Writing, quote, two of my children, don and eric, plus executives will manage them. N no new deals will be done during my time in office. Ill hold a press conference in the near future. Busy times, he wrote. Trump posted these tweet after he canceled his december 15th press conference to lay out his plan for separating himself from the biz ties. Heres Kellyanne Conway confirming it. We expect a minor delay owing to the fact there are holidays between now and the end of the year as well, sensitive to that. The same questions that will be asked will be delayed a few weeks. What it does is make more clear how convoluted and complex many of these Business Holdings are. Trump has officially chosen his secretary of state, exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson has been named for the coveted position. Overnight, mitt romney, the other leading contender for the job, posting this statement on facebook, saying it was an honor to have been considered for secretary of state. My discussions with president elect trump have been enjoyable and enlightening. Rick perry is expected to top to lead the department of energy. In the irony of all ironies, he could not remember the department of enemy in a 2011 gop president ial debate when he was asked which one of three agencies he wanted to eliminate. That as gar cohn has been chosen to serve on his economic council. This how the administration looks like just 38 days before inauguration with the heads of the v. A. , interior, and agricultural departments still vacant. This morning, new comments on president obamas planned investigation into russias alleged interference in the election. Heres what he told trevor noah. The reason i have called for a review is really just to gather all the threads of the investigations, the intelligence work that has been done over many months so that the public and our elected representatives Going Forward can find ways to prevent this kind of interference from having an impact on the elections in the future. Meanwhile, trump remains skeptical of the Intelligence Communitys assessment of the issue, even as congressional eye a thorough probe. Andrea mitchell has more. Reporter the fallout growing after that unprecedented attack by the president elect against the cia. Questioning its conclusion that it was russia that hacked the dnc and Clinton Campaign chairman John Podestas emails. They have no idea if its russia or china or somebody. It could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. They have no idea. Now a bipartisan call for congressional investigations into what the intelligence agencies say russia did and why. Republican leaders pointedly backing the cia over the president elect. I have the highest kconfidene in the Intelligence Community. President obamas spokesman for the first tile since the election sharply criticizing trump. You dont need a security clearance to figure out who benefitted from malicious russian cyber activity. No unanimous conclusion about russias motive. John mccain saying he did not think russia was trying to help trump. I do not. Thats the reason we need a full investigation. But i have seen no evidence of that. Also, trump escicating his war with the cia, dismissing the agencys crown jewels, the president ial daily brief. I dont have to be told im like a smart person. I dont have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years. Could be eight years, but eight years. I dont need that. All of it shocking intelligence veterans. In 48 hours, he said the Intelligence Community on which he will rely, is incompetent, politicized, and frankly, he didnt have a lot of time for them. How solid is the proof russia was behind the hacking . The cia says it has high confidence, an intelligence term meaning you can take it to the bank. That convinces me that there is very strong, beyond circumstantial evidence, to justify the claim that the russians were doing something in our election. Turning to other news now, the manhunt for a suspect in the shooting of two Georgia Police officers ended late last night. The suspected shooter is now in custody. Authorities say gordon shot one officer in the hand, the other in the shoulder after they pulled him over in a traffic stop outside of a restaurant yesterday. Gordon then fled the scene on foot. Hes facing two counts of attempted murder along with other charges. Officials say the officers injuries are nonlife threatening and theyre receiving treatment. A bomb scare has set off an investigation for a flight heading from houston, texas, to frankfurt, germany. It had to make an meerjs stop in new york. Some 533 passengers and crew members had to be evacuated from that flight. The Port Authority spokesperson said the plane was taken to a remote area where it was searched. However, nothing suspicious was found. Sdploo new orleans is mourning the loss of a former football star, joe mcknight. Hundreds of loved ones attended his funeral service. Five of his former teammates acted as pallbearers. The 28yearold was fatally shot in a road rage incident on december 1st. The