agenda, with virtually no margin for error and ambitious agenda, they've got to deal with huge issues like raising the debt limit. he made a promise on how they deal with the debt limit just recently. that's going to be hard to implement, and avoiding a government shutdown in march, not to mention all the things they want to do on immigration and and the like. >> look, the speaker fight is going to be important. what i'm also watching is i think members are going to stay in town for at least part of this weekend to really game plan the next, you know, hundred 60 or 60 days, 100 days. what is that first reconciliation package look like? what does a second reconciliation package look like? and you're right. how do you factor in debt limit and government funding? and how do you i think for republicans get quick wins on the board that can unify the caucus to get some momentum behind. >> and you're going to need the democrats. so it's not quite the mandate that donald trump was talking about when in november. i don't know about that. we'll see how the mandate of one democrats may sit back and just watch it all happen. >> they should see what they do. all right. thanks to our panel. thank you for joining us. i'm manu raju. cnn news central starts right now.

>> all right. breaking this morning, the fbi is searching locations in multiple states for clues and possible accomplices in the deadly new orleans terror attack. we are getting new details just in on the 15 people killed. >> and there's this. authorities now investigating a possible connection between that new orleans attack and a tesla cybertruck you see there that exploded outside the trump hotel in las vegas. the details that may tie the two incidents together. and it ends with u.s. actor and director justin baldoni suing the new york times for $250 million over an article on costar blake lively's sexual harassment complaint against him. baldoni's attorney now fighting back, calling the report part of lively's, quote, vicious smear campaign to salvage her reputation and ruin his i'm sara sidner with john berman kate bolduan is out

today. this is cnn news central breaking this morning, federal officials are calling it a deliberate act of terror as the fbi is conducting searches across multiple states. >> 15 people are dead, many more injured after a man plowed his truck through crowded new orleans streets just after the new year. three major questions this morning. were there any accomplices? was this attack tied to the cybertruck explosion outside a trump hotel in las vegas? there are notable similarities. was this attack actually directed by i.s.i.s. or just inspired by the terror group? just a short time ago, we learned the new orleans attacker pleaded guilty to dui charges in 2015, and police shared new details about a series of videos he allegedly recorded, one of which includes a pledge to i.s.i.s.. this morning, we're also learning

more about the victims as witnesses. now describe what they saw we heard the gunshots and everyone started running and then they ended up locking us in the building and they shut all the doors and told us to get down. >> and when we came outside, that's when we saw the truck that was crashed right outside where we were at, and we saw the first responders trying to save a young man, and they were working on him for so long, and we were just hoping and praying he was going to survive. but there was no life in him at all. >> all right, let's get right to ryan young, who was on the scene in new orleans this morning for the latest on this investigation. ryan, which is widening. >> public safety. >> yeah, john, this investigation is still ongoing and pretty much look, i walked around the scene last night and people are still in shock. i talked to one woman who said she'll never be able to forget what she was witnessing. just last night. and you look down

this direction, you can see the large police presence is starting to lessen just a little bit. but that's where the focus of the investigation has been for the last 24 hours. that evidence collection, the body removal, all that very much going on. but let's take a look at this video. that was just 24 hours ago when that white truck, that ford lightning turned onto bourbon street and accelerated. of course, we blurred some of the images here, but that is what really devastated this scene. now we know the suspect shamsud-din jabbar is 42, a u.s. citizen from texas, army veteran, had an i.s.i.s. flag on the back of that truck. he discussed plans to even kill his family at one point. and then, of course, that video, a chilling video where he says he wanted to join i.s.i.s.. take a listen to the fbi talk about this active investigation. >> we do not believe that jabbar was solely responsible. we are aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates. that's why we need the public's help. we are asking if

