Almost happy new year. Thomass off, bobbies off, mike jerrick will be back and thank you for waking up early and joining us on this last day of the week and heading in the new year. New years eve and it will be a lot colder out there. You noticed it when you walk outside the door this morning if you were watching. If you november yet done so. Bundle up. What is the number today. It is a five because it will be cold, windy, blustery today, and there is a slight chance of a snow shower, why . Because all of the cold air is coming across the great lakes and occasionally, one of those bands of snow, hits our area. So, further north and west we will go more likely you for see snow shower or two, today but all we could find was one little one just southwest of Lancaster County around york, pennsylvania and that is it. So temperatures are in the mid 30s, this morning, just about every where, except the mountains but the wind chills are in the 20s, so, that is what it feels like, that is what
Celebratio celebrations. We will tell you what new steps are taken. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Im joe johns. It is friday, december 30th. 4 00 in the morning. Christine and john are off. This morning, we are waiting to see what steps the russians plan to take. Planning to retaliate today for the sanctions president obama just laid down punishing russia for election hacking. The white house announcing measures against four individuals and five entities and expelling dozens of diplomats drawing condemnation from the russian government and the president elect. President elect donald trump downplaying the hack but with a new twist. It is time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. In the interest of the country, i will meet with leaders of the Intelligence Community to be updated on the facts of the situation. A top trump aide is dismissing the sanctions and limiting the president elects options. Here is Kellyanne Conway on cnn. These retaliations put forward
The biggest diplomatic confrontations between the United States and russia since the cold war and all of this three weeks before president elect trump takes office. What russia has been engaged in is unacceptable. It is outside the bounds of diplomatic behavior. Caroline fountain live at the state department. Any retaliation from the resin so far . Apparently not. We heard threat yesterday from russian spokesman, Vladimir Putin came out and said they will not be sending our diplomats home. Here is the statement, we will not create problems for us diplomats, we will not expel anybody. That is unusual because in past cases when we kicked the russians out they did a titfortat expulsion of our diplomats they have the right to retaliate, they are waiting for the Trump Administration to get into office before they make any decisions. This is just an executive order by president obama. He will walk out the door on january 2, 02, he can change it anyway he wants and that is what the russians a
Election that just happened. The second part has to do with harassment of u. S. Diplomats in russia. Thats what it seems of the 35 expulsions declaring of the 35 diplomats here in the state from russia. And the back end of it, there is a little bit of a defense and there is a clear csigma phi epsil epsilon and helping u. S. Cyber Security Firm protecting america institutions and individuals. It gives you a reminder of Ronald Reagan and a bear being in the woods. Grizzlies steps what i say they are calling it. I wont attempt to pronounce some of these men. What do we know about these four men . They are all associated with the g ru. We ha gru. All four of them are involved. O hes the one that we had the fbi poster from. He was involved allegedly in some cyber mouth phases, he was indicted in nebraska and thats where they brought tg case forward and allegations is up to 100 million loss property. Hes been in the fbis list for some time. The reward for him is 3 million. To be clear that p
Facts of the administration. The top aide is calling it toothless and limiting the options. Here is Kellyanne Conway on cnn. These retaliations and sanctions put forward by president obama and his administration, some seem largely symbolsymbolic. Some are saying that part of the reason obama did this today was to quote box in president elect donald trump. That would be very unfortunate if that were the political motivating factor here. We cant help but think that is true. Cnns athena jones is with president obama in hawaii with more on the sanctions. Reporter good morning, joe and alison. The president calling the steps necessary and appropriate and said they are coming after repeated private and public warnings to the russian government. He said all americans should be lar alarmed by russias actions. He we perepeated that these wou encouraged by the highest level. The individuals and entities will be subject to the sanctions. Including the military unit and its chief and the domestic