the roof and steeple coming down. two congregations using this church. a miracle only one person was inside and survived. the school shooter s mother in court. ethan crumbley s mother on trial in michigan. tonight her messages about the day they bought the gun for their son and her post when her son went to the range. later called to the school amid concerns over their son. what prosecutors say they never told the school. their son opened fire hours later. tonight democrats and republicans working to address a crisis the president has signals he can working to tonight has donald trump told them to stop working on any solution signaling the race for president should come first. here in new york city, meanwhile, trump taking the stand in the civil defamation trial against him. already found liable by a jury. what trump declared today in that courtroom. erin is there. peter navorro sentenced to four months in prison. in philadelphia, the urgent hunt and police pleading for hel
rnc dropping a plan to pronounce donald trump the nominee. and also president biden s campaign reportedly closely watching the bitter feud and many even enjoying it. will it help the incumbent president come november. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is friday, january 26. happy friday. we made it. it is 5:00 a.m. here in washington. and it is also 5:00 a.m. in new york. that is where donald trump is expected back in federal court this morning for closing a arguments in the civil defamation case brought against him by writer e. jean carroll. he closed out the trial with just three minutes of testimony thursday. he was admonished several times by the judge. his comments stricken from the record after he repeated the original defamation against carroll. trump s lawyer asked, quote, did you deny the allegation because ms. carroll made an accusation trump responded yes, she said something i considered a false accusation. totally false. that is when the judge interrupted and sai
first tonight here, the breaking news coming in now from the battle between donald trump and nikki haley. rachel scott standing by with the results. the state of emergency in california. cars swept away. vehicles piled up on top of one another. the historic and sudden flooding in san diego. will carr live in the storm zone. tonight, bracing for ice, snow, flooding elsewhere. 24 states at this hour from texas to georgia, up to the northeast. and then the major change coming. ginger zee is here. the stunning images tonight. the huge waves slamming a u.s. army base. water smashing through the doors of a dining hall. people knocked off their feet. that delta passenger plane and what that other pilot noticed about the jet right before it was about to take off from atlanta. the alarming message sent to the pilots. tonight, the u.s. launching new air strikes. this time, inside iraq, targeting iranian-backed militants after recent attacks targeting u.s. troops. tonight, our
today in washington, d.c. what s now coming from d.c. to new york to boston. rob marciano is here. there is also breaking news tonight. iranian militants striking a british ship with a missile. that ship is now on fire, in danger of sinking tonight. martha raddatz with late reporting. there are also late developments in the israel/hamas war tonight. 12 u.n. aid workers accused of taking part in the hamas terror attack on october 7th. what s now happened to those workers tonight. matt gutman standing by in israel. in the u.s., the dramatic testimony in the trial of jennifer crumbley today, the mother of school shooter ethan crumbley. the parents who bought their son the gun, days later called into school over concerns about his behavior and what he had written. prosecutors saying they never told the school they might want to check for the gun. he opened fire hours later. the first-ever execution in the u.s. using nitrogen gas. witnesses on what happened in that room as
drops out of the race, saying it s clear a majority of republicans want to give trump another chance. the bombshell announcement comes as trump and nikki haley sharpen their attacks on each other. haley now claims the former president is experiencing cognitive decline after appearing to confuse haley with former house speaker nancy pelosi. rachel scott is in new hampshire with what this means just two days before the new hampshire primary. linsey: also tonight, american troops targeted. attacks on u.s. air base in iraq now raise concerns about a wider conflict. this all comes just days after the pentagon ordered a sixth round of air strikes against houthi rebels inside yemen. the strikes from the u.s. are not deterring the iranian-backed rebels as their attacks on ships in the red sea cause a massive ripple effect in the global supply chain. the grim death toll in gaza. more than 25,000 dead since the beginning of the war with israel, according to the hamas-run health min