This hour his dramatic shootout with police. And critical questions today. Lets begin with donald trump. Can a tweet spark a Nuclear Arms Race. The United States must greatly strengthen and expand Nuclear Capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. Commercial break. Ing joe the president elect told you what . Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass. Russian president Vladimir Putin took a question at his annual press conference in moscow this morning. From the kremlin, translation saying when someone speeds up or accelerates the arms race, its not us. Kristen welker is covering the president elect in palm beach. Kristen, this all started with Vladimir Putin telling his general they were going to fortify the Russian Nuclear arsenal and then just moments after the conversation between mr. Trump and mika, we saw the Incoming White House press Secretary Sean Spicer take it arguably a step further. Let me play it. We are not going to sit
he was able to pass into and out of france into italy, probably by train. this is interesting. since france has been under a state of emergency since attacks in late 2015. they increased border control after this attack here in berlin. how was he able to evade all of the border controls, all of the security? that s the question everybody is asking. now that the man hunt appears to be over. chris? thank you, guys. appreciate it. we have breaking news out of malta. a tense stand-off on the tarmac after two hijackers reportedly carrying hand grenades took control of a libyan jet liner and threatened to blow it up. both have now surrendered to police but not until they declared loyalty to muhammed gadhafi. the plain was carrying 111 passengers, seven crew members destined for the libyan capital of tripoli.
hermi his son appears to be in tripoli, he claims the city is still under his family s control. he said his father is sacred talk to him in a moment, live. sara, if you can hear me, what is the latest there right now? reporter: we were hearing loud booms, loud blasts, a lot of rapid gunfire. we saw tracer rounds coming over our heads very, very close to us, literally right over us. we had to take cover. so we started to wonder what exactly was going on, if there was some sort of fight that started up again in this town, which is just about 30 miles from tripoli. as it turned out as the night went on, even though that went on about an hour and a half, we finally got in touch with rebel sources who told us, no, actually they are celebrating. yes, they re blowing off things like mortars but they are celebrating still. what we do know, there were gun battles in the city of tripoli today. we drove into the main drag from the west. that is where a lot of businesses normally are
like mortars but they are celebrating still. what we do know, there were gun battles in the city of tripoli today. we drove into the main drag from the west. that is where a lot of businesses normally are, a lot of commerce takes place and some neighborhoods. we drove straight down towards green square and we were stopped in the evening because they were telling us that we couldn t go any further. we could hear gunfire. the rebels telling us that there were snipers in the area, that the situation was very tense, that they were at one point surrounded but that they were fighting their way out of that and that is the last we heard on that situation there in the center of the city. very close also to the gadhafi compound there and to the hotel where a lot of the international journalists are housed. piers. sara, one of the big problems there is watching yesterday the dramatic events, and you were particularly heroic with the reporting you were doing, you got a sense of the reb
us, literally right over us. we had to take cover. so we started to wonder what exactly was going on, if there was some sort of fight that started up again in this town, which is just about 30 miles from tripoli. as it turned out as the night went on, even though that went on about an hour and a half, we finally got in touch with rebel sources who told us, no, actually they are celebrating. yes, they re blowing off things like mortars but they are celebrating still. what we do know, there were gun battles in the city of tripoli today. we drove into the main drag from the west. that is where a lot of businesses normally are, a lot of commerce takes place and some neighborhoods. we drove straight down towards green square and we were stopped in the evening because they were telling us that we couldn t go any further. we could hear gunfire. the rebels telling us that there were snipers in the area, that the situation was very tense, that they were at one point surrounded but tha