good afternoon. i am richard lui in for yasmin. the christmas dozens of flights canceled due to weather in the mid let leaving airline scrambling to get travelers home for the holidays. a live report on the situation just a moment. and, a brand-new falling by donald trump s legal team on the issue of presidential immunity, essentially their client s commute completely immune from prosecution. this sets up a showdown of what the special counsel and the hearing set for early january. breaking news for you as well, the israeli military revealing the fate of five hostages whose bodies were found in the tunnels of gaza. we will get the details with that just into. us with record breaking numbers of migrant the board of this week, some negotiators working the phone lines through the congressional recess to find a deal on immigration. we ll also look back at the culture war bottles of 2023 when america appeared to be a war with itself. that is coming up, later this hour. we ar
secretary blinken and foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke by phone and that is significant given talks have been sparse during war. the 31-year-old reporter was arrested wednesday in central russia about a thousand miles away from moscow, russia is accusing him of spying. gershkovich has been reported in russia for the six years mostly the wall street journal which denied allegations. the timing of the arrest looks like calculated calculation to embarrass the u.s. the board called for the russian ambassador to the u.s. be expelled along with journalists. president biden said that wasn t part of the immediate plan and offered this. detaining the wall street journal reporter. let him go. you heard the president say there. secretary blinken also called on russia to release paul wylan he s been retained in russia since 2018 as you mentioned mike and back in december the biden administration facilitated release of brittney griner in exchange that freed merchant of death. th
ceremonial role, you have russia s president now subject to an arrest warrant from the un s international criminal court for the alleged abduction of thousands of ukrainian children. ukrainian mothers are fighting to get their sons and daughters back. as war raged and russia took care of kherson in the south. a place to be a kid, away from the war. 3 weeks past, it was october 21 and my son texted to me we are not returning. he was surrounded by barbed wire and fed diet of half cooked potatoes and russia propaganda, told his mother had abandoned them. was buried in bureaucracy forced to never-ending search for documentations to reclaim her
our jennifer griffin picks up the story from there. as war raged in vietnam, a quiet effort started by two sorority sisters to show support for the p.o.w. and mia s who were shot down in rice paddy fields took off across america. and students began wearing bracelets with the name of a p.o.w. and the date they were shot down. brad paxton was one of those kids who sent his $2.50 away for the bracelet. and this is a photo of me, more hair back then. this was lieutenant carey, shot down august 31st, 1957. i would say 50% of my junior high was wearing the bracelet. he didn t have to be for or against it. and spurred by his wife and how they united the country during a divisive war, he decided to try to find dunt dave carey and found him in
but we remember the mission that they shared. and we recall their common commitment to defend our republic and to squarely face new dangers. as many of you know, the construction of the pentagon began on another september 11th back in 1941. as war raged overseas, workers with steam shovels began digging that morning into the virginia clay. historians say that it was a perfect late summer day. with a crystal clear blue sky and a hint of fall in the air. on that september 11th night, president franklin roosevelt gave a fireside chat about the