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>> the supreme court hearing arguments on whether the app should be banned as businesses and influencers brace for the decision. >> we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. >> we begin with breaking news out of new york. an unprecedented moment in american history. president elect donald trump officially sentenced in his criminal hush money case. that means that ten days from now, trump will be the first u.s. president to take office as a sentenced felon. trump appeared in court virtually today and as expected, judge juan merchan sentenced him to an unconditional discharge, allowing him to avoid prison time or any other penalties. >> the president elect was convicted last year on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment paid to adult film star stormy daniels. here's the moment the judge

sentenced trump. >> this court has determined that the only lawful sentence that permits entry of a judgment of conviction without encroaching upon the highest office in the land is an unconditional discharge, which the new york state legislature has determined is a lawful and permissible sentence for the crime of falsifying business records in the first degree. therefore, at this time, i impose that sentence to cover all 34 counts. sir, i wish you godspeed as you assume your second term in office. >> we have cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid with us now, and paula judge merchan really laying out how the office of the presidency afforded donald trump protections in this. >> yeah, this was fascinating. we knew going into this, there wasn't going to be any real punishment. so instead we got to see sort of each party in this case lay out their view of what the legacy of this case is

and how he got here. and prosecutors started out by saying that they believe that trump's relentless attacks on the judicial system, his efforts to undermine trust in the judicial system, that that has been something really significant that has come out of this case, in addition to the risk that that poses to officers of the court. this is something we saw come up repeatedly in this case. now, on the defense side, todd blanche said that he believes the legacy is trump's reelection. he said people saw is pretty clear this case never should have been pursued. and that's part of why they reelected trump. now, of course, the defendant and the judge both got to weigh in. let's take a listen to them. explain how they see things in their own words. >> it's been a political witch hunt. it was done to damage my reputation so that i would lose the election. and obviously that didn't work. and the people of our country got to see this firsthand because they watched the case in your courtroom. >> it is the legal protections afforded to the office of the president of the united states that are extraordinary, not the

occupant of the office. ordinary citizens do not receive those legal protections. and it was the citizenry of this nation that recently decided that you should once again receive the benefits of those protections. >> a fascinating moment, because there the judge acknowledging that voters, the majority of voters did not believe that this case, these convictions were a bar to trump returning to the white house. and over the past week or so, the first time we've really seen juan merchan concedes that the arguments the trump team has made about trump's status as president elect. that is, of course, part of why he was able to appear virtually. >> i'm curious about what happens next, and specifically this promise from donald trump to appeal psychologically. >> everything for any defendant, right? this is a psychological. this is physical. this is spiritual. it sucks to be a defendant in any criminal case. i'll definitely follow up with his lawyers about exactly what he meant by that. but i know from his lawyers that they will continue these appeals because after

this case, after this case resolved, the supreme court determined another case where they decided that presidents have some immunity. former presidents enjoy some of that, too. and they also said, not only can you not be charged for official acts, you also can't use official acts as evidence, and that is relevant here, because trump's lawyers argue that some of what came in as evidence conversations with hope hicks, some other pieces of evidence should be excluded after the supreme court made new law. so this is going to go all the way back to the supreme court, likely. and i want to note that last night he was one justice short of not having the sentencing at all. and that's shocking because that was considered a long shot. it is highly possible that in a year or so, a decade after the conduct in question, we could see this back at the court and he could have this conviction overturned. >> really interesting, paula, thank you. kara scannell was inside the courtroom for the hearing. kara, tell us what you observed. >> i mean, as you see, that still photo that we've shown of donald trump sitting side by side with his attorney, todd blanche, that is what the judge

was looking at when he was addressing trump, when he was delivering that sentence. it was also put up in the courtroom and the overflow courtroom with boxes with both the judge, donald trump, his attorney, who in the courtroom didn't speak, and the prosecution team who did address the judge. so the whole scene there, you know, this was the trial that donald trump was at every single day. today, the judge had given him the option to appear virtually, and he did for mar-a-lago. but when trump was speaking, that monitor was positioned facing the judge. and when the judge was addressing donald trump, he had sitting on the bench, but he had shifted in his seat. so he was speaking directly to the monitor, directly to donald trump as he handed down that sentence. i mean, this is also for a trial that has captured so much of the public's attention and where donald trump had used the hallways as a way to campaign for office and reelection, there was very little that the public had ever heard. if they've ever even heard judge juan merchan speak. and i think what we are able to glean from the audio today is the sense of how he presided

