7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. right now, for 200 million people are ushd winter weather alerts as a monster winter storm pushes towards the thoes after bringing heavy snow and arctic conditions to the great plains and the midwest. the storm is creating travel chaos. and famiies still sleeping on the streets after making the dangerous journey to the u.s. in search of awe sigh lumbar. also the final report is available on the january 6th committee. meanwhile, lawmakers have just hours to pass a major funding

bill to avoid a government shutdown at midnight. and with respiratory viruses on the rise and kids medicine harder to find, we'll look at how to keep your family safe during the holidays. we begin this morning with the dangerous winter storm battering much of the country that has up ended holiday travel for many americans. this morning more than 200 million americans are still under some kind of weather warning orred a size ri. the storm continues to move east expected to bring powerful winds and bitterly freezing temperatures after dumping blind ing snow on parts of the midwest. hundreds of thousands of people are without power this morning. meteorologists have categorized the storm as a bomb cyclone. the storm disrupting travel for

folks looking to head out for the holiday weekend. according to flight aware, there are already more than 3,000 flight cancellations and more than 2,000 delays in the u.s. joinings us now is shaq brewster in michigan and meteorologist agie lasman. how are things in michigan right now? >> reporter: i'll tell you i have a new appreciation for the term blizzard warning. you get a full understanding of what it is. you can get a sense just by this picture. you have the snow that's coming down. this is an area that's going to deal with a lot of snow for some time. it's that lake-effect snow in certain areas. they are expecting more than two feet of snow. combine that with with the wind. you see the wind whipping the snow around. so before they even get more snow, there's danger on the road because what you have, the toughest winds, the strongest wind gusts are expected later this afternoon up to 60 mile an

hour winds. that will just whip around the snow that's already on the ground. so that's why you have michigan state police saying you should stay off the road indiana state police just said to our local affiliate that it's a life or death decision. that was the quote from them. it's literally a life or death decision if you go out on the roads. that's despite the fact of regardless it's actually snowing at the time. and then there are the temperatures. you have a thermometer that got stuck under the snow a little bit. you see it says about 2 degrees. this is pretty much meaningless at this pount. if you factor in the wind, the temperature it feels like about 24 degrees below 0. so definitely brutal temperatures out here. dangerous temperatures. one bright spot, the national weather service in chicago is saying that once we get to later next week, the back half of next week, it will feel about 90 degrees warmer than it does

right now. so we're going from these brutal temperatures to what they describe as unseasonably warm temperatures. but being out here now, we're still too far away from when that happens. >> shaq, get some cover right now. it is really brutal. thank you very much for being with us. angie, what's the status on the storm right now? >> so a roller coaster ride here. not what shaq is talking about down the line as we get into next week, but the next couple hours, we could see big temperature drops. still dealing with the snow where shaq is in parts of michigan, detroit, starting to see that snow wind down. places like buffalo, we're going to see this for the long haul. this is going to be something that we'll deal with here as we get through at least saturday and even into the early parts of sunday. we'll start to wind down. when it comes to rain, you saw the rain falling in the northeast. that is creating that wet surface on the roadways. we're in for a big temperature drop. check out what happens this washington, d.c. over the next

12 hours or so. we're going to see temperatures dropping to about 10 degrees. more than a 30 degree drop in had a short period of time. that means flash freezing. anything wet, the wet surfaces become a sheet of ice and that makes for dangerous travel on the roadways. and i mentioned the snow that we're dealing with. buffalo, we're looking a the a potential for this to be a historic blizzard for that. maybe the worst in history. we could see 3 to 4 teet of snow. at this point, it's not even the accumulations that will be the bigest issue. it's going to be how strong the winds are and the whiteout conditions that create more problems on the roadways as we get through saturday and by christmas they could be seeing snow drifts up to 6 feet. this makes it really difficult to be helping anybody that's stranded with temperatures dropping like a rock, that's something that's really dangerous for folks as we get

through the next couple days. 72 miles per hour in buffalo. we have had a report from burlington, vermont, 70 miles per hour as well. so really strong winds, damaging winds that cause tree limbs to fall and power outages. we have already seen hundreds of thousands of people without power at this hour. and that number will likely go up. and we were looking at more than 60% of the country dealing with these winter weather alerts of some sort. that could be dangerous. 172 million people are in those wasn't chill watches and warnings and advisories.

