Hacking the dnc and john podesta. As Vladimir Putin declares himself and his armed forces the strongest on earth. Plus, another ecig. Caught on camera. Hazards you should potentially worry about even if you do not smoke. Good afternoon, welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Three days since the devastating terror attack rocked berlin. There is still no trace of 24yearold ahnis amri, the man Officials Say drove a tractortrailer through a crowd in a Christmas Market in the heart of germanys capital. 12 people were killed and 48 wounded including two americans. Amri was known to u. S. Intelligence officials and had been placed on a nofly list in this country. German Security Services knew amri had spoken several times about carrying out an attack and at one point had been under government surveillance. Do the German Authorities have any leads on his whereabouts at this point, erin . Reporter its unclear at this hour. German authorities being very careful about what information they share w
Americans . Im going to ask the new York City Police departments Deputy Commissioner of counterterrorism in just a moment. I want to begin with breaking news out of North Carolina right now. The state legislature during a special session failing tonight to repeal that controversial bathroom bill. I want to get to cnns nick valencia. He joins us from raleigh. Nick, good evening to you. Tell us what happened. Reporter a lot happened, at the same time, not very much. There was political an particulars on both sides of the aisle, democrats and republicans. Ultimately it was a core group of House Republicans that were unwilling to change their support for hb2, unwilling to repeal the controversial house bill known as the bathroom bill. Earlier this morning there was no shortage of drama, don. It started this morning with jeff collins, a representative of the Republican Party saying todays special session was unconstitutional, saying there was no extraordinary reason for the special session
Charlie . Reporter heres about we know. The nypb and joint Terrorism Task force will be fork cussing on high focusing on high, impact tarrings like right here, columbus circle, times time squ. The city is on terror alert and someone who reported on 9 11 and the after math, there is no better, better Law Enforcement unit than the nypd and fbi task force. That the warted a lot of attack inside the past. You can see a lot of copped around the circle and all over times square and new yorkers are known to to watch out what is going around you, if you see something, report it. But if youll feel safer anywhere, i feel safe in new york city. They are on red alert and worry about a terrorist attack happening here in new york during this holiday season. Like i said, theyre out in force. Back to you. One of the things noticed these guys are brandishing machine guns and making it clear who the are and what theyre trying to stop. Reporter yeah. If you the task force is a paramilitary force. Lets th
Members of the vikings going up against the packers this morning posted videos as they were removed from the jet in a fire basket. One writing, cross this one off the bucket list. Fortunately no injuries were reported. How will the weather impact your Holiday Travel . Lets go to bonnie. Good morning. Unfortunately we have a storm brewing. On time for christmas, watching for plenty of rain through las vegas and arizona at this hour. Its the beginning of a storm ramping up with strong winds in southern california. A lot of rain in san diego and los angeles this morning, and the heavy snow building in the sierra. As the low works north and west, this is going to produce a blizzard. Were look agent blinding conditions with snow and wind for rapid city, bringing us cold air. Changing conditions for minneapolis. Freezing change over to rain. Treacherous travel for northern minnesota. Theres also severe storms were watching in the center of the country. With snow south north and west, well be
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