anyone could say that would make you believe that chinese influence over tiktok was a threat to u.s. national security. has anything changed? there? >> nothing has changed. uh, tiktok is one of the is the safest. uh, app from a business perspective. perspective, from a social media perspective, there's been billions of dollars to protect our our users information and data. they partner up with the best company and one of the best companies and databases in the world, oracle. so my my stance is is is is the same. tiktok is one of the safest apps and businesses and companies in america right now. >> i asked you also at the time, would you ever support a politician who was in favor of the ban? and i think your answer was no. donald trump now says he's against the tiktok ban. how do you feel about his stance? >> that's new news to me. you

know. honestly, it's it's contradicting because our current vice president, harris, our president-elect trump, both used tiktok heavily during the 2024 election. so it's kind of kind of i don't if it's so unsafe. why did you use this app to win the seat? president-elect trump, why do you and president and vice president, vice president harris, why did you use tiktok if it's so unsafe? why did you use it to get to try to get into the office? >> well, i'm not sure that president-elect trump thinks it's unsafe anymore. he is using it. some are. lucille, great to see you this morning. thank you for helping us see this perspective. a brand new hour of cnn news central starts now. >> the imagery of this is next level. shocking. i mean, it's something out of a movie. >> just imagine if you go to the front door and behind it

there is nothing, and you walk in and you have your car keys, but there's no place to put it. >> just pure devastation. i've never seen anything like this before. >> at no point in the history of our community, or perhaps the country, have we had fires simultaneously happening. >> not one multiple serious fires simultaneously occurring, wrapped around hurricane level force winds. >> and that is exactly what happened. the breaking news. los angeles is still burning the race to contain the now deadlier fire disaster in and around los angeles is facing new challenges this morning. overnight, a new fire broke out, and officials say one of the most critical aircraft that they have to use to battle the flames is now grounded. it collided with an illegal drone being flown in restricted airspace, damaging the aircraft's wing. some promising news, though. cal fire told us last hour they may have turned the tide on the

firefight. >> yesterday we were very hopeful that we could turn a corner on this fire and we did. we gained some containment. not a lot. it's going to take a lot more work to to see that number grow. but we're headed in the right direction. and again, we see the winds calmer today. they're still here. but these are the winds we're used to battling and dealing with during these fires. >> here we go. as it stands this morning, the palisades fire the very damaging palisades fire is 6% contained. the death toll has now gone up. at least ten people killed from the fires. nearly 200,000 people are in evacuation zones. and we know now thousands of homes structures, businesses gone, entire neighborhoods now rubble. the major x factor in any progress to contain the fires is and continues to be that wind threat. meteorologist allison chinchar is watching that and is standing by. we'll get to her in just one moment. first, to cnn's stephanie elam on the ground in altadena,

where so much has been lost. stephanie, what are you seeing there now? >> it's devastating. i mean, you know, a lot of times we cover these wildfires, kate, and you'll see one house gone and maybe another one there and another one across the street. it's entire blocks here, just like it was in the palisades fire where i was earlier this week. look at this. behind me you can see that there's a gas leak over there of some sort. so that's just burning over there. but this house completely decimated. oftentimes you will see this just the chimney standing there. the only thing standing there, you know, you're talking about the number of people impacted by this. you've got 180,000 people who have evacuation like they have to go, and then 200,000 people who are under warning. think about how many people that is in this very populous county. it is a lot of people being impacted by this. and on top of it, the air quality. you're talking about people who have lost everything. some people

now knowing that they've lost loved ones, at least ten people. those numbers are expected to go up when you're looking at some 20,000 acres that have been burned in the palisades fire. and here in altadena, this eaton fire some 13,000 acres that has burned in just a very, very short amount of time. i mean, it is colossal to see something of this magnitude. and you take a listen to what people are discovering when they are able to get back to their homes. and keep in mind a lot of places you can't like the california national guard. they sent them down here today. i can tell you, getting in here tonight, they are out because they have had people who have been looting, and so they've been making arrests. it is difficult to get around. there's 8000 personnel coming from firefighters. we even just saw a police officer drive by who was from a different city, far away from where we are right now. so you take all of that into account, and when people get here and they're able to look at what is left. take a listen to what it was like for this one resident. >> this is how hot the fire

