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details on this lovely christmas day rescue. i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan. john berman is out today. this is cnn news central. days after warning the u.s. would retake control of the panama canal, president elect donald trump has named his pick for u.s. ambassador to panama, a role that could unexpectedly, suddenly become key during trump's second term. trump tapped miami-dade county commissioner kevin marino cabrera, one of his staunch allies. cabrera may be critical to trump's new push for potential u.s. expansion, which so far has included the panama canal, greenland and even canada. cnn's steve contorno is tracking all of this. it sounds like this will be a big job. or at least he will be in the spotlight as a new ambassador.

with all the talk from donald trump about trying to take back, as he put it, the panama canal. what can you tell us about him? the ambassador? >> sara? yeah. sara, i think we can safely say that this issue with the panama canal will certainly come up during cabrera's confirmation hearings on capitol hill next year. but, look, he is someone who, as you said, is very aligned with donald trump. and trump announced him on truth social yesterday during a time period when many people were sitting down for their christmas dinners. he wrote, quote, i am pleased to announce that kevin marino cabrera will serve as the united states ambassador to the republic of panama, a country that is ripping us off at the panama canal far beyond their wildest dreams. so who is this individual that donald trump has tapped for this suddenly key role in his administration? well, he is a county commissioner in miami-dade county that is a part of florida that has become

increasingly pro-trump in recent years. in fact, cabrera was endorsed by donald trump before winning election two years ago. he also sponsored legislation soon after getting elected that would name a street in miami-dade county after donald trump. he also ripped florida on the rnc platform committee that met this summer to push through a very pro-trump agenda for the gop going forward. and he also worked on trump's campaign back in 2020. cabrera also posting on x his thanks for the job, writing, thank you, president trump. i'm humbled and honored by your nomination to serve as the u.s. ambassador to panama. let's get to work. sara. >> all right. steve contorno. thank you. there. live for us from miami. appreciate it. kate. >> let's talk more about this with democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz of florida. it's good to see you. congresswoman. thanks so much for coming in. kevin marino cabrera, former miami-dade county commissioner. now. well,

maybe former his choice to be ambassador to panama. what do you think of this election? you know, i don't know much about the commissioner. >> i did represent miami dade county for for 18 years. >> and i'll tell you, it's just another example of trump selecting an individual who has a scant resume, other than being someone who worships donald trump. we have a free trade agreement with panama. we have a decades and generations long relationship. and you know what? what donald trump and speaker johnson and the republicans across our government are doing is demonstrating that the incoming chaos congress and this administration is going to be of, by and for the billionaires and corporations. i mean, that's that's what they're telegraphing very clearly. >> you know, donald trump is

making clear in his focus on panama that it's about china's growing influence as his what he says is the point. one of his one top trump appointee. put it this way. i'll read it for you. it's designed to make clear that decades of u.s. commerce financing china's growth and strategic footprint in the americas is over. you may not like his style or approach to diplomacy, but if he does successfully, i don't know, push china back or scare them off with regard to influence in in the americas, could this threat be worth angering panama's government in your view? >> it is utterly preposterous to suggest that we are going to send our military in to panama to, quote, take back the panama canal. as i said, we have a treaty with panama. we have a free trade agreement with panama, and we are no more going to take back the

panama canal then than panama is going to come in and try to take the mississippi river from us. the we have to have rational, balanced diplomacy and listen. the belt and road initiative that china has engaged in is something that, you know, i have traveled the globe with my colleagues and met with military leaders. it is real. it is a real issue. but what we need to do is make sure that we strengthen our relationships with our with our allies and, and treaty partners like panama, not make ridiculous carnival barker threats like buying greenland, which isn't for sale. and we're not going to acquire and invading panama to take back the canal. there's been a drought in panama, and so it has been. it has slowed passage of ships. but what donald trump is really trying to do here is try to get

better fees for passage for his corporate and billionaire allies. that's what this boils down to. and it's preposterous. >> you talked about the i think you called it the chaos congress. one thing that we know that congress will not be staring down, at least immediately when you all return, is a government shutdown. the washington post is reporting on how speaker johnson was able to pull it off in the end, after the bipartisan agreement, then not then. you know, we all know the formations of how we got to where we got. let me read what the washington post says, that speaker johnson did. he says he proposed a handshake deal with fiscal hawks in his party to try next year to slash mandatory spending programs such as social security, medicare, medicaid, veterans health care and food stamps by at least $2.5 trillion while raising the debt cap by $1.5 trillion. and this is according to the three people familiar with the details. if that is the case and where the focus is going to be when they when when you all get back,

