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. the crazy thing about this is that this is protective net. that's crazy. wow. look at that. yeah. it looks like it's water. geez. that is pretty crazy. >> good morning, everyone. we're so happy you're with us on assignment in los angeles. the northeast, is bracing for anarctic blast. extreme wind chills set to be the lowest in decades. this morning, the areas impacted by the cold temperatures. we'll take you live to boston. >> plus, a suspended chinese spy balloon the size of three buses has been seen hovering over usair space. where it was just spotted and what the pentagon plans to do now. plus this -- >> they see me as a powerful

voice that needs to be silenced. >> that is congresswoman omar. she has been removed from the house foreign affairs committee. democrats accusing republicans of racism. what kevin mccarthy is staying ahead. we do begin this hour with extreme arctic weather unleashing some of the coldest temperatures the northeast has seen in decades. forecasters are warning this could be a once in a generation deep freeze with wind chills plunge to 50 degrees below zero in new england. take a look at the wind chills in the forecast. new york city, minus 7. boston, minus 32. that's not a typo. the wind chills could reach 100 gra degrees below zero. that is because of hurricane-force winds. this all comes after a deadly ice storm swept across the south leaving at least able people

dead. athena jones is live in boston where it is insane i had cold right now. >> well, good morning, poppy. it's cold. it's a few degrees below freezing. but i would say it's not insanely cold yet. i'm pretty comfortable. i'm not from the north. but it's going to get much, much worse as you have been forecasting. really all told, we're talking about 15 million people across a wide portion of the northeast visibly everything from if northeastern pennsylvania, new york state, and everything north under a wind chill warning or alerts of some sort. this wind this temperature is going to steadily drop over the course of the day into tomorrow. as you mentioned, we could see wind chills as low as 21 degrees in boston. 27 on saturday. so that is why officials are taking all sorts pof precaution. schools are closed. there are going to be warming

centers open for npeople that my lose power. one source said it's not just the wind chill. extremely high winds, dropping the temperature to dangerously low levels where you get frostbite in minutes. it's also the wind itself. in some places, the gusts could be so strong that they end up knocking out power. knocking power lines. that could lead to power outages. dangerous. that's one reason they'll have warming centers around boston to get to help make sure people stay safe. >> athena jones, to you and your crew, hang in there. >> remarkable story coming out overnight. the pentagon tracking a massive balloon currently over montana. defense officials are confident this is a chinese surveillance balloon. the balloon is described to be the size of three buses. while it's unclear what china is looking for in montana, officials have not speculated, montana is home to one of three american air force bases that operate and maintain the

intercontinental ballistic missiles. lawmakers are calling on the biden administration to respond forcefully. speaker kevin mccarthy saying, quote, china's disregard for sovereignty must be addressed and they and pribe esident bide cannot be silent. what are we hearing from defense officials as they're tracking this. >> the pentagon says they've been tracking this for several days. they won't give a specific current location of the balloon. we know where it has been. it has been spotted over billings, montana. defense officials say it passed over numerous sensitive sites. they won't specify what the sites are in the northern u.s. as you point out, montana is home to one of the country's ballistic missile silo fields. perhaps the site that the surveillance balloon is trying to gather information on. gather intel against the united states. the key question, of course,

what do do you with this balloon now? president biden asked for military options, asked for should it be shot down. the top officials at the pentagon including general mark milly, the chairman of the joint chiefs, recommended against going that for now. there was a risk to what's on the ground, both facilities and people. but the pentagon will continue to watch this. norad will watch this. if the risk goes up, they'll keep that military option on the table. >> if they've been tracking this for several days, why are we finding out about it now? why are they making the information public? >> the pentagon said there have been several of these occasions in the past. because it's a balloon, it zant pear to be moving quickly. it is possible this has been in the air for quite some time now. they're publicizing it right before secretary of state anthony blinken's visit to the region. tensions running high between beijing and washington. so this will only add to that tension. it makes it public what the u.s.