over the trial. i was in that courtroom every single day. and the way, the manner that the judge speaks to donald trump, he speaks, addresses him respectfully, despite what trump is saying, he has maintained decorum in the courtroom throughout the course of the trial. and that is a little something new that the public had never had a chance to experience before. and i think that's what we glean from this audio that we were able to obtain thanks to the courts today. >> kara scannell, thanks so much for that update from inside the courtroom. let's discuss these developments further with david schoen. he served as an attorney for trump during his second impeachment trial. we're also joined by judge diane kiesel, a retired new york supreme court judge. thank you both for being with us. david, what is the significance of a sentencing without a penalty? >> yeah, i think the significance was to confirm that the there's a felony conviction in the case and the secondary significance, but primary to president trump is that it now allows him there's a conviction in the case. >> it allows him to take the

appeal of all of the issues in the case at once. >> and, judge, what did you make of what we saw unfold in court? >> i think what we saw unfold in court was judge merchan at his best. this is who this man is. again, as you noted earlier, the public didn't get to see and hear this because cameras were not permitted during the proceeding. but what you saw was a judge who is fair, who is measured, who treats everyone in that courtroom with respect. and despite the fact that donald trump is still calling the judge conflicted, calling this a witch hunt. uh judge merchan didn't take the bait. he took the high road, which i think is really important for the future. for the future and the legacy of the judiciary. >> i wonder, judge, as we noted, merchan was clear about it. the office of the presidency provided trump a shield here. do you think americans look at this and walk

away from it thinking, yeah, there are people who are above the law. >> that's hard to say because i think if you look at the charges that the that mr. trump faced, you know, this was an e nonviolent felony committed by a man who has no criminal record, who has a who has a job, who, uh, and it's doubtful that anyone in his shoes would have gone to jail. i think the fact that jail was a possibility was always out there. and the fact that it didn't happen makes everyone or many people think that donald trump somehow skirted justice. but that's that's not correct. this is a man who is now a convicted felon. he's going to go to his grave a convicted felon. unless, of course, the appeals court changes that. >> david, how much does that matter to to trump, to people watching this as sort of a bit of a scarlet letter for trump.

>> it matters for right now. but i will bet you, with all due respect, and i know the justice said with that caveat at the end, this conviction will be overturned on a number of grounds. and remember, also, you know, we're in hindsight now. we're saying, gee, he's convicted 34 counts and so on. andrew cuomo has said that if he were attorney general, he never would have permitted this case to have been brought. remember, in the da's office, you read mark pomerantz's book. the office was against bringing this prosecution in the first place. but i think the indictment is absolutely constitutionally infirm. the jury instructions, therefore, were infirm. they never identify what the target crime is. i think he's confident that it will be overturned on appeal. i certainly am. >> judge, how would you rate your confidence that this conviction would be overturned? >> look, i don't like to read the tea leaves. you never know when when looking ahead, i think that certainly what went on in that courtroom wouldn't lead to

any type of overturning of this verdict. the only thing that's out there and, uh, my legal colleague is correct. what's out there is the decision from earlier this year by the united states supreme court. and the question becomes, how broadly is that going to be interpreted when looking at the evidence that was presented against mr. trump? and we don't know at this point how it will be interpreted. all we do know is certainly that donald trump will take this to the mat, to the very end. and what happens, happens. >> and david, considering this could go to the supreme court and there are other matters involving trump that could go to the supreme court. looking at last night at the court's narrow ruling of 5 to 4, allowing this sentencing to proceed. what do you read into that about where they might land on trump's legal matters? this one, and also others? >> yeah. not much. i mean, you know, some people read this as

