we re all excited the gang is back together this wednesday morning after a christmas holiday. a christmas break for each of us. it was a wonderful time. makes us all grateful for this job and we are all back together. feels good. steve: feels great. welcome back, brian. before yesterday. we were here, and griff jenkins was here as well through the entire holiday. hats off to him and everybody else who filled in the chair. brian: must have been tough for him to not surf. griff prefers to surf. steve: i was talking to griff yesterday because is he going to go down today to south florida to go surfing. and i told him the beaches are gone because of beach erosion over the last month. brian: you are kidding. steve: beaches are pretty much shot. lawrence: finally gets to celebrate and there is no beach. ainsley: still waves. brian: waves crash into land. just send you. steve: just smooths out. no roll. ainsley: y all, before christmas we saw the presiden
school shooting in iowa. we re told to prepare for police to give an update. their very first moments away. if you look at the left side of your screen, you can see the microphone bank there. you see officials gathering. as soon as they walk up to those micks i ll go there right away and take it life. this is perry high school in perry, iowa. police have confirmed reports of an active shooter at that high school. just so you know the location, it s about 25 miles northwest of the capital of iowa, des moines. today is the first day back at school following the school district s winter break. no confirmed casualties yet. you may hear otherwise. we want to wait and get that firmed up. perhaps momentarily from the officials that you see in the distance there on your screen. as always with breaking news, the situation is in flux. we want to try to get that confirmation if anybody has been killed or hurt directly from the officers. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner f
a very good evening to you. i m abby phillip. tonight the entire planet is paying tribute to the queen of rock n roll, the one and only tina turner gone at the age of 83. a superstar for the ages, and we reflect in a moment on one of the biggest voices and losses in music history. but first, we begin with the developments in the 2024 presidential race, the man viewed as the biggest tlept to donald trump for the republican nomination. he just made it official on trump s old turf, twitter. righting this ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i m ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. but, ron desantis s big announcement night went a little south from there. a very rocky start to his formal bid with major glitches plaguing his planned conversation with twitter space s ceo elon musk. an audi
a superstar for the ages, and we reflect in a moment on one of the biggest voices and losses in music history. but first, we begin tonight with the breaking development in the 2024 presidential race. the man who is viewed by many pundits as the biggest threat to donald trump to the republican nomination. he just made it official in a post on trump s old turf, twitter. righting the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. and commons s can no longer be an uncommon virtue. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i am ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american come back. but ron desantis s big announcement tonight went a little bit south from there. a very rocky start to his formal bid, with major glitches plaguing his planned conversation with twitter spaces ceo elon musk, an audio form that had some major technical difficulties, and the moderator blamed heavy traffic. the florida governor s campai
give some of these republican officer holders truth serum and get out why they were doing this, like why get into the whole election game. what woulde they say? i mean because power is one thing, but to really have no principle that you can particularly articulate. other thanar winning. texas is particularly interesting and interesting in a lot of these states, you re seeing it in missouri. the paranoia is so yeah, to boulder s point, it s a snake eating its own tail. thank you my friend as always. today the florida statehouse of representatives passedse a bill that prevents colleges and universities in florida from spending any money on anything that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion. now it heads to florida governor ron desantis who will undoubtedly signnt the thing. now, if you live in the real world and if the words diversity and equity and inclusion sound like positive things to you, what happened today in florida feels likein madness. but if you are a fox