Cancellations. Over 4000 delays nationwide. The airport in buffalo, ne york has completely closed dow to the weather and will remain a closed until tuesday meanwhile, the president and first lady are spreading the warm this christmas. Many parts of the day callin u. S. Troops stationed around the world thanking them fo their sacrifice. We will be looking into what i the 1. 7 trillion dollar bill that Congress Passed on th Holiday Weekend as well as the final report released by the january Six Committee means fo former President Trump in 2023 lets start this hour with a severe winter storm that has left travelers scrambling to get to their destination Thi Christmas and then home, hopefully. Nbc shimmery stone joining u from Reagan National airport with how travelers there are very jesse curtis joins us from New York City with the latest on the storm as well. Shemarri, lets start with you for those who were able to mak it for christmas, tomorrow begins potentially throwing th dice can you get home that is just did. We are here at Reagan National airport and we have some peopl who had canceled flights today and one woman was sitting on a bench. I said what is wrong, she said i am not going to get home for christmas because my fligh from here at Reagan National down to orlando was canceled and it has been rebooked fo december 27th. Now you are hearing some stories, sad stories fro people about that but you have others who are relieved to hav made it here to Reagan Nationa and they are actually stopping by this tree over here takin pictures happy that they were able to make it. Here at reagan, there are some cancellations right now an some people are going to take counters, trying to talk t people to see if they ca rebook their flights either tomorrow or monday or as far a way as tuesday now large crowds are floodin airports in major cities suc as chicago, seattle, d. C. , and buffalo, the blizzar conditions have closed their airport until around 11 a. M. Tomorrow crews are working to clear the snow and awe ice off runways that is something you ar seeing in several airports around the country right now, buffalo is under travel ban and its nearly impossible to get to the airport due to the low visibility the mayor warning people t stay indoors yesterday, Alaska Airlines canceling flights due to the snow and icy conditions on the roadways and at Denver Airport crews started using Compressed Natural Gas powered vehicles the Compressed Natural Gas i not fuel whale in the extrem cold now moments ago, we talked t another woman and she just describes how she is feeling about her flights bein canceled i feel like crying. I had a flights leaving out of dca to orlando at 7 40 a. M. Apparently received cancellation around one in the morning. I did not see it we uber here, go to the counte and they were like, there is not much they can do they canceled all the flight for today, the next flight i on the 27th. This now certainly feel bad for her. I hope she does eventually get her to her destination all the best advice is t practice patience. There are some people who ar losing their cool, really upse about what is happening. You have other people who ar basically understanding what i going on, saying that this i an act of god with thi horrible winter storm. A lot of folks say that thei main goal is to get home thi evening, to meet the relatives so that they can sit down an have christmas dinner together hopefully that happens for a lot of the folks here at dca richard . We shomari, thank you for that lets get over to jessie who i covering the Weather Condition themselves he is in new york, as i wa mentioning earlier, and jessie we were listening to some of the reports coming Fro Officials in the area of buffalo today. We are hearing from erie count new york they shows that the have four additional deaths. We are up to seven just in tha area we are facing single, Double Digit Temperatures all acros the country. What are you seeing . Matt it is a really what we are feeling, richard i can tell you we are layere up right here. The cold is still getting in and we are in New York City. We are not even in the areas that are feeling even more brutal temperatures. This is something that i plaguing the entire east coast right now. In fact, through christmas dinner, through the rest of th night on this holiday, we ar looking at temperatures across the east coast to be between ten and 25 degrees below average. There is a warmup in th future there is some Hope Down Th Line in the days ahead we will talk more about Th Future Forecast in a moment bu that gives you an idea of th uncommon situation we ar dealing with as you mentioned, this is no just been a nuisance, it has been dangerous and unfortunately deadly the death toll has climbed throughout the day we are now looking at at least 35 people confirmed dead those deaths all blamed on the bad weather we have seen acros the country in multiple states according to reports Fro Officials. Here in New York City, you could see and hear that we still got people out enjoyin christmas doing some sightseeing but a few tourists have told us that they hav taken breaks indoors, they hav not just been moving outside all day. They have