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you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta. a devastating fire that killed 19 people, including nine children, in a massive fire in the bronx. fire officials do know how it started. they were describing the scene unprecedented with victims on every floor of the building. we re talking 19 stories. in addition to those killed, more than a dozen others remain hospitalized and life-threatening conditions. last hour we got an update from the new york city fire commissioner and the mayor of new york. they told reporters the cause of this fire appears to be a malfunctioning space heater. our message is clear today. during a tragedy, we are going to be here for each other. there is more to be discovered. the fdny is doing an investigation. christopher nydall will update us on the latest, but this appears this stemmed from a space heater. the martials are here. they will give us a thorough investigation to determine exactly what took place and what we can do better not to ....
right, now president joe biden is in el paso, texas visiting our southern border for the first time as president. amid a record-breaking surge in migration that has strained several american cities and giving republicans a line of criticism at this hour. migrant services center which is funded by fema s emergency food and shelter program, he s meeting with local officials, faith leaders, and non governmental authorizations who have been critical to supporting migrants, economic collapse in their home countries, we will check in on the presidents border tour throughout the hour. plus, with the drama of last week s protracted battle over the speakership behind us, the house is slated to take up a rules package impacted by the unprecedented concessions kevin mccarthy made to far-right members of his caucus to become speaker. of course, the question that emerges from that is how those concessions and the enduring chaos of the speakership battle will impact how thi ....
good morning, welcome to way too early on this monday, january 16th, martin luther king jr. day. thank you for starting your week with us. one week after we first learned that a small number of classified documents had been found in president biden s personal collection that number of files continues to grow. in the same box where a single other document was found the previous day. the president s personal attorney discovered the documents, they stopped searching because they lacked the security clearance needed to handle classified material. and they return the next day with department of justice officials, he says he discovered the additional five documents in the same box. those files are separate from two other batches we report on last week. one found inside president biden s garage and another found inside an office he used at the penn biden senter in washington, d.c. sources tell nbc news that one of the documents was marked with the highest security classif ....
everyone. i m dana perino along with judg jean hero and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and s the five . american troops ordered to b ready to deploy as israel prepares for a ground invasion on gaza that could begin at any moment. the secretary of defense put ady select forces on standby, s thatthey have 24 hours notice se thd e need them to the wall str journal saying 2,000 troops could rebe tasked with advisinga ndand medical support and would not have combat roles. as that news breaks this afternoon, the fighting continues to rage between israe and hamas for the tenth straigh day. israeli forces striking from th air and a rainy impact terror group hezbollah has been firing at israeli lht d military basesi along its border with lebanon. if israel goes through with their ground defenses, they wil intervene. president finis said that tehra better bed a run better not do it. is iran behind the gaza war?e i don tir want to get into classified informatio ....
thing okay, greg. greg: bye. bret: good evening. i m brett bay. anti-israel protesters college campuses clashing with law enforcement several locations again tonight this after police in new york forcibly evicted demonstrators from a columbia university building overnight. new protests have begun at another new york school, an anti-anti-semitic, anti-israel protesters ucla in los angeles fought with pro-jewish demonstrators who tried to tear down their encampment overnight. in the midst of all of this, very little from president biden himself, his staff putting out statements answering questions about the president s relative silence on the issue. we begin tonight in los angeles with correspondent bill melugin at ucla. good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. all classes here at ucla are canceled today after a night of violent clashes here on campus that went on for hours without any kind of law enforcement intervention and just moments ago, we heard f ....