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winter storms and staffing shortages could impact your new year's plans. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. hello, i'm brianna keilar in new york. boris sanchez is on assignment and we are learning some new details this hour about the funeral plans for former president jimmy carter. as tributes and remembrances continue to pour in. carter passed away in his hometown of plains, georgia, at the age of 100, surrounded by loved ones. and today he is being remembered for the arc of his extraordinary life, from peanut farmer to the 39th president of the united states. he served just one term in the white house, but he redefined what a post-presidency could look like. today, many are honoring him for his humanitarian work and the deep love that he shared with his wife of 77 years, rosalynn carter. now, the nation prepares to honor

jimmy carter with a state funeral as president biden declares january 9th a national day of mourning across the u.s. cnn's ryan young is in plains, georgia, this afternoon. but let's begin with julia benbrook, who is in the virgin islands, where president biden is on holiday. julia, there are some new details on carter's funeral. what can you tell us about that? >> brianna, a white house official tells our team that president joe biden will deliver a eulogy at the funeral service for former president jimmy carter. >> and this is something that we did expect. in fact, biden actually let it slip at a fundraiser last year while speaking with supporters that carter, who was on hospice at the time, had asked him to deliver remarks and he will join others on that national day of mourning, january 9th, in paying his respects. biden did speak here in saint croix last night as well, though, and he called carter an incredible. humanitarian leader, statesman

and a dear friend. these two have a long standing relationship, one that goes back more than five decades. in fact, biden was one of the first u.s. senators to endorse carter in his 1976 presidential bid. and he said that one of his fondest memories, he said this last night while speaking, one of his fondest memories with carter was when carter grabbed him by the arm and said, i want your help with my campaign. and the two have kept in touch throughout the years. carter was not able to attend biden's inauguration four years ago because of the coronavirus pandemic, but the two spoke on the phone. and then biden thanked carter for his commitment and lifetime of service. during that speech, the current president and current first lady visited the carters in georgia in 2021 and have, like i said, kept in touch. they've had this strong relationship over the years. >> yeah, they certainly have. julia, thank you for that report. let's go to ryan young in plains, georgia. now, ryan, how is that community

remembering carter today? absolutely. >> to him, so much love is outpouring from this community. you got to think how small plains is. you're talking about a town of 700 people. the downtown is pretty much right behind me. you think about how jimmy carter scored in life. not only did he win in love, being married for 70 plus years, but this community really loved the former president. everywhere around here, there's some sort of remembrance of him down the street. there's the high school. he went to the museum is that direction. his house is only about five houses down from where we're standing. and the more and more you talk to people, they reflect about the idea about how he got started as a peanut farmer, how he was able to raise himself up and go to the naval academy, serve on a nuclear submarine, and then rise to the level of governor and then president. so you understand the outpouring of support and love from this place, because so many people have jimmy stories. in fact, take a listen to some of the folks we talked to earlier this afternoon, mostly. >> you know, i grew up in albany, which is 35 minutes

from here. um, and when i think of albany, you think about, you know, a small town. well, plains is way smaller than albany is. and the fact that this man made such a name for himself and did so many amazing things in the world. like i said, it's, you know, i told my kids, it doesn't matter where you come from, you can be president, you can do anything you want. >> i would talk politics, especially with president carter. with rosalynn, it was more listening than talking. you could agree with him 100% on politics, but if you were in a good person, he really didn't have much use for you such an american spirit here. >> you heard that woman talk about the fact that she talked to her kids, that you can achieve anything. i love that idea of moving forward and the idea that he inspired so many people. i've worked in thomasville, savannah, atlanta, all over. people would have jimmy carter stories, especially when it came to habitat for humanity, which everyone seems to point to. that second life as a president was really something that now

