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Happening now, breaking news, a new batch of transcripts was just released by the January 6th

Select Committee.

We're going through the interviews by key witnesses, so standby for those details.

Also tonight, nearly half the US population

under a wind chill alert as a once in a generation winter storm

unleashes blizzard conditions, freezing rain, and record cold, and it is causing havoc for holiday

travelers with thousands of flights cancelled.

And after his historic address to the U.S. Congress, President Vladimir Zelensky telling Ukrainians he's

returning with good results. CNN is in Ukraine following the impact of

Zelensky's trip and the ongoing assault by Russian forces.

Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.

Wolklitzer is off today.

I'm Brianna Keeler and you're in the situation room. This is CNN breaking news.

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