friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
Has been extended by the Biden Administration, this despite the president telling 60 minutes back in september that the pandemic was over. And now new images, Satellite Images show china show crowds gathering at crematoriums though chinas government insists covid has only killed a few dozen people. We begin with another round of travel chaos that could delay flights for another full day. It comes as a nationwide outage of a key Warning System because the fda to ground all departing aircraft and in a very strange twist, the same Warning System in canada also broke down today. Charles watson is live with the breaking details in atlanta tonight. Good evening. Good evening. Travel troubles caused by the system outage will likely continue through thursday. There are a lot of folks out there not able to make it on flights on wednesday and will not have to wait until sometime later today to get to where theyre going. Meantime, in the latest update, federal Aviation Administration says prelimi
translator: we are alive but nobody comes. we heard them. they are calling out asking for help. how can we rescue them? a oh, my gosh. the anguish. search and rescue teams race to save lives across turkey and syria. the death toll topping 5,000. countless people still trapped in the rubble and fighting to stay alive. also this morning we are live on capitol hill where president biden is going to make his case for a re-election, an announcement that s expected tonight. a recent poll shows most americans don t think he has achieved much. can president biden cut through the noise? we re going to speak to the white house communications director to get her view in a few moments. also, the faa will be in the hot seat on capitol hill after a series of travel meldowns after near collisions. we begin with the search and rescue operation in turkey and syria. more than 5,000 people are confirmed dead after yesterday s catastrophic earthquake. there are thousands upon thousands o
mississippi picking up the pieces after devastating storms over the weekend left over two dozen people dead and prince harry, elton john, and others take their fight against the british tabloids to a london courtroom. this is what we re watching at this hour. and thank you for being here. i m amarillo walker in for kate baldwin. we begin in israel, which is paralyzed right now by protests over benjamin netanyahu s plan to overhaul the country s judicial system. take a look at this video right now of protesters blocking a highway in television. police tried to disperse them by blasting them with water cannons. and while israelis take to the streets in protest, a historic general strike is also bringing the country. to a standstill all flights at israel s main airport were grounded for several hours , but they have now resumed now this is all happening just hours after netanyahu fired his own defense minister who had called for a pause in the government s judicial reform effort
documents to the archivists. that s what they did as soon as they realized what was the documents were there. and his team is cooperating fully with the review. again, there s a review happening by the doj. we re going to let the process move forward. just to follow up on the question. given the position you re holding right now, there are no assurances that you can provide that there s no other classified documents out there? yes, this is an ongoing process. i ll let the process continue. it s being reviewed by the department of justice and i m going to leave it there. you referenced the counsel s statements that there s limitations to what you can say at this point in time. do those limitations extend to everything beyond what the special counsel said monday night and what the president said last night? the white house counsel, my colleagues are here to answer questions on this particular issue. i m just going to let them speak to this. they put out monday a very