of strength for the new speaker coming in. right. and it is also, i think, importantly for what going forward would be if he wins this vote and eventually, whenever it happens, if it does that, he will not be the one calling the shots really, about how things go in congress. even though he will be the speaker of the house, it will be donald trump, which is not a shock given how donald trump has exerted his influence over the republican party over the last eight years and the years to come. now that he's coming back to the white house. but it's still an amazing thing to have a co-equal branch of the government that is completely in the sway of the president. >> and he's probably better off trying to hold the line on making the argument to the far right. discontents in congress that he will be the loyal trump foot soldier, rather than making some of these. process. um, you know. yeah, he promises that are essentially like pulling a, you know, a loaded gun close to

him. it seems risky. >> three seconds. >> well, i think the problem that he has is that donald trump doesn't want to be the speaker of the house. if you had a donald trump who was going to be out there and say, i want this bill and this bill, i want it written in this way, i want these committees. i want so and so and so and so. they would do it. but trump does not engage with congress on that level, and that makes mike johnson's job that much harder. it sure does. >> all right. thanks, you guys for being here. thanks to all of you for joining me. and join us again for special live coverage of the vote for speaker. we're going to get started 12 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now. >> overnight, the fbi revealing chilling new details and new images showing the attacker placing explosive devices in the french quarter. this morning, authorities are asking for the public's help in their investigation as grieving loved ones. remember the last moments they shared with the 14 victims killed on bourbon street? >> you can cut my fingers off.

i am not voting for mike johnson. >> that is a direct quote from one republican lawmaker ahead of today's house speaker vote. we've got the latest whip count on johnson's shaky position and a dramatic standoff as police try to arrest a president. thousands take to the streets. kate is out. i'm john berman with sara sidner, and this is cnn news central. >> he acted alone. the fbi changing its initial assessment of who was involved and what they have officially now deemed an act of terrorism in new orleans. they also revised the number of people killed to 14. the 15th person who died was the terrorist who plowed into a crowd on bourbon street in a rented pickup truck. this morning, authorities trying to answer questions as to how several warning signs were missed before 42 year old army veteran shamsud-din jabbar deadly attack. sources say a

search of a houston home related to jabbar found chemicals typically used to build explosives. now we want to show you some exclusive footage obtained by cnn. a ring camera capturing him just hours before the attack. loading several items into his truck. and authorities say surveillance camera images show the suspect planting coolers loaded with explosives in two other locations in the french quarter. a remote detonator was found in his vehicle. questions are also being raised about security efforts to protect bourbon street from an attack of this magnitude. a 2019 report by a private security firm warned there was a need for an immediate improvement on security barriers in the french quarter, and it said the likelihood of terrorism involving mass shootings or car attacks was, quote, highly possible. while moderately probable. cnn's ryan young is live on the scene. he's been covering this story from the start. you have the very latest on the investigation. what are you learning this morning, ryan

yeah. >> good morning sara. >> now that we know and we've seen parts of that report, you understand why there are people here who are asking questions about what the next steps are, especially when it comes to improving security in this area before the super bowl. but if you look behind me, that's where the accident pretty much came to an end down this part of bourbon street. we're a little bit above at this point. this street has been hardened over the last 24 hours. they have large trucks on either end. they put barriers up toward sidewalks to make sure folks can't just come through anymore. this street was opened yesterday, and in fact, they did a second line. now that's part of almost a celebration here in new orleans as they try to memorialize the people who lost their lives here. so we watched the mayor and the police chief and clergy members all moving together to symbolize the reopening of this famous street here in place 14 roses down. but you can still understand the pain that is connected with what surrounded this area. the bodies that were just strewn up and down the

street. we actually talked to matthew. matthew tenedorio family about the sudden loss and the tragic ending of his life. take a listen. >> if he could help. if he could. you know, that's what that was him. >> he would help. >> i mean, i wasn't there, so i can't really tell you exactly what happened, but that's the gist of it. from what we're hearing from his friends. >> yes. they ran towards him to see if they could help. and. >> and do you know, at this chaos, when the gunshots started? >> sarah, reading the names here of the people that we know so far who have been lost. matthew tenedorio reggie hunter hubert gauthreaux drew dauphin billy dimaio nicole perez tiger bech and kareem badawi. those are the people that we know so far that have lost their lives. of course, we're still trying to learn more about those victims coming back here live. we know they're going to be putting more security protocols

