liberty bowl was over, arkansas had a lead. you ended up missing one of the most chaotic bowl games ever. the jayhawks scored two touchdowns and a two-point conversion in the final 65 seconds to force overtime. actually, three overtimes. that's where kansas tried to go with a trick play. backup quarterback is out and slides in. only three bowl games in history had more combined points than this one. never give up. came so close to coming all the way back. how do you feel about your michigan wolverines in the thank you for joining us.

i'm whitny wild. "cnn this morning" starts right now. morning, everyone. we're glad you're with us. it's thursday, december 29th. don is off this week. and ukraine is our lead story. under attack. more than 120 russian missiles launched at ukraine overnight. 90% of lviv this morning is without power. we'll take you to crane. here in the united states, thousands of air travelers are struggling to find their way home still. one major airport is launching an investigation into the meltdown at southwest airlines. and the death toll is rising once again in buffalo. the city's mayor now coming under fire for handling of that recovery and the storm. a new migrant processing center is going up in el paso, despite a supreme court decision to keep title 42 in place.

we begin this hour with ukraine. president zelenskyy's adviser says russia has launched more than 120 missiles at the country. it happened overnight. a top official in odesa is calling it a massive missile attack in lviv. 90% of the area is without power. this is according to a military official there, who said the critical infrastructure was russia's target. and in kyiv, this. >> at least three people were injured in that attack, including a teenager. kyiv's mayor says houses, industrial facility and playground were targeted. two people had to be rescued from their damaged home. that's where we find ben wedeman, thank you for your team being on the ground reporting. what can you tell us?

>> reporter: we understand, according to the mayor of kyiv, 16 missiles were fired at the capital. all of them intercepted, however in this case where we are in a house southeast of the capital, this house a piece of debris from a falling missile hit right next to it. inside there were two men, elderly father and his adult son. they were sleeping on the other side of this house, which was hit at about 8:30 in the morning. they emerged with just scratches. but the adult son, i spoke with him, he told me they heard a massive explosion. the windows shattered and the walls, as you can see, just crumbled. he managed to get out, barefoot and it's very cold at the moment. neighbors gave him some boots. but as i said, despite the damage you see and the exploded

car right next to the house, to the left of the house, they emerged unscathed. so the air defenses seemed to work fairly well. but as you mentioned, in for instance the city of ckharkiv, four missiles did get through, hitting what we're told was critical infrastructure. here in kyiv, 40rity. the authorities are trying to restore that at the moment but by and large it appears the goal of the massive strike using missiles and drones was to hit energy infrastructure. and, of course, the goal, it appears, is to leave the country in the dark and cold as new year's approaches. now the commander in chief of the ukrainian armed forces said that apart from the drones, 69 missiles were fired at ukraine, but the air defenses managed to take down 54 of them.

poppy. >> ben wedeman, this is what they were so concerned about. thank you very much for that reporting. kaitlan? >> here in the united states, southwest travelers are facing another wave of disappointing cancellations as they scrubbed another 2,300 flights alone. the denver airport and other federal officials saying they're going to investigate the meltdown that caused so many disruptions. after two of his flights were ca cancelled, one traveler celebrated finally being reunited with his baggage. >> sorry it's been a [bleep] week. >> officials at denver international airport launched an investigation, they say as a new me mow reveals that southwest new they were going to be experiencing a staffing emergency prior to the epic

meltdown still under way. adrienne broaddus is live for us at chicago midway international airport. we've checked with you every day, what are you seeing as of this thursday morning? >> reporter: good morning to you. more than another day here we are, more than 2,000 flight cancellations. but officials at chicago's midway, officials with the department of aviation say southwest has increased their overall operations by at least 20%. and if you are able to see, it's easy to notice where i'm standing right now is a different scene. it has cleared and returned to normal. but dthat does not change the human toll that was brutal on passengers. hundreds of thousands of travelers caught in a meltdown desperate for answers and help. >> i'm hungry, exhausted.