taken some tim indoors to warm up and recuperate they also told us that thi cold actually kind of felt mor christmas for them because you think of a snowy christmas and that is certainly somethin people have seen especially in buffalo. The potential for four feet of snow in Western New York cit and the governor of new york i saying that this storm is goin to go down as the most devastating in the history o buffalo. For context, that is a cit that is very familiar with blizzards so that just tells you how bad this storm syste is and how it is Pummeling Tha part of new york the National Guard has bee doubled from 200 to 400 so w should see 400 members of th National Guard in that regio by tomorrow according to the governor who says that there has been hundreds of rescues from cars but unfortunately, you mention there were seven deaths in that region, officials describing that some people who passed away wer found in their cars, other people were found in snow bank out on their feet. It gives you an idea of how ba the conditions are there and certainly people are being asked to stay inside jesse kirsch, Shomari Stone thank you so much for th latest on the storm. Appreciate your coverage on. That now moving to politics an the beltway. Nine days left in the 117t congress, potentially more transcripts still could be released within those days but is there anything else possibl in these final days . Most members back at home fo the holidays this, as the white house reaches out for his Traditiona Holiday good wishes to the military community lets bring in nbcs julie tsirkin. That very start, the white house reaching out thi afternoon, President Biden, th first lady honoring the si branches of u. S. Militar today. Tell us about that on the coast of california, to the arabian sea, th president , the first lad spending their Christmas Day afternoon making calls t Service Members around the world on this Christmas Day. Of course a many of those ar unable to be with loved ones with family and friends as hopefully some in this country actually are able to get through the storm and spend or spend time with their love ones here. The president , of course carrying on a tradition that has been carried on and passed on through almost nearly every president in modern history. Last year, his first christmas in office, President Biden having a video call with Service Members around the world. Of course, he is personall familiar with his late son bea having served here in iraq what a feels like to spend the holidays without your love ones, with them potentially in dangerous combat zones and another tradition broken o course by the pandemic, whic not a lot of president s goin to these war zones i remember president obama spent some of his Family Vacation in Hawaii Visiting marine corps base. I remember when president Trum Made Headlines in 2018 wit that lastminute surprise visi to iraq on Christmas Eve a tradition carried on b president , President Biden spending today in the whit house with jill biden, the first lady, making those calls around the world to servic members. Richard . They might feel a littl lonely, i guess, right, julie . As all the rest of d. C. Ha left town as we were jus discussing, nine days left evidently with this congress before they are sworn in what can possibly happen in th next nine days you and i were talking about potentially more transcripts coming out yesterday potentially mor transcripts. I think every single day the january 6th alive committee, except for this weekend, thi Holiday Weekend and monday, we think they will be releasing those transcripts, high profil names that continue to release details of the january 6th 1 month a long investigation in addition to that, we ar also waiting for brads that trump tax returns to be made public some point next week all americans are certainly on holiday brain. Congress, democrats leavin these last few days to butto up those investigations before House Republicans take control of the Lower Chamber befor they left town the house on friday passed tha 1. 7 trillion Dollar Spending Bill that has, for the first time in years, more Defens Spending than on Defense Spending that was a big reason wh Senate Republicans including minority leader mcconnell were able to support it nine republicans joining democrats in the house seven of them i should note no returning next congress bu mccarthy, of, course slum this bill on the floor before passed take a listen to part of wha he said. This is a Monstrosity Tha is one of the most shamefu acts i have ever seen in Thi Body The Appropriations Process has failed the American Public and there is no greater example of the net aisle in the coffin of the greatest failure of a on party rule of the house, the senate and the presidency of this bill here his opposition to the bil obviously not a secret in thes final days until he take control in the new congres hoping to secure Tha Speakership Gavel and he still has a long Way To Go Richard . Julie, what is the word we had one guest on earlier, one of the former staffers o paul ryan, who knows a littl bit about republican leadershi and at one point that was made by burn in block was that, wel if mccarthy does get the