anybody has any interactions with shamsud-din jabbar in the last 72 hours that you contact us. >> yeah, john, the tough part here. 15 people killed, 35 injured. the names that we want to talk about here is tiger beck, 27, reggie hunter 37, and kareem bawadi. of course, those are just some of the names that we've learned so far. this investigation is still ongoing, trying to figure out if there's any more connections out there. there's also video of a house, an airbnb they feel that could have been connected to this because those ieds that were found around the area, they feel like they may have been built in that location. hoping to get more news from the fbi today as they do, another briefing, but obviously an ongoing investigation now stretching far beyond the street behind me. >> john and ryan. again, we mourn for the victims. the fbi agent there saying bluntly, we do not believe jabbar acted alone. that explains many of the searches happening in many locations this morning. thank you for your reporting on this. we'll get back to you in a bit. ryan. i mean, sarah, all

right. >> now to the tesla cybertruck explosion in las vegas, just outside the doors of a trump international hotel. there, surveillance video showing the powerful blast. authorities are still trying to figure out if that was an act of terror or, as john mentioned, somehow linked to the attack in new orleans. cnn's veronica miracle has more on that story. >> our john miller is telling us he has spoken to multiple law enforcement officials who say that the driver of the cybertruck has a military background. now, law enforcement officials say they know the name of this driver who died in the explosion, but they are not going to be releasing the identity of that driver until they notify the next of kin. we understand that this driver was in las vegas for about an hour, driving around the strip before pulling up to trump tower. before that explosion happened. and authorities say the driver rented the cybertruck in colorado via the turo app before driving down to las vegas. a video released by law

enforcement shows explosives that were contained inside the truck, which included fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel, and all of that was connected to a detonation system that was controlled by the driver. and the sheriff pointed out, which is really incredible how the cybertruck actually contained the explosion. the way that it was built forced the explosion to go upwards instead of outwards, which meant that the glass from trump tower was not broken. and seven people nearby were injured, but with minor injuries. all of them are okay. they've all been released from the hospital. the driver did die, and las vegas police believe that this was an isolated incident. they are not yet willing to say if this was in fact connected to what happened in new orleans, but it is quite unusual that both the drivers in this, in these incidents, rented their cars from turo. we do have a statement from turo and they said they are cooperating with these investigations, but they also said that neither of the drivers had criminal

backgrounds, which would have flagged them as security threats. back to you. >> all right. our thanks to veronica miracle there. ahead, a drive by shooting outside a nightclub in queens leaves more than a dozen people injured, including two teenagers, as they waited in line to get into the club. police say multiple suspects are responsible for that shooting. details ahead on that overnight. police in south korea searching an airport and an airline's offices and their investigation of that deadly plane crash. and a polar vortex will put parts of the country in a dangerous deep freeze. we'll find out just how low the temperatures will go. >> i lay on my back, frozen, thinking the darkest thoughts, and then everything changed. dana said, you're still you and i love you, super man. >> the christopher reeve story coming in february. >> you don't stop being you

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vehicles rented from this rideshare slash user to user rental outfit, turo military backgrounds. both drivers explosives on both trucks. andy. possible. it's just a coincidence. what do you see there? >> still possible that that's just a coincidence. but honestly, john, you have, uh, attacks occurring. uh, vehicle borne attacks occurring on the same day in different cities. that alone gets you a very intensive investigation to determine whether or not there's any connectivity between those two actors. and that could be anything from, you know, interacting and planning and preparing together to execute those attacks. or it could be something as simple as a infrequent contact over social media that just brought them together as like minded people. if there is any connection between the two of them, i'm i am confident that our law enforcement and intelligence folks will uncover that, but they've got to look hard for

it. >> we heard from the fbi special agent, supervisory special agent in new orleans who said, we do not believe jabbar. that's the new orleans killer acted alone. that's a direct, very direct comment there. andy, what do you think gives them so much certainty at this point? >> yeah, that's it's really a bold thing to say. i think this early in the investigation there was a lot of talk yesterday about four other individuals who were captured on video surveillance. we believe somewhere near the site of one of these other ieds that was recovered yesterday. um, that's been ruled out. so we still don't know if the fbi is quite as confident now that those four people have been ruled out about the presence of others. nevertheless, there are other indicators here that could be forcing the investigators to broaden their search. and that is simply the fact that if these other suspected ieds that were placed around the french quarter are

