alerts. roads are going to be impassable. multiple mudslides and landslides expected and rapid rises in rivers and creeks this. is going to be a significant event. it's going last today and lingering tomorrow. you can see moderate rainfall across much of california. from this map we're just seeing these plumes of moisture come onshore. like i mentioned, one after another, we're going to continue to see it this week, today and tomorrow, and it doesn't look like this moisture is going to go away any time soon, so we could see even more. and as you can see, christine, that rain just coming on in. >> sure is. all right. jennifer gray, we know you'll be following it for us. thanks so much. thanks for joining me. i'm christine romans. "cnn this morning" starts right now.

well, would you look at that, that's an attack on democracy with echos, of course, of january 6th. good morning, everyone. what you've been looking at are protesters in brazil storming three seats of power, the presidential palace, congress and the supreme court, over election conspiracies. familiar, right? >> yes. and those questions about not just familiarity but the connection between the two. >> so what sparked these riots we'll tell you all about it in a little bit here. and president biden visited the southern border for the first time since taking office but did not meet with any migrants there on the ground. how the white house is explaining that. also this. >> do you speak to william now? do you text? >> currently, no. >> yeah. a really, revealing interview,

prince harry opening up about his brother, his late mother, all of the royal leaks to the media. why he accuses the queen consort of being, in his words, quote, dangerous. >> we'll begin with what's called brazil's january 6th with rioters attacking the country's seat of government. this is what it looks like in brasilia right now where troops are lining up across from the protesters. the deadline to clear them just four hours away after this happened yesterday. those rioters are supporter of former president bolsonaro, stormed and vandalized brazil's congress, security forces used tear gas and regain control of the buildings. officials declaring overnight the riots are over, at least 400

people are under arrest, it comes a week after president lula da silva vowing to punish those responsible for the attacks. what's the situation in the capitol this morning? >> reporter: it's under control but looks like a war zone. imagine for a moment that the january 6th mob here in the united states had not only breached the capitol but also the white house and the supreme court building. that's exactly what happened in brazil sunday an insurrection that ended with the arrest of at least 400 people, left the main public buildings in the country inoperable and deepened a political crisis that has been brewing for months. brazil boiling over. supporters of former brazilian president bolsonaro, stormed key buildings on sunday breaching

security barriers and temporarily occupying the country's congress, presidential palace, and supreme court. masses of protesters flooded the country's seat of power, many dressed in the colors of brazil's flag, yellow and green, fuelled by anger and distrust over bolsonaro's defeat where he lost in a runoff last month to lula da silva. protesters threw objects while clashing with police who threw tear gas. cnn reports the floor of the congress building was flooding after the sprinkler system activated when protesters tried to set fire to the carpet. by evening the police were arresting hundreds. president da silva described the events as bar bare rick and

vowed to punish the people responsible. >> translator: those people that we call fascist, we call them everything abombable in politics. they invaded the government headquarters, and they invaded the congress like vandals. destroying everything in their path. >> reporter: president lula da silva also blamed his predecessor for the lack of security in the capitol where bols bolsonaro's supporters have been camping out for a week. bolsonaro said peaceful and lawful demonstrations are part of democracy. but critics say he stirred up the crowd by saying he questioned the integrity of the country's electronic voting system. new details have emerged about how violent some of the

protesters became, at least 12 journalists were attacked, robbed or will their equipment destroyed. back to you. >> just an awful thank you. thank you. this morning, president biden is in mexico after he visited the southern border yesterday for the first time since taking office. during a visit to el paso, he met with border patrol officers and local officials but he didn't meet or see any of the gr migrants. the white house said there were no migrants there at the time, saying that was a coincidence. but there's thousands of migrants living on the street as we've shown you in our reporting. the president facing backlash from democrats and republicans when it comes to immigration. obviously not any simple solution, what did he see while he was there on the ground?

