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viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm max foster in london. bianca's off for the day. just ahead on "cnn newsroom." >> there has been another set of documents that have been discovered. some of those documents have been classified. >> this is an ongoing process. he takes it seriously when it comes to classified documents. >> there's no indication that santos is going to resign because he clearly has no shame. >> we don't need george santos but if he wants to do the right thing, i think he should resign. his father's friends calling him a sociopath and be court documents dated in 2019. >> he's leaving tools, clues, signs everywhere. >> announcer: live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. well, it is thursday, january 112th, silence speaks

louder than words. in the case of the misplaced classified documents the white house is very quiet. that's after president biden's legal team found a second set of classified documents. it's not clear where they were found. president biden is already facing questions about why the first set of highly sensitive material was in his former private office. republicans pouncing on this issue claiming there's a double standard for how the government treats politicians. phil mattingly is in the white house with more. >> reporter: as president biden and the white house counsel's office described the initial discovery of classified documents, they were turned over to review, they never actually weighed in on whether there could be additional documents out there. as that was happening, there was actually a very quiet but very intensive review ongoing by the president's legal team to see if there were any. in fact, there are.

a second set of government records has been discovered according to two people briefed on the matter. some of those government records, they are, indeed, classified. now the president and his team never said there weren't any other documents out there. they spoke only about that initial set of ten classified documents. in fact, to some degree they have been very careful. >> there are no assurances that you can provide at this point there are no other classified documents out there at any other office? >> again, this is an ongoing process so i'm going to let the process continue. it is being reviewed by the department of justice and i'm just going to leave it there. >> that answer was one that white house press secretary repeated over and over to just about every question underscoring the limitations the white house says they feel like they are under as the justice department continues this review. now what actually happens next or if there are anymore documents out there is still an open question. so, too, is what the actual

documents, the second set of documents actually included. there are sparse details about where they were found, what was inside of them but it certainly exacerbates the situation that it's been particularly perilous. republicans on capitol hill, senate and house republicans, say they have called on a special counsel to investigate the matter. the situations are different than donald trump and his classified issues. how this actually ends going forward has very much remained an open question. the white house says they are fully cooperating. that isn't going to change according to white house officials, but certainly finding a second set of classified records further complicates a problem that had only been growing in the hours before it was eventually revealed. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. republicans are in a frenzy about what aboutism calling for a special counsel to investigate president biden just like the

government is doing with former president trump. andrew mccabe says republicans have a point. >> i agree with the republicans. there should absolutely be a special counsel appointed to review this matter. so let's think about it. the special counsel, there's nothing magical about a special counsel's legal authority. they have the authority to investigate and look at crimes. the whole reason to put a special counsel in is when the public would be reasonably concerned that an investigation had been -- might be, could be, possibly was tainted by politics. there is certainly that concern here with the attorney general making investigative decisions over the guy who appointed him, president biden. so, you know, it absolutely calls out for a special counsel

and i think it goes a long way to addressing some of that criticism that the ag's receiving right now from the republican side. i think they should handle each investigation in as similar a manner as possible acknowledging the fact that the facts this each situation are very, very diff different. >> meanwhile, george santos says he has no plans to step down despite growing calls for his resignation from republicans. >> i will not. >> republicans are calling you a disgrace. >> you will not resign? >> less than a week after santos was sworn in leaders at new york's nassau county republican party are calling for his dismissal after it was discovered he fabricated details about his personal -- >> some are calling him a disgrace. >> there's no place in the

nassau county republican committee nor should he serve in public service nor as an elected official. he's not welcome here at republican headquarters for meetings or any of our events. as i said, he's disgraced the house of representatives and we do not consider him one of our congress people. >> but new house speaker kevin mccarthy said he's not joining the calls for santos to resign. we have the details. >> reporter: embattled congressman george santos is facing growing pressure to resign after he admitted to lying about key details on his resume. the nassau county gop held a press conference where they called on him to step down, and we've also seen several house republicans from new york also freshmen in neighboring districts call on their colleague george santos to step down, but one person who is not joining the growing chorus of calls is speaker kevin mccarthy. he is arguing that decision should be up to his voters to