in fact connected to the driver of the truck, then there's a logistical challenge here. they're trying to determine would it be possible for him to have created and placed those devices and then gotten in the truck and driven to his destined attack? so it's simple logistical questions like that could be compelling the investigators to think, you know, this person probably had someone or some group of people helping him execute the attack. >> there was the i.s.i.s. flag found in this vehicle in new orleans. at a minimum, it gives reason to say this was inspired by i.s.i.s.. that's what we heard from the president. andy, how do you find if it was more than that, more than inspired, perhaps directed, and your experience in there were attacks during your time at the fbi like this, inspired by i.s.i.s.? in your experience, does i.s.i.s. get involved in these actions directly in the united states? >> it's a great question,

john. so i.s.i.s. has definitely been very forward leaning in trying to recruit, um, what we would think of typically as lone actors to strike out in acts of terrorism on their behalf in their home country. so without ever traveling to syria, without ever meeting an actual i.s.i.s. member in person, without receiving specified training, um, they are they do that through the propaganda that they distribute around the world on the internet. so it really becomes a question of how how do we think about those people who are inspired to act on i.s.i.s. behalf? typically we refer to them simply as i.s.i.s. inspired attacks. we think of that as an act of international terrorism, even though those folks may never have associated directly. but one of the ways that i.s.i.s. motivates them is to literally put out an instruction manual of how to do it. we know that i.s.i.s. in the past has advised, um, their followers to obtain large, heavy vehicles to

drive those vehicles into crowded areas at events, to run over and kill as many people as they can, and to also carry a secondary weapon so that when the truck is inevitably stopped, at some point, the driver will be able to get out and continue the killing with a gun or a knife or some sort of bladed weapon. so when we look at the details of this, attack, it very closely matches exactly what i.s.i.s. has essentially asked its followers to do in their home countries. so i think the connection here on the inspired level is very good to determine whether or not he's an actual operative who had contact and received direction from i.s.i.s.. that requires the community to go deep into its intelligence holdings, to look at data sets like this data set, we we acquire through fisa, section 702 to see if there have ever been communication connections between this actor and any of the known or suspected terrorists we are following

overseas very quickly. >> andy, any reason for concern today? there were two truck explosions. could there be more? the sugar bowl scheduled for new orleans this afternoon? >> john, i'm a lifelong counterterrorism guy, so there's always a concern. that's that's where i start in this math equation. but yeah, absolutely. there's a concern about tonight and about the super bowl in a few weeks. if the fbi believes that there are other people that were possibly involved in this attack, there's every reason to think that they might have some sort of a follow on action planned. that's why you're going to see security very, very high for tonight's event. >> andrew mccabe, i really appreciate your time this morning, helping us understand everything we're seeing as this investigation, 24 hours old now, we're going to see a lot more over the next several hours. appreciate it. all right. this morning, millions of americans under weather warnings as dangerously cold arctic air expected to cover more than two thirds of the

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forget. just the fact that these these people are somebodies. people. and they're not going to be there this morning. it's rough. >> all right, let's get right to houston, where these searches are underway. cnn's senior national correspondent, ed lavandera is there. ed, what is the latest from the ground? >> well, john, investigators here in the houston area, which involve the harris county sheriff's department as well as obviously, fbi investigators who have been here in this neighborhood on the northern side of houston, where, as you can see behind me, the police lights and authorities have had this area cordoned off since yesterday afternoon. >> we understand it wasn't until late last night that fbi investigators got the sign off on the search warrants to go inside the home of the suspect in this new orleans attack is believed to have his last known address. is believed to be just beyond those police lights you see behind me. and that's why investigators have been here. they've been very tight lipped

as to exactly what they've been doing and what they have found at this point. but it wasn't until late last night, as i mentioned, that we understand that they began the search process of the residence here. fbi say that this search is connected to that investigation in new orleans. but we've learned a lot about this suspect here in the last 24 hours in various court documents that describe a man who was facing financial troubles. in court documents related to a child support case that was filed by the mother of two of his children. the suspect talked about being in debt, credit card debt, businesses that were losing money as well. and in a youtube video, he talked about how he was born and raised in the city of beaumont, just east of the houston area and right on the louisiana border. but several neighbors i spoke to yesterday who live in the area just around where this suspect lived, say they didn't have much interaction with him, just the typical hi and bye that you would you might say to a neighbor you didn't know

