a pivotal vote for house speaker coming up. mccarthy s focused on two holdouts right now. can he change their minds? one congressman who did change his mind is outfront. plus, who are the final holdouts? one of them just arrived in washington for the first time, has never held elected office and was a contestant on shark tank, a successful one. and another top story we re following, chilling new details emerge tonight that tie the suspect in the idaho murders in a really sick way. outfront tonight, the breaking news. we are counting down right now until a crucial 14th vote for speaker. and this vote is extremely important. it is a vote that congressman kevin mccarthy and many of his supporters believes will finally give him the gavel after this excruciating week. as of right now the house will reconvene at 10:00 p.m. eastern time, which is when the next vote for speaker of the house is likely to begin. they ll nominate, and we will be off to the races on that. you
happy holiday. my first time seeing you. i m fredricka whitfield. it s official. after a grueling 15 rounds of voting, the house speaker has a new speaker. the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [ cheers and applause ] newly elected speaker of the house kevin mccarthy grabbing the gavel after four days of voting. the longest speaker contest in 164 years. despite the sometimes c contentious days of negotiations, republicans in the end rallied around mccarthy and his vision for america. i make this promise. i ll never give up for you, the american people. and i will never give up on keeping our commitment to america. our nation is worth fighting for. our rights are worth fighting for. our dreams are worth fighting for. our future is worth fighting for. cnn s eve a mckenna is live on capitol hill. good to see you. happy holiday. what a way to begin the new year, right? i mean, how did you know, what
or a whimper followed by a loud thud. and around that same time one of the surviving roommates said she saw a man in black matching kohberger s description inside the room, all in black, bushy eyebrows, freezes in fear, goes wack to the room. the suspect s vehicle seen leaving the area at a high rate of speed. 9:12 a. 9:12 a.m. his cellphone pings near the victims house. if it s 4:20 a.m. you re terrified, freezes in fear. she hears him, somebody crying and saying i m going to help you. how do you explain not calling 911 for five, six hours? sometimes the almost easier answer might be the correct one. i m wondering without blaming her was she intoxicated, whether
suspected that he would have been watched had he done something like that. i do believe that he is arrogant and has an ego big enough to think that he is smarter than everyone else and he had outsmarted the system. yeah, and as you really paint the picture on that it makes me rethink the cellphone pings. obviously, that is something that you would learn, too, as a student of criminology, all of the things that would be indicators that eventually can be evidence of your whereabouts and how he probably should have known that but i guess didn t. so a roommate in the house identified by the document as d.m. said a masked person walked right past her. she opened up the door and recalls the bushy eyebrows, but he didn t harm her but that it was described she kind of froze. i mean, what does that moment tell you about maybe is it the
reporter: there were the zip ties on his property that seemed to match marks on diane s wrists. his cellphone pings near her house. the radio station alibi was a lie. the dna, though it wasn t absolutely definitive, could not eliminate him. and all those women could identify him as that creepy guy claiming he wanted to buy a house with cash, cash which he certainly did not have. but then he really wasn t looking for houses. he was looking for victims. reporter: like realtor melody blount who cried and prayed afford her encounter with tony russo. she found it so terrifying to testify, but did. i did not expect for patrick anthony russo to be sitting across from me within 10 to 12 feet. and having to testify with that man looking at me, it was petrifying.