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across the pond in paris where president-elect trump is attending the reopening ceremony for the notre dame cathedral five years after the devastating fire there. just about an hour ago in paris, trump meeting with french president macron and ukrainian president zelenskyy things are moving there lauren greene is live on the ground in paris with more. hi, lauren. reporter: hey griff you know exactly three minutes ago, president-elect trump arrived here at notre dame and greeted macron for the second time today. ahead of the ceremony that will be begin reopening of knotter dam cathedral it is an enjoyous occasion as thousands of people are lining watching big screens -- of the ceremony that's just about ready to begin. president-elect trump, of course, just ahead of the meeting he had a couple of hours ago with france president

emmanuel macron trump and macron met at the presidential palace it is the first since winning the election on november 5th reports are he will -- meet he also met with ukraine president zelenskyy but it was macron one of the world leaders who was in office during trump's first term that ended in 2020 and the two talking about the past and the future. >> french people welcome you, it's an honor to be here we have a good time together and we had a lot of success. really great success working together. >> also attending today former secretary of state john kerry as well as other officials britain prince wales royal prince william is also here as well as first lady jill biden. you know five and a half years ago, the world watched in horror as this beautiful cathedral this beautiful goth egg cathedral was

burning and president macron vowed then that notre dame our lady will be reborn and repaired he was true to his word. now 2,000 statues decorative features were restored recreates including gargoyles. some 2400 oak to rebuild the forest, a new lead roof and they'll have a place of honor and presentation. the restoration cost about $800 million -- 65 million at least came from the united states and donors in the u.s. but a first and foremost notre dame is place of worship television built to glory of god and many believe that in the restoration of the building will be the restoring of the catholic faith in paris. back to you. griff: lauren we were looking at president-elect there in paris where you are and bring you the latest as you can see it you can

him shaking hands with dignitaries and world leaders as they gather inside notre dame cathedral and hear from i believe president macron before the ceremony begins. but, of course, there prince william, prince of wales there greeting president-elect trump there as he works down the line. bringing more as we get it lauren greene live in paris, thank you. molly. molly: what a day in the world stage for the president president-elect donald trump also showing support back here at home for his defense secretary nominee. pete hegseth as he faces a potentially steep battle for confirmation we have senior national correspondent rich edson live from west palm beach florida tracking all of these trump appointments. rich, to you. reporter: good afternoon molly well president-elect trump suggests that his choice to lead the pentagon pete hegseth has momentum he was on capitol hill for much of last week, meeting with senators trying to convince them to vote for his

confirmation. trump is giving hegseth public support and says he is standing by him. >> like pete is doing well now. i mean, people were a little bit concerned. he's a young guy with a tremendous track record actually. went to princeton and went to harvard he was a good student at both but he loves the military and i think people are starting to see it. reporter: trump also doubled down on hegseth on social media calling him a winner. hegseth responded thank you mr. president, like you we will never back down. there's pressure on iowa senator combat veteran joarnny earnest who has said that she and a number of republican senators want to make sure that allegations against hem have been cleared. she tweeted, quote, pete hegseth and i will continue our constructive conversation as we work together in this process we plan to meet again next week. at a minimum, we agreed that he deserves the opportunity to lay out his vision for our war

fighters at a fair hearing. city trump is considering ron delaware san it is for defense secretary if hegseth cannot make it through the senate. a source with knowledge of the plan says desantis will join trump next weekend at the annual army navy football game in maryland another of the presidential, president-elect nominees is tulsi gabbard former representative she's the nom for national intelligence and she'll be meeting with members of the senate next week. back to you molly. molly: great point we will see how she's received on the hill thank you rich edson. griff. griff: molly today president biden marks pearl harbor remembrance day at the white house a speculation grows over additional pardons he may issue ahead of his exit from office. lucas tomlinson is live in the north lawn at the white house with the latest. hey lucas. reporter: it's about been a week since president biden pardoned his son hunter a few weeks