sort of a message by justice barrett and justice roberts that they're not going to go along sort of with anything. and i don't mean with anything, i mean with everything. others see it as an invitation to take this case. i think the other four justices, you know, thought the case should be heard, and there wasn't a reason to go forward with the sentencing now because the real immunity issues to be decided here. i thought that the lawyers made a mistake in the way they presented it by focusing on the presidential transition period. there is no real authority in that. the impact is on the presidency. and that's what the olc opinion from 2000 talks about. the stigma this raises and the distraction of conducting. now the full appeal. so i don't read anything particularly into what the supreme court will do. i happen to think that the case will be reversed well before that, for the failure to charge the targeted crime properly, identify the target crime. i think it's clear in the new york penal law 250, they have to specify the jury was never told. did he falsify the business records to commit a tax violation, an election fraud violation or what? it was

the judge never required them to identify it. in fact, in his order, he said, well, the government, the people have given 3 or 4 choices here so the jury can be given that that's just not the law. >> david schoen, judge diane kiesel, thank you so much to both of you for your insights. we do appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and next on cnn news central, we head to california, where five major wildfires are raging across los angeles county. what we know about the battle to contain the flames and the fate of tiktok now in the hands of the supreme court, the u.s. government says the popular app is a threat to national security. >> but where are the justices going to land on this? you're watching cnn news central. we're back in just moments. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> it's one of the most remarkable stories in sports history. i don't want to be remembered as just a basketball player. kobe premieres january 25th on cnn.

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this now ranks among the five most destructive fires in california's history, along with the eaton fire burning to the east in altadena. that's where we find cnn's stephanie elam reporting live. stephanie. strong winds are expected to be a challenge yet again today and through the weekend. what are you seeing there now? >> yeah, we still feel some of that breeze out here right now. i have to tell you, guys covered a lot of wildfires, but haven't seen anything quite like this. look at this. just an entire block of homes decimated. gone. just the chimneys standing up. you can tell where the homes were because of that. you look at that and you think, okay, that's bad, but it's not just there. if you look at this whole entire street, this side also decimated. they were out here just a little bit ago. the firefighters putting out hotspots within this property. you're talking about 14,000 acres in just this fire alone that has burned, decimating these cars, people's homes,

their memories. they're there for some of them, their livelihoods because they were working out of there. all of this chart in such a short amount of time, they're saying that more than 5000 structures have been lost in just this fire. overall, more than 10,000 when you include the palisades fire. but think about it. we're not done. the fires are still churning. they do have some small containment on both of those large fires, but when you look at the amount of loss that these people are facing, and you think about those ten people who lost their lives and those families trying to put that together in their heads, on top of losing everything that they've worked for, it is devastating. and these are densely populated parts of the county, and that's what makes it so different from a lot of the other wildfires that you've seen us cover. and it's also worth noting that fires in california are changing. previously, we wouldn't see a fire burning like this in january, especially with this kind of heat, those winds that could happen. but what we have

to do here is really look at how we're dealing with climate change. the fact that we had two wet winters, all that brush grew up, and then it dried out because we're off to a very dry start to this wet season. and that just makes for easy kindling. and these fires tore through these neighborhoods. so there's a reckoning that has to be done here, because these people, for some of them, they're going to have to decide if they want to stay here or if they're going to move someplace else. but how do you do that when your entire wealth is probably locked up in this home? it's just a devastating situation. it looks like something out of a movie. i keep saying that, but it really doesn't look like a real situation when you see an entire block and then you turn a corner and a whole 'nother block, and then you turn another corner, a whole 'nother block, completely decimated by this fire. >> yeah. in an area that it's unfathomable that it would look like that. it's just beyond. stephanie elam, thank you for the report from altadena. some people who evacuated are

