public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. the gop electors are on the governor s certificate. i m not going to get into a political debate. reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. state election officials ignored or violated state law in order to put vice president biden over the finish line. we know there was fraud. reporter: the call came after eastman emailed a trump assistant that he wanted to talk to trump to update him on our overall strategic thinking. trump latched onto this theory and used it to press his reluctant vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. reporter: the committee is also calling for lawyers
this hour, we re tracking a deadly winter storm. temperatures plummeting to life-threatening lows on this christmas holiday. more than 55 million people remain under windchill alerts this morning. right now, blizzard conditions across the great lakes. at least 26 people have died from the arctic blast across eight states. in hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable after two straight days of snowfall. a very dangerous situation, driving bans still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. i want to remind everybody, there was a period, hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews. we could not send out department of public works crews, because it was too dangerous. bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning. even florida is feeling the chill. much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. power o
We were like sisters. We had shared so much. I told me they had found her body, and i just collapsed. She is dead, because she was my friend. First, melissa disappeared. Thats the milliondollar question. I knew then that she had never made it into her house. Signs of a struggle, and a strange orange missed. They didnt know what it was. Then, her boss went missing, to. Who was he afraid of . Mightve been afraid that he was next. He left behind a bigger mess. We three kings be stealing the gold. A missing fortune. Ballpark, 1 1 2 million dollars. We have no clues, no leads. Some wondered, was there a link . Two crimes, one for money, one, supposedly for love, and behind both, a lingering mystery. It is just so ugly, and so wrong, and i cannot fix it. Welcome to dateline. Hotshot florida attorney, Melissa Lewis was living large in ft. Lauderdale. But then, her seemingly charmed life ended in tragedy when a body was discovered in a drainage canal. She had been murdered. But who would want
26,000 new admissions this week right after thanksgiving. it s not clear if that was the peak. respiratory virus activity remains high or very high in almost every state. the cdc estimates 18 million people have come down with the flu this season, and 12,000 have died. but if you re looking for cold or fever medicines for your child, you may find empty store shelves. a shortage of over the counter medicines for children has parents scrambling. a surge in respiratory illnesses is driving up demand, and pharmacies are struggling with low supplies or none at all. cnn s athena jones has details. it s brutal for all of us. reporter: melissa s 18-month-old twins are teething. we had an incident where one didn t eat for three days because he had so much pain. reporter: lately, she s struggled to find medicines to treat her boys, who generally fall ill at the same time. every drugstore within
us. reporter: melissa s 18-month-old twins are teeth oohing, a painful process. we just had an incident a few days ago where one of them didn t eat for three days. reporter: the brooklyn mother has struggled to find medicines to treat her boysi, walt and henry. every drugstore within walking distance of me is totally bare. my husband did have to drive across brooklyn. reporter: as communities battle a surge in respiratory illnesses like the flu, covid-19, and rsv which can be particularly dangerous for young children increased demand is driving a shortfall across the country of prescription and over the counter medicines for children, the result empty shelves and limits on the amount of medicine you can buy at cvs, walgreen s and rite aid leaving parents and pharmacists frustrated and concerned. they get really bad fevers our kids, i was pretty scared. nowhere over here they didn t have anything in stock, so i had