in place, especially before the super bowl. when i was talking to the superintendent, which is basically the chief of police here, they were telling me that the nfl was here as well, and they were looking at all the security plans moving forward. and we know federal resources have been surged in this area with over 1000 officers that were in place for the sugar bowl yesterday. so we know more improvements will happen. >> sarah, there is a lot of security that needs to be put in place. a lot of people concerned about the sugar bowl and of course the super bowl that is coming up there. ryan young, thank you so much for your reporting, john. >> all right. happening now, the beginning of a day that could see house speaker mike johnson lose his job and president-elect trump lose some juice or not. we just don't know. very shortly, the house will vote on its next speaker. republicans hold one of the slimmest majorities ever two no votes could sink johnson. a handful of republicans are shaky, and one is a hell no

i am the one. >> hell no. >> you know, they say there's up to 5 or 6 who may be voting no. you can count on me to be a no. you can pull all my fingernails out. you can shove bamboo up in them. you can start cutting off my fingers. i am not voting for mike johnson. he brought out the bamboo there. lauren fox is in washington for us this morning. just a few hours before this vote. where do things stand? lauren? yeah, i mean, if you're speaker mike johnson this morning, you are staring down these votes, and it's not clear right now if this race is locked up for him. >> we do know, as you just heard from thomas massie, that he'll be voting against speaker johnson and he's going to be voting for another candidate. that means johnson cannot lose a single other republican who would vote for another candidate. that's assuming everyone is in full attendance and democrats are all voting for hakeem jeffries. but i'll just walk you through the last 24 hours. speaker mike johnson has been having phone calls. he has been having meetings with some of these

holdouts, and some of them are insisting on some changes. structurally, they want promises about how johnson's going to handle future spending bills. they want promises that he'll include spending cuts in some of those negotiations, and they also just want some other promises that johnson is going to bring members into the fold sooner when he's negotiating big pieces of legislation. think that tax bill that has to pass in the next 12 months, those are the kinds of things that some of these republican holdouts are asking for. but right now, we're looking at about ten republicans who have either not committed to johnson or say that they want other commitments from mike johnson. that is a difficult way to head into a day that you're hoping to clinch the speaker's gavel again. here are some of the comments we're hearing from holdouts and johnson allies. >> i do believe that mike johnson coming out and committing to chip roy being the chairman of the rules committee, would secure the vote on the first round.

>> as of right now, we don't have a concrete commitment from speaker johnson. i'm not going to be supporting him tomorrow, but i'm open minded. i'm going to talk to some other members and hopefully connect with him later tonight or tomorrow morning and figure out if we can actually make real changes in this institution. >> two years ago, there was a 15 round knockout drag out fight. this may be more like a pillow fight. despite a couple of my colleagues dissenting a little bit over the last couple of weeks, i think we'll come together. and you can expect that speaker mike johnson is going to continue having conversations with some of these holdout members going into this vote. we expect to begin sometime after noon today. but i will tell you that sources we are talking to on our hill team, they are making clear that johnson is not interested in negotiating a series of side deals like we saw when kevin mccarthy was trying to clinch the speakership. after that 15 round speaker vote that we saw back in 2023. does that change?

does he start to soften on that position once we go round after round and he still doesn't have the speakership? i think that remains to be seen. john, look, i like nick lillard's idea. >> a pillow fight, a house pillow fight to determine the speaker. i would tune in for that. look, the good news for mike johnson is that right now there is only one who is a hell no against him. thomas massie. but as you said, the bad news is there's this handful of others who aren't definite yeses yet. this will be interesting. pillow fight or not. lauren fox, thank you very much. and of course, you can watch all of this unfold. we're tracking down each and every vote over the course of the morning. the vote takes place shortly after noon eastern this morning. we have brand new information on the identity of the man who set off an explosion outside of the trump hotel in las vegas. what investigators are now revealing about his possible motive. snow. ice, freezing temperatures and dangerous thunderstorms. a major winter