is going to talk about china with to see if there is any breakthrough with blinken or if the tensions, the relate there's at this point just keep moving in the wrong direction. >> he said it makes him first top diplomat to be there in six years. what are we hearing from the chinese government this morning? what are they snaying? are they offering an explanation? are they saying, yes this is our spy balloon? >> i think it can be categorized as cautious and diplomatic. right away i want to go to a statement we received late today from a foreign ministry spokeswoman which she says, quote, xchina is a responsible country. we have no intention in violation other country's airspace. we hope relevant parties handle the matter in a cool-headed way. cool-headed way comes as we have discussed as anthony blink enmarblinken

marks his first trip to china. the buildup of u.s. troops in the philippines and along with other issues such as trade and a lot of the intellectual property issues with semiconductor chips. it is interesting to see if this dominates the discussion or doesn't come up at all. as we know, both nations to an extent have engaged in some kind of surveillance over the years. it's just a state of business. it's the way things operate. it will be interesting to see how much of a focus this has. >> yeah. hard to see how he doesn't bring it up privately. thank you both so much for staying on top of this bizarre story. >> ahead, we'll dive more into this discussion with cnn's john miller and jim sciutto. stay with us. okay. defiant putin is promising victory in ukraine as russian missiles rain down on key ukrainian cities. putin is getting ready to launch a, quote, massive offensive. he plans to seize the entire

region in eastern ukraine by next month. we're live on the ground in the southern city as russian strikes overnight intensified. is that right, sam? >> yes, indeed. there was very intense bombardment last night. a number of different residential buildings were hit. and at least two people reported to have been killed in the previous 24 hours. this situation is normal but the level of bombardment is increasing. there is no expectation -- necessarily the russians are going to launch a ground strike back across the river against the city. they're taking on a civilian population. a few hours ott gn the ground l like this in that beleaguered city. >> reporter: 12 weeks ago,

ukrainians celebrated the liberation of the city for months of russian occupation. this is the scene today. the russians continue to fire with direct fire from tank as cross the river which is just a few hundred meters in that direction. and on top of that, locals are telling us that it's being regularly shelled with grads, the launching systems completely indiscriminant. homes have been blown up. hospitals torn by high explosives. in weeks of an ever intensifying bombardment. local authorities here talk of scores of artillery attacks from russian positions just across the river. every day firefighters and emergency workers keep their base locations secret. they're prime targets for russia's guns. two people were killed around the city overnight.

a missile landed very close to here recently adding urgency to this food distribution to people who are still here because they're trapped by poverty. rockets flew in during the day. at half past three right here. our guard was standing there. the guard got hit, they said. and why do you think the russians are doing this? revenge probably, she said. probably revenge because they ran away. this underpass is a prbrief r refuge. most of the houses are destroyed. people are staying without electricity, water and gas and there is constant gas. we live near the bridge, he said. he will take what help he can get from local government.

a russian strike against city hall five days ago means this plastic sheeting can be put to better use. what are you going to do with that? i'll board up the windows. the window is out. no glass. he'll have to walk home. no one will drive to his neighborhood. it looks out across the river to the russians. facing off the russians, poppy, in the east, it's been a very, very violent business. there are deep concerns in ukraine with the big troop buildup on the other side of the front line, they may open a front in the south. >> sam kiley, thank you. >> they're removed omar from the high profile foreign affairs committee. the gop serving up retribution, they say, in response to democrats and the long running

partisan battle over committee assignments. we know this was expected. you know, it did take longer than the republicans believed it would get there. what was happening on the house floor yesterday? >> kaitlan, despite threats from three republicans to oppose the revolution, removing omar from the house foreign affairs committee, all but one voted favor of it. david joyce voted present. if you look at the buildup to this, a lot of people were worried about the rules process and the processing for removing a member from the committee. they didn't want this to be seen as a tit for tat. they secured agreements from kevin mccarthy to have a more bipartisan process moving forward on the ethics committee to remove members moving forward. ellen omar said she believes republicans are targeting her because she is black, muslim and immigrant. let's take a listen.