was. >> this is my harley davidson. >> oh, i didn't even recognize it. >> that was a motorcycle. >> and that right there where you see the exhaust pipe that used to be my yamaha. >> so it was so hot that all the aluminum from the frame and everything melted. all that's left is the engine. >> that's wild. >> and you see that a lot when you drive around these wildfires, those pools of metal that are just coagulated around places, that's what people are coming back to. if they come back to anything at all, trying to recognize anything that's of value, anything that's important to them. for many people, it would just be a complete loss. kate. >> absolutely. that is how hot these fires were burning. it was burning and melting metal in so many places. unreal. stephanie, thank you so much. it is hard to hard to watch, hard to cover. and stephanie does such an amazing job describing it. let's go now to allison chinchar standing by. you've been tracking the wind forecast for us. alison,

what's it looking like? >> yeah, so we are going to see conditions improve, but it's going to be a very narrow window here where we get that break from the wind before they start to increase back up again. so we take a look at today again around the los angeles area. you do still have that elevated fire threat. and then a little bit farther south you've got a little bit more elevated up, up towards the critical level there. now saturday it's just a very small area of elevated fire risk. and that's because we anticipate those winds to finally calm back down through today. you'll notice all these white little dots moving around. that's the wind direction. so you'll notice they'll go from a north wind over towards like a westerly then an easterly wind. they're going to kind of go back and flow and ebb and flow. here's the problem with that. it makes it very difficult for the firefighters because that wind direction shifting at a moment's notice makes it very difficult for them to try to figure out how to coordinate around the fires. when we go through the day to day. still looking at some of those wind gusts up around 30 to 40mph. once we go through the afternoon and especially into the evening, you'll start to see them drop back into the teens and eventually down into the single

digit numbers, which is fantastic. that's what we like to see. then. the unfortunate problem is, though, once we get back into sunday, they start going back up 30, 40, even 50mph. so again, guys, we will have a very narrow window here where these firefighters will hopefully be able to make some advancements in those containment numbers before the winds kick back up again on the back half of the weekend. >> that is for sure. here is hoping and here's planning for sure. allison chinchar. thank you so much. we'll be getting back to stephanie elam on the ground a little later. sarah. >> all right. just over an hour from now, president-elect donald trump will face criminal sentencing for his hush money conviction in new york. the extraordinary moment coming just ten days before his second inauguration, his sentencing going forward because the supreme court denied his emergency bid to delay sentencing. trump is scheduled to appear in court virtually this morning. a jury found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. cnn's kara scannell is joining us from outside of the court and waiting for this to begin.

kara. if he's not facing jail time and he's not facing fines or penalties, what will the consequences be? what will the judge be deciding today? >> well, sarah, right. he will not face jail time. he will not face probation or any fines, but he will have the stigma of being the first american president who is a convicted felon. and that is what we will see play out today when this hearing does get underway. it's only expected to last about an hour. donald trump will not be here in person, as he was throughout the criminal trial, but he will be appearing virtually on a screen that will appear inside the courtroom. so he'll be participating that way. we expect the prosecution will speak first. talk about the seriousness of the offense, the charges, the conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up those hush money payments. and then we expect to hear from donald trump's lawyers and what they will say to the judge. then there will be the

opportunity for donald trump himself to address the judge. he is appealing this, and usually attorneys don't want their clients to say anything. but donald trump has not been quiet about his views about this prosecution or about the judge. he has been criticizing him on social media. so to be the big question, will donald trump speak to the judge and say anything ahead of the sentencing, especially since he already knows what it will be, and then it will be the judge who will deliver the sentence? and he has said this will be a sentence of an unconditional discharge. and as we said, that means no jail time, no penalties, no probation. but the judge will also speak as he lays out his reasonings for this. he said in a written order detailing this, that he was doing this because he thought it would be the most viable option to bring finality to this case and allow donald trump to appeal. but will he speak more about the ten times he found donald trump in contempt during the trial? will he say more about what this means about the rule of law, particularly since there is not going to be any kind of

