the oval office. never said he s about to get beat in a friendly golfer s bet. the two also getting into it over their cross-town baseball rivalry. see who came out on top this monday, december 12th. from abc news, this is world news now. he s having the best year yet. his cubbies are winning. he gets to go golfing there. playing a little putting there with the president. looks like fun. looks like a lot of fun. we re going to get into that a little later. a lot of news happening over the weekend and especially this morning. absolutely. we want to begin this half hour with lawmakers united investigating claims russia trying to influence the presidential election. even though the u.s. intelligence community says it s confident russia was behind the hacks donald trump is still questioning those claims and he s blaming the democrats for leaking that information. likely choice for secretary of state rex tillerson is coming under scrutiny. with his relationship with
last night s big winner la-la land scooping up eight awards including best picket. casey affleck winning best actor for manchester by the sea. and natalie portman won best actress for jackie. those are our top stories on this monday december 12th. announcer: from abc world news this is world news now. i was thinking to which 90% of america is saying what the qus jack what is jackie and what is master chen by the sea xwoechltd. the golden globes will be announcing their awards nominations later on. donald trump pushing back against allegations that russia tried to tip the skills in the presidential election. trump saying he doesn t believe it even as members of his own party joined democrats in calling for an investigation. and russia is also looming large as the president-elect prepares to announce his choice for abc s mary bruce has the latest. i think it s ridiculous. i think it s just another excuse. i don t believe it. i don t know why. reporter: donald
and putting with the president. bill murray getting a warning from president obama there in the oval office. never said he s about to get beat in a friendly golfer s bub. the two also getting into it over their cross-town baseball rivalry. see who came out on top this monday december 12th. announcer: from abc news this is world news now. he s having the best year yet. his cubbies are winning. he gets to go golfing there. playing a little putting there with the president. looks like fun. looks like fun. we ll get into it a little later but a lot of news happening this week and especially this morning. we want to begin with lawmakers from both parties uniting in a call to investigate claims the party trying to influence the presidential election. even though the u.s. intelligence community says it s confident russia was behind the hacks donald trump is still questioning those claims and he s blame k the democrats for leaking that emotion. likely choice for secre
the latest. reporter: the latest is right on lehigh spann has the latest. reporter: the latest is right here. it s right on the border of haiti. jamaica already seeing heavy flooding, and matthew is the strongest storm to hit the islands in decades. this is where it is right now. look at the satellite imagery compared to tampa right here, and it s about to fall this is just for a brief period along haiti before it heads north this just came in 2- 3 minutes ago. 145-mile an hour winds. it s interesting it will not interact with a lot of land, and it remains a category 4 hurricane through the middle of the week, and then it is expected to take a westerly track, close to the florida coast, and this is early friday notice the cone of uncertainty. any deviation west or east will imact us locally. all computer models in agreement, making the shift unfortunately closer to florida s east coast before heading to new england. you think why the shift? this big area of high pressur
latest on matthew s track. reporter: it s so strong miles off the haiti coastline. we just got this video into our news room. you can see the dark clouds, the wind is picking up, and unfortunately we see worse and worse video out of the nation throughout the day. at least four people have been killed. jamaica has seen heavy flooding. matthew is the strongest storm to hit the island in decades this is a wider view, and that s relative to florida, and it really is getting very well defined. 35miles for making land fall in haiti, and the hurricane force winds are 30 miles out. this will impact the eastern portion of cuba, and it s expected to remain a category 4 hurricane through wednesday afternoon, in the bahamas, when it makes the unfortunate west coastline here, and some of polk and highlands county will remain under the cone of uncertainty before it heads up off the jacksonville coastline, and eventually off the carolinas. most of the computer models did make the shift. y