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by democrats. he's on the ground in north carolina right now. we'll bring you the very latest from this trip. and his immigration crackdown ramps up. now. armed service members are preparing for a second wave deployment to the southern border as the white house shares a photo of people in handcuffs being led onto a military plane for deportation. >> and with just one week left in dry january, in case you were counting, it turns out more americans may opt to stay on the wagon for even longer. a closer look at the new data and the changing conversation around alcohol. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news center. >> so right now, president donald trump is on the ground in western north carolina. he's touring the damage from hurricane helene and meeting with affected families before heading to another major

disaster zone. wildfire ravaged los angeles earlier, while holding a briefing with local officials, trump laid out some of his plan to overhaul or even get rid of fema altogether and leave disaster recovery to the states. listen to this. >> i'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of. fundamentally reforming and overhauling fema, or maybe getting rid of fema. i think, frankly, fema is not good. i think when you have a problem like this, i think you want to go. and whether it's a democrat or a republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling fema. >> president trump also laid out some of his demands for california before it receives federal aid. we'll have more on that in a moment, but let's get to cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny, who is live on the ground in asheville, north carolina. for us, jeff, what more do we know about the president's visit there and what he's hoping

to accomplish? >> well, boris. >> president trump is. >> clearly using. >> his first trip outside the white house on a coast to coast mission from here in north carolina. he'll end the day in las vegas, actually, before stopping in las vegas on both sides of the country, making clear that he wants to change how disasters are funded and managed in this country. of course, he before going to california, which is still a much more recent disaster, he said he wanted to visit a red state, north carolina. today is four months to the day since hurricane helene began its rampage across the south. and here in western north carolina. as you can see behind me, this is just one glimpse of so many of the sights we see as we drive around. and residents, of course, have been enduring this for four months. as an opport government works. one piece of project 2025, which, of course,

was a blueprint that some conservatives used during the campaign, was to effectively get rid of fema, the the disaster agency. well, the president is hearing from some people, but also seeing signs along the the roadway. there was a sign that greeted him that said fema helped me. so of course, this is actually a blue part of an otherwise red part of western north carolina here in buncombe county, here in asheville. but of course, politics aside, people are not asking what the voter registration is. if you're a republican or a democrat. people were hit equally here. but president trump is using his first visit here to make clear that he wants to streamline some of funding, even as it's clear that so much more needs to be done here. he'll be traveling from here in north carolina to los angeles. later, he'll be meeting with officials there, of course, later today. >> boris jeff zeleny live for us in asheville. thank you so much, jeff. erica. >> well, for more on the ongoing recovery efforts in western north carolina, we're joined now by the mayor of asheville, esther manheimer, who joins us now. so, madam mayor, as i understand it, you did not have

the opportunity to meet with the president today. but if you had been able to speak with him, what would your message be at this point in the recovery efforts? >> um, thank. >> you for having me. >> on today. what i would like to tell the president and what i believe our governor said to the president, he was able to meet him on the tarmac today out at the airport is. thank you for making western north carolina's recovery your number one. stop your first leave from washington, making sure our recovery is a priority. that's really, really important to us and reassuring as we continue to recover from this disaster. >> do you think this visit by president trump will in any way impact the amount of aid coming your way, or even the speed of that aid? he has said he wants to speed things up for north carolina. >> yeah, well, let me just say this. i'm the co-chair of the western north carolina recovery

committee that governor josh stein has created, and we are watching this carefully. i've made a couple of trips now up to washington to talk to folks in congress, looking ahead to additional funding that we are going to need. the governor today reiterated the need for an additional $20 billion to help north carolina recover. i think what the president wants and what he says is obviously very important to the congress, and the congress will make a priority. so, yes, i think it matters that the president is making this a priority. i think what he asked for will make a difference in terms of what we get from congress and how fast we get it. >> one of the things that the president is also floating is getting rid of fema. and he reiterated that again multiple times today on the ground there in north carolina, he says that states can handle a disaster. could you, on both a local and a state level handle these recovery efforts without fema? >> no, i'm afraid we we cannot.