what's that going to mean for next year? >> listen, kate, that's not hyperbole. there was a screenshot that was taken inside the republican conference meeting where that deal was proposed. and as someone who represents the state with the largest percentage of medicare beneficiaries, i will tell you that. that sends chills up and down the spines of millions of seniors across this country. we are the republicans have been salivating to to turn medicare into a voucher system, to privatize social security. i can't tell you the number of times that i have talked with panicked seniors in my district who, when i asked them if they think that they could manage their own retirement security by in a privatized social security system, where where they're given the money and you just have to let them fend for themselves on how they're going to have enough to be able to live on. it's it's frightening. and the

republicans are proving again, and we've got again, a carnival barker coming in who doesn't understand what our retirement programs that have been paid into for generations, over 80 years and 70, 60 years for medicare, and our seniors are owed a safe and secure retirement and health care that they don't have to worry about dying as a result of not having that kind of coverage. that's what trump and his cronies in the chaos congress that's coming are guaranteeing. >> well, and it also can put the right flank of the party even at odds with donald trump himself, who has said that in the past that he wants to protect these programs and and campaigned on that. so, again, we will see. but but we will but we will see as the. we know that definitely he and elon musk were part of the negotiations slash torpedoing of negotiations. for sure. when

it comes to the government shutdown. but that means that you all have got about a three month reprieve, and then you're back up against another wall as that government, as the government funding bill only takes you through mid-march. so back at it again, congresswoman, thank you for coming on. i appreciate your time. my pleasure. thank you so much. coming up for us, a disturbing discovery on a tarmac in hawaii. a body found in the wheel well of a plane. the investigation. now to figure out just how this happened. plus, how donald trump's relationship with benjamin netanyahu could impact ceasefire and hostage and hostage release negotiations in the middle east even before he takes office. and an alarming rise in whooping cough cases this year, as vaccination rates have been dropping. >> can't fool myself. >> it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life had extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. >> you only come across an artist like luther vandross

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pictures that we're showing right now are critical to the assessment of this kind of an air crash. and what you see here is not consistent with a bird strike. those holes in the wing and the fuselage there indicate that there was some kind of a, in essence, a missile attack or potentially bullet attack against the aircraft. now, bullets would have to be done at a much lower altitude than an aircraft normally flies at, but in some cases you can see this being consistent with a missile like the buk missile, which was used to shoot down the mh17 several years ago in ukraine. so that's the kind of thing that could have happened here. obviously, there needs to be an assessment made to see if that is actually what occurred, but it's not consistent with a bird strike for sure. >> now, one of those apps that sort of tracks planes said that there was radar jamming going on at the same time. so there are a lot of questions now. and you're you're speaking about this, this hole in the wing,

and we're looking at it and, you know, saying, look, this doesn't really look consistent with what a bird might do to a plane there. so there are a lot of questions that will have to be unraveled there. plus they have gotten a hold, i think, of the black boxes. so we will see what comes of this. i do want to talk to you now about what happened in ukraine, russia, this devastating strike on ukraine's energy grid, which is clearly to try and make people suffer in the frigid temperatures. how do you see what they're doing now? what does it tell you about russia's capabilities? and now that the u.s. is saying, look, we're going to continue to surge more weapons in? what does it tell you about whether or not ukraine can can retaliate and respond? >> well, it's going to be a close run thing either way, sarah. and what i mean by that is that the ukrainians are really dependent on western,

especially u.s. aid in terms of of weapon systems. ukraine needs, in essence, to have its air defense systems replenished. they do an excellent job shooting down a lot of the missiles and drones that are being thrown against them, but it's obviously not foolproof. and there are some key components here where the ukrainians are critically running out of them. they're running out of munitions, they're running out of the ability to spot the incoming missiles and and drones, and they need to continue to have those capabilities. the ukrainians are being stretched to the limits because russia is just so much bigger in terms of population, in terms of the size of their militaries and in terms of the weaponry that they can throw against ukraine. that's the kind of thing that that really ukraine and the west are up against in this particular case. so what the biden administration is doing is they're trying to replenish as much as they possibly can, probably about $1.2 billion will make its way

