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>> > an 18 month investigation, thousands of interviews, documents, emails, phone records, and the house committee investigating january 6th has finally released its full report. it's 845 pages long with the main conclusion donald trump and his allies took part in a number of schemes to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the report makes 11 recommendations including one named squarely at trump. it's as anyone who incites an insurrection should be disqualified and barred from holding public office. the report urges congress to co divide that no vice president or other official can ever overthrow electors chosen by individual states. that's what trump wanted, as vice president mike pence to do. let's bring in justice correspondent jessica schneider live in washington at this late hour. there's so much in this report. what's the big takeaway? >> there is, john. the big takeaway is that it's finally out and they have specific recommendations about how various agencies and even

congress should move forward. of course, where nearly two years after the january 6th attack on the capitol. now, finally, the committee tasked with investigating all aspects of that attack, they finally released its report. it does come after a slight delay of nearly two days. we expected the committee to release their report on wednesday. here we are on thursday night. they didn't release it immediately because of typographical errors, some frightening issues, but it is nearly 900 pages. it encompasses a comprehensive narrative of what occurred before, during, and after january 6th. like i said, most importantly, it does lay out these 11 specific recommendations from the committee about how various agencies and even congress can move forward. you mentioned it off the top, the committee is pointing out a section of the constitution, the 14th amendment section three that clearly states that anyone who is engaged in an insurrection should be and can be disqualified from holding office. the committee is saying that that constitutional provision

should be enforced. they're not saying it directly, but the takeaway here is that they believe donald trump should be barred from holding office again, especially now that he has announced his run for 2024. in addition to that recommendation, the committee is also pushing for the passage of what's known in the presidential election reform act. that would make clear that vice presidents don't have this power to overturn elections. of course, trump believed it did, and he pressured pence to overturn the election, which pence never did, and it would never do. the committee recommending that federal intelligence and security agencies really take a closer look at the dangers of violent extremism. you know, we have seen in recent weeks, in fact, members of the oath keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy. now, trial members of the proud boys, they were at the forefront of the capitol attack. members of these two extremist groups. plus, there are a litany of new details and about what transpired around january 6th,

efforts to overturn the election, and john, very interestingly, the committee also touches on this fake elector plot. they pinpoint a little known trump attorney that really came up with this idea that fake electors in battleground states could be mobilized to come together and try to lobby to become the real electors, and to try and declare victory for trump. of course, that never actually happened, but it was a fraudulent plot that now local state prosecutors are investigating as well as the special counsel here. john, that is the next step here. the committee has wrapped up, it's report has been submitted, it will essentially dissolve once we hit january because, the republicans will take over. all of these investigations, these prosecutors at the state level, particularly in georgia, and the special counsel's office, they are moving forward on their continued criminal investigations. the big question here, john, is

whether the former president could be indicted for any number of crimes, including the fact that this committee, specifically, referred him for four crimes before the justice department. a lot remains to be seen as to how, even after this report, how things unfold when it comes to the criminal angle here, john. >> yeah, a lot to get through yet, jessica, thank you, i appreciate you staying up. >> thank you. >> > ron brownstein is cnn's senior political analyst, and the senior editor for the atlantic. he is with us this hour from los angeles. ron, thanks for staying up as well. >> thank you. >> like i said, the plot line from the committee, without donald trump, general six would have just been another day. the report says there is evidence of a multi part plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election. that evidence has led to an overriding and straightforward conclusion. the central cause of january 6th was one man, former president donald trump, who many others followed. none of the events of january 6th would have happened without him. you know, it was surprising to

read the number of moving parts this plan had, and the amount of time and planning that went into it all. >> in many ways, that's been the great contribution of this committee from the start. i mean, you know, in the chaos and horror of that today, the immediate aftermath, there was a tendency to say, well, i think what happened was a flash of peak where frustration from the president, and impulsive action of him pointing his supporters at the capitol. the fact the committee has made clear, it was the final step in a multi-pronged, multi month effort to overturn the election that, ultimately, enlisted collaboration from a large number of republican elected officials, both in congress and especially in the states. it is true that none of this would have happened without donald trump, as the committee says. the other clause that you read is also important. he could not have done this

