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london. max foster is on assignment with the royals in boston. just ahead on "cnn newsroom." >> the first state visit. the first foreign leader welcomed. having the red carpet rolled out for them. very symbolic moment. >> how we can do more for the years to come. >> how democrats now have donald trump's tax returns. >> we would like to have all the transcripts and all the other evidence. >> when they pass this baton to the justice department, what happens then? >> there has been no suspect identified and no arrests made. >> i'm afraid we're going to have to try because we lost four beautiful souls. >> announcer: live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. it's thursday, december 1st. 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. here in washington.

u.s. president joe biden will host the first state dinner at the white house and his first since taking office. it also comes at a time of enormous social upheaval and global crises that didn't exist just a few years back. this summit between president biden and french president emmanuel macron underscores the critical alliance be between the two cup be tris. the two leaders and their wives shared a quiet meal at a restaurant in washington wednesday night. tonight's a state dinner which is a rare and lavish dinner that spares nothing. music, celebration and gourmet food. cnn's phil mattingly has our report. >> reporter: for any u.s. president there is no question the first state visit, the first foreign leader welcomed, having the red carpet rolled out for them, it is a very symbolic moment, very substantive moment. there's no question both of those elements will be front and

center when french president emmanuel macron comes to the white house. this is a later first state dinner due to covid. however, no less important to the white house given the state of the relationship between the two leaders. there's no question when you talk to white house officials they point to france's role inside the eu and inside a critically important trans atlantic relationship. also the relationship between the two men. several meetings on the sidelines of big summits, multiple phone calls between the two in regular contact over the course of the last several months. there are foreign policy issues to deal with. there's no question about that. there are also very real domestic issues president macron is going to bring to president

biden. it's one of the domestic pieces of legislation. it serves as protection elements and that will be brought up and likely a point of contention. what won't be is a reliance on the relationship with each other and china and an animating feature of president biden's position. what matters is the pomp and circumstance. when you talk to white house officials, they talk about how much work has gone into this, entertainment, dinner. president macron came into washington, d.c., on tuesday making the rounds to some degree. the big time and moment will be when he enters the white house, a fully formal affair, bilateral meeting where significant amounts of policy will be discussed and then the dinner itself. they can kickback, relax, listen to music and eat good food.

it's the symbolism of where france sits in the view of the president, the president has long been viewed as a trans atlanticist. this is more important now than perhaps ever before. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. cnn's jim bitterman joins us now live from paris. tell us what both parties are hoping to get out of this meeting. >> reporter: well, i think, bianca, phil outlined some of the things from the u.s. perspective but from the french perspective, we have a blunt assessment of things yesterday when president macron spoke to a group of mainly french observers in washington, d.c. here's what he had to say. >> translator: what has happened in recent months is a challenge for us because we are starting to have differences on energy issues and the cost of the war is not the same in the europe

and in the united states. but most importantly, the choices that have been made, for which i share the goals, in particular the inflation reduction act or the chips act, are choices that will split the west. >> reporter: in fact, that danger of splitting the west is one of the things that macron has been talking about for some time now. the inflation reduction act, the french and to some extent the europeans smacks of protectionism. they're going to talk about energy difficulties in europe, mainly related to the ukrainian situation. but, in fact, the price gouging that they believe, the europeans believe is going on with the supplies of l&g gas. supplies have been raised completely over what they were a year ago. in fact, the prices are something the europeans object to, bianca. >> jim bittermann live in paris.

the house passed two bills on wednesday, one that would hold rail companies and workers to what was agreed on in september and the other would require up to 7 days of paid sick leave a year, a key sticking point in the negotiations. it's unclear if that provision will have enough support to pass. the unions representing 100,000 workers threaten to strike if there's no agreement by late next week. trading gets underway on wall street in just a few hours. the markets are looking to stay hot after a speech by federal chair jerome powell. here's a look at the futures. a bit of a mixed bag. two of the indices down at the moment. >> powell said the central bank may be ready to slow the pace of interest rate hikes. the dow added more than 700 points moving into bull market territory. cnn's mark stuart has more.

