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amara.l, president biden is expected to step into that role of comforter and consoler in chief on monday when he and the first lady travel to new orleans. in the aftermath of that attack that left 14 people dead and dozens more wounded. now we are waiting for more details from the white house on what exactly to expect on monday. but for now, overnight, a source familiar with the planning telling me that biden does plan to attend a vigil honoring the victims in new orleans on monday. he will deliver remarks there. and the same source tells me that that vigil will be attended by local clergy, first responders and potentially some of the victims families. now, we don't know yet whether the president intends to visit the site of this deadly attack on bourbon street, but he has pledged the full support of the federal government as this investigation continues. of course, so many unanswered questions remaining. but biden has spoken with members, family members of some of the victims. and, you know

reporter. >> good morning, amara and danny. well, after this opinion, president-elect trump is still a convicted felon. but there is certainly some good news here for him and that the judge is signaling that he does not intend to impose any penalties against trump. the judge had the option to impose even a jail sentence after trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records last year, but the judge said that he does not intend to do that. he says, quote, it seems proper at this juncture to make known the court's inclination to not impose any sentence of incarceration. so this really means that next friday's sentencing will be mostly performative. it's also notable that the judge is really conceding to the demands on trump's time right now. judge juan merchan throughout this case has been pretty dismissive of a lot of the arguments that the trump team has made when they invoke his status as a former president or now president elect. but here he says, quote, to assuage the defendant's concerns regarding the mental

amara walker. >> so it goes without saying. a lot will be going on over the next few weeks in our nation's capital. joining me now is cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem. juliette, good morning. look, we were saying a lot going on. congress meets tomorrow to certify the election results. president jimmy carter's national funeral service is going to take place on thursday at the washington national cathedral. and that's where all living presidents will be expected to attend. and then, of course, on january 20th, president elect trump will be inaugurated. so the security posture will be quite high over the next couple of weeks. what are you going to be watching for? >> so even before former president carter's death, the sort of january 6th to january 20th period was already essentially a sort of lockdown period for dc. president biden had already designated january 6th as what we call an nsrc national special security event. january 20th inauguration also is so essentially because of the insurrection four years ago, bec

amara. no. i'm not. and you know, i hate to say this, but this is a person who has absolutely no experience at the highest levels of government, and that's, you know, a telling factor, because not only does he have to run the department, and of course, he'll have a lot of assistance from his deputy secretary of defense and the different service secretaries, as well as the uniformed military. but he also has to advocate effectively for the department. and in addition to that, he has to conduct what amounts to foreign relations on the military and national security aspects of the u.s. so he's going to be challenged from the get go. it's a challenge for anybody to assume that role, and it's certainly an unenviable position, but it's even more unenviable when you have a situation where you don't have that depth of managerial and leadership experience that you really need in order to run a department. the largest in the u.s. government of this size. >> yeah. and when we talk about the size we heard, i mean, t

. >> i'm victor blackwell and i'm amara walker. you're in the cnn newsroom, right now. >> emergency crews in california have a little break in the high winds to try to get the flames under control. got a live look for you. now look at this. all the flames and the smoke there. this is mandeville canyon right now. fire officials told cnn this morning they're making progress. they're staying optimistic as they're battling at least six fires in the area of los angeles county. the palisades fire is now the most destructive to ever hit the county, and we just learned that it's now up to 11% contained. and at least 11 people have died. but authorities fear the death toll will rise once it's safe enough to really assess the damage. and that damage spans entire neighborhoods, including part of the iconic malibu coastline. many of the thousands of people forced to evacuate had mere minutes to escape the flames. >> one woman told cnn she saw the smoke and knew it was time to go. >> the flames just kept coming closer and closer to the house, a

amara, you lived in chicago as well. a snowstorm of several inches is nothing to the midwest, but in this part of the country is a major headache. and i wanted to show you what people are waking up to this morning. take a look at this street right here. it has been treated. it has been plowed, salted brine was put on it. it's in very good condition, but most people, when it comes, especially when it comes to residential streets, are going to be in a situation like the one behind me. and that what you see behind me is pretty much ice. so very treacherous conditions for drivers. this morning i was taking a look at some numbers from the georgia department of public safety. 1400 weather related calls on friday, including 269 crashes, 203 people who were requiring assistance. so that gives you an idea of the they went through also at the airport, nearly 35,400 flights that were canceled on friday. that's why governor kemp says if you don't have to go anywhere, it's a better idea to just stay home. >> i think. comfy, cozy. oh,

