anybody out here. so the sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head, i know you guys are getting excited. i don t think if you watch me that i get excited do i want to go through all this, no. but i think at the end of the day it s better to go through this now so we could be successful for this term. if you fail three times, how do you possibly pull this off? you get to 218. this morning, a speakership stalemate. the house adjourned last night without a speaker after kevin mccarthy failed to win enough support in three rounds of voting. we ll walk through what happened and how today is shaping up. plus, republican congressman-elect george santos had an awkward first day in washington. he kicked things off with another statement about something that didn t actually happen. we ll tell you what it was. also this morning, the family of damar hamlin says he s still fighting after his scary collapse monday night. we ll have the latest on his condition straight
head coach mike tomlin yesterday. tomlin, one of the best and most important voices in the nfl and he was reflecting on his relationship with buffalo bills safety damar hamlin who remains hospitalized in critical condition after going into cardiac arrest on the football field in cincinnati on monday night. there have been very few official updates on hamlin s medical status following his collapse however his uncle provided some new details in a series of media interviews last night. right now they got him on a ventilator so trying to get him to breathe on his own so we re just taking it day by day, still in the icu. they have him sedated. he s still sedated right now. they just want him to have a better chance of recovering better, so they feel if he s sedated his body can heal a lot faster than if he was woke and possibly cause other complications. they had to resuscitate him twice. they resuscitated him on the
there is four seasons. the panthers were eliminated following a loss to tom brady and the tampa bay buccaneers. turning to college basketball and the potential for a 90-team march madness tournament. it is included in a 22-page report released by the ncaa transformation committee that called for a variety of changes. however, the expansion of the popular men s and women s tournament is not imminent and might not be likely in the near future even if the recommendation is adopted. 90 teams, way too many. keep it as is. now let s turn to last night s action in the nba. we ll begin this salt lake city and jazz were tied with the kings in the final seconds of regulation. steals it. 0.4 seconds.
that. but we said we are going to be committed. we re going to be relentless and creative in doing everything we can to bring about paul whelan s return to the united states, return to his family. despite the ongoing war channels remain open between the u.s. and russia to talk about prisoner swaps. whelan was arrested in 2018 on espionage charges. both he and u.s. officials say they are unfounded. he was sentenced to 16 years in prison in june 2020. american officials failed this past year to secure his return during prisoner swap negotiations that did result in the release of two other americans who were wrongfully detained in russia. trevor reed in april and then brittney griner last month. coming up here on way too earl. a new lawsuit. apparently the rent hasn t been paid in san francisco at twitter. we ll have more on that story and the drama on capitol hill straight ahead.
collapse monday night. we ll have the latest on his condition straight ahead. good morning, welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 4th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. lots of news to get to and we begin with the house of representatives which is still at a standstill this morning after republicans failed to co-les around a single nominee for speaker during the first day of the 118th congress yesterday. house republicans kicked off their new position in the majority by plunging the lower chamber into a level of disarray that it hasn t seen in a century. for the first time since 1923, a vote on the next speaker was not decided on the first ballot. needing 218 votes to secure it, a small group of colleagues played spoiler to new majority