Place in auckland, new zealand. Check out this incredible Fireworks Show in australia with blasts simultaneously launched. China rang in 2016 in grand flash style. This is what it looked like in hong kong in historic victoria harbor. In moscow, they welcomed in the new year with a colorful fireworks display among the kremlin and red square with a message from vladamir putin on a hard but fruitful year. This is live because it is midnight in london. One minute passed right now. So londonites are enjoying their Fireworks Show as they ring in 2016. In du bois, the fireworks still went on despite a massive fire not far from the fireworks display. Reporter yeah, guys, the massive fire at the luxury highrise is 60 contained tonight. Du boiss 60 Story Building sent flames shooting into the air. Officials say fire extinguishers prevented the fire from spreading. So right now, i was out on the balcony. Its just kind of a sense of euphoria. People were laughing, music was playing. And then, all
Investigate. The request from flake was truly surprising because this puts this up in the air for another week for both republicans and democrats. Coming up, what the fbi will be looking for and whether agents can figure out the truth. Jeff flake made lastminute call for an investigation. Theres a behindthescenes tugofwar snf between the parties with jeff flake at center. H was con fronted after he said he would ultimately vote to confirm kavanaugh. Heres senator flake last night. This is a limited time and scope and i think its propose. When its a lifetime appointment andgations this serious, we ought to let people know theyre serious about. It did the protesters you encountered play a role in it at all . I think everything ive experienced in the last couple of weeks has had an impact. Its been everything. Lets go now live to capitol hill and nbcs mike viqueira. Theyre beginning the procedural process to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court as early as today, thats all on hold
If were worried about foreign influence for the very same reason we should be worried about whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale. And so im not saying that happened. But im saying that we have to look at that. Martha umhuh. That means that people on this wall and these pictures in the government are likely to face some more questions in all of this about what as attorney general barr says quote the government was doing. Here now byron york chief Political Correspondent for the Washington Examiner and fox news contributor. Byron, good to see you tonight. Thank you, martha. Martha the president says he has declassified everything. We know its going to come out in probably small pieces as this investigation moves on. Why should the people whose pictures we just showed including clapper and brennan and everybody who signed those fisa applications be concerned about this. Because we dont know exactly what they did. We have been getting information
they re acting as though it s today. is there any news in the last 50 or so minutes since we last spoke? reporter: since we last spoke, that impromptu meeting you and i were talking about between a bipartisan group of members of the super committee, that has broken p up. as members were leaving, senator max baucuss, facing a mass of reporters, the only way to describe it, he actually mentioned that there s possibly a new tax idea being floated possibly by senator john kerry. as you and i talked, this meeting was described by one aide earlier as kind of a hail mary pass to see if they could pull anything off in this 11th hour. unclear what the details are of this tax idea, but i will tell you that it does seem that it possibly could be a long shot as one gop leadership aide has already speaking to my colleague deidre walsh on this tax idea said, at the 11th hour senator kerry offered a new gimmick, in this person s word, to get to the democrats same trillion dollar tax hike