but 1st, let's go straight to new jersey where gabriel elizondo is at newark airport. hello there. gabriel. you've been witnessing some heartwarming scenes there. we have and just to give you some examples, his flight start to land here, mostly from europe. we've seen a young brazilian woman that lives here in the state of new jersey. embrace her boyfriend from the netherlands for the 1st time and over a year that was a few minutes ago to help each other for more than 10 minutes. and i said, what's the 1st thing you're going to do now? and they said, now we want to get married. i saw you, young french, women, a group of girlfriends, if you will arrive here, they're here for tourism. they said we haven't been to new york for years, and we just wanted to be here to experience the city again now that it's reopen for or a foreign tourists that are fully vaccinated. and then a really heart warming scene, we saw a woman from a neighboring state of vermont that was here waiting for her boyfriend from france . they haven't seen each other for 22 months, 22 months. and they just

she's innocent and denies any wrong doing. opening statements have begun in a closed courtroom. gabriel elizondo is covering the case for us and is live from new york. gabriel. what's the background to this strong well, the background is that prosecutors wanted to have jeffrey epstein on trial today. that's what was planned a, but when he committed suicide in a new york prison, they had to go to plan b and plan b was to look at his alleged co conspirators in his lead crimes and front and center of that was elaine maxwell, who is a long time girlfriend and associate of jeffrey epstein and prosecutors say that she helped enable him to commit the alleged crimes that he did. this is a trial that is just getting underway here in new york. and the trial of maxwell is expected to have a lot of drama create a. so how much did the lane maxwell know about geoffrey epstein alleged sexual abuse of under age girls? that will be the central question. in the trial of the 59 year old british socialite, facing charges of sex trafficking and other crimes, he is going to be the invisible presence hanging over this

she too, was a victim. gabriel elizondo has been following the story from new york. a. how much did delaine maxwell know about geoffrey epstein to alleged sexual abuse of under age girls? that will be the central question. in the trial of the 59 year old british socialite, facing charges of sex trafficking and other crimes. and he is going to be the invisible presence hanging over this. and that is why i think that she is going to have to explain something that everybody really wants to know . what was his hold over her? what was that relationship? a big unknown on the trial is how far the judge will allow the prosecutors to probe and epstein and maxwell's high profile social circles that included many household names from politics, industry, and entertainment. one being britain's prince andrew and his accuser, virginia roberts, who says she was trafficked by maxwell to the prince per sex. when she was a teenager is likely not going to be called as a witness. he denies any wrongdoing, but prosecutors are expected to call at least 4 other women. all epstein accusers who

crimes of the late sex offended jeffrey epstein. maxwell house pleaded not guilty to the charges. gabriel elizondo reports from york, jeffrey epstein and glean maxwell met a young girl in a park bench, befriended her, and then later sexually abused her to protect her identity. prosecutors called her jane. she was 14 years old and the abuse went on for years and occurred and several of epstein homes in florida, new mexico and new york. that was just one of the accusations of prosecutor made an opening statement of maxwell's trial. the accused maxwell of, in their words serving up young women for epstein abuse. she put them at ease and made them feel safe. also they could be sexually abused by a middle aged man, prosecutor said, and also called maxwell, a predator who prayed on vulnerable young girls and manipulated them. but epstein committed suicide. so he isn't on trial. maxwell is an adult, say prosecutors over the next few weeks, will need to show how she recruited, groomed, and participated in the abuse of the girls. we are not in the court room this week, determining whether or not the victim

years ago while awaiting his tramp. maxwell insists she's innocent and denies any wrong doing. gabriel elizondo has been covering the case for us and joins us live now from new york. gabriel, what's the latest from outside the court for the latest is that it's been a slow process so far, or they've had some delays this morning here in basically seating the jury. there were some sort of issues that the judge had to work out with the jury pool. there ultimately now are 12 jurors. 6 alternates and they are at this very moment actually getting their instructions from the judge. and we expect that after they go to a lunch break, that opening statements will begin. it gives you an idea on how complicated this trial will be. they initially had a pool of over $600.00 potential jurors. they will that down slow waves by slowly over the last couple weeks. but this is such a high profile case. elaine maxwell, jeffrey epstein, who's not on trial but nevertheless tied to this case. and it's gotten so much world media attention that the judges really had to admonish the jurors. do not pay attention to social