is the standard bearer for all presidents, because not only did he serve well as that president, now, you talk about that life afterwards. and just to think he's a peanut farmer. now, there are some folks from the carter center who in this area were digging to find out the next bits of information. we've seen this downtown sort of trying to get itself beautified because it knows more people are going to be piling in. the other thing that hasn't stopped here, though, is the tractors and the log trucks that keep moving, because the farmers are, of course, are still working and all that downtown over there where they serve peanut ice cream, by the way, peanut butter ice cream, by the way, they wanted to be open because jimmy carter asked them to be. so when folks started arriving, they got that plains welcomed that they're already receiving already. brianna. >> yeah, they'll get the experience there in plains, georgia. ryan young, thank you for that. and we're joined now by randall balmer, who is the author of redeemer the life of jimmy carter and a cnn contributor and leah wright rigueur, who is a cnn political analyst and historian. and leah, it was in 2018 when carter told cbs news norah

o'donnell that he wanted to be remembered as a champion of peace and human rights. fair to say i think he's going to get his wish. what's his legacy on peace and human rights? >> so his legacy on peace and human rights can't be denied. >> he is absolutely inspirational. >> i think the biggest testament to this is his being awarded the nobel peace prize in 2002, not for any one specific act, but for a body of work that stretched the really the duration, not just of his post-presidency, but actually during his presidency. >> and i think this is one of the things that has been understated about his legacy, which is that his quest for human rights actually begins far beyond the moments that we associate with him this post-presidency period. >> he is instrumental in redefining how we think about human rights and humanity as part of both domestic policy within the united states, but also global policy and foreign policy. >> as president of the united states, and through the executive branch. >> and so it is, you know,

without a doubt, this is something that jimmy carter will be remembered by. and this is, i think, why we are seeing a global outpouring and reflection that really says, this is a man, this was a man of peace, but this was a man of humanity and human rights. >> yeah. and randall, he was a man of faith. his deep christian faith was such an important part of his life. it also informed his priorities on peace and human rights. >> no question about that. certainly human rights was very important to him. peace. the fact that he devoted both his presidency as well as his post-presidency to, to to peace and understanding among the nations, but also the fact that he was working very hard through the carter center to eliminate various tropical diseases that were debilitating to so many people. he saw that very much as part of his mandate as a person of faith, as as a follower of jesus. >> yeah. he was, as you write in your book, redeemer, the last great progressive evangelical figure, i also

wonder what you thought hearing that man from georgia who was talking about the conversations that he would have with jimmy carter, saying you could agree with him on politics, but if you were a bad person, he didn't have any time for you. character mattered to him. >> it did. and character, arguably, is what got him to the white house in the first place. we have to remember that carter was elected in 1976 after the vietnam war, and particularly after the after the watergate crisis, and he promised that he would never knowingly lie to the american people. and at that time, it was a novel idea, a president who didn't lie to us. and i think that helped to propel him to to the white house. and i think it's also worth noting that no one has ever credibly accused him of reneging on that promise. as president of the united states. >> yeah, and he was, of course, a one term president. president biden is going to be a one term

president. democrats are currently doing some serious soul searching. and you said that you recommend that almost 50 years after carter left the white house, people should really look back on his approach to politics and the presidency with a fresh set of eyes. talk a little bit about that. >> well, there are any number of areas where democrats and really politicians more broadly, politicians of all parties, both of the two major political parties within the united states, should be looking to jimmy carter. i think one of the things that's really important is that, you know, carter promised to bring integrity and to bring, i think, truth and honesty back into the white house. and he did that, and he did it at great personal expense. the other thing that he, i think was, was really quite valuable about his time in office is that there are any number of initiatives, programs, policies, legislation that he put into effect. he was he used deregulation as a way for to get americans on track with innovation and expansion, particularly in rail, in the airline industry and

manufacturing and shipping. he kick starts the department of energy and kick starts the department of education as a way of really centralizing many of the issues that americans are were trying to face. so even in the midst of crisis, he is faced with inflation, stagflation, the oil crisis, foreign policy crisis is just beset by any number of issues. he finds a way to innovate and to really think long term in terms of what is america's greatness. and so, yes, he pays the price. he's a one term president. but as we look back, one of the things that we can see is that his legacy persisted long before that and affected both republicans and democrats for the positive. >> yeah, may not pay off in the moment, but the legacy speaks for itself. randall. leah, thank you so much to both of you for the conversation. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and up next on cnn news central, investigators are at the site of that deadly plane

