Trace Laura Ingle is following the latest developments from New York. Good morning to you. Good morning. It happened just as some employees were about to sit down and have their dinner break. One man who said he was sitting with a coworker just about to eat, they heard a Loud Clang and then the unmistakable sounds of gunshots just after 11 00 p. M. Then we heard three more shots and then my Buddy Levi saw someone running out of the building. And then more shots went off. Somebody went behind their car to the trunk and got another got another gun and then i saw one body on the floor. This Fedex Facility is massive. According to local reports, it employs more than 4500 people making it the second largest hub for the company globally. Information still coming together this morning. Weve been told that fedex employees are not allowed to use their phones on the floor of the warehouse. Those folks werent able to call for Help Or Call family members. Chief deputy of the Indianapolis Police sa
bill: okay. we ll go with that for now. good morning to you. dana: president s week did go from bad to worse yesterday. supreme court striking down one of his vaccine mandates applying to businesses with more than 100 workers. a mandate for certain healthcare workers does remain in effect. bill: that decision comes down after a surprise floor speech from center kyrsten sinema. for a year she is saying she won t do this, the filibuster. she said i want do that. her opposition leaves the white house with no path forward on its plan to overhaul u.s. elections and various other items. while i continue to support these bills i will not support separate actions that worseen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. the debate over the senate 60 vote threshold shines a light on our broader challenges. dana: we have mike gallagher with reaction. let s go to the white house where jackie heinrich is standing by. i m trying to find the good news for them. maybe
in fact, one black president a world away wants to know why president biden is singling out african nations when it is affecting people hopping on planes and going everywhere? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . the president meeting now we re told with his covid response team getting set to speak later this hour to the nation on the new variant. and the world health organization says it poses a very high global risk. south africa s first reports of it were last wednesday. the truth, there is still a lot we don t know. dr. anthony fauci says it should take about two weeks to get a clear picture of how severe and transmissible the variant is. you have a virus that has already gone to multiple countries. inevitably it will be here. we re on the lookout for this. cdc has a good surveillance system. if and when shall did-it will be when it comes here hopefully we ll be ready for it. harris: dr. marty makary says it could take 12 hours. let s get the facts
frontrunner. ron desantis, tim scott in contention. you have five others in the conversation and the rest are on the outside looking in. dana: former president is dominating on endorsements and racked up more than 80. the rest of the field is splitting a dozen between them. bill: ron desantis has billed himself as the one candidate best equipped. they side with the former president trump. dana: the first debate giving candidates a chance to turn the tide. this is what voters want to hear. we have to fix the border. this migrant situation is insane. if somebody doesn t address and really fix the situation i think we re really seeing a lot of america in decline. we re so divided right now. the person that can communicate that message to say i m going to lift everybody. we need a stable economy, immigration is a big issue, put our veterans first. common sense policy. a president with strong business sense to be able to negligent for america. dana: josh holmes has a
thanks for being here. i m stephen romo in for yasmin today. it s a busy final day of 2023. just hours before the ball drops, the security is tight in new york s times square. celebrations are set to get underway, despite the heightened threat environment, following the october 7th attack on israel. we are live on the scene with the latest. of course, in many parts of the world, it is already 2024. we will show you the sights and sounds and the hopes so many have for the new year. meanwhile, tensions are high across the red sea at this hour, as the u.s. navy sinks three houthi boats and downed ballistic missiles fired from houthi controlled areas. we will have more on that. legal action in donald trump s world is not stopping. we will reveal that question special counsel jack smith has for an appeals court that took more than 80 pages to ask. and we begin this hour with a countdown to the new year. up to 1 million people are flocking to times square to witness new yor