decide. kevin mccarthy does say he will give george santos committee assignments. take a listen. >> i try to stick by the constitution. the voters elected him. if there is a concern, go through the ethics, we'll let it move through that. >> reporter: now santos himself has remained defiant. he told reporters today he will not step down and he followed that up with a tweet making clear he has no plans to resign, but gop leadership will plan to meet with him in the coming days and they're going to talk to him and try to figure out how to deal with george santos going forward. kevin mccarthy said he does plan to help him try to earn his trust around here and he's going to give him the opportunity to do so, but he could prove to be a distraction, unwanted distraction as house republicans enter the new majority. republicans are aware if santos were to resign it would set up a special election in his district that would or could flip to the democrats. that political reality doesn't

matter for the nassau county republican party. >> i've made it very clear that that is not our brand. that is not what we stand for. like i mention, the district i represent has a heavily orthodox jewish population and be jews in general. the fact that he claimed he was jewish, that he had family who escaped the holocaust, that's just not something that i can tolerate. >> well, here's a look at all the things santos did lie about, and this is just what we know about so far. and the campaign watchdog group has filed a complaint with the federal election commission against santos. the group accuses him of illegally using campaign funds to pay personal expenses amongst other things. >> we are now finding ways in which we can go around george santos and make sure that the people in his district are served without having to deal with him. i will not deal with him. i think he should resign. our own chairman, joe cairo,

said that we should have done a little better job, but when someone comes for an interview and hands you a resume and fills out a questionnaire, we've never had this before. who would have thought that an individual would just lie on top of lie and it's pathological. >> yeah. >> and basically i didn't know him that well. i had some interaction with him but not a lot of interaction. so i think that we were all shocked, not caught by surprise, shocked at the type of lies that he was spinning and obviously he's lost the public trust. >> now the federal aviation administration is investigating who or what caused a key computer system to melt down triggering the second major u.s. travel disaster in a few weeks. the faa ordered all flights grounded for about 90 minutes on wednesday after a corrupted data file shut down a key system and its backup. we're told the system is, quote, operational and stable but only

after causing some 10,500 flight delays throughout the day and more than 1300 cancellations. the u.s. transportation secretary said the faa will take responsibility for the mess. >> when there's an issue in the faa that needs to get looked at, we're going to own it, the same as we ask airlines to own their company's and their operations. >> but airports across the u.s. were affected by the mandatory ground stop as well as some overseas including here in the u.k. miles o'brien said the latest travel nightmare should be a big wake-up call for the faa. >> reporter: anybody who's following the faa closely over the years is aware the agency has had great difficulty innovating in the world of technology. a lot of it is consistent underfunding over the years. some of it is an aviation culture which is a little bit hesitant to embrace new technologies, for obvious safety

concerns, but what you've ended up with is a system that was built essentially in the 1950s with spinning radars and people talking on radios, vhf radios, that really hasn't moved into an age of the internet, to an age of computers, to an age of satellites. and this no tam situation isn't directly related to that but it speaks to the overall culture there of allowing antiquated technology to persist. >> a.m.mara walker spoke to travelers at the biggest airport in the world, atlanta. >> reporter: flight operations have returned to normal per the faa, at least for the most part. for much of the day airlines were playing catch up. they were dealing with the ripple effect, this domino, of having to get their flights back in the air, rescheduling, getting passengers rebooked. that is why throughout much of wednesday we saw the number of

delays continuing to tick up into the thousands. of courts, tse, this has been a inconvenience. many have the debacle of a holiday still in mind where we saw a winter storm really cripple the airports and airlines and, of course, subsequently the southwest airlines meltdown. one passenger i spoke with told me that he actually missed a funeral because of the delay after delay that he had to deal with so he was unable to attend a funeral in new york, but all in all passengers seem to be taking this in stride although in general there is a sense of frustration. listen. >> when my original flight was supposed to take off at 9:05 going to miami and then from miami to costa rica, now we've been delayed three times. there are no more flights leaving today that would get us there on time nor tomorrow nor friday, and at the very moment our flight is set to arrive in miami after the flight takes off