beginning to see what, if anything, is left of their homes after flames have ravaged their neighborhoods. that's the new reality that our next guest is facing. nick anson is with us now. he's the vice chair of the altadena town council, and he lost his home in the eaton fire, where you saw stephanie reporting from this is video that he has shared of what is left of his home. nick, thank you for being with us. you have been back. tell us what it was like. >> hi, brianna. >> um, it's it's hard to hear your reporter talk about it because they're completely on on track with what it feels like to walk up there. >> um, and it's just not block after block. for example, i am a council member who represents about 5500 people. and 48 hours ago, i was trying to think of what are the best ways to communicate with each other for events and for things in our community. i probably only have a

dozen or so homes in in my census track. um, it's like half the town is gone. it's it's just too overwhelming. i'll tell you, i only went back because i needed to do an interview in the area. and i will warn the residents of altadena. don't go back. respect that. their safety is more important. um, but i will say, because i was in the area, i stopped at my home and it gave me an opportunity to video a lot of the area so i can inform other residents. because the hardest thing right now is to try to accept the mystery of is it there or isn't it? and what's left? um, it's almost all gone in our census tract are beautiful. and i would say to anybody listening, um, the best way to explain it is if you look around right now at your neighborhood, and if you think about waving at your neighbor and walking down your street, imagine in a 24 hour period, all of that being gone. i'm i'm where i used to see

homes. i'm seeing acres of debris and rubble. and it's a view that never existed, obviously, for us. and lastly, i'll say, speaking of climate change, i know that it's so inconvenient to think about climate change, especially when it's not affecting you, when you're not getting these hurricanes, these these floods, these tornadoes and these fires. but i will tell you, it's coming your way. and that inconvenience has to stop. we have to address it because it's embarrassing that this country is intelligent as it is, is not addressing it. and i'm just going to be frank, i'm worried about this next administration. all of this destruction will mean nothing to someone who's living safely. where their to continue living that way. and it me off that people just conveniently ignore scientists and facts. and i'll get off that soapbox because people don't like to hear about climate change. but you better start listening because it's coming your way. >> we've talked a lot about it. i think people some some

people do want to hear about it and they want to figure out ways forward with it. and we're seeing it play out before our eyes. i do want to ask you about your personal experience, because your kids are young adults. you have one still at home. your 18 year old daughter, your son, i know is newly marine, but your kids are still young, even though they're adults. you also have a friend of your daughter who you're caring for, who aged out of the foster care system. so you still have two kind of kids at home. um, how are they managing this? and the fact that this home, with so many memories that you built as a family is gone? >> they are more resilient than i gave them credit for. you're totally right, brianna. they are still kids. so. very much so. i'm being cognizant of being here for them and being present and making them the priority. um, as people who have gone through this know, things become really clear

where your priorities are, how simplified your life can be, and what you need to focus on. um, we were four adults, two dogs, a bunny and a cat running out of that house. um, when? on tuesday evening. and it was overwhelming. to answer your question, they are coping with it. they are surprising me. um, i'll tell you. i mean, one of the hardest things for me to do the past 24 hours was to hear my adult son, my 19 year old, who just became a marine, was just sent off to north carolina for his first base, and we were constantly asking each other, are you okay? because i knew how overwhelming it must be for him to imagine everything's gone. are we safe? and now i hear he wants he told me, dad, i just want to come home. and it gave me pause. because how do you answer? there is no home. we're just living with the close up. i've had the sweatshirt on for three days, and we're just living with the clothes on our back. and lucky to have friends that are bringing us in. and i

had to tell my marine son, i want you home, too. but what can we do? there is no home. so you know we are bringing him out here. we have another son up in washington state and they're they're resilient. they surprise me and they give me strength. and they remind me that community is family. so for us, for me to continue doing what i do for our community, i can't feel guilty about, i have to remember that my family knows that. that's part of what makes us who we are yeah, it certainly does. >> and we see your dog in the back. so, listen, um, it is good to see you safe. it is good to see your family safe. but you've lost so much. and we appreciate you talking with us about it. nick. thanks for being with us. >> and thank you for putting altadena forefront, because it's a community that's been decimated and a lot of it's being forgotten with celebrity stories and other news. but i truly appreciate what you're doing. >> all right, nick, thank you.