before christmas and yesterday there was a highly anticipated white house press briefing the first since the pardon took place and at that briefing, karim jean-pierre asked about reports of pre-emptive pardon something kjp did not rule out. >> look i'm not going to get ahead of the president. but what i can say is that the president is reviewing the pardoning and commutations. >> some of the names floated dr. fauci former retired mark milley and adam schiff and former congresswoman liz cheney for months president biden and press secretary says hunter wouldn't be pardoned and after spending thanks giving in nantucket before jetting off to africa. >> he did wrestle with this. he wrestled with this, and again, he said in his statement and his own voice that he made that decision this past weekend.

and the fact is when you think about how the president got to this decision circumstances have changed. he wrestled with these circumstances the president laid it in his own words. he did. he laid out how he wrestled with this decision. >> donald trump incoming press secretary reacted to this about face. >> you tell the truth and i think karine jean-pierre was lied to or was lying to the press and therefore american people which is a complete dereliction of duty. reporter: so griff we will wait to see if there's anymore of these pardons or pre-emptive pardons coming perhaps before president biden leaves office. griff. displif we shall be watching lucas as viewers on bottom right have been watching jill biden arriving there in notre dame lucas tomlinson live on the north lawn. thank you. molly. molly: there is both excitement and some skepticism after elon

musk and vivek ramaswamy visited the house and the senate this week. to begin their mission to implement doge and potentially shrink the federal government but now the hard part starts senior cor depressional respondent chad pilgrim explains. >> expectations for doge are meeting with vivek ramaswamy. every single republican wants to get about the business of cutting fraud, waste and abuse. >> we can't continue to do everything for everyone. >> political aspirations soon slam into legislative reality. >> it's geng to require not only statutory authority to do it and go to the committee and jurisdiction but as to go to get enough votes to put it into force. >> cuts don't happen imaginely in congress. >> house will be in order. >> implementation requires voting and republicans barely control the house. >> it's clear that the incoming

house republican majority will not be able to do much without us. >> plus many democrats aren't enamored with elon musk. >> proven to be an efficient liar and self-serving he tends to talk a lot and doesn't seem to know very much. >> this isn't first ambitious attempt to slash spending. >> there was reinventing government three decades ago. >> at the end of six months we will have real results and real proposals to offer. reporter: that effort trimmed 400,000 federal jobs and shrunk 13 departments but government jobs eventfully return to the same level around 3 million. molly. molly: oh, is a fabulous grip on history chad pilgrim thank you. griff. griff: thank you molly now for more on doge and what's happening in paris and everything else. let's bring in our political panel with us today founder president of strategies jesse hunt and president of the kork

korkrin street group we have to get to the trump transition pete hegseth i want to get to what's happening in paris but doge is really the water cooler talker everyone is talking about leak what's elon musk going to do -- let me start with you jesse are you onboard this is going to be really transformational three of us have been in washington for a long time and if politicians protect anything, it's their pork barrel spinning all of the projects. but this feels different. >> yeah i do think it is a unique situation when you have a high profile individual elon musk and someone who's been as successful as he is transforming dichght industries. and i think this is what donald trump talked about on the xrain campaign trail to provide a permit i have it was in nature they wanted disruption they don't think washington works and what better way than to bring someone like elon musk in to look at the waste, fraud and abuse that's occurring. you're seeing bipartisan support

with jared jumping onboard and wanting to be part of this as well. there's a lot of energy behind it and we'll see what they can do from a legislative standpoint. >> it is a good point about the bipartisan support. but brad are all republicans going to be onboard on this when it really starts happening? >> i'm skeptical to achieve type of numbers they are trying to get in terms of cuts you're talking possible reforms to entitlements as we know social security is third realm of american mr. speakers mr. speaks to see what they do that and how seriously to take this. this is not a government agency and not standing up on department. in the house side they're in the sub committee but on the senate side it is a caucus what legislative authority do they have and who will introduce bills? process is going to have to play out and get the support of congress. those two can't cut anything they want elected to anything. j congress controls pocketbook pursestrings they say. let me shift to confirmation