alone. i think what you see in this report is only the glimmers of the breadth of collaboration he was able to conspire. >> well, listen -- they're still around. does the republican party get a pass? >> right. what the committee did, clearly, was make an unbelievably comprehensive case that donald trump violated as oath of office, and may in fact violated the law as well. in particular, in that early chapter on the big lie, chapter two, they show over and again how he was told, clearly, and unequivocally, not only by the justice department, but by his own campaign, what he was saying about the election wasn't true, and it was not the evidence of fraud, for example with dominion voting systems. later, the report makes clear that the plan he urged on mike pence simply ignored the

results, he was told that violated the electoral count act. he knew that at the time, it's obvious very important from a legal point of view. if there is any criticism of this support, it's that it zooms in so tightly on trump and his circle, and their culpability, that it sort of crops out of the picture those other republicans in the states, and in the congress. for example, dealing with the fake electors, it bends over backwards to argue that they were, in effect, duped, in many cases, by the trump campaign, and the trump white house. obviously, their investigations going on in the states and through the special counsel about what that is, in fact, the case. >> the report says there's evidence that, from election day, in november, to january 6th, storming of the capital, trump, in his inner circle, engaged in at least 20 apparent acts of public or private outrage, pressure, condemnation targeting state legislators or state or local administrators to overturn the state election

results. it seems there is more and more evidence that seems to say, like, this is a mob rule, mop tactics being used by the trump administration. the muscling of local officials to overturn the results, as well as what we are hearing from casey -- cassidy hutchinson, who had a lawyer paid by a trump ally, and she didn't know at the time, he wanted to protect the bus. don't recall everything. >> staggering details. that number jumped out at me as well. obviously, there are many local officials, predominantly republicans, in these states, who resisted that pressure from trump. there were others who went along for it and participated in the fake electors scheme. one thing that struck me was a memo from a white house official that i had not seen previously disclosed, that was included in the final report, in which this official argues that they don't even need evidence of fraud for state legislatures to overturn the

votes in their states, and instead award the electoral college votes to donald trump. the threat of socialism from joe biden, joe biden, was sufficient to justify overturning the vote of the people in their state, and that really goes to this larger question, which is this is the argument that so much of the conservative media, that trump, indeed other republican elected officials, have been feeding their base for years. any democratic win would so transform and deform the country, what uprooted from what it has been for over two centuries that, essentially, any means necessary are justified to prevent that, it's been summarized as the flight 93 argument. the question, i think, really, the big question the committee, one question, they did not grapple with, even if you deal with trump, even if you politically marginalized, him indict him, and convict him, is that virus contained inside the broader conservative movement? certainly, among the extremist

groups that they explore here in this -- >> very quickly. we've been looking at opinion polls all day long of how many people are being moved and convinced of -- you know, by this committee, and the amount of information they put out over the last 18 months. do you think that trump base is impacted in any way by this report? >> i don't know if they are impacted by this. they're certainly being eroded by the signs of his electoral failures in 2022. you know, someone made the point to me that shouldn't be considered the metric. someone who works at one of the groups, they pointed out, in the past, in episodes like this, there's been an elite reaction that says we should not look back. we can't have one administration judge the actions of a previous administration as criminal. that was the argument gerald ford used one pardoned richard nixon, it was what obama used in 2009 when he chose not to prosecute torture under the bush administration. we aren't hearing that argument. you're not hearing that except

for the die hard trump loyalists. you're hearing the opposite argument, failing to hold, establish accountability, that's the real danger to society. saying that a coup without consequence is practice. i think there is the committee's success. they have really made the point, i think, very strongly, that we cannot simply turn the page and refused to face up the magnitude of what happened in january 6th, and in the months leading up to it. >> ron, as always, good to have you with us. we appreciate your time and your insights. thank you. >> thank you. >> > a monster winter storm is bearing down right now on much of the united states. dangerous, frigid temperatures, billowing cold winds, snow, ice, making for treacherous travel conditions just ahead of the christmas holidays. more than half of the population, 170 million people, now under wind chill and what winter weather alerts. airlines have canceled more than 2000 flights, scheduled for friday, after canceling a similar number just a day before. let's go now to cnn meteorologist britley ritz. yeah, so, it's a big one, right?

