Finalfor eight years, they havent met in a grand slam final for eight years, but they havent met in a grand slam finalfor eight years, but in they havent met in a grand slam final for eight years, but in the next half hour Serena Williams takes on her sister venus for the australian title and a record breaking 23rd major crown. And chris has the weather. It is not as cold as has been over recent days, but we have got some rain to contend with today and it is still just about code rain to contend with today and it is stilljust about code and for some of that rain to fall as snow in the hills of scotland. Good morning. First, our main story. The actor Sirjohn Hurt Has died. He was 77 and had recently been ill with cancer. He starred in around 200 films including harry potter and was nominated for an oscar for his roles in The Elephant Man and midnight express. Our correspondent nick higham reports. Everything seemed to come to a head today. John hurt, as the political diarist alan clark.
predicting for 2024. cat cavuto live starting now. neil: you know, sometimes i tell my staff two hours isn t enough to cut it, right? it s such a busy show. welcome, everybody. happy new year. it s going to be a snowy weekend for a lot of folks. want to take you to iowa first where the caucuses, believe it or not, we ve been jabbering about this for more than a year, are nine days away. bill melugin is there with more. reporter: it s crunch time now, right? the iowa caucuses less than 10 days away. these candidates have been on a full blitz trying to connect last minute with some of these voters. today is also the 3-year anniversary of january 6th. that s something president biden highlighted yesterday in his very first campaign speech of 2024 when he went after donald trump, called him a threat to democracy. well, donald trump, take a look, held a speech of his own here in iowa yesterday.
themselves tonight. but for a guy like ron desantis, he doesn t have a choice. he has got to do it. he has a tremendous record behind him of accomplishments in florida. he had a tremendous record in politics getting reelected. but the problem he has had is conveying that enthusiasm that florida republicans and florida independent lapse have for him. converting that to people in iowa and new hampshire and across the country, they are just not buying what he is selling. i think he has got to figure out a way to solve that tonight or he is going to have campaign problems that won t go away. on one side vivek ramaswamy, we have no idea what this guy is capable of. he is extremely articulate and has a ton of energy. he is young looking. on the other side you have chris christie who will bulldoze everybody. constantly interrupting people, jabbering and jawboning the heck
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