is flooded with people whining about it. >> it is odd that a state would adopt daylight zain verjee. it just seems like the wrong way. >> we were like number 48 or 49. we weren't last. >> i don't mind either one. as long as you have a consistent i don't really care one way or the other, but i do say this it is daylight. tomorrow will end at 4:29 p.m.. that's when the sun will set here in new york city. 429 is way too early for the sun to set. can we please have it at 529? again, i don't want to have to have my day end before it's even 5:00 and the work hasn't ended. >> so you support the trump policy? >> i support having a consistent no. he wants to get rid of daylight savings time. i want to have daylight savings time all year round. >> odds that he knows the difference between daylight saving time and standard time. >> probably right. >> one of his oligarchs get rid of, boehner said. >> i was trying to end on a bipartisan note. i think that this would be one of the most popular things if trump could get it done. congress sure knows they've been trying. everyone, thank you very much, and thank you for watching news night. cnn's coverage continues next

hello. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm ben hunt in london. it is so good to have you with me. coming up on cnn newsroom. a celebration in seoul as south korean lawmakers vote to impeach the president. we'll look at what this means for the close ally of the u.s.. questions and concerns are only growing around mysterious drone sightings along the u.s. east coast. and now president elect donald trump is also weighing in and the case of the murdered health care ceo is igniting intense conversations about the state of health care in america a monumental moment in south

korean history. celebrations erupt after the country's parliament voted to impeach president yoon suk yeol in an extraordinary rebuke, yoon's own party had turned on him after he refused to resign over an attempt to impose martial law, a move that sparked a political crisis and widespread anger across the country. we're going to go straight to cnn's ivan watson live in hong kong for us. hello, ivan. so today was the day. exactly an hour on from history being made in south korea. can you just catch me up? what's happened? and has anything changed since then? >> right. i mean, just about an hour ago, lawmakers from the national assembly, they voted to impeach president yoon suk yeol, 204 of the lawmakers voted in favor of impeachment. there were 300 president xi present for the vote. and as you pointed out celebration

right outside the compound of the national assembly in seoul, a freezing cold dance party is what it looks like. or k-pop party as people who were gathering and we're still trying to get estimates from the police. but our reporters there on the ground say it's just a massive crowd. there just erupted into celebration, and it's such a dramatic difference from what i saw there a week ago. ben, when there was a first attempt to impeach president yoon and that failed because members of his party abstained from participating in the vote. so there weren't enough votes. that magic number of 200 this time around, the president's party participated. so the proceedings were very quick. i think the voting it took less than an hour. they counted the paper ballots and boom, the results came out. so, president yoon, it's remarkable to consider how quickly all this has happened. it's only been about a week and a half since

he made this late night attempt to try to impose martial law on the country. sent police and soldiers to the national assembly to try to stop lawmakers from gathering there. and his attempt at what many see as a power grab and unconstitutional one was quickly overrun, overturned and now we're starting to deal and face with the consequences of that. there is a ban on president yoon being able to fly out of the country. his offices have been raided by the police and his former defense minister is already behind bars. so watch this space. >> ben, you talked about some of the consequences there. i mean, this isn't really a surprise to any of us, right? we knew that the opposition party was going to be holding votes every single week. they said, until the president was impeached or removed or stood down. so what is going to happen next? >> yeah, a really good question. first, let's listen to one of the lawmakers who voted for impeachment.

>> it is it is it is a victory of korean democracy in the world has been watching this, but we finally won, even if it's the beginning. but it's a good beginning. so we will, uh, go through this with people. thank you very much. >> uh, so what happens next? well, the the prime minister, han duck soo, he becomes the acting president because now president yoon has been suspended from the position of the presidency. and then the matter goes to the constitutional court, which will have 180 days, i believe, to rule on this move. the court is not completely in session. there are only six out of the nine judges in that body and we'll have to see how they will move forward with this, because it does look like they'd like to have more judges appointed before they

rule. six of the judges out of the nine judge body would have to rule in favor. and just as some context, the last time south korea impeached a president, it was actually only eight years ago, president park geun-hye, amid corruption charges. she was impeached by the national assembly, as we have just witnessed here with president yoon. and then it took the constitutional court 90 days, three months to rule in favor of impeachment. and she was stripped from office. so the following process could potentially take months. if president yoon is stripped of office by the constitutional court, then you'd go into another countdown of 60 days before an election to elect a new leader. so that's a bit of the timeline here. we're looking at months of this going forward from this historic moment. ben. >> well, as you say, if it's going to take months for us to see what happens next, i'm sure we're going to be talking again very, very soon. so thank

