brand-new hour here on cnn. good to have you in the newsroom. i'm victor blackwell. meteorologists around the country are warning of a once in a generation winter storm. the national weather service says a mix of subzero temperatures, fierce winds, heavy snow could be life-threatening in some parts of the country. it advises the 100 million americans who are in the path of this deep freeze to start preparing now. our affiliate keyc in minnesota is starting to see dangerous road conditions. they can barely see anything here. the massive blizzard warning is coming today, and affiliate wxow

in wisconsin just fed in video of snowplows already at work. the governors are warning drivers, stay off the roads. >> if it gets that cold, if we have some of the snow and how it could move across the roads with the wind gusts, youvisibility, can get to a point where the salt and all the stuff we do to it won't work on the ice if we have certain conditions. >> weather officials are also predicting record-breaking low temperatures. casper, wyoming bottomed out at negative 42 degrees. florida is anticipating its coldest christmas since 1983, and this storm is scheduled to be at its worst, on the busiest travel day of the year. look at this video of the long lines in atlanta, go on and on and on at hartsville-jackson. we're live at o'hare airport.

pete, the number of flights canceled or delayed creeping up throughout the day. where is it now? >> reporter: we just hit 2,000 flight cancellations nationwide, victor. we're now at 5,300 flight delays. the numbers are going up every time we refresh the page. the worst part of it is it's here in chicago o'hare where delays and cancellations are the worst. about 1 in every 4 flights can be canceled here so far today. denver is number two on the list. chicago midway is number three, but what's so interesting about this is it's all happening here, a huge hub or airlines. a big one for american airlines, the biggest hub for united air airlines. i went behind the scenes at their network operation center where they are scrambling to try to get passengers to different connecting airports, and move them around the storm. it has been so challenging for airlines. they had a tough summer with cancellations. last year at this time they had

a lot of covid callout and worker shortages, and i want to listen to this representative of united and he says the airline has learned a lot since then. >> last summer with the high sick rates that we saw through the remainder of covid, we learned that we needed to have all of our resources beefed up to support the operation, all our stakeholders, our vendors, our caterers, our refuelers, and we've overstaffed in all those areas right now to be able to support the airline operation. >> reporter: the snow is just starting to fall here in chicago, but united airlines says they're pretty used to that here at o'hare. the big thing though is tomorrow the biting cold that will make it really hard for ground crews to get the job done, to load baggage, to martial planes. the high here tomorrow, two degrees fahrenheit. that will make it very difficult to get flights out of here, and the cancellations are rising for tomorrow. we are now above a thousand

cancellations nationwide here in the u.s., victor. >> pete munteen, thanks so much. l lucy cavanaugh is talking about the record-breaking temperatures. i'm pretty sure everyone else is heeding the warning, staying inside. >> reporter: all the other sane, normal people are staying inside, victor. we do not, unfortunately, have that luxury, and i should say looks can be deceiving. it looks kind of sunny and nice. it's not. it's, like, negative ten degrees. i want to show you once again what this temperature looks like, demonstrated. we have a cup of boiling water here, and i'm going to toss it up in the air and hopefully not burn my cameraman and cause a lawsuit. it's warming up. that's probably good news because people are being asked to stay out of these temper temperatures. if it's warming up, it could be

safer. we googled over dumb things to doen te do on television. this is a banana that's frozen. this is what happens when you put a banana outside. why you would put a banana outside, i don't know, but the best thing to do is not be outside unlike us. victor, back to you. >> i'll let you get back in the car. lucy, thank you. joining me now is rich giudice. good to have you. your biggest concern for the city of chicago? >> yeah. thank you. well, really the snow now 3 to 6 inches certainly in chicago. that's, you know, i would say that's a usual, you know, what i would call snowfall for us at any given time during the winter season. what we are really focusing on here is that wind, that potential wind that could be gusting, coming our way,

especially if it comes off the lake front and on the lake shore drive. a few years back as you remember in 2011, we had a situation that was a very dangerous situation, and we have done workshops around that situation in order to get us ready for upcoming winter seasons every year. >> yeah, back in 2011, hundreds of people were there stranded on lake shore drive because the snow came down so quickly and there were crashes that trapped people in. some people had to abandon those cars. are there prepositions of resources there in case something like this happens if you start getting a flood of calls in? >> yeah. you know, one thing is messaging and we had our press conference yesterday with all hands on deck here at oemc with our various commissioners and their responses for these types of weather episodes. we've put a break in the median