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crew members sitting in the tail section of the boeing 737 survived. south korea's acting president has now ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operation system, and the u.s. is sending a team to help with the investigation. let's talk more with this, more about this now with cnn aviation analyst miles o'brien. and miles, just first off, we're just learning that southwest airlines says it's now working with investigators in the jeju air crash. can you tell us why they might be involved? >> i you know, southwest airlines has an awful lot of experience with that particular. >> 737 model. perhaps that might have some they might bring some expertise to bear. >> they have had a couple of overrun events themselves. beyond that, i don't know. >> yeah. it'll be interesting to find that out. i didn't mean to pop quiz you because we're just learning these things. but we officials are saying that

the pilot reported this bird strike before the crash. and then you also have the plane's landing gear not down in the either pair of landing gear. could those two things be connected? >> probably not. brianna. there's no reason to believe that an engine failure, even two engine failure, would make it impossible for the crew to bring down the landing gear. the the absolute last ditch way of doing that is literally pulling on a cable which attaches to a latch, and the gear just falls down by virtue of gravity, so that is not likely. i've come to the conclusion, brianna, that it was the intention of that flight crew to have the landing gear up, and you may ask why? well, if that aircraft had lost both engines and it was for all intents and purposes, a glider, they would have been trying to

preserve as much distance, glide distance as possible. and in order to do that, you don't want to put your flaps down and you don't want to put your gear down, because that reduces the amount of distance you can fly without power. so is it possible that on short final to the runway bird strike, they aborted the landing? and as they're going around to set up for another one and troubleshooting the loss of that engine and the other engine failed in some manner, and suddenly they had no power. and if they were in that situation, they would have done exactly what they just did, which was turn around to the opposite end of the runway and try to come in like a glider, and you would not want to put the gear down or the flaps down. now, the tricky part in this scenario, if you'll bear with me on this, brianna, is that when you're coming down that fast, there's a, there's a thing we call ground effect in aviation. it's kind of like a cushion of air. and that causes the aircraft to float as

it gets closer to the ground. and so they landed very fast, which was the intent, of course, but very far down the runway. now that would probably be okay at a lot of airports, but at this particular airport, unfortunately, there was this reinforced concrete berm, which was the foundation of an important antenna for the instrument landing system. and so when they overran the runway, because they were fast and long, they smashed into that berm, causing that huge fireball, killing all but two people. so i that's my scenario at the moment. it's the only thing that makes sense to me, because there's no reason that that gear should have been up unless the crew wanted up. >> so what would have happened at another airport that did not have what essentially became this physical obstruction, a wall that this plane collided with? >> well, there are 112 runways in the united states that have

a type of concrete that is designed to break away under the weight of an aircraft and for all intents and purposes, act like quicksand. it's called hamas. and that would stop the airplane very quickly. they're also, you know, even if that berm wasn't there, the overrun space between that and the the edge of the field probably would have stopped that aircraft before striking that wall. maybe not, but it would have certainly reduced the number of casualties if that obstacle wasn't there. so as part of what south korea does right now, they should take a hard look at how they design their airports and consider possible obstructions. right at the end of a runway, which, you know, take away the safety of that overrun space by putting the berm in the way. >> yeah, i is this the kind of thing, you know, you think of a bird strike and they're scary

things. we we are familiar, of course, with the miracle on the hudson landing back in 2009. just amazing that people survived that. but is this something that should be survivable, this kind of of of bird strike? >> yeah. you know, in this case, you know, a lot of people second guessed sully on his decision to go into the hudson river. some people said he could have turned back to the runway at laguardia. well, now we know what happens when you turn back to the runway as you come in and you come in fast and long, you don't have as much concrete to play with as you think. now, as it happens at laguardia, they do have that engineered material at the end of all their runways, which might have arrested the aircraft before it would have gone into, in that case, the east river. so yes, of course, they should be survivable in this case. it's an unusual circumstance, but if it happens

