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throughout the programme. it's tuesday, the 9th of january. our main story. two formerjustice secretaries — one conservative, the other labour — are leading calls for the government to introduce legislation to quash the convictions of those caught up in the post office it scandal. the postal affairs minister, kevin hollinrake, said various options were being looked at to speed up appeals and compensate the victims. he said more talks would be held today and he hoped to announced a solution very shortly. here's our political correspondent, peter saull. i'm the sub—postmaster, so...

i'm victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. >> we're hours away from president biden's state of the union address tonight, his first to a divided congress. instead of nancy pelosi over the president's left shoulder, it will be speaker kevin mccarthy. the speech is expected to draw the largest television audience for the president this year. americans will hear biden lay out why he believes the state of the union is strong as he said last week. >> he's expected to talk about lowering inflation, improving infrastructure and getting past the worst of the pandemic. he's also expected ...

i had my first cancer diagnosed about six or seven years ago. that waiting time is very, very hard. i don't think until you have been through it, you can actually understand it. despite the walk out, some hospitals are able to continue with some routine operations, but it is a mixed picture. the full impact on cancellations will not be known for a few days. one thing we're seeing that is different from other strike days is that demand for care has been sustained. in previous strike days, we saw that drop. it means the nhs is trying to keep things going, it was already overstretched, ...

rocket attacks in 24 hours as the military steps up its assault in ukraine. our reporters are here to cover all of the latest developments and we start there. nbc's richard engel is in dnipro, ukraine, this latest barrage of missiles, give us the latest we know about what's happening on the ground there. >> reporter: so ukrainians are shrugging it off. they so far say that the russian offensive, which was launched about two weeks ago, is not shaping up to be as devastating as province, the head of ukrainian intelligence earlier today said the russian offensive appears to be of such l...

administration take to avert this looming catastrophe? former border patrol chief rodney scott and congresswoman claudia tenney joins us ahead. >> i believe it's about minus 13 out. i'm doing ok, the sun is out, feels great. >> you are supposed to be used to it, but not this, it's frigid. >> it's not worth it. stay home with the family. >> went to the grocery store so we won't have to come out. we'll be stuck in the house looking at the snow. >> john: if folks in chicago tell you it's real cold, it's real cold. at least five people have been killed by the once in a generation storm t...