>> reporter: to that point, kaitlan, he has been facing growing calls to visit the u.s./mexico border as the administration deals with a record breaking surge of migrants, and on sunday he was forced to face that political problem that has no quick and easy solution. texas governor, greg abbott, a fierce critic of the biden administration, greeted biden when he arrived and gave him a letter. that letter criticizing the administration's immigration approach. over the course of the hours long visit, the president went to a port of entry, the border wall, and the migrant processing center that you mentioned earlier where he didn't appear to see migrants. advocates say he left the visit without seeing the worst of the humanitarian crisis, a crisis that remains a challenge for the administration and one biden is likely to talk about here in mexico during the north american leader's summit. >> this is the first time we see

the three leaders get in a room together by themselves to talk about the important issues. what else is on the agenda, though? >> reporter: today he's going to have a bilateral meeting with the mexican president and kaitlan, it is clear that the administration needs mexico when it comes to enforcing the u.s./mexico border. we saw it last week with an announcement they were going to open up a parol program for nicaraguans, cubans, asihaitian and venezuelans. these are the issues that are going to come up here along with the canadian prime minister. >> thank you for that update. now this this morning. miami and the jets under way. new england decided to defer after winning the toss. heinz on the run back, taking a tackle and taking it past midfield.

down the sideline he goes. this is story book. an opening kick off return for damar hamlin and this place is going wild. >> it was so great. watched that on the lane last night. the moment the buffalo bills scored on the opening kick off. went on to win the game, an emotional victory against the new england patriots and damar hamlin watched the action from his hospital bed, posting this picture here, rooting on his teammates. players across the league showed their love, support for hamlin on the final sunday of the nfl season. our coy wire was there, a former safety for the buffalo bills you were there. so glad they had that victory. what was it like to be there? >> reporter: as star quarterback josh allen said it was spiritual. as head coach sean mcdermott said it was a celebration of life, people came together to spread love through tragedy

after tragedy in buffalo. dion dawkins reflecting on the moments for this team and this city, and number 3, damar hamlin. >> this is where it all went down. >> absolutely, man. >> what was that like? >> the crazy thing is i want to give you the perfect answer, but it is so smoeshl. it's so emotional and ecstatic. usually they announce the offense or defense and today we came out as a team. when we're all in there and you can feel everybody's intensity and feel everybody's motive and direction, it was just amazing. it truly was. >> but then for the first time you're back on the field since the tragedy occurred. >> yeah. >> and it's a kickoff return for a touchdown. >> doesn't happen. >> hadn't happened for the bills -- three years and three months ago is the last time that happened. >> three years and three months? >> yes. >> that's that goose bump weird

stuff, you know what i'm saying. that's numbers and numbers don't lie. that shows you that god is so real. he is so real, man. i'm just like so blessed to be part of it. and it happened twice. happened twice today. so you really can't make this stuff up, man. you can't. >> so damar is live tweeting the game. and after that happened, he tweeted, omfg! if you don't know what that means, ask somebody but not around children. >> or google it. >> so what was going through your mind when that happened? >> you know, seeing it happen and just looking at it, it just makes everybody go into an uproar and we're looking and we just see him go and go. i jump up like a giant kid, run all the way down the sideline and i'm just ecstatic. star quarterback josh allen called it spiritual.

>> it really was bone chilling, like it was -- it was special. the whole way the nation came together in support of damar, you know, we've had a lot of talks we maybe wouldn't have had without something like this happening. >> like damar tweeted earlier, you put real love out there it comes back three times as much. >> it's the truth. >> this week has been an emotional roller coaster. how do you sum up where the week started? >> you're at a low. i mean, at a real low. a low you're like, man, first of all i'm scared to play football. we don't know what is going to happen. that is a routine thing that happened and we all do routine things every play, so it could have been any one of us. i know for myself i'm thinking of pulling and what if i get hit the wrong way. from bringing us there to the grind of the whole week and his father speaking to us giving us a huge shot of energy and then

mcdermott bringing the face time call on and us actually hearing his voice and seeing his face and seeing him put his arms up and his heart up, those were all huge energy sources that just hit us. but -- almost like whatever, a cannon, boom, dropped right on us. to this moment now of happy tears and these happy tears are real tears as well as sad tears. to see when a group comes together, we put our mind to it, we got it done. >> thanks to deon dawkins for that. from the tears and fear to start the week to the tears of joy and outpouring of support we witnessed one heart may have stopped but it made the whole world come together to beat as one. >> it did. when you said those happy tears it says so much. how great to see you on the field again.

it must have been great to be back with happy news to share. >> it did. this smile is not going anywhere. >> thank you, friend. the playoff matchups are set, superwild card weekend begins saturday. miami and minnesota, it was a great day for us the vikings. on monday night the cowboys and bucs meet. and aaron rodgers will he play again, listen to what he told someone who asked for his jersey last night after the packers were eliminated. speculation is running wild that rodgers may retire or be traded next season. and this morning, kevin mccarthy facing a new slate of challenges after his historic floor fight last week.

