anchor of a news program in 1976, and her journalism career spanned more than five decades. walters passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by family. but there is also joy and celebrations around the world as countries are starting to ring in the new year. we re counting down until 2023. but it s worth noting, the biggest bash, new york city, always, of course. new york city, come on. it s happening in new york city. gloria is in new york city, is in times square, has been watching people walk in to get ready for tonight. 13 hours, 14 hours, 15 hours early. tell me everything you re seeing right now and why these people have this level of enthusiasm. there s nothing like new york city on new year s eve, and there s no place like times square. i know it sounds like a hard sell, but these folks were here, they re committed. look at them. they re sitting down, taking it easy. i even spotted a couple of people napping. they have several hours to go until the party star
and it is billed as the book donald trump fears most, detailed profile of the former president s life by maggie haberman and she is here with her new book, confidence man. and a bombshell report dropping today revealing harassment and abuse in women s soccer. players coerced into sexual relationships and a league s extensive efforts to hide what was going on. welcome to the lead. we begin with the rising death toll from hurricane ian. officials say at least 104 people have now dooid ied in th. as a result of the storm. vast majority of them in florida. 54, more than half of florida s total dead, were all in hard hit lee county on the western part of the peninsula, the damage in parts of the county such as in ft. myers and sanibel island is simply put breathtaking. floridians who evacuated have started returning only to find their homes and communities unrecognizable and daunting cleanup ahead. boats flung to the middle of streets, even into people s yards. who do you
nor did he have any issues to order. joining me now from uvalde, texas is nbc s correspondent antonia hilton. walk us through these new details and revelations. who was actually in charge at the scene that they? good morning michael. that is really the question, right? i think one really stuck out to me about that interview with the was that he did not know that he was the incident commander. in other words he had no idea that he would be in charge. you also mentioned that he left his radio behind, he said that was because he wanted to hands free to handle his firearm. he also described praying as he tested a key, after key, and it took him a while to find one that would actually work for the right classroom. law enforcement experts when the tribune gave them all these details, they were pretty shocked. from their perspective they say that the leader of a school districts law enforcement, the chief of police should know that they would be incident commander in this kind of
president trump gave no order to deploy the national guard that day and he made no effort to work with the department of justice to coordinate and deploy law enforcement assets. now, the committee heard from capitol police officer caroline edwards who was injured during the insurrection. they also played a video of mostly never before seen footage showing some of the most violent scenes on the day. we need back-up! [ bleep ]. we are going to give prior warning. declaring it a riot. trying to breach and get boo the capitol. be advised capitol police will start moving resources inside. we re coming in if you don t bring her out. you back up. more now from cnn s ryan nobles. the january 6th select committee has now made its case to the american people, showing a bit of what they ve been working on behind closed doors for more than 11 months. laying out their thesis that former president donald trump is responsible for a plan that was hatched right around novemb
squarely on donald trump and his baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen. listen to this. president trump ignored the rulings of our nation s courts. he ignored his own campaign leadership, his white house staff, many republican state officials. he ignored the department of justice and the department of homeland security. president trump invested millions of dollars of campaign funds, purposely spreading false information, running ads he knew were false and convincing millions of americans that the election was corrupt and that he was the true president. as you will see, this misinformation campaign provoked the violence on january 6th. cheney played testimony from the top u.s. general, confirming it was then vice president mike pence, not donald trump who called in the national guard to quell the riot. she also showed video of trump s closest advisers, including his own daughter rejecting his voter fraud claims. listen here. i had three discussio