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title 42 which allowed the government to bar asylum seekers due to the pandemic is set to expire in just days. cnn is live on both sides of the southern border as reportedly 10,000 migrants are waiting in two mexican cities for the journey into the u.s. as that rule is set to lift on wednesday. we will have the latest from the scene and you can see -- well, it looks like a camp site there along the border coming up. first we start in d.c. where the final public january 6 meeting will happen in just a few hours. legal affairs correspondent paula reid joins us now. this is quite big news from this committee. plans, it seems, for multiple criminal referrals including against the former president. >> that's exactly right, jim. this is a big day on capitol hill. the january 6th committee is effectively presenting its closing argument after over a year and a half of investigations. this meeting really marks the culmination of their probe. now, they are expected to make

two big moves today, there aren't going to be any witnesses it's not that kind of hearing, they will make two big moves, the first will be the most significant and these are these criminal referrals that they are expected to announce. these are recommendations to the justice department for possible prosecution. now, we know that former president trump is expected to be referred for three different crimes and they include insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the federal government. we know they are also considering potential criminal referrals for other individuals but it's unclear if that will happen today or at all. what is the effect of these referrals? they are largely symbolic. we know the justice department is already investigating former president trump and his associates for their roles in january 6. that investigation has been handed off to special counsel jack smith. so there's no guarantee that a referral means an indictment, but it is incredibly significant to refer a former president to

the justice department in this way. now, the other big move they're going to make is they're going to vote on their final report. that is the summary of all the things they've learned from the nearly thousand witnesses they have spoken with, all the documents they have obtained. we're going to get a summary of that report later today after the meeting, but the full final report that they're going to vote on, that won't be released until wednesday. now, some viewers at home may be asking why are they doing all of this on a holiday week like this? most people are focused on their holiday plans, last minute holiday shopping but the fact is that the committee they are under a deadline here. republicans are expected to take over the chamber next year, they are also expected to dissolve this committee, so this is really their last chance to get their findings before the public. but it's unclear if it's going to have the effect that they hope, given the timing. >> we will be watching to see. paula, appreciate it. thank you. all right. as we await final word on which criminal referrals the committee will send to the doj we should also find out about the panel's decision on holding the gop

lawmakers who defied their subpoenas accountable. >> cnn's senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz joining us with more on that angle. what more do we know about the thinking this morning. >> sn. >> jim and erica, the way they approached this is they want to investigate and maybe legislate as well and to do that they had to gather a lot of information. they cut subpoenas ultimately to five republicans in the house, those people are gone leader kevin mccarthy, representative jim jordan of ohio, mo brooks of alabama, andy biggs of arizona, scott perry of pennsylvania. all of those people are backers of donald trump and mo brooks was one of those people speaking on the ellipse, scott perry was one of the people we know behind the scenes was very much advocating for this idea of election fraud. so now congress has to figure out how do they hold those people accountable if they want to be able to have power with their subpoenas. representative adam schiff was asked about this yesterday on

cnn by jake tapper. here is what he was saying. >> we will also be considering what's the appropriate remedy for members of congress who ignore a congressional subpoena, as well as the evidence that was so pertinent to our investigation and why we wanted to bring them in. is it a criminal referral to another branch of government or is it better that the congress police its own? >> censure? >> well, censure was something that we have considered, ethics referrals is something we have considered. >> so criminal referrals we are talking a lot about that related to possibly donald trump and maybe some others, but one of the things -- there's other options that the committee also may have whenever they make referrals, one of them would be an ethics referral to the house ethics committee. we will have to see if they do that with these five people, but when you step back all of this comes down to how does congress police its own as schiff said,

what do you do if they cut a subpoena and there is no response? >> remarkable day. katelyn polantz, thanks so much. joining us to discuss former federal prosecutor elliot williams and errol louis for spectrum news. i'm curious just from your perspective, elliott, as it was laid out by paula reid this is really in effect a closing argument by the committee. what do you think they need to do today? >> it's just lay out in effect a roadmap for where the country or the justice department goes after this. look, the american people and public saw these eight or nine hearings over the course of the summer that laid out a bit of a case for the wrongdoing that happened on january 6th. now the next question is, well, where do we go from here? whether it's criminal referrals or even setting aside the criminal question, bar referrals for attorneys who engaged in misconduct, those are actually much, frankly, easier to achieve than convicting people of crimes. so really it's just laying out

