Big backlash after president obama commutes the sentence of Chelsea Manning, how did this move affect interaction among those who leaked classified material. The president elect making preparations for his president ial inauguration friday as more democrats decide to boycott. And a critical day on capitol hill. The man charged with overhauling obamacare faces the senate after the education nominee runs into pushback. Good morning, everyone, welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. 92yearold former president george h. W. Bush has been hospitalized in houston, thats according to local media. His office chief of staff gene becker tells the Houston Chronicle that president bush is doing just fine. Although the reason for his hospitalization not immediately disclosed. He was not planning to go to the inauguration this friday. We dont know how this will affect george w. Bush whether he still plans to attend. George h. W. Bush has been in the hospital over the last couple
We just named sonny perdue. I want to congratulate you, sonny perdue of agriculture. When i was leaving, i saw secretary kelly. And i was leaving. Just to put it in the most basic terms, hes in charge of our borders. And they had all of the stations, that lots of things are happening along the borders. Like this tremendous security, all of a sudden. And even before he gets there, theyre saying, wow, what a difference. What a difference. I was very honored to get border security, all of the Border Patrol agents, they endorsed trump. We had 16,500. I. C. E. Endorsed trump. And they know whats happening. Theyve already started because general kelly is going to do an unbelievable job, in keeping us all safe. And speaking of safety, we have general mattis. Now, i dont know if he likes being called mad dog mattis. I will not call him mad dog mattis. Ill call him general mattis. But hes here some place. He is going to keep us safe. In fact, it was the shortest senatorial interview ive ever se
They can determine how much damage they really did. This is the first use in combat of this weapon. Just showing our viewers the video of the test of this moab bomb back in 2003. You see the plume of smoke that comes up after the bomb has been detonated. A bomb that has been used for the first time in combat in afghanistan. What youre saying, barbara, is that theyre now going through the Damage Assessment. Were they trying to destroy this tunnel . Were there people or isis folks inside . Do we have any idea what the actual target was . Well, we are told the target is being described by the u. S. Military and the coalition as a tunnel complex in this region. We believe there are also some saves there. I dont want to come to any, you know, snap conclusions, but this is an area of afghanistan dating all the way back to the al qaeda days of many years ago that has been laced with caves and tunnels where injusurgents have been able to retreat to over the years. Its very close to the pakista
The biggest challenge we have at the moment is the current. We are Still Holding out with guarded optimism but we are to be clear in a race against time. Sandra phil keating has elites on the spur miami. Today is day number five from this growing search and rescue operation which is critical as a coast guard captain put it bluntly. It is a race against the clock and every hour and data go by only make it more daunting. Last night the latest coast guard map was released showing the grid zone of the atlantics card so far by air and by sea which cover the waters off of florida, georgia and now the carolinas. It has expanded to the whole Southeast Region is that gulfstream and drift patterns had up the coast. If the boat with the firefighters were in the water it would be heading that way. Day five of the search begins at sunrise and tuesdays search was the largest yet. Jacksonvilles fire chief said nearly 200 people and 70 volts and ten aircraft search the ocean. All that in addition to t