>> reporter: hi there, bianca. any decision about a future interest rate hike won't come until the federal reserve meets in december, but chair jerome powell is giving a bit of an appetizer about what to expect. speaking to an event on wednesday, the fed chair said smaller hikes are likely coming in december but didn't provide any specifics as to the size and frequency of future rate hikes. and the fed chair was very cautious saying, quote, despite some promising developments, we have a long way to go noting the fed has not seen clear progress on inflation. >> it is likely that werestorin price policy will take some time. history cautions clearly against prematurely loosening policy. i will close by saying we will stay the course until the job is done. >> reporter: the labor market is a big part of the inflation equation. here in the u.s. we saw the number of job openings drop in

october. the labor market is still tight and adding to the challenges, bianca, if you look at the third quarter gdp data, the u.s. economy saw growth, including a rise in consumer spending at a time when the fed wants to quell demand. bianca? >> and good news if you are hitting the road. gasoline prices in the u.s. are down again. according to aaa, a gallon of regular unleaded is averaging $3.47. that's down 12 cents from last week and 29 cents from a month ago. the gas price tracking company gas buddy is tracking a national average below $3 a gallon by christmas time. early voters are flocking to the polls with five days and counting until georgia's runoff senate election. officials say more than 830,000 people have already voted. almost 12% of all the voters in the state. democratic incumbent raphael warnock is facing herschel

walker. neither won a majority earlier in the month. democrats have already clinched the control in the senate but winning them one more seat would give them more power in committees and judicial appointments today. later today former president barack obama will hit the trail. the lieutenant governor says he can't get behind either candidate. >> i showed up to vote this morning. i was one of those folks who got in line and spent about an hour waiting. it was the most disappointing ballot i've ever stared at in my life. i had two candidates i couldn't find anything that nad sense for me to put my vote hand. so i walked out of that ballot box showing up to vote but not voting for either one. i'm in the same spot that hundreds of thousands of other republicans are in. we want real leadership to navigate us through the mess and mier that we're seeing play out in washington, d.c. for the first time in history a black member of

congress will lead one of the two parties in the house. democrats have picked new york congressman hakeem jefferies to lead them. it's a historic shift of this generational change. >> hakeem jefferies elevation is a turning point in the history of the united states congress. never before has an african american leader or any leader of color held a top position for either party in either chamber. >> he'll succeed nancy pelosi who's led house democrats for the last 19 years. on wednesday jefferies explained how he would approach his new leadership role, which includes reaching across the aisle. >> house democrats fight for the people. that's our story, that's our legacy, that's our values, that's our commitment as we move

forward. get stuff done. make life better for everyday americans. we look forward to finding opportunities to partner with the other side of the aisle and work with them whenever possible, but weigh will also push back against extreme ifrm whenever necessary. >> new details are emerging about the investigations into the january 6th attack on capitol hill. the house select committee said after more than a thousand interviews the final one was conducted on wednesday and no more testimony is expected. on friday they will discuss potential criminal referrals. meanwhile, the u.s. attorney general says the justice department wants access to all transcripts and evidence collected by the committee. >> we would like to have all the transcripts and all the other evidence collected by the committee so that we can use it

in the ordinary course of our investigations. >> merrick garland also praised the justice department's victories including the convictions secured against several members of the oath keepers militia for crimes against the insurrection. >> these convictions were the result of tireless work by justice department agents, attorneys, analysts and support staff beginning in january 2021 with a methodical collection of evidence and continuing through the presentation of that evidence during the seven-week trial that began in october of 2022. their skill and dedication are in the very best traditions of the justice department and we are all extremely grateful to them. >> house republican leader kevin mccarthy has told the january 6th committee to preserve all of its records. he's vowing to become the house leader and mccarthy has vowed to