he must find a way to pass a package of house rules making concessions weakening his own power. jessica dean is live on capitol hill with more. jessica, this is becoming your home away from home. good morning to you, what are we expecting today? >> reporter: let's set up a cot here, don, we'll get more rest. expecting more drama to play out likely, we have kevin mccarthy now officially the house speaker after going through all of those votes last week. and now you mentioned the rules package, we are getting in the weeds a little bit but they have to pass it to set the stage for everything moving forward. it's what every new house does in the majority and that's typical. what is atypical about this is there are major concessions and changes in the package. you mentioned some of them, but this is how mccarthy and his allies were wheeling and dealing to get him the gavel. one of them of course making it easier to oust him as speaker of house, now one person can call

for the vote instead of half the c conference, also spending cuts, different committees. but remember, he has a slim majority, he can only afford to lose four votes and on friday when we thought they might be going with this after that vote, we had already heard from tony gonzalez that he wasn't going to support the rules package over concerns of cuts in defense spending. so this is going to be regular he'll have the close calls because he has this wide spectrum within his party. >> i have one question for you. did you and poppy call each other this morning? >> i was going to say it. i saw poppy pop up on the screen. it looks good, poppy. >> looks better on you, girlfriend. >> great minds dress alike. >> i like to think that as well. it looks great. >> thanks, have a great day. >> love that. >> nice outfit choice.

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in an explosive interview with anderson cooper on "60 minutes" prince harry shared details about his fractured family, including how deep the riff goes. >> do you speak to william now? do you text? >> currently, no. i look forward to -- i look forward to us being able to find peace. >> how long has it been since you spoke? >> a while. >> do you speak to your dad? >> we haven't spoken for quite a while. not recently. >> can you see a day when you would return, as a full-time member of the royal family? >> no. i can't see that happening. >> this interview was harry's

first with a u.s. outlet in advance of the publication of his memoir "spare" which is being released online tonight. joining us to talk about it are max foster and bianca nobilo. this is remarkable what he's dealing. i can't get over the revelations of how intimate he's willing to go, the fact he's not speaking with his brother or father. >> it's remarkable for a number of reasons. first of all to have anybody, whoever they are, to share this level of personal die vul jens about their own lives, truck ta -- drug take, loss of virginity is striking but especially the british monarchy, who are never explaining, keeping a stiff upper lip. >> you get a sense of why he's doing it as well.

it's damaging the monarchy, he said he believes in the monarchy, doesn't want to hurt it but he explains himself better. >> we're going to play for the viewers who might have missed it, especially what he said about his late mother, princess diana. i was struck watching anderson's interview about how long he felt he wasn't given the full truth, i think he still doesn't think he was and for years he thought his mother was still alive. let's listen to this. >> you didn't believe she was dead? >> for a long time. i just refused to accept that she was gone. part of, you know, she would never do this to us, but also part of, maybe this is all part of a plan. >> you believed that maybe she had just decided to disappear for a time. >> for a time and she would call us and we would go join her. >> how long did you believe

that? >> years. many years. william and i talked about it as well. he had similar thoughts. >> in the book you say i'd say it to myself first thing in the morning, maybe this is the day. maybe this is the day she's going to reappear. >> yeah. hope. i had huge amounts of hope. >> i wonder what you both thought when you heard that? >> well, you know, i think, you know, that was a very compelling part of anderson's interview. he really got into harry's head and no one can argue with any of what he says around how he was affected by his mother's death and he explains it well. i think it was a historic interview in that context. a lot of the issues in this country is how he translates what he experienced there to the modern part of the story. >> and it's hugely significant and what he says about princess diana because she's the presence felt throughout the book.

i think anybody that lost a parent can understand that head space and that kind of bargaining and denial that you go through. but also it helps us understand this fixation that he has with the british media and the british tabloid press because we know about the role they played in princess diana's death in that tunnel. >> it's undeniable. >> it is. and throughout these interviews what we hear is the press being the antagonist, that part of the problem, the mission he feels it's his responsibility to change. >> and the relationship between the media and his mother's death but the relationship between meghan and the media. and people believing that meghan was the reason there were rifts in the family that occurred. he said not so. listen to this.

