friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
battle ahead could take many more months. plus, just hours from now secretary of state antony blinken and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas are set to meet with mexican president just as thousands of central american migrants make their way to the united states southern border. we ll break down what this means and the key issues up for discussion. and also ahead the detroit pistons made nba history but for all the wrong reasons. the record they just broke that has everyone talking. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, december 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we get right to the news and the israeli military has expanded its ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central gaza. the idf is also focusing on southern gaza s largest city as part of its stated mission to destroy hamas. officials say progress has been made in the north and that troops will continue to, quote, preserve and intensify t
i had looked around and all over the yard there was fighting, stabbings going on. doug burrell and dozens of his fellow officers tried to subdue inmates with pepper spray and tear gas. every time it seemed the staff had the situation under control, another fight broke out. looked like the movie braveheart, but it was the real deal. they started firing shots, so everybody that wasn t involved in the riot laid on the ground. but even the gunfire raining down from pelican bay security towers did not quell the riot until one of the inmates was killed. 15 others were wounded. after we were done i was cleaning blood off the walls and off the floors and benches in here for a good hour. pelican bay s worst riot was fueled by the inmates impulse for violence. and many of those inmates ended up here, the security housing
against a group of black inmates. the beginning of california s worst prison riot. i had looked around and all over the yard there was fighting, stabbings going on. doug burrell and dozens of his fellow officers tried to subdue inmates with pepper spray and tear gas. every time it seemed the staff had the situation under control, another fight broke out. looked like the movie braveheart, but it was the real deal. they started firing shots, so everybody that wasn t involved in the riot laid on the ground. but even the gunfire raining down from pelican bay security towers did not quell the riot until one of the inmates was killed. 15 others were wounded. after we were done i was cleaning blood off the walls and off the floors and benches in here for a good hour. pelican bay s worst riot was fueled by the inmates impulse
other. this surveillance footage reveals a group of southern mexican gang members unleashing a vicious coordinated attack against a group of black inmates. the beginning of california s worst prison riot. i looked around and all over the yard there was fighting and stabbings going on. doug burrell and dozens of his fellow officers tried to subdue inmates with pepper spray and teargas, but every time it seemed the staff had the situation under control, another fight broke out. it looked like the movie braveheart, the fight scene in braveheart but it was the real deal. they started firing shots. so everybody that wasn t involved in the riot laid on the ground. even the gunfire raining down from pelican bay security towers did not quell the riot until one of the inmates was killed. 15 others were wounded. after we were done, i was