the steps that -- you know, they've done their work that will end on january 3rd when there is a new congress, now the question is, justice department, take it from here. >> errol louis, i get the symbolic argument and they are because the doj has its own investigation here and they are going to decide whether to indict or not to indict based on what they find. that said, this is a committee, it's bipartisan, i know many republicans don't look it that way but you have two prominent republicans serving as vice chairs, kinzinger and liz cheney. they're going to make criminal referrals right up to insurrection, including against a sitting president, current candidate, right, for 2024. nothing exists in a political vacuum in this city certainly. the doj is also aware that this is a committee that has got a lot of evidence and testimony. i wonder is it true that this is not impactful for the doj's decision? >> well, what the department of justice does in the strictly

legal sphere is very much matched, just as you're implying, jim, by a political impact and this committee very strategically and very smartly structured this like a television drama. they hired, in fact, a television producer to help them make the points clearly, concisely and repeatedly, and there's evidence, of course, that that seems to have worked. not just the outcome of the midterm elections, but also polls showing that people are concerned about the fate of democracy. so their work, you know, really sort of spans the legal and political spheres and whatever they do by way of referral is going to have a political impact. i mean, donald trump isn't just a former president, he's also a current candidate trying to get his old job back and with or without an investigation, with or without a conviction, it's going to be one more thing hanging over his head as he tries to get on to the campaign trail again. >> as we look at what we're expecting here in terms of these criminal referrals for the former president, based on what

we know publicly, elliott, can you read into which areas the doj or the special counsel may be focused on that could perhaps align with those criminal referrals? i know they're not taking their cues but based on what we know publicly. >> certainly obstructing an official proceeding that's the clearest path, i think, for the justice department to follow because the president and the folks around him knew that there was a congressional proceeding happening that day and even by the admission of many people, sought to impede the completion of congressional duties that day. the question is whether the justice department feels they can establish that beyond a reasonable doubt in a criminal trial remains to be seen. again, same thing conspiracy to defraud the united states, it's relatively straightforward, at least as an allegation. now, whether you can get that to convicting somebody, of course, is a far more challenging question. insurrection will be much trickier because the language there will be providing aid and comfort to individuals who

engaged in a rebellion against the united states. now, anecdotally we can say that we watched violence happen that day, whether it rises to the criminal definition of a crime that's very rarely charged in american history will just be tougher to prove. >> errol, for a lot of questions about whether trump is running in spite of these investigations or perhaps in part because of them, right, that he sees his race, his race for the nomination, as something of a defense. is that part of his calculation? >> well, you know, that's what everybody seemed to think. there was certainly a lot of talk about that up until the moment he announced, and then think about what's happened since then, jim. he's held no events whatsoever. no public campaign events whatsoever. he had that very embarrassing outing the other day where he met with a white supremacist and then he's talking these digital

trading cards. it's not clear what the heck he's doing. certainly not presenting himself as a former president that would entitle him to special consideration in regards to these important questions. when it comes to insurrection, you know, the president was impeached, that second impeachment included charges of insurrection which a majority of the house and a majority of the senate found to be substantial. it was 57 senators, that's more than -- that's more than half, not enough to remove him, but certainly something that the department of justice and the american people should take seriously that this charge of comp insurrection is something that donald trump has never really answered for. >> not crucial alley the reap leader mitch mcconnell. elliott and errol, thanks for both of you. be sure to stick around for cnn's special coverage of the committee's final meeting that begins at noon eastern time right here on cnn. still to come this hour, cnn is live on both sides of the u.s. southern border as the end of what's known as title 42

looms. the biden administration insists, quote, we have to follow the court order and let that statute end. the mass of migrants building in mexico waiting for it to expire this wednesday. that's coming up. plus passengers share their harrowing experience on board this flight from phoenix to honolulu. severe turbulence leaving 36 passengers and crew injured. and as so many gather for the holidays this week, some good news about the flu, but also a warning for one illness you really still need to be a little wary of. stay with us. ♪ what will you do? ♪ what will you change? ♪ will you make something better? ♪ will you create something entirely new?

