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what we don't know exactly yet whether they broke the law or not, i will accuse the obama administration -- the biden administration of not being transparent why didn't we hear it when the first batch of classified documents were discovered? >> there's a lot to answer for for the biden administration. good morning. poppy. kaitlan is off today on a cold day. freezing, right? >> freezing. >> no football this weekend? >> no football. i did no live television this weekend. >> vikings, get over it. still another day, another classified document it appears inside president biden's delaware home, giving democrats headaches. what they're demanding from the white house, republicans. another storm if you can

believe it pounding california after weeks of relentless downpours, deadly flooding and several feet of snow. is there any relief in sight? strategy striking the university of georgia football team. what we're learning about the crash that -- the car crash that killed an offensive linmeman an a team staff member. we begin with house republicans going back on the attack. they're demanding information from the white house after more classified documents turned up inside president biden's private home in delaware. over the weekend, white house lawyers revealed the president's staff discovered five additional pages of classified materials during a search of the property. now james comber has sent a demand letter to the white house to turn over evidence for a congressional investigation. he's defending his decision to focus on the probe on president biden and not the former

president, donald trump. >> with respect to investigating president trump there have been so many investigations i don't feel we need to spend a lot of time investigating president trump because the democrats have done for the past six years. who hasn't been investigated is joe biden. >> congress has an independent constitutional obligation to oversea all aspects of the justice department. so we will have a role in what's trance pyring here. house democrats are focused on differences between president biden's handling of classified material and the former president trump. >> we were delighted to learn that the president's lawyers, the moment they found out about the documents that day turned them over to the national archives, and ultimately to the department of justice.

that is a very different posture than what we saw with donald trump where he was fighting for a period of more than eight months to not turn over hundreds of missing documents. >> i still would like to see congress do its own assessment of -- and receive an assessment from the intelligence community of whether there was any exposure of others to these documents, harm to national security in the case of either set of documents with either president. let's bring in paula reid, live in washington. even more documents uncovered and the drip, drip, drip not good for the biden administration and democrats, quite frankly. >> not good at all, don. but what was interesting here is that the president's team took a different approach what we've seen over the past week with the new revelations seemingly every day is instead of letting this news leak out through the media over the weekend. the biden team got out in front of it, announced the discovery

of five additional pages, but we're told not to get too used to the new transparency because they want to balance their desire to let us know knew information with the other desire, which is to let this investigation play out. president biden leaving atlanta sunday did not address the discovery of new pages of classified material among the records recovered at his home. on saturday the president's legal team revealed in a statement that five additional pages with clas markings were discovered among the materials previously discovered at his wilmington residence. as of now, approximately 20 documents have been uncovered. cnn learned 10 were found at his former office in d.c. among them information about iran, ukraine and the united kingdom and those

documents included top secret information. on thursday, the white house revealed documents had also been found at the president's wilmington home in a storage space in the garage and what was described as an adjacent room. attorney general merrick garland also announced thursday the appointment of robert hur to serve as a special counsel to oversee a criminal investigation into the matter. >> the document authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter. >> reporter: hur is a former trump appointed u.s. attorney and trump era justice department official. he will take over from john lausch, the trump appointed u.s. attorney who led the initial review of the documents found at mr. biden's office. over the past week, new details about the classified documents have leaked out, mostly through

media reports with the white house deferring to the justice department. >> we're just not going to get ahead of the process from here. >> reporter: and the president trying to defend why classified documents were stored in the same garage as his sports car. >> my corvette is in a locked garage, it's not like they're sitting out in the street. >> reporter: but on saturday in what appears to be a shift in strategy, the white house was the first to reveal that additional pages had been found. but that has not stopped republicans for calling for more investigations. >> we're doing the biden family influence peddling investigation. what we learned just in the last few days from biden's mishandling of classified documents is that the biden center was funded through anonymous donations through china. >> reporter: but democrats emphasize that biden and his team have cooperated while trump is under investigation for obstruction. >> to president trump who r refused to cooperate, comply with a subpoena and who ultimately forced the department