incarceration? all of that will be playing out shortly. but when this hearing is over, donald trump will be a convicted felon. the first american president in history. sarah. >> yeah, there are a lot of things that he could say, since he isn't going to be facing jail time, penalties or probation. we will wait to see what that is. kara scannell, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> john. all right. with us now is cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor jennifer rodgers, also cnn legal analyst and former u.s. attorney michael moore. and i want to pick up on something that sarah, brilliantly, i might add, just said, which is that donald trump doesn't face jail time, doesn't face probation, doesn't really face anything, except basically the label of convicted felon. so why not go off on the judge today when it will be recorded? at least the audio will, and we'll hear it in a few hours. >> yeah. it's interesting. of course, we know during trial, every day he stood outside of the courtroom in front of the cameras and railed at the judge and the da and called it a witch hunt and so on. the one thing, though, john, you're right, it's not going to make a difference in the sentence, but the judge does get the last word here. and if i'm judge

merchan like, i might have kind of two versions of my remarks about the sentencing, right. one where he just says something like, you know, i still say that i'm innocent. i look forward to my appeal. and one where he goes off on some diatribe, and i might use the second version about, as sarah said, all of the contempt and all of what judge mark carney saw during the trial, how strong the evidence was, all of those sorts of things. he might give his own speech a little bit if trump does that. so maybe that's the only thing keeping him in rain a little bit. >> it is one of the things to watch today, and there is a lot to watch, even though the outcome in a way is predetermined. michael, what judge juan merchan says, but also todd blanche, who is donald trump's attorney, who is also going to be the nominee for deputy attorney general, the number two job at the justice department. how do you think that might impact how he talks about the law? >> i'm glad to be with all of you. >> there's no question today that trump will use this, and his lawyers will use this to sort of bolster him. i mean, i don't think you can overstate

the likelihood that that's that's going to happen. and i think blanch will essentially be trump's mouthpiece. now, he may try to stay away from some of the more outrageous claims that the president elect has made and made during the trial, when he would go outside and talk to the press outside of the courtroom. but i do think you're going to hear him raise issues that he thinks are likely to be wrapped up in an appeal, which they are appealing. this this is for folks. this is not the end of it. this does not mean that we're never going to hear about this case again. this simply means that now that this book end is placed on the trial and on the conviction that now the regular appeals process worked, that's really the reason the supreme court turned it down. and they said, look, you're going to go through the regular process anyway. there's no there's nothing that we have to do right now. so i think blanch will make his objections. he'll talk about the fact that there was an immunity ruling. he's going to talk about how unfair it is and how this takes away from the presidential transition and those types of things. and he's playing not only to an audience of the judge. he's also playing in some part to

maybe those senators who who may sit in on confirmation hearings, folks who will ultimately be overseeing the department of justice, and as well to his ultimate client, which, of course, is is the president elect. >> so, jennifer, this is going forward because overnight, the supreme court decided by a54 vote that they weren't going to block it. on the one hand, they let it go forward. on the other hand, five four is a close call. you know, donald trump has, it seems, at least for a floor of four justices on his side for these types of issues. >> surprisingly close, john, that there were four votes to stop this sentence from going forward. and, you know, it just can't mean that they think the transition is so important. and he's so busy. i mean, here's a person who was pulled off the golf course right, a week ago to to get involved in the speaker's race. so it must be that there are four justices who think of expanding the massive amount of immunity that they've now granted to presidents, to presidents elect. it makes me worried for where they're heading in the future. right. with respect to presidential

power. as we move forward into a second trump term, the chief justice john roberts and amy coney barrett, the two republican appointees who did not vote with the other conservative justices. >> they voted with the majority there. and michael, just what does it mean to be a convicted felon? we say there's no jail term, no probation, but it is a label, correct? >> it's a label. i will tell you that the results of the election make me wonder what the consequences are and the impact of that label. you know, it's not like we're the scarlet letter that we used to talk about, but he's used it almost as a badge of honor to say that he's been shamed and disgraced by this corrupt system. but but it does go. it's he's also concerned about his image. and it does go in the history books that this guy is fixing to now enter his term. he'll have been convicted and sentenced as a convicted felon. you know, certainly there you have to question some countries don't allow convicted felons to come in. and, you know, these things may rear its head at some point. i'm sure people will be

