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♪ right through the very heart of it, new york, new york ♪ ♪ i want to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep ♪ from new york, to hong kong, to london, there is a sense, really, of hope, as well as optimism that 2021 will bring better days. it was a message of hope, amplified by incoming u.s. president joe biden. take a listen. >> i'm more optimistic about america's chances than i've ever been, and i've been around this for a while. we have the most productive workers in the world. we've now found vaccines that are available and they're going to work, if people -- we just have to get a better way of getting more out there, quicker. i find that we're in a situation where -- where we, once again, have to step up and lead the world and lead the nation.

new zealand was the first, major country to celebrate and because of the remarkable job it's done handling the pandemic, large crowds were allowed in auckland to watch the fireworks and here is how the annual ritual played out, right around the world. meanwhile, the united states is closing out the year -- closed out the year, i should say, on the cusp of 20 million infections and almost 350,000 deaths. have a look at this. new cases and deaths continue to soar, right across the united states. the final day of 2020 saw another 3,400 americans succumb to the virus. medical experts fear holiday

parties, as well as careless gatherings will result in even more covid misery, ending new year. hospitalizations, already at an all-time high, with more than 125,000 covid patients. one california health official says overcrowded facilities there, on the brink of catastrophe. and if there ever was a silver lining to 2020, it was the rapid, of course, development of several, promising vaccines. but the rollout in the united states has been shaky, at best. only a fraction of the 12 million or so available doses have actually been given to people. we get more, now, from cnn's sara murray. >> it's been a very, very tough year. this is the worst that we've had, literally, in 102 years. >> reporter: as 2020 comes to a close, the coronavirus is still wreaking devastation across the country, and lifesaving vaccines are lagging behind. >> we would have liked to have seen it run smoothly, and have 20 million doses into people by the end of the 2020, which was

the projection. >> reporter: hailed as the light at the end of the tunnel, vaccines have been slow to make their way into americans' arms. less than 2.8 million shots have been administers. according to the cdc. far short of the trump administration's 20 million goal. >> obviously, it didn't happen. and that's disappointing. >> reporter: as states struggle with distribution challenges. >> we know that there's a moral imperative to get this out, just as quickly as we can. >> reporter: arizona's governor ordered the state health department to accelerate vaccinations, rather than leaving it to each county. saying vaccines don't do any good sitting in a freezer. in west virginia, officials say 42 people were accidentally given antibody treatments, instead of coronavirus vaccines. in wisconsin, the fbi is investigating after someone intentionally removed 57 vaccine vials from a pharmacy freezer, and about 500 doses were discarded. >> i want some normalcy in my

life again. >> reporter: in states like florida and tennessee which opened vaccines up to the elderly, lines are snaking around the block. the urgent need for vaccines evident, as 2020 ends with more, grim milestones. >> the latest cdc ensemble forecast predicts the u.s. could track 424,000 deaths, by january 23rd. sara murray, cnn, washington. here, in the uk, there is a chorus of disapproval over a government decision to delay some vaccinations. two shots of the pfizer-biontech vaccine are supposed to be given about three weeks apart. but the government now says that second injection can wait up to three months. british doctors call it grossly unfair, especially to the elderly and other, vulnerable people. salma abdelaziz has more from london and, salma, let's start with that. seriously, getting some pushback now from the british medical association. explain to our viewers why that is. >> absolutely.

and it's -- it's not just them. another association of doctors, so upset about this that they wrote directly, rather, to the health secretary, matt hancock, and said this essentially violates the consent of the patients and this simply fails to follow the science. and chief-uk medical officers have had to write back to health-care workers around this country, essentially to explain themselves, to defend their strategy. and they say, in this letter, that they believe that, based on the science, that first jab gives significant protection about two to three weeks after you receive it. and that the second jab only provides durability. basically, a moderate amount of protection, in the short term. so, again, they are trying to defend themselves, as i know that you were speaking last hour. as doctors are literally having to call people over 80, and tell them their second appointment is cancelled and they are going to have to wait another three months. and this is a dampener, of course. i mean, you have to remember the uk government has been quite bold, quite forward, in its