i just want to go home. >> this has been a complete nightmare. >> fix it. fix it. >> reporter: different airports, same problems for southwest across the united states. the airline cancelling more than 2,500 flights wednesday. >> i trusted southwest with my worldly belongings and to get me from point a to point b and i feel like i was robbed at this point. >> stranded in baltimore, ashley m mays couldn't make it to see her sick grandmother, who died on tuesday. >> i will never get that time back to hold her hand and spend that time with her. >> reporter: stranded in atlanta, milan was told his unaccompanied minor couldn't fly to florida. >> i didn't get to see my best friend in florida. >> reporter: passenger after passenger, experiencing canceled flights and missing luggage. chaos, with no clear end in sight. >> i had two canceled flights,

and probably six hours of delays until they told us they're canceling our flight. it was chaos in denver. >> reporter: and las vegas was no different. >> i don't know what to do. i don't know what to do. >> reporter: liuwana said she ws stuck on a plane for hour after waiting hours to depart on a plane to spend christmas with her sisters. then her flight was cancelled. the oxygen machine she is renting malfunctioned and the batteries wouldn't hold a charge. >> people like me left here trying to gasp for air. praying i don't end up in a hospital here. >> reporter: despite struggling to breathe, grymes wanted to talk with us before she headed to her final destination, fort wayne, indiana by car. with her luggage missing, she had no medication to manage her

high blood pressure and other health issues. >> i can't do anything but pray. but if it gets to the point it's real bad, i'll stop at a fire station or something and ask them may i please have some oxygen. >> reporter: with thousands of passengers still stranded and struggling, the pressure is on for southwest airlines. amid the chaos some are lucky to be reunited with their suitcases. >> this bag when i go back to denver is not getting checked. it's staying right here with me. because i'm not losing it again. >> reporter: some tough lessons learned for passengers, no fault of their own. southwest is saying it will reimburse those impacted for those expenses, but there is a caveat to that. reasonable expenses. so they're talking about food and possibly travel expenses. kaitlan and poppy? >> i notice they didn't lay out what reasonable is. but obviously we'll stay on

that. thank you. this morning, surreal images out of crystal beach, ontario, show a row of homes along the shoreline covered in thick ice after last week's storm. across the border in buffalo, the death toll rising to 37. the deep freeze is now set to ease into milder weather but that means maybe flooding. big concern there. athena jones joins us live from buffalo, new york there, is that the biggest concern is now what with flooding? >> reporter: good morning, poppy. that's exactly right. unseasonably warm temperatures. it's already almost 40 degrees today, which is a difference from the last couple of days but almost 40 degrees today. and governor katy hochul has set state agencies to prepare with sandbags and pumps and generators as this snow melt, which you can see behind me,

still big piles of snow around town as that melts and as the city begins to get back to normal. buffalo's mayor, byron brown is under scrutiny for his lack of engagement with erie county and other municipalitmunicipalities. take a listen to the county executive, followed by mayor brown. >> we have an elected officials call every morning, we had one this morning again with leadership from all of the municipalities, the city of buffalo was not on it today, they generally have not been on it. serious. i'm telling you the truth. mayor is not happy to hear about it but storm after storm after storm, the city unfortunately is the last one to be opened and that shouldn't be the case. it's embarrassing, to tell you the truth. >> i'm curious if you had any communication at all with the

erie county executive? >> my full focus as it has been during the duration of the storm has been to serve the needs of the residents of the city of buffalo and get our city back open. >> reporter: so we'll see what comes out of that back and forth. buffalo city hall and erie county offices are open today, and the driving ban as of midnight has ended still a travel advisory in effect but one more sign the city of buffalo is trying to get back to normal. >> we wish them the best, especially with what may come from flooding. thanks for the reporting. now to the crisis along the u.s. southern border where a temporary processing center that can take care of about 1,000 migrants is a day is being set up in el paso, texas. the trump era title 42 restriction that has remained in place since president biden took office and allows for the u.s. to quickly expel migrants is still in place after a supreme

court ruling in recent days as they are waiting to have a judgment in the coming months. rosa flores, live on the ground in el paso has been covering this each and every day. as you see this unfold and they are setting up the temporary center, how are they planning to deal with this because it seems pretty inevitable? >> reporter: you're right. this is part of dhs's plan for the lifting of title 42, they issued a plan in april, they updated that plan this month. and part of that is to shore up resources, beef up infrastructure along the border to increase capacity, because they're expecting thousands of migrants and a surge once title 42 is lifted. so this is part of that. dhs announcing that they would be building ten of these facilities along the u.s. southern border. this is one of them. and kaitlan, as you mentioned, this will increase capacity by