making hay about it. um, it's just a it's a matter of of some shame for him. somebody who said that he's sort of above things. you know, we talk about the supreme court. i mean, he said he people wouldn't vote against him or turn against him if he'd shot somebody in the middle of the road. well, i mean, we at least know for people who would not, but by all appearances. but again, even the fact that he's been convicted, he seems to have gotten the, um, the benefit of the doubt throughout the entire process, something that other people who go through the court system and are convicted felons do not get. and and you'll see him now continue to receive benefits. and it'll almost be as if this closes a chapter in the book. and this this label won't impact him much after today, probably. >> no. i doubt he'll be applying for many jobs. we'll have to fill in that line. have you ever been convicted of a felony? michael moore jennifer rodgers, thank you so much for being with us. this will be interesting to see today. even though the outcome is predetermined. all right. in just nine days, tiktok will be banned in the united states unless the supreme court steps in to save it. oral arguments

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hitting the roofs of the houses around me and, um, made that decision. it's time to go. and the medals were in a closet in my bedroom, uh, 70ft away. i didn't have time to go get them. from the time that i saw the first plume of smoke at the top of the hill. i live on lockman lane. um, i had about three minutes between then, and, uh, when it came charging towards me. >> just insane. that is olympic gold medalist gary hall jr.. now one of the tens of thousands of people in california who have had their lives turned upside down, losing everything. so many in a matter of moments to these fires that are still raging across los angeles county. so many other people are facing the exact same horrible realityf a home in altadena. and then

beautiful home, that it was just days ago. look at that side by side. this is what has been lost for our next guest, florence kearns wilson. she joins us right now. florence. thank you. we were just talking in the break. we are so sorry to see what has been lost by your family, you and your wife. you just moved into that home three weeks ago, right before christmas. i mean, how are you guys doing? >> that's right. yeah. i mean, how you expect we're lucky to be safe. >> um, we got out just in time with our baby and our two cats and my parents, who had actually evacuated to our house from their house. >> um, so, you know, in some ways, we're lucky, but we we lost absolutely everything. i mean, we didn't have time to really pack, so it's surreal. it's devastating. >> it's surreal is something

we've heard from so many people because it seems almost impossible to process. you're in your home one moment, and in a matter of, you know what really is minutes. it's just basically has been evaporated. i mean, how did you learn about what happened to your home? >> um, mostly. so we were driving, um, and honestly, i grew up in the area. i've been through a lot of fires and where we bought our home. i assured my wife and everyone, this is too far into the neighborhood. you know, like a fire will never come down this far um, and so we learned about it. we were driving up to santa barbara because we were going to morro bay. we didn't know where else to go. um, and i was just texting with neighbors. um, someone put together a google map trying to tag structures that had burned, but wasn't very up to date. um, and finally, uh. god. two days.

not yesterday, the day before the day it happened. it was so fast, a friend was able to go to the neighborhood once it had completely burned down, and send us a video. and that's when we found out for sure. >> and what went through your mind when you saw that? i mean, i can't even imagine you were able to process it. >> i almost threw up, honestly, i just i don't know if i fully processed it, to be honest with you. >> i mean, your entire neighborhood looks like it was just wiped out. i mean, what have you heard from your neighbors? um, have you been able to get in contact with them? >> yes, we're we're lucky that even though we had just moved in, we had already communicated a lot with our neighbors who were so welcoming and kind. and, you know, we have a few group texts going with them. and we were we've been able to share the pictures we've gotten

from other folks who have been able to go in there, and we're just we're all completely shocked and devastated and just, you know, kind of yesterday we started, you know, talking about making plans to get together. and just like cry together once it's safe for us all to go back. yeah. >> have you and your wife, you have a two year old daughter. you have a whole life you were creating in altadena. um, have you even started conversations with your wife about next steps? >> not in a serious way. um, we've been, you know, you have to make jokes and stuff in these times. and she always wanted a pool. and so i was saying, well, i guess let's just build the pool first, and then we can, like, build a tiny, tiny little home or something. but, um, we haven't really in a serious way, to be