leadership position, he may no get the votes in the first round. It may take two or three rounds what are you hearing that is exactly right i remember in the house, there can be no agenda without a speaker so if this takes day and days, the House Republican and their newly clinched majority will have nothing t really do for a little bit until that speakership raise i resolved we know one person so fa officially in this race to oppose mccarthy. That is andy biggs, far right, part of the Conservative Party of course in the house an ally of the former president as well he is running against mccarthy slamming him for not being farright enough, essentially. Mccarthy has his work cut ou for him, even if he does manag to clinch those 218 votes in the house floor and managed to get the speakership. He is going to have just a few seat majority over democrats and therefore giving a Lot O Leverage to both moderates and the far right party in this. House to get anything done that is what hes going to hav to really do and really quickly, on the republican agenda, we are going to see a lot Les Legislating and a lot more oversight than we have seen in president joe bidens first tw years in office here and tha is because with the divide congress, republicans pretty much all they can do i investigate and ahold oversigh hearings into Th Administration we know the border is a bi focus for them we already heard they ar planning on potentially having Secretary Mayorkas in on capitol hill to testify abou the crisis at the border among other things this is a really their opportunity to essentially retaliate until investigations democrats have held unde former President Trump and o course disband the january Six Committee. That is going to be most likel the first act. I can tell, julia, you ar really saying to us you ar going to have a very bus january. Julie, thank you so much there at the white house, also telling us what happened right across theyll appreciate it now to the fallout from the very discussion we were having with julie, of course, that is the january Six Committees 18t month investigation as well as the transcripts and therefor what that tells us about leadership Going Forward so much happening here and some of the questions abou the actions of former Presiden Donald trump, which are so focused on that report trump now lashing up at Th Justice Department following the release of that report a christmas message posted t social media site, trump attacked the fbi and special counsel investigating his plot to overturn the 2020 president ial election. In his final report, the committee asserted its believ that trump was principally responsible for the january 6t attack and recommended that Th Justice Department charge trum with at least for crimes joining us now, Msnbc Politica analyst and republican strategist, susan an democratic strategist, Michael Hardaway a lot to talk about in fiv minutes here but susan, as you have heard what julie is looking at in the next month i the new congress, lets step back first and that is the january Six Committee. They concluded, as i was jus mentioning, it was donald trump, he was to blame. Did they do too much though on the focus of donald trump as some have said i do not think so because that is what january six was all about. It was the former president of the United States inciting insurrection it is just so hard to believ that at this point people ar still having Problem Processing would happen. When you look at those visuals on your screen what is important here is Th Select Committee did a reall important thing. They provided a narrative, a narrative from republicans i all that testimony i think the testimony we are going to read in the transcripts will go furthe than fighting against donald trump. That is what its really about lets not forget doj has 900 cases against people who attended or who were at Th Insurrection at the capitol. They are going to be Hel Accountable as well. Michael, what do you hope t see if there are more material released by the January Si Committee and the remainin days they have until all of are released of their duty a the end of the year . As julie was telling us, there could be some more coming ou related to transcripts i think its important that everyone involved here is held accountable. Obviously donald trump is at the tip of the spear in term of driving this crime that happened against our nation on january the 6th. The real question is, who else was involved and what exactl does that look like . We know for instance that th Capitol Police suspended nearl three dozen officers surrounding the investigations of the possible involvement an there were other issues ther as well. I think the real question in this conversation is can w figure out who is involved her and can we prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law . I want to shift to somethin else that julie was reportin to us, susan she was saying well it could b first round, could be second round could be second, it coul be the third day before we hav a speaker and therefore, although you are sworn in on january 3rd, the 118 congress, you might have nothing to do because you do not have speaker. It is quite possible.