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top of the hour now. i'm jim sciutto. lots of news. temperatures plummeting as a powerful arctic blast tightens its grip across the country. we're talking blizzard warnings. life-threatening cold and travel delays sadly more physmillions what is being described saz a once in a generation is being formed. here is andy bashear. >> this is going to be really dangerous. this is really, really cold. you need to stay inside. and hunker down. we have time to position assets across the state to be ready to respond. >> also this morning, russia is reacting after ukraine's president zelenskyy made his historic visit to washington on website addressing the congress. what is the kremlin is warning

following u.s. and ukraine's remarkable show of unity. but first breaking news and this just in, senate negotiators have reached a deal on the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill which will keep the government running well into next year. cnn chief correspondent manu raju joins me now. manu, we thought we were there and then last night there were more hiccups which seems to happen with the senate but it does look like this is getting through. >> there is a dieseeal now or v. there will be about 17 amendment votes and moving to final passage of the bill. it is significant because it requires a consent of all 100 senators to reach an agreement to have an actual vote in the senate. that is the rules of the senate. they do have that agreement from all 100 senators after some back and forth and a lot of negotiations over this massive bill. that is already almost three months late. they have to fund the government by september 30th and then punted it to december 16th and

then they punted the new deadline to this friday to avoid a government shutdown. and they didn't unveil the legislative text until tuesday morning at 1:20 a.m. and since then there has been a fierce push by leadership to get this done. this this would fund defense, and epa and aid to ukraine, something that president zelenskyy pushed for last night. and it has key policy measures including the overhaul of 1887 electorate count act, that is the law that governs how congress could count the presidential votes, something that president trump tried to exploit and any future president would be able to do by trying to get the vice president to disregard this electoral votes.

but now that they have this agreement expect it to move through the process today and then hon to its house tonight and tomorrow as congress wraps up its session for the year and republicans in the house are prepared to take power next year. jim. >> a lot of pieces in there and the electoral count act significant given the events of january 6, 2021. thank you so much. >> thank you. now back to a story impacting a majority of the country now. dangerous arctic blast. our team is covering severe weather across the nation this morning. we begin with lucy kafanov in december. i was feeling for you and your team when we spoke last hour as the teams plunged there. boy, it looks cold. sfr >> reporter: yeah, it hasn't gotten warmer and i live the live shots when we go against all experts and do what you're not supposed to do when is stand outside for a prolonged period of time. and the reason you're not suppose to dod that in denver,

it is the coldest day in 32 years, negative 11 degrees and the windchill making it feel like minus 24. it will not warm up until friday. folks are being urged to stay indoors. this is being described as a once in generation storm. a dangerous cold front which came on so quickly last night, jim. you and i were talking in the afternoon, and we saw highs of nearly 50 degrees. it was warm. by evening, the temperatures plummeted and by 24 degrees in as little as seven minutes. that is a massive drop for anyone outside. you're definitely feeling the pain. denver sat moment and colorado itself is dealing with two crisis. we have this bitter arctic front but like many other states dealing with the influx of migrants and so denver since early december has seen about 1,300 migrants arrive from the southern border. many from south and central america. organizations here have been

desperate to try to find shelter for these folks, especially in these bitter temperatures. denver's mayor speaking out about this twin crisis yesterday. take a listen. >> so it is not just denver. as the storm arctic blast going across the nation, new york and minneapolis who are also seeing a surge of migrants are saying the same thing. not only are we worried about people being outdoors but we're at a breaking point in terms of resources to be able to accommodate people. >> reporter: and again there are shelters over at the denver coliseum as a warming center but folks are being urged not to stand outside and be careful with the unprecedented cold. >> listen to that advice. lucy, thank you so much. and cnn's pete muntean is at chicago's o'hare international airport, where, listen, i would prefer not to be on a day like today as we're seeing