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appears ready to uphold a ban on tiktok that is set to take effect in nine days. the popular app is used by as many as 170 million users in the u.s., a bipartisan law orders tiktok to shut down in nine days unless it finds a new owner that is not in china, or the supreme court takes action. to give you some background, lawmakers fear that through tiktok, china could acquire americans private data or could push propaganda that would sow discord. >> it's a risk that tiktok's lawyer acknowledged to the nine justices this morning that they would use that information over time to develop spies to turn people to blackmail people. >> people who, a generation from now will be working in the fbi or the cia or in the state department. is that not a realistic assessment by congress and the president of the risks here? well, your honor, i'm not disputing the

risks. >> i certainly acknowledge the risk. but i think there are lots of reasons, not just the one i just gave, but there are lots of reasons why that risk still can't justify the law. >> let's get the latest on what happened today with cnn chief supreme court analyst joan biskupic. joan, it looks like the justices are not going to block this ban. it does. >> but i've got a couple of caveats. >> you know, you could tell that they they were with the federal government here in terms of the main motivation. but there are a couple of questions. there are actually three. first of all, you know, is this a first amendment infringement. and once you get past that, has the government, congress passed a law that's narrowly tailored to kind of meet its compelling interests, to override the first amendment free speech interests. and then after that, what about timing? because that did come up here. could this possibly not take effect on january 19th, which is when it's scheduled to take effect, which, of course, is a day before president elect donald trump comes in? first of

all, on that exchange that you just listened to, there was so much concern about the potential for, you know, chinese espionage. at one point, the chief justice also said, you know, so are we supposed to ignore the fact that the ultimate parent is in fact, subject to doing intelligence work for the chinese government? because tic tac, while an american company, is owned ultimately by bytedance, which is, you know, headquartered in beijing. so that was a real concern. but those two grounds that you just mentioned that congress passed the law based on the data collection for blackmail and other espionage and the covert manipulation. it was that latter grounds that the justices were really suspicious about, you know, doesn't everyone know now that tiktok is owned by a chinese parent company? wouldn't they know that potentially there, that there could be some manipulation? so i think the justices might not agree with the government on the extent of

the grounds here. so bottom line, it looks like this court is ready to rule against tiktok. but then finally, timing the question came up of whether there should be some postponement of the effect of the law taking place on january 19th, which is what congress had dictated when it passed the law back in april. president elect donald trump has said. put a pause on it. tiktok has said put a pause on it. and the justices started to ask about that. and the solicitor general of the united states, currently the biden administration solicitor general, said no, if you're going to rule for us based on our national security grounds, that it looked like they were ready to buy, there's no reason to say that that would justify any kind of postponement here. but there was there seemed to be some sentiment about should they act when we're in the middle of a transition between administrations, and what would the consequences be if they were to do it that way, is

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people have been able to be escorted. they get maybe 5 or 10 minutes at their homes, and then they have to leave. there are efforts to try and get people to at least see if their homes are standing or not, but it is a very complicated situation here on the ground. there's communication is a big issue. we don't have signal and people don't really know where to go. officials are now setting up also resources for missing persons in different parts of l.a. county and in these affected areas. there's a curfew that will be set into place, not just here in in malibu and santa monica, but also in all of the evacuated areas of this fire. >> all right, julia vargas jones, thank you so much for that. the faa is investigating a mid-air collision that happened between an aircraft, a key aircraft obviously used in fighting the palisades fire, and a drone. that shouldn't have been where it was. it was

flying in restricted airspace. and as a result, one of these, it's one of two so-called super scooper planes has been taken out of commission for repairs. these are planes that are so essential in this fight, they can scoop up more than 1500 gallons of ocean water and drop it on active fires. >> and they work with almost surgical accuracy. cnn's pete muntean joins us now. pete, what exactly happened here? well, to put it simply, this was pretty brazen and could have been a whole heck of a lot worse. >> the restricted airspace has been in place over the l.a. fire since tuesday. a safe space for aerial firefighting by effectively creating a no fly zone for other aircraft. and now the faa wants to know how a drone ended up in there. it was hit by one of the air tankers helping out from canada, a canadair cl 415, better known as the super scooper that has been vital to this air attack. they fly out to the pacific ocean, load up on about 1500 gallons of water, then swoop back in and drop that water on their target fire. this is the exact plane in question known as quebec

