austin covering a lot of ground in his first press conference since his secret hospital admission, addressing the elephant in the room saying he did not handle his diagnosis and hospitalization correctly, and reiterated the u.s. plans to respond to a deadly attack on u.s. service members in jordan. i m john roberts in new york city, and look who is here today. just like magic. gillian: we managed to shake free of it. great to be with you, john. i m in for sandra smith, she s out on assignment. america reports . general austin s briefing comes as u.s. officials confirm iran manufactured the drone used to kill the three american service members and injure dozens more during sunday s strike. calling the attack on sleeping soldiers egregious and looking for a multi-tiered strike in retaliation. john: tensions ratcheting up near the red sea, united states taking out an anti-aircraft missile in yemen, raising concerns the group could be expanding its target zone. gillian:
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before president trump is facing a 37-count indictment. griff jenkins is live for us in miami. reporter: good evening. the former president is at his doral state this evening. sources tell fox news that he was meeting with his legal team ahead of tomorrow s historic court appearance. he s not made any public comments or didn t speak to the press when he landed. in social media posts and campaign stops over the weekend, he continues to rail over this indictment and paint himself of traces of victim and promise on truce social. i will appoint a prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the usa, joe biden and the entire biden family. chris christie had this to say in a town hall earlier tonight. listen. he s shown himself and most particularly in his post presidency to be self-centered and consumed. he does not give a damn about the american people in my view. #. reporter: but other rivals are coming to the former president s defense. it reeks o
right now and this is very hard to swallow. i want each and every one of you to protest in peace. i don t want us burning up our cities, tearing up the streets because that is not what my son stood for. if you guys are here for me and tyree, then you will protest peacefully. [chanting] carley: brooke singman live with the latest details, hey, brooke. good morning, ashley, just hours from now, the police expected to release body cam footage from tyree nichols death and that will be hard to watch, all on january 7th when 29-year-old was pulled over by the memphis police officer with reckless driving what we will play is a recording from the police scanner from the confrontation, listen. do you have eyes on the subject? [indistinct] we have one running on foot. somebody barricade? the nichols families legal family seen the footage and it shows the five officers beating tyre nichols for 3 minutes, he died in the hospital three days after the incident that cities across
ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds. needles to say it is a mess for holiday travelers. thousands of flights were canceled thursday. nearly 2700 flights already canceled today with hundreds more delayed. and look at power outage