cancellations. but airlines saw this coming. i mean, i wonder how bad do we think that this disruption is going to be? >> we think this is going to be a doozie, here, jim. the airlines knew this was coming and they've been trying to warn passengers and reroute flights, change resources and make everything as smooth as possible. because they knew this was coming right for some major hubs. just check flight aware, we're talking 1,466 flight cancellations in the u.s. we've seen that go up by a few hundred just since the start of the morning. the issue here is that this storm is coming for some really major hubs. chicago o'hare, here is number one on the cancellations list. about one in four every flights here has been canceled. but think about this. this is a huge hub for american airlines. it is the biggest hub for united airlines. behind the scenes at united airlines, at the network operations center, they're scrambling to move passengers to

other connecting airports, trying to scramble to save some of the trips. earlier in the week, the airline warned passengers they may want to leave early and we've been talking to passengers, i want to listen to them. some of them actually did take that advice before it starts snowing in earnest here. >> we left extra time, because there is so much -- the lines are huge. so leave a lot of time. >> be patient, and plan ahead. they're doing the best they can. so far so good for us. we came early enough to hopefully make it and hopefully our plane will take off today before we get out and get to orlando to see our family. >> did you change your plans at all? >> with we pushed our flight up a little bit and we left our house an hour earlier than unusual. >> reporter: things should be back to normal by saturday. the issue is not the snow that is yet to come, but the biting cold, the high forecast temperature here tomorrow, jim,

2 degrees farenheit. that makes it really hard for the ground crews to load bags and do the work that needs to be done just to get the airplane off the ground. that is the difficult part here. >> it is nice to hear the travelers say they're doing their best because it is hard to swallow all of this when you're running into the road blocks. so what could passengers do, your flight is canceled, say when it comes to flight waivers to make the most out of the situation and hopefully to get to wherever they're going before christmas. >> reporter: there are two big tips here. airlines have published the travel waivers, including more airports that are not included in this. so if you can reschedule your flight, if your flight touches one of the hubs like chicago o'hare and it is on the travel waiver for most of those airlines, you should just try and rebook for a nonstop flight. that makes it you so don't get snagged in cancellations at a major hub. sand often times airlines are

overselling flights. so if they ask you to volunteer to get off, drive a hard bargain to get $500, or a $1,000 to get off the flight to get stuck in the airport. and download the airlines app and that is how you get cancelation and delays and try to find a new flight if it happens to you. >> it is not fun to get those cancellations texts. thank you so much. with so many flight delays and cancellations, people are bound to take to the roads. even more than they do normally this time of the year. more than 100 vehicles in south dakota were skrtranded after blowing snow and low visibility made it impossible to drive. everyone impacts is safe and accounted for. so now at local warming centers. paula joins me now, the senior vice president of aaa travel. paula, so listen, folks are driving this year. tens of millions of people, are driving.

what kind of conditions should they look out for as they're making that decision? like a point where it is like this is not a good idea. >> well they should be looking out for everything. plan ahead and that is what we always say. so you should be looking at the weather forecast, checking radar, in the area that you're in, the route that you're taking, where you're going, some of the common sense things that you would think, but really have to plan ahead. and make sure you're vehicle, if you are going, is equipped, check your battery and your emissions and your tires, make sure the roads are not dry that you are not using cruise control, that your abiding by the speed limit and going lower if you have to and equip your vehicle with extra things. water, snacks, blankets, coats, and flares, emergency kits. be prepared for anything and do it in advance and leave a lot of time ahead of time before you leave. a lot of it is judgment. you need to look at the path and make good judgment calls. >> that is the most important

thingbas you don't want to get into a situation like we saw in south dakota. but say that unfortunately you go out and the weather changes, you're caught out there. what is the safety advice for passengers caught in a dangerous situation like that? >> well, hopefully you're in a safe spot or try to move over to the side or off the road a bit so that you're not in a passageway. stay in your vehicle, if you're running your car's engine, make sure you're doing that intermittently and hopefully the right supplies and hopefully you brought an extra battery chargers for your phone and you don't want to start walking anywhere unless it is close to something. so a lot of it is common sense. and planning ahead could help alleviate some of these things. and roadside service will be busy and we have to be patient. the 102 million people will be driving over this holiday from the 23rd, which is tomorrow, all the way to january 2nd.