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hurry! hurry hurry hurry. >> so this morning, gaza hospital officials say five journalists are dead after an overnight israeli airstrike hit their news van. the van parked outside the hospital was parked outside the hospital at the time. and cnn has obtained video of some of the aftermath that appears to show the word press on the wreckage. the idf confirms the strike says it was targeting a terrorist cell. cnn's elliot gotkine is live in jerusalem. he's got much more on this. and, elliot, what more are you learning? >> well, okay, as you say, hospital officials and also al-quds tv, the network for which these five men were working. both say that they were asleep in this van outside this hospital when it was struck, killing all five men. now, al-quds tv is affiliated with islamic jihad. that's the smaller militant group in the gaza strip, but which is also designated as a terrorist organization by the u.s., uk and others. now, for its part, israel is saying that it

carried out what it describes as a precise strike on an islamic jihad terrorist cell and says that these five men were, in its words, posing as journalists. and it provided what it said was evidence, which is a list it says it came upon during the course of operations in gaza, which listed these men as operatives of islamic jihad, and also provided an infographic of the five men where it has their purported positions within islamic jihad as well. now, whatever the facts of the matter, the committee to protect journalists, which is a u.s. based nonprofit, says that this has been an incredibly deadly year for journalists in this part of the world, especially in gaza, saying that over 130 journalists and media workers in the gaza strip have been killed since the hamas led terrorist attacks of october the 7th. >> kate and ali there's also some developments kind of swirling about around the hostage and ceasefire negotiations that have been progressing somewhat in doha. what's the

latest you're learning? >> yeah, look, we've heard both from prime minister benjamin netanyahu in his office and also from officials from the egyptians and the qatari mediators, saying that progress is being made. but even then, we've heard this so many times in the past, these negotiations, which have been going on for the best part of a year, have failed to get over the line. and now we are hearing from hamas, which is blaming israel for effectively moving the goalposts in the negotiations and saying that that is why a deal has failed to be done. israel has responded by saying that, in fact, it's hamas which is lying in its hamas, which is reneging on understanding. so both sides blaming the other. and i suppose this just goes to underline that even if progress is being made, even if, as some officials have said, 90% of what needs to be negotiated has been agreed upon that last 10% still appears to be unachievable by both sides, at least so far. >> yeah. elliot, thank you very much for being there. thanks for your time and your reporting. joining us right now for more is barak ravid of axios. he's also cnn political

and global affairs analyst. it's good to see you, barak. what is your latest and best read on where negotiations for this for a ceasefire and hostage release are at the moment. >> good morning kate. >> unfortunately, as far as i know, and from all the sources i talked to, both, uh, in the u.s. and in israel and in the region, it seems that the chances are, and i'm being here very careful, the chances are pretty slim that such a hostage and ceasefire deal will be achieved before january 20th, before president trump assumes office. >> and it's interesting and important because president trump just, uh, two weeks ago or three weeks ago, issued a, you know, a post a threat that if until january 20th, the hostages are not all released, all hell will break loose in the middle east. and i think we

are going to get to that point where he is in office. no hostages are released, and he'll have to decide what he's going to do about it. >> yeah. and what all hell breaking loose will look like is. which we do not know exactly. i spoke with him just earlier this week. i spoke with the father of one of the remaining american hostages who are being held in gaza. the hostage. he, his father, jonathan, was on with me this week, and he actually said that there was i mean, i'll call it like a whiff of optimism because he says that donald trump getting involved, setting that actual date and deadline and ultimatum of, you know, hand over all hostages or all hell will break loose, he called it and says, it's been a game changer. let me play this for you. >> but clearly over the course of the last three weeks since president elect trump came out with a very strong statement with a deadline of january 20th, his inauguration, clearly, all of the sides and

the intermediaries egypt, qatar, hamas and israel have put into motion a negotiation process that had been stalled for months until that statement. and there seems to be an urgency on all sides that's been missing for a very long time to get this done. >> but as your reporting suggests, not enough, unfortunately. but what are you hearing about trump's more aggressive approach here, how it's being received or interpreted? >> i think that it was definitely a game changer. there's no, um, there's no doubt this is what led to this last round of negotiations in doha. eight days of talks after three months of almost no talks. so definitely his statement made a difference. the problem is that i think what president trump is going to find out pretty soon when he's in the oval office, if there is no deal, he'll find out that he's been played by