you for joining me in hong kong residents are reporting more drone sightings near sensitive sites along the eastern coast of the us. social media users have posted videos of their sightings from new jersey, maryland and new york, and they want to hear more from the government about what is exactly going on. the secretary of homeland security said. some reports are cases of mistaken identity. echoing a similar comment from the fbi. >> we believe that there are cases of mistaken identity where drones are actually small aircraft and people are misidentifying them there very well may be drones in the sky, of course, but those are commercially available. one can go into a convenience store and and buy a small drone. there are also commercial drones as well. but we know we know of no threat or nefarious activity. and i want to repeat, wolf, that if we learn of any cause

for concern, we will be transparent in our communication of it. >> despite assurances like that, many americans suspect the government is not leveling with them. omar jimenez has more from new york. >> there has to be some explanation to the public for all this increased activity, and they must do so now. >> and yet there hasn't been, even as the federal government says, there's no evidence of any national security or public safety threats. and there have been growing calls for answers as drone sightings continue in new jersey. and now also the new york metropolitan area, they must immediately disclose more information to the public. >> it's totally and completely unacceptable. new jersey can't become the wild west of drone activity. no state can become the wild west of drone activity. >> it's now been a month since some of the first drones were reported near a military installation in northern new jersey. since then, there have been dozens of reported sightings, as some federal officials throw cold water on

some of those reports. we have not been able to, and neither have state or local law enforcement authorities to corroborate any of the reported visual sightings. >> it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully. >> and in a joint statement, the department of homeland security and the fbi said in part they're working to confirm whether the reported drone flights are actually drones or are instead manned aircraft or otherwise inaccurate sightings. despite attempts by officials to calm concerns, videos of reported drones in the skies are still popping up all over social media. wow, they just passed the truck. >> yeah, we have never seen that before, including these from new jersey senator andy kim as he went out with local police thursday night. >> former maryland governor larry hogan also posting his own possible drone sighting, writing on x, i personally witnessed what appeared to be dozens of large drones in the sky above my residence. i do not know if this increasing activity over our skies is a threat to public safety or

national security. there is even a downed drone that was reported in morris county, new jersey, but it was later revealed to be a hobby or toy drone, all the while without a definitive explanation. questions have filled the vacuum. new jersey governor phil murphy, writing to president joe biden expressing concern about the reported drone sightings and asking for more federal resources, saying in part, existing laws limit the ability of state and local law enforcement to counter uas or unmanned aircraft systems. it has become apparent that more resources are needed to fully understand what is behind this activity. new york governor kathy hochul confirming that drones have also been spotted in new york posting on x. at this time, there's no evidence that these drones pose a public safety or a national security threat, and that's really what we've heard from the fbi and the department of homeland security as well. but as we are now getting these reported sightings in more states, and we've seen airspace restrictions over military installations in places like new jersey, for example, obviously people are wondering

what's going on now to give some perspective on the overall market. there are almost 800,000 drones registered with the faa about an even split between commercial and recreational. but i bring up that number because when it comes to any investigative efforts to try and find a through line into all of these sightings, all of these reported sightings, it's going to be that much more difficult. and as i've talked about, these reported sightings started about a month ago. and as we've gone on and as people continue to report some more accurately than others, those calls have grown for an answer to that single question why is this happening? omar jimenez, cnn, new york well, as officials try to throw cold water on those mounting reports of drone activity, president elect trump and others are calling for the mysterious drones to be shot out of the sky. >> but that's just further complicating the question of how to properly protect federal airspace. one national security

expert says the u.s. can seize control of the aircraft without shooting them down. >> the u.s. government does have the capability. >> i know because i've seen it overseas in my time in the government to actually use cyber means to take over a drone, literally take it over and fly it and land without using what you call kinetic means meaning striking it out. so it does have that capability. it's got the cyber capability to do that. but the second is, is that i think this gets to this broader challenge we have right now within the u.s. government, this strong disagreement between the department of defense and department of homeland security, which are pushing for more national security measures to be taken, and the faa and department of transportation that are trying to protect open skies. and we've got to find a way to fix this. >> he went on to say that in many of these cases, u.s. officials simply don't know who is flying the drones and what their purpose is. luigi