victor amara walker. >> steve contorno. thank you. >> two more. the president's cabinet nominees were sworn in on saturday. pete hegseth was sworn in as the secretary of defense on saturday after vice president jd vance had to cast a tie breaking vote to get him confirmed. >> kristi noem took the oath of office as homeland security secretary hours after a bipartisan senate vote this week. three of the president's more controversial picks will face senate committees. cnn's annie gray reports on what's ahead. >> well, amara and victor this week is going to be another jam packed week for senators as they seek to rapidly confirm the rest of donald trump's cabinet. rfk, who's trump's pick to lead the department of health and human services, has hearings on both wednesday and thursday in front of two different committees. tulsi gabbard will also be back on capitol hill on thursday. gabbard is trump's controversial pick to be the top the nation's top intelligence official. and then you have kash patel, who's trump's pick to lead the fbi. who is also comi

i'm amara walker.ere's what we're working on for you this morning two doors down, the house is gone. >> one door up. the house is gone. the house above me is gone. >> homeowners in los angeles county returned to the rubble left by the fires that still are raging out of control this morning. firefighters are making progress against several wildfires that have burned an area about two and a half times bigger than manhattan. we are in the fire zone with the latest. >> this is the last full week of president joe biden's administration. we're live at the white house with a look at biden's to do list in the final days of his presidency. >> and a big week on capitol hill. president elect donald trump's picks for attorney general and secretary of defense will be the first two to sit for what are expected to be controversial confirmation hearings. >> the space race between the two richest men in the world is heating up even more. we'll explain that a little later a red flag warning is back in effect through wed

danny amara walker eva mckend, thank you so much. >> really do appreciate it. and joining me now is paige alexander, ceo of the carter center. thank you so much for making some time for us this morning. ahead of, i'm sure, a very busy weekend and week for you. um, just tell me, how important is this georgia? good-bye for the carter family and just this community here. >> president and mrs. carter were very intentional about their funeral plans. and coming back to atlanta, which was truly his home away from home at the carter center, you know, and the the place where they would spend one week every month for 40 years was very important to him. so we're honored to have him lay in repose with us for a few days. >> you, of course, had a relationship with mr. carter, with the former president. um, in those meetings, i imagine, uh, what's what's your memory of him as as a man? uh, today, you know, for me, he was probably one of the most consequential presidents or the most consequential president in my lifetime. >> and to be able to have the humanitarian work that he

. >> and i'm amara walker. tiktok is now dark for 170 million users in the u.s., and the israel-hamas ceasefire is now in effect after an hours long delay. cnn anchor and chief national security analyst jim sciutto is following that for us from tel aviv. jim. >> after 470 days of suffering for the hostage families suffering, of course, for the people of gaza, so many thousands killed there, a moment of relief today after, as you say, a brief delay, that hostage release and ceasefire deal the very first day of the first phase of it is now underway, and we have the names of the first three israeli hostages to be released. we'll bring you all that and more this hour. >> all right, jim, we'll get back to you in just a moment. tiktok officially gone dark. the app and others owned by bytedance went offline late saturday night, two hours before the ban was slated to take effect. >> so if you try to open tiktok this morning, you will see this message if you haven't already. sorry, tiktok isn't available right now. a la

i'm victor blackwell and i'm amara walker. >> it's great to have you with us this morning. well, tiktok says it will be forced to go dark sometime on sunday. the company says it will turn off access to its extremely popular social media app that boasts more than 170 million american users. that is, unless the biden administration intervenes. now, the company made the announcement hours after the supreme court upheld the controversial law. it requires tiktok to divest from its parent company, bytedance, or face being banned in the u.s. >> president biden has made it clear that he would leave the enforcement of the ban to incoming president elect trump, who will become the president the day after the ban takes effect. trump has suggested that he would not enforce the ban and would work out a deal to sell tiktok. president-elect trump has been in close contact with tiktok ceo, even inviting him to his inauguration on monday. we're covering all the angles of this with cnn's betsy klein, who is outside the white house. cnn's mark stuart, who is live in beijing this morning. bets