one. and these are the photos from the los angeles fire department. you can see the hole in the leading edge of the wing there. that is where the drone apparently impacted this plane. the latest update from the los angeles fire department says the plane remains out of service right now. and i want you to listen now to police who say the search is on to find out who was operating that drone in restricted airspace, flying a drone in the fire traffic area is not only dangerous, but it's illegal. >> we do have our federal partners behind the scenes are going to be implementing procedures to be able to follow drones in in our two large fire areas, and they will be they will be able to identify who the operator of that drone is. the most important thing to know is that if you fly a drone at one of these brush fires, all aerial operations will be shut down. and we certainly don't want to have that

happen. >> here is the good news. the pilots did a good job of getting that plane back on the ground safely. nobody was hurt. the federal aviation administration says this. the faa treats these violations seriously and immediately considers swift enforcement action for these offenses. it is a federal crime to interfere with fighting of a wildfire. you could face up to 12 months in prison, and the faa can also impose a civil fine of $75,000. the lafd says for a time, this caused the airspace over the fires to be cleared. out of an abundance of caution. so all the aircraft on the wildfire had to be grounded. and the faa says that slows the fire response and could cost lives. drones are really this emerging hazard right now, and we have seen it interfere with commercial air travel. travel. we've seen it interfere with nfl football games. now we've seen it interfere with a wildfire. and the faa really not joking around with its punishment here. this is so terrible to see this happen. when can that plane get back up in the air?

it seems like it should be a relatively easy fix. it looks mostly like just sheet metal, maybe superficial to me, so hopefully they'll be able to get it back up in the air soon. more and more help is arriving all the time, and the good news is, california is pretty well equipped to do this. and the crews, these canadian crews who often help out with wildfires like this from british columbia and quebec, they're so experienced with the wildfires there, they really know what they're doing and they can drop water right on the target. it's almost like watching a great sports game when they really nail it. it's pretty amazing. >> yeah, it is impressive work and so silly for somebody to be up there in the air when they don't need to be. when these delicate operations are taking place. pete muntean, thanks so much for the update. so we are keeping an eye on wall street today where there is a sharp sell off following the final jobs report of 2024. we're going to explain why in just a few minutes. >> this part changed my life. >> superman. >> crazy. just that simple little thing over the horse. >> chris wanted to change the

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numbers show that the economy added 256,000 jobs in december. >> now that is a seven month high. >> that's 100,000 more than expected. and that chart shows that, yes, hiring slowed dramatically in october, but that was really just a blip. >> and it was a blip caused by hurricanes and worker strikes. >> and the economy has bounced back. the jobs market ended the year with a bang. and for 2024, the u.s. added 2.2 million jobs. >> that is twice as much as economists had expected when the year started. >> you can see the unemployment rate remains low 4.1%. it unexpectedly went lower in december. and i know that when people think about the economy, they think about the cost of living. but this report also showed that paychecks went up at a faster pace than price. so yes, the big question is, of course, why is the market down? well, that's because investors were really hoping for a goldilocks report. not too hot and not too cold. >> and really this report did come in on the hot side. and so

economists say that this effectively shuts the door on an interest rate cut later this month. it also lowers the odds of interest rate cuts later this year. >> bank of america even came out and said they think the fed is done cutting interest rates and may have to at least debate starting to raise interest rates. it's too early to say whether or not the fed is going to reverse course, but it is telling that they're even talking about this big picture. this is good news on the economy and the jobs market. but there is a trade off here because it might mean higher interest rates for longer. >> and perhaps bumpier ride in the stock market. >> boris and brianna. >> all right. matt egan with the news. not the good news. the news. thanks so much, matt. we appreciate it. president-elect donald trump sentenced in court today for his 34 felony convictions. but that legal battle may not be over. we'll have much more on that just ahead. >> kobe believed in himself at

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