other driver in the instant was arrested and charged with manslaughter in connection to mcknights death. A giant sinkhole has closed a popular california beach. It opened up on the side of a cliff over the weekend, cutting off the access path to pacifica beach south of San Francisco. It may have been caused by king tides, which bring some of the biggest waves of the year onto shore. Forecasters say the king tides may peak today or wednesday. A new winter storm is getting ready to bear down on 12 states or more across the united states. In fact, multiple states are already hard hit by massive amounts of snow. The icy conditions also causing havoc on the road where a series of pileups in flint, michigan, have left a dozen people injured. December 2015, the amount of snow in new england was minimal. This year, a near whiteout. Also much colder. New york has had three days with below average temperatures so far this december alone. Minneapolis, six. Chicago, seven. And next up, a plunge into the deep freezer for 28 million americans. Temperatures 10 to 30 degrees below normal, believe it or not. Meteorologist bill karins is here with more on the dangerous weather ahead. Bill. Were going to get the cold, and then were going to have a storm moving to the west thats going to move across the country. A onetwo punch. Already, the windchills are brutdal in the northern plains. Negative 25 in fargo and negative 25 in international falls. Thats the stuff well deal with in the next couple days. In the est, the tropical connection, sometimes we call it the pineapple express, blowing the moisture from hawaii toward california. You can see the clouds are going to start to move in, and this storm system will move in later on today, be with us tonight, all day into wepz, and even into thursday. This is a heavy rain. There are flood watches in orfect for areas of nthern ek, flood watches are up. Once the moisture gets into the rockies, thats when well deal with snow. So this storm is going to cause a law of problems, especially once it gets into the middle of the country when it hits the cold air. 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Phene beautiful at 74. Los angeles looking good, and rainfall in San Francisco will be later on today. Do not forget your umbrellas. Thank you, bill karins. After 2 1 2 years, merely 8 million, and a president ial election later, the special congressional Benghazi Investigation Committee has officially shut down. The Committee Published its final report back in june but remained active until december 7th when its chairman trey gowdy disbanded it. That comes as the state of wisconsin completes its president ial recount. Widening trumps lead by 131 votes. This as a judge denied jill steins pennsylvania recount request. Chaka fattah was sentenced to ten years in philadelphia. He served 22 years before losing his democratic primary and being convicted on a number of federal corruption charges in june. The Justice Department wanted fattah incarcerated for 17 to 21 years. Meanwhile, disgraced illinois congressman aaron schock whose Downton Abbey inspired office has pleaded not guilty to his own charges. He was indicted on 22 counts, including wire fraud and theft of government funds. The future first lady was in court yesterday. Melania trump attended a legal hearing for her defamation lawsuit. She claimed an american blogger in the daily mail falsely asserted it was known she used to work as a highend escort. Shes seeking a minimal of 75,000 for each defendant. She was not required to appear in court for the hearing, but trumps lawyer said she wanted to show her commitment to the case. Theres nothing like an act of kindness to remind us what the holidays are all about. In fact, this video youre about to see exemplifies that. This video posted on youtube shows a teen of best buy employees from long island, new york, surprising a teenage boy who couldnt believe his luck. On behalf of all of us here at best buy, we got you a wiiu so you dont have to come here every day to play. Now, heres the heartwarming part. The staff, they spotted the boy coming in to play with the wiiu pretty much every day at best buy, spending sometimes three hours at the store, so thats when the group decided to chip in and present him with this 300 early christmas gift. It was a very nice, heartwarming story you see there, reminding us what the holidays are about. Thanks for watching early today. Have a great making it official. Today, the president elect will nominate an Oil Executive as us secretary of state. Making it official. Today the president elect will nominate an oil exec as u. S. Secretary of state. The atf is expected to reveal the cause of the deadly fire in oakland. Perhaps good news for oakland as the city and county get close to ponying up more than a billion dollars to keep the raisers at home. Today in the bay starts right now. Good Tuesday Morning and thanks for joining us. Im Chris Sanchez in for laura garciacannon. Well talk raiders, also a little radar. Its firing up. I like that. Well have light rain today, no