hundreds of thousands without power, more than 4,000 flights canceled. winds so treacherous the airport in buffalo, new york, had to shut down. cnn is live with the havoc being wreaked nationwide. and the january 6th committee out with its final report spelling out why donald trump, in their view, was the one solely responsible for the riot and should be discaqualifi from holding office ever again. new transcripts from the committee. why cassidy hutchinson said she was disappointed and disgusted with her first round of testimony under oath. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the national lead and this nightmare weather scenario before christmas crippling conditions stretching coast to coast with snow and ice in cities such as seattle and portland, oregon to the massive bomb cyclone system moving east. nearly 180 million in the u.s. are in areas with temperatures below freezing. 70 million are in areas below zero. this system is so powerful meteorologist
cough production factory. to the south, russian forces firing artillery across the dnipro river shelling infrastructure, education and humanitarian facility, keeping with the kremlin playbook. to the east, the ukrainian military says it s repelling attacks around bakmut in the donbas. the handful living there describes it as a living hell as russia tries to bomb them back to the stoneage. translator: we have no information, we have no electricity, we don t know what s going on. no electricity, no water, no gas, what could we know? we just hear the explosions and that s all. reporter: power problems even plague the capital kyiv. electric supplies still running around 50%, actually an improvement from recent days. that translates to more than 12 hours a day without power for most. they endure darkness and biting