[ music ] bill: hey, good morning, everybody. what do you say? it is wednesday, january 16th. great to see you today. welcome to you from full-court press all across this great land of ours on thendzwednesday morning. it is now the law of the land in new york state under the leadership of governor and drew cuomo, new york state has become first state to act with tough new gun control laws covering a ban on assault weapons, a ban on those high-capacity magazine clips and a requirement that every purchase of every gun include a criminal background check. new york state has shown the lead. president obama will announce his plan with vice president biden today. is congress ready to follow the lead of new york state? boy, that and a whole lot more here this morning on the full-court press. but first, we get the latest. today s current news update, was a ferguson s got it out in los angeles. lisa, good morning. hey, bill. good morning, everyone. that s right. we will here f
A look at the day s news and headlines.
at low containment. bill: it s a big job. probably something we deal with all week. thank you live in redding, california. sandra: president trump raising the stakes in the battle over the border wall threatening to shut down the government if he doesn t get the funding he has been demanding. the president firing off this warning a short time ago tweeting quote, i would be willing to shut down government if the democrats do not give us the votes for border security. which includes the wall. must get rid of lottery, catch and release, etc. and go to system of immigration based on merit. we need great people coming into our country. doug mcelway live at the white house this morning. doug, an interesting tactic to see a republican president embracing the prospects of a government shutdown. it sure is. history has shown that whenever there has been a government shutdown in the past it is the republican party that takes the blame for it and i
who managed to get away from the desert gas plant where they d been held. they told of how they fled in the confusion as the algerian army attacked. many were injured, some badly. it happened so fast. reporter: but it hasn t ended quickly. the algerians say they ve freed nearly 100 foreigners and as they were being bussed away, many thanked their rescuers. kept us nice and safe and fought off the bad guys. reporter: but the bad guys the al qaeda linked mass battalion led from afar by mokhtar belmokhtar may still be holding 30 foreigners still unaccounted for. more detail has emerge with the free hostages. some say they had explosives hung around their necks as they were placed in a convoy of vehicles by their captors. when the cars began to move, the algerian army unit surrounding the site feared the captives were being taken out of the compound and opened fire. britain s prime minister david cameron said the algerians told him the incident didn t end there. this
that this only described as a white male standing by a silver car began firing off shots at the federal courthouse. sara over here has pictures of this courthouse that have come into us from google earth, right? that s correct. they re just coming in fromming goole earth. here s the street view. like you said, there was that bank across the street right there. so it s our understanding that this man is standing in this parking lot right here. and begins firing across the street. i know you ve talked to some police there. that s correct. i talked to the police department. and what they said is that they re holding a news conference at 5:15 to talk about this. and also they said it s not an active scene at the moment. it s no longer an active shooting scene. it s our understanding that the gunman in this case may have been killed, rob over here has some tweets that have been coming in. what do you know? u.s. marshals are tweeting that the gunman with an assault-type r
media. just resign and let someone else take the job. the only reason you are doing this now is because we are running for the same position. someone convinced you it is appropriate to attack me. he is so nice. i won t attack. his poll numbers tanked. that s why he s on the end. the leading candidate is donald trump. when you look at him, do you see someone with the moral authority to unite the country? you know, the few questions i got, the last thing i need to do is give him more time. i love donald trump. he is a good man. i m wearing a trump tie tonight. get over it. you had the logo over their shoulder. if someone put me on their home page, they did it without my authority. it speaks to the fact. we had $19 trillion in debt. we have people out of work. we have isis and al qaeda attacking us and we re talking about fantasy football? chris christie did not want to talk about fantasy football. that was just the beginning. for the latest, let s bring in sar