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self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head just before the explosion. they found two guns, a military i.d., a smartphone and a smart watch inside the cybertruck. they've also identified two tattoos they say livelsberger had, one of which was on the stomach and one of which was on the arm that we can see bits and pieces of it, as in comparison to what it is that we now know he had on his body. livelsberger was an active duty member in the army special forces operation, serving in germany with previous tours in afghanistan. he was awarded five bronze stars and held the rank of master sergeant. a senior enlistment, according to four u.s. officials. he was on approved leave when police say he rented the tesla cybertruck in colorado. arriving in las vegas on new year's day, he drove up and down las vegas boulevard before passing the trump hotel. livelsberger then circled back and parked the cybertruck in the entrance driveway just moments before the fiery blast, according to law enforcement officials. video of the aftermath shows

the bed of the cybertruck loaded with fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel. >> the level of sophistication is not what we would expect from from an individual with this type of military experience. >> police credit the tesla vehicles body construction, forcing the blast upward and limiting the damage to the hotel driveway, even leaving the glass doors intact. law enforcement officials say they have not connected the explosion at the trump hotel to the deadly terror attack in new orleans in the early morning hours on new year's day, but acknowledged the similarities. like livelsberger, the suspect, shamsud-din jabbar used a vehicle to carry out the attack, killing 14 people. both have a military background. jabbar was an army veteran and served in afghanistan. they even rented their trucks through the same company. turo. >> if these turn out to be simply similarities, very strange similarities to have. and so we're not prepared to rule in or rule out anything at this point.

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right now, all the people, the hundreds of people who you see spanning a few blocks with all of their south korean flags, those are supporters of south korea's suspended president yoon suk yeol. and for his part, yoon issued a clarion call as soon as this warrant for his arrest was issued on tuesday. and he sent a letter to supporters paraphrasing here saying, hey, i need you all to come out and make it much harder for law enforcement to detain me, make it much harder for law enforcement to arrest me. and they answered that clarion call. so fast forward to earlier this morning. we have not only his supporters, but the equivalent of south korea's secret service protecting the president and refusing to turn over suspended president yoon suk yeol to investigators, investigators who want to hold him accountable for putting this country down the road of martial law, declaring martial law one month ago, on december

3rd into the early morning hours of december 4th. so this is dealing with criminal charges. meantime, we have new reporting that the suspended president yoon suk yeol has his first date of his impeachment trial. the first trial session of the impeachment saga, which is set for january 14th. so, in sum, we're waiting to see the next move. what will prosecutors and investigators do? will they try again to bring south korea suspended? president yoon suk yeol into custody? >> all right. quite a situation there. mike valerio in seoul. millions of americans under alert as a major weather event is set to unleash thunderstorms, tornadoes and crippling ice storms across the country. and this morning, we have new firsthand accounts from survivors of the terror attack in new orleans the attack in itself was just horrific. >> man like, truly straight out of a movie unlike anything i've

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investigation there continues, the family of the attacker is speaking out, saying the man that they knew was kind and soft spoken and that, quote, something screwed him up. cnn's ed lavandera is in houston, where the attacker lived with the latest this morning. and what are you learning well, you know, as fbi investigators have said that this suspect was an i.s.i.s. >> sympathizer and at some point had become radicalized. his own family is still struggling to figure out exactly when that happened. they insist they saw no indications that this radicalization and sympathy for i.s.i.s. had been brewing within their family member. cnn spoke with a brother and the father of the suspect, and he told they told cnn that something fogged his mind that he's not this type of person, someone or something fogged his mind. they also went on to under to talk about his islamic faith. he said he. they said that the suspect understood what it meant to be a muslim.

and that's what i've seen from him in the time that we got closer, how he carried himself and how he treated other people, it wasn't anything of his nature. if it wasn't this tragedy, it was the complete opposite. so both those family members kind of struggling to understand what exactly happened to this new orleans terror suspect. we also know that inside the home where he was last living here in the houston area, investigators spent hours combing through that home in north houston. yesterday, we were able to speak with a neighbor of the suspect who talked about having seen the white pickup truck in front of their home just before he left for new orleans, left the houston area. in fact, that neighbor told us that he had spoken with the suspect. he said that he was moving to louisiana because he had found a new job there. this is some of what that neighbor told us yesterday.