vaccination strategy. the first country to start using that pfizer-biontech vaccine. so, this is definitely going to put a bit of a dark mood on this rollout because what we heard a couple of days ago is we have this great idea. we have this great strategy. we are going to space these vaccines apart. it means less -- less people going to hospital, and more people getting vaccinated. so, really, the question now is how are people going to handle this especially with all the vaccine hesitancy that's around? >> yeah. and like you said, so many of the elderly who have been receiving the vaccine have been waiting so long for this vaccine. but also, like the doctor said in the last hour, i am sure you heard her. they don't have the manpower to be calling all these patients and telling them. that is too many hours, when really they want to get the vaccine out. salma abdelaziz, in london, thank you very much, salma. u.s. president donald trump remains focused on his election loss. an increasingly desperate scheme really to change it. mr. trump rang in the new year at the white house. late thursday, he tweeted support for missouri senator

josh hawley, who plans to object when congress counts electoral congress votes. mcconnell called hawley out. but hawley wasn't dialed in. kaitlan collins has the latest for you. >> reporter: sources say trump is almost singularly focused on a plot by republican allies to disrupt certification of joe biden's win next week, which democrats are dismissing as absurd. >> they have got to choose here. it's real simple. there is only two choices. you choose democracy of the constitution or you choose the big-lying trump. it's as simple as that. >> reporter: josh hawley, the first to challenge the election results which will force the senate to debate his claim before affirming biden's win but he may not be the last. >> this is the one opportunity that i have as united states senator, this process, right here, my one opportunity to stand up and say something and that's exactly what i am going to do.

>> reporter: senator ben sasse said he won't participate in the stunt by follellow republicans urged others to rreject this dangerous ploy. if you make big claims, you better have the evidence. but the president doesn't, and neither do the institutional, arsonist members of congress, who will object. sasse also noted, when we talk in private, i haven't heard a single congressional republican allege that the election results were fraudulent. not one. although the vice president only has a limited ceremonial role in the process, sources say trump is demanding that mike pence fight harder for him. "the wall street journal" editorial board, which is often friendly to the president, says trump is putting his loyal vp in a terrible spot. mr. pence is too much of a patriot to go along, but the scramble to overturn the will of the voters tarnishes mr. trump's legacy. and undermines any designs he has on running in 2024.

>> well, the vice president's lawyers have asked a judge to reject another, republican attempt to overturn the election results, as kaitlan collins was there reporting. representative louie gohmert filed a lawsuit that would really empower mr. pence to ignore the electoral votes of key states when congress meets to count those votes, on january the 6th. in their response, the vice president's lawyers note, if successful, gohmert's lawsuit would undermine his own position in congress, stripping him of his right to object to the vote count. republican senator david perdue who is days away from a tight, runoff election, is now in quarantine after being exposed to someone with covid-19. his campaign says he's tested negative for the virus. the election for his seat is next tuesday. it will determine whether democrats or republicans control the senate. something we have been discussing all week here, on cnn. news of perdue's quarantine broke while his campaign event was going on. as you can see, few attendees were actually wearing masks.

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you are looking at sunrise over the british parliament. as the first day dawns on the united kingdom divorced from the european union, britain and the eu agreed on the future economic relation just a few days ago, completing uk's withdrawal from the eu. now, uk no longer has to follow eu rules, and has new arrangements on trade, travel, fisheries, and a whole other draft of issues. during the new year's eve address, prime minister boris johnson said it's time for uk to unite behind its new-found independence. take a listen. >> this is an amazing moment for this country. we have our freedom in our hands, and it is up to us to make the most of it. and i think it would be the

overwhelming instinct of the people of this country to come together, as one, united kingdom. england, scotland, wales, and northern ireland. working together, to express our values, around the world. >> journalist al goodman is in the spanish capital, madrid, excuse me, with details on that gibraltar agreement. but let's start with cyril vanier in paris and britain's new relationship with the eu. cyril, we have been hearing from officials that the border systems are ready to go. but i suspect, it's perhaps too soon, this january 1st, to see how it really plays out? >> well, yeah. it's a little bit too soon to see how it really plays out. not least because the border system is not ready on both sides. it's ready on the european side. in fact, i want to show you the pictures of the first commercial truck rolling into europe, this