it's everywhere. >> everywhere! you know, temperatures are not very pleasant. they could become deadly if we're not taking care of ourselves. let's look at this, in fahrenheit, by the way. that's nine below in here. north platte? seven below. five below in st. louis, it's all moving in on the ohio valley. here is the kicker. you factor in the winds. the feels like temperature is what's important here. even though it's 11 below, that is the actual temperature in minneapolis. it feels like 33 below. we were talking about the wind chill alerts, we have wind chill warnings from montana all the way down into texas, back on through the mid-atlantic, and wind chill advisories all across the deep south, and up parts of the eastern seaboard as this whole cold front presses eastward. behind it, it gets windy, and we could factor in that wind. of course, that arctic blast feels much colder. we have wind alerts, wind advisories from texas, up the eastern seaboard, into new england, and high wind warnings for parts of new england down

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busy night for you. >> absolutely. >> take care, to you soon. >> > one little word that could make a big difference, when we come back, vladimir putin uses the war word as an war in ukraine. we'll explain why that is a big deal.

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operation, calling it a war inside russia is punishable with jail time. now, listen to president putin at a press conference on thursday. >> translator: our goal is not to spend the flight will have let her contract, but on the conflict, to end this war. we have been and will continue to strive for this. >> one u.s. official cautions to not read too much into it, saying he believes it may be a slip of the tongue. meanwhile, waiting for confirmation that ukrainian president zelenskyy is back home after a visit to the united states on wednesday. he addressed u.s. lawmakers and secured a new batch of u.s. weapons, including the patriot missile defense system,. the latest he said his military is gaining the equipment it needs. >>,,. we bring to ukraine, to donbas, to bakhmut, and to the south decisions which our defense forces awaited. >> ukrainian troops on the

frontline thursday agreed with that, saying the more heavy weapons they have, the sooner they will win. >> a cnn contributor, as well as a professor at georgetown university. cnn's former moscow -- reporting on and from russia. phil, good to see you. >> hey, john. >> for more than 300 days, the kremlin has described the invasion of ukraine as a special military operation. anyone calling it a war in russia faces jail time, and hundreds are in jail for doing just that. was this a slip of the tongue by putin? is there more to it? >> you know, i was really, i could tell you, shocked, when i saw that. i mean, people are in prison because of using that very word. it's really, you know, something that could never, ever happened. all of a sudden, president putin uses the word, i think twice, in public. so, what does it mean? okay, it could be a slip of the tongue, or another idea could

be the rhetoric coming out of the kremlin has changed a bit, and now they're talking about the end of an operation to pacify ukraine, and now it's an existential war against the world's, and against, i should say, against nato and the west. so, when you get to that point, it feels a little bit counterintuitive to just say, well, it's still a special military operation. who knows? we have to ask president putin for that. >> well, yes. he's difficult to get to these days, apparently. >> yes. >> he used the war word, in one context, of wanting an end to the war in ukraine. here is a little more from the russian president. >> translator: this leadership of ukraine negated itself to negotiate. sooner or later, any party in a state of conflict will sit down and negotiate. the sooner this realization

comes to those who oppose, us the better. we never gave up on it. >> for the record, the ukrainians were off talks because of the war crimes inside of ukraine. is this and all of branch from putin or part of a russian scheme that zelenskyy actually warned about where the russians try to create this impression they want peace, so it's the ukrainians who want to keep on with the war? >> exactly. i don't think this is anything new. the russians have been saying this for quite awhile. there is no real action in this. one of the ideas, on the western side, is russia wants to phrase the conflict, make it difficult for ukraine to move, to do anything, to continue this operation, pushing back against russia, and hopefully, somehow, bring it to a close. i don't think this is very much new. what's behind, i don't think, really, at this point, very much. >> putin said there would be no

limit on spending for the military for the war, and that is a move which some have said we'll please some of the more hawkish elites in russia. they seem to be the ones who have a lot of influence over putin? last month, newsweek reported elites in secret talks to get rid of putin. but before that, foreign policy, can putin -- elites to need the russian president, now he needs them? russia's elites are starting to amid the possibility of defeat from the carnegie endowment, a few instances of the elite, being reported on in their role in all of us. who are the elites? why do they have so much influence? >> it's a word i think is banding around, but not to find very much. essentially, if you look at people who really understand russia, these are russians who understand their government. i'd say they would point to two elites, one of which would be, say, the technocrats. the people who know how to do things. the head of the center of the

bank, who is a very astute person, who is pretty much rescuing the russian economy. those people, those technocrats, don't have very much influence at all right now. the people who really do are the -- the root of that means power. these are empower people. people who are in charge of the military, intelligence, and operations, you know, spies, et cetera. the security services. these are the people who really, as far as we know, have the greatest influence on vladimir putin. now, there are a number of reasons for that. number one, he comes from that world. he was a kgb officer. he headed the kgb. he comes from that world. he also, we have to remember, when he started this war, he