honest. we don't really know what's going to happen. it's one thing if just your house burns, which is terrible, and you rebuild it, but with the whole neighborhood, absolutely flattened, i mean, we're going to have to work together with all of our neighbors, or it's just going to, i don't know, get sold off to a developer or something. you know, there is a lot that it's this disaster for your family and the neighborhood is you've got a lot to process and to go through and so many things to consider. >> um, i'm sure it seems really overwhelming right now. so i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry. thank you so much for coming on and telling us your story. and drawing a beautiful light on the beautiful home that was, and many memories to be made for your family ahead. florence, thank you so much. yeah, thank you for your time. thank you so much. you can see the need is so great in california right now. for more information about how you can help wildfire

victims, you can go to cnn.com/vote. right, sarah. >> and ahead, we're going to take you back to california. while the fires have raged for days, the recovery will likely take years, and residents are finally getting to see some of them. what is lost and what is left of their homes. >> the imagery of this is next level shocking. i mean, i was down to my knees when i got up to my parents house with just sheer, um, amazement at what i was, what i was looking at, which was basically just a chimney stack and a pile of ash. i mean, it's something out of a movie. >> a closer look at catastrophic damage to the iconic coastline of malibu, and the future of your favorite tiktokers and tiktok in general, will soon be decided by the supreme court. we'll break it all down for you. >> our land, my back frozen thinking the darkest thoughts.

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divest itself of its chinese owner. tiktok is the company is based here in the u.s., but its parent company is bytedance, and that company is headquartered in the cayman islands. >> but, i mean, it's incorporated in the cayman islands, but it's headquartered in beijing, and most of its business dealings and operations are in china. >> and the biden administration points to a couple of different concerns that had arisen with congress. one is that tiktok, the china could amass all sorts of american users data that could be used for blackmail down the road or other forms of espionage. and secondly, that it could also covertly manipulate the content on tiktok. and, you know, just, you know, this is a foreign adversary that should not have that kind of control here in the u.s. now, a unanimous d.c. circuit panel here, the lower court sided completely with the federal government and said, yes, there are important

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their animals. and so you try to help each other out. yeah, you're seeing like all your friends and family, like losing their houses and you're just trying to help them out. like our house was. you know, fortunately, my house was saved. but our friend is right across the street. their house is gone. all these memories, all these pictures, all these, you know, years that people have spent, you know, having friends over all these memories. and it's like those are, you know, right. but that's why you just want to help. help your friends out, help your families out. help, help the animals out. >> and so many people need so much help now. looking now to another place that has been hard, very hard hit. the iconic beach town of malibu. it too, has turned into miles of devastation. you can see in this aerial footage oceanfront beach homes now. well, nothing. cnn's bill weir is there. >> this was some of the most unique and valuable real estate in the nation.

>> that iconic strip of homes between pacific coast highway and the sea. >> but now it holds mile after mile of smoldering ash and twisted metal, the result of tuesday night's blizzard of embers that came howling down the hills to the beach. >> if i had to guess, i'd say 75% of the mansions along this five mile stretch of coastline look like this. utter, utter devastation. we've been watching as a crew from kern county in another part of the state, has been spraying water on the hotspots around this former mansion. there's obvious water pressure here, but so many questions about water pressure around l.a. county as multiple crews try to tap in as we speak. >> there are flames up into panga canyon, where nervous locals are watching and hoping, oh, there's a little drop there. yeah. what's going through your mind? >> it's been a long couple of days until this morning.

>> it's been really hard for us to get resources up here, especially in the air, like you're seeing now. >> yeah, yeah. >> so do you chalk that up to the fickle winds or. >> yeah. >> fire management. >> so i don't blame this on our elected officials or the fire management. >> there's just no way you can plan for an event like this. >> i think everybody is doing the best they can. and trying to get through it. >> yeah. >> how would you grade the response? just by what you've seen? >> i think the response is enormous. and i think the firefighters that we have here are absolutely the best in the world. >> initially on tuesday, when the fire started and i drove around at night and it was burning all across here, i did not see any firefighters at all. the only thing that i could see is a flashlight. so i assume there were some people but no helicopters, no planes at all. but now it's a totally different situation. >> you chalk that up to the winds, or do you blame planning some? there's a lot of anger from folks in the palisades, like where were you? >> there's a lot of anger, but, you know, the fire spread

