good evening welcome to washington, i m mike emanuel in for bret baier. border crossings set another record. officials report the highest monthly total ever recorded for december. with the new year comes new laws. we ll tell you where minimum wage is up and which states are implementing new gun restrictions and bret baier looks at the reece of internet use and how they re impacting the electric grid. but, first, breaking tonight, president joe biden says his favorite memory of the year is bringing jobs back to the u.s. he also says the country s in a better position to lead the world than any other nation. the president s new year s message comes amid a year of low approval numbers criticism of the us handling of the war in israel and the crisis at our southern border. the first family s scheduled to return to, wa ton tomorrow after a week-long caribbean vacation. lucas tomlinson is traveling with the president and reports from st. croix. good evening, lucas. mike, the wh
hurricane. meantime, hundreds of thousands of people now without power in canada, as fiona makes landfall there. this powerful storm is not letting up after you may recall it left a wave of destruction in puerto rico. we re going to have the latest on that storm s track. and it sounds like something out of a sci-fi thriller. nasa gets ready to slam a refri refrigerator-size spacecraft into an asteroid. we ll tell you why and give you the latest details on this fascinating mission. it is finally here. the weekend. thank you so much for sharing part of it with us. saturday, september 24th. great to be with you, amara. great to be with you. and yes, everyone, thank you so much for waking up with us. we ve got a lot of news to get to. and a lot of storm coverage. two major storms to talk about this morning. first, hurricane fiona now a post-tropical cyclone making landfall in eastern canada. and we re seeing our first images of the storm as it make the landfall this m
i ll see you back here tomorrow for more supreme court decisions and post debate analysis. chris jansing picks up your coverage right now from atlanta. good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m chris jansing in for jose diaz-balart, and large here at georgia tech, the site of pretty intense georgia tech matchups, but all the media assembled here waiting for matchup with pressure about as intense as anything we ve seen in a presidential debate. in just a few hours donald trump and joe biden will go head to head for the first time in four years. tonight s face-off marks a critical opportunity for both candidates to shake-up this stubbornly static race between two men in an all-out war for a second white house term. and tonight tonight they mark the most important battle. new polling from just the past 24 hours continues to show a race with no clear leader. poll after poll after poll within the margin of error, so tonight the opportunity to break out not
closed. if they can do that they can put this issue, and lower it as you say of events as a liability for them. if this is not going to work the next couple of weeks in negotiations they risk going into campaign season with it being one of the top issues and really their opponents can beat them over the head with. mike: tyler does president biden lean in to get a deal. i think he s going to read the room in terms of what he sees is possible. the white house has been careful to not have him deeply involved until the final stages we ve seen that throughout his time in his presidency as he s come in to close a deal. given this split between the house being controlled by republicans the senate being controlled by democrats it seems increasingly unlikely they will be able to strike a deal both chambers refused to but i believe the president has been willing to make concessions on this issue, whether it s in
both of those issues, democrats believe, can be strength for them, heading into the november elections. and you ve really heard president biden lean into the arguments of abortion rights over the course of the past few weeks specifically calling out that ledges proposed by senator lindsey graham that would ban abortions in most cases at 15 weeks of pregnancy. the president arguing that is an example of the, quote, extreme positions that he believes republicans are taking. and he also vowed to ensure that he does everything in his power from preventing such a ban from taking place. republicans want control of the congress, abortion will be banned. by the way, it will be initially banned. but with congress, i will veto it. reporter: so expected to continue this message and push when he heads to florida on tuesday for an official event on health care, social security and medicare. he will also participate in another dnc event in orlando on