particularly well. but investigators here continue. we hope to learn some more here throughout the day as to exactly what was found, what exactly might have been found inside these premises as this search of this area has gone into the overnight hours this morning, john, one of the locations being searched this morning. >> great to have you there. ed lavandera, thank you very much, sarah. >> all right. president joe biden offered his condolences to the families of those killed in the horrific new orleans attack, saying the nation grieves with them and stands with the city. >> while this person committed a terrible assault on the city. the spirit of our new orleans will never, never, never be defeated. it always will shine forth. we've seen that time and time again throughout its history, and i know we'll see it again. >> he also spoke about the investigation, saying federal agencies are investigating any links between the deadly attack in new orleans and what you're seeing there. that tesla on fire after

a deadly explosion outside the trump hotel in las vegas yesterday. cnn's arlette saenz is joining us now from the white house. what are you learning from the president and his team this morning? >> well, sarah, president biden described the violence in new orleans as a despicable attack as he and federal investigators are working to learn more about what led to this incident and also whether the suspect had any accomplices. now, president biden spoke last night from camp david after receiving briefings from his homeland security team. throughout the day, he shared with the public some of the known details about the suspect. he was an american citizen and a former member of the military, who president biden said had posted videos online indicating that he was inspired by i.s.i.s.. here is how president biden described the ongoing investigation. >> the law enforcement and intelligence community are continuing to look for any connections, associations or coconspirators. we have nothing

additional to report at this time. the investigation is continuing to be active and no one should jump to conclusions. >> in addition to the attack in new orleans, the president said his team and investigators are looking into the explosion of that cyber truck out outside of trump international hotel in las vegas. the president said investigators are really trying to key in on whether there are any possible connections between the two incidents, though as of last night, biden did not have any further information to report on that front. now, each of these investigations remain incredibly fluid. we will see whether president biden shares any other details or updates when he returns here to the white house a bit later this morning. but even as these investigations are unfolding, there are still so many families dealing with the very difficult task of mourning in the aftermath of this attack in new orleans, president biden said that the hearts of the nation remain with those who

are grieving. sarah. >> we certainly do. arlette saenz, thank you so much for your reporting this morning, john. >> all right. this morning, security officials in new orleans are preparing for today's sugar bowl, a college football playoff between georgia and notre dame. it was postponed yesterday following the terror attack. let's get right to cnn sports anchor andy scholes with the details on these preparations. andy. yeah, john. so, you know, there's going to be thousands of georgia and notre dame fans just walking through the french quarter down poydras street to get to the superdome for today's game. and instead of that normal energy for the sugar bowl fans, certainly going to feel a little uneasy after what happened. now, the superintendent of new orleans police says they're doing everything they can to make it safe there. take a listen. >> we have put officers out there as a grid, walking down the streets, every street in the french quarter looking for suspicious packages, bags, ice chests, you name it. >> and they have been walking it as a grid. we've been doing

the same thing on poydras and all the accesses into the superdome. part of the safety plan is we have bomb dogs out there sweeping the superdome and all the exterior area, and we're locking that down. that will be locked down through the game tomorrow now, georgia's football team did hold a walk through at the superdome last night, while notre dame held meetings at their hotel in fighting irish head coach marcus freeman. >> we spoke with espn about what he told his team after the terror attack and the toughest moments. >> the culture, um, of of any program of a nation is revealed. and i have a lot of faith this country will rally around new orleans and support all the victims and families that were affected today. >> now, kickoff for the sugar bowl is at 4 p.m. eastern today. the winner moves on to face penn state in the orange bowl one week from today. now

moving a game of this magnitude with so many fans traveling in for it. i mean, john, that's so tough to do, but delta and southwest airlines, they both issued travel advisories for new orleans allowing people to rebook their flights for free. >> makes sense. you know, some 80,000 people in the stands there. all right. andy schultz, thank you very much. i know you'll keep us posted, sarah. >> all right. joining me now to discuss is seth rich. he is the vice president of client risk management at global guardian and global security services firm. thank you so much for being with us this morning, seth. fbi officials are saying they do not believe the terror suspect acted alone. when you hear that, could that be there are more coconspirators or could that simply be that they were helped by i.s.i.s. operatives potentially online with the planning or all of the above? >> it's a great question, sarah. when you look at the complexity of this attack, it had been well planned ahead of