we're going to watch for impacts, but the roads are what i'm concerned about as we look to the northeast and utah 95 is going to be a mess as that temperature starts to fall quickly. >> talk to me real quickly about texas and we're going to be talking ab this in a couple minutes on this broadcast. there's also unseasonably low temperatures in the border areas. >> we know this is going to be a prolonged event. this suspect just a couple hours. we'll start to see the temperatures come up? but all 50 states are dealing with the numbers below freezing and the when you add in the windchill, it definitely is brutal for any period you have

to be outdoors. >> thank you so much. now to our other big story, the release of of the house squan 6th committee's final report after an 18-month investigation. the panel's 845-page report concludes that donald trump is largely responsible for the violence that day. the report also includes 11 recommendations to ensure something like this doesn't happen again. including finding a way to bar trump from running for office. he reacted to the report calling the committee highly partisan and to mauk his false claims ta he won the election. joining us now to take a closer look at this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. "washington post" national investigative reporter carol reine i guess carol and glen are

msnbc contributors. what are. >> that despite all of the everything that happened leading up to january 6th and on the day itself, that thun of it would have happened if it were not for the actions of the former president donald trump. he's continuing to insist he won the election even though he hadn't and fuse he hadn't and the fact that he called his supporters to washington and then also came up with this very almost legal theory that somehow the election results could be overturned on january 6th were all the fuel that led to the violence and chaos here on january 6th. and this 845-page report is basically a call to the department of justice that his actions cannot go without some

level of accountability. that's why they put it in writing that they believe that he should be charged with a crime to their criminal referrals. even though they hold no legal weight, the committeeed it on the record that they believe he's responsible and should be held accountable. so the report itself is not filled with bomb shells. for the most part, this is all information that we have known about for some time. this is them just putting it all-in-one neat package to be the kind of definitive narrative of what happened during this period of time. thot just for us to review and read right now, but also for the history books. >> carol, i'm wondering what you saw as some of the major things that we learned from this report. >> i think that it's exactly right. there's not any one single bomb shell that comes from this report. however, ufs struck by the detail. and what all of us have reported

on the for the last two years, bow both in our endependent work and also in reporting on the committee's investigation and its progress. its path to uncovering what really happened behind the scenes. some key things that i was struck by. one, the information and suggestion inside the white house and knew about the utility that the vie leps was going to provide on january 6th that's an interest text by a junior white house aid that the chief of police on capitol hill is begging and pleading for emergency national guard to save his officers' lives. that text potus is watching this and loving it. that the president will be enjoying the fact that his supporters have marched violently and broken into the

capitol. the other striking thing that i was just sort of amazed bhi was the lack of communication inside the pentagon with the national guard in terms of mobilizing them. it's really deep down in the appendix, but in that description, the secretary of the army is the pesh that's authorized to approve the national guard going in for the emergency. we all know that they were begging for the national guard to come and help them save his folks. but the army secretary decides he needs to craft a plan. concept of operations plan. it is three hours and 19 minutes after a riot is declared at the capitol that the national guard of the district of columbia is authorized to go to the capitol. they have literally marched past it on the way to the armory waiting to gear up, waiting to be released to help. when they get there, the

fighting is over. the police department and the capitol police have forced the protesters out. that's sort of a massive failure on a grand scale. there are a few other things, but those are the two big ones that saw. >> and i want to talk more about what carol is talking about, about this lack of communication. the lack of planning. it's not been main headlined on this report. what do you see when you see those instances over and over again of what carol was just talking about? >> the lack of planning ask preparation is obviously a concern. it's something that needs to be addressed. but this is not excusing law enforcement, i i don't think they could have predicted that the president himself would unsite, inspire and enrage an armed crowd. we know that's what he did. law enforcement seem to be prepared and adjust, but what's so impressed me with this report, i'm still scratching the

