Mitchell reports, House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Also this hour, i will speak to dr. Zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid19 in the u. S. And we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to Pope Emeritus Benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursdays funeral mass. Good day, im andrea in mitchell. Happy new year, everyone. Well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, Kevin Mccarthy has to win over the hard line House Conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Tomorrow the new Congress Returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. But at this hour no one knows how long its going to take for republicans to secure the Majority Vote needed to appoint a le
mitchell reports, house republican leader kevin mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. also this hour, i will speak to dr. zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid-19 in the u.s. and we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to pope emeritus benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursday s funeral mass. good day, i m andrea in mitchell. happy new year, everyone. well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, kevin mccarthy has to win over the hard line house conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. tomorrow the new congress returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. but at this hour no one knows how long it s going to take for republicans to secure the majority vote
military targets. that s the difference, andrea, between the russians and the ukrainians. ukrainians are attacking military targets. this was clearly a military target. it was a big ammo dump that the russians mistakenly put their troops right next to. so that was a blunder. another blunder by the ukrainians. the russians on the other hand attack civilians targets, unarmed civilian targets, my friend that i was talking to last night, she could hear in the middle of the night weapons exploding, ammunition exploding, bombs exploding near her home in the middle of last night. so the that s what that s what the russians are attacking, they re attacking unarmed civilian targets. vladimir putin said in a very he had a very tough new year s message to his people, but last week he said that he was willing to negotiate. how does one read vladimir putin? is this all bluster? it is bluster. he says that he s willing to
andrea. thanks very much. charles, as we mentioned, the probable cause affidavit is still sealed. what are you going to be looking for when we eventually see it? when that affidavit is eventually unsealed, andrea, it is going to contain enough details so the public will understand how it is investigators were led to the arrest of this individual. it is going to give us enough information around the investigation, although not all the information. basically, enough to establish that more likely than not, a crime was committed, and the individual who is being arrested is responsible for that actual crime. so there will be some details that have emerged. some of them we may have heard before around the presence of his vehicle in this vicinity of where the crime took place and other details that have come out through investigative reporting in the press, but i think there will be some more meat that s put on the bones around how law enforcement and police were actually led to identify
when their father dies. andrea, the funeral will be thursday, 9:30 a.m. we will see pope francis preside over that. expectation for crowds, this fits 100,000. roman officials are saying 70,000 to 80,000. we ll have to see. molly hunter, thank you so much. growing tributes to barbara walters today. her career beginning on nbc in 1961, where she blazed a trail for generations of women journalists, including myself. of course, breaking down doors closed to women as the first female reporter and producer on the today show. eventually becoming the show s first woman co-host. in 1974, barbara jumped to abc as the first woman co-anchor of the evening news. despite hostility and enduring hostility from her co-anchor, for more five decades, barbara hosted annual oscar specials, scored incredible exclusives. 20 years ago, she created and