44, 41trump, 4238 ramaswamy. 4236 scott. 4236 haley. I think those are really interesting numbers. Encouraging for all of these candidates up here, really. Take a look at this one because one of the Big Questions is how are these folks doing with independents . Thats where victory is often lie, in that independent group, right . So interestingly when you break it down, Vivek Ramaswamy is the only gop candidate in this matchup that beats joe biden. 30 for ramaswamy among independents and 22 for joe biden. So thats pretty interesting. Just a moment in time as we say. Interesting. So among his fellow contenders there, ramaswamy has doubled his support in the past two months. So he was around 5 two months ago. Now hes 11 . That puts him in third on this particular look at this. Ron desantis has dropped six points down to 16 in the latest snapshot of these polls. A lot to dig in to with our political panel. We have Katie Pavlich and Jason Chaffetz and bill steffian. First to peter doocy. Ma
look what you did. that s assault, that s assault, that s assault, that s assault. stop, stop, stop! hundreds of anti-israel protestors turning christmas celebrations sour. several arrested in new york city after they allegedly attacked police officers and harassed tourists in an effort to ruin the holiday. hello, i m jonathan hunt in los angeles. great to be with you, i m rich edson in new york. chants of christmas is canceled and long live the intifada heard throughout the streets of midtown manhattan, and they may try to disrupt the iconic ball drop on new year s eve. jonathan: rabbi is standing by on how concerning the hate-filled scenes are for jewish americans. rich: alexis with the latest. this has been going on for weeks, not a surprise to people in new york but still continues to happen. at least six arrested as they tried to keep the crowd under control but things got out of hand. watch this. that was just one of the issues going on. you can see the cr
so now here s what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so there s a lot of discussion about how this thing was brought down and whether or not it maximized our ability to understand what it was and what was in it. as i mentioned, we re watching the white house. the press briefing is john going. we re waiting for fresh answers about what happened up there, new reaction. china says there might be a further response merited for the united states from our taking this out of the sky over the weekend. today fox news spoke with the gentleman who disclosed that this was up there in the sky without
president, not george w. bush, his father. i m christine romans, this is early start. just hours from now, transportation secretary pete buttigieg heads to the site of that train derailment in east palestine, ohio. buttigieg under pressure as residents and critics worry about the toxic chemicals. alex shaw faced some of that head on in a cnn town hall last night. i m 65 years old, diabetic, hearts disease, everything. did you shorten my life? i want to retire and enjoy it. how are we going to enjoy it? you burned me. we were going to sell our house. our value went jim, thank you for those comments. i hear you. i m terribly sorry that this has happened to this community. what i can do and what i will do is make it right. we ll get the cleanup right. we re going to reimburse the citizens, we ll invest in the long term health of this community. miguel marquez has more from east palestine. reporter: a massive effort under way to clean up creeks and water flowing in an
considerable damage in parts of south carolina. you see it in this video. that storm ripping through a pier causing part of it to collapse. now, it also submerged this neighborhood with a strong storm surge that, in fact, was several feet high. it was so bad this man it was so bad this man had to wade through knee-deep water inside his own home. thankfully the water there is starting to recede, and some areas in the state have been spared the worst. but in florida the damage has been severe. at least 45 people have now lost their lives and hundreds of homes have been turned, well, you see there just piles of debris. the coast guard is trying to rescue survivors. president joe biden said more help is on the way. it s just a crisis for florida. it s an american crisis. we re all in this together. i ve spoken to governor desantis on multiple occasions as well as this morning as well as mayors and county officials both republican and democrat from places most affected. now,