if you are hitting the road or jumping on a plane today, you will have plenty of company. one of the busiest travel days of the year is in full swing right now. the nightmare keeps getting worse for families of hostages in gaza. word today a 73-year-old american citizen, father of four, grandfather of seven, died at the hands of hamas. what we know about him and his wife who is still a hostage. lots to get to. we start with the new and significant reporting out of michigan. the detroit news obtaining audio recordings from 2020 in whicthen president trump urges officials not to sign off on results that show boden won. he said, we ve to fight for our country. we can let these people take our country away from us. he also said,quote, everybody knows detroit is crooked as hell. on the call, rnc chair mcdaniel who told election workers, if you can go home tonight, do not sign the certification papers. we will get you attorneys, to which trump added, we will take care of that
at the rafah boarder crossing near the gaza/egyptian border. the you haven t seen this video, it came in a short while to cnn. it shows crowds running as gunfire is ringing out in the streets. meanwhile, fears of a growing escalation in the middle east are also on the broadcast this evening. an iranian drone struck a commercial ship in the indian ocean on saturday. a u.s. defense official says a fire broke out on the chemical tanker with nearly two dozen crew members on board, but no one was hurt. the strike comes as newly declassified u.s. intelligence suggests iran has been deeply involved in a series of houthi rebel attacks on ships in the red sea. we have reporters covering this. will rippley is live in tel aviv with more on the outbreak of violence at the rafah crossing, and more than gunfire, will. it seems like out-and-out chaos breaking out outside that crossing area. what can you tell us? reporter: a lot of factors lead up to this. the rafah crossing is one of the
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with fears of growing escalation in the middle east. the pentagon says an iranian attack drone struck a commercial ship operating in the indian ocean on saturday. a u.s. defense official says a fire broke out on the chemical tanker with nearly two dozen crew members on board, but no one was hurt. it comes as newly declassified u.s. intelligence suggests iran has been deeply involved in a series of attacks by houthi rebels in the red sea. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is announcing a d deepening of the conflict saying the fighting will intensify until there s a vikt rip over hamas. one of the deadliest days of the conflict with 15 soldiers killed on friday. several hamas militants also killed as mounting slin deaths grow, beyond 20,000 according to hamas-controlled health ministry in gaza. we re covering this story from all angles. let s go to kevin liptak at the white house for us. kevin, how are the u.s. and other
aerial bombardment continues. this situation here is basically when you combine months of anxiety and stress, and it all comes to a boiling point. in that one area, the rafah crossing in southern gaza, the lifeline essentially between egypt and the line of aid trucks that can try to come in, people so desperate to get their hands on the supplies that they rush the trucks and try to grab what what they can. you see in some of the videos people have huge bundles they are carrying on their shoulders, trying to make a run for it. at some point, on top of all of that chaos, somebody opens fire. people in the crowd panicking from the gunshots. you can only imagine starving people who are panicked and stressed, and then they get in a crowd situation. this whole just nightmare that they re living through, just listen. just take a moment and listen. [ gunshots ] what this means, unfortunately, is that the aid that needs to go in in an orderly fashion and be distributed in an orderly f
bell rings. bell rings. bell tolls. bells peal. bells peal. the bells tolling in memory of the dead. this is an incident which has deeply, deeply shocked this country. as well as those who died, people are thinking about the people who were injured, a number of those are still in hospital, some with serious injuries. we know that many of the casualties were cheque, three czech. czech. details have been emerging about the identities of some of the victims, one of them was the director of the institute of musicology at the university. she was 49 years old, she was the mother of two children. the institute put out a statement saying that this was an extremely cruel time for us all. meanwhile, the police investigations are continuing, people here continuing to ask themselves what it was that could have driven this 24 year old gunman to behave in this way. this is a very sad moment coming as it doesjust before is a very sad moment coming as it does just before christmas, a time