of justice to execute a search warrant to retrieve the classified documents. and that is where we need to be centering this conversation. >> reporter: one of the biggest questions right now is the time line. the first documents were discovered back on november 2nd, the biden team then decided they would do additional searches in locations where things were shipped during the transition. that wasn't completed until last wednesday, nearly two months later and sources tell us not every possible location has been searched. so more documents could still be uncovered. >> paula reid thank you very much from washington this morning. poppy? >> tragedy after the ultimate triumph, a university of georgia football player and staff member killed in a car crash a few hours after celebrating the team's back-to-back national championships. it happened in athens, georgia.

reading about this, waking up sunday morning it's tragic. what do we know about the crash? >> reporter: poppy, it is rocking this community. we are getting a sense of how this happened from a police statement. the car for some reason veering off the road striking a power pole and going through these trees behind me. you can see the downed limbs and continuing, striking, right here the edge of this apartment complex where you see it is now boarded up. they died from their injuries, two other football program members were inside of that car as well. they were hurt. we are getting new information from the athens banner herald has identified one of them as warren mcclelland. now back to willock, he is from new jersey, he is han offensive lineman and played every game this season.

we're working to learn more about chandler mcroy. according to her linked in she was a recruiting analyst. kirby smart spoke out about her in a statement saying chandler was a valuable member of our football staff and brought an incredible attitude and energy every day. i want you to look at this video from saturday showing the team on top of a fire engine just celebrating this national championship victory. a victory parade here in athens. they were so happy. >> it's horrible coming off a celebration week. i can't imagine what his family is going through. >> reporter: poppy, just hours before on social media this young player, spending time with willock, the player allowing him

to wear that championship ring as well. poppy. >> our thoughts with their families. an absolute tragedy. thanks very much. a university of alabama basketball player has been removed from the team after being charged with capital murder, police arrested 21-year-old darius myles and a second man in connection with a shooting near campus that left a woman dead. investigators believe the shooting stemmed from a minor altercation. to california where they are, if you can believe it, facing more rainfall after another weekend of disasters across the state. the latest round of heavy rain expected to fill well into today as experts warn the saturated ground could trigger more flooding and landslides. governor gavin newsom echoed those concerns over the weekend. >> the challenges will present themselves over the next few days acutely. particularly because everything

is saturated. what may appear less significant in terms of the rainfall may be more significant in terms of the impact on the ground and the flooding and the debris flow. >> this weekend's rain the latest in weeks of heavy relentless rain has added to the devastation there. you have continued flooding, swollen rivers. this was this moment caught on camera, the roads are so saturated, that's part of a cliff that just fell off. winter storm warning were posted for the sierra, nevada mountains, the heaviest snow expected to continue through the week. and then this rescue, how this driver ended up stranded is unknown, but they air lifted him out of his suv. president biden has declared a disaster declaration for the state. it's coming as needed.

california is expected to get a much needed break in this rain a little bit later this week an opportunity to get the recovery efforts under way. today the nation honored dr. martin luther king jr. he would have turned 94 yesterday if he weren't gunned down nearly 55 years ago in memphis. >> we have to choose a community over chaos. are we the people going to choose love over hate. these are the vital questions of our time and the reason why i'm here as your president. i believe dr. king's life and legacy show us the way and we should pay attention. >> that's president biden speaking yesterday about dr. king's legacy in atlanta. on this day every year, americans tend to remember these 35 words. i have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of

their skin but by the content of their character. but his legacy is so much bigger than that one quote. bigger than the march on washington. his legacy was one of nonviolence. but also of justice. >> the day before he was assassinated he spoke of being to the mountaintop with acknowledging his own mortality. >> i may not get there with you, but i want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promise land. >> coming up in our 8:00 hour we'll talk to his son, martin iii, about his father's legacy in today's politics, particularly when it comes to