battles coming and highest profile of them pete hegseth. nominated for it is pretty clear you have president trump doubling down saying he's our guy jd vance asked about him in western north carolina he said we're standing behind pete. where did you see this headed? does he get confirmed? >> senators have a very important advice consent and role and they take it seriously that said donald trump was afforded a tremendous amount of deference by the american people and they're doing their due diligence having individual conversation and up to the nominee to concerns to answer any questions prior to a hearing. that makes those hearings go a lot smoother if the senators don't feel like they get the necessary answers then it become a little bit more, a little bit more hairy a little bit more contentious. but ultimately it sounds like senator earnest and hegseth are

very product i have conversations and donald trump was elected to disrupt and elected to do a certain, you know,ly litany of things and he feels that pete hegseth is a key component of that. i do think there will be -- a significant amount of support for him in the senate. >> brad how do you read the tea leaves in senate you can lose only three for hegseth, and clearly there's a lot of pressure being put on earnest who by the way has been nothing short of a staunch donald trump supporter decorated combat veteran. a sexual assault survivor -- >> i would say it's not -- it's not good that already floating names for possible replacement for desantis is one of them i would say two things let's be mindful he wanted to avoid the kifntion process and have the processes go through the recess appointment and number two if i'm republicans and if i'm donald trump, you want to make sure that person you put there is scandal free and competent and up to the task otherwise you're going to have a cabinet

secretary one arguably most important cabinet secretaries constantly in scandal or incompetent carrying out your mission so republicans view this as if i were republicans you vote as a loyalty test to donald trump it may be opposing pete hegseth if he's the loyalty to donald trump rejecting that and putting someone competent to carry out his mission. griff: just the last 45 seconds toapt i want to hit the consideration there could be future preempghtive pardons for people like fauci and liz cheney, and adam schiff. what do you make of it? >> i think biden ruined whatever shred of credibility he still had by pardoning hunter after he said explicitly he would not and staff said he would not but these are same staffers that assured us that joe biden was sharp as a tack behind scenessen now we know that to not be true. i think that's just, you know, a really tough precedent to set pardoning after saying you wouldn't but we'll see what

happens going forward 237. >> brad i'll give you the last ten seconds karine said she wrestles with that. >> a parent shouldn't not -- again we're going back on the word there was a problem here but leader jeffries suggested you know you've expressed empathy for your son let's widen that empathy like i'm less concerned about liz cheney and number of black americans behind bars for an unfair -- you know, application of the law on certain situations and sentencing and crack versus cocaine convictions so i think leader jeffreys is a good idea there and extend that empathy to all. >> we shall see where it goes we have 40 days to find out, obviously, there are more pardons coming. brad howard jesse great to have you here. molly. ♪ ♪ molly: man hunt for killer brian thompson is now in its fourth day and the fbi now offering a

$50,000 reward for information. alexis mcadams is live in new york city with the latest on this. to you good afternoon. reporter: yeah this has been going on like you said for the few days now and man hunt is nationwide not just in new york city anymore the fbi is working this case as investigators tell me they believe the person of interest fled new york. >> in doing as we were able to track him all the way from the distinct itself and eventually we have him entering bus terminal at 178 street and broadway that's a interstate bus terminal all belief we saw him go and didn't see him come out so a thought he's on the buses and running that down now. >> hopped on a bus and went out of the town and toward atlanta i'm told. the person they're looking for is there on your screen. he came to new york city on november 24th. so right around thanksgiving. he checked into an upper west

