Hey, from CNN, I'm Josh and Shana with the five things you need to know for Monday,

December 29th.

President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Vlodemiz Lensky have wrapped up their meeting

on peace talks at Moralago and Florida.

Both sides are citing some progress in securing a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia,

though neither leader announced

any major breakthrough. Here's what Zelensky said after the talks.

We have great achievements, 20-point peace plan, 90% agreed, and U.S.-Ukraine security guarantees

100% agreed. U.S.-Europe, Ukraine's security guarantees almost agreed. Military dimension, 100% agreed. Prosperity plan being finalized.

But despite the optimism, Trump says there remains, quote, one or two very thorny issues.

Here's CNN's Kevin Liptack.

One was, of course, the idea of land concessions, and that remains an issue for the two sides to continue talking about.

President Trump even said that he was willing to go to Ukraine and speak to that country's parliament if he thought that it would get that particular issue over the finish line.

The other issue is the Zaporizia nuclear power plant currently occupied by Russia.

And what President Trump said is that was a topic of some lengthy discussion in a phone

call that he held earlier on Sunday with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

A winter blizzard is causing travel disruptions for millions.

I'll tell you more after this.

A powerful winter storm is bringing a mix of blizzard conditions, thunderstorms and tornadoes to large parts of the U.S.

More than 30 million people are under winter weather alerts from the Midwest into the northeast.

In the upper Midwest, blizzard warnings

cover parts of Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, where wind gusts of 40 to 60 miles per hour

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