but 1st, let's go to new jersey where gabrielle elizondo is live for us in york airport. hello there. and gabriel, firstly, i, you witnessing some emotional scenes. i'm imagining as saying that if i don't know, love actually or something like that with tourists returning. yeah, that's right. we are at newark liberty international airport. it's one of the major international intreat points to the united states, particularly here in new york city. it's a major metropolitan airport just outside of new york city of wight, from a broad lands year. we've seen to been here about an hour or so every, every couple times in an hour, a flight, a land, you'll see a flood of people leaving greeting being greeted by loved ones and then it'll slow down for a bit like it is right now. and then it's got to wait for the next flight to come in and see you is here, but certainly there have been some emotional reunion despite people. as you mentioned this, the u. s. is now open again, and nowhere is going to affect anywhere else in this country. then new york city, a city that just before the

a bracing for the delays to stretch into the period surrounding christmas. gabriel elizondo reports now from hoboken in new jersey. ah, there is no shortage of home in the frothy cappuccinos at cau bunker coffee shop. what there is a shortage of is pretty much everything else. the global supply chain strain has made it difficult to keep the coffee shop stocked with essential food and beverages . the sign on the door says it all. customers are urged to be patient with staff members because they're out of a lot of stuff. we're short on everything from bacon. cran straw's cups, silverware packets, you know ketchup packets being just small things. take this coffee cup and it's lid it most certainly was manufactured in china. and according to one supply chain expert i spoke to, it probably took over 200 different entities to get this, the factory and china to the coffee shop here in new jersey. the supply chain is like dominoes one falls. they all fall the well documented supply chain problems could be exacerbated during the christmas holiday shopping season. and in the lunar new year in feb

so correspondence covering the story from the us and canada in a moment. gabriel elizondo in sioux masses on the us side of the board of 1st jodi vance, who is in vancouver, which of course took the brunt of the storm. and what's the latest on the situation there? the flood waters still rising at this moment, officials in the sumac perry area in abbotsford and chill lack where the most extreme flooding has impacted the agricultural land are giving an update as i speak right now. at last check. the hope was that the flood waters would coincide overnight. however, it is raining lightly now, here in metro, vancouver in the lower mainland in the fraser valley, where this extreme weather event has impacted so many roadways and obviously the agricultural center of british columbia as well. so we will bring more updates as we learn from officials this morning. what we do know is that the canadian forces have been deployed and the reconnaissance mission is underway. assessment phase is what they're calling this, trying to figure out how to open up those supply chains. and indeed, get goods and se

least one person has died and official same war. death could be confirmed in the coming days. gabriel elizondo, his life was now and soon lost washington state, which will also been badly affected and actually gave if we can look at a, by the different aspect of this story which has been this supply chain crisis has been unfolding in the u. s. we sent a spike in demand for goods off to the pandemic and not enough supply. how could climate events like this one made that disruption was well at it's hard to supply chain issues are about people there about farmers, about business owners trying to get their product or products from point a to point b. nowhere is that more profound than right where i'm at, which is on the border between canada and the united states, right? where this massive storm hit, it is affecting supply change dramatically. it is never good for a freight train to d rail, but more now more so than ever. because there's already a strain on supply chains. and as you can see behind me, the storm that came through here a couple of days ago, completely washed out. many of the railroa

su, mass prairie, a former lake that was drained a century ago to make way for agriculture. gabriel elizondo is in summa city, just over the u. s. border in washington state. they assume us so very area that you're referring to is the canadian side of the border, british columbia that has been absolutely decimated by this storm. there is a lot of worry cuz that's a very agriculture rich area of a south west canada and with potentially dozens of farms totally underwater officials. they're are estimating that the total amount of money that could be needed to rebuild that area. not only the farms, but the homes, and the infrastructure that has been lost could be more than $1000000000.00, where i'm at now is the town of seumas on the west side of the border in the state of washington. this is in the northwest part of the united states. this is a small town of about $1600.00 residents only. and they are very much at the epicenter of this storm that passed through here a couple days ago as well. and they're now very much in a clean up stage as the cold wet rain continues to fall here. let me step

submerged a major rad line, connecting canada and the us where freight trains have been derailed. gabriel elizondo reports on the board of kind of sume us in the us tanks of washington. when the heaviest of the rains started falling, rivers, swelling, and flood waters surging. the force of the water took down anything in its path, including a freight train. this is all that is left of what has long been a major rail line. running through the town of sou mass, connecting the northwest of the united states with british columbia canada. the loaded rail cars were toppled by the force of the water. the steel tracks washed away and in some parts twisted beyond use. some of these rail cars were carrying products and farm produce. others were loaded with lumber. we have a lot of our industrial parks businesses that rely on that railway to transport items where they're going to canada or south on the railway through the other parts of the state. the longer the railroad is down and not able to do that transportation. it's just going to hurt the businesses here. the rely on that. it's never a good time for a