all parties, by the israelis, by the by hamas, obviously, and by the qatari and egyptian mediators, because i think that all parties made every effort to be on their best behavior. after his statement. the problem is that none of them really moved on. the core issues of this negotiation. and, you know, there's one bottom line that, you know, we've been through this for a year now. and the bottom line is that at least in my assessment, there is no deal to be made without the out the outcome. after the three stages of this deal, after implementing these three stages of this deal, the outcome needs to be the end of the war. if the outcome is not the end of the war, i don't see how hamas agrees to this deal, and the result will just be that you have no deal. the hostages are still in the tunnels, and every day more and more of them die of, you know, the very difficult and bad conditions that they're being held in. and if you want to get

the hostages out, unfortunately, the the only way to go is to end the war. and until people don't understand, that will just be in this ongoing loop. >> the relationship between trump and netanyahu has been an interesting one. and clearly, come january 20th will become even more critical. what are you hearing about that? how eyes wide open are the incoming trump team about that well, i think that obviously, um, you know, netanyahu has a lot of inroads into the trump team and into the trump world, much more than he had into the biden world. >> uh, and in, you know, in many, many things, i think the trump team will, um, will make netanyahu's life much easier. but there's a big but here that the root causes of, uh, of

trump and netanyahu's relationship or the problems in their relationship from the first term, the root causes are still there. and the root. one of the root causes is the trump at the end of the day. and i haven't seen any evidence that that has changed, wants to create some sort of breakthrough in the middle east peace process. and that includes also an israeli palestinian component. and netanyahu is not very interested in that. and i think this will, uh, this will happen again as it happened last time, that trump will ask netanyahu to do things, and netanyahu wouldn't want to do. and last time trump got to the conclusion that netanyahu just led them on, led them on and didn't really want peace. and i think there's a quite a big chance that he will get to the same point this time around. >> yeah. i mean, when you look, when you think of it, making netanyahu's life easier and getting what donald trump ultimately always wants is to get a deal and to get credit for pulling off a deal, which would be in the middle east and which would be bringing the hostages home and ending the

war there. those things very likely are going to be in opposition, and they're going to see that really quickly. um, come january 20th. barack, thank you, as always, for your reporting. thanks for coming on. coming up for us, this is a huge week for holiday travel. of course, whether you're packing up to head home from christmas or you're packing up to head out for new years, we are tracking a post-christmas round of storms that you're going to want to keep your eye on. we'll be right back. >> and it has been one wild year. >> i know that whole live stream was crazy. >> what you have been following actual news, right? oh, boy. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight on cnn and streaming live. >> when i was younger, my calling was to play football. >> but as i grew older, i realized life isn't about how many people you can knock down. it's about how many people you can lift up at ram. >> our calling is to build game

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high profile case revisited in brazen public murders that captivated america. cnn's jean casarez is counting down the top ten crimes and justice, crime and justice stories of 2020 for. >> music superstars charged in criminal court. parents of a school shooter land in prison and an insurance executive gunned down, shot in the back in the heart of new york city. all part of the top ten crime and justice stories of 2020 for number ten. a conviction in the murders of abigail williams and liberty german two young delphi, indiana girls have an afternoon off from school in february 2017. a family member drops them off to hike at the monon high bridge trail. libyan and abby were never seen

again. their bodies were found together the next day with their throats cut. libby's phone had pivotal video evidence of a suspect. tank dell local resident richard allen was arrested in 2022 and was later convicted by a jury of his peers. number nine charges in connection to the death of a beloved actor. >> when i dance, i look like this matthew perry, who became a household name on the hit show friends, found dead in october 2023. >> his body floating face down in a hot tub at his pacific palisades home with ketamine in his system. five people now charged in connection with his death, including two doctors. >> matthew perry sought treatment for depression and anxiety and went to a local clinic, where he became addicted to intravenous ketamine. >> three of the defendants have reached plea agreements, while the other two have pleaded not

guilty. number eight. a stunning end to alec baldwin's manslaughter trial. baldwin goes to trial following the fatal shooting of cinematographer halyna hutchins on the set of his film rust. prosecutors said baldwin pulled the trigger of a prop gun during a rehearsal, but the gun had a live round, killing hutchins within two days. the involuntary manslaughter case was thrown out over withheld evidence. dismissal with prejudice is warranted number seven pop star justin timberlake, arrested for driving while intoxicated. timberlake is pulled over while driving in sag harbor, new york. court records alleged he was glassy eyed with a strong odor of alcohol on his breath. he told police he only had one martini. three months later, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of