surface, is the persistent pressure campaign headed up by donald trump. assisted by some of his executive branch officials. some republicans in congress, some lawyer who is are now on the cusp of being disbarred because of the assistance they rendered to donald trump and his big lie. but it's the pressure by donald trump on doj officials. it's the pressure on state election officials put miezed by the call find me the votes. and rathens berger did not succumb to the pressure. the pressure on witnesses, the pressure on mike pence and then pressure they don't think we focused enough on, the pressure of his own supporters. because he told them the vote was stolen. your election was rigged. your president is wrongfully being taken away from you and that's what you must do is go to the capitol and fight like hell.

stop the steal. and those who were duped into believing that, obviously, or evidently felt pressure to do exactly what the president told them to do. this scorched earth pressure campaign start to finish just cries out for being a criminal indictment. >> what stood out most to you in the report? >> i agree broadly. i'm just struck, and i want to tip my hat to this committee for telling such a crystal clear narrative. a delusional and utterly self-absorbed president tried to carry out the first coup in american history. that, to me, was the central achievement of this report and this committee. they told the american people that it's a congressional

committee. their job was to win this politically, and i i think they did this. they damaged donald trump with independents and moderate republicans. you saw that in the midterm elections. and that's their critical achievement. and i want to hear more from the other panelists. i don't see a bombshell breakthrough in the report itself. the problem here is this inner circle of mark meadows, john eastman, who have refused to cooperate. they could be following the path of cassidy hutchinson, but i think a criminal trial will be an easy win. and i could be wrong, will be difficult unless you have this inner circle. rogerstone, michael flynn, but post importantly mark madows testifying in court against donald trump. they have not broken with him yet. and i think the problem is that inner circle that's being cowardly more than the justice

department having an easy conviction sitting in front of him. >> cassidy hutchinson's testimony got more exploexive when she revealed her previous lawyer tried to influence her testimony. what more have we learned about what she told the committee about this? >> if there's a woman shell from yesterday, and yesterday was a long day for reporters, but exactly that. the details of what cassidy hutchinson said, that her lawyer told her to recall and not recall, is pretty striking. she relays in several instances that he warns her essentially it's not her job to offer up information. just answer the questions that they already know about. things they already have great information about. shh doesn't have to volunteer. and when she tells him, according to her testimony, when she tells her previous lawyer,

who by the way has been a lawyer for donald trump's political action committees, when she tells him that there was a pretty serious incident in the president's suv as he left, the famous altercation that's alleged in which he is accused by her at least of lunging at his security detail, which he tells him there was an incident and she doesn't go into a great deal of detail, he says that's not really your story to tell. i'm fair phrasing. you don't have to offer that up. she becomes increasingly queasy about this. shes to answer truthfully what happened that day. she feels it's her duty and feels omitting things is being untruthful. now what's also compelling about this is that lawyer is in regular contact with mark meadows' lawyers and telling cassidy hutchinson i feel like we need to loop them in every time you go before the committee tell them what you have been

asked and tell the committee what you said. and she finally says i don't want us to do that. i don't want to be telling meadows' lawyers and donald trump what i'm saying. he says we need to do that to coop you from having a target on your back and make sure we can get you a job. >> thank you all so much for being with us this morning. coming up, at least three people are dead after a the shooting in the heart of paris, france. what we though about the investigation. plus families who have cross ed the southern border seeking asylum are now desperately looking for shelter. it's bitter cold temperatures hit south texas. we're live in el paso with the latest on the humanitarian crisis. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." diaz-balart reports. laundry truths: the bargain jug. ♪♪ that's a huge jug of detergent. yeah, isn't it a bargain? you know that bargain detergent is 85% water, right?