to costa rica. >> i kind of thought it was a southwest issue again. luckily i noticed it was red, it was the faa issue. so everyone's affected, not just us. >> reporter: the u.s. transportation secretary, pete buttigieg, says there is no evidence of a cyber attack, although they are still looking into the cause of this faa, federal aviation administration's system outage. he said the ground stop was issued out of an abundance of caution and now federal officials are reviewing what happened, the cause and the next steps to take. >> well, one of the families affected by the travel chaos is stranded in hawaii. p this woman posted the photo of their husband and daughter waiting to take off. they waited for hours. you look pretty upbeat in the photos, but you were sitting on the plane for five hours.

>> yeah. the we were all just trying to make the best of it. >> just explain how it played out. you got on the plane and then what were you told? >> yeah. we got on the plane and got settled and they immediately said that there has been a computer issue and they were working on getting it resolved and that we should be taking off within 30 minutes. so -- but then that time came and went and then we started getting text alerts that said, all right, your flight's been pushed back another 45 minutes, then time would come and go and we'd get another alert. then they came on the pa and said it was an american airlines issue. then they came on and said, no, this is nationwide. this isn't just us. we're all grounded. we're working on it. we should be up and running, thanks for your patience. then they came around and said

we kept getting pushed back and pushed back. and it was 10 p.m. when we were supposed to depart and it was around 3 a.m. when they -- >> did you have some sympathy for the flight attendants? >> oh, i did. the they were just working so hard to bring us water, food and 90% of the people were super kind but there were a few people that were being very irritated and taking out their frustrations on some of the flight attendants. >> now you've got a proper sense of what went wrong. a computer failure effectively, but also the backup failure. what are your views on how it was all handled and what went wrong? >> well, i think that most of the people involved, it wasn't their fault and they did the best they could to accommodate. it's difficult when it's the middle of the night, you're traveling with children and the wait to be put up in the hotel

room were three hours long. honestly, most of the people we worked with were doing the best they could with a situation that was much bigger than them and we appreciated everybody's help. >> so what are you going to do now? >> well, we've had to rebook our flights multiple times. there was confusion. lots of just confusion. our flight was supposed to be maui, dallas, kansas city and for a while they would only get us to lax and then dallas and so we finally now have a flight booked where we can get back to new york city thursday night around 6. they put us up in a hotel so we have no car, no anything left. we're kind of waiting it out. but, yeah,s so we've missed extra work and we finally have a plan to get home. my husband had to spend another few hours on the phone this morning with them because when we finally did get the flight to

kansas city, they booked us on four separate flights, four separate seats all over the plane. i don't want my 8-year-old to be sitting by themselves on a plane. we had seats altogether. we had to get that straightened out. i think we've got it now. >> leah, good news. at least you're all safe but what a horrible experience. thank you so much for joining us and sharing your journey. do all get home safely at some point. >> all right. thank you. i appreciate it. >> thank you. the royal mail in the u.k. is asking not to send letters and parcels internationally for now. you can't send mail abroad. it's not clear what the cyber incident was, but an investigation is underway and the royal mail says it has reported the issue to regulators and security authorities. mississippi has become the latest u.s. state to ban tiktok from the government devices. governor tate reaves issued the

directive on wednesday saying he's concerned china could steal state government data. mississippi is following more than a dozen other states in the federal government who have similar bans. tiktok has called those efforts a political gesture. in just a few hours the u.s. consumer price index for december will be released. it will show a further easing of inflationary pressure. it's still expected to have 6 of.5% year over year. that's down from november's 7.1 increase and december's report will be the last one before the fed's interest rate decision next month. here's how the u.s. stock futures are fairing ahead of that. the slightly under but pretty level, actually. still ahead on cnn, no sign yet of a missing massachusetts woman, but court documents from a previous case describe her husband as a sociopath. plus, 5-year-old boy swept from his mother's arms during severe flooding in california.

