In joint session of the senate and the house of representatives to officially count the Electoral College ballots and certify Donald Trumps victory. We will keep you updated this n this peaceful transfer of power. Those boxes that you are seeing right now, those are the electoral votes. Theyre being brought in to the floor of the house of representatives. Right now theyre going through a brief ceremonial procedure, and then it will be official. The Vice President there you see him in the middle of your screen, joe biden, he is presiding reported today that will make donald trump the next president of the United States. It certainly will. The Vice President also is the president of the senate with paul ryan speaking in the house. The process that gets together, and how it all works. The Vice President will opal fa b alphabetically. He will go one state at a time. Representing the house and the senate. They will read the totals, and the Vice President will ask if there are any objections
the mayor of broward county, barbara shariff, we will stay in close touch with you, mayor. thank you for that update. oh, you re very welcome. good will you can to all the folks in broward county in southern south florida. our aviation correspondent renee marsh is with us right now. renee, for our viewers here in the united states and around the world, update us on what we know at this point. a very disturbing incident, a shooting incident at fort lauderdale hollywood international airport. that s right, wolf. you can see lots of activity there. all of those folks that you see had to be evacuated as a result of this shooting at the fort lauderdale international airport. hard reporting right now as
some backup in terms of our passengers, on being able to move through the terminals as well as traffic around the area. at this time we are still investigating. we have activated our airport emergency operation center, and we are working to get as much information to the public as possible. mayor shariff, is it over as far as you know? you say it s an active investigation. clearly the investigation is only just beginning right now, but as far as you know, there s one shooter who is now in custody. was he the sole shooter and presumably everything is at least calm right now? yes. at this point in time that s correct. he was a lone shooter, and we have no evidence at this time that he was acting with anyone else. he is in custody, and we are currently investigating. he himself when he was taken into custody, he was not shoot himself or anything like that.