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we are keeping a close watch on this looming humanitarian crisis on the u.s. southern border. two days from now this trump-era pandemic policy which is known as title 42 will end. that happens wednesday. you may recall the measure was implemented in march of 2020 in an effort to slow the spread of covid-19. border agents have invoked that measure allowing them to quickly turn away more than a million migrants. >> authorities in the rio grande valley have counted between 900 and 1200 migrants per day, now it is estimated that as many as 10,000 people could be waiting in total to cross into the u.s. from mexico as title 42 ends. cnn is live once again on both sides of the border. cnn's david culver in mexico. we will begin in ed lavandera in

texas where a state of emergency has been declared now. ed, what does that state of emergency mean? >> reporter: well, the city says that the state of emergency will help them get the supplies they need in terms of food and shelter, but it also has provided the city the ability to move a lot of the migrants that have been sleeping on the streets of the city here into hotels, other shelter that is starting to come online as well. all of this in anticipation of what is going to happen here in a couple of days. where the mayor of the city now says anywhere from 4,000 to 6,000 people could be coming into the city of el paso once title 42 is lifted on wednesday. but there is a great deal of concern that the city and everybody is not quite ready for the logistical nightmare that could very well unfold in these areas once -- if the numbers of people expected to cross the border does indeed begin to come

to fruition here. that is one of the concerns that officials have as they await wednesday and they say that the situation here is going to continue to be tense, it's been described as one of the biggest challenges the city has ever faced in terms of migration numbers and this is a community that is used to seeing surges of migration, but they say that this is not something that this city has ever seen. it will be a real true test of the humanitarian efforts that the city has long provided to migrants coming through this region. >> ed lavandera with the latest from el paso. thank you. on the other side, as we mentioned, david culver standing by directly across the border in mexico. the situation there as we know, dire, we see the images, david, of migrants camped out on the border. what do you see? what are they telling you? >> reporter: hey there, erica and jim, yeah, ed is just over on that side and to your point

folks have been on this side as kind of a staging ground for a good while. you can see perhaps as we kind of -- we're going to shoot into the sun a little bit, but you can see this group now making their way -- that's actually on the u.s. side so they've already crossed, once they get closer to where we are they will go up a hill and start the processing. to your point, erica, people being camped out, this was a campground even when we were here a month ago and stayed that way for many weeks. let me show you what happened late last month as officials here decided to clear it out. there was a clash between mexican police and the estimated 3,000 or so folks who were calling this space home. all the tents, hundreds of them were collapsed, some of them burned and they were taken away. that shows you just some of the struggles they're facing in this city as well when it comes to migrants. i talked to the mayor here just yesterday and i wanted to get a sense of if he's in communication with his counterparts just over the border in the u.s. >> we have a lot of

communication. we work together. >> what is your biggest concern when it comes to wednesday and what could happen with the lifting of title 42? >> the real concern, you know, the real problem we can have -- and we are talking with american authorities is they have to try to process them quickly. >> reporter: as you see people crossing behind me right now, he says processing them quickly. that is his biggest hope, jim and erica. because, of course, he doesn't want the backlog on this side in his city. he's hoping they simply continue on through the u.s. where they're continuing to cause backlog there. guys? >> goodness. seeing people's tents set on fire just alarming. david culver, thanks so much. now to the white house which has faced criticism, bipartisan criticism for its handling of the border. cnn's mj lee joins us now. mj, the white house is pushing back on calls to extend title 42, including from democrats