so fast and there were a lot of winds. >> it was night at that time, so i think it was too windy for the helicopters and for the jets to come in. >> there's so much heightened emotion. right. you want somebody to blame, you want to say, where's the cavalry? right. >> yeah. that's a totally understandable emotion to feel right now. >> but i think it's better to just focus our energy on doing what we can for each other. and supporting our firemen who have been incredible. these guys are heroes, and we need to support them the best we can. and, you know, save the politics for later. you know that was our bill weir reporting there with those incredible images. >> all right. president biden announced that the federal government will cover 100% of all recovery costs from the fires for six months. let's discuss with congresswoman judy chu of california. first, i know that you got to see the entirety of the damage in altadena, which is part of your district. can you first

describe to us just what it is that you saw and what it did to you, seeing these apocalyptic scenes? >> i visited and toured the entire destroyed sites of pasadena and altadena yesterday. >> i did it with the fema administrator, and i was. >> i was stunned by the devastation that i saw, especially since so many of the areas were so familiar to me. >> but to see it all burned to the ground, i just could not believe it. uh, in altadena i saw utter destruction. blocks of homes that were burned to the ground. >> uh, in pasadena, i saw, uh, homes that were selectively burned to the ground. >> for instance, in hastings ranch in pasadena. it was just astounding where you saw one

home burned to the ground and the home next to it just totally intact. and it was explained to me. that's because it was an ember fire. the embers chose to settle on a home, and that home burned. but also what astounded me were the major institutions that i've been to so many times, like the altadena town and country. um, house. uh, it's it's a site where so many events take place and where i've gone to so many times, totally burned to the ground. the pasadena jewish temple totally burned to the ground. uh, and these are going to be huge holes in the community where we will definitely have to come together and make sure that we rebuild so that this community can be what it once was, which was a beautiful community. >> it truly was a beautiful community. i am familiar with both pasadena and altadena. um, i've been there

many times and it's just so hard to look at these pictures and know the pain it has caused the residents and business owners there. the public has heard a lot from celebrities who live in the hills of the pacific palisades, and who are in dire pain after losing their homes, but altadena is where middle and working class families live, who are in a much different financial situation. what will those federal funds that are, biden says, will pay for 100% of recovery costs for six months? mean to altadena residents? >> well, actually, the we're talking about two different types of funds. um, president biden did something very, very important. and that is approve 100% of the federal fire management grants. and i, i have to thank governor newsom because immediately they asked that washington, dc approve our area for these grants.

normally, though, the coverage is 75%. but president biden did something wonderful in saying it would be 100%. uh, now, in terms of help for residents, that comes from fema. and that's why i was so insistent that the fema administrator come from washington, dc to our area of altadena and pasadena so she could see how this entire community has been devastated. and fema has a huge amount of resources that can help residents get back on their feet. i would encourage, in fact, everybody who is affected to go on to the disasterassistance.gov site and get the process going, input your information. also contact your insurance because what fema will do is assess where you are, what the insurance will pay for, and what they can make up in terms of making sure you

get back on their feet and making sure that you have somewhere to stay. for one thing. >> congressman shou chew, our reporters were there when the fire hydrants ran out of water in altadena, and now l.a .'s fire chief is saying that crews are no longer even using hydrants to help them fight the fires, which are still burning. what is the problem with the fire hydrants? >> uh, i had a briefing yesterday when i was with the fema administrator, and there is enough water, but what there was, uh, was a a problem that occurred right at the height of the fire, which is that they had to turn down the electricity in order to make sure that the fire wasn't aggravated. uh, because of the electricity. they need electricity in order to pump water. so they turned that down. and then at the same time, there were so many, uh,