kept it in a very closely contained group of people, who were essentially the military, but the military didn't even know that this war against ukraine was going to happen. his group of people who now have any type of influence, many of them are at least as hard if not harder than vladimir putin himself. he's in this echo changer from what we understand, echo chamber of people who are paranoid about the west, have conspiracy theories, and believe that russia is surrounded by enemies. >> that explains a lot, jill. thanks for being with us, good to see you again. >> okay. >> > the general sixth committee's final report is out, and we are going through all eight countered and 45 pages. we will bring you the highlights in a moment.

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and around the world. i'm john vause. you are watching cnn newsroom. >> > the long-awaited much anticipated final report by the january 6th house select committee has been released, and the conclusion is blunt. the central cause of the insurrection was one man, former president donald trump. none of the events on january six would've happened without him. it says, trump and his allies orchestrated an effort to overturn the 2020 election, including submitting faith electors in the state he lost. the report recommended anyone who incites an insurrection should be disqualified from holding public office. live now to los angeles, jessica levinson, a professor of law at loyola law school, and host of the passing judgment broadcast. hi, jessica, good to see you. >> good to hear you, john. >> like i said, donald trump, let this sink in, he is accused of a multi part conspiracy, when he was president, to overturn an election, and the accusations are backed up by more than 800 pages of what looks like critical evidence and witness testimony, often under oath. it's, you know, a momentous day. within all that evidence, is

there a direct link between donald trump and the actual violence on that day, on capitol hill? >> i think there is. i think that is why, when the january 6th committee had its final hearing on monday, they talked about insurrection. one of the criminal referrals was for at least aiding and abetting those who actually did storm the capital. i think, based on all the evidence, all of the witnesses, all of the documents they looked at, you can draw a through line between the former president, and what happened at the capitol. let's remember, for those who want to criticize the report, and want to say, no, you can't draw that through line, the evidence, the witnesses here, almost exclusively where people who wanted the former president to win. they told the truth because they were under oath. >> what does the department of justice do now? there's never been a case like this before. >> there's never been a case like this before, thank goodness, right? we don't want this to be normal. the department of justice has its own parallel investigation,

but they also not have an 845-page roadmap. we all have to remember, at this historic moment, that what a house select committee, and political body says, what they deemed to be criminal, that's different from what the department of justice and prosecutors might decide. when they decide whether or not to file charges, they are saying we can go into a courtroom and show proof beyond reasonable doubt that these crimes occurred. having said that, i think, after the hearings, after the report, if the department of justice doesn't go forward, then they owe us a big explanation as to why. there really is an enormous amount of evidence here, including, it's not just the insurrection, it's obstruction, it's defrauding the united states. it is making false statements of material fact. there is a lot here. >> and, earlier, in the day, the select committee released transcripts of interviews with witnesses, including cassidy hutchinson's testimony. she worked for the white house

chief of staff, mark meadows. turns out, trump allies were paying for her lawyer, and this is what she told the committee. he told me, i don't you departure yourself, but i don't recall isn't perjury. they don't know what you can and can't recall. later, he allegedly told, or the less you remember, the better. he also said to her on another occasion that, you know, he's all about protecting the boss. when does something like that equate to obstruction of justice, and this lawyer, he was the ethics adviser to the trump white house, which says a lot. what problems is he facing now? >> irony is dead. what we've seen is attorneys actually are facing repercussions. we have seen, for instance, rudy giuliani has faced a number of bar panels. when we talked about, i remember, in the wake of the election litigation, you and i talked about, what i teach this in an election law, and a classroom, and the action is no, i would keep this in an ethics classroom, legal ethics classroom, as to what not to do. could this rise to the level of criminal behavior when you have

an attorney saying, well, july? if you want to lie and say you don't remember anything, that's perfectly fine, yes. that can be a problem for an attorney, legally, and if they want, to keep the bar card. again, we have seen, there is referrals in this report to the house ethics committee for members of congress. there was a discussion about whether or not some of the attorneys here needed to be referred to their state bars. here's another example of that. >> quite a legacy from the trump administration, jessica. thank you for being with us, jessica levinson, in los angeles. >> thank you. >> > the taliban enforcing their latest misogynistic edict, there's been global backlash, and rare protest at home. afghan women marching in kabul and elsewhere, demanding their rights to an education again.

