just ahead on cnn newsroom i m 22 and i have not seen this much. it has been a mess. if you don t know how to drive in the snow, stay home. some of the top hosts at fox news were peddling false election claims. certainly helpful but doesn t get them to the finish line. there is a new sheriff in town. the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, fu , februar, 1:00 a.m. in california. and on both coasts and states in between, millions will be waking up to extreme winter weather. new york s governor says parts of her state could see up to a foot of snow. the great lakes can also expect cold wet weather. and in michigan, hundreds of thousands are still without power after a winter storm passed through on monday. and there is a blizzard warning in the sierras. several feet of snow over the weekend left some residents trapped. people there also are running out of gas,
lab in chiwuhan, china. and in east palestine, the new technique to track contaminated water from that city. and the growing concern to other cities taking in truckloads of contaminated soil. and an image in oklahoma, cnn is on the scene. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with the groundbreaking assertion with the u.s. energy department that the covid-19 pandemic likely began from a lab leak in wuhan, china. this all comes after the energy department updated its 2021 report with this claim, saying it made the new conclusion, based on new evidence coming to light. two sources telling cnn the department is issuing the report with, quote, low confidence. that s a term that doesn t mean that they don t believe their own conclusion. it means that the evidence as of now is only circumstantial. the new assertion reveals that the u.s. intelligence community is more divided than ever on how the pandemic began. four other agencies in the u.s. government said the outbr
southwest florida woke up to today, you ve seen houses shredded, others carried away by brutal storm surge including cars ending up in bays in some circumstances. steve harrigan by the grace of god rode out of this storm close to the impact his own as anyone else and tonight we find him right across a causeway connecting the barrier islands. you have seen some horrific destruction, what can you tell us about how the search and rescue attempts are unfolding in the dark? they are going on, they have carried out more than 700 rescues and they got started just after 1:00 in the morning. as soon as the wind died down more than 40 miles per hour they were out there risking their lives to try to save people who were trapped, some of those people on rooftops, both by helicopter and on land. talk about destruction, it is remarkable in the daylight hours to go around and see the level of destruction. i m standing in front of a destroyed house in a destroyed neighborhood. it s a sad s
Abortion issue, for example, in the state of florida, democrats feel like they can really capitalize on this issue. Republican since are trying to find an issue that they feel like they can capitalize on once again, immigration and Border Security is something that they feel like is a winning issue for them. Of course, thats made more complicated by the fact that republicans and killed the bipartisan Border Security agreement that was reached between a group of senators and the white house earlier this year. So i think this is really an attempt by republicans to shift the narrative back to an issue immigration and Border Security that they think is beneficial to them. At the same time that democrats are set to benefit from the Abortion Issue good luck. And as this takes on, you control, you control and shift the narrative. You control the message. Better chance you have of winning up, up and down the ticket jackie scratches you, andrew. Thank you so much for coming on. New our scene, a
this is a humanitarian challenge to all of us, what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border. they are working to correct that. this idea is joe biden s election that prompted more people to show up is by the actual fact. joe biden inherited a huge mess on immigration. we recognize this is a huge problem and we had a dismantled and unworkable system. like any other problem, we will do everything we can to solve it. jesse: conditions are so bad at the border that fema is sent in to help manage the unaccompanied children. one report said a texas facility is 729% capacity. kids have to take turns sleeping on the floor and go days without showering. republicans have had enough. house minority leader kevin mccarthy was on the ground in texas today and demanding biden do something about it. heartbreak. the sad part about all of this, it didn t have to happen. this crisis is created by the presidential policies of this new administration. there i