hydrants that were being used all at once, uh, that aggravated the situation. in addition, they said there are homes that have been devastated where the water wasn't turned off. so there actually are homes where the water is just pouring out and they have to go home by home to turn it off. so this was a that was a temporary situation. but they do have the situation in hand right now. >> okay. so the hydrants would be working. now the electricity turned back on correct. yes. all right. >> representative judy chu and in fact, i have to say. i have to say right now, um, the water is in good shape. the the fire actually is going north rather than towards the homes. so it's going to the mount wilson observatory area. and the firefighters are making sure that that is safe because it's a major communication hub. >> yes, there has been a shift. firefighters saying that they hope they can get some more of

a handle on all of the fires that are burning there, including a new one. representative judy chu in los angeles for us. thank you so much. i do appreciate you coming on this morning, john. >> all right. we do have breaking news. the final jobs report for 2024. what does it show? cnn's matt egan is here. numbers up. >> yeah, john, it shows that the jobs market ended 2024 with a bang. and this is really good news for main street. it shows that workers are still very much in demand for wall street. this is maybe not good news. we'll get to that. first let's get to the numbers. so this report showed that the economy added 256,000 jobs in december. that blew away the forecast by 100,000. think about that. that's a big beat. it is a really big beat. and the unemployment rate beat as well, because it went down to 4.1%. it was supposed to stay flat at 4.2%. there were some whispers, john, of an

increase that did not happen. it went down. now when we look at the trend, we can see that yes, there was a big slowdown in hiring in october, but that was because of hurricanes. that was because of worker strikes. now the economy clearly bounced back in november and it stayed that way. this was a sustained rebound in december. now this is a relief. again i think for workers, when you zoom out and you look at all of 2024, the economy added 2.2 million jobs, that's basically in line with pre-covid trends. it's also so much better than some of those forecasts from a few years ago. remember all those recession predictions? we are nowhere near recession. >> nothing near a recession? >> no, no. and i know that when people think about the economy, they're thinking about the cost of living. i do think there's kind of mixed news on that front. the good news is that paychecks, they continue to go up at a healthy pace. this report showed that wages were up by almost 4% year over year. that is well ahead of the inflation rate, which is just below 3%. so if that continues, that's going to help workers

continue to feel better and sort of catch up to the higher level of prices at the supermarket. but here's the a little bit more concerning news is how investors are taking this, because we saw the moment this number came out, stock futures went down. bond yields went up. because this was hotter than expected. this is going to amplify those concerns among investors about interest rates being higher for longer, about what the fed is going to do when they can start cutting rates. you see dow futures down by almost 1%, more than 300 points, s&p futures down about 1% as well. so we're going to continue to see that story play out, especially john as the president elect comes in. and there's a lot of questions and uncertainties over what his policies will do to inflation. >> look, in theory, this is not an environment. those numbers aren't the kind where you cut interest rates, right. all right, matt egan, thank you very much for that. we are waiting for president-elect donald trump to be sentenced in the new york hush money case. he was found guilty on 34

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pozzebon joins us now from bogota, colombia. stefano, how did we get to this point where the borders are shut down and there is this enormous fight happening? >> yes, sara. >> well, the seeds of what we're seeing today were planted a way back in july when the venezuelan electoral authorities, which are tightly controlled by maduro's party, proclaimed him the winner of a controversial election without showing any proof. on the contrary. the opposition presented tens of thousands of voting tallies that they say give the victory to their candidate. gonzalez and, frankly, independent observers that we spoke with in the last few months say that the opposition tallies are believed to be legitimate, and they believe that the announcement was a fraud. they feel like it's their turn to rule the country after more than ten years of maduro rule. and that's why yesterday you saw these images of thousands of people taking once again the streets of caracas and

demanding freedom, demanding a change in power despite the repression of the government. however, the government is going ahead and despite the international outcry from other countries in the region, including the united states, who recognize gonzalez as the legitimate president elect, they are going ahead and listen to how the interior minister describes or responds to other countries who criticize what is going on in caracas. >> morgan sergio gor domino. >> go play dominoes. you are meddling in the internal affairs of other countries. i have some dominoes from my show. i can give them to you. what do i know? go play something. but don't play meddling in venezuela. >> almost scorning other countries who take a stand on venezuela. now we know that the venezuelan situation has massive impact across the entire western hemisphere. more than 8 million migrants have left venezuela under maduro's rule. many of them