1,000 here in el paso and expected to be operational some time next month. >> what about the local government response? i know the city declared a state of emergency but what are they focused on after hearing from the supreme court earlier this week? >> reporter: i talked to the deputy city manager here in el paso about this. he told me what he's most worried about is the increasing number of migrants who grew desperate in mexico because title 42 didn't lift and they're starting to cross the border illegally. let me explain why that's a concern, because the city can't use federal dollars, resources to help these individuals. they have to refer them to nonprofit organizations like the church behind me and you can see people are still sleeping on the street in el paso, more and more of these individuals are ending up on the street because they're stuck in el paso, they don't

have money, they don't food, they don't have a way to get out of el paso and what city officials are worried about is these people are getting more and more desperate because they continue to be on the streets. >> you're seeing the human toll of these decisions. rosa flores, thank you. the united states responding to china's latest huge covid surge. health officials say starting next week, all passengers traveling from china to the united states must provide a negative covid test 48 hours before they get on a plane here following the country's lack of transparency about the increase of cases since the restrictions were relaxed. i was reading this morning about half of passengers traveling from china into italy on a certain flight tested positive for covid. that's what the u.s. is really concerned about. >> reporter: yeah. you have the u.s. and other countries implementing these new

measures. here in the united states, just one week from today, those travelers coming from china to the u.s. will have to show that proof of the negative test. not just people flying on direct flight also those who would be stopping in third country getaways, seoul, vancouver, and toronto as well. so much of this is focused on the rise in cases that has been seen in china since the elimination of the zero covid policy. but officials are warning about what they see as a lack of transparency in the data. it includes like the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. most importantly officials say is lack of information about sequencing. which is critical to identifying new variants in the country, and that is what officials are concerned about. they hope the measures they are putting in place would not just spread coronavirus but also would help prevent new variants from coming into the country.

they acknowledge they're not going to be able to stop everything but they're hoping these steps without help. so much boils down to the mistrust between the u.s. and china specifically on the information that china has been providing on the coronavirus. >> the biden administration has approved a $180 million arms sale to taiwan. i know this was known and included in the bigger defense deal but this is not going to be welcome news from china. can you tell us about that agreement? >> reporter: yeah. no. there is this fresh potential sale of arms sales headed towards taiwan as you continue to see growing tensions between china and that self-governing island. this could include anti-tank munition systems and other equipment related to that. but it comes on the heels of president biden signing that massive defense spending bill which included a specific defense modernization program for taiwan to try to counter

some of that aggression they've been seeing from beijing. the u.s. has long provided these types of arm sales to taiwan but it's another step in the tension we've seen between china and the country that is likely to provoke some response and anger from china about the u.s. going forward with a possible arms sale. >> thanks for the reporter from st. croix this morning. the house committee investigating the january 6th attack has now withdrawn the subpoena that it issued back in october to former president trump as the committee is wrapping up its investigation with republicans set to take control of the house next week. the chairman of the committee, benny thompson said there's not enough time. he said the select committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by that subpoena and in a letter to the former president's lawyer, they wrote trump is no longer obligated to comply or release

experts. trump filed a lawsuit back in november to block the subpoena after the committee had waited after months of investigation until october to actually issue that subpoena. we have another development this morning. every day it seems there's more about george santos. you really want to listen to this. because what our team has uncovered as federal prosecutors are looking into the incoming congressman's finances. we'll take you live this hour to the vatican for the latest on retired pope benedict's health.

