrat.

as nancy pelosi was tweeting this could have a serious implications for future leaders they may decide to declare gun control a national emergency or so it could come back to bite them if they decide to push for this. >> so now the rules of allow for congress to contest the president's move here. >> that challenge almost certainly to come from the house of representatives and it set up an automatic vote in both chambers where republicans will either ver to stand by many of the statements made on record, republicans calling this a bad idea or, natasha, we will watch the acrobatics of lawmakers to contort themselves to fall back in line, how do you see the republican party responding if forced to a vote? >> well, there is only a hand. of republicans that have come out and been against this. and what it's looking like is most of the republicans or at least enough to prevent a

two-thirds majority of passing this, which would be needed to prevent trump from vetoing it. most of the republicans will go online with what mitch mcconnell wants them to do. they may privately think differently, this probably isn't a good idea. >> that could come back to hurt us later on. but they keep citing with trump again and again and again. there are so many instances where the republicans would decide, enough is enough. there have been too many abuses of power that have taken place. it looks like this is going to go through and it will end up in the courts. >> thank you. tens of millions of people in nigeria went to vote or about to vote and all of a sudden there is no election being held. elections there have been postponed and political parties furious. we'll have a live report about what's behind it. makeup now optional. new aveeno® maxglow™ infusion drops

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where the top political parties are condemning election officials after they delayed the presidential elections by one week. it was a surprise to many people. >> right. voters were supposed to head to the polls saturday, but the elections were postponed at the last minute leaving polling stations across the country empty. >> the electoral process says it was necessary to ensure fair elections. voting will be held february 23rd. following our story, david mackenzie is live. you show up to think you are there to do it. all of a sudden you are told, hey, not this week. it's still unclear for many people, many wondering when it will happen. tell us about why this delay and what's the reaction to it there? >> reporter: no, the reaction is disappointment and frustration. many people would have come to these polling stations, in fact, seven were in this primary and

secondary school. you see it now, kid playing some soccer here. there should have been hundreds of people lined up to vote. some people, george, slept overnight. travel across the country to get to the home areas to be a part of this crucial vote. more than 18 million people disappointment. a recent statement from the president says he is deeply disappointed. he is coming here to the capital. he says they were assured as he put it hour by hour day-by-day the elect tractor-trailer commission would be ready to go ahead with the vote. right now the country is mostly calm. there have been pockets of of tension. but there have been delays of votes both in 2011 and 2015. so some nigerians will take this into their stride, though, it is deeply inconvenient and leads to the worries of the legitimacy of the vote and the uncertainty of this process. >> david, keeping in mind, we have seen no violence before. so the concern about this

question now as far as this vote being delayed a people very upset to hear this. >> reporter: well, certainly they're upset. they've inkoreansconvenienced themselves, the boarder is shut down. people said they get to vote and that right is certainly delayed. the opposition party are saying they are asking people to keep calm, of course. also, starting to raise questions about the legitimacy of the electoral commission and its independence. the president again just recently assured the nation of its independence and said they need to carry out their work so huge amount of pressure on the elect tractor-trailer commission to get the right. they say they have logistical challenges, getting ballot boxes, ballotss to the various polling stations. we spoke to some people this morning who were supposed to run this election on the local level, they said that everything they needed, not the bat lol.

they came to work, some of them sleeping overnight to put through this critical election and then we are told basically to go home and come back in a weeks time. george. >> you have left some people scratching their heads for sure. david mckenzie following this story live. thank you. we will take you to the snowy western united states to show you a different way to enjoy all that powder. >> that might be derek van dame there. >> i think it is. >> having fun.

. our own derek van dame sharing fresh powder out west. george and i look like losers after this story. >> pretty much. derrick will tell us about all the fun he had in the back country. >> you guys are do i fantastic. >> we have no life. >> i tell you what, i think everyone will appreciate this. we are in the midst of this, i'm not the only one, enthusiasting look at the computer models, they want to know when can the snow be the deepist?

only where outside the long lines of the resorts, somewhere in the back country. by the way, i am the guy in the back country. >> smiling ear-to-ear. >> reporter: as a meteorologist, i thought i had to the inside track on when the snow would dump? here with the big powder cats, they know when the tsunami is co -- when the snow is coming. >> it comes from people's desire to stip long lines, vir actually agreeing the deepest powdery turns one can imagine. traversing untouched terrain comes with challenges, that's why they enlist expert guides and machinery to transport customers to the best snow in their lives. >> i like an snowcat to having a

bulldozer on track so we can move through deep powder without getting stuck so to speak. >> reporter: it's no coincidence that northwest colorado consistently receives some of the highest snowfall totals in the place. >> buck pass is known for having the deeper snow packs. >> reporter: this is the trademark champagne powder, low if you have, high density, maximum fun. nice, as if skiing perfect snow all day long wasn't enough. there is a gourmet meal and warm drink deep in the wilderness. the 11 others who join me on this adventure clearly knew what they were doing. me, on the other hand, could have benefits from another day in the mountain. >> a little self deprecating there showing my fall in the montage there. got to do it.

we love myself and those catching, deep snow. a lot of times it cushions those rocks and some of the terrain found in the country. by the way, back skiing and snowboarding is anywhere outside a typical resource. so snow we must have. we do have that. 44%, blanketed in the white stuff, particularly aguess northwest, colorado. you may have heard my guy talk about the special graphics. >> that is an area that get some of the highest snowfall totals. it's all thanks to that line that area. air is forced to rise up and over the mountain chain. the air rises, cools, condenses, in the colder, higher elevations, we get the snowfall and so far this season, it has

produced just under 100 inches for a deep snow pack in and around steamboat springs, colorado. over to the west, storms continue to line up, that means more snow, more opportunities for back country zoo skiing. over 110% are seasonable city packs. by the way, one thing i learned from this experience, you don't have to be an expert to do back country citying. >> if you are a skier, you can do it? >> don't hit the crees? >> that's why the deep powder is so necessary. >> that was fun. good-bye, david. >> thank you for watching cnn "newsroom." i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell. for our viewers around the world "erin burnett out front" is next. thanks, for watching cnn the

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