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Very busy morning. I need to hand it off to Pamela Brown now, but pam, no shortage of news this week absolutely not, jim. And we just want to remind our viewers that were going to continue to cover the devastation from helene, jim in the media will cover stories and their complaints. We dont stay on it will work in a stay on it because there are a lot of people suffering right now as you have been reporting on in your show, in that suffering, sadly, its going to continue for weeks, for months as these small communities continue to rebuild after almost station. Absolutely. And its going to take a lot of time and a lot of resources from the federal government, State Government Theyve got to get on it. No question about it. They do. Im actually i had Governor Beshear of my Home State of kentucky on later in the show, were going to ask kim about it because as you know, in kentucky, my Home State, there has been devastating Storm Events that have caused a lot of damage and we tab it over th ....
claudia: welcome back to a special edition of fox news live. former president donald trump asking a federal appeals court to throw out the criminal case alleging he interfered in the 2020 election. the president and his legal team claiming absolute presidential immunity protects him from prosecution. welcome to a brand-new hour of fox news live. merry christmas, i m claudia cowen. i m rich edson. trump s filing with the u.s. court of appeals in d.c. comes one day after a big setback for special counsel jack smith. the u.s. supreme court refused his request to fast track his immunity claim for trump. the case hinges on whether president trump was acting as president or a candidate. his strategy is to run out the clock and he has a lot of tools to do that. and he may be successful. the issue here i think everyone agrees that there is something called absolute immunity for your official functions, if you are performing an official function the president has immunit ....
also tonight, the major storm taking aim first slamming florida and then all the way up the east coast. we re tracking it. tragedy in gaza. israeli forces acknowledging they killed three hostages with friendly fire after mistaking them for a threat. our richard engel in jerusalem. the urgent warning from the cdc as cases of covid, flu, and rsv surge around the nation. our nbc news exclusive, the kremlin s top spokesman on the 2024 election. what he said about vladimir putin and donald trump. america s fentanyl crisis. inside the unauthorized clinic risking trouble with the law to save people. the bond between two boys, one american and one israeli we first met in the wake of the hamas attacks. how their friendship brought some hanukkah joy to children of war. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. breaking late today, a devastating legal blow for former new york mayor rudy giuliani. a federal jury in wash ....
la la la la. floyd. guys, enough. this gets you nowhere. and republicans now realize that. look at desantis and abbott, governors of texas and florida, they didn t just sit back and complain about the border. they took action. and mostled migrant was to blue states. if you want to win, you got to go on offense. you have to put the democrats on the defense. and make the media work for you. we re three weeks from the midterms and republicans have momentum. they can play it safe or they can start putting points on the border. j.d. vance in ohio was accused of traffics in racism. that s what democrats do. they play the race card and count on republicans to cower. but j.d. vance did something i haven t seen in a long time. he stood up for himself. he stood up for his family. and he got his point across and shoved the race card right back in tim ryan s face. my own children, my by racial children get attacked by scum bags online and in person because you are so desp ....
we begin with our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the fox weather center. rick? yeah, landfall about 55 minutes ago just around the georgetown, south carolina area. that s where the worst of the storm surge is. the storm surge on shore already. winds sustained were 85 miles an hour. a category one storm. we look at the satellite picture. looks like a mess. it s turning into a more typical storm that you might see in the northern latitudes or at least a combination between those two kinds of storms. the rain field will stretch out. we ll see the wind field stretch out as well across a lot of areas. in general, a weakening wind trend now that we have the storm over land. the winds gusting 46 miles an hour. that s an offshore wind. that is pushing water, not allowing storm surge there to be coming on. we have rain here. some of the storms out across east earn north carolina will have a tornado thread there. there s one tornado warning out there to inside of the ....