He was very unhappy. We knew this storm was coming. He needed a bourbon. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. It is friday, november 16th. For the tenth day we are waking up wondering when the midterms end. We will get to that shortly and we start with references to wikileaks founder over Court Filings which he may be criminally charged. It could have significant implications for the mueller investigation. Assange leaked government secrets on the wars on iraq and afghanistan. Federal prosecutors referenced assange by accident in a filing last week while arguing to keep an unrelated case sealed. They wrote, quote, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential in the fact that assange has been charged. A spokesman for the Eastern District of virginia said the court filing was made in error. He declined to comment if there are charges against assange or what the error was or if it was run in the first place. The wall street journal reports that the prosecutor is preparing to charge assange. He has been living in the Ecuador Embassy since 2012. An indictment has painted wikileaks as a tool of russian intelligence for hacked democratic emails in the 2016 campaign. Mueller has been exploring communications with wikileaks and associates of President Trump, then candidate trump, including roger stone. The russia investigation weighing heavily on the president. He met with his lawyers three times this week to talk about the responses to robert mueller. The Trump Legal Team is wary of muellers questions. The pathway narrowing for the democrats to win recounts in florida. A hand recount is ordered for governor rick scott and Democrat Bill nelson. Republican ron desantis declared victory after a machine recount did not help Andrew Gillum narrow the gap. That race effectively over which leaves democrats hoping for a miracle in the senate race where Governor Scott leads by less than 13,000 votes out of 8. 2 million cast. Senator nelson dealt another blow by the court ruling in scotts favor. A federal judge ruling guidelines for voter intent are constitutional. Most florida counties did file the recounts on time. A few did not. Including one heavily democratic county. The county finished counting by two minutes after the deadline. Cnns jessica dean as more from florida. Reporter good morning, dave and christine, from palm beach where they hope to get started on the hand recount today. Lets zoom out and give you the big picture across florida. They will go through a hand recount for the incredibly close. 15 senate race which was triggered yesterday. In palm beach county, they were one of three counties that did not get the second recount numbers. They blamed it on the machines. They said they were old and breaking down and overheating. They simply were not able to get it in on time. In hillsborough county, they suffered power outages. They were not confident enough in the numbers to submit the new numbers. They went with the old numbers as well. You had Broward County who missed the deadline by two minutes. They say that was all due to familiarity with the web site. Someone not really understanding how to upload that information. All three of those counties, but law, went with the first unofficial set of results. Back here in palm beach county, they will try to separate the under votes and over votes. That is what they will look at in the hand recount and from there, they are hoping to get started with that by 11 00 a. M. Back to you. Jessica dean, thank you. Democrats celebrating another house seat in maines second district. Jared golden. That makes the net gain in the house for democrats 33 seats. There are still seven races yet to be called by cnn with democrats leading in six of the seats. All of them republican held districts. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi feels she will be selected as house speaker. One is suggesting she is perhaps overconfident. Shes wrong. We have the votes. Democrats select the nominee in the november 28th vote. Right now, pelosi is the only one officially running. In california, alarming news. 631 people now unaccounted for in the camp fire in the sierra foothills as people call in to report missing pernsons. Authorities are trying to determine where people may be. So far, 63 people are known to have died in the camp fire. Officials say the fire has burned more than 140,000 acres. It is 40 contained. Evacuation orders and warnings are reduced or lifted in areas effected by the camp fire. Our scott mclean visited the walmart parking lot in chico which is serving as a makeshift camp for displaced people. What do you miss most . Just being in a bed. You just miss your bed . Being under a ceiling and actually having a real bathroom. Thats nice, isnt it . You seem like youre being pretty strong, though. You okay . Just hard. Meanwhile, heavy smoke is drifting into the bay area. The air quality in San Francisco yesterday was as bad in chico. Chico is 30 minutes from paradise. It was by far the worst air quality in the bay area since the fires broke out forcing several School Districts to close today. The total death toll in the California Wildfires stands at 66, including a new death from the woolsey fire in southern california. President trump scheduled to travel to california tomorrow to meet people affected by the blazes. 