and all different days will be busy. so we really have to have some common sense here. and take those precautions ahead of time. very similar to air travel that you just described. >> much better to make the decision in advance than to find yourself in that situation. paula, thank you so much. >> thank you. still to come, we are awaiting the much anticipated release of the january 6 committee's full and final report. it is going to happen sometime today. what that report could reveal about the attack on the capitol. and next, tanding united in the face of vladimir putin. more on president biden face-to-face promise to the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and his historic speech showing ukraine's strength in the face of tyranny. >> -- will never surrender. [ [ applause ]

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overnight, a remarkable show of unity on capitol hill. [ applause ] >> a largely bipartisan response as you see the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy handing nancy pelosi and kamala harris a ukrainian flag, if you look closely there, you'll notice is bears the signatures of those from soldiers in the battlefield. his mission on on this mission to make the case to american public directly and for the need tor sustained aid, both military and financial to ukraine. joining me now to discuss,

jeanne shaheen of new hampshire. a senior member on the foreign relations and armed services committee. good to have you on this morning. thanks for taking the time. >> nice to be with you. >> and you have a vote to get to. you're on the senate ukraine caucus and your support has been unwavering. i have heard from republican lawmakers who support the ukrainian mission and they were concerned with republicans taking over the house that that support would waiver. i wonder, did zelenskyy's speech last night make a difference in shoring up bipartisan support for ukraine? >> i think it did. i think president zelenskyy made a compelling case for why supporting ukraine in this unprovoked war against russia is good not just for ukraine and europe, but good for america's national security. and i believe there are few people on the fringes who may not support our help to ukraine, but i think the majority of the middle of congress and the middle of america supports this. >> should americans be concerned

that particularly with this visit, and u.s. support both in terms of weapons and money, didn't begin yesterday, it is been going on since the start of the war. >> right. >> should americans be concerned as this alliance is so very clear and public, that this is now an open confrontation between the u.s. and russia here, a proxy war kind of reminiscent of the cold war with perhaps increased danger of escalation. >> well president biden and his administration as well as our european allies have been very clear that we don't want to escalate war with russia. the nato countries do not want to go to war with russia. but vladimir putin as we saw in georgia in 2008 when he went in there and we did nothing, he went in crimea in 2014 and he went in syria, we drew a red line and he crossed it and we didn't do anything. we know that this is a brutal dictator and the only way to stop brutal dictator like

vladimir putin is to stand up to him and that is what the ukrainians are doing with tremendous courage and we should do everything we can to support them. >> i want to talk about another issue close to your heart and that is the situation with afghan special migrant visas. this is for afghans as you know who served with the u.s. military or the u.s. government there and now often face severe threats from the taliban. the bill is going to get a vote that you have to run to. this omnibus spending bill which has an extension of the siv program in there. how important is that to these people who served the u.s. and still remain in afghanistan today? >> i think it is critical. we made a promise to those afghans who stood by our men and women in the military and often saving their lives. that if they were threatened, we would try and help them get to the united states or someplace safe. we owe them that responsibility. and i've heard from so many men

and women who served with afghans who want to make sure that they're interpreter, the person who helped them gets to the united states because they are under threat every day from the taliban and we have thousands in the queue waiting to come to the united states. >> i should note for the people watching, that that language got in there by you, because it wasn't certain it would be in the omnibus bill. >> it was a cooperative effort and i'm so grateful that it finally got in. >> well, as you know, the sad reality is that even with this program extended, that applicants still have to wait months, even years for approval and then for a seat on a plane out of the country. i've been doing my best to help a family get out and many other americans are doing the same. can congress and the administration fix that, to speed up that process? because as they're waiting, they face real threats. >> absolutely.