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23 past the hour. we're following breaking news from paris. a gunman shot and killed three people at a cultural center according to the city's prosecutor. at least four others were wound ed this the attack. kelly cobiella joins us. >> reporter: good morning. this attack happened at 11:50 local time this paris. it was in a busy neighborhood. eem were out on the street. they were in stores doing their shopping. the local mayor for this part of

paris says the targets was that kurdish community center. the gunman opened fire and then went into a beauty salon next door and fired again before he was apprehended. nbc news understands he's a 69-year-old man. the local prosecutor on the scene said that he was known to police and that this crime will be investigated in terms of whether or not there was a racist element. however, paris prosecutors aren't going into whether or not this was a terrorist attack. local paid ya is reporting that this suspect, the 69-year-old man attacked a migrant camp where migrants are living in tents in the paris area last year with a sword. but nbc news has not been automobile to verify that. as you said, at this point three people have been killed, four others injured, one of them

critically. >> thank you very much. right now this texas, the powerful winter system bringing dangerously low temperatures to communities along the southern border only intensifying the humanitarian crisis facing migrants seeking asylum. you can see some families lined up outside a shelter last night amid frigid conditions. there's more bitter temperatures in the forecast today. not just in el paso, but across the country. as other cities grapple with this humanitarian crisis. joining us now with more is guad venegas in el paso. what are people dealing with there? >> reporter: they are dealing with temperatures in the 20s. it got as low as 19. the windchill is freezing. and you were here just a few days ago. you saw what it was like downtown. a few blocks away from where you visited, there's another place where a lot of migrants have been concentrated. a lot of the ones there came

over to this side because there's a shelter. it belongs to a catholic church. they have been allowing women and children to in there. but a lot of the men have slept here. i was just speaking with a gentleman. he showed me the soup. they gave them soup but the soup froze before he was able to eat it. it's just been sitting there. they did bring a bus outside at that bus was used to bring in sosm of the people that were freezing. he was helping people. so people would feel safe.

he said their feet, fingers ask hands were frozen. it was this bad. these were the conditions. he slept across the street. there's people that are sleeping on both sides of the street. it's a two-block radius. these are the conditions. we still have a lot of migrants that don't have shelter to go to. and should say that the church here is working on getting them to a different church where they would be able to sleep tonight. >> guad venegas, thank you for that report. time is ticking for congress to pass the funding bill and avoid a government shutdown.

the house is want expected to vote today on the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill. it has until midnight tonight to send it to the president's desk. the bill includes that $45 billion funding increase to ukraine, which volodymyr zelenskyy addressed congress about. joining us now is lit call reporter. how is it looking there today for this bill? >> reporter: house the democrats are hoping to pass this bill in the next few hours. ideally, for them by mid-afternoon or so. this piece of legislation $1.7 trillion passed the senate late yesterday and the house is going to kick things off in the next hour or so to vote on the procedural motion to get this going. beyond that, it's a question of whether sunshine is going to come out of left field or right field trying to slow this down. it's unclear. but barring any of those kinds of shenanigans, this is likely

to pass in the next few hours. >> i know you just sat down with mitch mcconnell for an exclusive interview. what did you talk about? >> that's right. mcconnell had some newsy comments, some unusually sharp criticisms of former president trump. it was abundantly clear that mcconnell holds trump responsible for the republicans' disastrous showing in the 2022 senate elections for a couple reasons. first, he chose candidates who were flawed and ended up winning on the republican side but losing the general elections in key states. he named arizona, new hampshire, georgia and then he said he will not allow trump to dictate republican senate candidates this the 2024 cycle. he argued, ask let's put this on the screen. he told me, quote, i think the president's political clout has diminished. he went on to talk about how the republicans lost support that we needed among independents and moderate republicans.