(cecily) what's up, einstein? (einstein) my network has gone kaput! (cecily) oh, you tried to save a buck on it? (einstein) i got what i paid for. not so smart. (cecily) nah, you're still a genius. but, there is a smart way to save. instein) oh?! (cecily) switch to verin! for a limited time, get welcome unlimited for st $25/line. (einstein) $25? (cecily) and it's guaranteed for 3 years! (einstein) brilliant! (cecily) well, you would know. (einstein) i'm switching! (cecily) i think the bike's probably faster. (vo) now is the best time to switch to verizon. for just $25 a line. guaranteed for 3 years. the savings that last. on the network you want. verizon.

my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... the burning, itching. the pain. emerge tremfyant®. with tremfya®, most people saw 90% clearer skin at 16 weeks. the majority of people saw 90% clearer skin even at 5 years. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. emerge tremfyant®. with tremfya®. ask your doctor about tremfya® today.

more false claims are emerging about george santos's work, education, family as the congressman-elect who said he expects to be seated next week is now being investigated by federal prosecutors over his finances. the probe is focused on how he came so quickly into wealth since he went from reporting almost no assets in 2020 to millions of dollars in assets and an expensive brazil apartment in 2022. what exactly are the investigators going to be looking into? >> reporter: this is quickly intensifying around him. not only are those federal

prosecutors in new york now investigating his finances but the nasa county district attorney's office they say they're going to look into the fabrications. this comes as new falsehoods on top of the ones of course he has already admitted to are being uncovered by cnn's k file. look at the list here. three claims. he claimed he was forced to leave a new york city private school when his family's real estate assets took a downturn but that claim is false according to a school, no evidence he ever attended. and he claimed he respected goldman sachs at a financial conference where he said he berated the company then for inves investing renewables but that's false, there's no record of him appearing on the panel or attending the conference hep claimed his mother immigrated from europe to brazil, but she was born in brazil.

santos has not responded to this new batch of fabrications. >> all of this is crashing into kevin mccarthy's effort to get enough votes to become house speaker next tuesday. has he still said nothing about george santos? >> that's right. silence from republican leaders and most notably obviously from kevin mccarthy. there has been condemnations from three incoming house republicans but those fall short of calling for him to outright resign. congress is back next week when santos is set to take office so this will be the focal point. especially as you noted as kevin mccarthy is scrambling to secure his own speakership. thank you for that. let's bring in scott jennings and errol lewis, political anchor for spectrum news. scott, let me begin with you because the silence is deafening as they say. a cliche but very true, from republican leadership. where are they?

i know mccarthy needs the vote but other than the two republicans in congress, in the house who have spoken out, almost no one else. why? >> i suspect what they're trying to do is a, get their arms around the situation here, there seems to be new details every day, and i suspect there could be other things. b, what they can do when they come in next week is support a referral to the ethics committee, which they ought to do and then let the investigations run their course. i don't think they can prevent him from taking office, it's not in the constitution to do that. but you can support all the investigations that are warranted. it's one thing to lie about your background, that happens all the time. a lot of politicians do that. the financial piece to me is the most serious piece and that's why i think the republican leadership should say any investigation into this is warranted. >> scott, do you really think a lot of politicians lie this way? the way he has. even just the way he's admitted to lying about all of these

things. he didn't work at goldman or citi group, didn't go to nyu -- do you think that's like what other politicians do? literally nothing from republican leadership about who they want representing folks in the party? >> i think the average republican out here in middle america would probably say the president of the united states has fabricated out of whole cloth massive portions of his own biography. they don't like that either. santos embarrasses me, you don't want to carry this guy's bags. but the people angryiest about santos has no care about joe biden's fabrications also. you focus on criminal malfeasance. you can't fund your campaign out of a corporation like what is potentially being alleged, you can't lie on these forms. to me, if i was part of

republican leadership that's where i would be focused and where i should be focused. >> scott is right the politicians do fabricate all the time and embellish but this is a different ball game, safe to say, the latest investigation into this is just remarkable when it comes to the alias he was using. but republican leadership is in a tough spot because kevin mccarthy has a few members saying i'm not going to vote for you no matter what, he cannot afford to lose votes so i think it's clear why he's been silent on this. >> absolutely but we have to keep in mind even if he wanted george santos to go away. neither kevin mccarthy or any other members of congress has the power to exexclude him. we've been down this road before, adam clayton powell tried to get sworn in to congress, and they wouldn't do it, and he took it to the supreme court, there are three