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students are back in class after winter break nearly two months after the killing of four students at an off campus home. the suspect bryan kohberger is due for a second court appearance later today. he's charged with four counts of first degree murder and one count of burglary. the killings left the entire town of moscow in idaho on edge. the suspect was a ph.d. student at washington state university just a 15 minute drive from moscow. opening statements set today for five members of the proud boys. a federal judge has ruled prosecutors could use a video but then president donald trump telling the group to stand back and stand by during a

presidential debate in 2020. the judge said the comments showed an additional motive to advocate for trump and engage in the charge, conspiracy to keep him in power. french authorities are looking to identify the motive in the attack on a train. the suspect entered and started hitting people with a metal hook. six were wounded before he was stopped. he was taken to hospital and required surgery. they believe he's from libya or algeria. they've been unable to question him due to his injuries. ukraine's military is pushing back on claims from russian-backed mercenaries that the town of soligar in the donetsk region has fallen. they say the forces have captured all of the salt mining town and the ukrainian soldier

says they're hanging in there despite a difficult situation. ukraine's president says russia is exaggerating its claims in soledar to boost the claims at home. >> the ukrainian military was warning they have killed 100 soldiers in the town near soledar near donetsk. we haven't been able to verify this. this does suggest fighting is still ongoing pretty intensively in the town and surrounding areas. it is very close to the town of bakhmut which is one of the most contested parts of the fighting, really throughout this conflict. what we do know, even though we have the conflicting reports, what both sides seem to agree on is we have satellite imagery. if we can bring that up, we have the before and after showing the

scale of destruction. here we have the before, row of apartment blocks. then go to the after, you can see the destruction there. >> oh, my. >> another one shows the school and surrounding buildings. similar story. rural and then the after shot, you can see everything is destroyed. there was not a wall left standing in soledar as we know. the head of the regional military administration there say there are 523 civilians left in the town from a pre-war population of 10,000. >> in terms of how russia is spinning this at the moment, we're seeing some movements in military personnel. is that all part of a morale-building process or is that strategic? >> you know, i think it's not clear how much is strategic and how much is personalities. they've installed a general who is head of the joint chiefs,

head of the armed forces, which is a pretty significant decision. fourth general to take on this position during this war. i think it shows two things, one that the previous general has had a run of bad luck strategy that hasn't worked. the bombardment has not proved decisive. they lost kherson and then there was the attack on kyiv which killed 89 soldiers. looks like they want to change things up. the other backdrop in soledar is wagner. >> claire, thank you be. you're watching "cnn newsroom" live from london. up next, massachusetts man is facing new scrutiny after his wife disappeared on new year's day. californians have seen a brutal two weeks of back-to-back deadly storms. now they're bracing for more wet weather.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." if you are just joining us, do let me bring you up to the latest top stories. president biden's legal team has turned over a second batch of classified documents found at another location. republicans are calling for a special counsel investigation just like the one president trump is under. ukraine says it's killed a hundred russian soldiers. cnn can't independently verify the claim. he didn't provide any evidence as such of an attack. this as ukraine pushes back from russian backed mercenaries that the town has fallen.

california officials are preparing for more extreme weather. this is the calm between the storms. conditions are relatively quiet at the moment but the state is recovering from weeks of back-to-back deadly storms. a number of places recorded 50 to 70% of the rainfall they would usually get in an entire year. the past days are seen widespread flooding and thousands of people forced from their home. more rain in the coming hours first impacting the pacific northwest before shifting east in the days ahead. this 5-year-old boy is missing in the wave of the week's storms. he was with his mother when the storms took over the car. >> my car shifted and hit two trees. i don't normally curse. i actually said a bad word and

kyle said, mommy, it'll be okay. just keep calm. he unbuckled and took his backpack out and climbed into the front. i told him -- when i saw him taking the backpack, i said, no, leave the backpack in the car. i don't want the backpack, i just want you. he did. he followed my instructions. he let go of the backpack and he came with me but the current was so strong and i was holding his hand and the current pushed him away from me. >> authorities have been searching for kyle for days. moore than 100 national guard members arrived on wednesday and even more expected to take part in search efforts. his half brother says they hope they find him soon. >> now if -- we've been calling, we've been searching out there. if kyle was here right now, i'd ask him to kissimmee.