now that i have lived through an experience like this. and i hope all of your listeners out there don't ever have to do this, but i know many of them have. you can see what an enormous operation it is to set up a system to help individuals recover from a disaster, to help each individual be able to make claims for the damage to their home, their loss of income to help businesses recover from a disaster, to help our city clean up the debris that's been left from a disaster like this, which we're seeing right now in the fires. i mean, that is all being tasked by fema in some cases, they they have the army corps of engineers here, but it's all under the umbrella of fema. so if, you know, if you were to instantly make that go away, i think it would be devastating for individuals, for businesses, for cities, for counties, and for the state of north carolina. you would have to be very thoughtful in terms of how you, um, you know, did that. and i would urge

the president not to make any rash decisions around reconstructing fema right now, as we're in the middle of recovering from this disaster. >> he also said today, while he was on the ground, that he felt that north carolina had been and i'm quoting him here very fairly, very unfairly treated. do you agree? >> you know, i'm not i'm not sure i understand that remark. i, i feel like we got, um, all the attention we were due and, and that we needed. what i will say is this storm was very unique, from what i've heard from people who have experienced natural disasters in the united states, this one was extremely unique. it isolated a lot of communities. roads washed out, bridges washed out, all communications were lost. so it was very chaotic in the beginning. and i think it took a while for the federal government, for the state, for all of us to figure out, get our footing and figure out how to

help people and respond to it adequately. um, but i don't i don't know if it was fair or unfair. this is the only disaster i have experienced, but i'm grateful for the time and attention of all those members of congress that have traveled here who have firsthand seen this damage. and now for the president's, um, i believe it's his second or third visit to this area. um, we're really hopeful that this attention will translate into a speedy recovery for our region. >> asheville mayor esther manheimer, appreciate your time today. thank you. boris. >> as we mentioned, president trump heads later today to tour fire damage in southern california, where firefighters have been working seemingly nonstop for weeks battling flames. and they're now grappling with more wildfires scorching los angeles county. the latest large fire is the huge hughes fire, which has burned more than 10,000 acres, forcing about 31,000 people to evacuate. rain is forecast for this weekend, which may sound like a welcome relief, but keep

in mind with those burn scars come the danger of mudslides. joining us now is cnn's julia vargas jones from one of the hardest hit areas in altadena. julia, what are officials saying about the potential for rain well, it's such a paradox, boris, because l.a. >> is the driest that it's been in for years. and yet this rain has a lot of people here in los angeles county on edge. officials are saying, prepare for this and they are preparing in so many ways, 250,000 bags of sand being distributed and placed around the city to brace for all of this water coming. you know, altadena and the palisades as well are very hilly areas behind me. the san gabriel mountains. we've seen this morning so much heavy equipment, machinery heading up this way as the los angeles, california department of water resources are building these debris dams as well to kind of

try to contain everything that might be coming down this mountain and into these communities. boris, remember, we're still in the cleanup effort. time. there's so much toxic debris here. that is something that authorities are fearing. they're saying if you are in these flood areas, do not be home. if you don't have to be, turn off your electricity, turn off your gas. if you know how to do that and just be ready. because if this rain hits these burn areas badly, boris, it could be as deadly as the fires that we saw over the last few weeks. >> and julia, the governor, gavin newsom, signed a pair of bills allocating some $2.5 billion in recovery funding. what more can we expect as the governor potentially meets with donald trump later today? >> well, we do know that the governor said he plans to go greet donald trump, the president, as he lands here in los angeles later this

afternoon. he did say that there was not a lot of communication coming from the white house for this visit, but that he was, quote, quite happy that the that to to be on the tarmac and to thank the president. welcome in to make sure that they have all the resources that they need. $2.5 billion. you mentioned there, boris, that is just one part, a small part of what the state will need to recover. and then trump making some interesting remarks earlier today. take a listen. >> i want two things. i want voter i.d. for the people of california, and they all want it right now. you have no you don't have voter i.d. people want to have voter identification. you want to have proof of citizenship. ideally, you have one day voting. but i just want voter i.d. as a start. and i want the water to be released and they're going to get a lot of help from the u.s.