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there is palpable grief and anger in the central ukrainian city of dnipro after a russian cruise missile slammed into an apartment building over the weekend. it killed at least 36 people. one neighbor said the closer she got the more it, quote, looked like hell. frederik pleitgen is live for us this morning. fred, thank you for being here. again, civilian targets. >> reporter: civilian targets and civilians injured as well. it's been tragic to see the rescue crews doing their best but in the past couple of hours it's only been dead bodies in the rubble. this is one of the deadliest incidents since russia's full-on

invasion in ukraine. the morning bricks to light the full extent of the destruction. the residential building annihilated down to the foundation. even though rescue crews still work, the chances of finding survivors now down to virtually zero. all night residents watched in fear, anger and grief, olga said she passed by the building only about half an hour before it was hit. there are many friends and people close to me here. many, many she says. elena, stunned by the scale of the destruction curses the russians. i simply hate them. children, people died here. she can't speak any more. throughout the night, the death toll continued to jump. on top of the many killed,

ukrainian authorities say dozens were injured, many of them children. in just this location in dnipro, one of many sights russia targeted with missiles this weekend. the ukrainians say the reason the damage is so extensive is this building was hit with a cruise missile called the kh-22. when it hit the building it completely annihilated it, burying dozens of people underneath. the ukrainians call the attack state terrorism and the president said rescuers will continue to try to save anyone here. let's fight for every person president zelenskyy said, the rescue operation will last as long as there's the slightest chance to save a life. but even the slightest hope has now all but died and this is essentially a recovery operation. the crews searching for bodies where so many lives were violently ended in an instant.

>> fred, the ukrainians say this was a missile that was designed actually to destroy aircraft carriers. so you can imagine, no wonder the damage it did to that building. do the ukrainians at this point, have any way, in terms of defensive weaponry, to stop these? >> reporter: you know what, they say they don't. let me get out of your way so we can see what's going on behind me. they say they don't have anything capable of stopping these missiles. they have about a two-ton war head -- or one-ton war head inside that missile and the ukrainians say right now they have nothing to intercept those missiles. they're wildly inaccurate. the ukrainians are saying possibly the patriots systems that they're getting from the u.s. those could help them shoot the missiles down because the patriot systems are more long range. one of the things that the

ukrainians have been saying is they would need a lot more of those western air defense systems to give them a better chance to shoot down missiles like the one used in this attack here. but, of course, other missiles as well. they say, as far as this is concerned, they have no chance of shooting it down and the missiles are only accurate to within about 500 yards. >> and so destructive. thank you to you and your team on the ground for that reporting. don? >> we go to napal where they are mourning the deadliest plane crash in 30 years. authorities are trying to determine what brought the aircraft drown, leaving 69 people dead. the country is referred to as one of the riskiest places to fly. ivan watson is live with more. what's the latest? >> reporter: the rescue workers are searching for three of the 72 people on board this domestic flight. it was a yeti airlines flight. it was only supposed to be

flying 25 minutes from the capital. and air traffic control lost contact at about the 18 minute mark. there's video shot by an eyewitness of the plane suddenly banking to the left and not even seconds later, the sound of an explosion and it crashed into a deep gorge. so the recovery, the rescue effort very complicated, involving ropes and trains to try to pull people out. most on board were citizens of napal, as well as travelers from countries like russia, korea, ireland, argentina, and france. the rescue workers say they have retrieved the black box and it is in good condition. >> thank you very much for that. ivan watson, we appreciate it. debt ceiling drama. a standoff between republicans and democrats threatens to crater the u.s. economy. can they reach a deal?

