You arent going anywhere. We have another hour coming your way right now. Thank you. 10 00 in new york, martha. To the next hour we roll. Martha so a Bombshell Court Decision in georgias election case against former President Trump. The judge ruling this morning just about an hour ago that d. A. Fani willis can stay on this case but only if she cuts ties with her former romantic partner, nathan wade, the man she hired as a Special Prosecutor to lead the case against the former president , donald trump. With that we welcome you to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. Im Martha Maccallum in today for dana perino. Bill im bill hemmer, good morning. We talked at 6 00 this morning saying it would be a rocknroll day and it will be. Awaiting a reaction from the d. A. The judges Decision Raising a lot of questions. He found the defendants failed to prove there was enough Conflict Of Interest to force the d. A. s removal. The appearance of impropriety meant either Willis Or Wade has to go. It
good. i will take that into my new year. mark, appreciate it, my friend. thank you. take care. and cnn this morning continues right now. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. republican candidates crisscrossing iowa. nikki haley, ron desantis and donald trump all holding events in the hawkeye state today and they aren t holding back against each other. defense secretary lloyd austin condemning recent attacks on commercial ships in the red sea by iranian backed u.s. forces. we will dig into what the plans look like ahead. a woman in iowa enduring a heartbreaking miscarriage 22 weeks into her pregnancy. she is facing a criminal probe. she says she was misled by police. and new this morning, donald trump s super pac launching its first attack ad against nikki haley after a recent polling showed her chipping away at his big lead in new hampshire. that s a crucial early voting state. and this that s right. high-tech haley broke
so the lesson is, is that people respond to leadership. people were were moving to florida because we were going a different way during covid just as your governor did, standing up for kids, being in school, protecting people s freedoms and jobs. but you know what? we had a lot of folks in places like miami who had been democrats and had voted for democrats, and they voted not only for me, but now they re registering as republicans. so don t buy this idea that we can t expand our base of support. of course you can do that. yo you can t win big with just republicans, and we proved that. but here s the thing, we didn t do it by rim thing our sails, we didn t contort ourselves to be anything that we re not. we led boldly. we led conservatively, and we delivered results, and people responded. so that is a lesson from iowa with what governor reynolds has done and florida with what we ve been able another. and at the end of the day, governing is not about entertaining. governing is
Fired hitting him in the shoulder being in end to that terrifying rage. At a checkpoint has thousands gathered from across the globe for the annual ball drop. One of the officers hurt had just started. Charges are still pending against a 19yearold suspect from maine and high level Police Source tells fox the fbi Counterterrorism Task force had been watching them for weeks. The source said he recently converted to islam. According to sources, the suspects own family called the police on him back in december telling authorities that he had been planning to travel to afghanistan and wanted to die for his religion. Kennedy, our hearts go out to the nypd officers, obviously, who served bravely for us day in and day out and i will have to endure this. The thing about this scenario is that it has that unfortunate of everything we have seen so many times. So, the families were on notice. They notified the authorities and the authorities notified but somehow nypd officers for noble and suffered
i m amara walker. i m paula reed in for boris sanchez. you re live in the cnn newsroom. this morning, more than a million people are without power in the eastern united states, as a deadly storm system continues to move north. over the last 24 hours, at least 12 people were killed in multiple states, due to the severe weather that brought tornadoes and major flooding to parts of the south. the majority of those deaths were in kentucky. where hurricane force winds toppled trees and even toppled tractor-trailer trucks. in indiana, the high winds tore the roof off of a church. and in one town, a man says god saved his life, after a tornado swept through his property but left him and his home untouched. the back door started shaking. the house started shaking. and i could see nothing but white. we didn t have time to get anywhere. it was right on top of us, the house was shaking, and we were all close together, in the middle room of the house, still, but wow, this is the