mortgag morning. it sailed through customs. trade is still happening, without tariff or quotas between the eu and uk. but it is subject now to more checks, including possible customs checks. they have to have the right declarations and certification. so, that truck that came in, it sailed through because the content had been previously declared to customs. and that's how it's going to work, from now on. so, from -- from uk to eu, the border checks and the border systems are in place. from eu to uk, on the uk side to check european merchandise coming in, they have actually granted another six months, before europeans have to do customs declarations because their systems are not fully operational, yet. they still have to build some of the infrastructure. so, we're not quite at cruising altitude, as far as this trade is concerned between the eu and the uk. >> and that's not to mention the other host of issues that, you know, we haven't got into,

regarding, obviously, the financial services, et cetera. al, spain, i believe, it's reached a last-minute deal regarding the british overseas territory of gibraltar. break it down for us. what's been agreed? >> hi, this agreement will become a formal treaty within six months, the foreign minister said when announcing it. she and other officials said it will basically make gibraltar kind of an eu zone. with police on both sides at the gibraltar-spain border. so it would become part of the eu zone, similar to if you are in spain right now, you can go into france and vice versa. and spain into portugal. that would happen, at the gibraltar-spain border. we have got pictures of a live camera of the exit area. vehicles exiting or where they would exit from gibraltar into spain. there is not much traffic, i'm told, because it is new year's morning. but if there was a hard brexit,

which so many people feared according to the spanish foreign minister, you would see it right there. you would see long lines, which has happened in the past. about 30 minutes, an hour, or more. and that's what they wanted to avoid because there's such close economic ties between the two. but gibraltar's airport which is at the rear of that live-cam picture, and at its port, it's shipping, that would have european border agents according to the plans because it would be an external border to come not just into gibraltar but also the european-union zone. >> cyril, many people look at this and say, okay, in many ways, the agreement has been done. but then, lots of other issues that remain. talk us through the stand-out issues that you have yet to reach an agreement on. >> well, you know, the eu and the uk have only agreed on a deal for their trading relationship. that was massive. it was huge. we are talking about 700 billion

pounds of trade, a year. so, it was huge. but that -- that doesn't include everything else that makes a rich and deep relationship between the two sides. so, as far as defense is concerned, there is no plan to cooperate. as far as foreign policy is concerned, there is no plan to cooperate. as far as services, you mentioned it, are concerned, well, there is no agreement on that. so, the financial services that are such an important part of the british economy can no longer be sold in the eu. and as far as professional qualifications, for instance, architects or accountants, those are no longer recognized in the eu. now, i can't rule out that there will be deals on those specific things, going forward. but for the moment, there aren't. >> al goodman in madrid. and cyril vanier, in paris. thank you, to you both. happy new year. now, the military adviser to iran's supreme leader is warning president trump not to turn the new year into, quote, mourning for americans. he spoke, after the u.s. sent

b-52 bombers to the middle east saying all american bases in the region are within the range of iranian missiles. this comes as the u.s. threat level from iran is the highest it's been since the u.s. killed top-iranian general, last year, if you remember. the head of iranian military elite-quds force is now suggesting retaliation for the killing could come from someone within the united states. cnn's oren liebermann has more. >> reporter: much of the focus, in terms of what might be a response from iranian proxies or iran, itself, has focused on iraq. and that's because senior-defense officials say they see evidence and intel iran is moving short-range ballistic missiles into iraq and they see coordination between militias in iraq, as well as the quds force. that is the elite force of iran's revolutionary guard corps. they say there is also evidence of planning in stages and such complexity that it would require

irani iranian support. that led one senior defense official to tell cnn the current threat level is at the highest level since the killing of soleimani one year ago. another senior defense official tells cnn there is no corroborating intel of an imminent strike or an imminent attack from iran. as such, the current position of the american military is one of deterrence. sending b52 bombers to the region. that would be the second time this month it happened. u.s. navy announcing in a fairly rare statement that two cruisers have gone through the persian gulf. to try to send a message to iran that the u.s., if it wants, if it had a reason to, could unleash fairly powerful force in the region and could do so fairly quickly. these accusations are baseless, that iran will defend its interests. iran's foreign minister.

is something going to happen? it is an open debate at this highest levels here. mark milley is keeping a close eye to see how it develops over the weekend here. oren liebermann, cnn, at the pentagon. >> you are watching cnn "newsroom." still to come. as we say good-bye to 2020, take a look back at the moments that defined a year that was unlike any other, in recent memory. that is next. >> five, four, three, two, one. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days

