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Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredericka witfield. The southwestern u. S. Is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as hurricane hilary churns off the pacific. We just learned moments ago that the storm has weakened just a bit to a category 3 storm with 125 mile an hour winds. Its lashing mexico with strong winds and high waves right now. Forecasters warn it could dump more than a years worth of rain across parts of california, nevada and arizona. The storm is expected to weaken as it moves north, but the threat is so severe, a Tropical Storm watch has been issue...

today. bone chilling cold and some seeing temperatures well below 0 and the chill extending to places not used to it. texans hoping to avoid another power crisis as frigid conditions are there. is sunshine state, florida, could see its coldest christmas in more than 30 years. blizzard warnings in effect for more than 10 million people in the upper midwest and great lakes region. those conditions basically snowstorm on steroids. across the country widespread power outages. more than 1 million reported from texas to the east coast. all of this is also causing some chaos for travelers. ...

Cnn's pri sescilla alvarez. >> reporter: he'll be going down with his own officials. the fema administrator will travel with the president as he sees the devastation firsthand. the president has been raegulary briefed since these wildfires ripped through maui and has been deploying federal assets to the islands to assist them in their recovery. this will be a moment for the president to see it all firsthand and to go into his consoler in chief mode. that's something we've seen many times when he has visited devastation in empathizing and sympathizing with the people on the ground and assuring ...

Houston is getting it pretty bad. in chicago the snow didn't got that bad or the roads never got that bad. plows can deal with it. it got cold. negative seven and warmed up to a negative five with windchill that makes it feel like negative 30. back to you. >> molly: thank you for keeping an eye on that across the nation. we asked you to get to the top of everest you would give me a couple of weeks. you're in a warm, toasty spot. folks are cold across the country. thank you. we appreciate it. president biden -- >> president biden: i sincerely hope this holiday season will drain the poison that ...

We're all americans. we stand together as the united states of america. i promise you, whatever is needed, whatever is needed, the federal government is going to find a way to supply it. >> reporter: so the president really in the crisis manager moded at the moment, but he did talk about skl at some point mo into an investigative set of standards, looking at whether there was enough warning for these people, looking at whether climate change may have affected this, and then, of course, he will move into the consoler in chief mode. yesterday he said my heart aches for the people who are affecte...