hold hearings on alleged security breaches. he's one of five republican lawmakers who refused to comply with a subpoena to appear before the committee. it's likely this is just a taste of what's to come. >> reporter: elections have consequences. republicans soon will have the power to hold hearings. they issued this order, this instruction to the january 6th committee to preserve records. i don't think they need to be told that. we should get used to this. we're going to see kevin mccarthy do an investigate the investigators thing on the january 6th committee. let's remember, kevin mccarthy and jim said merrick garland, clare your calendar, clare your docket but relating to the mar-a-lago search. now we should get used to seeing the republican controlled house. they can't stop or derail a

criminal investigation, but they can make life difficult and complicated former rick garland and the justice department and i look for them to do that. meanwhile, another house committee has donald trump's federal tax returns. that includes records about trump personally and several of his businesses. it's the end of a long legal battle. the president has fought tooth and nail to keep those private. we have more from washington. >> reporter: after a year's long court battle, members of congress finally have access to six years of donald trump's federal tax returns, so now the question is what will the house ways and means committee do with these returns? will the public ever get a glimpse of them? the immediate answer to that question is, really, no. the public won't get access but they could eventually become public down the road. members of congress have been fighting to get trump's returns for years because they say they need to know if and how to reform the presidential audit

program and really they want to use trump as a baseline to determine what kind of financial conflicts of interest might have been in play for trump and maybe even future presidents. on thursday the committee's actually going to get a legal briefing how to proceed getting access to and using trump's tax ret returns. of course, democrats only have a few more weeks in power before republicans take over so they are scrambling to tie up their loose ends on investigations including this one. if tax returns are ultimately released to the public, that could impact trump's run for president in 2024. he has refused to release his own taxes. a "new york times" tax return showed trump paid no federal income taxes at all beginning in the year 2000 because he reported losing significantly more than he made. the public could potentially get more details if those tax returns now that congress has access to it are eventually released a little bit wider.

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. in the world cup, argentina stay alive and even thrive giving superstar lionel messi another shot at that elusive trophy. no suspects in the murder of four idaho college students. what police are saying about the killings being a targeted attack. plus, the u.s. west coast is bundling up with millions under winter weather alerts. we'll have the latest forecast. >> yeah, that's right, the snow will be piling up in feet over the western u.s., but not just across the mountainous regions. some cities will actually feel the impacts from the wintry weather. i'll tell you exactly where coming up after the break. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more e restful sleep per night. proven quality sleep. only from sleep number. i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi.

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a base jumper in utah has survived a horrifying accident that was caught on camera. we must warn you the video you're about to see is disturbing. it shows him slamming into a cliff during a jump on saturday. but then his parachute got stuck in the cliff side. he was left dangling at 70 feet above the ground. witnesses said there was no way for them to reach him.

rescuers got to him after two hours. he's in stable condition. it's going to be a freezing morning for states along the u.s. west coast. more than 10 million people under winter alert. derek joins me with the information. >> there's two storm systems going to impact the western u.s. we're going to see lots of snowfall especially in the higher elevations. i talked about it before the commercial break. we'll see snow in the lower elevations including in the cities. seattle, salt lake city and eventually into denver as well as billings, montana. look at the radar imagery. there's the first storm moving through. that impacts the sierra nevadas, rockies and the storm system moves in friday evening and

saturday and impacting sunday for the western parts of the u.s. over 10 million americans under winter storm alerts. this is a winter storm watch in colorado and utah. pay attention to the sierra nevada range across central portions of california. 1 to 3 feet associated with these storms moving through across the weekend. with the storms moving in we do have a lot of wind to deal with as well. wind advisories, high wind warnings in place. even some watches across the front range of colorado. here's the accumulation. good news for the ski resorts, they continue to pile up the base. get it ready for the upcoming holiday season. across the eastern half, recall 24 to 36 hours ago we've had severe weather tear through the area. here's an image from central mississippi. a tree toppling out of the area. there were no fatalities. the storm system has pressed on