mangione. the man accused of killing unitedhealthcare ceo has hired a high powered new york attorney. we're learning that karen friedman and leo will represent him in new york as he faces a second degree murder charge. she previously worked as the chief assistant district attorney in manhattan. the current da says mangione may waive his extradition from pennsylvania back to new york next week. we're also learning new details about how mangione actually fled to new york. the new york times reports that he took the subway downtown to pennsylvania station before heading to pennsylvania. according to police. meanwhile, the san francisco chronicle reports that san francisco police recognize mangione and contacted the fbi four days before he was arrested in pennsylvania. the fbi's new york office says it received the tip and sent it to nypd investigators. among other

leads. former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe says this raises a lot of questions about why it took so long to identify mangione. >> it's something i've been thinking about for days, even outside the context of this tip, you have to assume that there are probably if you if you diagramed out mangione. entire network of friends, associates, relatives, people. he shared hotel rooms with, people he traveled with. you're talking about hundreds of people who were familiar with what he looked like, probably recently familiar with what he looked like. that photograph was everywhere, and as far as we know, none of those people recognized it or called in. and here you have one isolated police officer or detective in san francisco who has, you know, knows mangione only through the report made by his mother, and he's able to pick him out from that imperfect photograph. now, he's a professional. he looks at photographs all the time and trying to identify people from

them, but it's still a remarkable contrast. it raises a lot of questions. >> i mean, i'm sure you've seen on social media and you've seen memes, i certainly have. this case has sparked a national conversation about the u.s. health care system, potentially even a global conversation. and outrage is growing with some people even defending mangione. well, cnn's brian todd has more details for us along a seattle area highway, a digital sign says one less ceo, then many more to go. >> in new york city, posters were put up praising the murder of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson with a red x across his picture. other posters singled out another executive in florida. police say a woman who was on the phone talking with blue cross blue shield about recently denied medical claims, said to the representative, quote, delay denied depose you people are next. those words were written on the shell casings found at the scene of brian thompson's murder. the woman has been charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of

terrorism. >> what we're seeing has been unleashed on social media and elsewhere is just all of this pent up anger and frustration. i mean, we're talking about people's health. this is a life and death situation. >> the head of the health care conglomerate, brian thompson, worked for unitedhealth group ceo andrew witty, tried to address some of the growing frustration with an essay in the new york times. he praised thompson as a brilliant, kind man who was working to make health care better for everyone and wrote, we know the health system does not work as well as it should, and we understand people's frustrations with it. our mission is to help make it work better. witty said his company is willing to partner with anyone to deliver better care at lower costs, but acknowledged. quote, clearly we are not there yet. witty did little to appease thousands of people who replied to his op ed with comments, one person writing to think that the health care providers do not also seek to maximize their profits is simply naive. another saying i don't know how he sleeps at night on his bed of blood and suffering. >> at this point, social media

is now the jury and it doesn't like what it sees. >> so if you're an executive, you know, in interim management, unitedhealthcare or any other health company, you've got to read the room. >> unitedhealth group is a for profit company that reported over $100 billion in revenue in the third quarter of this year, and is the largest provider of health insurance in the united states. it has been facing a class action lawsuit since before the thompson shooting, accusing one of its subsidiaries of using algorithms to deny care to seniors. united says that assertion is false, but the horror stories seemingly never end. arete tsoukalas tells cnn she needed a specific drug to treat the leukemia she was diagnosed with. she said her insurer, one of the nation's largest, refused to pay for the drug entirely at first, then said it would pay part of it, but she'd have to pay a $13,000 a month copay. sakula says she went without the drug for three months, then got it with financial help from the drug manufacturer. >> no one should have to fight cancer and insurance at the same time.

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incoming donald trump administration is busy discussing ways to put some of the plans outlined in a conservative project. 2025 into practice. sources say they're exploring ways to streamline government agencies that regulate the banking industry. the trump transition team is looking at giving the treasury department control of the federal deposit insurance corporation, insures consumers money in case of a bank failure, but carrying out such a major change won't be easy, as it would require a bipartisan act of congress. meantime, trump's defense department transition team has begun talks with the deputy secretary of defense. they met for the first time on friday. and speaking of defense, trump's pick to lead that department, pete hegseth, seems to have a doomed nomination. a week ago, amid allegations of sexual and financial misconduct. but this week, everything changed. his chances seem much better after he met with several senators who will eventually vote on his

