i get it. i know it s going to be cold. but think about this. you get to set the direction for the country. the first contest of the 2024 republican presidential nomination happens tonight in iowa, but voters will have to face dangerously cold temperatures to cast their ballots. meanwhile on capitol hill, its appears congress has a deal to keep the government funded until march despite threats from far right republicans in the house. and also ahead, we ll bring you the latest from the middle east following another u.s.-led air strike on houthi targets in yemen. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, january 15th. martin luther king day and also iowa caucus day. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we will begin this morning in iowa. the caucuses there tonight will be the first nominating contest of the very consequential 2024 presidential campaign. but turnout in iowa could be a real issue because it will be an ab
to keep donald trump off the ballot in 2024, and overseas israel s expanding its ground offensive into refugee camps in central gaza in what it calls, quote, a new battle zone. the government there saying the war against hamas will go on, for, quote, many months. secretary of state tony blinken, and other top biden officials, set to meet with mexico s president in the next couple hours for critical talks about the border crisis happening as a caravan with a reported 8,000 migrants heading towards the u.s. border. hey, everybody, good morning to you, we re going to begin with the latest developments in the israel-hamas war. israeli defense forces saying they have expanded their war effort into central gaza where several refugee camps are located. it is the same area where just earlier this week 70 people were killed in the strike on a refugee camp, the announcement coming with no clear end in sight for the war, israel s army chief saying their operations could last for mo
in the days to come. rich. katie burn live in philly. thank you. jonathan. jonathan: rich, a major escalation in the red sea as the risk to u.s. troops grows by the day. u.s. forces intercepted a barrage of houthi drones and missiles in attack that lasted more than ten hours yesterday and learning a u.s. warship involved in that firefight shot down a ballistic missile, the first time that has ever happened in combat. hello, everyone. i m jonathan hunt in los angeles. rich: rich edson in new york. john and sandra have the day of o. u.s. bases in the middle east remain on high alert after a drone attack injured three service members. biden administration said the strategy is aimed at preventing a widening war, but critics say it could get worse. my fear is one of these days we are going to wake up and one of these missiles has actually gotten through and caused a catastrophic attack on one of our bases, or on one of our ships. and that is going to be squarely on joe bid
you ve seen an exclusive, the missing binder of secrets, highly classified information related to russian election interference. what went missing in the final hours of the trump white house hasn t been seen since. what was in it? who had access? the disappearance and the mystery around it not known until now. so any moment now we could get a verdict on damages in rudy giuliani s defamation trial as the jury weighing a potentially $48 million decision resumes dleb operations. former president barack obama and president joe biden back together again at the white house, the major 2024 project behind this rare reunion. i m sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. you are looking at breaking news right now, exclusive new cnn reporting about highly classified intelligence that went missing at the end of the trump administration. the information relates to russian election interference. information that was deemed so secret it could only
again. and so i don t want to be in the prediction business with something as heavy as that. what i will say is that my meeting with the director of the masad last night, we met for more than twice the expected 45 minutes because we had a very detailed conversation about how to move forward to secure the release of the hostages. ultimately that will be something that we have to work in a very sensitive way between the u.s. and israel, working with qatar, with egypt, with other actors. and so i will leave that conversation where it belongs in those sensitive channels. but i will just say this has seized the attention from the very first day the president of the united states and every other senior member of his team and just this week the president met with the families of the american hostages to reaffirm for them that we re going to do everything in our power working with our israeli counterparts to ensure every hostage comes home safely and i ll leave it at that for today.