side hostile that day and caught on camera smiling about something, as he checked in that morning, the gunman shot the ceo at least two times we freezed that video because it is hard to watch but you can see on the screen. words deny defendant opposed left on the shell casings which is interesting because it is similar molly to title of the book that's about insurance industry slamming calling it a racket could that be linked to motive police say it is possible. because brian thompson was the ceo of one of the largest health care insurance companies in the world. >> we're not going to commit to a motive right now but, obviously, when you look at the writing and victims employment, it could possibly be a disgruntled employee or disgruntled client but we're not ruling that and not committing it to this time. >> person of interest bought something to drink before the shooting and finished it and threw it out in the trash. dna was left behind on that bottle possibly finger prints

also saliva also a burner phone he dropped in an alleyway so they have that as well. so a lot of evidence here. police telling me they're using those things to build a suspect profile confident they'll track this person down. >> i'll just say that the men and women of the new york city police department are the best in the business. and we have the full resources of this department focused on finding this person. molly: again this morning mayor of new york city telling reporters that a recent event that he believes they're getting closer to catching the killer. they just need your help at home so if you recognize him call police. molly: 50,000 reward alexis mcadams thanks. griff. griff: leaders across political spectrum are gathering in california to talk through the threats the nation is facing. we'll take you live to the reagan defense forum in simi valley, next. carl: what's up, carl nation! it's your #1 broker with the best full-service

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♪ ♪ reagan national defense forum is happening this weekend in simi valley, california. our chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin just wrapped up a fireside chat with commerce secretary gina she's live now with the

secretary. jen, to you. reporter: molly, this is my 11th reagan national defense forum and i'm grateful to be joined right now by the 40th commerce secretary gina ramando you have six weeks left in the job. how has the commerce department changed and you're the first commerce secretary to address the national security forum. why is your agency now at the center of national security? >> good morning. thanks for having me exactly as you said commerce department is at the center of national security because we've come to realize that supply chain security is national security. economic security is national security. denying china our most sophisticated semiconductors which is what we do is national security. so i've really tried to modernize commerce department, and tie it into the national security apparatus of the federal government because at the end of the day it make us safer.

reporter: you were the key to passing president biden's bipartisan chips and science act that's 53 billion dollars to go out to industries and to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the united states. u.s. used to manufacture 100% of semiconductors. it went down to 8%. what has it been like trying to rebuild and bring manufacturing back? what have you done and what do you have left to do and how much money have you given away and how many grants? >> semiconductors are critical they're in everything a.a. runs on semiconductor warplanes, drones it all requires semiconductors. right now we buy all of them from taiwan. and that's dangerous. so the chips act which was as you say bipartisan, it's good to know national security is still bipartisan i want to thank republicans on capitol hill who worked with us to get it done. by the end of this administration, we will have allocated almost all of the

money into 25 semiconductor companies including supply chain companies, and fundamentally making america stronger. reporter: for the first time tsmc has built three fabs in arizona. president trump has talked about maybe reversing the chips act. what would be the impact of that why is that a mistake? >> it would be reckless and make america less safe. we need to make ships in america as you said tmc is with american works and we have to keep it that way. >> president trump thinks whek tariffs and not subsidies he thinks it is a mistyke give to tsmc who make the chips. can it be dope with tariffs alone? >> absolutely not. by the way, for every dollar of taxpayer money that we are investing with these companies, they're investing ten dollars of their own. you know, the taxpayer money is drop in the bucket.

they'll be investing probably a half a trillion dollars of their own private sector money. so tariffs aren't enough tariffs have their place to protect american workers. this is about building in america on american soil to protect americans. >> thank you very much secretary appreciate you talking to us here at the reagan national defense forum molly we'll throw it back to you. thank you. molly: jennifer griffin our gratitude to you also to secretary ramondo. griff: we're joined by spokesperson morgan speaking to leaders there and morgan thank you for joining us. tell us you're really on the ground at the tip of the spear as they say of the great thinkers and leaders as they look to the foreign li the incoming trump administration, and the threats that they will soon face.

