You state here and around the world. Im George Howell. Cnn newsroom starts right now. Good day to you. We start in the Sinai Peninsula. Weather there has been a factor hampering the investigation into the crash of metro jet flight 9268. In a news kfrps, the lead investigators stayed debris is strewn across a wide area. About 13 kilometers. He said the voice recorder picked up a suspicious noise in its final seconds. The official was quick to also add that, despite the noise and that wide scattered debris field, its still too soon, too early to be sure whether a bomb brought that plane down. Cnn is covering the story from all angles. Lets go first to ian lee, standing by in Sharm El Sheikh where that flight originated. Ian, good to have you with us. Lets talk about the investigation first. There is focus on that noise. But neither russia nor egypt, which is leading the investigation is coming out saying that this is a bomb. What more do we know . Reporter well, george, when you look at
Viewers in the United States and around the world. Im isha sesay. Im john vause. Newsroom l. A. Starts right now. The cnn Sinai Peninsula is where the latest theory is isis put a bomb onboard a plane that brought done metro jet. Intelligence suggests someone am sham el sheikh airport may have put a bomb perhaps in the luggage area. Isis has claimed responsibility for bringing down the padgett that killed all 224 people onboard. Britain has suspended flights to and from the airport while reviewing safety features there. What we are concerned to do is make sure our citizens are safe and all the right safety arrangements are in place. And thats what were checking out this evening, and weve got the cooperation of the Egyptian Government to do that. Ben weedeman is standing by. Whats the latest findings from the team that has been sent there from the uk . According to reports in the egyptian press, john, they did inspect that airport, looking behind the scenes area just to see exactly how s
Skipping out. Plus, the judge goes to trump tower. Our own judge Andrew Napolitano met with the president elect. How did that go . Ill ask him. We just got the menu for the inaugural lunch. The menu continuing the tradition of menu reading. Ill menu read. Lets get to it. Shepard first on the fox news desk, president elect trump says his first day will start monday so that signing and other matters does not interfere with the celebration. Today his spokesman said something else. He said friday. So well see. Anyway, the new senate is hard at work. Its just kicked off another marathon round of confirmation hearings three days before trumps big celebration day. First up, rock congressman ryan zinke of montana. The president elect picked him for interior secretary, this is a live look at the hearing where lawmakers are grilling him about his hearings to manage the federal land and natural resources. Congressman zinke is a former navy seal. Zinke supports keeping public lands under federal c
Donald trump prepares to move out of midtown manhattan and move out of trump tower he is trying to draw attention to some of the things he has done here during the transition, so he tweeted a little while ago this. With all of the jobs i am bringing back into the u. S. even before taking office , with all of the new auto plants coming back into our. Country and with the massive cost reductions i have negotiated on military purchases and more, i believe the people are seeing big stuff. And just before that tweet, gm announced they are going to stop doing some work on axles for fullsize pickup trucks in mexico and start doing it in michigan. Remember a few weeks ago, the president elect had called General Motors out for selling some chevy hatchbacks in the u. S. That were made in mexico and this doesnt address that issue, but the carmaker said in a statement, as a u. S. Manufacturing base increases its competitiveness, we are able to further increase our investment, resulting in more job
Cuts on our state governments, the most Vulnerable People in our society. And Health Care Providers such as our rural hospitals and nursing home. Will you support this bill, senator . Right now i am undecided. There are things in this bill which adversely affect my state that are peculiar to my state. If those can be addressed, i will. If they cant be addressed, i wont. Right now, im undecided. All right, with zero democrats supporting the legislation, republicans can only afford to lose two votes. That means republicans have a whole lot of work to do if they want the bill passed this week. And some are questioning the vote timing. I would like to delay the thing, there is no way we should be voting on this next week, no way. Are you going to work to stop it . Are you going to work to stop the vote next week . I have a hard time believing wisconsin constituents or even myself will have enough time to properly evaluate this for me to vote for motion to proceed. Ive been encouraging lead