6 inches of snow brought here to new york city and surrounding areas which brought areas to a standstill. This is what you were staring at on the George Washington bridge. Commutes exse s extended by s hours. New york city mayor bill de blasio vowing to clear the streets before the morning commute. This is union county, pennsylvania. You can see lines of traffic for miles. The death toll from the storm is eight. One person killed in maryland and ohio on slick votes. Five other deaths in alabama and mississippi. Thousands of flights delayed and canceled. A majority in new york. More in philadelphia and boston and even chicago. More than 292,000 customers are without power in indiana, kentucky, ohio, virginia, West Virginia and pennsylvania. Who got hit hardest and what is in store this weekend . Here is meteorologist derek van dam with the totals. Impressive winter storm and it is not over for some. Look at this. 18 inches and counting for mt. Hope, new york. Even central park got 6 inches of snowfall. We still have winter warnings in effect for upstate new york and pennsylvania and New Hampshire and all the way to maine. Addition additional 6 inches or more is expected as the storm wraps up and exits the region. In its wake is cold conditions and blustery weather. However, we may see a few peeks of sunshine for new york city later today. Look at the winds gusts in excess of 30 miles an hour from new york to nantucket. Temperatures are 43 for the big apple. Snow will melt quickly. Any precipitation left over is in the form of rain this morning. The temperatures staying below average the next seven days. Back to you. Thank you. Thousands of student veterans waiting months to be paid for education as promised. What the v. A. Says is to blame. Wow. Facebook is on the defensive after a New York Times investigation suggested it was not forthcoming about russian interference on its platform and hired a hit writer for the platform. Facebook has been too slow to deal with russian disinformation on its platform in 2016. Mark zuckerberg said to suggest we were not interested in knowing the truth wasnt true. It expanding its work in october of 2017 to fight back against all of this criticism that facebook was asleep at the switch. Definers wrote articles attacking google and apple and downplaying how facebook was effected by russian interference. Zuckerberg said he learned of the work when he read the report. I said i got on the phone with our team and we are no longer working with the team. Ceo Sheryl Sandberg wrote on the platform thursday at facebook we are making the investments we need to stamp out the issues. This mission is critical and i am committed to seeing it through. In a statement provided to cnn, a spokesperson for the times says the article is accurate. It is worth a read. It is a lack of ability to deal with the russia issue on facebook. First Lady Melania Trump taking on critics of her mission to combat cyber bullying. She is taking a lot of heat for focus on the issue given her husbands twitter tendencies. At the conference this week, melania defended the effort. 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Creating a window for the summit to move forward in light of the developments. Dropping that precondition is an important development. Alexandra, thank you. It is. An accounting of the north Korea Nuclear facilities should be required before the first summit. Let alone a second. Here we go. Ahead, is it the russia investigation or a government leak . Julian assange could be in big legal trouble. References to the wikileaks founder accidentally refievealen a court filing. Before theyr. Come on in. Youre turning 65 soon . Yep. And youre retiring at 67 . Thats the plan its also a great time to learn about an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company. Heres why. Medicare part b doesnt pay for everything. This part is up to you. A Medicare Supplement plan helps pay for some of what medicare doesnt. Call Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company or go online for your free decision guide about the only Medicare Supplement plans endorsed by aarp. 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Three and a half hour delays to get home. In a storm that was not a surprise. Mr. Mayor. 31 minutes past the hour. Lets start with the bombshell. References to wikileaks founder Julian Assange in an unsealed court filing suggest he might be criminally charged. It could have significant implications for the mueller investigation. Assange made a name for himself leaking government secrets including on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. Federal prosecutors referenced assange by accident in a filing last week while arguing to keep an unrelated case sealed. They wrote, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential in the fact that assange has been charged. A spokesman for the Eastern District of virginia said the court filing was made in error. He declined to comment if there are charges against assange or whether it will be an issue. The wall street journal reports that the prosecutor is preparing to charge assange. He has been living in the Ecuador Embassy since 2012. An indictment has painted wikileaks as a tool of russian intelligence for releasing thousands of democratic hacked emails during the 2016 campaign. Mueller has been exploring communications with wikileaks and associates of President Trump, including roger stone. The russia investigation weig