pandemic, but takes us somewhere better. on december 31st, i m handing the baton to someone. i m not going to comment yet on this race, but i ll say this much. it s very close. voters have not yet paid a lot of attention. i think you ll see in the last week or two before june 22nd, they ll finally consolidate. we also have rank choice voting for the first time in new york city. i think it will be a much tighter election than most that we re used to. are you concerned about the candidacy of andrew yang? i m not going to talk about any individual candidate. i only know andrew yang a little bit. i find him a very likable person. but here s what i would say about all the candidates. that is a really tough moment. new york city is coming out of arguably the biggest crisis in our history. and we ve got a lot of things that we have to get right at this point. so the next mayor better be ready to hit the ground running.
breakup in history what some saw as a takeover. of health care and this is often used the image of west and east germans that they mocked for 100 meter rice and when the starting gun sounds the east german stay in their blocks because they couldn t buy anything it s a cult. instead many ended up themselves believing that their former national assets were worthless. and carol there was a core and that core could have been handed to the east germans that would have resulted in a homegrown class of east german entrepreneurs a great opportunity was missed. on december 31st 1994 the troika and shut its doors. i was happy to be able to go home and thought that we ve done what we could do with all the mistakes that we ve made in the process. but i d always been keen to go han.
on december 31st, 2011, an hour north of denver in west evans, colorado, ashley and tom fallis surrounded by friends and family danced to the music that brought them together, their wedding song. they decided to get up and dance in the middle of their living room and everybody watching. with everybody watching. i think i said, oh, this is sweet. reporter: it was their party, ashley s and tom s. she s invited her co-workers like andrea. it was casual, but she like verbally told everyone at work, you should come. reporter: they worked together at a rehabilitation hospital where ashley was a respiratory therapist. she was crazy, nice, just full of energy. she was a happy person. she laughed a lot and joked. reporter: their friendship was new, andrea didn t know a lot about ashley but had listened to her chatter about jobs and marriage ass and her
on december 31st, 2011, an hour north of denver in colorado, ashley and tom surrounded by friends and family danced to the music that brought them together. their wedding song. they decided to get up and dance in the middle of their living room and everybody watching. with everyone watching. i think i said oh, this is sweet. it was their party, ashley s and tom s. she d invited her coworkers. she told everyone at work, you should come. reporter: they worked together at a hospital where ashley was a respiratory therapist. she was nice, just full of energy. she was a happy person. she laughed a lot and joked. their friendship was new. andrea didn t know a lot but had listened to her chatter about
plans. he picked someone to start right away, to take the reins of the entire united states military. elise labot is with us. you were in a briefing a short time ago and a senior official told you and others about the president s decision. let s hear it. that s right, ana. secretary mattis announced his resignation and handed it to president trump that he was planning on leaving at the end of february. and he thought that would help ensure a smooth transition to his successor, the new defense secretary. originally, president trump went along with that plan but today, president trump is saying he wants general mattis, defense secretary mattis, to leave at the end of the month december 31st and has named patrick shanahan, one of his deputies, to take over as acting defense secretary on december 31st. ana? elise labott, thank you for