primarily related to the view they had of us as a party, largely made by the former president that we were sort of nasty tended to chaos. that's mcconnell saying that trump is the reason a lot of these swing voters and independents and crucial states have drufted away from the republican party, have been supporting democrats in the last few elections. he says this is trump's fault. and he argues or he insists he's not going to let that happen again in the 2024 election. this is going to be a tough and tense cycle between these men who are influential in the republican party, as the party has a host of other divisions. one last point on this. i did press mcconnell on the dobbs decision. the supreme court majority he's bye-bye crucial at building, does he have recreates given the backlash. he did concede it stirred up the vote and generated enthusiasm. that's the overturning of roe vs. wade, but he expressed no

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thank you for having me. and so what parents can do, i know that it's a very difficult time i have two small children. especially when our children have a fever or not feeling good, we want the to make sure we can control their fever. but we're seeing these shortages. i want to tell parents that the generic version of tylenol and motrin are more than adequate. if you can find store brands of those medications, those work well. pediatricians are also recommending other techniques. so having children sip on cold drinks or popsicles or putting them in a warm, not too colt, but a warm bath to lower their temperature. these are some it can anemics that can be used as opposed to agents like tylenol and motrin. if you have a baby that is 6 months younger with a fever, we highly recommend you talk to

their pediatrician or health care professional because fevers in young babies are especially kshing. concerning. >> walk us through the different symptoms of rsv, the flu and volodymyr zelenskyy. it seems like there's similar symptoms. >> and that's the challenge. you'll see there are charts that will tell you what each virus, what symptoms they have. definitely with rsv in very young babies, you'll have airways like difficulty breathing. small infants you'll see their nostrils flairing. in flu they will have generalized fatigue, more generalized symptoms. so feeling achy or having a high fever. and covid, we also can see respiratory symptoms such as shortness of breath. they may have some brain dog as well. and maybe some nausea or

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i thank you so much for being with us this morning. just thinking of all of the time that you all spent on this ask now this 850-page report is out. everybody can see it. what do you hope are the lasting take aways from this investigation? >> well, i hope the magnitude of our labor is equal to the magnitude of the attack on democracy that we experienced on 6th and in the weeks running up to it. at this point, our work is done. the committee has scattered across the country. our staff is moving on to other things. so we're in the rear view mirror, but the report now belongs to america. so we hope people will pay close attention and read it and understand how close we came to losing everything on that day

and then work to fortify our solutions from elections in the states the way through the january 6th process and look in a more visionary way to expanding and strengthening democracy in the future. i'm someone who would have gone much turt on the electoral college to say it's time to get rid of it. we should be electing the president of the united states the way we elect everybody else. whoever gets the most votes wins. and this obsolete system has become a danger to us in addition to producing multiple presidents who lost in the popular vote. >> of the recommendations that you include in this report, i'm just wondering how do you get recommendations such as barring trump from running? how does that work out? is that possible? >> that one is not only

possible, but argably compelled wit the constitution itself. section 3 of the 14th amendment affirmatively declares that anyone who has sworn an oath to support the constitution but violates the oath by engaging in insurrection shall never hold office again at the federal or state level, military or civil. so the report points people to legislation that congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz and i have created. the federal court to argue that someone is barred from office by this provision. but the best understanding of it is it's self-executing any way, which is why there's been courts in the land that have already said that people are barred from the ballot because they participated in insurrection.

so i do think this is going to become a big issue as we head into the 2024 elections. >> the report details a lot of the intelligence and laurmt failures leading up to the riots. why did the committee essentially -- some can say essentially exonerate the security agencies. >> i don't think anybody was exonerated. we blow the whistle about the fact that there were lots of reports coming in of ab em impending attack on the capitol. numerous law enforcement intelligence agencies had all that information. the information they didn't have that donald trump was planning to essentially unleash the fury of the mob on the capitol and then continue to incite and exhort them to action as he did with his tweet on january 6th. so that part was not fully

anticipated on understood. the committee has wanted to focus centrally on the culprits, the people that tried to overthrow our election and brush aside our constitutional process, but obviously, we have things to learn in terms of the law enforcement and national security process. they have to be ready in the event that a violent attack is coming against our capitol. it can't be a soft target, even if the ultimate perpetrator is the president of the united states. >> congressman, i thank you so much for being with us this morning. appreciate your time. >> pleasure is mine. coming up, this year we have seen soaring inflation, but shoppers are back to the stores. so what does it mean for the economy's health?