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us hi, i'm stacey, nice to meet you. >> i'm whitney. hi. thank you so much so tell us what's what's going on today. >> so, um, this is not one of my patients. it's one of my colleagues patients. but they just refused their measles vaccine, encouraging parents to stay up to date on vaccinations for their kids is routine. >> for doctor stacey marachek at the hennepin county health care's pediatric clinic in minneapolis. >> we'll see you back in here. all right. take care. >> you guys. >> people forget how diseases used to kill kids. we essentially had white measles out in the united states. but then because of the vaccine rates plummeting over the last several years. um, now, once those people come back into a community that has a low vaccine rate, it just goes like crazy and poof, there's your outbreak. >> minnesota is now over its worst outbreak in seven years, health officials say, which infected 70 and sent many to the hospital. do you know immediately that's the measles? >> um, there's a pretty significant rash that partners with it. so it'll be fever, rash, runny nose, kind of red

eyes. typically, children are more at risk. it's that significant respiratory infection. >> have you seen pretty severe cases um, yes. with the bulk of minnesota's infections in hennepin county, emergency room nurses and doctors find themselves on the outbreak front line. again. what does it feel like when you're like, oh, my god, these numbers are ticking up. this could be really bad. what does it feel like for you? >> uh, you certainly get very anxious. you worry about the supplies that you have on hand. you worry about the staff. will you have the resources? is this the outbreak that's going to break you? >> nationally, the cdc says there have been 16 outbreaks in 2024. there were just 4 in 2020, three. in more than half of the children under five who got sick had to be hospitalized. and the numbers for kindergartners starting school fully vaccinated are dropping nationwide. >> one more last one. last one. last one. only he got five shots, including the polio, including the flu, including the pox her father skipped the mmr vaccine not because of her

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refused to resign over an attempt to impose martial law. it was a move that sparked tremendous backlash. and joining us from seoul is kenneth choi. he's a deputy managing editor of the chosun ilbo. thank you so much for joining me, kenneth. >> well, thank you for having me. >> you're so, so welcome. i imagine we're going to be speaking a lot over the next few weeks and months. i'm guessing this isn't a surprise at all to you, though, given that the opposition party said they would hold votes every single week until yoon was impeached or stepped down. but this is still history, right? it's a big moment. it's a massive moment for south korea. what's your reaction? >> well, it's actually a sad day because we impeached three presidents over the past 25 years. so actually there's nothing to celebrate about. you know, just imagine, you know, either we elected a wrong president or we didn't give enough breaks to the president. so, you know, clearly there's something wrong with the constitution or the political

process. so i think, you know, now we have to look deeply into this, this flaw in our political system because, you know, every time we run this, uh, impeachment process, there is like, you know, discontinuity of of government process. and right now, you know, in the us, the new president is coming in. and, you know, we don't have the president at the moment who can actually react to, you know, setting up new foreign policy issues for the trump administration. you know, we don't have any we cannot have any relationship established relationship with japan. all these things will probably, you know, fall back on our laps. so, um, you know, some people are celebrating. yes. you know, they are joyful at the moment. but, you know, if you, you know, go to sleep tonight from tomorrow on, you know, we just we still have to worry about what are you going to eat? you know, put in food, what kind of food you're going to put on the table. so it's a, it's a you have to go through a long deliberations of, of getting things, you know, ready to, to get out all ourselves back on our feet again.

>> i have to say there's a bit of a contrast there in what you say, that it isn't a celebration. and next year we had people chanting and cheering and like waving stuff. so there are definitely some people celebrated in seoul at the moment, right? but this vote doesn't necessarily guarantee that you will be permanently removed from office to those waking up now and seeing these headlines, there may be a bit confused by that statement, but the entire impeachment process itself could still take weeks, and then a trial still needs to be held before the constitutional court, and the court has actually blocked an impeachment before. so what could happen next? break it down for me actually, you're absolutely right. >> you know, it could take, you know, a maximum of 180 days for, you know, the ruling. and right now we only have six judges out of nine. so, you know, according to the constitution, you know, six judges cannot. and it has to all agree, uh, in order to, you know, rule in favor of the impeachment. but if one person

does not agree with this process, then the whole, you know, the president will go right back on, uh, and then in the meantime, uh, the, the opposition party wants to fill in three more judges of their choices and the acting president, who is the prime minister, he has to appoint uh, the judges into the court. so that will be a, you know, some tug of, uh, hustle among the political circles, whether to do it or not. and if they do it, then they will have, like many, you know, like nine judges to rule the impeachment. and if that is set in motion, then, you know, some the first president was impeached and the ruling came out about, uh, 60 something days. the second president was impeached. it came out about 90 days. so, you know, most people expect that the constitutional court will decide within 2 to 3 months. so if that happens, let's say the constitutional court decides in