such as joe manchin. what's the administration's answer? >> reporter: jim, first of all, the big day really is wednesday for this white house. that is when title 42 is expected to expire, this trump era policy that has so far allowed authorities to quickly dispel migrants coming to the u.s. border and ahead of that expected expiration on wednesday as my colleagues across the u.s. border have been reporting on for days, we have seen a surge of migrants arriving at the border and officials only expect that surgery to intensify after wednesday and the administration, you're right, has faced a lot of questions and criticism about its preparedness and whether it has done enough to be able to process what is expected to be hundreds and thousands of people coming to the border to try to get into the u.s. we saw just over the weekend how senator manchin who is a democrat calling on biden to find a way or ask for an extension of title 42 and what is the white house's response to this this morning? one official telling me that

that's simply just not something that is on their radar right now. the officials saying we have to follow the court order. a court is requiring us to lift this on december 21st. we are required to do it. so that's pretty clear on where the white house stands. again, on these calls for biden to potentially try to extend title 42, i should also note the administration has gone to lengths to explain that the -- for a number of months has been making preparation toss try to deal with this suspected surge like hiring extra border patrol personnel, like building temporary facilities and upping resources especially when it's related to transportation, but i have to tell you obviously what we're seeing on the ground, those images, they have been concerning for a lot of elected officials and that concern has not just been coming from republicans, but democrats as well. jim and erica? >> mj lee with the latest for us from the white house. thank you. still to come here, extreme

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severe turbulence resulting in a mass casualty emergency on board a flight from phoenix to honolulu. some three dozen passengers and crew members injured on sunday when the plain hit the turbulence. it was a half an hour before the hawaiian airlines flight landed. emergency responders took 20 people to hospitals, among them a 14-month-old child. >> joining us now cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean. pete, listen, we have all experienced turbulence on a plane, we've seen incidents where it gets bad, this is seriously bad, dozens injured. >> this doesn't help calm the fears that everyone has about turbulence. 17 passengers injured injured, three members of the crew. often we see in severe turbulence incidents like this that the crew are the ones who

are hurt the most often just because they are up and walking around doing their duties. so that is the new breakdown we have just gotten from hawaiian airlines and first responders on the scene in honolulu. you can see the mess that these extreme forces this have airbus a-330 went through left on board this plane. other video is popping up on social media of injured passengers, the oxygen masks deployed. this was a really, really terrifying event for those on board. you just have to imagine what was going through the passengers' heads as this took place. there are big questions now about how this did come to be if the weather was bad at the time, if this was an incident where there was wind shear, changing layers of wind and speed that could have caused this airplane to get rattled around so severely. the good news is in most of these incidents the airplane itself does not get damaged, although there was a pretty significant human toll here. i want you to listen now to kaylee who was on board this flight and she said her mom was

not wearing her seat belt and was thrown up to the ceiling by this turbulence. >> the plane shook and then like it went into a should drop, kind of like how you would go into a drop on a roller coaster. my mom wasn't buckled and so i turned to my right and i saw that she was like -- she hit the ceiling and she hit the floor. >> i want you to look at the flight aware track. this can be pretty telling about what the passengers and the crew went through on this flight, hawaiian airlines flight 35 from phoenix to honolulu. you can see some of the radar depicted there. there is some moderate and heavy precipitation in that radar, if you can see it a big larger, this is a big zoomed out. that's the big question here. did this flight fly through severe turbulence because of a thunderstorm? was it because of something else? was it because of the wake of another airplane or was it because of a mountain wave scenario where there is wind hitting the side of the mountain and pushes the plane up and down. you can even see in some of the

flight aware track that the speed was really erratic, too. the crew and the passengers went through a really, really big incident here. of course, counting their lucky stars that nobody was killed. >> is that the kind of weather a pilot might normally fly around? >> the issue with turbulence is you cannot see t usually you try to avoid things that are convective, meaning there is a lot of energy, heat in them, usually thunderstorms. you try to fly around that. it looked in this case like simply you couldn't get to honolulu just because of where this weather was. >> it was big. >> there are some questions there and the faa will investigate, so will the ntsb. they have looked into this big time over the last few years and they say of all of incidents involving airliners about a third involve turbulence and most of those end up with passengers or crew getting injured. >> the reason they say fasten your seat wbelt. >> exactly. sam bankman-fried once called the crypto king is expected to appear in court in the bahamas today.