we can and we should and we must fix that. our officed issued a report talking about the siv program and what we need to do to make sure it works better for people under threat and we need to do things like reauthorize it permanently so people are not waiting on the last-minute agreement to ensure that they could continue to have their application reviewed. we need to provide resources to ensure those people waiting years to try and get out of the country and get to the united states in safety, that they have the ability to get here and are not killed by the taliban. >> yeah. and it is a real threat. many of them hiding in safe houses just to survive. so the reason you have to go soon is you have -- you guys are going to vote and get this $1.7 trillion spending bill passed. >> hooray. finally. >> it has a lot in there.

but the top line figure is quite big. and it is not far off, the most recent covid relief bill was $1.9 t $1.9 trillion and some blame for b being inflationary and should folks worry that pumping all of this money into the economy might prolong inflation. >> i don't think so. this bill funds government programs that are already underway. and also initiatives that funds our military for example. there is a pay raise for our men and women serving in the military in that bill. and all of that, i think, is good for the united states. it provides certainty to not just those people who are serving, but people like the first responders in new hampshire who are dealing with still a major opioid epidemic. so i think it is very important that we get this done and hopefully get it done today. >> and then hopefully make your flight. there is some problems with those you might have seen.

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as we wait, the highly anticipated final report from the january 6 committee due out sometime today, we are already getting a look at more than 30 witness transcripts which the panel released already. many of the witnesses asserted that their 5th amendment right during all or part of their testimony. for some of them dozens of times over. roger stone pleaded the fifth when asked about his age. john eastman wouldn't confirm he wrote documents that had his name on them. and michael flynn thanked trump for giving him a pardon. joining me now, elie honig, former assistant u.s. district attorney for new york and before we get to the legal aspects, margaret, flint and eastman and stone, they pleaded the fifth to nearly every question. even someone d-- some mundane ones like how old are you? is that a legal strategy or a

defiance to say i don't recognize you guys as legitimate? >> it is certainly the latter. we know that it is the latter because that is publicly and privately what the messages from trump world has been, which is this investigation isn't legitimate, your legitimate is by participating in it but there would be a legal aspect. the real teeth is coming from the justice department or from jack smith. and i think to some extent where this all comes together is you really fee now at least at this moment in u.s. politics how little teeth congressional hearing and investigations have when there is not bipartisan unity around the cause of the investigation. >> elie honig, you have the january 6 investigation and the doj investigation. will their answers be any different to doj questions here? >> i thought this was about self-incrimination and does that also indicate to you that they're worried about

self-incriminating. >> yes. is it does indicate there is some worry here. any person is entitled to take the fifth if they believe the testimony might incriminate them and it is an important constitu constitutional tection. and how could your age incriminate you. i think part of that is a symbol of defiance. but the other part is, people when they take the fifth want to take it very broadly so they're not accused of giving away their fifth amendment right. i think it was excessive here. now the different calculation, if doj questions these people, they could still take the fifth but doj then have a counter move which is called immunity. so if doj wants to, they could say to jeffrey clark, okay, we're going to force you to testimony but not use your testimony against you and as a practical matter, we're not going to prosecute you. so that is an important strategic decision that prosecutors are thinking about right now.

>> interesting. margaret, i wonder as we see the transcripts come out already and we'll have the final report as well released, does trump team look at that and look at it nervously? >> they should be looking at it nervously because everything in this report is going to become now fair use for the justice department and for the actual criminal investigation into this where the teeth lie. i think politically, like this is now over in the context of congress. republicans are taking over in the house. this all goes away from a political perspective. but it is certainly not over from a legal perspective and all of that does have an impact to some extent on 2024 and the early wrangling for the gop nomination and at this point donald trump is not operating from a position of strength. he's claiming, his public argument is that the more you're against me, the more it helps me

in my base. it depends on how ron desantis does and how crowded that gets and the actual criminal investigation underway. >> as we see the final report released today and the transcripts that came out yesterday, is the bigger significance of that really for the doj's investigation now? because they could, of course, troll these many transcripts for potential evidence for any indictment decisions they have. >> yes, that is exactly the significance. and both sides are waiting for this report like we are eagerly. i'm sure with their red pens out. from doj perspective, they want to see all of the evidence and they need to get into the nuances of those transcripts. because doj can't just rely on sort of the testimony as packaged and presented by the committee. they have to do their own assessment and i guarantee you donald trump's team as you just discussed with margaret, yes, there is a sense of nerves and trepidation, but they're looking at this opportunistically because they're going through