on lake shore drive if we need to flip cars to put them in a different direction. we have the ability to do that now. we have extra eyes on the ground giving information back to our operations center, and really just staying communicated and connected, but sanitation has a good handle on what's taking place right now, and if we have to bring in additional equipment, we're ready to do it. >> what's the window that's most crucial for you? is there a four or six-hour window where you say, this is when it's going to be worst? >> yeah. right now, we're pretty much focusing on later on this afternoon through overnight. that's when we're expecting to have the -- a bulk of a situation that will be circling and paying close attention to. we really have been for the last several days now, knowing that this is -- this is coming. so the important thing for us was to get that word out, get the message out to the public. if you have things to do leading up to christmas, try to do them

in advance, and if you have to be on the road, and you have to drive, make sure you have a full tank of gas, and make sure you have water, and stay connected to friends and family, and keep an eye out for vulnerable populations. >> talk to me about the people who don't have places to go, those who are homeless, low income. what's available for those folks? >> yes. so if there's an emergency -- yep. thank you. you broke up for a moment there. if there's an emergency, we want you to call 911. if you need a sheltering location, we want you to call 311. if you need a well-being check, call 311, and certainly we'll make accommodations to get somebody to a shelter if you do not have something available to you, to get to the nearest shelter. >> rich, i know you're going to be busy over the next 24, 48 hours. thanks for the work you do, and thank you for your time. all right. the $1.7 trillion spending bill

is now in the hands of house lawmakers after passing the senate just less than an hour ago. lawmakers are cutting it close as they race to avert a shutdown tomorrow. cnn's jessica dean is on capitol hill. so what are we expecting, and when in the house? >> reporter: right. what comes next, right? that's the big $1.7 trillion question, victor. so it is going to just physically take some time for them to get this bill over to the house, and get it all processed. not to bog everyone down in the nitty-gritty, but there were several amendments that were adopted in the senate that they're going to have to add to the bill, and then it's got to go through the procedure within the house, and what that means practically is it is likely it'll be very late tonight, early this morning by the time the house gets to this, and passes it, and indeed, we do expect it to pass and be sent to president biden's desk. again, just some top lines from this bill. $45 billion in ukraine aid which, of course, comes just after president zelenskyy in the house chamber last night ad

addressing lawmakers. also an over -- a rewrite of the electoral count act as they seek to prevent what was happening on january 6th from happening again. that was very important to a bipartisan group of senators as they worked on that legislation. so again, we are looking for that bill to head over to the house now, and it's going to be quite late or very, very early in the morning by the time they get that passed. senate majority leader chuck schumer though, very, very pleased with how this all turned out. i'll let you take a listen. >> most of what we did was bipartisan, and i believe that's going to continue. i believe that's where the republicans want to be to try and work with us where they can. that doesn't mean we'll always agree with them or get everything we want, but i think you're going to find bipartisanship continuing in the next congress more than the prognosticators believe. >> reporter: and again, as we head into the next session of congress, remember, we're in the lame duck session right now, victor. these are the very waning days of this particular session.

the republicans will be taking over the house. the democrats will inch up with one more seat, so 51 to 50 in the senate. that is what the landscape looks like heading into next year. this funding bill goes to the next year, and then they can do it all over again or have the same fight all over again in the not too distant future, victor. >> all right. that's how it goes. do it all again. jessica dean on capitol hill. thank you. so we're also getting further insight into the lengths that the trump world went to, to try to influence witnesses during the january 6th investigation. the committee just dropped the transcript of their interview with star witness cassidy hutchinson. we'll break that down next. also, a short time from now, president biden will deliver his christmas address. we'll have a preview of his message for the new year ahead. s is going through the “woof”. but seriously we need a reliable wayay to help keep e everyone connected from wherever we go. well at at&t we'll help you find the right wireless plan for you. so, you can stay connected to all your drivers