the former ceo of ftx is expected to waive extradition challenges and would, therefore, likely return here to the u.s. quickly. >> federal prosecutors charged him with eight counts of fraud of conspiracy last week. kara scannell has been following this. what more could we learn? what are we expect to go hear at this hearing today? >> he is expected to appear in court and a source tells me that he is going to waive the fight against extradition. he is likely to return to the u.s. fairly quickly. he was charged with eight counts last week, he was arrested in the bahamas last monday night and appeared in court on tuesday. at that time he said he was going to fight extradition and he was denied bail. so he has spent nearly a week in a prison in the bahamas that has a fairly tough reputation and his next court appearance on this extradition issue wasn't until february. so clearly there's been a change of heart, perhaps some behind the scenes negotiations. so he's going to appear in court today. if the process moves quickly, which people expect it will, but

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zero, not 50 below freezing, but 50 below zero. we are talking about the northern plains through 3montan, the dakotas but the big chill will be felt across a large portion of the country. overnight feels like temperatures thursday night bismarck 42 below zero, rapid city 51 below zero and this cold is going to dive very far to the south. we are talking about the potential for snow flurries as far south adds jackson, mississippi. so this is part of a huge storm system that's going to be making its way across the country. high temperatures chicago, you can see only 9 degrees on saturday, new york city high degree of 25 degrees on saturday. here is the storm that's going to bring the cold. you can see all the snow through the midwest, even into chicago, we could see blizzard conditions through chicago. that's going to make travel impossible. by the time we get into thursday and friday. and then it's really all rain for the i-95 corridor, the bulk

of the snow will be well inland across interior sections of the northeast and new england, but you can see we could pick up 10 to 12 inches of snow around chicago, even portions of wisconsin, minnesota. so we are talking about big time snow and very cold temperatures. this could be the coldest christmas across the midwest as we've seen in the last 40 years. and then some areas will top, top three, top five coldest christmases. so this will be one to remember, guys. this is going to be very cold. >> i've got to start dressing for it. i always wait to dress for it, it's actually cold out, i have to put a hat on. jennifer gray, i will listen to you. >> thank you. still ahead this hour the ongoing fight to protect ukrainian critical infrastructure. russia, again, fired drones and missiles capital kyiv. moscow's latest strategy to punish the ukrainian people by hitting ukraine's power grid. that's coming up.

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ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy is publicly expressing his disappointment with fifa after he says the world cup's governing body refused to show his video message of peace just ahead of the final world cup match yesterday. >> translator: to all who value peace and life, although fifa blocked this address from being shown at the stadium before the final game in qatar, the world still heard our call. >> cnn senior international correspondent matthew chance joining us now. matthew, how is fifa responding? >> reporter: fifa as far as i understand it have not responded at all. in fact, they had indicated to us that no approach had been

made from the ukrainians to broadcast the president zelenskyy message before the final, which of course took place yesterday in qatar, but there's that video, the ukrainians have come out and they're adamant that they have been approaching the fifa through various different channels. they prerecorded a video address which you saw a clip of there from president zelenskyy and it was just a generic sort of message of peace as the ukrainians called it. they've been very critical and are very angry about the fact that fifa refused to broadcast this message ahead of the world cup final. what the ukrainians say is that they were told by fifa that it was just too political. that this is a sporting event and that politics should not have come into it. the ukrainians reject that saying it was nothing political necessarily about the message at all, but, you know, even though the game itself went off very well and it was very exciting, if you got a chance to watch it, it has left a bitter taste in the mouths of the presidential