the testimony word-for-word of every witness who gave harmful testimony, whether it is cassidy hutchinson, they will look for things that will help their client but this will go both ways but this is key for prosecutors and trump lawyers alike. >> and this congressional testimony was under koej, if you conflicted to the doj, that is potential criminal exposure for lying. >> if there is a square couldn't raw -- contradiction that could be aware. >> thanks, jim. >> the mayor of new york city is asking for extra money from the federal government and the city council to deal with an influx of migrants sent to his city by border states. that is coming up. i'd like to thank our sponsor liberty mutual.

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cities far from the southern border are feeling the pressure to care for the growing number of migrants entering the u.s. in philadelphia three buss from texas brought about 140 asylum-seekers. the unscheduled dropoffs make it difficult to provide help. >> it would be good to know what languages are people speaking, where are they coming from and treating them in a human way and this is not happening. >> yeah. no phone call in advance. the city of new york is looking to the federal government for aid to help migrants there. and it is set to get a substantial chunk of money via the government spending bill being voted on now.

the senate voting on amendments to the bill leading up to a final vote. a sticking point in negotiations had been title 42. polo sandoval is in new york. polo, what more is the mayor saying he needs? new york has a massive homeless crisis and now you have this influx of migrants. >> as we saw in the summer, it one issue on top of another and city leaders are not letting up in their fight for funding to be better positioned to be able to receive more migrants in a post title 42 climate, whenever that does happen. as you noted. so what we saw this week was mayor eric adams put out a proposal to the city council that they give up about half of the discretionary funding, about $600 million and a spokesperson for the city council released a statement strongly opposed that proposal and that is putting it lightly saying that would take away resources from the nonprofits that we've seen at some of the scenes at port authority receiving the buses of migrants since this summer. however, as you mentioned, there

is some assistance that is on the way in the omnibus bill in the hands of lawmakers in congress. chuck schumer, new york senator, managed to negotiate an increase from $158 million to $800 million for the cities that receive asylum seekers and we're told that new york's city's position to receive a large batch of that amount. so here is eric adams responding to that news this week. >> i think the president has a good understanding of how this is a real issue. we're able to get this omnibus bill, it has the money in this-t that we need, some of the money that we need of -- this is a national issue and that is my conversation with the president's team, that we need a national solution because it is not about just paying for -- >> standing by. we're going to the president giving updates on the winter storm. let's listen in. >> that dark red below zero.

there is dangerous and threatening. this is really a very serious weather alert here. and it goes from oklahoma all the way to wyoming and wyoming to maine. and it is a real consequence. so i encourage everyone, everyone please heed the local warnings. we've tried to contact 26 governors so far in effected regions and go to weather.gov, weather.gov for more information. and i know this is -- you know, it is like not like a snow day when you were a kid. this is serious stuff. and my team is prepared to help communities weather this, no pun intended, this storm and this freeze. and because we need to cope. they need to be able to cope. i'm going to shortly be briefed by both fema and the national weather service and we're going to start that briefing and in

the meantime, please, take this storm extremely seriously. and i don't know whether your boss will let you, but if you have travel plans to leave now. not a joke. i'm sending my staff, my staff, if they have plans to leave on tomorrow or late tonight or tomorrow, i'm telling them leave now. they could talk to me on the phone. it is not life and death. but it will be if they don't get out. they may not get out. so anyway, thank you all for coming in and i'm going to do the briefing now. thank you. >> president biden warning about the weather we've been talking about all morning. please do heed the warnings because there is a lot of danger out there and we'll be right back. i just got the new iphone 14 withth its amazing camera at t-mobile. wow! for a limited time at t t-mobile, get four iphone 14s on us. and 4 new lines for $25 bucks a line.