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well, today the january 6th committee released a full transcript of his interview of its star witness cassidy hutchinson. they were told an attorney of trump's said not to talk to her. there is a full transcript released just today. the committee's final report could also drop at any moment. senior national correspondent kristen holmes is with us now. walk us through what we learned from this new transcript. >> reporter: so victor, this is exactly how you laid it out. this is cassidy hutchinson in her own words describing what she says was a pressure campaign from her trump-backed lawyer and others in his orbit to get her to downplay the information she had, even at some point indicating if she was loyal to trump, that she would be taken care of, and just to give a little bit of an understanding of what we're looking at here,

these are transcripts from what events that happened in september after we saw that live testimony, and after she had left that lawyer and gotten a separate lawyer. she addresses this, and what her breaking point was, and it was a point when he was urging her no longer to cooperate with the committee, instead saying that even being found in contempt would be better than that. he said, contempt is a small risk, but running to the right is better for you, which, again, she says was her breaking point to move on from having him as a lawyer. now here's what she said pasatino did tell you. he never told me to lie. he specifically said, i don't want you perjure yourself. can you call it perjury? they don't know what you can and can't recall. then she starts talking about what she felt at this time. describing what it was like to be under this pressure campaign, what it was like to be working with pasatino, and all of these

trump lawyers calling her. she said, it felt like i almost had trump looking over my shoulder because i knew in some fashion it would get back to him if i said anything he would find disloyal. the thought of that genuinely scared me. i've seen how vicious they can be. now i do want to note that all of this is stemming from something that happened earlier in the week. we heard from the january 6th committee alleging that a trump-backed lawyer was trying to coach his client to say, i don't really. cnn then reported that it was stefan pasatino, the former white house ethics lawyer. he has not responded to the transcript, but here's what he said to that first story. he said, i believed ms. hutchinson was being truthful and cooperative with the committee throughout several interview sessions in which i represented her. victor, i want to be clear. this is not the only mention here of some kind of person

trying to be coerced into saying, i don't recall. there was talk of an aide to mark meadows saying it's okay if she says she doesn't recall. there's a lot in here and i would really encourage people to read the whole thing through because it really paints a picture here of what cassidy hutchinson says is this pressure camp campaign. >> kristen holmes, thank you. with me now, michael moore. he's also a partner at moore hall atlanta, and cnn political analyst. welcome to you both. running to the right is better for you, and they don't know what you can and cannot recall. is there criminal exposure here for passantino? >> i'm glad to be with you both. it's about the lousiest legal advice that i have heard in awhile. basically putting your client in jeopardy of a contempt citation and at the same time putting

yourself at jeopardy for criminal charges if you are trying to be to instruct or intimidate or threaten in some way a witness. we don't know exactly what the threatening part was, other than getting back to people in the organization, but there may also be professional licensing. i don't know what they give up to practice law over that kind of advice. there's no way to make it look good. it was bad advice, and improper, and, you know, it was interesting to me to hear that he did not tell her specifically to lie, and that there's not that direct link that donald trump told me to tell you this. we haven't seen that yet. so not a good day for the lawyer in this case. >> natasha, listen. we hear that cassidy hutchinson defied the pressure, but the question is, and we really may never know the answer to this, were there are others who did succumb to the pressure from these trump-aligned lawyers and

how much do we not know that potentially could have been shared with the committee? >> victor, i think your head is in the right place on this. the first thing i thought to myself was, wow. this makes cassidy hutchinson's testimony that much more monumental, right? now that we know what was happening behind the scenes. this is a 20-something who didn't even have a lawyer secured when the press release dropped that she was being subpoenaed. she didn't have the hundreds of thousands of dollars to get somebody lined up, and so therefore she felt this pressure to go along initially in her first testimonies when she had passatino representing her. it's that much more monumental she resisted this, but it does make you wonder for those who pleaded the fifth, you know, over a hundred times. we're talking about folks like john eastman, roger stone pleading the fifth. think about what was happening around them, the forces that

were supporting them, basically shutting down and not sharing what they know. you're right that we may never know, but this makes that testimony that much more important. >> natasha, i'll stick with you. we were expecting the report yesterday, but one can understand zelenskyy was in washington. maybe they didn't want to step on the president's new cycle. fine. we were told it would come this morning. we're now closing in on 3:30 eastern. we don't have it. once we get it, what are you looking for first? >> that's a great question. i mean, i think that we all -- the january 6th committee did an excellent job of telling a story. they painted a picture about the environment, the energy on the ground, the absolute fear, and also just the ways in which donald trump contributed to what happened that day, and i think that maybe that is really the closing argument for them, emphasizing the ways in which he was connected to what happened

