The last time he held a formal question and answer session with reporters was last july. Mr. Trump insists he will get to work right away building a border wall and says he will force mexico to reimburse the u. S. I could wait about a year and a half until we finish our negotiations with mexico, which will start immediately after we get to office, but i dont want to wait. The president elect also said hell announce a nominee to fill a vacant seat on the u. S. Supreme court within two weeks of taking office. Kenneth craig, cbs news new york. Now during that News Conference mr. Trump announced hes picked David Shulkins to lead the department of veteran affairs. Hes now va undersecretary. Russias ties to the Incoming Administration was the focus of Rex Tillerson as he began his confirmation hearing. Retiring exxon mobile ceo has a personal friendship with vladimir putin. That bothers some senators. Im re and many of my colleagues have deep concerns about your relationship with mr. Putin.
Its also fun to demonstrate our Second Amendment rights dont make us less safe they make us more states. Are those cousins asking you to stay for inauguration. After the beat accommodations you can suggest instead and you never even heard of this place. Thanks for joining us tonight im shawn yancy. Im jim lokay. And tonight in for tony perkins one day after two men were fatally stabbed inside the wheaton nral were questions tonight about mall security. The attack happened inside the mall yesterday and the killer is on the loose. Fox5 tisha lewis is live in wheaton with the latest. Tisha. Fox5 has learned that the suspect escaped by walking out a mall front door and who knows where he wept from there sdes spite a Security Team were told is robusted in the mall. At the hight of the altercation and during the aftermath the mall remained on and even though two people dripping with blood were inside the small tonight west field it was business as usual inside parts of west field wheaton mal
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Today the crews found workers assembling the bleachers and the barricades. The barriers will include concrete trucks to prevent vehicle attacks like those in france and germany. As washington prepares for the president ial inauguration there are signs of a deeply divided nation. More than 50 members of congress all democrats are going to boycott the inauguration. A poll shows trump is entering office with the lowest approval rate the lowest in 40 years. But amidst signs of division there are calls for unity. The abc7 chief Political Correspondent scott thuman joins us with more on that. You talk to a lot of people today. They dont know what is con daneed in the the other may be trying to tampdown whatever unease exist or is reflected reflected in thw survey numbers thoughing that trump will be the least popular incoming president in four decades. He debunked the numbers by proving he saw the same survey result prior to the election, yet he won. This will likely be put under the microsc
Checking the storms. Lawrence has a lot to do. The storms have in big already. This next one going to be tigger. The storm system moving on today with heavy rain, thunderstorms, and reports of hail a continuing to see showers become more scattered. You get caught under one of these, you can get heavy downpours and hurry. Stronger downpours over the central bai frequency sliding to south oakland. More moisture makes its way across the bay. Your rain coming your way in a few minutes. After that, more scattered showers toward livermore valley. More scattered showers drawing out in concord. We watched the areas where there have in letting. Stuff to watch out for rising creeks as fighting continues in that area. Otherwise we see more flooding to the south. Thats in hollister, heavy rainfall coming down in a levy break. Cots in flooding. Theyre looking for flooding tonight and through monday. We have lots more rain on the way and big storms rolling in. You see the area completely flooded wer