Our reporting begins with drama in d. C. As the click ticks closer to a shut down and another top member of the Trump Administration resigns. First, the showdown over the shut down. President run the says the government will close a long time unless lawmakers give him the money to build a wall along the u. S. Southern border. The house voted on a package to keep the government open with an additional 5. 7 billion in it for the wall. It doesnt have the support it needs in the senate to pass where republicans hold a razor thin majority. The president said ill carry the mantel and ill proudly shut it down and i wont blame you, senator schumer. Today new plan. Its really up to the democrats, totally up to the democrats as to whether or not we have a shut down. Is that he tweeted the democrats own the shut down. The Senate Majority leader, Chuck Schumer slammed President Trumps tactics on the floor. To top it off, President Trump has thrown a temper tantrum and now has us careening towards
My heart is broken. I dont know if i can handle another loss. Her warning to all parents. The sting operation targeting porch pirates. Stealing holiday packages. Police teaming up with amazon, placing decoy packages with gps trackers inside. Thieves caught in the act minutes after the trap was laid. Dr. Christine blasey ford breaking her silence for the First Time Since that dramatic testimony before congress. Why she is speaking out now. The moment between santa and a very special little boy that may bring you to tears. Good evening, everyone. Another ally of President Trump is implicating his campaign in the illegal payment of hush money to women who claimed to have had affairs with him. That bombshell following today attorney, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in prison for his part in those payoffs and other crimes. Cohens story now backed by someone else close to the president who is also now cooperating with prosecutors. Our Pete Williams joins us with details. Pete, go
Until the president , of whom we will need his signature, and senate democrats, from whom we will need votes, reach an agreement. No procedural votes. No test votes. Just a meaningful vote on a bipartisan agreement whenever that is reached. And its not hoped that it is reached sooner rather than later. President trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. Plain and simple. The wall is President Trumps bone to the hard right people. Its no way to spend 5 billion. For a political bone. Lets get right to cnns Congressional Correspondent Phil Mattingly on capitol hill. Youre hearing that this could get worse before it gets better. Yes, fred, thats exactly right. At least this current state, there are no clear pathways out of the negotiations that have occurred behind the scenes. What im told is there has been proposaled traded back and forth from the white house to democrats and back, and at this point, they are still, what i have been told, billions of dollars ap
Force that they can respond to kids in crisis or who need help and i want to make sure that we put the well being and welfare of those kids before we put any other concerns. Rick william is live in los angeles with the latest on this. William . Rick, what im told by agents in the field yesterday and this morning is this system right now simply cannot handle the overwhelming number of Central American immigrants flooding the border especially families. 7,000 apprehended last november. 25,000 apprehended last month and because of that, the Border Patrol and ice are forced to shift migrants from place to place or drop them off at a bus station like this one in el paso. More than 400 released sunday and monday because, again, theres nowhere to put them. The case of this 8yearold felipe alonzogomez im told illustrates the problem. Heres the timeline. Agents apprehended this boy and his father near el paso last tuesday, december 18th. They were processed, given food and water. Two days later
A drone spotted 50 times today alone, grounding all flights. The military called in. And now the americans stranded. The plane crash in atlanta. Several dead, right into a park. New reporting tonight in the case of the missing mom last seen on surveillance, pushing that grocery cart. The twoday search of the fiances property. Harvey weinstein going to court to get his case thrown out today. What the judge said instead. And the children, 9 and 10, home alone, when an armed intruder breaks in. What they do to save their own lives. And tonight, the deadly blast. New video just coming in. That explosion leveling a city block. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. And we have several breaking headlines as we come on the air tonight. Just a short time ago, we learned of the bombshell resignation of defense secretary jim mattis. General mattis will leave in february. A major departure, and it comes just a day after President Trump made that sudden announcem