office in ukraine and of course it's yet another thing that has darkened the whole reputation of fifa and the world cup in general over this period. workers' rights, gay rights and now this refusal to broadcast a peace message from the ukrainian president as well. >> matthew chance, thanks so much. well, right now crews in ukraine are battling damage to critical infrastructure trying to restore power, heat, other basic services during constant strikes from russian drones. officials in kyiv the capital say two people were injured in the latest barrage. they say if they did nang to take down 30 of the 35 drones fired. joining me to discuss major general james spider marks cnn mitt tear analyst. good to have you back on. >> merry christmas, jim. thank you. >> to you as well. a lot of talk and this has been consistent throughout the wars how quickly and how advanced are the air defenses that the u.s. and west are getting to ukraine

to fight this j barrage here. the latest discussion pa treat missile systems. will they make a difference between the strikes we've seen recently? >> well, it sure will make a difference. the patriot is an enhanced capability over what's existing right now in ukraine. look, by improving efficacy of the air defense capabilities and as you have described 30 of the 35 or so drones were shot down, you're going to increase that coverage that will exist and there will be very -- i would say very strongly defended -- priority targets are for protection if a structure, power generation, schools, hospitals, et cetera. so those will be protected and the patriots will give that capability. the key is how quickly can they get in and that's anybody's guess. there is a large training arm that's associated with it, there's a pipeline necessary in order to get sufficiently equipped soldiers on the ground

to work the system, but until they are you're going to see -- what you're seeing right now, these images -- the russians are going to take complete advantage of the overkill that they have right now in terms of the use of drones and dumb rockets, artillery certainly is a backup system as well. >> there has been some concern about putin potentially opening up another front for some time from belarus and it was notable that he visited belarus this weekend. the belarusian army has their own issues, but do you have any concern that that may become a reality in the coming days and weeks? >> absolutely. i mean, if the russians were to open up this other front just north of kyiv, this is where the russians were postured in advance of the invasion on the 24th of february, certainly ukrainians have to be concerned about that since all the fighting effort that's taken place has been in that southeast corner. so certainly this is a legitimate concern and it would,

you know, disburse the ukrainian defensive capabilities but what they've been able to prove on the ground in terms of their engagement against the russians has been quite remarkable. we have seen over the last nine months that we are not surprised by the ukrainian capability to engage directly with russian forces, but the russian forces have not improved their overall force structure, their leadership challenges that they've demonstrated, their incompetence when they get engaged with ukrainian forces. so i think if the russians were to do that they would find themselves in a similar situation where the ukrainians will outfox them, outmaneuver them. >> there has been some public commentary from ukrainian officials that russia is building a new offensive in the new year, a big one. i've spoken to u.s. officials who are skeptical that russia has the capability to do so. do you think that that is a genuine potential? >> i don't. as we've just discussed and as

we've seen over the course of the last nine months, the russian military has not been able to address its fundamental challenges. look, in order for russia to present a new type of russian military into the fight, it's going to be a generational change. i mean, they're going to have to create noncommissioned officers, they're going to have to get new kits, get more creativity down to the fighting level. this is a hierarchical military that only exists in a very structured environment, very high bound. they have the initiative, they don't have the noncommissioned officers and the leaders to take charge. so if they were to put additional forces on the ground, you're going to see what we've seen over the course of the last nine months which is russian forces engaged with ukrainians that are going to get slaughtered which means the russians are going to have to back up and do what we're seeing now which is launch long-range missiles and launch artillery to try to achieve their objectives, which is a battle of wills against the ukrainian people. >> scorched earth strategy it seems. major general spider marks, good to have you on this morning.

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let's start off with the flu. how is that outlook? >> so, flu numbers actually went down a little bit. so on friday, the cdc posted new numbers. looking at what happened in the weeks after thanksgiving and week to week it did go -- the numbers went down 10%. but, and i can so i this from having covered flu, a one-week dip does not mean anything. it could go right back up next week. so a one week dip does not a trend make. but let's look at the flu season thus far. flu is still terrible. doctors are getting hammered. there have been 150,000 hospitalizations and 9300 deaths. so this is been a really tough flu season this far. and it is not too late to get your flu shot and you should get it because it is still quite bad out there. >> it is tough, because it is a triple threat. you have the flu and rsv and

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