for votes. kevin pmccarthy huddling with those to become speaker of the house. one doubling down on his opposition just moments ago. plus new details of the idaho murder. how the spektrct was tracked do and putin suffer ing on the battlefield. losses growing inside russia. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erica hill in for erin burnett. house leader kevin mccarthy still on the hill at this hour, still meeting with members of his party with just hours to go for that critical vote of speaker of the house. dozens of republicans seen going in and out of mccarthy s office. among them congressman matt gaetz. significant, one of the republicans who s been a hard no on his gavel. moments ago leaving mccarthy s office, gaetz offered this update. give in to your demands? might vote for him tomorrow? i don t know. i m a no. i m a no. tomorrow the entire conference gathers to hear mccarthy make his final case for the speakership. shortly after that, if he doesn t get su
genealogy compared to a public database leading to a family member of a suspect. kohberger s lawyer says his father flew to washington state to bring him to northeast pennsylvania for the holidays. his father actually went out there and they drove home together. reporter: they drove his white hyundai elantra. a car matching that description was in the immediate area of the killings, police said. cnn confirmed they stopped at a repair shop in pennsylvania where some work was done on the vehicle. i believe he arrived somewhere around the 17th of december. reporter: jason labar, chief public defender for monroe county, pennsylvania, is representing kohberger until ex-etra die extradited. the fbi watched him four days before being arrested. idaho state troopers at their house approximately 3:00 a.m. knocking on the door. reporter: kohberger graduated in may from desales university in pennsylvania with a masters
students were murdered, almost a month ago now. authorities believe the car is a 2011 to 201 white hyundai alan that. they don t know the license plate number but asking of anyone who knows a car matching that description to contact them. police seen wednesday loading up 10-foot you haw with plastic tins and boxes packing up the belongings that included pink cowboy boots you see them on your screen that madison logan had displayed in a window in her room. these families deserve to have these personal items. we went in to gather the belongings. we re just trying to get stuff back to the families so that they can have some closure. we re going to do our job and do it to the best of our ability. and we owe this to the family. we owe this to the victims. we owe this to our community. meanwhile, university students are grappling with new unsettling reality in moscow. one student saying, quote: my feelings of security have been rattled. in some ways, i don t believe i can ever view mosco
gotten an intelligence tip that a car matching that description was going to potentially carry a vehicle-borne ied to the gate. this car happened to match some of the movement patterns they were expecting, i.e. being in a neighborhood where they had seen other isis behavior. throughout the day, even though all it was was an aid worker completing his workday and going home, and his home happened to be closer to the airport, what the people in the decision chainsaw was a vehicle closing in on the airport. so in some of the other drone strikes, and those other drone strikes have also killed civilians over the 20-year history of this war, they have looked for what s called pattern of life. you know, did this person or did this person that they re targeting or the vehicle they re targeting, has it made repeat behaviors, is there something that is sticking out that makes this a particular day of concern for that target. and they had no time to do that. when general mackenzie,
been transferred from children going back and forth between parents as marshall explains. only his audio could be shown not his face. do you ever share clothes with austin now? yes. if all my shirts are dirty or something i ll borrow one of his shirts. and i use also blake s old sweatshirt. reporter: the matter of the alibi. neighbors in the area where clay starbuck claimed his car broke down testified that they did see a car matching that description parked by the side of the road. i came up early in the morning to smoke a cigarette outside. i had seen it parked up the street. reporter: austin told the court that the jury should not be suspicious about clay s phone being off that day. why would he have it off? so he wouldn t be interrupted when he was sleeping because he had back surgery and he needed his sleep. reporter: yes, the back surgery. the reason clay was in deer park and not out working on the pipeline at the time of chanin s murder.