two months from today, then it will be february 14th. and then in two months, we have to have a new presidential election. so they will be like april or something. and if the constitutional court, you know, prolongs it to six month period, then in the middle of the summer, we'll have a new presidential election. so it all remains to be seen. a lot of uncertainties out there. uh, there will be a lot of political discussions going on now. so for, you know, 2 to 3 months, the whole country will be at a standstill. >> right. well, we're broadcasting to a lot of americans that are up early this morning. so i want to get a question in about the us and diplomacy. south korea has such an important role in the region within asia in terms of countering china. and also obviously its alliance with the us. what will its allies and enemies be thinking now, seeing this news? >> well, first of all, i don't think north korea is going to be committing any anything at the moment because, um, uh, if they ever do that, you know,

right now korea is divided over this impeachment issues. but if they ever do something, then the entire korea will reunite into one and then they will deal with north korea, which will be, you know, quite challenging for the north koreans. so, you know, having said that, uh, korea happens to be hosting the largest american military base outside of the united states. so and then that military base is so close to china. so, you know, in essence, korea is the sort of a forefront for american military. you know, alliance. so korea is a very important american military ally. so except the president, you know, the the acting president's first mission is to actually solidify, uh, the relationship with the us, the relationship with japan, and so on. so i don't think there will be any, you know, sort of a challenges going on. but just rest assured that, you know, america still can rely on korea. korea will, you know, pitch in whatever the

shares it needs to pitch in. and korea will be still standing right there, whatever happens. so, you know, i think, uh, korea will play a very pivotal role, except the only thing that i am worried about is that, you know, when the new trump administration comes in, you know, we're sorry that we don't have somebody to actually, uh, you know, deal with this new administration. so that's something that's, that's i'm worried about. but, you know, other than that, i think the rest of them will probably, you know, go, go. right well, thank you so much for sticking with us. >> and, uh, speaking to me today, i appreciate it. i'm sure we're going to be speaking so much over the next few weeks and months, so thank you. kenneth choi there in seoul, south korea. speak soon. diplomats are gathering in jordan right now ahead of a meeting to discuss syria's future and middle east stability. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken will join representatives from the european union, turkey and arab nations at the summit. it's scheduled to begin about 30

minutes from now. a short time ago, he met with the united nations special envoy. >> our determination to work together to support a syrian led transition where the united nations plays a critical role, particularly when it comes to the provision of assistance to the protection of minorities, to all the work that needs to happen going forward. so i look forward to this opportunity to compare notes with with the envoy and to again think through how we can support the syrian people in this time of both opportunity, but also a real challenge there was at least one large explosion in damascus on friday night. >> the cnn team there says they heard the blast and the sound of jets flying overhead. israel, turkey and the u.s. have all conducted recent airstrikes in syria. the israeli military launched what's being called a

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>> instead of including what's considered dummy photos. virtually guaranteeing she'd pin it on one of the players. >> i am innocent. reade seligmann is innocent. collin finnerty is innocent. every member of the duke university lacrosse team is innocent. >> the lacrosse teams entire season was canceled, and duke's head lacrosse coach was forced to resign. the questions and the chaos continued for more than a year until the woman's story fell apart. despite earlier claims she told the da she could no longer say for sure she'd been raped. the da dropped the rape charge but pursued the other charges before recusing himself from the case, citing a conflict of interest. the attorney general's office took over. >> we believe that these cases were the result of a tragic rush to accuse and a failure to verify serious allegations. >> 13 months after it all began, in april 2007, then north carolina attorney general

roy cooper declared the players innocent based on the significant inconsistencies between the evidence and the various accounts given by the accusing witness. >> we believe these three individuals are innocent of these charges. >> vindication gave way to elation. >> it's been 395 days since this nightmare began. and finally today, it's come to a closure. >> knowing i had the truth on my side was really the most comforting thing of all. >> throughout the past year, this entire experience has opened my eyes up to a tragic world of injustice i never knew existed. >> citing misconduct, prosecutor mike nifong was later convicted of criminal contempt and disbarred. he was briefly jailed. as for the accuser in the case, she hopes to be forgiven. >> i want them to know that i love them and they didn't deserve that. and i hope they can forgive me. >> randi kaye, cnn, west palm

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