>> but moving away, he was moving. >> he was moving to the louisiana area somewhere. i asked him if he knew hands for moving. help. help him out as a neighbor, do you need any help for moving things around? he said, i'm okay. >> so that neighbor last saw the suspect on the morning of on tuesday morning, new year's eve morning, just hours before he would make the drive from houston to new orleans. and a source also tells cnn, john, that inside the home, as investigators were searching that that they did find chemicals that were used to create an explosive device. john. >> all right. ed lavandera in houston, with all these new details that thank you very much, sara. all right. >> we're also hearing from survivors of the horrifying attack on bourbon street. many witnesses had to run for their lives that night as a truck plowed through bourbon street. you see that happening right there in front of you? many narrowly missing the path of

the truck. jeremi sensky, who uses a wheelchair, described to cnn's anderson cooper the moment that he was struck by that truck. >> i'm trying to figure out what's going on with my leg, and i saw the stuff around me, which was parts of my wheelchair. so i started scraping and trying to find my phone. i really couldn't tell what was what, so i tried to get my phone and wanted to use the phone. i was going to call my wife and tell her i was alive. your leg. >> you were. i mean, you were bleeding. >> i was, i think that i was bleeding, but it was my my leg was just broke, like in a bunch of different pieces. there's a photograph taken from overhead where the truck is, and you are. >> you're on the ground. >> yeah. the truck was to my right. um, so did you. you heard shots? >> did you see anything around you? >> no, i didn't see anything. like, i, i was screaming, help, help, help, help! and finally a guy came over and said, listen, um. you're glad to be alive. you're lucky to be alive. he said, many people aren't as lucky as you well, witnesses that night were

left traumatized by the carnage they saw. >> i spoke with two witnesses yesterday who saw the carnage from their balcony. >> all we could do was stand by and watch. >> and to see immediately dead bodies laying in the street, both directions is something that nobody should have to see in the beginning of the new year. um, it's heart wrenching. >> when we get back home, we'll have to take it day by day, but there's no doubt we're going to have to go find some counseling for this. >> paul and annika are just two of the many witnesses left to cope with the trauma of that night. joining me now is doctor erica raggio. a trauma psychologist who is treating those surviving victims of the bourbon street attack. thank you so much for joining us. what are you hearing from the victims? what are they? what are they saying to you? >> yes. hi. thank you so much for having me. um, we're seeing a lot of acute stress

responses, as one would imagine. you know, um, uh, intrusive. some people are having intrusive thoughts about what happened. um, a lot of grief and mourning. um, some people are having physical symptoms. um, a lot of people are reminded of the trauma from, you know, tv or just being in new orleans. a lot of reminders around right now. >> we've heard, just like annika and paul, we've heard from a number of witnesses, that they will never be able to hear the screams or see the terrible visions of what happened that day. how do you begin to sort of help someone through this trauma? >> yeah. well, right now we have, um, a team of mental health professionals who are going around checking in with

the families. um, we've been doing this since the start. um, we've been there for the families as they, you know, were at the hospital looking for their loved ones. we've been there for them at their side while they're finding out where their loved ones are. if their loved ones survived. and also, we're in the hospital, um, at the bedside of the of the patients who've been injured and help just right now, it's about holding space, um, and meeting them exactly where they're at, allowing them to process any aspects of this horrific event. um, and providing them with the resources that they need to start the healing process. and sometimes that might look like financial assistance if they're worried about, you know, disruptions in in their work. or maybe that's a place to stay if they're from out of town. um, there's a lot of secondary stressors that come out of a traumatic event as well. >> what are some of the coping mechanisms that you have tried

to impart to those going through this, and not only those who, you know, are the victims, but those who witnessed this as well and are the sort of psychological victims of all of this. >> yeah, that's a great question. so a lot of times we're meeting with survivors. um, we're asking them about existing strengths and coping skills that they have, because a lot of people come in very resilient and they have skills. they have strengths that have helped them get through other, other challenges. and then we remind them that they have those within them, but we also want to support them by adding to their coping skills. um, we're doing a lot of deep breathing right now, just helping people stabilize and regulate, um, their bodies and their minds. >> the work you're doing is, is so incredibly important because this will last for a lot of

