6th grader. the news continues . good evening. here in new york alongside abby phillips welcome to our special coverage of the countdown to iowa. this is it. we are hours away now from the nation s first nominating contest, the stakes may be high but the temperature, certainly is not. it is below 0 in iowa right now on this final full day of campaigning for the republican presidential field. even with donald trump s commanding lead in the latest poll out just last night, the 48% of support from likely caucusgoers is pushing hard for turnout.. we are up in iowa, we are really up big. the higher we are up, the higher we go, the better a signal. we send a good signal to new hampshire, the better signal we send in november that we are taking our country back t. is really important. you got to get out and vote. nikki haley and ron desantis is delivering their closing messages to voters, how they vote tomorrow is a crucial question with haley trying to make it a 2-person race
good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. what were those mysterious noises coming from the under the waves? could they be proof that the crew of the submersible titan still was alive nearly 80 hours after the five of them went missing. those are just two of the questions we re hoping the coast guard will answer when they hold a press conference expected to start just minutes from now. once they start we will bring it to you live. and unfolding right now, a massive explosion at a school in the heart of paris. at least 16 injured, 7 people seriously. the search is on for more victims. we ll have the latest on that ahead. plus, india s prime minister puts on a show doing yoga on the lawn of the u.n. in new york. just hours before president biden will test his political flexibility as he hosts the leader accused of waging war on democracy in his own country. but we start with that coast guard update, let s go live and take a listen. fi
it s a good story. it s a good story. tell. it he does. michael steele, that s tonight s reidout. by michael steele. now watch in with chris hayes. that starts right now. s hayes. that starts right now. tonight on all in. tonight the court is getting involved before votes been cast. the supreme court agrees to decide whether donald trump can be thrown off the ballot. i do think the colorado supreme court got it right and this is a big precedent for the country. tonight, the argument the, timeline, and a high stakes of the supreme court decision as the trump campaign warns justices to play ball. people like kavanaugh, who the president fought for, he ll step up. on the eve of the anniversary of january 6th, the president goes squarely after his likely opponent. he thinks that s funny. he laughed about it. what a sick [laughter] [applause] . tonight former police officer michael fanone after fighting off an insurrection. when all in starts, right now
to meet with the mexican president. will a new plan emerge to stop the unprecedented number of illegal border crossings. plus a new survey shows voters associate donald trump with words like revenge and dictatorship. and the gop front runner seems to be bragging about it. it s time to say good-bye to 2023. we have a countdown of tbiggest political stories of the year. i m phil mattingly. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. at this hour, secretary of state antony blinken and the secretary of homeland security are meeting with the mexican president about the crisis along the southern border. the goal, convince him to action to stop migrants before they reach u.s. territory. cnn s priscilla alvarez leads us off from the white house today. what does the administration hope to get out of this trip from a policy perspective? reporter: simply put, they want help to drive down the number of border crossings. that officials have been seeing creep up over the l
plus, the remarkable story of this 9-year-old and how she s using her own voice for the first time all thanks to a rare and complex surgery. we re following these stories and more all coming right here to cnn central. we begin on the southern/u.s. border where thousands of migrants right now are making a very long trek by foot to the u.s. the caravan is called quote, the exodus of poverty. homeland security. p encounters with migrants at the border is averaging 10,000 nor the month of december alean. and border patrol agents say they ve been 380,000. what s unfolding from eagle pass, texas. what do you know about this caravan and how are officials preparing? jessica, they departed on christmas eve and they have spent their christmas day walking towards the united states. make no mistake about it, it s going to create an even more complicated situation. what we see and hear at the border, and, behind me it s a holding area that was empty when we arrived here this morning a