is cnn breaking news. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight. we do have breaking news, the supreme court making a major ruling tonight one that many across the united states were waiting anxiously to hear the court ruling just hours before a midnight deadline. right? so we re on a friday night here. seven o clock eastern, just this ruling coming out their ruling that are widely used abortion drug. kristen will remain available for now. okay so here s the crucial context here. it was just two weeks ago that a trump appointed federal judge suspended the medications approval by the fda. so an appeals court then decided to impose restrictions on the drug that included blocking mail delivery requiring a doctor visit to get it determining what point during a pregnancy. the drug could be used all of this. so it goes to the supreme court, which is now weighed in which is stopping those lower court rulings from taking place. now here s the key, at least until the appeals pr
georgia bulldogs edges out ohio state here in atlanta. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this holiday. happy new year. we begin tonight with a major development in the idaho murder investigation. for the first time we re hearing from the parents the suspect in the case, bryan kohberger. he s facing four counts of first-degree murder. jean casarez is in pennsylvania where kohberger remains in isolation at the correctional facility. what are the parents saying? well, pamela, they have released a statement and i want to read this to you. the attorney for bryan kohberger, jason labar, tells me that when he was arrested friday morning and the family is telling him about 3:00 in the morning, but brian labar tells me what happened was they wept to the front door and that bryan s father actually answered the door. it was law enforcement. we know it was the fbi. we know it was pennsylvania state police. it was in the middle of the night. we al
night mare. almost feels like it s impossible to buy a home. o donnell: hurricane fiona continues to wreak havoc now heading towards bermuda. and there s concern tonight about another storm that could hit the gulf of mexico next week. and eye on america, cbs s general cbs s jonathan viglios on a natural resource helping an idaho mining town come back to life. duncan: good evening and thank you so much for joining us on this busy thursday night. i m jericka duncan in for norah. tonight, the federal investigation into the top secret documents seized from donald trump s florida home has resumed. the eleventh circuit court of appeals ruled in favor of the justice department and criticized the former president s argument the documents had been declassified. but in his first interview since the f.b.i. search, the former president doubled down on that claim saying just by thinking about it, he could declassify documents. tonight the wife of sct justice clarence thomas ginny
not simply a democracy at. we re but something that could actually destroy american democracy, another hour of velshi begins right now. hi begins right now. good morning, it is sunday january the 8th. i am ellen kevin mccarthy s new election as the speaker of the house, it was a historic one if not exactly for the best reasons. the first time for a speakership was divot sided on a multiple, ballots are where occurrence in the scope of all american history. mccarthy s bid this year was only the 15th time that has happened, it was 15 ballots but it was only the 15th time that it is happened. there were only four other instances when the volker shut went on for longer, all of which were in the 1800s, which was an era in which political parties were influx and factions were ideologically split over the issue of slavery. take the 16th congress as an example. henry clay was initially elected as the speaker at the start of the term and 1819 but, he opted to step down in the midd
david scott. effries. so here s the thing you can see the tally chart on the right-hand side. we are making sure everybody has voted. we believe the magic number is 217. as you see right there kevin mccarthy has 216. when they start another roll call we will go back to that immediately but in the meantime let s bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. that s right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because you have the tellers, the tally clerks in front of the chamber they are going through manually and comparing notes and making sure that everybody has the same numbers. let me do a deep dive right now. so this is where we stand. okay. so remember that the speaker must win an outright majority of all members casting ballots for somebody by their last name. okay? so the present votes do not count. the present votes do not count. so if you laura: chad can we pause? because i think we have matt g