that s a bus in new york city and behind that is trump tower. there we go. former president trump about to depart for closing arguments today in his civil fraud trial. the judge has barred him from speaking in court. he wanted to make his own closing argument. the judge said forget about it. so he has been known to talk to reporters on the way in. we re watching that. no buses or trucks, good morning, i m bill hemmer. dana: just us. that s all you get for right now. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we had a wild day yesterday. see how this one turns out. the fraud trial culminating as iowa casts the first votes in the presidential election. the former president was there last night for a fox news town hall and tried to assure voters his second term would not be focused on revenge. i m not going to have time for retribution. we ll make the country so successful i won t have time for retribution. our ultimate retribution is success. dana: bill melugin is
los angeles, and this is america s late news, fox news @ night. breaking tonight, governor ron desantis says forget the polls, because his ground game will translate into a big win in iowa. it s a bold statement considering former president trump is leading ila by more than 30 points. the latest power rankings have just come out, and they indicate the very real possibility of a surprise in iowa or new hampshire. aishah hasnie is live in des moines, iowa, with more on the fox news town hall as well as the shake-up in the fox news power rankings. good evening. trace, good evening to you. that s right, desantis says don t count him out just yet, despite the stagnant polling on him at there recently. he says he is promising to exceed expectations here in iowa. tonight on the big stage he boasted about his ground game at the fox town hall and his team tells me they have more than 30,000 people committed to caucus for desantis. that s a big deal. he said it s time to elect some
this is america s late news. fox news at night. and breaking tonight, the new evidence is very strong that voters are not happy and the anger appears to be across the political spectrum. young, old, black, hispanic. the numbers for president biden are getting worse and when you have a lot of ground to make up in the new year, solutions seem to be few and far between t senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the very latest on this kevin good evening. reporter: happy new year my friend, evening to you. now last year president biden reportedly spent about, let s just say about a third of his time on the job away from the job, as it were, at get aways, posh vacation spots and almost weekly at his home over in delaware. but as he gets back to work in 2024 the oldest president in american history is saddled with the lowest approval numbers of any president running for a second term since the end of world war ii with 58%, nearly 6 in 10 americans disapproving
philadelphia leaders are asking everyone for patients as they work through the traffic nightmare there crediting divine intervention that the situation is not a mass casualty event. right now both lanes of i-95 are closed in northeast philadelphia as crews work at the side of the bridge collapsed, it s the truck carrying gasoline that caught fire under thedg happening before 630 this morning causing the northbound overpass to collapse. now about 10 miles of i-95 north and southbound lane are closed. officials warning other streets near the bridge could also be closed as cleanup continues. i-95 is one of the country s oldest and most travel routes firefighters arriving to the scenes this morning by portions of northbound lanes reduced to rubble, pennsylvania governor josh schapiro saying one vehicle is trapped as of this evening and crews are trying to identify if anyone was caught in that vehicle and in the fire in the collapse, the city public transit leaders are asking em
philadelphia fire department says after the initial fire broke out gas lines kept exploding underground. a state transportation official say this is likely to shut down i-95 indefinitely. this philadelphian agrees. i was woken up to nothing but text messages, phone calls. i had no idea what was going on i got dressed and came out and looked down and i smelled a smoky smell and i was like damn dude it would be a rough couple of weeks is not getting fixed tomorrow. eric: most important roots in the northeast, cb is here with us. both lanes of i-95 are closed in northeast philadelphia as crews work on the bridge collapse. at an official seen a tanker truck caught fire under i-95 and northeast philadelphia near cottman avenue causing the northbound overpass to collapse and now 7 miles of i-95 north and southbound are closed. officials are warning other streets near the bridge could be closed as crews continue the cleanup. this happening on one of the oldest and most traveled