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top of the hour. i m jim sciutto. in short, it is cold. the powerful winter storm battering the u.s., expected to grow even stronger and colder today, covering nearly half of the u.s. population. parts of the country could see the coldest christmas in decades. sub-zero temperatures hitting hard out west. here is the owner of a local towing company in montana speaking with cnn this morning. it is cold up here. if you ain t prepared for it, it could be really bad. i ve been here 20 years and this is the worst i ve ever felt. wow, tough time to be a towing company. right now hundreds of thousands of people are without power. that is tough in the cold. many of them in the southeast. travel plans upended for many going to the holiday weekend. more than 3500 flights canceled already today and counting. here is the transportation secretary pete buttigieg. lots of things are so important to us around the holidays. our traditions, our loved ones. but of course, the most im ....
they have four shelters opening this morning at this hour here. they can hold about 4,000 people. but the evacuation order right now under way for zone a is about 40,000 people. so they re hoping that they will use those shelters as a last resort and go find family or friends on the east coast of florida or just get out of town. i spoke with the spokesperson for the emergency operations center here in punta gorda and he told me that their motto is hide from wind and run from water. he said a wall of water is not your friend. so you don t want to stick around here in punta gorda. certainly the north of here as you know, there is a lot of concern and the tampa area, the st. peterburg mayor certainly has been voicing his concern saying this could be the storm that they never hoped would come to their shores. and, of course, the director of the national hurricane center saying that this could be the storm of a lifetime and the near worst case scenario for tampa bay and that ....
first glimpse. with regard to the responding officers, as you mentioned, this deepens the question about the total police response and why they did not act sooner to try to take down the gunman. according to investigators and other people who have looked at this photograph, they are baffled as to why police did not act sooner, knowing that they had in their minds, in the minds of people who have reviewed this evidence, that they had not only the sufficient equipment but sufficient firepower to try to breach that classroom door. because it wasn t a pistol of theirs versus an ar-15-style rifle of his, right? they were matching him on firepower. well, brianna, that s actually a very good point. initially i think the public, to some extent, was led to believe that those early responding officers and while it may be true for the earliest responding officers, but i think the public was led to believe that officers and those early minutes only had pistols, as a matter of f ....
another prisoner swap? then, the same kind of technology used for the best covid vaccines, mrna, is showing promise in treating other conditions, including some cancers. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead. prices are up and the stock market is down. president biden is trying to put a positive spin on the economy, today insisting that tackling the worst inflation the u.s. has seen in decades remains a top priority. during a speech in front of the afl-cio in philadelphia, the president touted his administration s coronavirus relief efforts, record new job creation, and low unemployment levels. sure, but that s likely little consolation to the millions of americans paying record prices for everything from food to gasoline. especially as many economists predict the federal reserve will drastically hike interest rates tomorrow to try to get control of the inflation. president biden will try to address one of those crises, gas prices, now ....
new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, it is monday, june 13th. a man on the inside set to testify in this morning s second january 6th hearing in a surprise move by the committee. donald trump s 2020 campaign manager bill stepien will appear under subpoena to it s a question just how much of a cooperative witness he will be. what does stepien know and what is he willing to tell the committee and the country on live television? the focus today the committee s case that trump s lies about election fraud helped fuel the mob that attacked the capitol. the committee says that trump knew the allegations were bogus. joining me now ellie honing cnn senior legal analyst and a former federal and state prosecut prosecutor. when we saw this witness list come out one name jumped off, bill stepien trump s former campaign manager. what could he testify to? here is the thing, we don t know. this is going to be a surpris ....