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coming up, gen z, partying like it is 1999. why they have known what the old folks have been telling us forever about the flip phones. so now gen z is obsessed with flip phones. we'll talk about what's behind the trend. plus an american wrongfully detained in iran is on a hunger strike, the message he is sending to president biden. and how much alcohol is harmful. we'll break down the health risks straight ahead. >> i've been harping on this for a long time. everyone is telling me it's not going to come till this summer but now the debt ceiling. >> trying to raise the roof. >> yes. janet yellen with this letter warning of scary times ahead if congress doesn't do something. warning the u.s. could default on the debt as soon as june. setting up a major battle on capitol hill after republicans took control of the house, watch. >> republicans were elected with

a mandate from the american people in the midterm elections we campaigned on the fact we were going to be serious about spending cuts so the senate has to recognize the fact we're not going to budge. >> the fact of the matter is, we can do deficit reduction. we can deal with our national debt but at the same time, the last thing we ought to be doing is playing chicken with the american economy. >> joining us now, cnn congressional correspondent, lauren fox and chief business correspondent, christine romans. let me begin with you christine what's at stake here because the letter that janet yellen sent to speaker mccarthy warned of irreparable harm. >> this is about america's promises we promised the rest of the world we'll pay our bills. we run at a deficit in this country, have for years and that works fine because the rest of the world buys our debt, gobbles up our debt because we are such

a credit worthy nation. so what is the debt ceiling? it's what it sounds lie. this is the limit, the total amount of money the united states is authorized to borrow to meet existing legal obligations. this is the credit limit. here's what happens, congress does this over and over again, congress together as a body decides to spend money and then congress later says we don't want to pay the money we spent. we don't want to pay the credit card bill and then you get into these fights over raising the debt limit. we've done it over and over again, a century ago, congress set a limit to try to chase the body, don't spend more money than you need to spend but they do it all the time anyway. and you risk america's credibility, financial standing in the world if you don't actually pay your bills. >> do you want me to go to lauren? lauren, the thing that i keep thinking about is, okay, we came to the cliff but didn't fall off

the precipice in 2011. so we won't do it again, right? or wrong? because this congress is very different than 2011. >> reporter: yeah, and already republicans in the house of representatives are staking their claim, saying this is the moment to get the country's fiscal house in order. they want and are demanding spending cuts as part of any negotiation to increase the debt ceiling. senate democrats are already laying out that is a nonstarter and the white house making it clear that is not how this negotiation is supposed to work. but one of the major issues right now is the fact that kevin mccarthy, as part of his effort to become the house speaker, already made a deal with conservatives that he would not bring a clean debt ceiling bill to the floor of the house, poppy. and that is really where we start this debate with just about five months to go until we

reach that maximum estimate to when this debt ceiling and these extraordinary measures can continue, poppy. you explain the significance of janet yellen saying, christine, in a few days, january 19th, we're going to hit that limit sooner than we thought? >> we're going to hit the limit but then she is going to move money around to make sure that we can still pay our external bills as long as possible and then this summer is when there would be the real crisis. moving money around, what does that mean? it means not paying into civil servant retiree funds right now, doesn't that sound like a bad thing to be doing? not investing in certain accounts you need. it shows a treasury department working around the clock to sort of juggle until we get to this really more important date in the summer and then what happens in the summer if you have a showdown in washington, poppy and i have covered this, in 2013

they got real close, 2011 it was a disaster -- >> i remember the government shutting down. >> you lose your triple-a credit rating and the rest of the world says wait, if they're not going to pay their bills, honor their commitments on the world stage we don't want to buy their debt and suddenly you unravel everything. it's just bad and dangerous. there are smart people who say we shouldn't have a debt limit. if congress does it over and over again, spends the money and says we're not going to pay for the money why have a limit in the first place? >> why go down to the wire every time. it's just political gamesmanship. >> yes. it must poll well to be able to pound on the table and say we're going to get our fiscal house in order. there are democrats that would like to get the fiscal house in order, too. but this is one of those things that congress does, it's groundhog day and dangerous. >> thank you, lauren, in the dark. we see you.

thanks. the cincinnati bengals set to face off against the buffalo bills for the first time since damar hamlin's on-field collapse. the controversy over where the next game is going to be played. that's ahead. it appears flip phones are making a come back. why they're the new vintage obsession for gen z, that's straight ahead. i'd like to thank our sponsor liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. contestas ready? go!