eastward but not before leaving this destruction. over 100 reports of wind damage as well. that storm damage has cleared. now we have the wind behind it. that is kicking in the lake effect snow machine and half a foot of snow for places like water town and into the buffalo area as well. quick look at your temperatures, bianca. it is feeling more like winter out there. >> derek van dam, good to see you. thank you. >> you, too. > lava from the mauna loa volcano is threatening to shut down one of the main roads. residents have to drive all the way around the island if it is shut down. the plans can change based on how it flows. just like in hawaii, two

volcanos are erupting in alaska as well. these images show them. these eruptions are considered low level, not nearly as big as mauna loa. scientists say pavlof is erupting over the area and they're showing signs of unrest. we're just hours away from the next crucial showdown. on wednesday all eyes were on argentina who despite a slow start to their campaign have secured their spot in the knockouts. this was the reaction in buenos

aires as they defeated poland 2-nil. that means legend lionel messi will get to go for the tight tall he -- title he covets. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: not surprisingly, quite quiet this morning. argentina fans celebrating long into the night at stadium 974 not wanting to leave, having seen their side book their place in the round of 16. lionel messi said he was angry after missing that penalty against poland but not a bad consolation prize for him and their team booking their place in the next round which really at one point seemed quite unlikely, didn't it, after that

shocking defeat to saudi arabia in the opening game. people watching on the field. quite a turn around from the argentina side showing some of the signs that took them to the 36th game unbeaten run in the lead into this tournament. perhaps we should be talking about them as potential title winners again. they beat poland 2-nil. poland must be thinking lady luck. they'll be sending flowers to saudi arabia. poland is going through on goal difference. saudi arabia and their fantastic squad is heading home with the mexicans, but it condemns mexico to an embarrassment from a national perspective.

they've become the first mexican side to miss out on a place to end the round of 16 since 1978 and football is a brutal game. their coach has already lost his job. there are, though, as you mentioned some fantastic games in prospect today. the second side in the world talk of unrest in the campus. they know they need to win their match against croatia to have any chance of going through. the 2010 champion spain, they take on germany's conquerers. japan knowing they just need a point to book their place into the round of 16 and what a match we have in prospect for germany. four-time winners on the brink of what would be another really embarrassing greek stage exit.

they have to beat 2014 quarterfinalist costa rica if they want to keep their hopes of continuing in this tournament alive. it's a fighting tour from costa rica and their coach. he said his side is relishing of upsetting the odds but germany is saying his team are going to set out to kill this one off early. and that means stephanie frakar, the referee, will need to be on her toes. history set to be made there. she will become the first female referee to lead a match at a men's world cup. she's used to leading the way. she was the first female referee in the league and the first female referee in the uefa league. from the time i've spent with her over the years, she will be determined that this match is not about her. she does not want to be the center of attention. she wants it to be the football writing the headlines. >> amanda davies in doha, thank you so much.

family members are speaking out with a warning for parents after a so-called catfish triple murder in california. we'll have their message for you just ahead. new details as law enforcement agencies work to find a suspect in the brutal murder of four idaho college students coming up.

welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm bianca noboilo. u.s. president joe biden will host french president emmanuel

macron at the white house's first state dinner in his term. more than 10 million americans are under winter weather alerts on the u.s. west coast. some places are expected to get 2 to 3 feet of snow. officials are now saying they can't be sure four brutally murdered university of idaho students were targeted. they said they believed the killings were a targeted attack. the murderer is still at large and no suspect has been named as students return to school. a candlelight vigil was held at the university of idaho wednesday night. students came together to remember the four classmates killed more than two weeks ago and heart broken parents remembered their children. >> see how good people can be