>> one official says the extreme weather over the past two weeks has been one of the deadliest disasters in california history. at least 18 people have died. officials are warning people of the monterey peninsula and it could cut off their community effectively making them an island. we have more from veronica miracle in san francisco. >> reporter: the cleanup continues. >> it felt like an earthquake. the dog came running in. we could hear glass shattering and water pouring. >> it was shocking. it was really -- it was unreal seeing that water just come surging up. >> reporter: in san francisco lightning, hail storms, trees falling, power lines down. >> saw sparks everywhere around me. >> reporter: even a tornado briefly touched down in sacramento. on tuesday california had one of the busiest days ever for air rescues and at least 18 people have died in the storms.

>> that's more than we've lost in the last two years of wildfires. this is a very significant emergency. >> reporter: and in san francisco and other parts of northern california the rain continues to fall. >> if we flood more and more, it's not manageable. >> reporter: some 5 million people are under flood watches in northern california while parts of central and southern california getting a much-needed break from downpours, flooding and mudslides. >> the ground is so wet and the water is pooling up. i would say this is like the worst winter i've seen in this short amount of time. >> reporter: in the sierra, one to three feet of snow has blanketed several ski resorts in the last several days. the snow closed a major thoroughfare overnight as trucks passed. >> we have to get the stuff where it's supposed to go. >> reporter: the snow pack which contributes 30% of california's fresh water offers some relief amid lingering conditions in california. >> it's a double edge sword

because we're seeing slides and stuff. this state needs water so badly. >> reporter: the unrelenting downpour is filling some of the state's largest reservoirs. >> we've never seen anything like this. the state has been experiencing drought for the last four years and now we have storm upon storm. >> reporter: the benefit of so much rain falling so fast. >> we wanted rain, we've got it. >> reporter: six storms in the last two weeks and there is more to come after almost 20 inches of rain in the last three days. even southern california's brief respite from the deluge will soon end. another round of heavy rainfall is due with two more major storms to follow. this is a prime example of what's happening all across the state. this used to be a dry hillside. now it looks like a water fall is rushing down here and it's spilled debris and mud all across this roadway. it's dangerous situations like this that has people staying at home from storms if at all possible.

veronica miracle, cnn, san francisco. the world's oceans have hit their hottest temperature on record for the fourth year in a row. warmer temperatures mean more powerful storms. scientists from 16 institutes around the world looked at data going back to the 1950s for the study and say this warming trend will continue until we reach net zero carbon emissions. in florida an okarorca whal beached itself. this is the first time it's happened in the southeastern united states. the whale was actually found alive but it died before crews could arrive to help. te tests for why it beached itself could take months. police are not making a lot

of their information public but the man's previous troubles with the law are telling. cnn's brian todd reports. >> reporter: in court documents just obtained by cnn, relatives and acquaintances of brian walshe, the husband of ana walshe referred to brian as a, quote, sociopath and, quote, not a trustworthy person. the documents are a part of the dispute over brian walshe's father who died in 2018. one of his adversaries wrote brian walshe was a, quote, very violent and angry person. cnn has reached out but not gotten a response. >> evidence of any bad acts or outbursts is something in the interest of prosecutors. >> reporter: this comes as investigators process a significant amount of circumstantial evidence of ana walshe's disappearance. >> what they're trying to prove here is a murder case and doing that without a body offers

certain challenges. >> reporter: neither a body or body parts has been found. they found a hacksaw, torn up cloth and what appear to be bloodstains recovered from a garbage transfer station north of boston. earlier prosecutors said a bloodied broken knife and bloodstains found in the station. >> tracking this guy is like tracking a bleeding elephant in the snow. he's leaving tools, clues and signs everywhere. >> reporter: including internet searches in the days following his wife's disappearance of how to dispose of a 115 pound body and how to dismember the body. >> when your wife is missing, that's what you're searching for, it's too much to explain away. >> reporter: law enforcement says investigators now hope to collect blood samples from the walshe's sons so they can compare that dna from the trash