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on thursday, dozens of women and female activists marched in kabul to protest that decision. organizers of the protests say several people were detained by the taliban, but later released. telling justifies the ban, saying women were violating the dress code, and other, quote, islamic values. also, the interaction between male and female students, apparently, is a problem as well. meanwhile, gorgeous -- cross here, afghanistan's former president says, quote, unfortunately, the current problem of women's education and work in the country is very serious, sad, and the most obvious and cruel example of gender apartheid in the 21st century. saudi arabia, yeah, saudi arabia, surprised, regret at the decision. they are asking the taliban to reverse the decision, calling astonishing in -- afghan women their full legitimate rights. g7 called the taliban's

policies extremely disturbing, group saying, quote, the taliban's actions to ban women from the public sphere will have far-reaching consequences for relations between our countries and the taliban. time for a quick break, for our viewers in north america. stay with us, more moves in a -- brutal winter storm. our viewers internationally, world sport is up next. ♪ ♪

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states of emergency have been declared by a number of governors, now bracing for a once in a generation storm. cnn's omar jimenez reports from chicago, where it is now minus four fahrenheit, minus 20 celsius. >> it's not just snow. it is wind and cold as part of a huge winter system descending on to the u.s. just days before christmas. over this week, more than 80% of the country's population will see at or below freezing temperatures. some places, wave a low, like denver, where the temperature dropped nearly 40 degrees in just an hour, hitting negative 15 by thursday morning. or, wyoming, where estate driver took this video, zero visibility, and temperatures 60 degrees below zero. elsewhere, parts of the midwest are doing what they can to keep up. one of the biggest concerns and winter systems like this, is the roads. this dome is part of what it

takes in a city like chicago. you are looking at 50,000 tons of salt inside that crews come in and out of over the course of the day to try and help keep these roads somewhat manageable. the city has about 400,000 tons of salt in more than 300 vehicles in its arsenal to fight back on this second official day of winter. >> the goal is to keep up with it, but we're going to be fighting that wind. we could have a conversation with those young drivers, you know, those first-time drivers, kids coming home from college, trying to get home, just had that conversation with those young drivers because this is a little different type of event. >> reporter: cold temperatures and snow are nothing new to places like chicago, minneapolis, and buffalo. >> some meteorologists are calling this a once in a generation event. >> reporter: even atlanta is forecast to have wind chill in the negatives friday. >> communities across the state are about the same temperatures

they haven't experienced in a decade, or more. >> reporter: the message is the same. even for places used to dealing with bad winters, the combination of snow, wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour, and the demand to get home for christmas that could mean disaster, especially on the roads. aaa estimates the majority of those traveling this holiday week will be driving. >> it's not like a snow day, you know, when you are a kid. it's dangerous and threatening, this is really, very serious weather alert here. >> reporter: now, you can see the snow, but you can also see me. fear for officials here, as the snow subsides in the overnight hours, and basically lays on the ground, very pretty, like it does behind me, the wind is going to turn things ugly pretty quickly, whipping around in winds that are supposed to pick up in the overnight hours, and through friday. that, again, officials fear could reduce visibility

significantly, especially on the roads. it might be taking to try and get home for. christmas. omar jimenez, cnn, chicago. >> > it's been quite the wonder 80 by beijing after micromanaging the response to the pandemic for nearly three years now. zero-covid coming to an end, it seems the message to chinese people, you are on your own now, good luck. health experts warn the rest of the world should brace for the arrival of new variants that could prove more dangerous than the ones previous. when it comes as hundreds of health professionals from across the china are traveling to beijing to assist medical centers, unprecedented wave of infections ripples across the country. a professor of molecular medicine, as well as executive vice president at -- with us this hour in california. hello, eric, good to see you. >> good to see you, john, happy holidays. >> thank you, you too. mainland china reported zero deaths on wednesday. sarah deaths on tuesday. in fact, almost a month, zero

deaths. at the same time, we have cnn reporting that crematoriums are filling up and janet shift how it counts covid deaths. so, people are dying from covid. that's being blamed on other factors, redefining their way out of a crisis? >> it's clear we can't trust those numbers, as you've already basically got to, that, as you know, there are models that will predict, perhaps, 1 million deaths are going to occur in the next couple few months, and could be well more than that. we're not going to know about that because, unfortunately, there is no transparency, there's no data sharing. clearly, the country is in a crisis right now. >> yeah, bloomberg with this headline, china likely seeing 1 million covid cases, and 5000 deaths a day. there are -- we don't know exactly what's happening. some studies have estimated that the number of infections with covid is doubling within hours, not just days, as we've seen in the past. this infection is rampant.