crit criteria, been a citizen for seven years, are they 24, and do they live in the city they represent. so if something happens, like two thirds of congress votes to throw you out, they don't have the ability to stop him. >> can they make his life difficult on capitol hill? >> sure. >> did he not get committee assignments? >> possibly no committee assignments, nobody wants to have dinner with him. the fund-raising done to support members of the conference as they try to run for re-election and do things may not be available to george santos. there are some penalties. some are more severe than others. but actual exclusion, not possible, not constitutional. expulsion requires a two-thirds vote. that's not an easy thing to do. and you know, you have to ask the question, if the conduct

happened before he was sworn in, on what basis would they throw him out? i think we should all get used to the idea -- >> the lie while he was there. >> it would be fundamentally different if you're engaged in misconduct as a member of congress, that's a different story. it falls into the accepted realm of what congress can punish but punish before something that happened before he showed up in washington without an investigation, not only is it unlikely, it wouldn't be fair. >> scott, what do you think happens to him, to kaitlan's point, he's going to be seated. then what? >> everything errol said is 100% correct. i support all of his statements because the constitution doesn't permit things like this to be dealt with during this time frame that we're talking about here, but what you can do is exclude him from committees. you can say you're in time out, on probation, that's what you'd be doing until all these

investigations into your background are cleared up. that's why i think to me sending him to the ethics committee and saying we support the criminal justice system working its way through here is about what the house leadership can do, my suspicion there aren't many people on capitol hill wanting to be seen with this guy. and the voters of the district are getting news about this person. so even if nothing happens, in two years, the beauty of america is there's another election and i suspect it's hard for him to get re-elected given what we know about him today and what we find out in the coming weeks. >> remarkable he gave a fake jewish name he fund raised under. pope benedict's health is, quote, deteriorate. reaction from the vatican on that next. and taking you live to jerusalem, as benjamin netanyahu prepares to take the oath of office for his sixth time.

hi, i'm lauren, i lost 67 pounds on golo. i have tried so many different products and have lost so much money and wasted a lot of time. golo is a miracle, it really is. no money wasted in this at all.

back when i had a working circulatory system, you had to give your right arm to find great talent. but with upwork, there's highly skilled talent from all over the globe right at your fingertips. it's where businesses meet great remote talent and remote talent meets great opportunity. ♪ ♪ this is how we work now ♪ every moment in life is a bet. like betting on taking a hitch hiker tailgating. but life doesn't offer you up to $1000 back in free bets if you don't win. so bet on america's #1 sportsbook, fanduel, and make every moment more.

my most important kitchen tool? my brain. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger.

welcome back to "cnn this morning." coming up we have new cnn reporting on the lawyer behind house democrats' recent legal victories on trump's tax returns plus congressman jamie raskin revealing he has a serious but curable form of cancer. and what's next for the miami dolphins in the nfl's concussion protocol after it's revealed that tua suffered a second concussion in that game over the weekend. also today, benjamin netanyahu is going to complete his political comeback and return to power in israel. as he's set to be sworn in for his sixth term as the israeli prime minister last year. elliott, what are you expecting today as this is just -- i mean, the politics there are just remarkable? what are you expecting as this gets under way today.

>> reporter: we've already heard from the prime minister designating a speech with applause, heckles and five members of parliament being physically ejected from the chambers this morning. he outlined his priorities saying he would ensure that iran didn't get ahold of a nuclear weapon, boost security, public transport, lower house prices. saudi arabia was mentioned as a next prospect for a pieace agreement with israel. one thing that was in his agenda yesterday is there will be no change to the status quo of religion and state in israel, including the holy sites. particularly the sites, jews being able to pray on temple mounts that's not something the government said is going to happen. however given how far from the

