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city. different story out in the suburbs, erica, where they could see up to a foot of snow. this winter weather advisory from here until saturday, at 1:00, the illinois department of transportation says they have up to 1800 vehicles and pieces of equipment or more to try to mitigate the storm for drivers and residents, erica. this is discuss the prelude because next week our weather team is reporting that it could get shockingly cold. we are talking 30 below with a windchill this some areas of illinois, erica. >> whitney wild, thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. >> i know it's going to be negative 15 on monday. i don't even know what that is. i've been campaigning here for 11 months now. and back in october, in november and december, i'm like, it is so cold and everybody kept saying it's mild. i totally get it now. >> i know it's going to be cold but here's the thing, you're never going to have an opportunity to have your vote
statewide, the coldest air in the month of january in the past five years will struggle to reach above the 0 degree mark across the entire state amongst a larger storm system that brings blizzard conditions as we speak and will add to one of the snowiest stretches that iowa has ever experienced over the past five days. there's the blizzard warnings that stretch across iowa and into the midwest. part of a larger storm system and, erica, rwe are extremely busy here in the weather center, every single u.s. state has some sort of weather alert happening right now including alaska and hawaii. >> derek, thank you. >> for sure. well, nikki haley, ron desantis, donald trump will all be there on the ground in iowa grinding out these last couple of days before everyone gathers to caucus on monday night. phil is over at the magic wall with a look at this final campaign sprint in iowa. the chilly sprint, what can we see this weekend? >> so interesting over the
american and britain, america and britain will undoubtedly prepare to have to pay a heavy price and bear all the dire consequences, so the u.s. is prepared for them to fire back in effect but i will say this, erica, the u.s. is also setting up the possibility of follow-on strikes to these strikes, a senior administration official saying this may not be the last word. they basically ran out of patience, it seems, with these attacks on shipping. >> it's interesting too that the administration is really trying to separate, right, what is happening here and these strikes overnight from the israel-hamas war, and, yet, it is actually quite difficult to spate the two especially when you look at who is involved when we talk about the houthis here. >> reporter: no question. listen, the u.s. attacked the houthis yesterday but they say in very clear terms that iran is pulling the strings, in effect, behind it, not just subtly and with direction or encouragement but with specific operational involvement. the u.s. says that iran provided
in place in england, and five in wales. jessica lane has the latest from collingham in nottinghamshire. the water came to the high here, you can see the line on the door and across, above the electric socket. started coming in on thursday, up through the floors and walls. the clear—up begins after the floods. all the sofas are not usable now, the fabrics soaked the water and that will never be right so they will all need replacing. erica has had to move in with her neighbours as homes and gardens in nottinghamshire are still underwater. it is starting to go down here but a lot of the fields in the area are still underwater and in fact there are some houses over here and the people in those houses are isolated. the fire brigade has had to send boats out filled with bottles of water and tins of food to make sure they have enough
preservation of american democracy will remain as it has been, the central cause of my presidency. >> reporter: erica, president biden will continue this campaign push on monday when he travels down to charleston, south carolina. it is there where biden will speak at mother emanuel a. merrimack e. church which was the site of the 2015 shooting that killed nine black parishioners. one of the challenges of the president going forward will be trying to convince voters democracy should be the central issue of the campaign at the same time we have seen voters express frustration and concerns about the economy and how it is impacting their pocketbooks. but the biden team acknowledges they have work to do to try to define the stakes of this campaign. early on they say they will remind voters what trump did when he was in office and what he is vowing to do now. they're really hoping this moment today was the opening salvo of the campaign. . >> arlette saenz for us tonight.
wages are up. inflation is under control. the stock market is hitting records. consumers are feeling more confident. manufacturing is coming back. and god forbid, if we have another pandemic, our supply chains are strong. and erica has rallied all of nato and 20 other countries to fend off russian expansionism in ukraine. our success there is probably keeping the chinese from invading taiwan. and the north koreans from blowing stuff up. the biden administration has a lot to brag about as we head into 2024, but we have seen time and time again that those issues are not registering with voters. biden just isn't getting credit for them for, the most part, biden's campaign so far has been about what he said he was waiting for in 2020, battle for the soul of the nation. and don't get me wrong, protecting democracy and preventing our nation from slipping into autocracy is actually more important than inflation or the climate or abortion or immigration, because without democracy, you cannot debate or fight for any of those things. but republicans are breaking that issue of immigration front
chains are stronger. and erica has rallied all of nato and 20 other countries to fend off russian expansionism in ukraine. our success there is probably keeping the chinese from invading taiwan and the north koreans from blowing stuff up. the biden administration has a lot to brag about as we head into 2024, but we have seen time and time again that those issues are not registering with voters. biden just isn't getting credit for them. for the most part, biden's campaign so far has been about what he said he was waiting for in 2020, battle for the soul of the nation. and don't get me wrong, protecting democracy and preventing our nation from slipping into autocracy is actually more important than inflation or the climate or abortion or immigration, because without democracy, you cannot debate or fight for any of those things. but republicans are bringing that issue of immigration front and center for 2024, so what is the democratic party's vision, here? what is the plan?
concerns the war in the middle east is about to get bigger. a top official in hamas' military and political wings killed in beirut. hamas say it is leader was killed by an israeli air strike. israel, however, is not taking responsibility and this is all happening as iran has dispatched a naval destroyer to the red sea. tensions there escalating following a series of attacks by the iranian backed houthi militia including against the united states and now the us navy has killed houthis for the first time since this conflict broke out, sinking three houthi boats after being attacked in the red sea this weekend. so the u.s. really getting drawn further and further into this conflict. iranian involvement clearly evidence. what is the u.s. going to do next? >> erica, the biden administration's position is they don't want to see a region ale region al escalation. it's not just up to the u.s. to make a unilateral decision. the decisions we've seen over
beyond her authority, erica. and while i agree with ben that we give these jobs, which might well be done in a nonpartisan way, to elected officials, i think it's a healthy thing that our democracy, the people of the y united states, make choices about who is going to be resolving these kinds of moe mentous questions. in my view, she has the power to make this decision. many other states, the secretary does not. in maine, they do. and i think she's made a strong case that donald trump engaged in insurrection under the 14th amendment and does not belong on the ballot. what the higher courts and the supreme court will do, that's a whole other question. >> that it certainly is. it's quite the parlor game these days, too, as we wait to hear from them. i was struck by this new "washington post" poll out today which finds 46% of americans say