driving while impaired. >> even one drink. don't get behind the wheel of a car. >> number six an illinois woman shot and killed in her own home by police. 36 year old sonja massie called 911 on july 6th because she thought an intruder was in her home. deputies responded, but a dispute over a pot of hot water on the stove became the focus. are you? >> huh? there you go, away from your hot, steaming water. away from my hot, steaming water? yeah. oh, i rebuke you in the name of jesus. >> i kill you and you better not. i swear to god, i'll shoot you at your face. okay. i'm sorry. drop the top. the. drop the pot. >> drop the sangamon county sheriff's deputy, sean grayson, was fired and has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges. number five, after 35 years in prison, two brothers have the possibility of freedom. lyle and erik

menendez. planned, plotted and executed the murders of their parents in 1989. the brothers said they acted in self-defense after suffering years of physical and sexual abuse by their record executive father. the first jury trial ended in a mistrial, but included their sexual abuse testimony. do you recall the first time that he wasn't nice during the sex? >> yes, yes. and you were 11? >> i was 11. >> but during a second trial, the brothers were convicted. now they say they have new evidence. and with a netflix docudrama on the case. we did it as well as the sudden support of now former l.a. district attorney george gascon. the chance for freedom is possible, but the new da nathan hochman is making no promises. >> you have to review thoroughly the facts and the law. >> number four, the chief

executive officer of insurance giant unitedhealthcare gunned down in new york city, brian thompson, in town for a conference, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of december 4th outside of the hilton in midtown manhattan. >> it appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes. >> on december 9th, the nypd announced 26 year old luigi mangione had been arrested in altoona, pennsylvania, while eating at a mcdonald's. he was in possession of a document criticizing the health care industry. a police official told cnn mangione has been charged with murder, among other counts, in state and federal court. mangione attorney denies his client was involved in the killing. number three, a georgia nursing student murdered on her morning jog. 25 minutes into that run, laken riley was killed. >> this community, all of georgia and the entire country have been rocked by this

inexcusable and avoidable murder. >> jose ibarra, a 26 year old migrant from venezuela, was charged with her murder. the trial in november brought an unemotional ibarra and riley's family together in the same room. >> this sick, twisted and evil coward showed no regard for lake and her human life. >> ibarra was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. number two, it was precedent setting parents of a mass school shooter on trial themselves for the deaths of the students their son gunned down. >> gun ownership is a right. >> and with that right comes great responsibility. >> jennifer and james crumbley, the parents of the oxford, michigan high school shooter, went to trial in early 2024 on involuntary manslaughter charges in a first of its kind prosecution, the state alleged the crumbleys bought their son a gun days before the mass

shooting and didn't properly store it, despite her knowledge of his deteriorating mental crisis. >> this gun was gifted. >> jennifer then took the stand. >> there's a couple of times where ethan expressed anxiety over taking tests, but not not to a level where i felt he needed to go see a psychiatrist or a mental health professional right away now, with the community still overcome by grief from the four students murdered by their son, both parents were convicted by unanimous juries. >> they are appealing their verdicts. and the number one, crime and justice story of the year. music superstar sean "diddy" combs arrested. combs was charged in september with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and prostitution related charges. >> combs used force threats of force and coercion to cause victims to engage in extended

sexual performances with male commercial sex workers. >> the indictment specifically notes surveillance video showing combs beating his then girlfriend cassie ventura, at a hotel in march 2016. combs apologized after cnn aired that video in may. >> i take full responsibility for my actions in that video. i'm disgusted. >> combs remains in federal custody at the metropolitan ty. he has pleaded new york not guilty. >> all right. ahead, a new health concern this morning as doctors see an alarming spike in cases of whooping cough. how you can protect yourself and your family. >> can't fool myself. >> it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life had extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. you only come across an artist like luther vandross once in a lifetime. >> luther. never too much new

