Whiteout conditions are already here. Ice, wind, snow, power outages. Millions tonight feeling the impact of the onceinageneration storm. Plus, we have Breaking News. More transcripts just released from the January 6th Committees investigation. Everyone from the president s daughter to his Attorney General in a Top White House lawyer, what they all had to say, and how the committees final report puts the blame squarely on donald trump. And shocking government numbers out of china about covid cases. New infections reportedly in the hundreds of millions this month alone and growing. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im kate bolduan in for erin burnett. Millions are trying for the holidays as snowy conditions caused a massive pileup of roughly 50 cars. We are told at least one person died in this crash. And its not just in ohio, its across the country. Cars sliding, being abandoned on the streets of memphis, tennessee. Today more than 5,000 flights have been canceled due to severe winds and icy conditions. The storms impact is widespread. Over half the u. S. Population is under winter storm and windchill alerts. At least nine people have died in the storm so far. Officials across the country are warning people of this impact. It is Throwing Everything at us but the kitchen sink. Weve had ice, flooding, snow, freezing temperatures a, and everything that Mother Nature could wallop at us this weekend. Stay inside, stay off the roads. The lastsecond shopping is not worth it if it would cost you your life. One of the major issues for those who arent traveling, power. More than a Million People are without power across the country tonight. And among the hardest places hit, buffalo, new york, almost a complete whiteout with the snow and the high winds. And you can see what happen when they mix together. Our reporters are on the ground across the country. First omar jimenez in chicago for us. Omar, youre at Ohare Airport which has seen a ton of flight cancelations. Reporter a lot of flight cancelations. Theres been a steady stream of people coming in, as you can imagine. A lot of them with questions about what their flights are actually going to look like and if theyre actually going to be able to make it on those flights. 500 here at ohare. Countryside we have seen more than 5,200 cancelations today. And that is on top of the close to 9,000 delays all this of course happening just two days before christmas. A little bit earlier we caught up with one of those travelers who told us a little bit about how she thought she was going to be able to get on with her christmas itinerary. And now the earliest shes going to be able to take off at this point is on christmas day. Take a listen. We were just anticipating to see cancel on our flight. But it kept on saying green, on time. And so we got here, went through security, checked our bags. And about a half hour before boarding began, we actually got notification from the united app that the flight was canceled. Its no surprise that this would happen. Its just unfortunate that this is how this weekends going to go. And of course tied to all of this is this huge Winter System thats descended on the u. S. , bringing snow and of course heavy winds. Even in d. C. At Reagan National airport there was a plane trying to land, and you can see it sort of pushing back against what mustve been very intense winds trying to what looks like almost land sideways, and then the pilot clearly decided we cant do this, and had to pull out of that attempted landing. And its probably why the Buffalo Airport has decided that they are going to close operations tonight as they are potentially seeing wind gusts close to Hurricane Force winds. No chances there as far as trying to take off and land safely. So these are all factors, kate, that of course are affecting people out in the world. Were negative 20 degrees out here in chicago with the wind. But for those trying to get to warmer places or to their loved ones for the holidays, its been very difficult. And there are going to be more difficult days ahead. Lets go to buffalo right now. Polo sandoval is standing by in buffalo all day today. Youre getting hit with it again. Hows it going . Reporter you know, kate, the thing is, this is not going to stop any time soon. The Chief Executive here putting out a message just a few moments ago that it seems like these conditions are going to continue throughout the night, that this system will be stationary perhaps over the buffalo area, meaning that all of this, these high, high, high winds that we have seen since early this morning are going to continue. Earlier today there was about a 79mileanhour wind gust confirmed by the National Weather service here in buffalo that. Exceeds the winds that they experienced here during the historic blizzard back in 1977. So authorities are not kidding when they say that this is just highly unusual storm, even for the likes of western new york. Authorities also confirming, the Chief Executive saying that there are currently, quote, hundreds of people that are stranded in and around buffalo. And that is certainly a huge concern for authorities as theyve seen that in previous instances. And so authorities at this hour, they are working nonstop in this weather, kate, to try to get to some of those people that, again, according to the county officials here in buffalo, are still stranded. And it really just underscores and punctuates and capitalizes the message that the safest place today and possibly tomorrow until christmas day, perhaps, is at home even for those people who have lost power. Authorities here are saying that a cold house is still much safer than being stuck on the side of the road in these conditions. Kate, back to you. Lets hope that fewer people as few people as possible have to make that choice. And youve been out in conditions just like this for hours now. Ive been watching you. Thanks so much, i really appreciate it. Lets go now to our meteorologist who is in atlanta, which is set to see its coldest Christmas Eve ever. Lets get to the broader forecast in a minute. But, first, what are things like in atlanta . Reporter all right. Well, the temperature here is 14 lonely degrees. We have windchill warnings in effect for this area. And much of The Deep South Including Atlanta is bracing for, as you said, the coldest Christmas Eve on record, which, by the way, has stood for over five decades. Its difficult to portray sometimes how cold it actually is without snow like polo has in his backdrop. Im not drinking from my waterbottle any time soon. This used to be a towel that we doused with water a few hours ago and it is hard as a rock and completely useless to me. But it gives you an idea just how cold it is. I want to show you the forecast for atlanta. This is much of the same for the deep south because our temperatures are going to be below freezing for at least 48 hours. So if you dont have power, thats going to be a problem. Obviously you cant heat your home. And obviously we think about the Homeless Population in this area and how that impacts people. It is brutally cold. This cold has a different feel to it. It is bitter, with the wind, it is excruciating actually on your exposed skin. We dropped 35 degrees in eight hours here in atlanta as that cold front came through. The emperor from the north, thats what im calling it because it originated from the arctic circle. We were 31 degrees warmer yesterday at this time in atlanta. You can see d. C. And new york more the same, 28 degrees yesterday at this time. It seems like a long time ago. Derek van dam, thank you so much. 