when something terrible happens. they show up and support. >> make sure to spend as much time as possible with those people because time is precious and it's something you can't get back. >> investigators are working to put the pieces together following the so-called catfish murders in california. they said a former state trooper struck up an online relationship with a 15-year-old girl pretending to be a teen himself before he traveled across the country and killed the girl's mother and grandparents. the man was later killed by sheriff deputies. the girls' relatives have a warning for other parents. >> this horrific event started with an inappropriate online romance between a predator and a child. >> the child, a 15-year-old girl, is still in protective custody undergoing trauma counseling and receiving extensive medical care. after a law enforcement officer

allegedly brutally killed her mother and grandparents. >> we have possible murder victim, multiple victims. >> then set the family's riverside, california, home on fire and took off with her driving for two hours until a pursuit ended with her fleeing the car and the suspect shot and killed by law enforcement. the suspect, 28-year-old austin lee edwards was hired in virginia by the washington county sheriff's department just days before the murders according to law enforcement and was a former virginia state trooper. >> we asked the same questions you all asked. how did this person get past a background investigation. how did this person get past a polygraph investigation. >> reporter: police say edwards developed an online relationship posing as a teenage boy. >> this was an adult that traveled across the country to kidnap a 15-year-old girl to kidnap her and kill and devastate her family. >> reporter: police unsheer if she was kidnapped or coerced.

>> we don't know if this was the first physical encounter. it's possible it was. we also don't know if she knew that he was coming to california. >> this was a case of catfishing and much more according to police where the suspect impersonated another individual for the purpose of exploitation. >> this type of victimization takes place across every platform, social media, messaging apps, gaming platforms, et cetera. >> reporter: police and the victim's families are urging parents to talk to their children and monitor them. >> please, please know your child's online activity. ask questions about what they are doing and whom they are talking to. >> i work directly with the national center for missing and exploited children and in 2021 they received over 22 million reports from service providers and the community for exactly this sort of thing. >> reporter: and what is your message to parents out there? what guidance do you give them

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. an american citizen who's behind bars in russia has been unable to contact his family for a week. that's according to the brother of paul whelan who's serving a 16 year sentence for alleged espionage. paul was moved to a prison hospital on november 18th. his brother rejects that partly because whelan didn't mention

any hospitals in the phone calls they had after that day. his brother also says it's unusual for paul not to call his family for that long, especially around thanksgiving. the state department says the u.s. embassy in moscow is pressing for updates. spain says it's discovered a third suspected bomb in two days. on the same day a similar device was safely deactivated in a spanish military manufacturer but now officials say another suspicious envelope was discovered at a spanish air force base thursday morning. it was found while going tore a scan. the military base later called police to analyze the envelope. officials said one of the two earlier devices apparently came from ukraine. ukraine has used modern western weapons against russia's army with devastating effectiveness. kyiv is still a long way from winning the war. now the u.s. is considering

giving ukraine a leg up by providing advanced training in battlefield tactics and the impact along the front lines could be discovered. >> noga proved yet but the idea is they would scale up their training to ukrainian soldiers, potentially training up to 2500 ukrainian troops on a u.s. base in germany. they'll be trained on more sophisticated battlefield tactics. we have a training program here in the u.k. for ukrainian soldiers. that's basic level training. the idea behind this, it would provide more information on how to do infantry maneuvers, particularly with artillery. that's super important. advanced battlefield tactics there. if the biden administration does go ahead with this. there is already the groundwork

there in germany to make this take place. the key question is does this change things on the ground? experts will tell you, yes, it absolutely could. more advanced training will help soldiers on the ground. this is absolutely a war of attrition on the front lines. there's an opportunity with the winter when fighting does slow down. we'll see if the biden administration does approve it. more signs of support for that counter offensive. >> always good to talk to you. thank you. internet users in china could soon be punished for liking posts the government considers harmful or illegal. the new rules take effect on december 15th and are in response to recent protests against harsh covid restrictions. health officials are taking steps to ease some of the covid curves. let's bring in cnn's anna coran from hong kong. they're saying these are a direct response to the protests.