piles and the basement. >> by getting dna from the children they could establish a scientific direct bloodline dna link saying the contributor of the blood on one or both ends of that scenario is the mother of those children. that would get them to -- much closer to a place of probable cause to brianne indictment. >> reporter: then there are brian walshe's statements. he didn't report his wife missing until january 4th. >> during the time frame when he didn't report his wife and gave various statements, that allowed him time to clean up evidence, dispose of evidence. >> reporter: court documents say brian walshe who was confined to home confinement for a different case. he went to home depot and he

spent $450 on cleaning supplies including mops, a bucket, and tarps. walshe has pleaded not guilty to misleading investigators but his attorneys have otherwise not commented on the case to cnn. brian todd, cnn, washington. china's covid reality clashes on the ground. cnn goes to a funeral home where the real death toll is impossible to ignore. >> reporter: i'm now standing in that new parking lot of this beijing funeral home. this entire parking lot area did not exist a month ago. unlike many other products,, downy rinse & refresh doesn't cover odors or leave residues... it helps remove e them. it's safe on all fabrics and gegentle on skin -- just add to your fabric softener tray. downy rinse & refresh helps remove odors up to 3 times better than detergent alone, so fabrics look and smell clean. try new downy rinse & refresh. guaranteed or your money back. find it in the fabric softener aisle or online.

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>> the reason is that there's still a lot of covid out there and the public health emergency, in his determination, gives us tools to fight this. the. >> the xbb variant was discovered in november and it's been spreading rapidly ever since. the world health organization doesn't have enough data to find out if the data causes more severe disease just yet. xbb is definitely more contagious. >> it is an incredibly transmissible variant, like all of them are. it does have a growth advantage compared to other sublineages of omicron. the data we have to detect xbb.1.5 is very limited. most we have is only be from one country and that's from the united states. >> the u.n. has accused china of underreporting the death toll from its ongoing covid outbreak. the official number is still low

even though hospitals and crematoriums have been inundated. celina wang went to a funeral home in beijing where signs of the rising death toll are impossible to ignore. >> reporter: covid lockdowns may be over in china, but for many there's misery at the end of zero covid. the virus is overwhelming hospitals across the country. the sick struggle to get help. patients crammed into every available space, every hallway and corner of this northern chinese hospital. not everyone survives the struggle. rows of body filled this funeral home storage room though we don't know how many died of covid. in jiang suh families in mourning clothes flood the gate. families line up outside right next to coffins waiting to cream mate their loved ones. china has only officially reported a few dozen covid-19 defts since reopening, but

satellite imagery confirms the different reality we see on the ground. these images taken in late december and early january show crowds and long lines of cars waiting outside of funeral homes in six chinese cities. the images from the outskirts of beijing show that a brand-new parking lot was even constructed. we visited that funeral home. rows of cars were already there. i'm now standing in that new parking lot of this beijing funeral home. this entire parking lot area did not exist a month ago and as you can see, the roads are not paved. one van pulls in, unloads a body and another follows. a man tells me he waited hours for his brother's body to be cream mated but the wait is nothing, he says, compared to the crowds from a few weeks ago. experts say beijing's covid outbreak has already peaked. in december we filmed these body bags piling up in metal crates at another beijing crematorium.

this video cnn has obtained be was filmed by a man who said his father's body was lying in this overflying beijing hospital mourg for days. his father waited for hours of hospital bed space. at a time a bed opened up, it was too late. they are scrambling to set up clinics and icu capacity. for weeks it was nearly impossible to buy cold or fever medicine. we were all sold out because of the huge demand. >> reporter: drug companies like the major pharmaceutical manufacturer in beijing are going into overdrive after a shortage of medicine to treat covid-19 symptoms. i asked the vice president if they had received any warning they were going to abandon zero covid. he didn't directly answer my question but now they are doubling down. the drug shortage overflowing

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