right and previously from the fringes of israeli politics his coalition politics are, netanyahu has felt the need to go on a charm offensive, going on interviews with u.s. networks, maintaining no one, whether they're from the lgbtq community, arab, or secular community will be discriminated by the new government but as we heard from secretary of state, anthony blinken saying they'll be judged by actions. and probably in the next half hour we're expecting benjamin netanyahu to once again swear the oath to be sworn in as israel's prime minister for the record sixth time. that's what we're expecting. >> what about the expansion of settl settlements, is that something they've made clear they'll prioritize? >> he didn't mention it in his speech today but that was in the agenda that he outlined that was published yesterday in the words of the new government -- or this

punitive new government he did say they would work towards developing all the land of israels, including the north and south, and they also specified the west bank. so it would be no surprise if this government does move forward with the plan on building more settlements in the west bank, which are considered illegal under international law. that said coalition agreements and agendas they publish are not legally binding so until such time as it's done, we should wait and see, and as secretary of state blinken said, judge this government by its actions. >> elliott, thank you. this morning millions around the world are praying for former pope benedict. it's been nine years since he retired. but in recent days his health has been deteriorating. the vatican said his health is

deteriorating. delia, you were on with us at the end of the show yesterday and you made the good point that the vatican wouldn't be saying this if it were not very serious. >> reporter: that's right. it's very unusual for the vatican to the kcome out and ta about a pope's health. i have to say we have not had any updates from the vatican as of yet. we are hoping and expecting we will have something at some point today but we are here waiting, along with all the other people who have come to the vatican for christmas time. they've heard the news, asking us with updates and along with the rest of the world for any update on the pope's condition. just behind us is the vatican gardens and behind it his home, a small house where he retired to. that's where he is with doctors

as the vatican told us yesterday saying that his -- due to his advanced age, his health is deteriorating. we know, of course, that the pope is quite old and frail. but we'll wait for an update from the vatican. >> everyone is hoping the best for him, that he recovers but they have to plan for the worst. if there were to be his death, given that he's a retired pope, the first one to do that in 600 years. what would the plan be? >> reporter: there is no plan. this is uncharted territory. we've not had a situation of a funeral for a retired pope for a pope in which there is no conclave afterwards. there's a rigid set of rules when the pope dies and there's a con conclave, every day something has to happen. but nobody has a rule book for what happens when a pope

emeritus dies. one is how pope francis wants to handle it and the other thing is has pope benedict left anything about what he wants to happen. i can't imagine the pope won't give him the full honors and send off. but the vatican itself is also dealing with that question as we speak. >> delia gal ger live for us thank you. coming up next, the democratic l lawyer who gave democrats the victory in getting trtrump's tax returns. he customl treatments you need, all under one e roof, right nearby. so, we c can bring more life to your smile, anand more smile to your life, affordably. new patients without insurance can get a free complete exam and x-rays, and 20% off treatment plans.

hi, i'm lauren, i lost 67 pounds in 12 months on golo. golo and the release has been phenomenal in my life. it's a natural. it's not something that gives you the jitters. it makes you go through your days th energy, and you'reot tired anymore, and your anxiety, everything is gone. it's definitely worth trying. it is an amazing product. just a moment of your time, everyone! singlecare, the app that truly helps you save on your meds. is that... yeah, he's here every day. do you use singlecare?

no, i have insurance. oh, singlecare can actually beat your co-pay. singlecare can also beat the price of your medicare plan. you mean our medicare plan? damn you too much sun! you just search your prescription in the singlecare app, show your coupon to your pharmacist... best of all, singlecare is free to use. marty it's time to go. i have a story to tell! check the singlecare price today!

in just 24 hours house democrats are going to make public a redacted version of former president trump's tax returns. the documents to be released are expected to include his tax returns filed between 2015 and 2021, the years he ran for and served as president. this is a historic move and it comes after the four-year legal battle that was orchestrated by the outgoing house general counsel, douglas letter. but it could be a double edged sword for them as republicans take over the house majority next week and plan to launch a series of investigations into the biden administration they say will be aggressive. kaitlan polantz joins us now. obviously this has been a four year journey into trump's taxes