>> there is this idea that you are suspect if you're an immigrant or from person sparts parts of the world or skin tone or muslim. is anyone surprised that i'm being targeted? is anyone surprised that i am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about american foreign policy or that they see me as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced? >> many democrats vary angered by this decision and a lot of criticism coming from the left. democratic leader said that he thinks this was less about accountability and more about political revenge. >> yeah. you saw several democrats who were jewish standing up for her. thank you so much for that report. >> thank you. so as you just heard,

congresswoman omar is off her committee over comments that have been criticized by both sides of the aisle as being anti-semitic. we should point out she apologized in 2019 for comments quickly saying ante semitism is real. she apologized. actually she just before that vote signed on to a resolution condemning anti-semitism. contrast that with representatives marjorie taylor green and paul gosar had committee assignments reinstated. green has a history of anti-semitic comments, some of which she applied for. gosar showed a character with his own face attacking cortez and president biden. cortez said he has not apologized to her. here's what she told john berman last night. >> this was about revenge. this was about petty politics. but also, i think it's also important that to state that this was not just about

republicans trying to feed a base they have already primed for years under donald trump with racism, islam phobia and also it represents a stripping of an important perspective on the house foreign affairs committee that omar as a refugee, as an immigrant, as the only hijabi woman presents. and that per inspect sieve critical in terms of american foreign policy. they're targeting -- republican party is targeting of all three of them have always been about campaigning and it has always been the perspective that they bring. it is about political revenge. political revenge for adam schiff for his work on the impeachment of donald trump and his political revenge against eric sawell in the ability to communicate against the trump

administration and wrongdoings of the republican party and in the case of omar. i believe that hers is absolutely especially amplified with racist targeting because this is what fed her base. this is the same representative that donald trump held rallies around saying send her back to her country. these individuals that kevin mccarthy has appointed, chose to appoint to committee, george santos claimed his grandparents were in the holocaust. that was a lie. a disgusting lie. marjorie taylor green regularly trafficking an anti-semitic conspiracy theories, paul gosar insighting violence against specific members in the body. he appointed all three of them to house committees not just one but multiple. marjorie taylor green who was engaging in 9/11 conspiracy theories, kevin mccarthy appointed her to the homeland

security committee. >> so now i can think about this morning where does this go from here? some representatives says this is about consistency. but where does this go from here? >> i think a lot of the republicans were concerned because they are against gosar and green being removed from the committees saying you can't punish them for what they said. then they're voting for this measure. that's why you saw a struggle. and i was on the hill yesterday. i heard from republicans was basically what won them over is they believe mccarthy essentially strengthened the appeal process for members like omar and others. >> they said that was a key issue for her. >> yeah. >> part of that is already available to them. they can appeal it to the ethics committee. they said they strengthen it further and that's why they moved here. it wasn't as easy as i think republicans thought it was going to be. >> that's for sure. >> all right. taking you to south carolina now. questions aboutal eshg mur dog

and why would he kill his own wife and son? that is what prosecutors are turning to and putting the spotlight on murdaugh's finances and he stole millions of dollars from the law firm. we heard about the snap chat video his son recorded right before he was murdered. randy, what are we -- i mean every day the developments in court are more stunning. what happened yesterday? >> this is the snap chat video that we're talking about. the second video from paul murdaugh's phone, prosecutors seem to be using it to lay the groundwork that alex america dog sho -- alex murdaugh showered and changed clothes. >> this employee from snap chat was called on to testify for the state so she could authenticate this video. the video was extracted from

paul murdaugh's phone. >> the user name is paul 9499. >> you don't see paul on the video. you hear him laughing at his father alex murdaugh. >> did you determine whether that account sent out that particular video? >> yes, it was sent on same day, june 7, 2021 at 23 -- sorry, 7:56 eastern time. >> 7:56 p.m., the night of the murders. that's less than an hour before prosecutors say paul murdaugh's phone ceased all activity. remember, alex murdaugh told investigators he hadn't seen his family since supper time. he discovered their bodies and called 911 at 10:07:00 p.m. what's especially significant about this video besides the time stamp is what alex murdaugh is wearing in it.

