barbie and the bomb. will the box office turn pink, or will oppenheimer blow past the competition? barbinheimer is here. it s 10:00 eastern. so much to get to today. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. let s go break to our breaking news, judge aileen cannon has now set a start date for the classified documents trial against president trump for may 20th of next year. so this is well past the december start date. special counsel jack smith s team had wanted and smack in the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign. joining us now is nbc news justice correspondent ryan reilly, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, and charles coleman, civil rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst. so ryan, what do we know about how the judge came to this date? yeah, a little bit past the time that the special counsel s office had requested, obviously, here, but you know, the former president s team did not want a schedule set at all. not really a w
staffers, as a reported cost-cutting measure. six months before the iowa caucuses. two long-time senior advisors had left the campaign and more dismissals are expected in the coming weeks. an nbc news analysis for the desantis campaign financial disclosures shows top donors are maxed out with their contributions. the campaign has $9 million in cash on hand to spend on the primary and raised nearly $8 million in six weeks of campaigning. joining me capitol hill correspondent ali vitali with the desantis campaign in virginia at this hour. governor desantis is speaking to a christian pro israel group here in arlington, virginia, across the river. how is he defending his candidacy with all of these problems? look, i imagine he s not going to be outright defending his candidacy here. instead, he s going to use this for an opportunity on foreign policy focus, and he wrote in his book, the idea he is someone who has a long history and track record of being pro-israel from his time
deadly levels of heat. if it hasn t hit you yet, well, it s on the move. scorching temperatures have been making life miserable for folks across the southwest and are now spreading the the southeast. a heat wave that stretches nearly 2,000 miles and could feel like triple digits from las vegas to atlanta by the end of the week. we ll have the latest in just a minute. ron desantis campaign burning cash and cutting staff. what it means for the former governor s challenge of former president trump and could mike pence s candidacy be all but over after he was outraced by almost everyone including north dakota governor doug bergham. air drones in ukraine, this may be our first evidence of what sea drones can do. the latest on the attack on a key symbolic and strategic bridge and what it means for the future of that war. we start this week with a brand new set of challenges for officials in every corner of the country, scrambling to protect their populations from the kinds o
world, i m laila harrak. at the vatican the first holy mass of the new year will commemorate the late pope emeritus benedict. we re live from st. peter s square. and the year begins with flooding and evacuations in california as over 25 million could be affected by extreme weather. details and the forecast ahead. and defiance as ukraine enters the new year untd a barrage of russian missiles. we will hear from the ukrainian and russian leaders on two very different visions of what lies ahead. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. from new zealand to the u.s. most of the world has now ushered in 2023 with a mix of hope, excitement and flare. hours ago new york held its traditional ball drop in front of a jam packed times square. it was a spectacular show complete with fireworks, music and a ton, literally a ton, of confetti raining down on the crowd. celebrations were also held across europe, africa and asia and in the next hour hawa
one of the best defenses in the country. of course we would be remiss if we didn t mention how most teams would love a trip to the sugar bowl but the alabama crimson tide not one of them. they lost two games this season by a combined four points both on the last play of the game against texnnessee and lsu, so they miss the playoffs. they ll face kansas state tomorrow, some of the georgia fans in our sports department told me to remind you you can t spell sugar bowl without uga. i apologize for that. i ve been to the sugar bowl more times than i can count on two hands. spent a lot of time in new orleans in college. she was so annoyed we were doing the sugar bowl situation in the show. i ll be watching tomorrow. we kickoff at noon, it s fine. actually love nick saban said yesterday this has been one of the most enjoyable nonplayoff bowl preps they have had. that s one way to see it. yeah. coy wire, we ll be watching. roll tide. thank you so much. all right. cnn