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hello and a happy new year to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. coming to you live from our studio in london. new year celebrations around the world were much quieter affairs due to the pandemic. but people everywhere were hoping for brighter days ahead. take a look. ♪

new york's times square is normally packed, as you can remember, for the annual ball drop. but covid restrictions limited attendance to small numbers of invited guests. on the other side of the world, a spectacular, fireworks display greeted 2021, in cairo, egypt. well, 2020 has been, i think it's fair to say, an eventful year. months of deadly pandemic, devastating, natural disaster, shifting, political circumstances. and cnn has been with you through it all. our clarissa ward takes us back

through the year. >> reporter: it's been a year we'll never forget. in 2020, we witnessed world-changing, paradigm-shifting events. all, happening under the cloud of the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. and cnn was there, every step of the way. >> he was very scared. >> this is no longer safe. >> reporter: a stretch of bad events started off the year. wildfires engulfed australia with apocalyptic scenes. >> we cannot see the fire, but we can certainly smell it and feel it. >> reporter: burning up to 73,000-square miles, about the size of the state of south dakota, and killing an estimated 1 billion animals. >> this is not normal. >> reporter: lives were lost, and thousands of homes destroyed. >> a day after claiming that iran's top commander was

planning to attack a u.s. embassy. >> reporter: the death of iranian general, qassem soleimani, led to days of terrifying tension between the u.s. and iran. >> saying there would be some sort of response from the iranians. >> reporter: threats of war, and iran's retaliatory attack on iraqi bases housing u.s. troops. >> god damn! >> not going to lie, i was scared at the moment. but it was something we were ready for. >> reporter: just hours after iran launched that ballistic-missile attack on two u.s. military bases in iraq, a ukraini ukrainian passenger plane was shot down in iran killing all 176 people on-board. >> new video seems to show a missile strike, as a fast-moving projectile flies across the sky, before striking another object. >> wolf, cnn has obtained new footage.

cctv footage that appears to show the dramatic and extraordinary force of the impact, as that ukrainian airliner slammed into the ground, in tehran. >> reporter: meanwhile, in china, a strange, new virus began to spread. its presence, a silent clock counting down to the time it would bring the world to its knees. >> you have got to grasp the scope of this. 20 million people. that's what we are talking about. >> we notice a good number of people rushing to this train station. this railway station is located just a few blocks away from the seafood market. the epicenter, according to health officials, of this virus. >> coronavirus is showing no signs of letting up. >> it was back in december when lee sent a message saying a patient from the hospital he worked showed a patient had coronavirus. but hours after hitting send, wuhan city health officials track lee down, questioning where he got the information. >> reporter: the doctor would

pay for his life with his bravery. like thousands of other, medical professionals on the front lines all over the world. shutdowns followed, across the globe. life as we knew it seemed to grind to a halt, overnight. >> reporter: the month of march was a month of daily death. you just need to look at the death notices here. this woman died on the 7th of march. this man died on the 8th of march. >> you not only see the this disease. >> reporter: trapped passengers hoping, in vain, for a place to port. the virus made its way around the world like the grip reaper, taking victims as it spread its wrath. >> last night, it was his wife of many years who passed away.

>> this video shows patients lying on the floor at a madrid hospital. >> these are bodies and if just watching the video is difficult, imagine going through those containers, in person, looking for your dad's body. >> reporter: on march 11th, the world health organization declared a global pandemic. >> pandemic is not a word to use lightly. >> reporter: by then, life as we knew it, already long gone. millions across the world, living for months under strict lockdowns to try to stop the spread of the virus. face masks became a familiar sight, and social distancing, a way of life. in early august, lebanon was struck by a massive, deadly explosion. sparked by the detonation of thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate. killing more than 170 people, and injuring more than 6,000 others. >> this is where cnn's office

used to be. >> something of this magnitude, so unnecessary. this has pushed the rage, felt by the lebanese population, to unprecedented level. >> reporter: in 2020, cnn exclusively exposed a factory in ghana, backed by russia, that was actively aiming to influence the 2020 u.s. presidential election. and let me tell you, anderson, it's not where you might have expected it to be. >> this is the compound where the operation has been based. there is no sign for an ngo. we are about an hour outside of the city. >> reporter: and a cnn investigation identified russian fsb operatives, who trailed putin's nemesis, alexei navalny, before he was poisoned. >> i get out of the bathroom. turn over to the flight attendant. and said i was poisoned, i'm