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also, this. the fda is reclassifying its recall on thousands of eggs sold at costco to now be at its highest risk level over possible salmonella exposure. the agency says eating the eggs could lead to serious health issues, possibly death. the recall is for eggs from the handsome brook farms brand. you see it here. the label is distributed by. they were distributed to costco stores in five states, including tennessee, alabama, georgia, north carolina and south carolina. sarah. >> all right. unfortunately, tis the season for widespread respiratory illnesses. sorry, folks. and this morning we're learning that cases of whooping cough in the united states have surged to their highest number in a decade. that is according to the latest cdc data. doctor megan ranney, emergency physician and dean of yale school of public health, is joining me now to take a look at this. thank you so much for being here. happy holidays to you. what explains this surge in whooping cough? the worst

we've seen in a decade? >> yeah. whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is one of the vaccine preventable illnesses that kids get protected against by getting vaccines in their first year of life. we're seeing this huge surge right now for reasons that we don't completely understand, but we think it's for a couple of different reasons. the first is, is that whooping cough cases go up and down cyclically in waves, and it's been a while since we've had a wave of pertussis or whooping cough, partly because during the covid pandemic, we all masked and stayed away from each other. so we didn't see that normal surge. the second reason that we think we're seeing this big wave is because fewer people are getting vaccinated. fewer little kids are getting vaccinated. we're seeing some of the lowest rates of vaccination for kindergartners in decades, but also fewer adults are getting vaccinated. and whooping cough is one of those diseases that you need to get a booster for about every

decade to stay adequately protected. >> well, you know the fallout. this is some of the fallout from from the covid times. and to see this coming back with such a vengeance is disturbing. can you give us some sense of what the symptoms are so that people know what they have? sometimes you think, oh, it's a cold or it's a, you know, it's just something i need to let it burn off. what are the symptoms? >> so it does start off as a cold for most of us. you're going to have a runny nose, a little bit of a cough. um, some, uh, kind of, maybe some body aches. it's not until a couple of weeks later that that classic cough starts to present. um, in adolescents and adults, we find that they get that horrible paroxysmal cough. you get these coughing fits that can't stop. they can be so bad that they keep you from sleeping. they make you vomit. i've honestly seen patients who have broken ribs from coughing fits in littler kids, particularly in infants. it can

cause a different group of symptoms. it'll again start with those cold symptoms that congestion. but then babies in particular can stop breathing from whooping cough. they can develop pneumonia. they can get those same coughing fits. um, some of the sickest babies who i've taken care of have had whooping cough because they're too young to get vaccinated or their parents didn't get them vaccinated. >> wow. those are really disturbing details and something for for parents to watch out for. um, when it comes to whooping cough and the fact that it is now at a ten year high. everybody needs to be aware of it. doctor megan raney, thank you so much. appreciate you coming in on this holiday week. all right, kate, thank you. >> christmas day was chock full of gifts, including the gridiron. netflix pulling off its highly anticipated christmas day nfl doubleheader. but could the real star have been beyonce's halftime show? i ask non-biased, very objective

coy wire back with me. okay. it was great football, but even lamar jackson said he wanted to skip the locker room to watch beyonce. >> oh, man. the ravens quarterback should have gone out there with her because he was doing some dancing of his own on the field, but that bar has been set very high for kendrick lamar's super bowl halftime show. beyonce crushing it with some special guests at halftime of the ravens texans game. here's a peek. hello, girls. >> hello, beyoncé. hello, fellas. well, those teddy ones can't touch me. why? because i'm a clever girl. we clapping. >> the 32 time grammy winner rocking her hometown of houston, performing songs from her cowboy carter album in front of a live audience for the first time. special guest shaboozey post malone and her daughter, 12 year old blue ivy, dancing with her. beyonce also teased something coming on january 14th. we shall see. as far as the game, those ravens, they were flying

high against the texans. there was no stopping baltimore's quarterback, lamar jackson. he threw two touchdown passes and he was out there running like a reindeer. he went dashing for 87 yards in the game, including this 48 yard score. and then lamar ran into the record book in the third right here. moving past michael vick at the top of the all time rushing list for quarterbacks. baltimore wins 31 to 2, improving to 11 and five on the season. their one game up on the steelers, now for first place in the afc north. the chiefs took on the steelers in the first game of the day. patrick mahomes leading kc out to an early 13 point lead, and they were never really threatened by pittsburgh. mahomes threw three touchdown passes, including one to his favorite target, travis kelce. travis 77th career touchdown catch early in the fourth, breaking kc's all time touchdown receptions record. he dunked the ball to pay tribute to the former record holder, hall of famer tony