time. >> so you at a minimum, likely have a logistics component of people that helped the terrorist pull this attack off. so it's a combination of reconnaissance, building ieds, all the things that we're hearing about and reporting now. so more will come out of the investigation of was this an inspired attack or was this a direct support attack? but there's likely more people that are involved. >> i do want to talk to you about the videos that have surfaced of the new orleans suspect, speaking positively about his skills and a post-military career in real estate. we know he was born and raised in texas, that he was having some financial issues. does it surprise you that someone like this could be radicalized? >> i think that when you find someone who is disassociated, that is separated from society, they become vulnerable. and that's exactly what i.s.i.s. is

looking for. we've been looking at i.s.i.s. now for well over a decade, and this is what they look for. they hunt for this, and then they try to take advantage of people that can be operationalized. and i think we're seeing a version of that with this event. >> we also have some new details from those videos with him talking about killing his family and being inspired by i.s.i.s.. when you look at some of what we are now seeing, do you expect that the fbi and others will find that there were signs leading up to this? there were red flags that were perhaps missed. >> there could be. you know, i don't want to speculate on that aspect of it. i think we are going to get the excruciating details of this tragedy laid out to us, and we're going to see, of course, a background of someone who is extremely troubled and somebody that, uh, you know, was obviously, um, operationalized by an enemy

agent and then put into play. so, you know, when i look at the situation now, there's the investigative side and then there's the what are we going to do to make sure that the sugar bowl is ready? the super bowl is ready. and frankly, all the parades for mardi gras are also protected and ready. um, so there is a lot of complexity that's going on now in new orleans. but i have a lot of faith that those leaders are going to be able to handle what's coming next. >> let me ask you about what that security should look like and really what people should expect when they go to the super bowl. if they're going to the sugar bowl or any other big event. frankly, in other cities in the next coming days, what are the things that should be in place and and what should should fans expect as they're going there? because i suspect things will be a bit different when it comes to the amount of law enforcement and the amount of security. >> absolutely. i think you will see law enforcement project out what timelines look like. i think fans or those that are

attending large scale events need to pay attention to what recommended timelines are. there will be increased security. um, you know, security is not just the agents walking or the police officers walking up and down the streets. that's just part of it. there will be online threat management. there will be cameras with a.i. that are looking for threats that are out there. you will see, um, all sorts of different intelligence and communications going on. so there will be robust security, layered security, protecting these events. so if you're attending one, just make sure you get there early. make sure you've got those clear bags and you're following all the protocols that are recommended to you. >> yeah, it's really good advice. i do want to ask you about this. you know, alleged vegas driver and the new orleans suspect both had military backgrounds. we're learning both used electric vehicles, both rented um, on the owner rental website, turo. explosive devices in both. although the suspect in new orleans was not able to

detonate them before police took him out. but but there are also some some differences between these two attacks. what does this tell you? does it look likely that these two attacks may well be connected? >> i would not want to speculate on that, but i will say for the military writ large, especially the army, because it looks like both had an army background. you know, there's 1.3 million members of the army today, active reserve and national guard having these two one offs. i wouldn't correlate necessarily back to being a, you know, related to the military in particular. i do believe, though, when you get a profile of them, you're going to find alienated, disassociated people. and this really comes back to the community responsibility that we all have. see something, say something, reach out to other members of your family or your friend. network. if you used to be in the military, stay in touch with those ex-members of your previous units and just check in on folks. there's a

human nature aspect to this that we want to reinforce, to make sure that we if there is somebody that's struggling with this or making a decision on this, maybe we can pull them back to the correct side of the threshold where they need to be. >> that's an interesting point. thank you so much, seth rich. appreciate you coming on this morning. and ahead breaking overnight. at least ten people are injured, some as young as 16 years old after multiple gunmen opened fire outside a new york nightclub. what police are saying about the attack in queens. and is donald trump's endorsement not enough? house speaker mike johnson battled to keep the gavel and his looming friday deadline to win over some republicans.

