and medicare. >> i respect the speaker's commitment it take social security and medicare off the table for the debt ceiling negotiations. we have to put them on the table in the long-term. >> congressional republicans including the house speaker has taken pains in recent weeks to make clear they don't want to touch those programs. that's after president biden accused them of wanting to gut both programs. jennifer mcclellan defeated leon benjamin in a special election for the fourth congressional district. he will succeed the previous. appreciate your time today. abbi phillip picks up our coverage right now. hello. i'm abbi phillip in washington

thank you for joining us. right now, more than two dozen states and 65 million people are on alert as a powerful winter storm hits coast to coast. conditions are slamming flagstaff, arizona, and this man was barely able to stand as the wind gusts whipped the binding snow around him. in 29 states they are in the path for this storm. the snow warnings stretching to southern california. flakes even possible on los angeles beaches. and in utah, miles and miles of dicey driving. you can see cars stranded as crews worked to clear the roads. in minnesota the national weather service is warning of historic snow possibly the most in decades. meteorologist jennifer gray is standing by for us. but first, cnn's adrian brodas is in minnesota. what's happening where you are there? i see some really ice eye streets behind you.

>> reporter: there's a break right now when it comes to snowfall. the plows have been moving along this stretch of highway behind us. but we saw the first phase of this storm here in minnesota yesterday into this morning. we saw moderate snowfall. right now, there's a break. but the significant portions of the snowfall will pick up later this afternoon into tonight and tomorrow. here's what we can tell you. the governor here has issued some executive orders. for example, he's already mobilized the minnesota national guard so that there is someone stranded, it they need help, those guard members can get to those folks to help them. the wind, i have to talk about that right now wp you see i'm struggling to talk it has picked up, in my opinion, significantly since this morning. the wind is only going to get

worse. that's what is causing those blizzard warnings in some part of the state. so we're going to have strong wind gusts up to 30 to 45 miles per hour along with the snow that's falling. the big message to folks in and around minnesota is to stay home. it you don't have to be out on the streets starks put. some schools have been cancelled. some students are having e-learning. something also to point out is somewhat local. but for the twin cities, the governor of minneapolis -- the mayor of minneapolis as well as the mayor of st. paul opened up parking spaces for those residents. >> i'm told it's about 19 d degrees, but it's the windchill that gets into your bones. i'm going to let you go. and let's get straight over to jennifer gray now, who is about -- who is in the weather

center. who is about to get the worst of this storm and when? >> she's definitely in the bullseye for this. pretty much right where the word blizzard is where we're going to see the toughest conditions. so from south dakota over to portions of minnesota. also this icing is going to be a huge concern moving forward. because that can make roads definitely impossible to drive on. but look at this map. we have warnings of all types. we have blizzard warnings, winter storm warnings, high wind warnings, we could see winds gusting 60 to 70 miles per hour. so this storm is stretching from coast to coast. i think the highest impacts are dwoing to be across south dakota through minneapolis. we'll see heavy snowfall and high winds. that's why those blizzard warnings are in effect. you'll see grblinding condition across those areas. significant ice accumulation, hazardous travel and possible

power outages. and across california, definitely seeing huge impacts from this. so you can see the snow is in progress. it's going to pick up as we go throughout the afternoon hours into the joemp night. you can see the pink. that's icing. this is a live radar. and then snow falling. so here is the preliminary totals. . we have already seen 32 inches of snow across montana. 27 across portions of wyoming. more snow is to come, as mentioned. so here's the radar in progress. very heavy snow throughout the late evening hours. this is all the way there 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. minneapolis is going to be in the mix. and then we start to see the snow push into portions of northern nebrw england. this really will be wrapping up by the time we get into the first half of tomorrow. by lunchtime, we'll see a significant improvement in the forecast. but this is a forecast ice accumulation and can't be ignored because we see major

problems when you talk about ice. especially once we get into half an inch of ice, we will see impossible travel. we could poebl see pour autoages and trees coming down as well. here's the snowfall total. additional snow to comp. could see an additional 8 to 12 inches across minneapolis. so this is far from over. >> stay off the roads. that will do everyone good. thank you to you. president biden is now on his way home after he rap raleighlied support for ukraine nearly a year to the day after russia's invasion. biden began his overseas trip with a surprise visit to kyiv. and ended it by meeting with the leaders of the eastern flank. these are the countryies on russia's doorstep and they fear they could be next.