near an airport, which is frequently the case because the birds are at lower altitude anyway, these things happen near airports. uh, passengers should be able to survive if, uh, pilots are on top of their game. and if the airport is well designed. and in this case, it wasn't a well-designed airport. >> yeah, we've seen when these airliners overshoot the runway, how quickly people evacuate and they all get off so quickly, it's unbelievable. as we've seen in the past, you have the ntsb leading a team to help with the investigation. of course, there are all these, you know, informed opinions th' know. what is that team going to be looking for, and how long is it going to take to figure it out? >> well, i would caution you, what i just gave you was one piece of potential speculation on a theory. and so with all the caveats that i gave you, it is a theory that would support everything we just saw. but

it's really important when you're in crash investigations not to put blinders on and say, oh, that's what happened. uh, the important thing is to be in a very methodical way. take a look at, you know, everything about the environmental situation, the weather, the possibility of the bird strike, the evidence we have that they did, in fact lose had a compressor stall in one engine, lost one engine. the radio calls. and in this case, i think most crucially, brianna, the cockpit voice recorder is going to tell us a tremendous amount because this crew was managing, you know, a sudden problem and doing what they could the best they could do given their training. the decision to go around in that case was probably a sound one. uh, but when if they did in fact lose a second engine in the process of getting back to the airport, they didn't have much time to play with, but they did get back to that runway. uh, they landed long and fast. and it's a shame that so many people had to die

because of that one obstacle there. >> yeah, certainly is. miles, thank you so much for your insights. we do appreciate it. >> you're welcome. brianna. >> coming up, they were one of the longest serving protective details in history. how jimmy carter's secret service agents are now honoring the former president and why their work isn't finished just yet. >> i want to be the greatest player that i could possibly become. >> hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor? >> sure. he's the 76 year old guy who still runs marathons, right? >> sadly not anymore. >> wow. >> so sudden. um,

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service agents, who were part of carter's security detail for nearly half a century. i want to bring in cnn security correspondent josh campbell. and, josh, you've been hearing from members of those details. what are they telling you about their decades protecting the nation's 39th president? that's right. >> his secret service code name was deacon. and as you mentioned, he was under the protection of the secret service for nearly 50 years. i'm told that agents who served on that detail have been privately reflecting. and messages and phone calls with each other, talking about their time serving the former first family. one official saying that although this was not a surprise, he had lived a very long life and had recently been in hospice care. it was still a gut punch to the members of the secret service, who have gotten to know the carters over the years, and you have to understand just the relationship between a protectee and those guardians is one that is often quite personal. >> these agents are literally with the individual, and oftentimes their family around the clock, traveling with them. >> we've heard stories about

former first family sometimes tangling with their secret service detail. we don't hear those stories with the carters. in fact, one person tells me that most of the tension that they remember actually was when jimmy carter was going overseas after his presidency, sometimes into areas where there was a heightened threat environment. but he said he told his detail that, look, these these missions are so important. he needed to go through with them. and i want to play a little bit of a sound. this was a moment last year at the funeral of rosalynn carter. this was a moment that really choked up a lot of secret service agents. it was the family pastor taking time to tell the detail just what they meant to the carter family. >> for 46 years, men and women of the secret service has made sure that she got home safe for 46 years. they gave themselves. i want to tell each and every one of them. she would tell you. thank