>> he was shouting at me, i was shouting back at him. it wasn't nice. it wasn't pleasant at all. and he snapped. and he pushed me to the floor. >> he knocked you over? >> he knocked me over. >> you cut your back? >> i cut my back. i didn't know about it at that time. he apologized afterwards. it was a pretty nasty experience. none of anything that i had written or included is ever intended to hurt my family, but it does give a full picture of the situation as we were growing up. and also, squashes this idea that somehow my wife was the one that destroyed the relationship between these two brothers. >> you know, it's odd to say this, but it's comparable to yoko breaking up the beetles he wants people to know it wasn't his wife that started this rift between he and his brother it

started long before meghan markle stepped in the picture. this is sort of what happened afterwards. on top of that, right? >> yeah. he says basically that kate and william didn't get on with meghan from the get-go and he said they were stereotyping her as this american actress, buy rac -- biracial. and he is asked about the racism as well saying you accused the family of being racist. he said i never accused the family of being racist, i don't think they are racist. this is something different in relation to the color of the baby on the way. saying we weren't accusing them of being racist. so he's trying to explain where he's coming from. it's confusing to people but he says it's all about his truth. >> thank you both very much. everyone here is saying we can't wait to read the book and hear him in his own words.

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texas. a man has now been charged with first degree aggravated kidnapping for allegedly holding a woman he met on bumble, hostage for five days and assaulting her before she was able to escape. what are the details of what happened and led up to this, ed? >> reporter: according to the arrest documents filed in the case against 21-year-old zachary kent mills, investigators say the woman told them that on christmas eve she met mills on this dating app, bumble, and he came by her apartment, picked her up and went back to their apartment. he instantly started trying to make moves for sexual intercourse but she denied those moves and after that, mills, according to the court documents, became very angry and spent several days physically assaulting her.

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all right. president biden has set a record pace for nominating federal judges but those efforts have staled in the south. federal judges are hugely important, obviously but they can also be a huge part of a president's legacy, perhaps the most enduring legacy. why is biden running into roadblocks getting the judges confirmed in the south? we have fascinating reporting on t this. the headline has been where the obama administration had fallen short getting federal judges confirmed, biden stepped up but not everywhere. >> reporter: the constitution said the president appointments he has to seek the advice and consent of the senate. as you said it's significant

that president biden has outpaced donald trump who put such a priority on changing the federal bench. but where president biden has not made headway is in the south in states like louisiana, florida, texas, places where, you know, voting rights and immigration cases are crucial, and it's -- you know, it's a place where enduring battles over civil rights go on. but the problem has been that those are states that are also dominated by republicans, they're states that have two republican senators and the general process has been that the president needs to consult but also to essentially have the approval of home state senators for his appointments. >> right needs the advice and consent of home state senators. so this is all about biden getting those senators on board. is your reporting that the white

house thinks he can do that? >> yes. here's the thing you should know, poppy. one of the reasons that biden has surpassed former president trump is because of the people running it. choice ron klain, has been involved in judicial selection for decades. president biden himself was a senate judiciary chairman. the woman, paige herwig who's ove o overseeing this has been involved in senate negotiations over judges so they're trying to have a meeting of the minds to find places of compromise. in the end even though ideology drives a lot of this, there's an important home state imperative to fill vacancies because of the litigation in the states. so i think in the middle of biden's four-year term there's an imperative to start affecting

the south. >> now your reporting will make more people focus on it. thank you very much. it's fascinating. after a five-day, 15-ballot floor fight, kevin mccarthy is now, finally, the speaker of the house. >> the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [ applause ] >> some yas, i don't know if there were boos, but it was loud. does this drawnout fight fore shaw doe how difficult it could be for mccarthy to govern the party. so joining us now columnist, mr. ben smith. good morning to you. >> that was a very easy

question, yes, it's going to make it very hard. >> this is my question. is it going to be -- do you remember in the beginning days of the trump administration where we would watch the white house briefing every day because of the craziness that would come out of that. is this going to happen with correct me if i'm wrong now? >> i think probably not. as indkaitlan found it was impossible not to watch congress over the weekend but you can go weeks or months not caring what the house of representatives does. this is an enormous headache for kevin mccarthy but the house isn't expected to do that much over the next couple of years, republican led house, democratic led senate. sometime next summer they have to raise the debt ceiling and looking for fistfights on the floor and tears and all that, we may have to wait a few months for that. there's a couple things that really has to do and no clear way how they're going to do them. >> it's fascinating that today