>> and boris, that is in relation to or perhaps hinting at what we heard of conditions being attached to funding from the federal government to recover southern california. look, the water claims, the governor has said that is not there's no reality to that. there's no truth to those claims that there was not enough water. it has to do with something that trump has said before, that there is water in northern california that should be coming to southern california. we'll really have to see how these two, the governor and trump, lead this relationship going forward. we know they've worked together in the past before through disasters here in california and trump's first trump, trump's first term. excuse me, but this will be a test for both of them in this relationship boris. >> yeah. it will be interesting to see how these two bitter rivals interact on the tarmac. julia vargas jones from altadena, california. thank you so much. still to come this hour, the white house says deportations of undocumented migrants have begun and the government is now using military aircraft to

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immigration is kicking into high gear. the white house says that deportation flights have begun sharing these images of dozens of migrants lined up in handcuffs flight to guatemala. >> the trump administration, also directing more federal agencies to investigate and arrest people suspected of entering the u.s. illegally. those agencies include the fbi, dea, atf, the u.s. marshals service, and the federal bureau of prisons. cnn's priscilla alvarez is joining us now with more on these developments. so we're five days in. he had said he was going to act quickly on immigration. he now is. talk to us a little bit more about what we're seeing in these pictures. >> sure. so the pictures you're referring to are what the white house press secretary put out today, which is migrants boarding a military aircraft. >> so as you look at the. >> images, you'll see that the migrants are handcuffed. the way that they are handcuffed and lined up is actually pretty standard with how we would see migrants lining up for a deportation flight conducted by immigration and customs enforcement. what is striking in

this image is that it's military aircraft. so why a military aircraft? well, earlier in the week, the president signed an executive order declaring a national emergency at the u.s. southern border. that meant that he could use pentagon resources along the u.s. southern border. and this is an example of that. the pentagon telling us earlier in the week they were sending aircraft to el paso and also to san diego. now i have obtained more details about this flight that includes, for example, 75 to 80 migrants who were boarded on this flight to guatemala. so they're guatemalans. they had recently crossed the border. that means they were in border patrol custody and therefore more easily removed. in addition to this, of course, there are troops that are heading to the u.s. southern border. that is in addition to those who are already there. it is not unusual for the u.s. to use troops and the military to assist with the mission along the border. but this is a numbers game. this is putting more resources behind helping the border patrol with operational readiness. in addition, of course, to this military aircraft, which is

again striking when you look at those images and see those those planes being used now for migrants who are being sent back to their origin country striking. >> indeed. priscilla alvarez, thanks so much for that update. let's dig deeper on this with joshua school. he's. excuse me, joshua school. he's a 21 year veteran of the fbi who retired as the bureau's executive assistant director for intelligence. he's now the president of the national security services firm bow wave, llc. joshua, thank you so much for being with us. i want to get your reaction to the use of military aircraft to carry out these deportations. priscilla just explained how unusual it is. it is it the case that resources are so strained to carry out these deportations that the government has to resort to using these military aircraft? >> well. >> i would say this is not. >> something. >> that's new. >> for us. >> we have seen cooperation across the federal government and law enforcement missions.

you know, with terrorists being brought back from overseas to judicial hearings or being removed from the united states and heading to their country of origin. so in this regard, when you're when you're when you have a massive amount of people and you need to move quickly and resources are strained, the military is a quick reaction to that and allows for collaboration. >> i also want to get your thoughts on these agencies. the fbi, dea, atf being authorized to help identify and apprehend undocumented migrants. what does that look like in a practical sense well, i saw the memo from the department of justice and what i and the direction they're providing to the u.s. >> attorneys across the united states, what this allows for is hopefully, is better communication amongst those federal agencies, the dea and the fbi have a lot of drug task forces. they have the safe streets task forces. you have the joint terrorism task forces. and for which when you're finding criminals and you're looking to remove them from