on the ground. when you look at some of the summary that we're reading now, they used so many quotes from folks who were on the ground, who were talking about the influence of the president and how much it mattered that their president was telling them that democracy was under attack. so i think that is the final step, right? if a man like donald trump is unfit to serve as liz cheney said, they have to make that closing argument strong enough that america is clear about how to move forward because he is running for president in 2024. >> michael, same question. what are you looking for? >> i'm really looking for the connection to trump. that's the one thing that we have been missing in a lot of the reports, and that is the direct connection to him, not to his aides, not to his organization, not to his staff, but to him. remember, this report is really written like a prosecutor's closing argument. we haven't heard the defense closing argument. we haven't heard the cross examination yesterday. a lawyer might question ms.

hutchinson about what she was specificallied to, what she felt, who she wasn't told, who she did not hear from that day. those kinds of things that can maybe weaken, i guess, this report, but also put it in a different context. the more that the committee, the more the prosecutor, the more the special counsel can make those connections directly to the president, the stronger it gets. the more it goes on, this is a gift for a prosecutor, but i also may have some lumps of coal in it for them to deal with down the road. >> michael, so the first 34 transcripts we received, they had in common this pleading the fifth. we saw it from john eastman. we saw it from michael flynn, kelly ward of the arizona republican party. how will the department of justice be able to get more from these people than did the january 6th committee in the house? >> well, i mean, that's usually the trick.

you have investigative powers, and they will be able to subpoena people. they can't subpoena people who they didn't identify as targets. if they decide they're going to use somebody as a witness and not prosecute them, they can grant them immunity to testify as it relates to somebody else. they can give them immunity in the grand jury for that, and for the statements they make. so they do have some ways around it that these folks can wrap themselves in the fifth amendment as they did. they're going to have to explain to a judge, why we need the fifth amendment, why we think it sticks and the prosecutor is going to come back and say, look. we're not going to charge them with this. we want their testimony about the people higher up. we're not interested in the mid level or low level folks. we want the people organizing at the top of the scheme, and so we're willing to give them immunity for those things. >> michael moore, gnatasha alford.

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rights. they have suspended now all university education for women until further notice, and have now reportedly ordered some schools for girls to be shut down. [ chanting ] the announcement led to protests near kabul university. women marchers could be heard chanting either everyone or no one, and one for all. earlier secretary of state anthony blinken underscored his support for the women of afghanistan and said there would be consequences to the taliban if they do not change course. >> what they've done is to try to sentence afghan women and girls to a dark future without opportunity, and the bottom line is that no country is going to be able to succeed, much less thrive if it denies half its population of the opportunity to contribute. any prospect that the taliban seeks for improved relations

with the world, with the international community which is something that they want, and we know they need, that is not going to happen, if they continue on this course. >> cnn's donna bashear is here with more. what if any reasons have they given for doing this? >> reporter: for the first time since that announcement on women's university education in afghanistan was made on tuesday, we have now heard directly from the taliban's minister for high education. he spoke giving a press conference on this issue and said that the taliban had come to this decision based off of violations of the taliban's islamic values in his words, namely dress code violations by female university students and also what we described as unsanctioned interaction between men and women at universities. take a listen to what he had to say.

[ speaking non-english ] >> translator: those female students going to universities were instructed to obey full hijab which was also not implemented unfortunately. this may be implementing today or tomorrow, but unfortunately after 14 months, it didn't happen. girls were going to universities with clothing like women go to wedding parties. >> look, convictor. this is not the first time we've seen the taliban enforcing their strict restrictions on education. since their take last year, we've seen women's rights being eroded. we've seen women and girls sixth grade and above told they weren't allowed to continue going to school. we have heard from three principals from three separate g girls' schools in kabul that they were ordered by officials to close the schools indefinitely. it was worth noting that the schools are currently closed for