you. you got me home safe. >> and of course, the same can now be said for the former president from coast to coast and across multiple continents. the secret service getting him home safe. we're told their work isn't yet finished. there is still one more mission. we expect a u.s. air force special air mission to take the casket of jimmy carter to washington for the state funeral. then he will be brought back to georgia. again, the man whose codename was deacon will finally be laid to rest. brianna. >> i love that story. josh campbell, thank you so much. as the country is reflecting on the legacy of jimmy carter, his work with habitat for humanity to provide affordable housing remained a priority for him long after he left the white house. still building homes well into his 90s, carter didn't even let a bad fall stop him from volunteering in 2019. here you see him. he showed up to help build homes in nashville just hours after

getting 14 stitches and suffering a black eye. one california woman remembers when the former president helped build her home. >> he wanted the. the low income families, um, to make to be able to own our our homes. >> um, he he wanted to help us in that way. >> well, now the country's homelessness crisis has hit a new record high. the u.s. department of housing and urban development reporting homelessness, increased 18% from 2023. let's talk about this now with the ceo of the national alliance to end homelessness. and oliva and anne. first thoughts for you on the passing of such a consequential advocate for housing. like president carter. >> well, one, thank you so much for having me on today to talk

about this. >> the tie between affordable housing and homelessness. it's so important. >> and president carter, i had an opportunity this morning to listen to an interview with him. >> and what really struck me was his deep understanding of the ties between poverty and discrimination and access, lack of access to wealth building and homelessness. >> and his ironclad commitment to the dignity of housing. and and i wish that all of our elected leaders had that same ironclad commitment. >> there is a new report that shows homelessness, as i mentioned, has reached another record high. can you talk a little bit about what is driving this surge? >> yeah. thank you for the question. it is, in its simplest terms, the fact that there is not enough housing that is affordable to people at

the lowest incomes across this country. the gap between incomes and rent is getting bigger, not smaller, and therefore, in 2023, the year leading up to the count, that's in the report that you just mentioned. on average, 19,000 people became homeless for the first time every week on average across the year. and that includes really vulnerable populations like older adults that seniors who are getting priced out of their housing. it includes families with kids, and it includes people who are struggling with unemployment or underemployment or substance use or mental health issues. so what we're seeing really is this increase in the number of people who are becoming homeless for the first time. and that's reflected in the report that you're talking about. >> and what about the surge of asylum seekers? what role is that playing in this? >> that is definitely a part of

this story, especially in some parts of the country where asylum seekers or new arrivals, um, really sort of were, uh, relocated to those areas. i think you can see in the report that there are some places that had increases in, in asylum seekers, but what hud doesn't do is actually collect data on the number of people who are asylum seekers. so the report doesn't actually bear that out. but what? that's only part of the story. the rest of the story is that folks can't afford housing, especially folks at the very lowest incomes. and many of those people are employed. so the the gap between their incomes and the cost of rent across the country is getting bigger and bigger, and the number of units that we need in order to have enough

affordable housing available is in the millions. >> the biden administration says that this data is outdated and, quote, no longer reflects the situation that we're seeing. what do you think about that? and can you tell us about what the government has has done to reduce homelessness over the last year? were there other conditions that changed? >> i think generally when they um, when the federal government refers to that data being outdated. >> so you you should note that that data was collected in january of 2020 for the last ten days of january of 2024. that was at the height of the migration crisis. so i do think that in some communities, the numbers have changed because they've been able to get folks housed and they've closed shelters for new arrivals. all of that said, the gap again, the gap that we have in the number of units that are affordable to people at the lowest incomes is in the

millions, about 7.3 million units. and the median rent in the united states is about 18% higher today than it was in 2020. those things have not changed. that said, the administration and congress have worked to provide resources to the homeless services system and to invest in in affordable housing, but not at the scale that we need. >> yeah, we see it in our communities. it's inescapable. and, oliver, thank you so much for the conversation. really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> and before we go to break, we do want to share with you a moment from 2019 when president carter spoke with cnn about public service and what he considered to be priorities for living an impactful life. >> god gives every one of us life and freedom, and i think enough opportunity and and talent to