society, to stop preying on society, this is yet another tool in the tool bag. so with the spirit of this, hopefully what is happening is you're removing those criminals and getting them into ice custody and get them getting them out of our country. >> does that authorization in any way reshape or slow down the main focus of those agencies? >> i didn't see anything in that memo where it. reprioritized what was already national security threats or public corruption or fentanyl. i didn't see any of that in that memo. i think time will tell, but i think those missions for those organizations is critically important. so i think this is something that's been added to it, not supplanted another priority. >> i want to ask you about new jersey, because there was an incident there where newark's mayor claims that ice, as he describes it, raided a local business without producing a

warrant. he's claiming that this is a fourth amendment violation. we'll see how that is adjudicated. but i do wonder what your read is and whether you see similar issues arising as these operations become more common. >> i'm not i don't know if that's going to be a fourth amendment violation. obviously, if there was a criminal inside that, that establishment, they have reason to believe he is in there. they've established he's in there. they can go in and arrest him. and exigent circumstances without additional details, it's impossible to know. i don't see that a law enforcement agency such as ice or any of the others is going to willfully violate the fourth amendment and forego judicial proceedings to get warrants. they do not have the authorization to do that, and it puts those agents in jeopardy as well. >> joshua, great to get your perspective. thanks so much for joining us thank you. coming up, president trump issuing another

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the crowd. cnn's sunlen serfaty joining us now live from that rally. so, sunlen, there was also a message, as i noted from president trump, what did he say? >> across my. >> own lifetime? >> that's right. erica. it was a videotaped message from the president and certainly significant. and his message not lost on many of the activists out here today. the fact that you have. >> a message. >> from president trump to this group. you also are hearing, as you can see behind me, from vice president jd vance, the fact that he is making his first in-person appearance since becoming vice president to this march for life in support of the anti-abortion movement. you also have a large roster of republican speaker of the house mike johnson, senate majority leader john thune have already addressed this crowd. and to put it simply, speaker johnson said, we are entering in a new era with the trump white house. so many of the people i spoke with today say that they are paying very close attention to what this new administration is saying, and notably, what they are doing. many people

referenced the fact that already they are seeing some early moves of this administration that they are like in support of the movement, namely, the fact that president trump last night pardoned 23 individuals, 23 activists who had demonstrated at abortion facilities, some who had been in prison. they are saying that that is an early message that this administration is, they hope, going to move more aggressively in support of that movement. now, this march will after these speakers are done speaking, they will take to the streets. they will mark down, march down constitution avenue over, not to the supreme court, but this year to the capitol. and that is for a very important message to the members of congress that while though many of these fights, of course, and the messages will come from the administration that a lot of these fights are going to take place now at the state level, and they certainly hope that the backing of the administration and many top republicans on capitol hill will help push those forward. erica simon serfaty, live for us. thank you.

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face increased u.s. sanctions. putin's response has essentially been to agree in principle to talks, but also to flatter the u.s. president. in his state tv interview, putin called his relationship with trump trustworthy and added that he agreed with the u.s. president that, quote, if his presidency had not been stolen in 2020, maybe the crisis in ukraine would not have happened. putin, of course, launched his full scale invasion of ukraine in in 2022, when joe biden was u.s. president. back to you. >> thanks so much to matthew chance for that update. president trump today is actually defending his decision to terminate the private security details of doctor anthony fauci. former secretary of state mike pompeo and former national security advisor john bolton. listen to this. >> when you work for a government, at some point, your security detail comes off. and you know you can't have them forever. >> would you feel partially.

