2023. Tonight, were coming to you from times square in the heart of new york city. For so many, this is the place where new years begins and ends. Im tom yum. We fake you for joining us tonight. Were covering the top ten stories from this eventful year. Plus, look at the people in trends which to find the last 12 months. As we look to close the chapter in 2023, we take a look back at the air that was. Heres nbcs joe fryer. How do you define a year like 2023 . Was that the year of the strike . [crowd chanting] or year of the swift . Didnt offer a glimpse of the future with the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Weight Loss Drug ozempic . Or a Blast From The Past . Hi barbie i can with the pink coated resurgence of a classic doll. Was it the year a speaker was booted, or simply a prelude to 2024 . The Campaign Trail lined with pit stops in the courtroom. 2024 you can be defined in so many ways. So much of the world, it was a year headlined by war in the middle east. Major Brea
system has spun up several tornadoes, leaving a swath of death and destruction across the mississippi valley in the mid south. donald trump, making travel plans to face more than 30 criminal charges in new york next week, the latest on his historic indictment and. the immediate go to was that my life is over. um everything that i ve worked blood, sweat and tears for has just gone down the drain just like that. transgender american runner, vowing to fight for her olympic dream after world athletics ruled trans women can no longer can be in international competition. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin with a deadly tornado outbreak that is still underway parts of the united states from kentucky to louisiana under tornado watches and warnings at this hour under the gun right now, mississippi, alabama, tennessee and kentucky . tornadoes have been reported from arkansas to wisconsin. this is what it looked at, like after the storms blew th
hello and welcome. donald trump will be the first former us president to face criminal charges, after a grand jury indicted him over money paid to the former porn star stormy daniels. mr trump is expected to appear in court in new york next tuesday to face the charges and enter a plea. he denies any wrongdoing and the affair saying the indictment is political persecution . our north america correspondent gary o donoghue reports from new york. but then it s not everyday a former president gets charged with a crime. in fact, it s happened before. and this is the man who s brought the charges against donald trump, district attorney alvin bragg a democrat and a prosecutor in america s highly politicised legal system. but if mr bragg was saying nothing, the former president wasn t so reticent. he s called it political persecution , election interference and his opponents thugs and radical left monsters . no one is above the law, not even a former president of the unit
alex marquardt in washington. thank you so much for joining us today. we begin this hour with new details surrounding the indictment or former president donald trump. he is now the first ex president in us history to face criminal charges. trump is expected to travel to new york on monday, then surrender and appear in a manhattan court on tuesday. that s when charges against him of which sources tell us there are more than 30. that s when they will be. formally unveiled. attorneys for trump say he has quote ready to fight and will not accept a plea deal ahead of his appearance in court next week. the nypd is preparing for potential unrest. all officers are being told to report to work in uniform and to prepare for deployment today. cnn s kara scannell is outside the manhattan courthouse and cnn s leyla santiago is near trump s mar-a-lago home in west palm beach, florida. karen i want to start with you in new york. what more are you learning about what may be in this historic
country hit with those deadly tornadoes just days ago. rob marciano timing it out. we also make it to a rolling fo, also hit in mississippi. they are now bracing for another dangerous system coming through. overseas news on russia tonight, the kremlin now suspending all notifications, communication s with the u.s. nuclear weapons. if communications required under the new start treaty. tonight the white house now responding to all of this in martha raddatz standing by. if in the u.s., the veteran pilot in another plane helping a student pilot make an emergency landing. if you will hear the communications back and forth, what he learns about that young pilot as she tries to land the plane. news tonight involving the case against alec baldwin, the surprising move from the santa fe d.a. who charged him. tonight, dozens of swimmers are now facing possible federal charges for allegedly harassing the dolphins. and the diane sawyer exclusive, the first interview with actor jeremy ren