also putin met with the top chinese diplomat in moscow as they deny it may provide lethal aid. let's start with phil mattingly in war saw. the president just left there. does the white house feel like this is really a mission accomplished for the purposes of this trip? keeping allies together and seconding that signal to vladimir putin. >> for the better part of the last several months, several officials have talked about how important they saw the one year mark as being a kcritical momen for the president to deliver at least some type of remarks that saw the inflection point in the entire western democratic alliance. but also really draw attention about the path ahead, which is certainly going to be grueling. as they talked about the broad outlines of what they wanted, i don't think they could have imagined it would have gone as

well as the last three days did. i say that because there was never a certainty the president would be able to pull off the trip to kyiv. he was standing shoulder to shoulder with volodymyr zelenskyy, one year after most people think he wasn't going to be in office anymore. a day later he was able to drawn to that moment and staid on him as he delivered those remarks about the states making it clear this was not just about one conflict inside europe. this was much bugger than that. today was also really critical moment. sitting down, meeting behind closed doors for more than an hour with these countries for nato. so much of what these three days have been have been dramatic symbolic, trying to lay down the marker for what's next. but this was a meeting and several others over course of the 72 hours behind the scenes about substantive issues about what will be needed going forward scha that is real and complex and that is very difficult. administration officials acknowledge those challenges.

these meetings were critical to lay the groundwork for the steps ahead in the next couple months. and more than anything else, they have moments, but those meetings themselves and what they produce in the weeks and months ahead will perhaps be the best test of the success of this trip. >> we will defend every inch of nato. this important moment, i look forward to the discussion in the next steps to take together and to keep our alliance strong and to further deterred aggression. it's not just ukraine. it's freedom. >> reporter: a final effort to make that point. this isn't just about ukraine or russia or the united states. it's much bigger than that. it's a message he wanted to get across all week. >> i thus if anything, the war

has ul straited how critical the threat is to the countries. thank you for all your reporting over the last few days. now let's get on to moscow. fred pleitgen is there. the president putin met with the top diplomat. what was the point of that m meeting at this juncture in the war in ukraine? >> reporter: i think it underscores just how important china is for russia, especially with all the sanctions that russia is now under from the united states and also europe countries as well. obviously, china has become politically and economically more important over the course of the past year. and now the u.s. believes that china could come more important for russia as well as the u.s. so we have concerns that the chinese might be at least thug about giving weapons aid, lethal aid to the russians for use in ukraine. now the chinese, they haven't

denied that, with us they dismissed it. one of the interesting things we heard today, china's top diplomat when he met with putin, he underscored how good the relations are with moscow and beijing. these are relations that have been built up for a long time. but then you also said that third parties are not to interfere this those relations. that was wide ly seen as a possible swooip at the biden administration after the biden administration had voiced those kshs. for vladimir putin, this meeting was extremely important as well. and i think that's just shown by the fact that the head of state of the russian federation met with the top diplomat of china. putin going to great lengths to show the respect for china. he also is said they are going to welcome the chinese president there. they also long-time friends. and that has been building up for a long time as well.

a lot of of that redirected. but just the amount of chinese products you see here and just scores how important those relations. >> thank you for that. let's continue this conversation. joining us is steve hall a national security analyst and former cia chief of russia operations. thank you for being here as always. i want to start with what vladimir putin said after this meeting with the chinese foreign minister. he said russia and china relations are reaching new milestones. do you have any sense of what he means by that? >> well, china is in a really difficult position. they are walking on a tight rope. they want to be supportive. there's some ideology there as

well. but china understands over the long run and the chinese look at this in the long run, they need to preserve at least their economic relationships with the rest of the world that they want to reach thats a operational goal that they have of being the number one super power. they can't just side completely and absolutely with russia and thot expect there to be significant impact. they are walking this fine line it's a complex relationship between those two countries. it is fascinating to work it out. >> china is at a moment with tensions with the united states. and particular the u.s. is warning the chinese do not provide lethal aid to russia. the u.n. ambassador called this a red line. how do you think beijing navigates that? would they take the risk to try to help russia this this war?