what -- what are your thoughts there? reporter: you know, i think there's a lot of palpable excitement about bringing america back on the world stage in terms of leading right? whaing we saw especially in this election is that the american people sense there's chaos and disorder around the world and they wanted a strong and tough leader like president trump to be able to restore order. so you know, the difference in the election is, obviously, president trump has already been president. he's already enacted policies that led to peace and abraham accords and he did rebuilding our u.s. military. and one of my key messages here at conference griff has been hard truths. i think this is what trump and his cabinet officials would do we have to talk about hard truths to the american people. we can't be everywhere and at every theater it is why you've heard the commanders say listen, we are making tradeoffs whenever it comes to our military

hardware and weaponry around the world and maybe not having enough for the pacific theater. we know while this president is going to prioritize threats to americans around the world, this president is clearly going to prioritize and most important i think he'll focus national security team on is securing our southern border stopping the flow of fentanyl into this country, that's killing young people and stopping the devastating illegal immigration problem that's really making so many communities around this country suffer i think that will be the number one priority. griff: there's no doubt i got back from the border yesterday it is front and center. but you heard secretary ramnondo talking about china and a lot about the threat of china, of course, but there's russia and iran are people saying anything to you out there about how they try and address these hard truths sort of prioritize the risk ladder if you will between

china, russia, iran? >> well the problem is that the biden administration tried to prioritize china and russia. but they did it without actually addressing the threat from the islamic republic in iran, of course, you know in the last trump administration, we pursued maximum pressure campaign. we, you know, worked very hard to make sure that iran was unable to have excess funds to sending to terrorists very terrorists that use drones to attack american warships that use drones to kill american service members for example in jordan, and so what you see is what i call this courts head of evil and supply chain of terror. you have the commerce secretary talking about supply chains, while you have a supply chain of terror, griff between iran, china, north korea and russia, who resupply each other from a military hardware perspective and for four years this administration capitulated to iran and begged to get back into a deal they empowered iran, and so unfortunately what we saw was

iranian drones and other sophisticated hardware entering the battle space of russia and ukraine and, of course, entering the battle space even against american interests in the middle east. so until you treat this, these problems holistically vegas rules don't apply in policy what happens in one theater doesn't stay in that theater you can't go after russia and iran if you're letting them act with impunity president trump will make iran broke again. [laughter] griff: you can coin that, maybe a new slogan it would have been interesting morgan to have been a fly on the wall in the palace in paris where we just saw president-elect trump meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy exactly where that is headed morgan thank you for both your service and time today. >> thanks, griff. griff: molly. molly: most serious charge against daniel penny and his subway choke hold trial has been

dismissed what the jury will consider when they return to court on monday coming up next. ♪ ♪

molly: the jury and daniel penny new york city trial will return on monday to deliberate on the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide in the death of jordan neely after jurors couldn't come to a unanimous decision on second-degree murder leading to dismissal of that charge cb cotton has been following all of this for us live in new york city with the latest on all of it. cb to you. >> welt the judge threw out the top charge that prosecutors request and judge ruled jurors would continue on the lesser charge daniel penny defense team objected in court away from jurors ears but defense attorney thomas kenneth asked the judge at that point to declare a mistrial arguing that continued deliberations would force jurors to come to a, quote,

manufactured unanimousty and on homicide penny will face up to four years in prison. but per new york state law the judge could decide to sentence hmm to no prison time at all so a lot more to watch. criminal defense attorney brian claypool says if there's a conviction penny defense team has a strong appeal. >> the judge should have asked that jury why they hung. because there's a legal justification defense for penny that's a self-defense. and if there's jury agreed that penny was entitled to self-defense, then he's off on both charges. reporter: the trial has lasted a little more than a month. stemming from the incident last year when eyewitnesses say neely was hurling threats on the subway before being placed in a choke hold by penny. neely later died and prosecutors argue penny should have known better with his military training. the defense argues their client saved others, and that prosecutions have not proven