>> reporter: yeah. it seems that they're relenting, doesn't it, bianca. we don't know if they're going to scrap zero covid altogether but certainly these are heartening signs for the people of china who have been living under these incredibly draconian measures for three years. the rest of the world has got on with living with covid, not china where this zero covid policy has been in place. we then have these protests that have sparked around the country, you know, on a scale not seen for a generation in china. this has really spooked the government and as a result, you know, we are seeing in the last day or so an easing of restrictions in major cities like beijing, shanghai, gu guang zho and people are happy to hear from the vice premier. they need to adopt a much more

human centered approach. let me read to you what she told the news agency. she said with the decreasing toxicity of the omicron variant, the increasing vaccination rate and the outbreak control and prevention, the containment faces new stage and mission. there was no mention whatsoever, bianca, of zero covid. she just spoke at a national health commission which has also indicated that china's policy must be rectified in dealing with covid. so people are heartened. people are hopeful. we saw scenes today much people driving, riding their bicycle, i should say, through guang zho in hong kong. yelling out unsealed. we are unsealed. these roads have been barricaded. but certainly there is a feeling that things perhaps are changing

in china. the government hoping that by giving the concessions maybe the protests will stop. >> anna, thank you. coming up on "cnn newsroom," as the prince and princess of wales have day two in the united states, there is controversy back home. the face of whoa. some are o of intensity, others, joy. all are of - ahhhh. listerine. feel the whoa! in two seconds, eric will rerealize they're gonna need more space... gotta sell the house. oh...open houses. or, skip the hassles and sl with confidence to opendoor. wow. request a cash off at opendoor.com

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like previously. energy saving lights on the new tree will be powered by a generator instead of the city's power grid. the decorations will recognize international aid. the charging station will also be available for people to charge their phones when they visit. the new prince and princess of wales are on their first overseas trip to the u.s. since the death of queen elizabeth ii. they will be awarding the earth shot environmental prize. as max foster reports, their visit is being over shadowed by a racism controversy back in the u.k. >> reporter: pretty good welcome for the prince and princess of wales here in boston culminating in the earth shot prize giving which is about finding solutions for climate crisis and financing those solutions with some big prize money as well described as prince william's super bowl moment really. in the meantime they are getting to know the city.

they were here at city hall. lit up green. they went to a boston celtics game as well. we'll see them out and about in the city trying to get to know as much as possible. the emphasis really on climate and some of the other interests the couples have and want to express really whilst they're here. a lot of the conversation has been over shadowed back in london. the guests grilled about her her heritage. she kept on repeating she was from the u.k. but a senior royal aide kept asking where they were from. where the people were from? the senior royal aide has had to step down. an investigation is underway. we will wait to hear the results of that investigation. max foster, cnn, boston. the european union's digital chief warns elon musk that twitter needs, quote, huge work or it could face penalties including fines. in a meeting with e.u. officials

musk was advised the company would need to comply with the e.u. services act. musk agreed to a so-called stress test earlier next year giving twitter the opportunity to make any needed changes. since his purchase musk has started reinstating accounts. the founder and former head of now bankrupt crypto exchange is admitting he made mistakes as chief executive. sam bankman-fried resigned last month and it quickly collapsed. almost overnight customers around the world were left scrambling to recover billions of funds they deposited. despite ongoing investigations in new york, the 30-year-old is speaking publicly about the financial collapse. >> i screwed up like i'm a ceo. i was a ceo of ftx.

i mean, i say this again and again that that means i had a responsibility. that means that i was responsible ultimately. and, i mean, i didn't. >> the new ceo of ftx says the lack of oversight was a complete failure. it's not yet clear how much if anything customers will be able too recoup in the restructuring. the world workplaces may never be the same after the coronavirus pandemic. new global pilot program finds the four-day work week is good for business and almost no one wants to go back into office five days a week. workers reported less stress and insomnia and better physical and mental health. company revenues rose 38%. most of the businesses taking part were in the u.s. and ireland. that does it here for "cnn newsroom." i'm bianca nobilo. since i don't have a four day

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