we have a country, 1.4 billion people. what is the extent of this emergency and what are the concerns beyond china's borders? >> right. the main thing within china, of course, hospitalizations, they don't have the fifth cities to keep up with this massive and rapid number of infections. the deaths, they don't have the people over 60 and older covered well with booster shots, the vaccines are unfortunately not that effective. there will be a lot of deaths. that's why we get to that 1 million figure or higher, even. as you are getting at, there's implications outside of china, because this is, of course, a way for the variance to be nurtured, and we could see some new whole family of variants, potentially, not the case, but certainly in the realm of possibility in the months ahead from all that's happening in

china right now. >> the mathematics is simple, right? the more this virus can spread, the more chance it has of mutating. if it's spreading this fast among so many people, the chances of some kind of doomsday virus, or variant, it goes up. >> i hope we will never see that. the point i guess to add to what you made john, there's a lot of immunocompromised people in china, as in the rest of the world. when an infection occurs in one of those individuals, it could go through an accelerated mutation, an evolution, within that person's body. that person couldn't infect another. that's basically how we think omicron gets started in africa, over a year ago. that's the kind of thing we are particularly concerned about, getting a whole new family of variants beyond omicron, like a greek letter, pies, signal, or something like that. >> with zero covid as a policy in itself flawed, and just, you

know, is this proof that maybe there was a better way for china to have dealt with this? >> it was a good policy from the standpoint of keeping infections at a remarkable low. it was draconian, and it had all kinds of -- on the economy, unemployment, and also all sorts of emotional hardship. it was necessary, john, because of the lack of facilities to meet up with the infections to run wild. the problem was, coming out of the zero covid policy, which was necessitated because of these highly contagious omicron variants, and the readiness just wasn't there. they didn't have the vaccinations at the level they should have, or the potent vaccinations. they are just now getting, potentially, some paxlovid as a backup for people when they do get sick, to prevent hospitalizations. there just haven't been preparedness, unwilling to

import parting vaccines, that are more effective against these variants. it's just a case of very poor preparedness, unfortunately. >> yeah, and winter as well. not a great time to do this. eric topol, thank you. >> all right. >> good to see you, take care. >> > covid-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on overall life expectancy in the u.s.. it fell in 2021 to 76.4 years. that's nearly two and a half years less than what it was at the beginning of the pandemic. the lowest it's been for a quarter of a century since 1986. u.s. centers for disease control and prevention says the pandemic and drug overdoses remain contributors for the drop, however heart disease and cancer also factors. the former ceo of the company ftx is now free on a 250 million-dollar bond. some bankman-fried appeared before a judge in new york thursday. a judge agreed to a bail proposal presented by prosecutors and lawyers. terms include bond and electronic monetary bracelet, and being on house arrest at

home with his parents, in california. bankman-fried's first appearance on u.s. soil since his arrest last week in bahamas. he is accused of stealing billions of dollars from customers of his de facto crypto training platform. arraignment for those charges will happen at a later date. >> > strikes in europe will make holiday travel in europe more hectic. employees in uk started a day strike on friday. the government plans to bring a trained military personnel to fill in, but is warning of delays at airports and sea ports are likely. this, as a number of uk rail strikes have been planned this season as well, the more train companies are said to walk off their jobs from boxing day. that is december 26th, for those of you in united states. >> > french rail operator warned that all friday strikes will cause delays on its delays starting from friday. merry christmas, everyone. >> > we mentioned for a moment, a world without -- new study released says that could happen by the end of this

century. the world says 65 of plants and animals that live in the antarctic could be wiped out in the next 80 years, if we fail to maintain our use of fossil fuels. the report says emperor penguins and -- almost threatened species in the arctic. the rise of ice shelves tonight and raise their babies. a small shift in one and where those ice sheets could form, they could dissipate the population. the study is from a journal of biology. save the penguins. i'm john vause, back in a moment with another hour of cnn newsroom. see you then.

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