hello. i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. any moment now, president biden is expected to update americans on the recent and unprecedented shootdowns of objects over north america. the president has been facing growing pressure to bring more transparency to the issue that has gripped the nation for the last month. let s get straight to jeremy diamond in washington. what are we expecting to hear from the president? this is the first time we hear directly from president biden in a formal setting on the downing not only of that chinese spy balloon but the three objects brought down between friday and sunday. to get to this point, a couple of things had to happen because the white house has really been in discussions over the last several days about the wisdom, the merits of the president potentially addressing this issue. they were wary at first of making this a bigger issue than it actually is. and they were also wanting to make sure the president waited until
georgia bulldogs edges out ohio state here in atlanta. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this holiday. happy new year. we begin tonight with a major development in the idaho murder investigation. for the first time we re hearing from the parents the suspect in the case, bryan kohberger. he s facing four counts of first-degree murder. jean casarez is in pennsylvania where kohberger remains in isolation at the correctional facility. what are the parents saying? well, pamela, they have released a statement and i want to read this to you. the attorney for bryan kohberger, jason labar, tells me that when he was arrested friday morning and the family is telling him about 3:00 in the morning, but brian labar tells me what happened was they wept to the front door and that bryan s father actually answered the door. it was law enforcement. we know it was the fbi. we know it was pennsylvania state police. it was in the middle of the night. we al
Terrorist attacks. Dont go anywhere. Cnn this morning starts right now. Hello, everyone. Were glad youre with us. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett joins us live in israel. Its 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. 1 00 p. M. In tel vooe, where Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is on the ground now as the war between israel and hamas intensifies. Were expecting to hear from him shortly. Hes meeting oneonone with the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as airstrikes continue to gaza. Hostages are still being held captive this morning. This is what it looks like in gaza city right now. Israel is now vowing to keep power, water and fuel cut off to the gaza strip until hamas releases hostages. The International Committee of the red cross is sounding the alarm saying hospitals will turn into morgues with cancer patients, babies in incubators and elderly at serious risk. There are hundreds of thousands of troops massing near the border with tanks and artillery as th
correspondent, jeremy diamond. let me start with you, colonel lateen. were you satisfied with the president s explanation that these were likely benign objects that were shot down especially since we have yet to find and retrieve these objects? i m not really am. you hinted at it, because we have not been able to retrieve objects from the crash sites of these downed objects. so, we really don t know very much about them. it could be possible that the president is right about these objects and the intel community is right about them, but we have to not mirror image the way we do things with what other countries are doing because the distinction between the private sector and the public sector in other countries is not as profound as it is here in the united states. so, i want to be very cautious, that these may be from a
without shame, and they cynically use ukraine and its people to weaken and split russia. we have never allowed and never will allow anyone to do this. reporter: the new year holiday the most important of the season in much of the russian-speaking world brought no letup in russia s attempts to weaken and split ukraine. this is an image put out by the kyiv region police department showing what it says is a fragment of a russian drone with the words happy new year in russian. ukraine s air force said it repelled 45 iranian made drones overnight around the turn of the new year. authorities in the kyiv region reported damage to infrastructure. clare sebastian, cnn, london. and colonel lateen joins us now. happy new year to you. i want to get your reaction to putin s new year s address. if you read between the lines, what is he saying? so happy new year, pam. he s really looking at a false narrative, but he s trying to convince the russian people and, really, the rest of the world,