notice the long pants and the short sleeve blue shirt. testimony shows when police responded to the 911 call a couple hours later, alex was wearing something different, shorts and a white t-shirt. >> foreshadowing their effort to prove that somehow he showered off, washed his clothes, made those clothes disappear and changed clothes. >> they tried to show perhaps someone else might have known where paul murdaugh was and that person killed paul and his mother. >> is it possible -- i don't know how it works -- for some or all of paul's friends have access to his location through the app? >> yeah. if he made his settings visible. his location visible to friends, yes. >> that plays right into what alex murdaugh told investigators after the killings. that paul had been receiving threats following a boat crash he was involved in. a young woman died in that crash and paul had been charged with driving the boat drunk and causing her death.

on the issue of motive, out of the jury's presence, the judge allowed testimony from this state witness. the chief financial officer of alex murdaugh's former law firm told the court she confronted alex about hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing funds just hours before his wife and son were killed. the judge hasn't decided if he'll allow testimony about murdaugh's financial schemes. he's accused of defrauding clients of $9 million before being disbarred. >> had they received this snn. >> no. >> did this matter ever come to your attention again at a later time? >> yes. that would have been in september after we found some other misappropriations and we had confronted alex and he resigned. >> prosecutors say alex killed his wife and son to distract from his alleged financial fraud and prevent it from being exposed.

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urging the release of the loved ones a priority. she joins us now. what is the state department saying? do they expect them to bring up the wrongfully detained americans while sitting down face-to-face with the chinese officials? >> they're not getting ahead of the meeting. they say he raises the issues in every single country where detained americans are a problem. and of the three wrongfully detained americans in china, one of them is received a lifetime in prison sentence. another a death sentence. here's the story of him who raised his family in long island, new york. >> reporter: american citizens kai lee took a trip to china 6 1/2 years ago that resulted in no return. >> never would we have imagined in our wildest dreams that he would be whisked away by agents of china's ministry of state security on these charges of espionage. >> his son, harrison, says he's now in prison facing a ten year

prison sentence for espionage. charges he vehemently denies. the only way they communicated for three years was through closely monitored letters. more recently, he allowed seven minute phone calls to his family or u.s. officials, twice monthly. >> the covid restrictions, the authorities simply lock them in their cells 24/7. they don't even have access to bathing facilities. what they do is just take a big pot of lukewarm water and deliver it to the cell remotely for those kinds of needs. >> he is one of three americans the state department has declared to be wrongfully detained by china long with david lyn and mark swidan. their families are closely watching as tony blinken visits beijing in the coming weeks. >> i would like to tell secretary blinken, you know, use every possible tool that the administration has available to get my dad home. >> dianne foley whose son was

detained and beheaded by isis in 2014 created a foundation to support the families of americans wrongfully detained. they use lives of american citizens as weapons. >> they seem to interfere with our foreign policy and our national security. and that is obvious. they use it like a tactic of a silent warfare. >> reporter: as if blinken will raise the issue, state department spokesperson said the secretary has no higher priority than the safety of americans abroad. >> every time the secretary has a significant bilateral engagement with a country where this is in fact a concern of ours, it is something that is raised. we raise these cases on an individual basis. >> now obviously, it requires a ton of negotiation to get these americans who are wrongfully detained back to the united states. as far as we can tell, there are

no active negotiations with china under way. the state department says just because you don't see something on the surface doesn't mean it's not happening. >> certainly the families want that to happen. thank you. also former president trump is ramming up the 2024 campaign not with events but with attacks, attacking anyone who might step in the ring with him. why having as many opponents as possible could be a good thing for him. we'll tell you that next. also, the fbi expected to search mike pence's home and office in indiana, looking for any potentially more classified documents. that story ahead.

