Thats in the skinny on this tuesday, december 22nd. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning on this tuesday. Im reena ninan. Personal, not political. Im kendis gibson. Good timing to have a new baby in 2016. Right in the middle of it all. In an election year. Well get to the details of that. Theres never a good time to plan to have a child. Especially a second child. You dont realize with the first. So much changes. For me personally. I should not generalize for women and parents everywhere but it was like having a thousand children having my second one. Ill take your word for it. Hey, its a great tax writeoff though. There you go. Thats an upside. Lets talk about the race for the white house because it is still heating up. About 40 days till the first war is going on war, war of words bean donald trump and Hillary Clinton. If its a boy it probably wont be called donald. Last night trump took a new swing at clinton using what some might say as a vulgar reference a
Good morning on this wednesday. Im reena ninan. And im kendis gibson. You really are going to want to stick around for the big news we just learned about steve harvey. It will have some of the conspiracy theorists thinking. Im notsurprised, i have to say, by the steve harvey news. By this news . Huh. All right. Im surprised by it. Well have more in this half hour. The timing is kind of interesting. Well get to that later on today. But we want to get started with the race for president. Donald trump trying to explain a controversial comment that he made about Hillary Clinton. Yeah, trump says that when he used a specific term to describe clintons democratic primary loss in 2008 he meant that clinton was beaten badly. Clintons campaign isnt buying the explanation. Its your voice your vote. Abcs Jonathan Karl reports. Reporter Donald Trumps insults are crude and personal. Attacking Hillary Clinton using a vulgar description of the male anatomy. She was going to beat obiba. I dont know who
Celebrates after launching then landing a 15story rocket booster. And in the midst of a playoff push, the new york giants biggest star is suspended star is suspended. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie 14. On this full first day of winter we begin with wet. Out west, its what you might expect this time of year, a storm bringing heavy rain, flash floods and highway mountain snow. In essential eastern parts of the country, instead of saying ho, ho, ho, santa may be saying, hot, hot, hot. Today, most locations from the plains to the east coast will be up to 20 degrees above average. This could be the warmest christmas on railroad for several cities. Don champion is here in new york, where on christmas eve, you maybe have to dust off your santa shorts . Thats right. Good morning, annemarie, it seems weird to be bundled up with a hat, glove and scarf. Many places, record amounts of snow last winter could see
Weve had of bergdahl since he was handed over in a the taliban. Hed been held captive for five his unit. He did not enter a plea and makes another Court Appearance next month. One other embarrassing incident for the secret service. A member of the president ial protective division had his gun, badge, radio, and handcuffs stolen from his personal car. The car was parked not far from washington. The agency has struggled lately to overcome issues with agent behavior and Security Breaches at the white house. A hacker to the stars has been busted in new york for trying to sell movie scripts, personal information, and sexually explicit videos of celebrities. The 23yearold bahamasbased hacker was arrested after trying to sell to undercover agents. Things like scripts. Hackers are a common sight on the streets of new york, but in this case u. S. Immigration agents stepped in after getting host. In pasadena, california ahead of the rose bowl as well as the rose parade. Visitors can expect more
From afghanistan. The threat remains roughly constant. The insurgency is resilient, and we have 100,000 fewer combined forces on patrol across the country. Reporter so far this year 20 American Service members have been killed. There have also been two american civilian casualties, including 35yearold aid worker lisa akbari. The former u. S. Army researcher was shot in the back of the head while leaving her gym in kabul on sunday. Her family told us she had moved there three years ago to help afghan women and children. Maurice, this violence is why president obama recently decided to reverse course and keep 9,800 u. S. Troops in afghanistan through next year. Thats to keep the taliban at bay and to ward off this new threat posed by isis. Margaret brennan at the pentagon, thank you. Winter officially begins tonight, but you wouldnt know it in much of the east where temperatures soared into the 50s adriana diaz is in chicago, which tonight is the balmy city. Reporter maurice, we have onl