now they're going down this version of them made public. it's significant to take a step like that. >> it is. doug letter is the house general counsel, top lawyer for the past four years. and my colleagues and i specifically have been watching what he's been doing over those four years because this is a person who's very behind the scenes. you don't hear his name that much but he's had an enormous influence on government and on how congress wields its power. so the tax returns coming out, that's because letter has been the architect of many court fights trying to go after donald trump's finances and try to get a access to information when it was president and continuing on after he left the presidency. the tax returns fight that was one of many cases that letter argued in courts and ultimately won. the reason he was so different and the power of congress is so different is because he

approached the job differently. he's a litigator. that wasn't the type of risk that previous people in this position wanted to take. they weren't those types of lawyers. they were more negotiators behind the scenes and one of the things that made letter so successful we found is he had the ability to tell members of congress, democrats, hold on, be patient, stay quiet and pursue the tax returns behind the scenes. now we have the republicans coming in, letter is going to be out of a job, going into the private sector, and we're going to have to watch how republicans are going to flex all of the powers they have. how they're going to be using subpoenas. we talked to one source for our story today about letter and his legacy. and they told us that when the republicans come in, the most consequential choice they will make is who the next general counsel will be except the other choice, who the speaker is going to be. that dictates a lot of what happens in the next couple of years. >> what i can't get over with

the trump taxes is the irs failing to audit him and finally auditing him. as we were told in recent days, that audit is still under way. remarkable in 2022. thank you for that reporting, though. all right. there's a critical medicine that helps battle pediatric cancers but it's in short supplies. we'll meet a mom who's made it her mission to tackle the shortage. >> she knew she needed to take all of her medicine. like what happens now? does this mean i die? or opting for the couch. your best t sleep. all night. everery night. experience the mattress rankeded #1 in customer satitisfaction by j.d. power, four years in a row. (bridget vo) with thyroid eye disease... i hid from the camera. and i wanted to hide from the world. for years, i thought my e.d was beyond help... ...but then i asked my doctor about tezza.

(vo) tepezza is the only medicine that treats t.e.d. at the source not just the symptoms. in a clinical study, more than 8 out of 10 patients taking tepezza had less eye bulging. tepezza is an infusion. patients taking tepezza may have infusion reactions. tell your doctor right away if you experience high blood pressure, fast heartbeat, shortness of breath or muscle pain. before getting tepezza, tell your doctor if you have diabetes, ibd, or are pregnant, or planning to become pregnant. tepezza may raise blood sugar even if you don't have diabetes. and may worsen ibd such as crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. (bridget) now, i'm ready to be seen again. (vo) visit mytepezza.com to find a t.e.d. eye specialist and to see bridget's before and after photos.

just look around. this digital age we're living in, it's pretty unbelievable. problem is, not everyone's fully living in it. nobody should have to take a class or fill out a medical form on public wifi

with a screen the size of your hand. home internet shouldn't be a luxury. everyone should have it and now a lot more people can. so let's go. the digital age is waiting. as a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. so start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for small business: comcast business mobile. flexible data plans mean you can get unlimited data or pay by the gig. all on the most reliable 5g network. with no line activation fees or term contracts. saving you up to 60% a year. and it's only available to comcast business internet customers. so boost your bottom line by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities.

this morning, democratic congressman jamie raskin is revealing he has a, quote, serious but curable form of cancer. he's been diagnosed with diffuse large cell b lymphoma, which he says is treatable. he says, quote, i plan to get through this and in the meantime to keep making progress every day in congress for american democracy. we wish him all of our best. this morning, our nation's ongoing medication supply issues are exacerbated with drug shortages impacting pediatric

patients. a mother whose daughter is battling leukemia is making it her mission to tackle this issue after she couldn't get her hands on medication needed to help her child. elizabeth cohen looks into this. >> reporter: abby was a healthy girl in florida when one month after her ninth birthday, troubling symptoms. >> she said it feels like there's knives in my bones. >> reporter: after her pediatrician ran tests, a phone call to her parents. >> there's a bed waiting for her at st. joe's pediatric oncology unit, pack a bag, plan to stay. >> abby had cancer. she needed a drug called irwinaise. >> but then a few months into

treatment we were told you have to go home, you can't get this medicine today, there's a shortage. >> reporter: abby wanted answers. >> she knew she had to take her medicine, she said what happens now, does this mean i die? >> reporter: that's when laura jumped into action. she made a list of children's hospitals in the u.s. and everyone pitched in to make phone calls. >> a few hours later we had gone through it and we found some medicines, one of my friends made the call. >> reporter: over the next nine months laura needed to step in to get two other drugs the hospital couldn't find because of shortages. >> never once did i contemplate that i would also have to be navigating the largest global supply chain in the world in order to keep her alive. >> reporter: laura is a business school professor, so she had the skills to do that. but she knew other families weren't so fortunate.