they're going to pass a rules package that normally no one would blink at. there are real questions about what will happen today. i think you're right in the sense it is still a democratic controlled senate and president biden is still in the white house. but these republicans may be some of the more moderate members, they may be forced to vote on really unpopular things that typically they would try to protect their members and not have them vote on. >> that's right. they want votes on abortion restrictions and spending right away. there's a couple dozen members in particular from swing districts who hate to do that. there are two members suggesting they'll vote against the rules package and like everything else mccarthy can only lose four. so everything is high wire. >> as kaitlan is saying i don't think i ever talked about a rules package like ever, and everyone is looking at it and looking at the concessions that mccarthy made one putting more

freedom caucus members on the rules committee. and it looks like then republicans can only afford to lose two votes. if you have three freedom caucus members going against what mccarthy wants, teaming up with democrats it can kill bill after bill. >> that's right. he handed off a lot of the power you get when you're speaker of the house. >> a lot? almost all. >> a lot of it. the good news is that none of those bills were going to pass. they request pass the house -- >> right but not the senate. >> sometimes you have a congress where you have democratic and republican leaders from the different houses who have some dig agenda, some plan on immigration, security whatever they're hoping to pass together. nothing like that right now and nothing like that between these two parties right now. >> looking for the glass half full part of this -- >> cspan ratings? >> no. i was thinking as i was watching this, maybe this is good for some transparency, maybe duking it out in front of the american

people is good, at least has some good in it because you see what's going on. >> that's what republicans were saying the other day. >> that reminds me of parliament you duke it out, that's great, people are engaged instead of this formality, yes, sir, okay. you know what i mean? >> yeah. i think it's a good paradox that effective ledge s-- legislators are led by those with real power. something you saw in nancy pelosi's house of representatives, nothing was going to cross nancy pelosi, aoc and the squad thought about doing this and couldn't pull it off. we are going to see a demonstration in kind of democracy, i guess. >> what i've been watching is chip roy and them talk about what you're referencing there, the open amendment process. they had that in 2011 and it was complete gridlock and changed that process because nothing was

getting done. so they talk about the idea but a lot of these republicans don't know what life in the majority is like, they've never experienced that before. >> and i think that also means being kind of blamed, held accountable. the limited nice thing about the minority is all you get to do is cause trouble. and you have a lot of folks who -- i think the thing they got a lot out of this last few weeks is attention. if you wanted attention, wanted your face on television, it was an incredible opportunity for these back benchers if that's the impulse as it seems to be, there's an opportunity for a lot more gridlock, attention, cspan rating. >> it is very john boehner. when obama was in office, it was -- there was a lot of detail that we learned and sort of back and forth about rules. but it was gridlock. >> yeah. and i think the thing with gridlock, all of a sudden you turn around and the stock market

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we were in the embattled city of bakhmut and what we saw is the few residents left in that city tried but did not have a very merry christmas. there was no peace, no silence in bakhmut on the eve of orthodox christmas. the unilateral russian cease-fire never materialized. the guns didn't go silence. at one of the city's shelters residents gathered around a table laid with food and tokens of the holiday. at tha a volunteer tries to raise spirits. we wish you good health, peace, prosperity, she tells them. she knows it's important to put on a brave face. even though it's raining and snowing outside, i'm smiling she says, i wish people a merry christmas. i try to show them it comes from my soul. she did manage to bring a smile

to the only child in the shelter, 9-year-old vlodymir and his wish on this day, i want this war to end and all my friends to return he says. for the adults the gift under this tree is electricity to charge mobile phones and a wireless router connected to a satellite link up, allowing for a tenuous connection to loved ones. to reassure them however they can that they're still alive, not well. and here, there's warmth in a city where public utilities were knocked out months ago. yet it's hard to feel the holiday spirit. >> it's so sad. sad day. >> reporter: as the day progresses, snow begins to fall, the shelling continues. christmas eve dinner is a

subdued affair in this basement, home for now to a few of the doctors still left in bakhmut. god bless us with strength, patience, and endurance is dr. elena's post but here strength has its limits. i feel pain she says because i can't be with my family. i can't sit at the same table with my mother and daughter. christmas morning and no let up in the shelling. for months russian forces have tried to take this city but so far have failed. but in the process, according to one local official, more than 60% of bakhmut has been destroyed. at the church of all saints, priests hold mass in the relative safety of the crypt. candles provide the only light and warmth in this, the darkest of times. and we're in front of a high

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