gonna die. >> reporter: after a difficult spring, fighting the covid-19 pandemic, most of europe opened back up for the summer. but despite the short respite in the summer months, the virus, back with a vengeance in the fall and winter, in europe. >> the germans are doing now is they are putting stricter lockdown in place, a lot earlier than anybody would have thought. >> a troubling headline coming from the uk. >> worry growing over a new, covid variant. >> the implications of this new variant, that could be 70% more infectious but not more deadly in the uk are growing. >> french border is closed. all day long, we have seen these police officers turning these 18-wheelers that you see behind me around with their goods. >> reporter: worldwide coronavirus cases hit 73 million, in december. there were 16.5 million in the united states, alone. and more than 1 million deaths, globally. a uniting, global goal in 2020, a vaccine. and by december, we saw the

first-approved vaccines administered. >> let the mass-immunization program begin. 90-year-old margaret keenen making history as the first person in england and, indeed, the world, to receive the pfizer-biontech vaccine outside a trial. >> reporter: a moment of hope, 2021 will be the beginning of the end of a pandemic that spares no one. clarissa ward, cnn. still ahead, covid-vaccine distribution is hitting snags in both the u.s. and the uk. we'll find out how policy, as well as infrastructure issues are complicating efforts to get people protected. we will bring you that story, next. kraft. for the win win.

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well, even as the world hopes for a fresh start in 2021, the tragedy, of course, with the

coronavirus pandemic will still be with us. much of that hope has been riding on vaccines, and despite recent approvals of pfizer and moderna, the situation remains dire in the united states. getting the shot in the arms of those who need it most is proving difficult as a lack of public-health infrastructure is slowing progress. and even here, in the uk, policy issues are frustrating caregivers. aren't welcoming the government decision to extend the period of time between the second vaccine. in the last hour, i spoke to chair of the british medical association's general practitioners committee. and he explained the problems the decision was creating. take a listen. >> our key concern is the practicality of doing this, so quickly. we were only told, in the last day, that we were expected next monday to rechange all of the

appointments we made next week. so, all of the elderly patients in their 80s, 90, some over 100, were going to be cancelled. and we have to rebook many more patients into those slots. it was simply not practical for our staff to do that in such short space of time. so, commitments we have made to our elderly patients to give their second vaccine to be honored, certainly in the next few days so we can focus on protecting them properly. but also, then, look at the information chief-medical officers have provided around the reasons for the 12-week gap between vaccines. so that we can, then provide that information to our patients for the future. >> let me ask you about the pfizer vaccine, in particular. because, you know, for a while, we have been talking about the fact that it's more effective within the 12-week period. but now, that's all changed. does that change the -- the effectiveness of the vaccine, do you think, doctor? do we know? >> well, we -- well, we need the scientific information to be

able to analyze that very carefully. and we also need pfizer, themselves, to be confident that this new dosage regime is going to deliver effective coverage and protection to our patients, particularly our most vulnerable patients. people who have been shielding, been self-isolating for eight, nine months. who are desperate to get full protection from this deadly infection, as quickly as possible. and now, we have disappointed so many hundreds of thousands of those patients by telling them they can't get their second jab until another two or three months. but we need the assurances. and both of the chief medical officers in the government, also pfizer, themselves, to be confident that, when we inform our patients that this is the right thing to do, we are doing it with the best of intent. >> our thanks to dr. richard there. well, president donald trump is signaling his support for a scheme to contest the counting of electoral votes in joe biden's victory.

late thursday, he tweeted his support for missouri senator josh hawley, who plans to object when congress certifies electoral college votes on january the 6th. republican sources say 140 gop representatives, also, will oppose the counting of those votes. and to be clear, this will not change the outcome, but merely delay the certification of president-elect joe biden's victory. let's get more. natasha lindstaedt is a professor of government at university of essex. she joins me now in england. natasha, good morning to you. happy new year to you. let's start with the developments out of washington. first, it was republican senator josh hawley who said he would vote against certifying joe biden's win. but now, we are hearing at least 140 others will do the same. how dangerous is this, even if it's just a delay tactic? >> well, you're right that it is going to delay the outcome. it's not going to change it. but it does set a very dangerous precedent for our democracy. i mean, you hear about contested