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he saw at trump's endorsement. >> ron desantis got elected. he was leading the race. he came over and begged me for an endorsement. he was getting ready to drop out. and there were tears coming down from his eyes. he said if you endorse me, i'll win. as for trump's former u.n. ambassador nikki haley, trump said she is, quote, overly ambitious as she is reported to be planning on jumping into the race next week. a big question though for many people is how many other republicans are going to throw their hats in the ring and what does it mean for trump's chances? joining us now to talk about this is cnn political commentator and anchor. this is a relevant concern i heard from people who don't want trump to be the nominee but they think it's going to be a 2016 repeat. a lot of republicans and helps trump in the end. what do you think? >> i will will never forget,

kaitlan being at the reagan library for the first republican debate of the 2016 cycle. the number was 15 or 16 that they had to be split into two. it's like a jv deep before the varsity debate. trump was able to pull 25, 30% of those primary caucus states which was enough to cruise to victory. if if t if the polls are kmcomplete, hes 50% now. the more the merrier is the bottom line. i think he wants nikki haley, mike pompeo and a whole bunch of others to get in. he secures the nomination. unless, of course, he's indicted along the way. >> yeah, of course, the investigation still a big question. can you square the circle for me? listen to what trump said yesterday talking about mike pompeo, the secretary of state and his potential run. >> yeah, i helped all those people. you know, i'm surprised. mike said, i believe the same thing.

i believe he said he would never run against the president. >> he doesn't think anyone should challenge him for the nomination. it would kind of help him the more people that get in and run against him. >> i don't think that he can resist taking a shot. at anybody who would step forward. he said similar things about nikki haley and, yet, she says she told trump she was going to get into the race and he essentially said, well, follow your heart. so i think he wants to wound you before you get out of the gate. but at the same time, he would rather you be in than not be in at all. >> so, good morning, michael. how do you then square the circle on republicans like governor sununu of new hampshire who is, you know, considering a run himself? and larry hogan who said he won't support donald trump. but their position is he's not going to be the nominee anyway.

le let's listen to what sununu said yesterday do you commit to supporting the gop nominee whoever it is? >> yes. >> even if it's donald trump? >> yeah. i don't think it will be donald trump. i'll support the republican nominee to be sure. >> because i mean i think that you did at a dinner call donald trump f'ing crazy. >> yeah. that was funny. its with a roast. it was a funny joke. >> so, michael? >> i'm laughing. i guess it was funny. listen, they don't want to alienate that base. larry hogan had a similar episode yesterday on a radio program where will you support the nominee? yeah. same thing. if it's trump, yeah. >> remember, he had to correct it yesterday. >> exactly. so they don't want to alienate that hard core of the party. that's why it's so hard threading the needle of being the opposition to trump but not

alienating the hard core trump people within the gop. >> yeah. so what do you think happens here, michael? i remember so well, was that the debate where the plane was behind them? and they had -- >> absolutely. >> it was so crowded. two different stages, two different times. do you think that's what we're heading into again? >> no. i don't think so. i don't think we're headed for 15, 16, i don't see senators coming forward. i see a lot of those you might anticipate getting in who are going to think twice about it this time. what remains to be seen though is the total number of the field and whether donald trump can maintain the support that he has. can i remind you that at this stage in the last sicycle wheree was successful, wasn't showing up in the polls. and most of us never took seriously that he would run. i argue he's in a stronger position today than he was in

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bringing extreme cold. the likes of which we have not seen in decades. we have reporters live on the ground across the region. we're going to bring you the latest forecast on where the wind chills could plunge to 50 below zero. >> also a suspected chinese spy balloon is hovering over the united states this morning. what is it doing here? and why the pentagon is not shooting it down. plus this -- >> consistency, there is nothing consistent with republican party's continued attack except for the racism and violence against women of color in this body. >> democrats accusing house republicans of racism for kicking congresswoman omar off of a key committee. we begin this morning with the extreme arctic blast. the northeast could see some of the coldest weather in decades. forecasters are warning it could be epic and not in a good way. once in a generation potentially with wind chills plunging to 50 degrees below zero and some parts of new england. look at some