people, a lifetime after seeing what they saw and going through what they did. doctor erica, thank you so much for coming on this morning. really appreciate it. john. >> yes, thank you so much. >> bye. happening now. house speaker mike johnson might only have that title a few more hours. his job hangs in the balance as the house votes on a new speaker today. johnson can likely only afford to lose a single vote. so this is tight. he does have the backing of president-elect trump, who cannot be pleased with all of this drama. let's get to cnn's steve contorno in florida. so what's the president elect doing about this this morning, steve? >> john, if you think about every single move donald trump has made since he won election last or two months ago, it has been with the idea that he wanted to hit the ground running as quickly as possible on january 20th. >> he has quickly named his cabinet. he has put together his team, he has laid out his agenda, and so he does not want

a protracted speaker fight to get in the way of him acting very swiftly, soon after taking office. nor does he want a speaker of the house who would potentially be learning on the job. and that's why you have seen him come out with his full throated endorsement of mike johnson to continue on as house speaker. look at what he posted earlier this week on social media saying that he, mike, has my complete and total endorsement, calling him a good, hard working religious man. and now, in the final moments before this vote, we have also seen trump reach out to some of those republican holdouts. potential conservatives and others who have doubts in mike johnson and are concerned about the direction of the republican conference. under his leadership, with trump saying that he was willing to even go out and speak to people like republican chip roy of texas, one of those individuals who has been skeptical of mike

johnson really trying to take the steps and be involved this time, not wanting to see a repeat of what happened a few years ago when he sort of stood on the sidelines and allowed house speaker kevin mccarthy to go down. but remember, a lot of the people who caused the ruckus last time were trump loyalists and people who were acting in part on behalf, or they believed on behalf of donald trump's agenda. this time, it's some other individuals who trump has had less influence over, who have said they are not in line with speaker johnson. people like thomas massie of kentucky, who has been at times a critic of trump and someone who actually endorsed trump's opponent in the primary, florida governor ron desantis. so it will be interesting to see what sort of sway he has over some of these potential holdouts and whether he can help get mike johnson over the finish line. >> all right. steve contorno in florida, where some of this is kind of taking place today. with us now is may mailman, former associate counsel for the trump administration, and

brian lanza, a senior adviser to the trump 2024 campaign. all right, brian, prediction time. what happens to mike johnson today and how long will it take? >> first of all, good morning. >> thank you for having me. i think there's a strong probability that mike johnson doesn't survive the night. and part of it is, is yes, president trump is supporting he's making phone calls, but the president hasn't had a tremendous amount of success when it comes to the speaker votes. right. he got 100% behind jim jordan after mccarthy lost last time, and that wasn't enough to move him across the finish line. and, you know, jordan was a was a super ally to president trump. so i think speaker johnson, if he loses the first vote, it's indicative that he'll lose the rest. and it specifically if the media draws the narrative that, you know, speaker johnson lost legislatively the last couple of years, he's lost at the ballot box with losing two congressional seats during his term, and now he's losing the speaker's voice, like the losing narrative is something that president trump wants to avoid. and you've seen it in the tweet when he referred to him as a winner. but i think if

the losing narrative comes forward after the first vote, it'll be very hard for president trump to keep him. >> all right. that's a little more glass half empty than i was expecting this morning. so may how about you? what's your prediction for what happens to johnson and how long it will take? >> yeah, i mean, if you read conservative twitter, then i guess i'm a little bit pessimistic, but i still think that ultimately i'm optimistic. i think you lose thomas massie, who wears a deficit clock on his body at all times and who's never going to support anybody who would be able to pass a budget. >> but other than that, you have president trump, you have a lot of big names supporting mike johnson. and for a good reason. mike johnson is a good man, a conservative man. and if the desires for him to be more organized or to have a plan or to pass a budget that the senate would never pass, then you can have that. you can do that. he'll he'll do that. but at the end of the day, you

