major protests happening right now in france and a final decision on french president macron s pension reform plan is expected tomorrow live in paris, with the latest breaking overnight an appeals court rules an abortion pill will remain available, but adds new restrictions on who can get them and how it is being described as a one in 1000 year event. catastrophic flash flooding drenching parts of florida some areas recording an estimated 20 plus inches of rain. it s closed and international airport, the broward county mayor says it s the most severe flooding he s ever seen. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. to cnn news, central. happening right now. in france. what you see right here. protesters setting fire to dumpsters in the city of ren, and we want to show you what s also been happening in paris demonstrators storming the headquarters of louisville thanh all leading up to one critical moment. a final decision on whethe
day goes on, and it gets closer to the night time, so we ll have to watch that very closely. kate. so this morning a flash flood emergency in south florida officials are calling it a one in 1000 years or greater rain event homes surrounded by water . this was the scene just moments ago in broward county, a man in a kayak. he appears to be checking on neighbors there in fort lauderdale and active emergency declaration is in effect car after car submerged after rain totals, usually seeing during a high end hurricane fell in just a matter of hours. the mayor calls this the most severe flooding he s ever seen. look at that, just in the downtown helicopter camera crew captured this stranded driver as he had to swim to safety. as of now, the airport remains closed flooded rain. total estimates are topping 20 inches. that would be more rain in one day than the area has seen combined since november. 1st cnn s carlos suarez is in the middle of it. all right now,
the gunman identified as a 22-year-old turkish police officer. with the rise of isis and in syria, we will see attacks like this all throughout the world. this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. good morning. welcome to new day. tuesday, december 20th. 6:00 in the east. we have breaking developments on the attacks in europe and middle east. officials in berlin tell cnn the suspect accused of deliberately driving through a crowd at a christmas market is a recent refugee from the afghanistan/pakistan region. 12 people were killed. dozens more injured. another attack early monday in turkey. a gunman shooting and killing the russian ambassador to turkey invoking the horrors of the crisis in syria. in the past 48 hours, there have been attacks in switzerland and yemen. leaders promising strength in the battle to end terrorism. the question is how? we have question starting with
sources telling cnn the individual who drove the truck into the german christmas market was a refugee from the pakist pakistan/afghanistan border area. he arrived in germany a year ago in 2015 after traveling through the balkins. this is cnn reporting this is a refugee from the afghanistan/pakistan region. that starts to fill out more of the picture of the horrific vehicle investigation. we have more next.
i watched her battle through the bogus e-mail deal. she fought through that. she fought through everything. she prevailed against it all. you know, we had the russians and fbi deal which she could not prevail against that. she did everything else and still won by 2.8 million votes. reporter: trump tweeted about the victory saying he won despite the inaccurate media showing he will likely continue the attacks on press after the oath of office. thank you, jim. let s talk trump. the transition and all things political with cnn managing editor zach wolf joining us from washington, d.c. thank you for getting up early for us and here in new york political analyst ellis henican. henican. it s all right. it s too early. good morning. so zach first to you.