>> they also understand there's pretty much the entirety of the west that is supporting the ukr ukrainians. so it's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance where china would decide on a large scale pay sbasis to throw significant military assistance to the russians. it wouldn't surprise me if the new sanctions we're anticipating directly addresses that. they have to be careful about compromising the long-term goals with short-term answers to russia's request for assistance. >> cnn is reporting that russia tested an icbm missile just in the last few days. and it failed. and at this moment in the conflict in ukraine, what does that tell you about putin's ability from a practical

perspective to expand the war or make good on any threats right now. >> the first is the public m messaging. the russians are good at it. whenever things get tough, we have seen over the past year poout skpn husband mouthpieces will say they will rally the nuclear sauber because we're concern ed about that, as we should be. the nuclear weapons, it's a serious issue. but by the same token, i think everybody now a year after russians tried to invade militarily ukraine and succeed very kbik convictly, they failed to do that largely because of military leadership and ageing technology that they couldn't continue to support their own troops. so the same questions i think now have to extend towards their strategic nuclear capability. although you can never write it off. because it only takes one missile to do sol significant damage. so complicated situation.

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that grand jury wrapped up. even though we saw excerpts from their report, the district attorneys had it for some time. so when you hear there's still debating whether to keep the indictments narrow or more broad, what does that indicate to you about what they are weighing here? >> think that they are actually pursuing this in a careful manner. that's exactly what i would be doing in their shoes. this is the first of its kind indictment of a form er presidet of the united states. there's going to be a lot of attention. there's going to be a lot of litigation over the course of many months. so they are smart to make sure that they are bringing the right charges in the front end. so what they are debating is whether or not to bring the strongest, most narrow charges. things like interference in an election or potentially forgery or some narrow charges versus something very sweeping like a

enterprise where they are suggesting that this was some sort of organized crime scheme. very broad, more difficult to prove, more sweeping and so forth. so i think that's the sort of thing they are debating. they are also weighing do they want to bring charges against more individuals or just pick the individuals for whom they have the strongest charges. so i think that's a healthy debate. it's often the case in the prosecutor's office. >> and that grand jury foreperson, she hinted that there could be about a dozen people. she basically said there were a lot of people listed who could be indicted at a regular grand jury would have to be seat ed fr that. what do you think is a realistic timeline for given how careful you think they ought to be, what this process could take? >> that's a great question. i think march is likely given that the district attorney said

that the indictments would be coming and would be eminent. there would be an eminent indictment in the case. that's what would perceive as likely here. there still has to be evidence that's put into the new grand jury by reading the transcripts from the special grand jury into the new grand jury. so putting that evidence before the grand jury that's going to be considering indictments. but obviously, there's still some decisions to be made so delay is always possible. and i think the foreperson's comments only add more complexity and put more of a burden on the prosecutors because it's another distraction that they have to consider. >> just to that point, former president trump on truth social today already attacks her in some ways for coming out and speaking. does it meaningfully complicate what prosecutors are going to be

able to do and does it perhaps offer a boom to the defense attorneys for some of these people who might face indictment? >> it gives them a hook, it gives them an argument that they didn't otherwise. i see people online looking through law books saying this is probably not going to be sufficient to quash an indictment. it provides a narrative that the defense attorney can introduce at trial but also a narrative this the media. that really were not relative vant to the work of robert mueller, but they generated a lot of distraction and were brought up by president trump and his allies quite a bit and i

