good afternoon, i m sara sidner. welcome to cnn newsroom. our breaking news, new and long awaited arrest in the horrific killings of four university of idaho students in november. brian kohberger is facing first-degree murder charges. the killings terrorized the small town which hadn t seen a murder in seven years. the fear so intense, some students have been too scared to return to school. investigators will hold a press conference, they tell us, very soon, and we ll take you there live. but first, jean is in the area. have you been able to glean any more information abilout the person arrested and the charges he s facing. let me tell you what we know. we re at the monroe county correctional facility or the jail here in northeastern pennsylvania. this is where the suspect is being housed on no bail. kohberger is 28 years old. he was arrested at 1:30 this morning. very close. he has a mailing address of very close. but here s what i want to emphasize, this is small town p
in spirit. plus, celebrating orthodox christmas in ukraine. no cease-fire, but new american firepower heads to the front lines. i m ian lee in kyiv with ukraine being promised heavy weapons that the pentagon says can change the battlefield. weekend journal, a minnesota cancer survivor pays it back by sharing her hair. wow! and later, double duty on capitol hill. the four-day stalemate complicated lives and child care. challenging, but it s been fun. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. it took 15 ballots and heated moments, but tonight congress finally has a new house speaker. kevin mccarthy won early this morning, putting an end to days of raucous debate and a historic standoff with emboldened hard-line republicans. the gop s strife playing out for all to see and ending with arm twisting, flaring tempers and phone calls from former president donald trump. cbs christina ruffini leads us off with what happen
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jorge santos is going to beod joining us to respond to thesejn accusations and more in just a moment. plus, the person behind the account, lives of tick will finally reveal her identity in an exclusive interview with tucker. jew-ish.es of ti c talks first on camera interview ever. that s coming up. and you re not going to want to miss it first. e yowhu and ili were enjoyingisn this long christmas weekend, b the biden administration was working to burtion iy informatin about the total collapse on our southern border. now, in a late friday night document dump just days before christmas,r the biden administration disclosed the total number of illegae coll immigrants that werel nu encountered by border authorities was more than 200 30000 in the month of november alone. now, this is by far the largestt number of migrants encountered oin the month of november inf the history of this country. to give you some perspective, last november, there were lesse than o than one hundred s
peter: good evening, bret. this report makes a practical conclusion when refugees did not tell the u.s. accurate information about themselves, then officials were not able to check to see if those people were actually on terror watch lists. we know this happened dozens of times and this report dropped on a day that felt kind of like a family reunion here at the white house as hundreds of former obama staffers came to see patriots unveiled of the former respresident and first lady. the country is better off than when you took office. peter: is the country safer? review of massive afghanistan evacuation officially called operation allies welcome finds we determined some information used to vet evacuees through u.s. government databases such as name, date of birth, identification number and travel document data was inaccurate, incomplete, or missing. we were told that wasn t possible. i will absolutely assure you no one is come in to the united states of america who ha