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the biden administration about the correlation. the obvious concerns about terrorism in the wide open border. the idea that dangerous people were coming here in droves and setting up potential terrorist cells in the country. we have been ringing the alarm. so putting what happened in new orleans on the shoulders of the biden administration. now, we do know that the the the alleged terrorist in this attack was born and raised in texas, but the fbi says potentially he was radicalized by i.s.i.s.. what do you make of what johnson has said this morning? >> good morning, sarah. thanks for having me on. >> speaker johnson shouldn't be politicizing this tragedy. and as you said, this terrorist was born and raised in texas, a state of the united states. last time i checked, and i could turn around and politicize this the other direction, i could point out that donald trump said that the united states should not have a

presence in syria, despite syria being the most likely harbor and hotbed of i.s.i.s. terrorism, that he is the one who doesn't want u.s. troops killing i.s.i.s. terrorists in syria. so they don't come to the united states and try to kill americans here. but now is not the time for that kind of rhetoric. now is the time to come together as a nation. republicans and democrats grieve with. pray with those residents of new orleans who are suffering from this heinous attack. >> i do want to ask you, because you know, obviously, speaker johnson is in a very precarious position where you've had several republicans come out and say that they won't likely vote for him for speaker. and when you look at what happened with democrats and the fact that democrats did lose the senate and the house, is there any chance that democrats would try and help johnson vote for johnson if he indeed is in trouble with republicans? >> no. democrats are going to vote for hakeem jeffries, because hakeem jeffries is the one who represents our values and our priorities to lower costs for americans to uphold

the rule of law. now, if past is prolog, we know that regardless of who gets the gavel, mike johnson or otherwise, he is going to need democratic votes to legislate. he is going to need democratic votes to be able to enact the reforms that he is promising. that was true last congress. that was true the congress before. in fact, things like ukraine and israel aid things like gun safety legislation, uh, things like, uh, aid to, uh, israel. these are all things that required bipartisan votes. and mike johnson is going to have to sit down and recognize that he broke trust with democrats when he reneged upon the bipartisan funding deal we had a couple of weeks ago. and if he wants to rebuild that trust, he should start by putting bipartisan bills on the floor, bipartisan bills to expand affordable housing tax credits, or take on the health insurance lobby to lower drug prices or, uh, to, uh, enact common sense border security legislation that already passed with with democratic votes. we have the bills ready to go. he just

needs to have the political courage to execute. >> i do want to ask you about that, because you have some republicans, the reason why they're upset with johnson is because he reached across the aisle to democrats on government spending and foreign aid, and that first bipartisan bill, if cooperation is frowned upon, do democrats have any shot of getting anything on their agenda through the republican led congress? >> well, that's what's up to mike johnson. and this is really the conundrum that faces political leaders at one point or another in their careers is, do i do what's right for the country, or do i do what's right for my own political career? and, you know, the history books are filled with people who answered the question the right way and the wrong way. and mike johnson, at times in the last term, i will say, answered it the right way, you know, begrudgingly, he put that ukraine israel bill on the floor. he lifted or excuse me, he funded the government, lifted the debt default limit. so there have been sparks of country before party. and he's going to have to do that again.

the challenge that he has, though, sarah, is that he destroyed his trust with democrats in the last several weeks because donald trump said john, he said how high? and he tore up a terrific bill that had been painstakingly negotiated that was going to save taxpayers $5 billion and lower their prescription drug co-pays, threw that out the window on behalf of donald trump. >> i do want to lastly ask you, congressman, about something that you have officially called for, which is telling your democratic peers to block the nomination of robert kennedy, jr. for the secretary of health and human services. there are several other controversial nominees. what made you single out kennedy? >> the damage he can do to children's health? you're right that there are other unfit nominees hegseth, gabbard. patel i'm worried that they could be a heat shield for rfk, that all the focus is on them and that he sneaks through potentially even with bipartisan votes in the senate. any democrat voting for rfk is undermining this party's long standing commitment to science and to children's health. this is a man who doesn't think that