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correctly. a cnn investigation found evidence of a push to condemn and execute protesters through forced confessions and sham trials. >> reporter: for the last six weeks, they have been on the run. each night he moves to a different safe house. tortured for 21 days at the hands of the regime. he's terrified they will find him his crime organizing medics to help wounded protesters. but even with his fear of being tracked down, somebody still wants to identify himself. he wants to show the regime they didn't break him. >> translator: is i set up a group of underground medics. we treated around 700 people. the regime was committing war crimes. i promised my friends to fight for them. >> reporter: husband friends have been on the streets

protesting against the clerical regime that has dictated their lives. for his defiance, a medical student wassiced up by iranian security forces and brought to a black site. an interrogation fult outside the rule of law. where many survivors tell cnn forced confessions are extracted through the most brutal of torture methods. they have at times been used in court can to execute protesters for crimes against the state. somebody refused to sign his death warrant. >> why should i do something i have not done. i'm not a terrorist or a murder. i only saved lives. that's it. my teen and i did nothing more. >> like so many other victims that cbs interviewed, somebody was not blindfolded during his detention. based on his testimony, cnn commissioned the following images to take you inside the ordeal that he and so many other

iranian protesters have been subject issed to. >> i was forced into a building hidden by trees. next to the first day they kicked me, i vomited blood. each day the torture got worse. there was a closet in the corner of the room filled with torture tools, electric cattle prods, different cutters, some sirges. they drugged me. they wanted me to stay alive longer to torture me more. the guard started kissing me and licking my neck. they touched mutt genitals. on day 16, i descended into hell. they tied my hands and shackled mutt legs. they wanted to break me, to destroy me. they pulled my trousers down. uh-uh thought they were going to give me an electric shock again. couldn't believe they were going to do this. he took the baton and went

behind me. i was waiting to be beaten up. he kissed my neck and shoved the baton inside me and he said, this is what us soldiers of the revolution do to gay boys like you. i was shocked and didn't know what to do. couldn't even scream. i was dumb struck and just cried in silence. >> i can see the dark circles around your eyes. do you sleep? >> reporter: he believes if he signed the false confession as the guards wanted him too, they would have hanged him for treason. he doesn't know why his torturers released him. he thinks theyed him to die on the streets, a chilling warning to others. based on the detailed eyewitness testimony and cross referencing, cbs has been able to locate the black site where he says he was

tortured. in his hometown these are the trees that hide the unnamed building he was brought into and this is the school where he had children playing in the courtyard. but this is not the only black site. cross referencing testimony from two dozen sources, cnn found dozens of these black sites that can be divided into two sites. undeclared jails inside government facilities such as military bases and intelligence centers, and makeshift jails that typically crop up temporarily near protest sites. this this city, known for its rlks sites, they have been using some mosques as detention centers, according to multiple sources cnn spoke with. this person can be seen in different cities across the country. we found at least six unofficial detention centers. the capital where cnn was also able to locate eight different

pop-up sites. after speaking to dozens of eyewitnesss who were tortured, the barbaric treatment used was not unique. his experience tallies with other eyewitness testimony. in total cnn locate d over thre dozen jails across the country. it paints a picture of a regime meeting ing torture on a scale designed to crush an uprising that's posed a threat to the regime in decades. these are fphotos of just some f the protesters that state hospital physician and his colleagues treated in the city. a major flash point in the crack doup of the uprising. it was an illegal act according to the iranian regime. for that, he, too, was brought to a black site and tortured.

>> the power in and of themselves, they don't follow any kind of human rights. there's no supervision. what kind of supervision do you have to have when people are being raped. they don't have anymore boundaries. they want you to confess so they can prosecute you. >> reporter: he's also now in. >> you had to risk so much just to do your job. >> translator: if i cry, it's not because i fear. it's not because of what i have lost. it's for the cruelty that people in iran are facing. >> reporter: each as evidence of torture points to the desperation of the regime, the young protestsers are equally defiant.