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four second-half come from behind wins tied for the most ever in the opening round of the playoffs. buffalo has been on an emotional roller coaster the last couple of weeks. today marks two weeks since damar hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field. he cheered his team from home yesterday as he continues to recover. almost nobody giving miami a chance playing with the third string quarter but find a way to hang in, zach scooping up a josh allen fumble for a touchdown, allen had three turnovers but he makes up for it. a touchdown pass to cole beasley there. and davis toe-tapping into the end zone for this. it's like the bills were riding a high last week with good news of damar hamlin's recovery but this week was a post meal crash,

34-31 josh allen says survive and advance we'll take a win anyway we can get it. >> one week seasons that's it. you have to take it one game at a time. thought we did some good things today, some bad things today. some stuff to clean up, some things to learn from. but we'll grow from it. all that matters is surviving and advancing. doesn't matter how we win, it's if we win. >> buffalo will host the bangles in the next round in a rematch of the canceled game in which damar hamlin suffered cardiac arrest. raven's quarterback trying to reach the ball over for the go-ahead score in the fourth, the game was tied. but cincinnati's sam hubbard, for a touchdown, 98 yards. hubbard is born and raised in cincinnati. you see here, getting the ball

punched out just a tad shy of the go ahead score. cincinnati advancing, it's bye-bye to baltimore. >> i was in the right place at the right time, just worried about getting hogged down. we know the playoff games are never pretty and we had to get it done, great team effort, guys stepping up left and right. that's playoff football. how about the giants, bursting into the playoffs for the first time in six years. saquon barkbarkley, see you lat tie the game. but quarterback daniel jones had the game of his life. first player all time with 300 yards and two touchdowns passing along with 70 plus yards rushing in a playoff game. giants win, they face the eagles in philadelphia next. we have tom brady's buccaneers facing the dallas cowboys tonight. 45 years old, can tom brady do it again?

we'll see. >> on and poppy. >> did you wear the purple tie for me because you felt bad for the vikings? >> i didn't want to go there. i know that's your hometown team. they fought all season, but when it mattered, sorry for mini. >> terrible day for us. >> are you going to be all right? >> going to be fine. my daughter is still rooting for the giants. she's mom i'm born in new york. she added salt to the wound. >> take it up on the buffalo bandwagon. ring ring the '90s are calling. seriously gen z apparently has a new vintage obsession the flip phone. videos are popping up all over tiktok of kids unboxing them. the devices are being sold for as little as 20 bucks at big box

retailers, even singer camilla a bay owe recently tweeted i am team flip phone, maybe i can write a theme song. this is a growing trend of young people seeking to unplug. smart phones and social media becomes more universal, the rate of depression among teens have increased. so they're leaving their smart phones behind and taking their flip phones to parties instead. >> i hope that's true. i think people are too much on their phones all the time. >> i agree. but why are they putting it on -- someone -- how are they getting it on tiktok? with a different smart phone? >> i don't know. i'm sure they -- go back to the other device and take the picture on the old phone and send it to the new phone, but anyway. whatever. i hope it's true. because it would be good if young people disconnected from social media. >> i agree. >> i have a flip phone, by the

way. >> so does chuck schumer. >> i have a blackberry. i don't use it. but i have it in a box somewhere. >> you know how you know you're old, when you're -- >> you look in the mirror? >> when you're reading the teleprompter and it says young people. wait, i was one. >> speak for yourself i'm still young. >> you are, babe. >> i'm a millennial. gen z. turning the page to a serious story. next, an american who still after seven years is wrongly detained in iran has launched a hunger strike with a message to president biden. this was scary, a close call between two planes at jfk airport now being investigated by the faa.

