big ben strikes midnight. it s europe s biggest fireworks display and as the countdown began, more than 100,000 people watched along the river thames as the london skyline lit up and the sounds of big ben chimed. you can actually smell the gunpowder the air, you can smell it. it is fireworks night here. big ben, the chimes have rung and we are now officially in 202a. the best show on earth. amazing, indescribable, no words. so worth it, i am loving it so much. this is my first time for london, coming here and seeing this. i i love it, it is so good. this year s theme is unity, a message played from the king. 0ur society is woven from diverse threads. and the london mayor, who thanked those working in the nhs, the police and the fire service. he said the event took months to organise. we have planned this sincejuly. there is a team of 75 who have been working over the last four days. one of our strengths as a city and country is our diversity. we will be celebrating our dive
tonight, but also getting to nikki haley. i saw your coverage of nikki haley in the last hour. just a little before you started that. in new hampshire tonight. she was asked a pretty simple question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer that did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour, and explain why she gave that answer. lawrence, i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77-year-old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he dn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world, and while he
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
along with jessica tarlov, charlie hurt, and jimmy failla, it s 5:00 p.m. in new york city and this is the five. give us your poor, your tired, and your federal money. at the leaders of three sanctuary cities are begging president biden to shower them with some cold hard tax paying funded cash as they wind their hearts out over the big texas governor busting illegals to their doorsteps. you cannot continue to do the federal governments job. they must take the lead and lead on the humanitarian crisis instead of leaving it for the states. we need the federal government to lean in and provide more federal assistance. all of the cities have reached a point where we are either close to capacity or merely out of room. we need more federal support to manage this amount of inflow that will cross city budgets around the country as we know looking at about $160 million in potential costs going into next year s budget. almost 10% of our entire city budget. you know what the de
attacking red sea shipping in november. navy helicopters returning fire on gunships those boats destroyed at least 10 houthis fighters they were attacking american forces intervened a good evening i am christina kallman emperor jon scott this new year s eve. this is a special edition of a fox report. more on the red sea attack at a moment. first security in times square. the crossroads of the world as a crowd that could reach 1 million prepares to ring in the new year. recent fireworks flew over the iconic acropolis as greeks rang out the old, sydney, a story was one of the first major international cities to mark 2024. celebrating with a 12 minute firework display over the city s iconic upper house. and right now the clock is striking midnight in rome. fireworks flying over the city as a sc italians ring in the new year. back in new york times square as the revelers get ready to party. the excitement and crowd continued to grow as we are less then six hours ringing in the