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hello. at this hour, a dangerous ice storm is setting in across the south. a slippery mess is in store for millions unfortunately. plus, more memphis police officers are being disciplined now. emts fired after the beating death of tyre nichols, and what his brother says he wants to see happen to those responsible. prosecutors could file channels against alec baldwin and the rust film armor. this is what we are watching at this hour. thank you so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. let s start with the major winter storm that is impacting millions of people in the south today. check out this oh, geez check out that video out of dallas, and freezing rain is doing what freezing rain does sending cars sliding across the roads and making it a total mess, a dangerous mess. dozens of accidents so far, and the governor of arkansas is activating the national guard in the triple threat they are getting with ice, sleet and snow. more than 40 million americans stretching ....
for six mayors. if you stand up for me, i will stand up for you. it s important now that we get it right this time. if you don t get it right we re not gonna recognize this country tomorrow. one thing i will absolutely always get right is making sure that we stand for the important things in washington d.c.. welcome to our viewers in the states and around the. world i m in new york, it s not 1 am on the u.s. east coast. officially election day in america. republicans are more confident than they have been to this point. that is saying something. control both houses of congress. democrats are playing defense here. traditionally blue states to rising crime, president joe biden s lower approval right. republicans have had the best chance in house of representatives. gop they would bring an end to gop speaker who would most likely go to republican. republicans were taken troll i ve just won t see. georgia, nevada, pennsylvania all are toss-ups right now. arizona s lea ....
and welcome to cnn newsroom. i m erica hill. president biden a short time ago laying out his plan to keep energy prices down for americans which includes another push for oil companies to boost production and it comes, that push to lower gas prices as early voting gets under way in some states. we are now officially less than three weeks to go. who is counting? yeah. the president just announced he will release another 15 million barrels from the nation s oil stockpile beginning in december. this is in addition to the 165 million barrels of crude oil that s been put under contract since this past spring. the reserves are at a 30-year low. with my you a nounsment today we are going to continue to stabilize markets and decrease the prices at a time when the actions of other countries have caused such volatility, and i ve told my team behind me here to be prepared to look further look for further releases in the months ahead if needed. we re calling it a read ....
again today. passengers missing some of life s most important events. at this point, because i cannot get there, michael is there without a bride. it is hard to get married without your bride there. the word i can say is devastated. i don t know how else to explain how we re all feeling right now. more on the company s new apologies and the changes they re making ahead. let begin in ukraine. ben wedeman is live there in kyiv and, ben, your team could hear explosions on the ground and you ve seen the damage firsthand. walk us through your experience in the last couple of hours? reporter: well, we heard around 9:00 in the morning, jessica, several loud explosions and later we went to the scene of where apparently some of the debris of those rockets fell. now according to the mayor of kyiv, 16 missiles were fired in the direction of the capital. but all of them were intercepted by the air defenses. however debris fell in several locations. the first location was a ....
new cnn reporting spotlights the momentum and the maneuvering inside the house gop effort to impeach the homeland security chief. and a revenge plot stoked by delusions of a rigged election. police arrest a former republican candidate in new mexico. they say he paid cash, gave gunmen address, even pulled the trigger in a scheme targeting the homes of elected democrats. up first for us this hour, the president of the united states unable to escape the gravity of a self-inflicted crisis. just moments ago president biden at the white house, you hear it there, appearing with the dutch prime minister. you can hear the president getting shouted questions. he gave no answers about the documents story that simply will not go away. the president s public posture sticking to the confines of what his lawyers have already said or avoiding questions altogether belies private angst inside the west wing. sources telling cnn the west wing mood where aides waiting along with everyone el ....