amara, i'll start with you.ean, we've heard the phrase dei, and it's truly remarkable how republicans, and certainly trump, have recast and rebranded and rewrote what dei means. they have associated with woke, whatever that means. and now they've completely managed to erase it from aspects of our life and our government. >> well. >> i think that what's really important. >> here is. the fact. >> that why is dei a thing? why was it created. >> in the first place? >> and it's because we. >> know that the. >> laws on the books. against discrimination. >> on race or on gender or. >> on. disability are not enough. >> that you have. >> to match. >> those things. with action. >> thinking about recruitment, thinking about making workplaces safe, thinking about how you talk about your products. >> and roll them out. >> in the world are complete institutional culture. and we. essentially had. >> dei as a. >> focus in the united. states for. >> four years. >> out of. >> almost 250. >> and those four. >> years, just the. >>

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amara, two of those things.one of them, the looters situation, people have been arrested for that. there were people that even two of those arrests, people that had been pretending to be firefighters to get into these neighborhoods. we heard from authorities that those people will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, that they will be taking these charges very seriously, but also, look, the misinformation aspect has been a difficulty for the city and the county to counter as their own alert system had a big error that sent alerts to people all over the city that did not need to evacuate. they're saying they are investigating that and that they're urging people to listen to those evacuation orders, that they are correct, and to check that website you mentioned to make sure that they are looking at official information for what are exactly those evacuation areas and not to rely on other posts on social media. >> good information there. julia vargas jones. thanks so much. and tonight there's a special ho

i'm victor blackwell and i'm amara walker. >> tiktok is now dark for 170 million users in the u.s., and the israel-hamas ceasefire is now in effect after a three hour delay. cnn anchor and chief national security analyst jim sciutto has been following this story for us from tel aviv. jim. >> that's right. and we were just under two hours. now from a key point in this agreement. that is when the first israeli hostages, or at least the earliest, the first israeli hostages, will be released, three of them. and we're also going to see in the same period of time, dozens of palestinian prisoners released from israeli prisons in the west bank. it's a tense moment here, but a moment of some hope after so much suffering. >> all right, jim, we'll see you in a bit. tiktok also has officially gone dark. that app and others owned by bytedance went offline late saturday night, just two hours before the ban was slated to take effect. >> so if you try to open tiktok this morning, you'll see this message sorry. tiktok isn't avai a law banning tiktok has been enacted in the u.s. unfortunately, that means

i'm amara walker. we are following several developing stories this morning. and we begin with breaking news out of the middle east. >> four israeli female hostages are now back in israel at a military base. >> the four women are israeli soldiers. hamas held captive for 15 months before the cease and hostage deal brought about their release. the women were surrounded by both hamas and islamic jihad fighters. they were then turned over to the red cross in palestine square in gaza city in the west bank. people there are waiting for the release of 200 palestinian prisoners who are part of this exchange. in phase one of this agreement, and idf spokesman daniel hagari had this to say earlier this morning. >> hamas failed to meet its obligations to first release israeli female civilian hostages as part of the agreement. we are determined to return to the return of arbel yehud and israeli citizen kidnaped from near us and also shiri bivas and her two children, kfir and ariel, whose welfare we are extremely concerned about. >> cnn's jerusalem correspondent jeremy diam

the end of the month i'm amara walker. everyone, thank you so much for being with us. here's what we're working on for you this morning. >> this week alone, i took nearly 350 executive actions to reverse. the horrible failures and betrayals that we inherited from a group of people that didn't know what the hell they were doing. >> president donald trump taking a victory lap in las vegas while bashing the biden administration. what he told hundreds of supporters about ending taxes on tips and sweeping executive orders to reshape the government. >> the israel-hamas ceasefire and hostage release enters its second week today. ahead, we're live with president trump's new controversial comments about the future of gaza after the war. >> and it's a race against rain in los angeles county. cnn is there as crews try to protect homes in the burn zones from catastrophic mudslides. >> plus, this morning, we're going in-depth on a groundbreaking new study linking adhd to shorter life expectancy. we'll talk live with one of the study's authors, president trump begins his first full