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2022 was a whirlwind year for the u.s. economy. prices at grocery stores rose at the fastest pace in decades, gas prices hit a new record and they dropped, consumers returned to store and is movie theaters. what does this mean for 2023? joining us now, lawrence summers, president emeritus of harvard university. thank you for being with us this morning. where do you think things stand with the economy as we close out 2022? >> the economy is in okay shape right now, but i think we're going to have a lot of challenges ahead in 2023. we've run inflation too high. we can all hope for a soft landing and the fed is doing its best. but the experiences that -- what samuel johnson said of second marriage is often true of soft landings.

they represent the triumph of hope over experience. we can hope for a soft landing and it could happen. but i think it's not the largest probability. i think the greater risk is that at some point during 2023, the economy will head towards recession and we may still have inflation that feels too high to many people. >> why do you think there's a recession coming? >> well, if you look at what happens historically when the federal reserve raises interest rates as much as the fed has raised interest rates, the way in which the savings that people had built up after covid are being depleted, when you look at some of the tendencies that appear to be there in terms of some excess inventories that firms have which will cause them

to reduce orders, all of that is suggestive that there's significant recession risk. >> and you -- earlier this week you wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" on what the fed should do next when it comes to fighting inflation. what should they do next? >> i think they're in broadly the right place. they've said that they expect to slow the prospects of tightening. they've said that they're no longer going to be moving in as large steps as they were and they're going to be watching the economy very carefully for the right indications. a year ago i felt that the fed was way behind the curve and not really recognizing the inflation threat. i think now they're in the broadly right place and they're going to have to make very, very carefully calibrated judgments because we don't want to come off this without having done what was necessary to stop

inflation and equally we don't want to have an excessive recession. so the fed is walking on a very narrow beam trying to maintain balance for the economy and we could all hope that they succeed. >> you know, that balance of the economy includes just prices, for example, for basic foodstuffs, milk, eggs, bread and other such staples. they continue to be upwards trending, right? other than chicken and beef which are down almost 1%, you know, changed from month to month, all indicators of the basic foodstuffs is going up. is this a new normal for us? >> i don't think so. i think it's related in part to a whole set of chain reactions from the ukraine war. i think it's related to the whole set of reactions from the

tremendous stimulus we did after covid. so i don't think there's any need for it to be permanent. how quickly it will fade away, that's going to be a very, very difficult judgment, and it's a judgment that the fed is going to have to make. i think what we all need to do at a moment like this is manage our budgets with care, recognizing that there are a whole range of possibilities. i think usually for businesses and for consumers the right strategy is to hope for the best but plan more conservatively that there may be bad surprises and not to be shocked if there's a bad surprise. but to have a plan in case that happens. >> when you talk about preparing budgets with care, are we looking at the probability that

business in our country is going to see wave after wave of layoffs? >> i don't know about wave after wave of layoffs. but i'm afraid i would have to predict, as the fed has, that unemployment will be higher at the end of this year than it will be at the beginning. so i think we will see some change in conditions. right now we've got higher levels of job openings than any time before in the history of your country. and i suspect that that situation is going to change. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. really appreciate your time. >> good to be with you. coming up, our reporters are across the country in bitter cold temperatures, reporting on the dangerous monster winter storm hitting millions of americans just ahead of the holidays. that's in our next hour of coverage after this break. k.

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♪♪ good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. right now we're keeping a close eye on the dangerous winter storm barrelling across the country. we're going to bring you the very latest on that in just a minute. but first,rl