any vaccine is safe and effective, despite the fact that vaccines have saved 146 million lives in the last 50 years, doesn't think aids is caused by a virus, has copped to sexual assault against the family babysitter, claiming he's not a church boy, not somebody that we want leading our health system in the united states, not someone fit for that job. and just because he says the right things about ultra processed food or healthy school lunches, doesn't mean we also have to accept his conspiracy and quackery about core elements of public health. you can get the good without the bad. >> we will see what happens with that nomination as the vote comes in. congressman jake auchincloss, thank you so much for joining us on this second day of january. appreciate it, john. >> all right. breaking overnight, new york city police are searching for multiple suspects after at least ten people, including minors, were injured in a shooting outside a nightclub in queens. police say four men attacked the group, who were waiting in line for a private event. 3 to 4 males

then opened fire over 30 times in the direction of the group standing outside the event space, striking multiple victims. >> the males fled on foot westbound on 91st street towards 1/43 place, where they entered a light colored sedan with out-of-state plates. the public has been very instrumental in the recent weeks to help us capture dangerous individuals like these four men. we ask the public, if you see something, say something. >> the victims were taken to an area hospital and are expected to recover. president biden will give presidential citizens medals to 20 americans today. this is one of the country's highest civilian honors for former republican congresswoman liz cheney and democratic congressman bennie thompson are among the recipients. they were the chair and vice chair of the january 6th committee. other honorees include mary bonauto, a leader in the effort to legalize same sex marriage and being honored posthumously to civil rights advocates who sued

to end the internment of japanese americans during world war two. new. this morning, police in south korea carried out search and seizure operations at three locations. as part of the investigation into the air crash that killed 179 people there. police searched the muan international airport, the office of the airlines, as well as an aviation office. police told cnn a search warrant was issued on charges of professional negligence resulting in death and injury. the search has come as the transport ministry says it has finished analyzing data from the cockpit voice recording as they attempt to determine why the jet crashed. the new york times is now facing a lawsuit for its reporting on the dispute between actors justin baldoni and blake lively as they made the film. it ends with us. let's get right to cnn's elizabeth wagmeister for the details actor justin baldoni, who also directed the hit movie it ends with us, is now suing the new

york times for $250 million, launching a counterattack in an escalating controversy with his costar blake lively. >> what's your name? baldoni and his team saying the newspaper was party to a quote, vicious smear campaign by lively, who filed an earlier complaint accusing baldoni of sexual harassment on set and retaliation during the promotion of the film. it's just the latest salvo in an ongoing dispute between the two actors that erupted during production of the movie, in which baldoni plays lively's on screen, abusive husband. the complaint, filed by baldoni and a total of ten plaintiffs, including his producing partners and publicist, states the times, relied almost entirely on lively's unverified and self-serving narrative, lifting it nearly verbatim while disregarding an abundance of evidence. lively's original complaint was filed with the california civil rights

department almost two weeks ago, and was first obtained by the new york times. it alleges baldoni and his team tried to destroy lively's reputation after she raised concerns about repeated sexual harassment and other disturbing behavior by mr. baldoni. the times published their article december 21st, highlighting excerpts from the civil rights complaint, including text messages from a crisis pr manager for baldoni that say, quote, we can bury anyone. the new york times telling cnn they will, quote, vigorously defend against the lawsuit, saying our story was meticulously and responsibly reported. it was based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including the text messages and emails. >> in vetting the allegations and reviewing the material. that's where they ended up. but i think it's going to take a little while to determine and see exactly where

all this falls, because there's a lot of conflicting claims, but that's what litigation is for. >> baldoni's complaint alleges the paper omitted text messages to serve lively's narrative, saying the article's central thesis encapsulated in a defamatory headline designed to immediately mislead the reader. the complaint says it was lively, not plaintiffs, who engaged in a calculated smear campaign, further saying lively used sexual harassment allegations to assert unilateral control over every aspect of the production and that lively's public image suffered as a result of a series of high profile blunders. >> grab your friends, wear your florals. >> what she tried to deflect with her complaint. attorneys for lively sent cnn a statement on tuesday saying nothing in this lawsuit changes anything regarding her claims. elizabeth wagmeister,