>> responsible if something were to happen to. >> say. >> doctor fauci. >> or john bolton? >> no. you know, they all made a lot of money. they can hire their own security to all the people you're talking about. they can go out. i can give them some good numbers. they're very good security people. >> doctor fauci discussed the threats against his life during a congressional hearing last year. >> there have been. >> credible death threats leading to the. >> arrests of two individuals, and credible death threats mean someone who clearly was on their way to kill me. it is very troublesome to me. it is much more troublesome because they've involved my wife and my three daughters. >> a source tells cnn that doctor fauci has hired his own private security detail. remember, he served in government for decades and was the nation's top infectious diseases expert for 38 years. trump has also pulled security details from former national security advisor john bolton and former secretary of state mike

pompeo, who we know have been targets from overseas adversaries. >> erika lee specifically targets with threats involving iran from part of their role in the first trump administration. let's take a look at some of the other headlines we're watching this hour for you in colorado. the validity of more than 500 criminal cases now in doubt. this is because a former star dna analyst for the state is facing criminal charges over data tampering. yvonne missy woods allegedly telling investigators she changed data to complete cases more quickly. that's according to the arrest affidavit. internal investigators say she was working too fast and that affected serious cases, including homicide and sexual assault. a survivor of the october 7th attack on israel will represent her country at eurovision. 24 year old yuval raphael, who was survived the deadly attack on the nova music festival, will sing at the international song contest in may. she was voted the winner of israel's rising star tv competition. and in paris, the iconic louvre is really urging the french government to step in

and help. according to reuters, the museum's president is now warning that the building itself is in such dire shape that leaks and temperature swings are threatening the priceless art inside pieces, which include some of the most famous paintings in the world, including the mona lisa. the louvre itself was built in the 1100s as the palace for france's kings. it was turned into a museum in 1793. when we come back, it is a coming out party of cuteness. stand by. the national zoo's two new pandas. they're ready to meet you on the other side of the break. >> have i got news for you is back for a new season. whether you like it or not. >> are those. >> the only two choices? yes. you like it or you don't? >> i'm on the fence. >> this is going to be a long season. >> have i got news for you returns february 15th on cnn.

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in china for their sendoff. so i don't know if the fact that ching bo is way back there and has turned her back to me for the past 20 minutes or so is any indication. but aside from that, i think they're actually very excited that we're here and more importantly, that crowds are here and it's not too heavy right now because it is. i mean, you guys are here in d.c. it's really cold, but you still have folks who are wrapping themselves in blankets and several layers and wanting to just take in the moment. it's interesting because you do get a lot of people who are shouting and yelling and happy as soon as they get to this area. the panda exhibits, they start to quiet down. they get really tranquil and they just kind of take it in. i'm i'm looking to see where ching bo went because she's been going back and forth. nikki, do you think she went back over on this side? we're going to see. she'll pop out soon enough. but as i mentioned, having gone way back to china with them, i want you to see what it was like for their sendoff. and this is a really, really unique view, because while you have media from all over the world,

actually here today, what we got to see, we were the only foreign media allowed in chengdu, china to see them send off from there and arrive here, take a look. >> allison chinchar you all. >> in. >> the same bo li ching bao, have a safe trip. >> so. >> they're going to leave this panda base. they'll head to the airport and then it's off to the u.s. on a very long flight. this is incredible to see. i mean, they've lifted up one of the pandas already, and we could see. and you can actually still see. i've never been this close to a panda, but there she is. ching

bao. oh, look how beautiful she is the next time we'll get to see them will be in washington, d.c. getting yeah. and they're here. they're in washington, d.c. they did arrive back in october. they went through that quarantine period you guys were talking about, and then they had a moment to slowly get used to more and more crowds. and a lot of the folks who are watching them are doing so even here at times on the panda cam. and if you look around, there's several different surveillance cameras, 40 that they have installed. they're all hd, they're all new, and they're all ready for their debut here in d.c. so it is really exciting to actually see them again and to reunite, even if they don't remember me. >> oh. >> they definitely. remember you, forget you. culver. >> come on. >> yeah, i'm pretty sure you like, donned a panda suit and like, sprayed panda you're in on

yourself to be able to get close to them. of course they remember you, david. >> you know what? maybe that's what's missing. that's what's missing. >> that's what you need. a little panda you're in on your suit and you're ready. >> to go. >> i do want to ask you about the the diplomatic aspect of all of this, because i believe it was in 2023 when we last had pandas at the national zoo, and they were sent back to china. there was all this misinformation that was published in chinese media about how they were mistreated and underfed. and then it seems like things reversed. and now we're fortunate to have these pandas in the u.s. again. but it says something about where chinese and u.s. relations are. >> it really does. and i think you have to think about the history of this, right? i mean, it goes back more than 50 years to when president nixon first went to china and then coming back to the u.s. his wife, pat nixon, said, i really liked those animals. she made a comment to then-premier zhou enlai, seeing the pandas on a

