gabriel elizondo was in new york where the lawsuit against prince andrew is under way. it appears this is going to a trial, and the trial would be towards the end of this year, assuming -- and this is a big assumption -- that prince andrew, in his words, decided not to settle out of court. that could be a very real possibility, but assuming that does not happen, it is very much now going down the legal process to a trial at the end of this year here in federal court in new york. a couple of questions you ask yourself -- does prince andrew have diplomatic immunity? the answer to that by most legal analysts is no. only the queen and her immediate household have diplomatic immunity. he does not fall under that category. but will he be present at the trial in new york? the answer to that is also no. highly unlikely. that is because this is a civil case right now and not a criminal case, and in civil cases, courts cannot ask for the u.k. to extradite someone to the u.s. for a civil case such as this. if it was criminal, that is different, but this is civil, so it is highly u

earlier al jazeera is gabriel elizondo sent us this update from new york city about 55000000 americans that are in the eye of this storm. that's coming to the northeast of the u. s. right now we're in the heart of new york city times square, and you can kind of get a sense here of how cold it is and how much snow there is here. there are normally be more people out on the streets right now in the morning, but not on a day like this. it's so cold. take a look at this. really just pan down this way a little bit. give you an idea of how the visibility is not that good, you can only see about, oh, i don't know, 2 or 3 blocks down this street here. you know, as president joe biden says, he'll send troops to eastern europe soon to bolster nato forces and intentions. over ukraine, top defense officials urging russia to de escalate ruling parties in italy have asked the current president sergio matter ela to carry on for a 2nd term. politicians have spent the past week voting to find an alternative, but they failed. the u. s. navy is racing to salvage and advance fighter jet from the bottom of

let's get more now from gabriel. elizondo. he joseph fly from new york. a game is pretty extraordinary . the scenario bed are we really going to see britain's prince andrew in court? well, these are uncharted territory if you will, because it's not that often you see a british royal, sued in us court. so there's a lot of uncertainty to how this moves forward. although we can tell you this, that it does look like, based on this latest ruling by this judge, that this case will go to trial. that's how it's looking right now. a say when will that trial happen? probably not until very late this year at the earliest. and that's because the judge has already set a date of july 14th for lawyers to start exchanging documents. and the discovery process, if you will, that's for july. so you're looking at, you can get a sense of how many months away we are from a potential trial, but that pretend that trial does seem like it looks like it probably will be happening now because of this judge's ruling. then you say, well, will prince andrew then to expect him in court

one of the most popular places to ring in the new year is in times square in new york. gabriel elizondo is there, and it seems as though the people in new york have been making do the best to try to make the celebrations. go with a swing, but of course new york is still facing a lot of problems when it comes to overt that's right. we saw a lot of what we've seen every year with the typical new year's eve celebration here in time square. the pol, dropping that down the count down the confetti when the clock struck 2022 people hugging and kissing each other. those were the scenes that we saw that we are accustomed to over the years that we saw this evening as well. what was different, though, not as many people were here, and that's because of the spread of the corona virus search. here in new york, they were expected to have 60 to 70000 people here. they scaled it back to only 15000. everyone had their show proof of vaccination mostly where a mask as well. and this was all because of the spread of corona virus here in new york city. new york has become the u. s. epis center of the pandem

he denies all the allegations. gabriel elizondo is following this story and joins us live now from new york. does this make the possibility of a trial more likely than it certainly does, without a doubt. i mean, prince andrew and his lawyers also wanted this trial to go away. they wanted this whole accusations to go away, and in fact, they argued as much to the judge just a couple weeks ago saying that this should be entirely dropped. the judge heard that a couple weeks ago and ruled against prince andrew and his lawyer saying no, this case, this civil case could go forward. and now it is 2 weeks later we're hearing in this 11 page document submitted to the judge by prince andrew and his lawyers basically saying, well, if this can go away, then we want to go to trial. and we want to confront the accuser. in this case, virginia go free, that is what the lawyers are saying. now for prince andrew, this could potentially set up a very dramatic trial later this year. here in new york, in federal court, there is still a chance, of course, that this could be settled out of court. there's a ch

joe biden says, other agent bridges and highways across the country need massive investment. gabriel elizondo has the story. a snow covered bridge buckles and collapses on friday morning and pittsburgh. several cars and buses were on the bridge at the time when people suffered minor injuries in an ironic twist. just hours later president joe biden comes to see it 1st hand. he's on his way to deliver a speech nearby. remarkably about america's crumbling infrastructure. i've been saying for years, you have to do something about this. i've talked about it every time i've come to pittsburgh, and we finally got it done. a bipartisan infrastructure law, including the largest investment in our nations bridges sense the. it says steve eisenhower put together the interstate highway system. eye witnesses say the bridge collapse. could have been a lot worse if this had happened. 15 to 20 minutes later, you would have had lessons with school kids on it, buses with workers. so the timing of this in terms of happening, what if it was very fortuitous. the bridge was built nearly a half century ago, like doz

sexually assaulted by the prince 20 years ago when she was 17 years old, he denies the allegations. gabriel elizondo has a late us from new york. potentially could go to trial. when would that be? it's anybody's guess at this point, but probably later in the year. not necessarily immediately. would prince andrew have to be present at this trial in new york? not necessarily again because it's just a civil and not criminal case. he would not necessarily physically need to be present, although this is all still details to be worked out in the future. could this is our chance this does not go to trial. the answer to that is yes as well. it's not guaranteed at this point. there's certainly still a chance that this could be settled out of court. so that is also another possibility. moving forward in the 11 page filing by prince andrew's lawyers, he does admit that he did 1st meet prince did 1st meet jeffrey epstein in 1999. that's about a year before the allegations of sexual abuse against prince andrew came are are, are between $22002.00. but beyond that, he denies being a co conspirator to a jeffrey eps

but many thanks. indeed, gabriel elizondo that braving the elements in new york city. thanks. cape theorist navy is racing to salvage and advanced fighter jet from the bottom of the south china sea. the plains highly classified technology would be a crew for china if it found the aircraft 1st. the f 35 c crashed on monday as it tried to land of an aircraft carrier. it's the 3rd time that an f $35.00 is had to be retrieved from the ocean in november, a british f, $35.00 beat the short take off from vertical landing version crashed as at last, paula taking off from an aircraft carrier in the mediterranean. and in 2019 a japanese f 35 a. the conventional take off landing version crashed over the pacific, killing the pilots. and leaving only day bree to be recovered, lawrence colby's a retired u. s. navy captain of the full, the assistant secretary of defense. he says the jet was rushed into production before it was ready. he had put all our eggs in this one basket. we stop producing the f 15, the f 16. and we wanted to have one plane for all of the services. and when it r

more than $120000.00 homes without power and more outages are expected. gabriel elizondo reports from new york. it was by far the biggest snow storm of the winter in new jersey and pennsylvania. the snow hit hard and fast, and local officials urged people to stay home and be ready for anything were prepared. we've got plenty of food and we'll just hunker in. in boston, the storm was being compared to a historic wizard. 44 years ago that left the city buried in 60 centimeters of snow . this storm seemingly packed close to the same punch. it wasn't quite as bad in new york, but the city didn't escape unscathed. the snow left every one and their dogs shivering. what is your name? little guy? this is basil. basil you're shaking. are you cold? oh, my gosh. call for the tourists in times square who braved the minus 10 degrees celsius conditions. it was something to behold. i've never knew where the snow is actually. well, like american dream winter, well, i think it's awful, but it's nice while the snow is beautiful and it can be fun to play in, it also can cause problems and be quite dange