With legal challenges to the election process. Im Clay Richards and welcome to the show joe biden has begun his 1st a full day as u. S. President elect by getting down to work by 1st went to mass at the Catholic Church in his home town willing to wilmington delaware where his son is buried hes planning an overhaul of government with a task force to tackle the coronavirus pandemic as his top priority earlier abidin used his victory speech to reinforce his message that its time to heal a divided nation. Meanwhile a defiant President Donald Trump has returned to the golf course where he was playing when u. S. Networks declared that biden had won the election trump has yet to concede defeat he insists the election was stolen from him and his family to press ahead with legal challenges. To washington then our correspondents is standing by sumi trump on the golf course while biden it goes to church what are we to make of this. Well clear we know that joe biden does go to Church Weekly this i
Opposition in his syriza party as members breakaway to form a different group. The white house says that the Islamic State in iraq and the levants second in command has been killed. This is still widely thought to show reportedly killed in a military strike in the iraqi city of mosul on tuesday. The u. S. Believes he was prominently involved in the groups financial operations. Patty culhane has this update for us from washington, d. C. The white house has put out a statement saying that the second in command of the Islamic State in iraq and the levant has been killed. His name, they say he is alone were killed by an u. S. Drone on august 18th. Now theyre highlighting the death saying that this will have a great impact on the Islamic State in iraq and the levant because they say that he was primarily responsible for coordinating the movement of movement, weapons, explosives, vehicles and people between iraq and syria. U. S. Officials have made claims before. Unnamed officials have told
Were still trying to figure out what that was at this point in time. Again, have not located a gun so unfortunately theres nothing about the investigation that suggests it was a gun at this time but we are still looking. Reporter as for how many shots were fired by the nine officers. As of right now that count is 109 shots fired. Reporter at this point commissioner ross thinks this might have been a case of something called contagious fire. In a high stress situation one officer fired first others reacted. Other officers hear gunfire and they believe they are now under fire and that they return fire in this case firing multiple times as i said 109 rounds that weve counted thus far. Reporter again a continuing investigation at this point. Apparently the nine officers have not been interviewed so far. Back to wednesday night its believed that sowell attacked his victims using a pair of knives. Those victims remain hospitalized but the commissioner says they appear to be improving. Live a
Holiday week. One were marking with a special look back at people who broke through and made a big difference in 2013, our this week Game Changers. Weve got some surprising revelations and brandnew interviews, starting with texas senator ted cruz. Its hard to remember a freshman senator stealing the spotlight so quickly and with such force. He stopped the government in its track for 16 days. To cheers from tea party activists. Jeers from democrats. But thats not slowing cruz a bit. Hes setting his sights on a higher office. Abcs chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl has his story. Reporter when it comes to politics, you could say this has been the year of ted cruz. Its the government that needs more help. Reporter aside from the president , no one attracted more attention or more controversy. Cruz went from obscurity to leading president ial candidate in a political nanosecond. And a man at the center of the Government Shutdown ended 2013 as runnerup to the pope as times person
With the world solidly into the new year, many people are reviewing their plans for 2013 and hoping it will be filled with plenty of health matters. And they have been marking the first day observing traditions that range from special meals to perilous plunges. We will have a look at some of that after this round up of the nights more famous parties. 2014 arrived to confetti in new york. Party fever took over. Around a million revelers packed iconic times square defying the frosty temperatures. Peace in the world. Happy and joy to everyone. Have fun, everybody. In rio de janeiro, summer rhythms filled the streets. Fireworks lit up the sky. Millions hailed brazils big year ahead from the copacabana beach. Its not long now until the soccer kicks off in the summer. The german capital welcomed the new year with a bang. 6000 fireworks shot into the sky above the brandenburg date. The brandenburg gate. Hundreds of thousands of partygoers from all over the world turned up to watch the spectac