see, every single democrat is going to vote against mike johnson. and that should tell you something. that means that the democrats know who mike johnson is, that he is with the republicans, and that he is with president trump. and if the democrats know that, then hopefully the republicans can know that, too. and so i have high hopes for mike johnson. >> i will say on the speaker votes, you really never see people cross party lines there. so the democratic behavior may not be indicative of much other than the fact that they're democrats. this morning i want to play some sound. we had nicole malliotakis, the republican member of congress who represents new york's staten island, on yesterday on some things may be seen as more i use the word moderate here. i'm sure she would object to that, but maybe a more mainstream republican member. this is what she had to say about the situation and those who might oppose johnson the members who are holdouts, they're not they're not being reasonable when they think that we can govern without some type

of negotiation, without some type of bipartisanship. >> and that's part of the problem. they want everything. they want all or nothing, and they're willing to risk our majority and in the in the congress over it. and i think that's the wrong approach. every relationship, every government, every business requires some type of negotiation. and that's where they need to be reasonable. >> so openness to negotiate with democrats. you're smiling brian, why? >> i mean, that's that's the challenge that the that the speaker is always going to have. right. it's you know, what is their appeal. you know, how much are they going to rely on democrats and do these things. but i think the broader challenge that that johnson has is the frustration that house members have is they have his last two or his last year of leadership as the speaker. like i said, he's lost two seats, which is which is very disruptive to the caucus. his whole point is bringing back those members. he's losing legislatively. and i think president trump felt a lot of that this last november. i think people are worried about the agenda going forward, and they want it to be

successful. i do think, though, that if johnson were, you know, i don't think he survives the night, but i do think they can resolve this pretty quickly. it's not like a new leader is going to emerge in this conversation. we know what the options are and we know who ultimately can deliver. and it just matters. you know what president trump chooses post johnson i think he has the ability to put his thumb on the scale in some respects, but i think he has more of the ability to kill whoever sticks their head out who he doesn't approve of. and i think that's going to be more indicative of who the next speaker is going to be. >> i'm still surprised that brian lanza is talking about post johnson already a few hours before this vote takes place. again, i didn't really have that on my bingo card. so. so maybe this is supposed to be the honeymoon period. i mean, things have never almost been better for elected republicans, at least not for a long time. so what does it tell you that this kind of relative chaos can be happening, even in what should be the best of times? >> yeah, only republicans can end. republicans own honeymoon. and that's why speaker johnson

is the right choice. we're talking a lot about after johnson, who's after johnson thomas massie won't tell you who the next person is. chip roy won't tell you who the next person is. matt gaetz, now from the sidelines, won't tell you who the next person is. and so that's the thing. we have an opportunity, a historic opportunity to deliver on the promise that that trump campaigned on border security, tax cuts, reducing inflation. all of this requires a congress. you cannot have a congress if you do not have a speaker and you do not have a plan. and so mike johnson is the person he is able to deliver. on president trump's promise. he was unable before there was there were not votes in the senate. it was a disaster. i will i will admit, but this this is an opportunity and it's time to seize that opportunity. >> he's got an even narrow margin in the house. okay, so brian may was just saying, you know, gaetz and roy and massie won't tell you who besides

johnson, will you? if it's not mike johnson, who do you think could be the house speaker? >> listen, i think anybody in leadership right now can step up any chairman. i think look, i think the challenge is, is, is, you know, people have lost trust and this isn't me talking. and i'm certainly not representing the campaign, sort of representing what we hear from members. you know, they've lost confidence in johnson. so when you've lost confidence in johnson, what can president trump do to restore that confidence? he made some calls whether he was successful or not. we will know later today. but if it goes back to the point, if he loses the first one, it becomes very hard for him to keep it, especially if the narrative is that he's losing now. there's going to be alternatives. i mean, once he's sidelined and once he's moved on. and that's not. and that is disastrous for the republican party. but once that happens, and i do believe it ultimately happens, people will emerge. leaders emerge in these particular moments. trump's going to have a choice in this. and i think the agenda moves forward. i don't think johnson's the impediment to trump's agenda because he's he's not because he's not. speaker. i actually think trump's the or johnson's the impediment to trump's agenda because he is speaker and he is