break until march which is the beginning of the new academic year, but this is a concerning development and it's unclear how far reaching this policy will be, and of course, we have seen frustration and anger both within afghanistan and beyond in response to these new restrictions. we've seen protesters taking to the streets. university women and others protesting on the streets of kabul, but we have seen widespread condemnation from the international community. as you heard from secretary blinken, the united nations, the g7 nations and the european union, human rights watch has described this as a shameful decision. >> thank you. president biden is getting ready to deliver what the white house is calling a christmas address just a short time from now. cnn's phil mattingly is standing by at the white house. what are we expecting to hear from the president, fiphil? >> reporter: victor, this

thereby an assessment of where things stand at the end of the year. after an historic day yesterday after the visit with president zelenskyy, it looks very clearly that his significant $1.7 trillion spending package is on the pathway to passage. we're looking out a year for the white house officials, they viewed as particularly when you compare it back to maybe january of this year where much of the legislative agenda seemed dead. it felt like they were in pretty bad shape economically, and there were very real political questions going into what was going to be a midterm year, the president and his team feel like they're going to be in a you have many better place right now. something that was underscored by the economic numbers that they've seen over the last couple of weeks including the gdp revision earlier today. we're going to see an element of looking back a little bit, by also looking forward, and perhaps most importantly where things stand right now, and you can just see it over the course of the last two to three weeks at the white house. the fact that people are gathering, and yes, covid is still an issue to some degrees. white house officials acknowledge that, but this has

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we're just getting this in. wisconsin's governor tony evers has signed an executive order declaring an energy emergency in the state because of the winter storm. this irstorm is already impacti airports. derek van dam is here. what are you seeing? >> some airports are going to get a gut punch as this arctic

blast moves in. let's say now you're in nashville. it's about 50 degrees. we want to pay attention to this temperature here, and the windchill that of course, is what it feels like on your exposed skin, and what i'm going to do is advance it about six hours, just before midnight. there comes the arctic air crashing in, and we drop a whopping 30 degrees, and that's not as extreme as some of the other locations. we had a 43-degree temperature drop in colorado and in wyoming yesterday, just incredible. now let's start paying attention to atlanta because overnight and into friday morning, that's when your temperatures start to plummet very quickly so you can see how this advances east ward. this is dangerous cold, and when we're talking about windchill values, negative 70 and some locations across the plains, that means that the potential for frostbite exist, certainly. victor? >> derek van dam for us. thank you, derek. congressman-elect george santos says that next week he will address questions about the

recently uncovered discrepancy in his resume and the ones discovered in his life story. santos claimed his grandparents fled the holocaust, changed their names and converted to catholicism to escape naziism. cnn national correspondent jason carroll has more. >> look. as i always say, i'm jew-ish. >> reporter: throughout his campaign, republican congressman-elect george santos would refer to himself as half jewish or a latino jew, often telling his grandparents' story, how he says they survived the holocaust as refugees and changing their surname to survive. here is how santos explained it just last month in an interview with a jewish syndicate. >> i'm very proud of my grandparents' story. my grandfather fleeing ukraine between stalin's persecution,

finding refugee there. marrying my grandmother, and fleeing to brazil. that's a story of perseverance. >> reporter: it's a story that may not be true. his misrepresentations of his family history first reported by the jewish publication "the forward," and his story contradicted by numerous sources reviewed by cnn's files. records from the holocaust museum, and the international center on nazi persecution which keeps records on jewish refugees shows no mention of santos' grandparents. one genealogist who helped him research his family tree at cnn's request said there's no sign of jewish and/or ukrainian heritage, and no indication of name changes along the way. >> i'm so proud to be able to keep our family going forward and showing that not only did we survive, but now i'm able to go advocate and fight for other jewish people. >> reporter: santos has not

responded to cnn requests about his family history, and discrepancies with his resume and biography. people are perplexed. >> they're asking me, how can somebody tell this scale of lies and get elected? >> reporter: among the seeming representations confirmed by cnn, santos' biography has at times claimed he earned degrees in finance. cnn found in at least two separate interviews he received an mba from nyu. >> today i stand very proud with a bachelor's and master's degree. >> reporter: a spokesman for nyu saying something different. the university records do not reflect anyone with that name having attended nyu. while a spokesperson for the other college cannot find anyone

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