cigarette case. oh my goodness, i would love some. and he goes, i'll send you a pair. so the first two came then and now, you know, actually, you can see by the way, behind me and now you've got this continuing boris, to your point. and it was interesting this morning i was talking to a woman who had gotten here at around 7 a.m. she flew in from houston, texas, and she said, i didn't think this day was going to come. and i said, why is that? she goes, u.s. china relations have been so fraught. it's been really a tense time. she thought for sure. this enclosure would never see pandas again. but this does speak to the fact that panda diplomacy, as you can hear the kids yelling, does continue through. doesn't matter. the administration, who's in the white house and the tensions between the two countries. we've got pandas back in d.c. so that does say something. >> yeah, absolutely. david culver will will leave you with your pandas. but just keep us posted on the on the reunion. >> thank you. >> good to see you. be sure to tune in for the whole story. operation panda david's report, which airs this sunday at 8:00

right here on cnn. we also want to tell you about a new cnn film chronicling the life of actor christopher reeve, best known, of course, for his role as superman in the three superman movies in the 70s and the 80s. >> his greatest role, though, may have come after that as an advocate for the latest science to help spinal cord injury patients like himself. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta has more. >> these cells have the potential to cure diseases and conditions ranging from parkinson's and ms to diabetes, heart disease, alzheimer's, lou gehrig's, even spinal cord injuries. it's like my own. >> christopher reeve wouldn't. >> live to see stem cells, possibly help. with his own paralysis. but nearly 30 years after his accident, spinal cord injury patients like javier are now reaping the benefits. >> so it. >> was actually my last day of high school and was over at a friend's house and we were swimming. i just jumped out a little too far and ended up hitting my head where it started to get a bit shallow and hit my head on the bottom and broke my

neck. >> like reeve, jake was also left paralyzed. instead of walking with san ramon valley high school graduating class of 2016, jake was weighing whether or not to try an experimental treatment based on stem cells. >> i didn't know a whole lot about it, but i knew that it could potentially help me or, you know, potentially help others. and i didn't see a lot of risk in it. so i decided to do it. >> stem cells can. >> become. >> by definition, any of the cells of the human body. they just need the instructions and the information. >> brian kelly is the ceo of lineage cell therapeutics. >> we convert those stem cells into the actual cells that comprise and make up the spinal cord. >> think of the spinal cord as the nervous system's interstate. with these electrical impulses, sending messages from your brain to other parts of your body. now, to send those messages more efficiently, a conductive sheath of fat and protein known as myelin wraps around the nerves.

but when the spinal cord is injured, the myelin can become damaged as well. when you've actually injected these cells into the spinal cord in someone like jake, what sort of results have you been seeing? >> to date. >> 30 individuals have received these cells. the initial objective was to demonstrate the safety. but the data which we collected and the conversations that we had with the surgeons really encouraged us that there was some improvement. that was somewhat unexpected. >> improvements for patients like jake that now allow him to live his life, drive and work. >> i ended up getting some return here in my right hand, so i'm able to wiggle this index finger just a little bit, which doesn't look like much, and there's not a lot of strength behind it, but, um, it actually proves to be very functional for me because it kind of gives me a little bit more dexterity and the ability to kind of open my hand here and, and grab even

small objects like this. >> how big a deal was the advocacy of christopher reeve and all this? >> christopher reeve is synonymous with this condition, and that's really important. having someone who is connected as an individual to a condition can really help attract attention and interest in the space. >> i knew i would one day get to a point where i felt like i was living a, you know, very fulfilled lifestyle, traveling the world and going to school. moved down to san diego, and after getting my master's in north carolina and i'm engaged, i have a wonderful fiance who's very supportive. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >> what an inspiring story. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you so much. the documentary superman the

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