so structurally weak as speaker, he can't deliver it. and so now you're going to have members who are against johnson negotiating with the president directly. you know, trump saw what that experience was, his first term. he saw when he had to deal with meadows. he saw when he had to deal with jordan. he saw how disruptive they were and how they had to negotiate with him directly. because at that point, paul ryan was a weak speaker. he doesn't want to go through that chaos again. we know what that script looks like, and it's a bad script for president trump. >> all right, may mailman brian lanza, speaker johnson, if you're watching, that's brian lanza right there. call him. all right. appreciate your time, friends. sarah. >> nice. john. all right. get ready for a winter blast. snow, ice and dangerous conditions are on the way for millions of people over the next few days. and that's not all. there's more thunderstorms, tornadoes, and an ice storm also could be in the mix. meteorologist elisa raffa is tracking the forecast this morning. all right, where does this all begin? >> we're going to be busy over the weekend. some of this could start saturday night, but a lot of it really blows up sunday

into monday. we're talking about major impacts across kansas, missouri, illinois, indiana, all of that red is major impacts. difficult to nearly impossible travel heavy and blowing snow, significant ice that could cause power outages. we have winter storm watches in effect across this entire area, stretches almost 900 miles, and we're expecting this to expand as the storm continues to develop. all of these alerts will be needed to the east as well, so you can see it starts to try to come together on saturday, but that moisture really starts to feed in and it pumps that storm on sunday. there's some cold air trying to squeeze in from the north, so that's where you're going to get this really heavy band of snow and this ice. that could really be a significant problem when it comes to power outages and downed trees, a cold rain and even some storms along the gulf coast. and all of this heads east. on monday, we could be looking at some snow, even in washington, d.c. this spreads into the mid-atlantic. this ice could really be a problem. it could be significant. we could be looking at a quarter to a half an inch of ice across parts of

missouri and illinois, and this would cause problems with downed trees and power lines, power outages. definitely a concern here. a little bit farther to the north, we have colder air that's a little bit deeper. you get more of that snow. some of the snow could be really heavy. 6 to 12in some spots over a foot. tack on the winds and you've got low visibility and blowing snow. so you have the winter part to the north and then to the south you have rain and even some storms. we actually have a severe risk for parts of louisiana, mississippi, arkansas, a lot of these places already recovering from a tornado outbreak last weekend. and we could be looking at damaging winds and a couple of more tornadoes. >> sarah, that is a lot and i know you'll be tracking it. elisa raffa thank you so much. appreciate it. all right ahead, a fiery explosion after a small plane crashed into a furniture warehouse. look at that. what happened to the plane that caused this? terrifying and deadly scene? and why america's most decorated gymnast may not compete in the 2028 olympics.

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increased in value by $10 trillion. that was just last year. the market is up by 20% or more in back to back years. we haven't seen that since the late 1990s under bill clinton. and so that is great, of course, for people with money in the market. but there are these concerns that maybe this is starting to get out of hand, that perhaps the price tags on some parts of the market is becoming untethered to reality. ubs, the wall street bank, even warned its clients recently that six out of the seven preconditions for a market bubble already exist, including the fact that there hasn't been a bubble in a quarter of a century that retail investors are participating and that there's this this time is different mentality around technology stocks. they say that we're not at a bubble yet, but they think there's a 35% chance that we're going to get there. moody's economist mark zandi told me that he hasn't been this concerned about markets being overvalued since the late

1990s, just before the bursting of the.com bubble. he doesn't think there's going to be anything like that kind of a crash, but he's worried about a drop that is so severe that it endangers the underlying economy. i imagine a scenario where markets go down and people shop less, including higher income americans, that would have a real impact on the economy. >> what exactly would cause the market to stumble? i know you have been you've mentioned the magnificent seven. those are the tech stocks that have basically lifted this market like like we haven't seen in a very long time. >> right. and so that is one of the key risks here, because there's a world where one of those magnificent seven tech stocks stumbles, and they could take down the others and perhaps even the rest of the market. there's also the situation in washington. they're trying to pick a speaker of the house now, but eventually they're going to have to defuze the ticking time bomb that is the debt ceiling. there's tariff announcements, deportations. i could go on and on. look, at the end of the day, experts are saying people should not overreact to any market drop, especially if you're a long term investor,

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