The family of travis king is speaking out. The american soldier who ran across the dmz into north korea and still being detained there. His family is pushing back on statements that he defected to the north korean army. This is cnn news central. Keep your eyes on this courthouse in washington d. C. Today. It now becomes the center of the legal and political universe really in some sense hours from now, donald trump will come here and once he steps inside, he will again be under arrest. Under arrest for the third time in four months as he faces a new round of criminal charges. At this courthouse, donald trump is expected to be fingerprinted. Not expected to have a mug shot taken, he is to face a Magistrate Judge and all indications hell plead not guilty to all four counts. New details on how his lawyers plan to defend him coming in, planning to argue the lies about the 2020 election are protected speech under the First Amendment and theyre trying to prove that trump new the claims. But
Next week hi everyone, thanks for joining me. Im omar jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We got a lot to get to today. Were going to start with Breaking News. The us has begun airdropping desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza gaza three c130 hercules cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles today, they included mainly food, but no water or medical supplies President Biden pledged the aid friday at the white house paid flowing to gaza is nowhere nearly enough. Now its nowhere nearly enough and its allies are on the line and childrens lives are on the line, and we wont stand by and but until we get more aid in, i wont stand why we wont let up and were not going to pull out pull out every stop we can get more assistance cnns Priscilla Alvarez is in washington and Paula Hancocks is in abu dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, which has also been airdropping aid into gaza. But i wanna start with you, priscilla, what more are we learning about this . A drop in how it came together .
a not so perfect phone call, former president trump recorded pressuring michigan canvassers to not certify the vote in 2020. what he said and the new details according to the detroit news, just moments from now, we ll get to that. and new video from the southern border of the united states, a mother and her crying child struggling to cross the rio grande river, the texas national guard this morning is denying claims that it ignored her calls for help. and the peak holiday travel rush is under way. i don t have to tell you, millions of americans hitting the road for the holidays, and the airports, what you must know to save yourself. i m sara sidner run. as fast as you can. with kate bolduan, john berman, hopefully loving life right now, this is cnn news central. we begin with this, new reporting have surfaced of former president donald trump pressuring election workers, this time in michigan, a swing state, as you know, in his bid to overturn legitimate results
now, in one legal fight he s facing just as he could soon be asking the high court to jump in and please intervene in another. and new u.s. intel on hamas growing influence. american officials warning the terror group is more popular since the horrific and brutal attack on israel. the holiday travel season is in full swing. today is expected to be the busiest day at the airports in this crazy holiday travel period. it s also officially the first day of winter. welcome. a look at the potential of storm cloud ahead for your travel plans. i m kate bolduan with omar jim jimenez. sara and john are off today. this is cnn news central. there s a new star taking the spotlight of the 2024 presidential election, no not a candidate but the supreme court. the justices could take up several cases that could decide the fate of republican front runner donald trump including if trump is even eligible for the white house. trump s team is expected to file an appeal with the high court
three of them. let s go first to cnn s josh campbell has been covering the story. josh, thank you for being here. walk us through what we just saw on that video. yeah, so please hold press conference earlier today and the chief described this mass shooting as an assault on his community after this 18 year old just opened fired on this neighborhood indiscriminately. they walked us through the timeline, it started when 79-year-old surely was driving through the neighborhood, the suspect opens fire out of nowhere. she falls out of her vehicle, police say the two other elderly women were driving by, they stopped direct and aid. they were fatally shot. he continues on this, rampage and i warn our viewers that what you re about to see is disturbing. we see please gathering together, forming what is called a contact team. they see the shooter, they are tracking him, this is a moment that they openly take him down. watch. get back inside. let s see your hands. [bleep] [sound of