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a asian cayce a that could up end the way we interact with social media. just like yesterday's case, this one is centered on the spread of extremist content brought by the family of someone who was killed in an isis attack. the american reltives of the victim sued twitter saying it violated an antiterrorism law by allowing propaganda to spread. twitter argues that letting a group use its platform doesn't equate with assisting that group. and that the controversial section 230 shields it from liability for that kind of content. cnn's jessica snider is watching this one closely for us as well. so what did we hear in the oral arguments today after yesterday's somewhat spicy content from the justices that they were questioning? >> a lot more technical today. it was a little more subdued than yesterday, but regardless, both of these are big cases that big tech is really warning could up end the internet if it's

found against these internet companies. the case was this broad examination of whether social media companies can be held responsible for terrorist activity, if they allow groups like isis to post and share content on their websites. it was the family of a victim of one particular isis terror awe tack they said the social media companies should be responsible. they should be able to be sued, but social media companies argued to the supreme court, no, they said that this federalen antiterrorism statute was never intended to allow such broad liability. so the debate we saw this morning it was technical over the wording of that antiterrorism statute, but it's really clear that the justices are still struggling and confronting this big cont consequential decision of whether they should be refining the rules that currently govern the internet to allow more people potentially to sue over the content that's posted by third party users on various social media sites.

we saw yesterday the court really seemed hesitant to jump to wipe away one of the current protections that are provided to internet companies. today they did parse over this antiterrorism statute a little more closely rgs but either way, they are still way weighing these arguments if they change the current system, it will lead to this chaos and disarray in the way the internet is run and could lead to a flood of lawsuits. so big stakes for big tech here. >> essential question for both cases. justice kagan raised yesterday, are they the right people to make the calls about the future of the internet. we'll have so much more on this as this continues. thank you for all of that. right now, we turn to the trial of alex murdaugh, who was accused of murdering his son and his wife. the defense today calling murdaugh's former law partner to the stand to testify about the night of the murders. randi kaye is outside of the courtroom in south carolina. so what did this former law

partner reveal in court today? >> reporter: we're talking about testimony from the former law partner and very long-time friend of alex murdaugh. he was called by the defense, but he really seemed to help both the defense and the state in parts of his testimony. first off, he revealed there was some sloppiness to the crime scene investigation, which the defense has been laying the groundwork saying that the investigators for the state did make some mistakes at the scene. he talked about the feed room, which is where the body was found. there were parts of a skull that he discovered still there when he went to take a look at that feed room. he also helped the state by analyzing that 8:44 p.m. video from the night of the murders. he said it was alex murdaugh's voice on the recording take at the time of the murder at the murder scene. alex murdaugh told investigators he was not there at the dog kennels where the recording was

made at the time. s there was also this forensics expert who testified and he analyzed the crime scene data. he also analyzed the trajectory of the bullets. and he came to the conclusion looking at all of that that someone much shorter than alex murdaugh had to be the killer in this case. listen to what he said. >> it puts the shooter, or whoever fured the weapon, if they were that tall, it puts them in an unreal u.s.ic shooting position. >> what opinion do you have if that person could be alex shooting into that pen? >> it can't be. >> that witness said that it had to have someone who was 5'2" to 5'4". alex murdaugh is 6'4", so much taller than that person is suggesting did this. the state wept back at him on cross-examination trying to discredit him and his analysis. >> and do you have any

expectation that alex murdaugh himself will stake take the stand to testify? >> reporter: it is possible. it was discussed with the judge today and all the lawyers on both sides not in the residence of the jury. they wanted to know what the parameters would be. his defense team want to make sure it stay just be questioned about the murders, not about the alleged financial schemes, which the state said is part of the motive as to why he would have killed his wife and son. no decision has been made yet. the judge would not limit it to just discussion about the murders on cross-examination, so it seems as though the defense has not yet decided. >> randi kaye, thank you very much for all of that. still ahead for us, cleanup or pay. the government is now urgently demanding that the company behind the train derailment in ohio fix this mess. othe sore throat lozenges. show your sore throat who's boss.

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