>> it really haunted me. >> reporter: a study last year showing 19 essential agents to treat cancer in children, 74% had experienced one or more shortages since 2016. dr. ungaru said there are several reasons for the shortages. including -- >> when you look at the drugs overwhelmingly in short supply, they are not the blockbuster drugs. they're not drugs that companies generate huge profits from. >> reporter: so laura took matters into her own hands forming angels for change, raising half a million dollars to pay a drug manufacturer to make essential drugs and offer them up to any hospital that needs them. >> since may they've been accessed more than half a million times for patients all over the u.s. >> reporter: earning praise from experts. >> you just look at what her organization has accomplished in the past few years, i think it speaks for itself.

there's something to say about that addage hell hath no furry like an angry mama bear. >> this mama bear navigating the global supply chain all over the country for children with cancer. >> reporter: abby has been cancer free for two years now and she's doing great. her mother said we found a way to deal with the shortages. the problem is we need to scale it up. for that we need more help and support. kaitlan. >> and she's bringing awareness to this. elizabeth cohen, thank you for that reporting. up next we're going to talk about a wedding without a bride. the woman who might miss her own wedding because of the southwest airlines meltdown.

♪ ♪ a bunch of dead guys made up work, way back when. ♪ ♪ it's our turn now we'll make it up again. ♪ ♪ we'll build freelance teams with more agagility. ♪ ♪ the old way of working is deader than me.e. ♪ ♪ we'll scale up, and we'll scale down ♪ ♪ before you're six feet underground. ♪ ♪ yes, this is how, this is how we work now. ♪ ♪ acoustic soul music throughout ♪ ♪ austic soul music throughout ♪

♪ acoustic soul music throughout ♪ ♪ acoustic soul music throughout ♪ you didn't live this strong, this long to get put on the shelf like a porcelain doll. but one out of two women over 50 will suffer a fracture from osteoporosis. you should know you can build new bone with evenity® for postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture. ask your doctor if you can do more than just slowing down bone loss with evenity®. want stronger bones? then build new bone; evenity® can help in just 12 months. evenity® is proven to reduce spine fracture risk by 73%. evenity® can increase risk of heart attack, stroke, or death from a cardiovascular problem. do not take evenity® if you have low blood calcium, or are allergic to it. serious allergic reactions and low blood calcium have occurred.

tell your doctor about jaw bone problems, as they have been reported with evenity®. or about pain in your hip, groin or thigh, as unusual thigh bone fractures have occurred. don't let a break put you on a shelf. talk to your doctor about building new bone with evenity®! miami dolphins quarterback, tua tagovailoa, has now been diagnosed with a concussion again and is expected to miss this weekend's game this as the nfl and players association launched the second review of the season of the concussion protocol. mike mcdaniel said he noticed the hit reviewing tape on monday. coy wire joins us now. obviously tua has become the face of the issue and how the nfl is dealing with it. what did coach mcdaniel say

yesterday? >> reporter: he said he noticed something during film session the next day afterwards. and the league's chief medical officer said they didn't notice anything during the game so it's possible the spotters did not see he had a head injury. and it is absolutely possible that no coaches knew he had been con cussed. it's possible that tua himself knew he had a head injury. i speak from experience in my second season in the nfl i hit a running b running back, i ruined his shoulder, and i didn't remember it until i watched film the next day. that's when mcdaniel noticed in this case for tua. realized something right. told him to see the doctors, he was diagnosed with a concussion. here's what he had to say about the uncertainty of tua returning to play this weekend or this