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2015, interrogated for months and then charged with espionage. he's written to president biden urging him to do more for prisoners. kylie atwood joins us with more. what does he hope to accomplish with this hunger strike? >> reporter: it's part of an effort to attract the attention of the person he believes matter most, that's president biden. overnight we saw a twitter account launched by his family and lawyer and they'll provide updates as to how he's doing throughout this hunger strike. siamak namazi, an american wrongfully detained in iran for more than seven years is embarking on a hunger strike today and calling on president biden to do everything in his power to bring him home. >> he feels desperate and reaching out publically to the u.s. president underscores that despe desperation. >> reporter: he said the goal of his brother's letter to the president is to remind him of

what happened seven years ago when biden was vice president. five americans wrongfully detained in iran returned home and siamak namazi was left behind. >> it's a horrific week to think that seven years, seven whole years have gone by which could have been avoided. >> reporter: in his letter siamak pleads for biden's attention saying all he wants is, quote, just a single minute of your time for each year of my life i've lost in an iran prison and the u.s. government could have saved me but didn't. there are also two other americans detained by the iranian regime. the hardest question to answer is how are you doing? he writes how do i explain the devastation my family and i are left with after so many half hearted prisoner deals crumbled last minute. how do i convey the terror that

comes with not knowing when or how this nightmare will end or even what comes next. >> president biden siamak is begging you, my family is imploring you, please take what it takes to make those courageous decisions we know you're capable of. >> reporter: now a spokesperson told us that it is outrageous that iran continues to detain americans for political leverage and says that the biden administration is working tirelessly to try and bring home all three americans. they are all still wrongfully detained in iran. don. >> kylie, thank you so much. so a lot of people started drinking a lot more during the pandemic. how much alcohol is too much? we've got the sobering, pun intended, results ahead. rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look off

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there is dry january and then there are those who say pour me oot. either way we are learning it's more important than ever to mind what you drink. elizabeth cohen is here to break it down. this is medical data on what is too much. >> reporter: yes, it definitely lets you know that excessive drinking can be a problem. the cdc scientists who did the study took on the task at looking at deaths and saying, how many of these were attributable to excess alcohol? so they looked at everything from drunk driving accidents which obviously are all about the alcohol to things like

cancer and heart disease where excess alcohol can play a factor. here's what they found out when they looked at deaths attributable to excess alcohol intake. they found for ages 20 through 49 that one in five deaths were attributable to excess alcohol and ages 20 through 64 it was one in eight deaths. if you drink a little bit is it a problem? let's look at how cdc defines moderate drinking not excessive but moderate drinking. cdc says for men, no more than two drinks a day for women no more than one drink a day. you can't add them up. you can't abstain all week and then have seven drinks on a saturday night, that's called bing drinking with problems on its own. this is two per day or one per day. >> elizabeth, she was looking at

me when you said -- >> one for women? >> i think it has to do with muscle mass and size in general, right? >> it does. it has to do with size and men and women metabolize alcohol differently. >> i've got to ask you about this dry january. i think we talked about this, elizabeth, during the pandemic, i did dry january and went 14 months without -- >> i was so impressed. >> -- drinking nothing. >> you wrote a best selling book as a result. >> are there any benefits to being dry all yearlong and not just this month? >> so first of all, that's amazing, don, that's great that you did that. someone like you who tried dry january and found yourself thinking clearer, feeling better, less clearer, keep doing it. listen to your body. but the cdc doesn't say all drinking is bad.

they don't come out and say we all need to be tea to thtlers. they also say, this is important to remember, if you're not drinking, don't start thinking it's going to be good for your heart or whatever. if you're not drinking, don't start. >> it was good. you start feeling well -- better. >> you stop missing it after a few weeks. >> people would ask me are you going to meetings? i'm not an alcoholic. i want it to believe clear. i exercised better, felt better, slept better. >> now at 40, even if i have one glass of wine -- what, i'm 40. that i wake up in the middle of the night. just different when you're old like me. >> it is different. we're not 18 anymore. >> that's true. >> that's true. thanks, elizabeth. "cnn this morning" continues right now. >> right now