super saturday. also tonight, president biden leaves washington for the holidays. what the economy strong, but some voters saying bahumbug. the campaign season now just days away. in the czech republic, a day of mourning, one of europe s deadliest mass shootings. plus, christmas canceled. cbs chris shows us why bethlehem s big night is silent this year. normally, celebrations would have bound, but because of the war, there s hardly anybody here. later, it s an american town spreading the holiday spirit all year. this is going to the united kingdom, australia, japan. with festive flair and a special stand. you don t think of like christmas things in florida. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from washington with adriana diaz. good evening. adriana is off. i m robert costa in washington. the holidays are here. around 115 million are packing up suitcases and are headed on their christmas and new year s travels. today was forecast to be the busiest trav
not simply a democracy at. we re but something that could actually destroy american democracy, another hour of velshi begins right now. hi begins right now. good morning, it is sunday january the 8th. i am ellen kevin mccarthy s new election as the speaker of the house, it was a historic one if not exactly for the best reasons. the first time for a speakership was divot sided on a multiple, ballots are where occurrence in the scope of all american history. mccarthy s bid this year was only the 15th time that has happened, it was 15 ballots but it was only the 15th time that it is happened. there were only four other instances when the volker shut went on for longer, all of which were in the 1800s, which was an era in which political parties were influx and factions were ideologically split over the issue of slavery. take the 16th congress as an example. henry clay was initially elected as the speaker at the start of the term and 1819 but, he opted to step down in the midd
capitol hill this today after getting a job he appeared to have literally had to beg representative matt gates for lead into last night. details ahead on the promises mccarthy had to make that when the speakers got. and, latest reaction to the ugly process that even included a dramatic confrontation between gate and mccarthy supporter. this as members wonder, what this chaotic start means for the future of the house. do all of these peoples emotions go up and down? at the end of the night, matt got everybody there. president trump helped a lot, but i also think it is them and wanting to make this conference united and work together. i think what you will see, by having this now, is we worked out how to work together. all right, we will follow all of this and we will be following other news, as well. a shocking story. a six year old boy shoots a teacher at school, and police say it was no accident. as the buffalo bills were prepared to return to the field for the first tim
back for another hour. here are the big stories we re watching. another tidal wave of plight cancellations for southwest customers today, thousands left stranded and baggage grave yards across the airports and exhausted customers fighting for answers. i ve spent about nine and a half hours trying to get through to southwest, just on hold with them. probably about 17 calls. and every time, i get about two and a half hours in, it just drops. the line just drops. in buffalo, snow is starting to melt as the death toll mounts. with mounting snow of this volume comes rapid flooding for search and rescue teams to deal with. the latest on their efforts and the blame game over the county s response to the historic blizzard in just a minute. new developments on capitol hill. the january 6th committee just dropped another batch of deposition transcripts, and there are some familiar trump world names on the list. speaking of donald trump, after almost four years of legal battles,