elections happening in newer democracies, in ukraine or mali or ivory coast. you don't really hear about it happening in an established democracy, like the u.s. now, in newer democracies where you have weaker, democratic institutions, and where democratic norms haven't been established yet, these types of things can happen. but it's unheard of in the u.s., because we have a commitment to democracy. we wouldn't have ever thought of this happening, in 2008 or 2012, when obama won because he was running against mitt romney and john mccain. it appears that there is a very different type of republican, now. the party has almost mutated into something that is unrecognizable. and is really seems to be attacking democratic norms. i find it to be highly dangerous because, at the end of the day, it's really all about our belief in democracy. and the elite play an important role in cultivating these types of beliefs. but a recent poll from

quinnipiac university revealed only 60% of registered voters thought that the election was unfair. that is so, so problematic. this could happen again, where baseless claims are laid out there, and then, we decide. okay. we might overturn an election. that really will be the end of our democracy, if that ever does happen. >> and like you said, you know, president donald trump has virtually, actually zero chance of changing the results. there have been no credible allegations of any issues with voting. so, my question, why actually pander to president trump or whatever this game is? >> well, it's definitely a very dangerous game, and i think senate majority leader mitch mcconnell did not want this to happen. was trying to convince senators to not engage in these types of antics because it is very dangerous. there's a real gamble here. i think some of these republicans either think their republican voters don't care about what they do. or will be punished severely if they go against trump. so, they're making a bet here

that, if they do this, they are going to gain the favor of trump. and that trump is so important to the republican party and to their future chances that this is something that they need to do. >> but, natasha, he is leaving in, what, three weeks or so, office. so, loyalty, perhaps is a bit late, at this stage. so, how much of this is personal gain? or -- or -- or are they just trying to tap into president trump's base? >> yeah, that's the question, and i think it's a little bit of both. they think this is going to curry the favor of trump, who can be very ruthless on twitter if you decide to disagree with him. they think maybe the voters approve of these types of actions. but you, also, see that in republican party, there are some cracks. i mean, not a lot. but you have republican senator ben sasse of nebraska criticizing josh hawley, the senator from missouri who decided to do this, to protest -- criticizing this

move. there are other republican senators who disagree with this. and then, of course, it's not going to lead to anything because the outcome is already determined because you have to have vote -- majority vote in both chambers. and the democrats have majority in the house. so, all these antics, all these ploys, as ben sasse mentioned, is a very dangerous ploy, and it's something that these republican senators may find will bite them in the end. and republican house members, who are agreeing to do this as well. >> and that was natasha lindstaedt, professor of government at the university of essex speaking with me just a short time ago. still to come here on the show. we are saying good-bye to 2020, and hello, 2021. we will see how countries across the globe brought in the new year. that's next.

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2021 is starting off with cold fronts and harsh rains in the united states. nearly 70 million people from maine to texas are on the winter alert for winter and ice. our derek van dam explains. >> happy new year, everyone. we are ringing in 2021 with a whole list of weather hazards impacting the eastern two-thirds of the u.s. we have the poe ten tential fore storms today, including atlanta, georgia. full-on ice storm taking place across portions of the midwest. and on the coldest side of this storm system, hefty snowfall totals expected across portions of oklahoma, as well as kansas and northwestern missouri. we have over 65 million americans impacted from this storm system. you can see, the winter-weather alert stretching from new england, all the way to central texas where 2 feet of snow fell from this storm system, yesterday, when it was centralized over the state. now, it's evolution over the

next 36 hours. calls for that rain-snow mix in st. louis, as well as chicago and detroit. some hefty snowfall totals, again, on the northern side of the storm. and look at these ice-total accumulations. up to a half an inch of ice possible across the spine of the appalachian mountains, stretching into the lower midwest region. you can see, anywhere from springfield, illinois, all the way to kansas city. the potential for a third to half an inch of ice accumulation. and, of course, that weighs down tree limbs and power lines. that's why we have over 30,000 customers without power from the storm system as it continues to move throughout the region. atlanta, georgia, strong storms and damaging winds possible, as 2 to 3 inches of rain falls across the region. back to you. >> thank you very much, derek van dam there. and that does it for me, for today in london. thank you so much for your company, on this new year's day. i want to wish you all a very happy, and very healthy 2021.

stay safe. "new day" with alison kosik is up next. if you want to get in touch with me, you can reach me on twitter or instagram. before i leave you, here is a look at how the world said good-bye to 20 -- 2020. happy new year, everyone. bye-bye. ♪ ♪

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