from the floods. and now the new storm set to move in. first tonight, the breaking news just in. chris christie out of the race, five days before the first voting in iowa. tonight, what christie said about his decision, and the most important issue for anyone running for president, he says. and that hot mic moment, right beforehand, what he said about nikki haley. rachel scott in iowa. the search and rescue, the deadly avalanche in california. skiers buried in the snow. search teams battling heavy snow, brutal cold, and winds gusting up to 100 miles an hour to find the victims. the images coming in tonight. in the northeast, the flood emergency playing out. high water rescues. a potential dam breach forcing evacuations. homes surrounded by water. and now, the new storm set to sweep across the country again. it could bring significant snow to some states. rob marciano here to time it out. the stunning moment on capitol hill today. hunter biden arriving unannounced, jus
bret: let s all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, i m bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this week s candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. we ll have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major stories at this hour. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at the congressional hearing today up on capitol hill on whether he should be charged with contempt of congress. but we begin with a late afternoon surprise. this one in the 2024 campaign. republican presidential candidate chris christie is suspending his campaign and is dropping out of this race. christie making that announcement just minutes ago. you saw it live on the five. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is here in de
harris: get ready, a third batch of secrets spilling today from jeffrey epstein s court documents. fallout already being felt all the way from buckingham palace to hollywood and many places in between. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. so more than 300 additional pages unsealed. the largest takeaways about former president bill clinton coming to light. and these documents include a claim that bill clinton tried to stop publication of an article about the sex trafficking operation of the now-deceased pedophile jeffrey epstein. a legal expert with this take. bill clinton is a huge public figure. everywhere he goes there are security and eyeballs on him. you know, it s a cautionary tale your mom told you when you were little, you have to be careful who you associate with. who you associate with you can be collateral damage. they are so caught up in this jeffrey epstein web of scandal like being named in these dock also. harris: we re also learning ab
that s a ski resort. rachel: or a mental institution. is that what you out of. rachel: that s what i thought. the reason we re starting in vermont, because last hour we read a report that a moving company reported that vermont is the state that most people move to in 2023. will has been extolling the virtues of vermont. he loves it. we didn t believe it, that could be the case. the state where most people moved, we cracked the code on this one. yeah, the reality is, it s the percent it s complicated. the second most moved into state according to the city you i did, washington, d.c. what it is, it s the net percentage of people who moved in versus moved out. so 63% of the moves in washington, d.c. were inbound versus outbound. that means more people are moving into vermont but less people are moving out if that makes sense. if you ve got a state like texas, tennessee, south carolina, y you ve got tons of people moving in and you have people moving out and maybe 55
the migrant surge in democratic run city spurring a blue city backlash. president biden is no stranger to republicans criticizing the border and now democratic mayors are piling on. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. a fraction of what s coming across the border every day. enough to make sanctuary cities sound the alarm, plead for more help, beg for help from the federal government and the white house. the chaos becoming impossible to ignore. even thousands of miles away from the border as the crisis makes its way into big cities. now the mayors from democratic strongholds say the white house has left them to fend for themselves. the federal government must take responsibility and lead on this humanitarian crisis. cities have reached a point where we are either close to capacity or nearly out of room. it will cramp city budgets around the country. $160 million of cost in next year s budget. 10% of our e