penny restraighten was the direct cause of neely's death. family members of jordan neely say while their loved one was troubled, they say his death was unnecessary. >> on behalf of the neely family, i want to apologize to all of the people that was truly afraid for their lives on that train. jordan neely didn't have to die that day. he didn't have to be murdered that day. reporter: so deliberations pick back up monday morning, judge told jurors to go home for the weekend and not think about this case. might be easier said than done. molly. molly: just going say perhaps -- cb cotton also watching on monday thank you. griff. ♪ ♪ griff: and molly, california governor gavin newsom calling president-elect plan on goods from mexico and canada, quote, one of the biggest tax increases in u.s. history. especially effecting farmers

across the golden state, during a recent visit to the southern border on thursday, and as he says don't think for a second this won't impact you. molly. molly: for more on potential impact of tariffs let's bring in fbn contributor ceo of footware distributor retailers of america matt priest thank you for joining us on this saturday afternoon greatly appreciate it. i want to get into the specifics of footware which i think is a fascinating side bar of this but jonathon let's just start with you. newsom a democratic critic not surprising that he would come after trump's tariff plan. your thoughts on this on newsom's krittism how some are arguing that the tariff is more of a threat it is a tool that the president elect is using. >> so i'm not a fan of gavin newsom but it is a tax paid by americans. president trump is also talked about cutting a lot of taxes which would be tremendous income

over time tips, et cetera. but on the first term it was about 80 billion in tariffs and equated it to roughly 625 dollars per american household. and the proposed tariffs from president trump are much bigger than anything we've seen. basically reversing a trend towards lower tariffs since the 1930s. lots of ambitious goals, you know curtailing drugs, images, protecting american jobs, but there is a lot of business uncertainty, i mean, companies like wal-mart, doctor -- dollar tree promised higher prices tariffs get put through. molly: yeah. some great points there but let's hear from president trump himself on this very issue you brought up the drug issue as well. jonathon, take a listen. >> i spoke the other day to the president the new president of mexico very nice woman. and we had a very nice conversation but she said why are you doing this to me i said i'm not just putting a lot of tariffs because you're allowing criminals to pour into the country we can't allow that

anymore it stopped. it was so fast. it stopped -- [applause] molly: matt, your thoughts on this. that this seems to be something that president trump is saying is openly part of the pressure game. >> thanks for having me on molly at the end of the day you know tariffs are a tax on goods that come across the border. and while we support the president-elect, president-elect trump's policy goals and a lot of these different areas, is released to immigration and fentanyl those types of things we are concerned that the broad-based approach of 25% on mexico, 25% on canada, 10% on china will impact all goods across the border. we pay $4 billion a year in tariffs already and been paying them since 1930 so we're well aware of how tariffs drive up cost for american consumers. molly: yeah. and your specialty we're talking about footware we have stats on that trade partnership worldwide reporting that a price of --

athletic shoes jump up to 106 or 116 dollars. so this is just some of the estimates on something very specific. i covered the first trump administration, of course, we talked a lot about tariffs then. i covered the seafood industry out of maine they were hit by tariffs back then we did a whole story on it. so specific industries potentially could see an impact. jonathon your thoughts on what industries could potentially be the most impacted? >> footware especially as stated that's roughly 9 out of ten pairs sold in the states are made overseas and a majority of americans say they prefer to buy american. but a small minority of them say that they're willing to pay much more than 20% for the same goods or service just because they're purchased in america. so what you're seeing among companies now are basically preempghtively scrambling understand how to perhaps get exceptions to the tariffs or have to pay ultimately pass the costs on to everyday americans. molly: a few final words on the

industries and tariffs hitting that industry. >> exactly. i mean he's right it is actually 99 out of 100 pairs of shoes sold in the country are made overseas, and so we even polled trump voters themselves and almost 70% of them said they do not want additional tariffs on things like kids shoes that have upwards of a 70% tariff and so we hope that trump administration is more surgical we want to work with them as they tamp down inflation and because it is a priority for us as well. molly: matt priest jonathon thank you for your insights griff to you. griff: great conversation up next a look at the unrest beyond our borders from political turmoil to all out war. stick with us. ♪ ♪ we design and test our own tools. and sell them directly to you. no middleman. just quality tools you can trust at prices you'll love. ♪ for more than a decade