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they found that the trial judge made no errors. but they said even if he had the strength of carroll's case outweighed any decision that would give trump a new trial. so the appeals court saying that trump does not get a new trial in that one carroll lawsuit. now, carroll's attorney, roberta kaplan, issuing a statement today saying that both jean carroll and i are gratified by today's decision. we thank the second circuit for its careful consideration of the parties arguments. trump's team, also responding to this decision. trump campaign spokesman steven cheung saying the american people have reelected president trump with an overwhelming mandate and they demand an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all of the witch hunts, including the democrat funded carroll hoax, which will continue to be appealed. and we look forward to uniting our country in the new administration. as president trump makes america great again. so signaling there that they are going to try to appeal this further. but that said, brianna, this moment, this appellate court decision does bring e jean carroll closer to

collecting on that $5 million that the jury awarded her when they found trump liable for sexually sexually abusing her and for defaming her when he denied that abuse. brianna, what about the separate civil case against trump? >> does this verdict have any bearing on that? the one where a jury awarded jean carroll $83.3 million after finding that trump had defamed her? >> so in that case, that is also up on appeal. but they're arguing different legal grounds, so it's not clear how much this could impact the other one. trump's team in that appeal are focusing on that supreme court decision on presidential immunity, saying that it should apply in in that case, because the judge had said that they were too late to try to assert presidential immunity. when trump had responded to carroll's claim while he was president. so now they're trying to get an appeals court to take a second look at that. among other legal arguments. now they have just begun to file the motions on that. so a decision by the appeals court on that other case with that

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travel delays. cnn's whitney wild is at chicago o'hare. all right. whitney. how's it looking there at o'hare? >> it looks. >> it looks pretty good. it comes in waves. >> o'hare can be like, shoulder to shoulder sometimes. or it can be a really thin crowd sometimes. right now, it's kind of in the middle, brianna. but the good news is, tsa is still going really quickly. so you're looking at about 5 to 15 minutes to get through security. this is, as you mentioned, one of the busiest days, because the chicago department of aviation says that there's going to be record numbers of travelers coming through o'hare. and midway over that two weeks, you know, beginning just before christmas and ending after new year's, they think they're going to process 3.6 million passengers between those two airports. and actually at o'hare, brianna, they think they're going to process 7.8% more this year than last year. across the board, the numbers are ticking up. just yesterday, tsa processed 2.7 about 2.8 million passengers, and that was just one day in this really busy

travel season. so again, this is a big rush in the skies. aaa saying there's going to be a big rush on the road as well. and they have some tips. so if you're traveling it is best to leave before 2:00. the worst time to leave is obviously rush hour when everybody is getting off of work between 5 and 7. that's that is, you know, you're cramming on the highways, jamming on the highways. it's tough. those times you had mentioned the delays from the weather impact. we are seeing some of that. so, you know, in into, within and out of the united states, there have been thousands of delays, less than 100 cancellations though. so that's good news. but we did speak with one couple earlier today who was delayed, and we spoke with another family that was in all matching outfits. both of these families bringing good vibes to their holiday travel. let's take a listen. >> not bad so far. we we just got all the bags checked, so hopefully security doesn't take too long and we'll be all right. >> i'm okay about it. things

happen. >> okay. >> if it's only an hour, if it ends up being 5 or 6 hours, then you know you lose the the day in arizona. but you know what? it's vacation, so no complaints. >> brianna. sometimes the journey is the destination. you know, if you have that attitude. delays aren't so bad. back to you. >> i like how your live shot started with a crying baby, which is just ubiquitous when you're traveling and the baby speaks for all of us. when you're experiencing these flight delays. i thought it was appropriate. >> whitney, that is so true. i have so many children that i actually didn't even hear it, because i've now conditioned not to hear crying children. so that one went right past me. brianna. >> yeah. you're immune. mine are just old enough that i now hear it again. it comes back to you. that will be soon. whitney wild, thank you so much for the report from o'hare. and now to a new cnn film that examines the storied career of one of the most influential artists of all time, luther vandross. from

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