january 6th riot. the former president says he received a target letter from special counsel jack smith, lashing out at smith and calling him deranged. while in michigan, the first charges of their kind, 16 people, so-called false electors, indicted, accused of scheming to overturn the election results. also, the dramatic incident at the korean demilitarized zone. a u.s. soldier bolting from a tour group and running into north korea. he is detained tonight. why did he do it? the dust storm in the middle of a brutal heatwave. phoenix at 110 or hotter for 19 days, smashing an almost 50-year-old record. the new search into the unsolved murder of rapper tupac shakur almost 30 years later. we go inside the high-tech lab tracking mosquitos and malaria inside the u.s. as a new case is reported in florida. our look at the world s leader in electric vehicles. why china could lead the electric car race. and the saga at sea. a rescued sailor telling us how he survived months a
noon pacific, good to be with you. i m jose diaz-balart in for katy tur. today, the department of justice released a long awaited report on the police response to the mass shooting at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. it was almost two years ago in may of 2022 when a mass murderer took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, and despite officers arriving on the scene just three minutes after the shooter gained entry to the school, it took 77 minutes for law enforcement to confront the lone gunman. the report is scathing. calling the response to the shooting a failure. noting that despite evidence that wounded children were in the classroom, the officers did not engage with the shooter. they didn t treat the perpetrator as an active threat, and those decisions among others may have cost lives. families were briefed before the report was made public. i spoke to kimberly whose daughter lexi died that day and asked her what she wants to see come from this report. account is
for his dangerous rhetoric. e. jean carroll was back on the stand today, first under cross-examination by trump s attorney, then under redirect examination by her attorney. team trump suggested that carroll actually benef from her accusation. abc news reports the defense suggested that carroll craved attention, took on trump to revive her flagging career, and relish the verdict in an earlier trial known as carroll 2. it established trump was liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. did the verctn your opinion provide you with bigger status in new york? itvide me with you have continued to publicize every lawsuit you had had agait president trump. yes, carroll responded, because wanted people to know that a woman can speak up and win a trial. i wanted people to know. i m 80. i don t want to be quiet. it s not right to make a woman be quiet. it s gone on for too long. during redirect, carroll countered that despite all the notary tie s gned, she wants nothing more than t
the former presidents immunity claims in the 2020 election case . what does this mean for the trial s start date? plus israel says it is expanding its offensive in gaza tonight, as a new cnn investigation uncovers where israel has been dropping massive 2000 pound bombs. new concerns about american paul wheeling as he reveals a prison official that is targeting him inside that dangerous russian labor camp. how worried is his family about his safety? his sister is my guest. let s go out front. you do good evening, i am internet for erin burnett. out front tonight, for now the when you donald trump, the supreme court fusing to decide right now if trump is immune from the alleged crimes he committed as president, including his efforts to overturn the election. the decision from this court came in the one page, one sentence order, rejecting the request by special counsel jack smith for expedited review. this means the issue, which is at the core of the election interference case
warm welcome to our viewers all around the world. bianca is off. but just ahead on cnn newsroom the colorado supreme court found that former president trump should be disqualified from being on the ballot in that state. we ve never had a president inside an insurrection and then tried to run for the presidency again. thousands of migrants in eagle pass, texas waiting to be transported for immigration processing. congress has not been able to come together and do comprehensive immigration reform which would help prevent a lot of the scenes that you see at the u.s./mexico border. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, december 20, 9:00 a.m. in london, 2:00 a.m. in denver, colorado where the state supreme court has delivered a stunning decision disqualifying donald trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. justices ruled trump is not eligible to be a candidate because of his role in the 2021 insurrection. his c