2023. Tonight, were coming to you from times square in the heart of new york city. For so many, this is the place where new years begins and ends. Im tom yum. We fake you for joining us tonight. Were covering the top ten stories from this eventful year. Plus, look at the people in trends which to find the last 12 months. As we look to close the chapter in 2023, we take a look back at the air that was. Heres nbcs joe fryer. How do you define a year like 2023 . Was that the year of the strike . [crowd chanting] or year of the swift . Didnt offer a glimpse of the future with the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Weight Loss Drug ozempic . Or a Blast From The Past . Hi barbie i can with the pink coated resurgence of a classic doll. Was it the year a speaker was booted, or simply a prelude to 2024 . The Campaign Trail lined with pit stops in the courtroom. 2024 you can be defined in so many ways. So much of the world, it was a year headlined by war in the middle east. Major Brea
hello. i m lukwesa burak. within the past couple of hours, president biden and the republican house speaker, kevin mccarthy, have reached an agreement in principle on a new government debt limit, ending weeks of wrangling. mr mccarthy said there would be historic reductions in spending, and no new taxes or government programmes. democrats and republicans have untiljune 05 to reach agreement to prevent the us government running out of money. this is how mr mccarthy announced the breakthrough. after weeks of negotiations we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do but i believe this is an agreement in principle worthy of the american people. it has historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms that will lift people out of poverty into the workforce, reign in government overreach, no new taxes, no new government programmes, and a lot more within the bill. we still have more work to do tonight to finish all of the writing of it. i do want
to lead talks on how to stem the surge in illegal border crossings. those crossings reaching historic proportions with authorities routinely reporting 10,000 encounter a day. the influx is in border authorities, 10,000 in custody right now. so stretched are resources, customs and border patrol had to close two major railway crossings and other ports of entry so they can shuffle agents to busier points along the border. $43 billion in trailed a year are carried on those two rail lines alone. no telling how politically costly an extended closure could be. with congress on holiday, talks for a comprehensive border package have installed, and with them, hopes for ukraine and israel aid. republicans say funding for those embattled nations must be paired with measures to secure the u.s. mexico border. it s a quid pro quo triggering a backlash who fear an asylum and refugee crackdown could hurt the party among latino voters. joining us now, nbc news correspondent guad venegas who s
rachel: good morning, it s 7:00 here in new york city. come on, christmas. will: never heard it. but sounds familiar. pete: come on, christmas. rachel: how would you like me to say it, pete? pete: i don t know. come on, christmas. you were like, come on christmas. yeah, we re saying come on, christmas. come in. will: felt like we re talking about the state of the country. come on, christmas. pete: do better. rachel: when we have racist christmas parties and satan displays, come on, christmas. will: oh, yeah, christmas. pete: somebody took care of that satan display in the iowa capitol. rachel: by the way, i thought it was going to be you. when i heard somebody decapitated the satan statue, i was like, where s pete? pete: count me in. rachel: i thought for sure it was going to be you. pete: different veteran beat me to the punch in the capitol. we hope you re having a wonderful christmas in your home and maybe do people ever stoke warning fires if you have a fireplace. rache
the destruction of our sovereignty that couldrom struc actually make leaders of the democratic party care. as is often the case with my extreme republican colleagues, they create a fictional argument republi around what s happening at the borderroblem and then actually do nothing to solve the real problem. fictional does he think the video is like what made up people sitting on the ground camped under reflective blankets, children nowheree li to go to the bathroom? people i mean, the line in linee en of people, the environmentth disaster that s left behind at the border, that s all made up. congressman, what a fraud. this scenario that he s painting here, that somehow this is all a fantas soh well, we see that he and his fellow democrats just don t care about what s going to happen to this country, the country they re supposed to be serving. earlier today, the department of health and human services announced that a migrant childmy died while in custody.ea imagine if that h