amara abu samir walks through his neighborhood, a place he says residents no longer recognize. he asks about the day after. let's say, a truce happens, he says, and the residents of this area return. where do they go? is this area fit for humans to live in? with 90% of the population displaced, the dream of going home is prevalent even when they know their home is likely just rubble. a mohammed abu ubayd knows her house is unlikely to have survived in the largely leveled city of rafah in the south daniel hagari. i swear when the ceasefire comes, she says, i will celebrate and rejoice and i will not sleep all night. we hope that this cloud of despair finally lifts. hope and despair go hand in hand in gaza. paula hancocks, cnn, abu dhabi. jeremy fraga rahel solomon for more perspective on the reality on the ground in gaza. >> we do want to go to juliette touma. she's the director of communications for the u.n. agency for palestine. palestine refugees. she's joining us from amman, jordan. juliette, thank you very much for for taking time to to check in with us. >> thanks for havin

joining me right now is becky amara walker, the chief safety and operations officer with the missouri department of transportation. great to see you. i'm glad you're inside where it's warm for now, but oh, my gosh, those conditions outside are tough. and you are a city that's accustomed to some intense winter weather. but are you approaching this one any differently? >> we're used to some intense weather. this one is one that only comes around about once every decade. so just the intensity of the storm, coupled with the the change and the switch from freezing rain to sleet to snow, it's it's one for the books for sure. >> well, at least in that shot that we saw, we don't see a lot of road traffic. and even in these other images just a few cars here and there. i imagine you're asking people, you know, except for extenuating circumstances, to just simply stay off the roads. >> absolutely. and that really is the key component with the severity of this storm. things should not be going this well, but we put out some really strong messaging, along with the missouri national guard, the high

i'm amara walker we've got a lot going on. here's what we're working on for you. >> it's going away. january 19th and i'm so pumped about it. >> time is running out for tiktok. barring a last minute hail mary this time tomorrow. one of the most popular apps used by 170 million americans could go dark. we're going to go in depth on it all straight ahead and a critical cease fire and hostage release between israel and hamas is just more than 19 hours away from going into effect. >> live report from israel just ahead and bone chilling temperatures are forcing monday's presidential inauguration indoors for the first time in 40 years. >> we're going to go inside the last minute security scramble. >> plus a back to school day unlike any other in california. how the youngest survivors of the palisades fire are trying to return to some semblance of normalcy after the deadly and devastating fire. all right. tiktok says it will be forced to go dark sometime on sunday. the company says it will turn off access to its extremely popular soc

amara walker mr. norman is recorded as jordan house will be in order. >> mr. norman johnson. >> okay. now go to mr. sa'ar. report. >> mr. self is recorded as donald's johnson. mr. self johnson. >> all right. so there we go. so congressman mike johnson is now officially speaker mike johnson. there were two no votes two votes for other house republicans ralph norman voted for tom emmer. and keith self voted for byron donalds. and keith self, who is about to start, i think his sophomore term. and norman have now officially changed their votes after this, after some negotiation, presumably. so i stand corrected. you were correct. speaker johnson did win on the first ballot. barely, barely, barely. >> but it barely matter. a win's a win. a w is a w, and this was this is tough. and what we saw is the last vote was was voiced around 1:40 p.m. here we are 50 minutes later with a lot of back back room negotiating to get the final deal done. >> yes. no. i mean, compared to what we saw with speaker mccarthy, this is a this is a landslide victory. 218 to 215 what's done i

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i was seeing amara, who was the chief of staff at the battle of ayacucho originally from cusco, who had enrolled in 1809 in these armies, organized in the southern provinces of peru and who only decided to change for side of independence in as late as 1829. so in 21, when son martin was already in peru. so just to give you this idea of a very and intense warfare we remember in peru the proclamation independence of 1821 the 28th of july. and many people have recently asked me why if we celebrated the bicentennial and the 28th of july 18, 21, are we celebrating? because what happened was? a son, martin, who came through southern andes, through chile through the pacific ocean, into believed very strongly that by taking the capital city, he would take the w of the royalty. but that was not the fact what happened was theplhad defended the king moved further south established the new vice regal capital in cusco and continued to maintain a whole region of peru loyal to the king. so this is why even though this is a very emblematic moment of it is not really the moment that we're commemorating

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