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qatar is say cysting in making a deal and things are fast moving. >> that is exactly right griff qatar prime minister saying there's fresh momentum today saying after these cease-fire talks in gaza agreement could be possible before donald trump takes office in january all eyes are on the developments speaking today at that forum. prime minister of qatar confirm his country is recommitting to mediating negotiations after taking a break and is engaging with the incoming trump administration. earlier this week donald trump issued a warning to hamas threatening there will be all hell to pay if the hostages held in gaza are not released by the time he returns to the white house. >> we have seen all from incoming administration in order to achieve a deal even before the president come to the office. >> meanwhile idf says they're

sending additional troops for defense measures and tensions rise with neighbors syria. thousands are fleeing the central syrian city where a syrian rebel commander says they have overrun neighbor villages there and rebels have a string of major cities starting with aleppo and advancing in damascus around 2,000 syrian troops they've crossed the border into iraq to seek refuge and get medical attention according to a local mayor there and in a true social post president-elect donald trump he wrote today about syria is a mess but is not our friend adding that u.s. should have nothing to do with the country's conflict and instead let it play out. and we've also been looking at the latest numbers from the u.n. they say around 280,000 syrians have been displaced in over the week and a half since they ceased aleppo and fear this could reach more than 1.5 million to definitely one to watch within the next few hours

even griff. griff: yeah great point to make, steph because what we seem to be witnessing from this syrian opposition forces is thunder run into the country capitol and that number probably going to rise. stephany bennett live covering all of that in london, steph, thanks. ♪ ♪ all right i want to attack you back to the notre dame cathedral where we see french president emmanuel macron talking now. i believe we may have some of the english translation let's try to see if we can listen in. >> that night they have to continue to work at midnight we have opened the big door. the ark wasn't there. the building continue to crumble. water --

cross that were there and pillar they were intact immaculate a few centimeters from the ark that fell down. notre dame of paris was saved. dig figured but saved by the bravery of these men in a few minutes everything could have crumbled. sadness and sadness not to have been able to see, not to ever be able to see the cathedral the same way it was before. worrying that our cathedral notre dame could never come back to the way it was. we have chosen to work to have the will to have hope and decided to rebuild notre dame of paris even more beautiful in

five years. bravery, the will, and to make this possible a brotherhood. unknown brotherhood, brotherhood of all of those who gave from all over the world all over the continents from all religions. united by hope and united in this, brotherhood of all the people -- griff: in a spectacular shot inside the historic notre dame cathedral being reopened as french president macron praises those that tried to save it five years ago when it was engulfed in flames and those that rebuilt it today and continue to monitor that and bring you more as we get it. molly. molly: yeah miraculous five years later and now a scene out of final destination plays out

on a pennsylvania freeway the chaos captured on camera when a truck loses its load. ♪ ♪

griff: imagine driving along and seeing this scary scene on a freeway in harrisburg, pennsylvania this week when a truck carrying lumber loses all of its cargo and at overpass

dash cam video capturing the moment an avalanche of boards knocks car to the shoulder. thankfully no one was hurt but the road was closed for several hours on tuesday while crews had to clean up. molly. it was great being with you. molly: it has been yes wonderful to be with you that is all for us. and amazing day in paris, up next arthel -- like your workplace benefits and retirement savings. voya helps you choose the right amounts without over or under investing. across all your benefits and savings options. so you can feel confident in your financial choices. they really know how to put two and two together. voya, well planned, well invested, well protected. have you compared your medicare plan recently? with ehealth, you can compare medicare plans side by side for free. so we invited people to give ehealth a try and discover how easy it can be to find your medicare match. this is pretty amazing.

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