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Among the transcripts just released, ivanka trump, and we now know and we are learning from this transcript that she turned over Text Messages. Pat cipollone, and Vice President mike pences Chief Of Staff mark short are among them. These are witnesses with Key Information about what happened on january 6th and the days leading up to the insurrection. Were going through the transcripts as we speak and well be bringing you any of the new information as we get it. Its a lot of pages and its a lot of transcripts just released tonight. Also on the list of the newly released transcripts, trumps close aide and former Communications Director hope hicks. Were learning from her that she testified that the former president knew the claims his people were promoting werent only false, that they were, quote, crazy. Hicks said in a phone call with trump that lawyer Sidney Powell was laying out the outlandish claim that venezuela, cuba, and china were involved in rigging Voting Machines against him. And according to hicks, this. While she was speaking, the president muted his speakerphone and laughed at powell, telling the others in the room, this does sound crazy, doesnt it . Yet, the president clearly continued pushing those same baseless claims to rile up supporters. This all coming as the January 6th Committee finally put out its 845page full report overnight. A report based on more than a thousand interviews, documents including emails, Text Messages, and phone records all wrapping up an 18monthlong investigation. One key conclusion and recommendation from this report that donald trump needs to be barred from Holding Office ever again. Trump lashed out today in response to all this taking to his social media platform to, well, and when he did, he failed to address any of the details or evidence presented in the full report. Instead, he used the chance to make more false claims about january 6th and the 2020 election. In the report, the committee draws a clear line between trumps election denials to the violence that unfolded at the capitol. The report stating this. Quote, the central cause of january 6th was one man, former president donald trump, whom many others followed. None of the events of january 6th wouldve happened without him. Among the new evidence in the report, there is also this, and ill read another quote for you. Between the november election and january 6th insurrection, President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure or condemnation, targeting either State Legislators or state or local Election Administrators to overturn state election results. Now, we all remember the infamous phone call of trump that he made to georgias Secretary Of State brad raffensperger, of course, telling him at the time that, quote, to find 11,780 votes in order to change the election result theres. The report makes the case that was not a oneoff. They see at least 199 other instances of Pressure Efforts similar to that one. Now, while trump remains defiant still continuing his campaign for 2024, perhaps some signs today that the committees investigation and final report is having an impact. Senate republican leader Mitch Mcconnell telling nbc news this. Heres what i think has changed. I think the former president s political clout has diminished. Evan perez is out front for us tonight in washington. I know youve been looking through some of these new transcripts. What can you tell us . We have thousands of pages. At least 46 transcripts that have been released just in the last hour. And really we get a picture from some of these people, theyre clearly trying their best. Theyre talking to the committee, theyre cooperating with the subpoenas that theyve been issued. But theyre doing as little as they can to answer some of these questions. One of them is elaine chao who was the Labor Secretary under the former president. And she talks about how she doesnt really having a conversation about the twentyfifth amendment with other members of the cabinet, this idea that you could remove the former president , President Trump obviously, for what had happened on january 6th. She did resign that day after what she saw. This is what she says. The reason why she did it, she says, was the full ramification of the actions that were taken by some people and the results that occurred. Now, shes careful not to mention donald trump himself and to criticize him, but she says i wish he had acted differently. We also learned that ivanka trump, the former president s daughter, turned over some of her Text Messages under the request from the committee. It goes to show you, kate, the extent of the evidence that was gathered by this committee. And, of course, we know that at this point they have now started turning over some of that evidence to the Justice Department, which is, you know, obviously doing a Criminal Investigation and has been asking for this evidence as part of their work that they are doing. Absolutely. Evan, thank you so much. Theres a lot of work thats going to be going into going through these transcripts. Outfront with me now, ryan goodman, coeditor in chief of the just security blog, and former Special Counsel at the department of defense. And also with us stephanie grisham, the former Trump White HouseCommunications Director. Thank you both for being here. Ryan, these 46 new transcripts, people like pat cipollone, bill barr, ivanka trump, how important are they, in your view . I think theyre very important in the sense that they give us visibility into the white house, and decisions that are being made by trump, his insight, his mindset with respect to winning or losing the election and trying to overturn it. And i also think they show kind of the road map for the Justice Department. It gives us an dedian indicatio things like ivanka trump turning over Text Messages. Its good for us as the American Public to know that the Justice Department will have that. And then to see the kinds of questions that the committee asked even if they werent answered. Bec