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right now some medicines for children are seeing a spike in demand. amid a surge of respiratory viruses. the biden administration is offering to increase access to in particular the prescription anti-viral tamiflu to states and territories that need it by tapping into the strategic national stockpile. elizabeth cohen joins us with more. yesterday i was talking to one ever our colleague who was a mom saying she couldn't get tamiflu for her child. how will this work and exactly where is it needed right now? >> so, jim, there are -- there doesn't seem to be an official nationwide shortage of tamiflu, but people like our colleague have had trouble getting it. some pharmacists have had

trouble getting the generic version of it. so the biden administration is saying to states, if you need it, let us know, because we have a stockpile with tamiflu and other drugs that was tapped into for covid and pox, and so states have their own stockpiles and if you're running low, let us know and we could give you some of what we have. let's take a look at flu numbers because they are still so high. this is a map of the united states. there are only five states here where flt high or very high levels. all of the red and orange and purple, that is high or very high. so only five states are not high or very high levels of flu. and if you look at how the flu has been accumulating since the beginning of the season, there has been at least 150,000 hospitalizations, and at least 9300 deaths. now, the problem with this flu season is not just that it is bad, but that it came so early. and so there may have been some

places that just weren't as prepared as they would have but if it had hit at like usual in say, january or february. >> elizabeth, thank you so much. benjamin netanyahu is set to become prime minister of israel. how his government is the most right wing in the history. we have more coming up.

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happening right now, two nasa astronauts are on a seven-hour space walk, that is a live picture of them floating around at the international space station. they're ip isnstalling a solar

to increase electrical power. it was supposed to happen yesterday but a russian rocket came too close making it too dangerous for a space walk. they maneuvered out of the way. they were able to get to work this morning and once the dreeb was clear and that is what they're trying to do right now. it is also the aend of a naa mission to mars. inside mars came to an end after the landers stop responding to messages from mission control after four years, its power levels just ran too low. it is original mission was only supposed to last two years so it got twice as long out of it. on monday it wrote from the lander's point of view, quote, my battery been my power is really low so this may be the last image i could send. don't worry about me, my time has been been productive and if i could talk to my team, i will soon. >> like saying good-bye to a friend. in israel today, benjamin

netanyahu is one step closer to returning to power as prime minister. poised to do so by ushering what will likely be the most right-wing government in israeli history. cnn's hadas gold is in jerusalem. netanyahu said he has formed a government. tell us exactly about the people he has in top roles. >> reporter: yeah, jim, netanyahu really taking this up into the last minute. he had the deadline of midnight last night to form the israeli president and he managed to form a coalition and in the last 15 minutes that we got the official word that he had done so. and what is concerning for many of israel's event allies around the world is who some of the ministers are going to be. most of the top missions are expected to go to members of netanyahu's only licud party and some of the people were once considered the far right fringe of israeli politics and now they will be in positions of power that could potentially help set

policies and places like the west bank and in some of the jerusalem's holiest sites and efforts to change the judiciary and the supreme court. this is causing the most staunchest allies in the jewish dais poria to expect concern. the one that people recognize is b benhere and he was convicted of supporting a jewish terrorist group and he is national security minister with power offer the police. there is none israeli setler lawyer turned politician and expected to become mission of finance and he will have a hand on the military body that determines border crossing and permits for palestinians. and he wants to abolish the palestinian authority. netanyahu said he's the one in charge and he will set policy but there is a lot of concerns that he is building a government

that he will ultimately not be able to control. jim. >> and questions about how he'll influence the ongoing corruption investigation of himself. and use his power perhaps to derail that. hadas gold in jerusalem, thank you so much. thanks to all of you for joining us today. we hope you're holiday travel if you're on your way or will soon be, goes well throughout all of the bad weather. i'm jim sciutto. "at this hour" with kate bolduan starts right now. hello, everyone. "at this hour," it is being called a once in a generation event. people from coast to coast really facing serious cold and harsh conditions with this storm setting in. plus, ukraine's president makes an in person appeal to every american. the top republican on the house foreign affairs committee joins us with his take on this historic speech we saw yesterday. and also we're showing you, these are some