david: no, it's for you. when you were a graduate student here, did you get this kind of reception? tim: i don't recall. [laughter] david: so, you've now been the ceo of apple since about july of 2011. the earnings are up about 80%. so, have you ever thought you can't do better than this and maybe you should just say, "well, "i've done a great job and now i'm gonna do something else with my life"? tim: we view the stock price and revenues and profits as a result of doing things right on the innovation side, on the creativity side, focusing on the right products, treating customers like they're jewels, and focusing on the user experience. and so, that's what we put our energies on, and we believe, we have the faith, that if we do those well, then the other things willollow. i didn't even know the numbers that you just quoted. this is not something that i-- that's not even in my orbit, to be honest with you. david: so, when you announce your quarterly earnings, analysts always say, "well, they dn't sell as much

david: abu dhabi and u.a.e.s part of the gulf cooperation council which a number of countries have a fair amount of oil including sought retain, oman, kuwait, can tar and bahrain. are the other accountants jealous saying don't bring the tourists to your country because we want some. do at the ever mention this to you 1234 mr. al mubarak: on the contrary we have heard the outside press talk about competitiveness but the fracture is we all are complementary. similar to what we see in places like the u.s. or europe because of the ice size of the u.s. but people fly to u.s. they want it go to new york, chicago, los angeles, same in europe. it is paris, london, rome, milan. when it comes to this region it is widely connected and it is in close proximity so the tourists in reality will go it dubai, abu dhabi, riyadh. doha. so we complement each other. david: let's talk about another side of your life which is building hotels or refurbishing hotels or apartment buildings, residential and so not. this area has grown so

david: what is the population of abu dhabi? mohamed: so, the population of uae is slightly over 11 million people. david: and abu dhabi is a fraction of that? mohamed: a little over 3.5 million people. david: your position is to make sure that people come here and understand what the attractions are, but you are building a lot of things. how long have you been in this position? mohamed: 20 years. and at the department of culture and tourism, close to 20 years. -- close to 10 years. i am very humbled and lucky to be working for a government that has visionary ideas. their vision of investing and culture, and cultural institutions, have been set forth since the inception of this country. the idea of basically enhancing it with entertainment projects, projects that are theme parks, public parks, beaches, etc. it has always continuously evolved. david: for those not familiar with abu dhabi, when did it become, as part of the uae, an independent country? mohamed: 1971, but dates back thousands of years. the late founder of the count

david: so you joined? dr. hayden: the chicago public library. david: you rose up to be? dr.ayden: the chief librarian. i also did a stint at the museum of science and industry. that was really helpful because i worked more with the curators but also opening up a public library in a museum. david: here in chicago and you met two people, did they borrow a lot of books, barack and michelle obama? do they have overdue fines? dr. hayden: we could never tell if they did that what happened when i went back, the person that was the administrator for the city of chicago that had in her portfolio the public library was michelle robinson. i got to know her because she was responsible, a deputy mayor type of situation. then she got engaged to this gentleman who had an interesting name and i was recruited to head up the baltimore library. that july, i missed the wedding. david: whatever happened to him? dr. hayden: he did well. it was so interesting, years later i would be sitting almost like this in the oval office being interviewed by the president of the united states because that is

and not only his involvement but david knight's, too. he said david had hired him to kill carmela.ife gone. graham did say there was a lot of planning. andrea canning (voiceover): graham told them on the day of the murder, david went to fill up gas cans to be used to set the fire. he said david later took him to the house and let him in. he then hid in the bathroom, waiting for carmela to come home. she came in through the garage, and he attacked her from behind, and she fought for her life. they raced around the kitchen island. he finally got her down on the ground and strangled her. andrea canning (voiceover): he said he tried to make it look like carmela had overdosed. he placed the tourniquet on carmela's body and tried to inject her with cocaine, left the syringe in the-- in her arm. and then what happened next? then he dragged her to the garage and put her facedown in the garage. and he waited. he waited for darkness so that he could light the fire. this was all about money for graham? well, he was promised $100,000 from david knight and a life in florida. andrea canning (voi

david: what did you study? mohamed: i studied political science. david: you didn't study museums.ohamed: i was always infatuated with museums. david: when you went to college in boston and told people you were from abu dhabi, what did they say? did they know where it was? mohamed: i was lucky, you know? i went to a university and a place where you had international university kids from all around the world. so, they knew where uae, abu dhabi was. they did not have a lot of information about it. the funny thing right now is, every single student i went to school with has come to abu dhabi. and when they have come down here they have called me and said, remember i was with you freshman year, sophomore year? i have said, yes. they say, we have come here, and it is amazing. david: do they ask for free tickets to the louvre? mohamed: sometimes they do. i do not give my professors free tickets, but the students i do. david: if i was going to say to you i am going to leave the country in an hour, i have an hour to visit something, what should i visit in my one hour? mohamed: due to our i

murphy: david swain answers the tough questions. david swain: i don't know what happened. i wasn't there. murphy: give them a theory. david swain: i don't have a theory. murphy: it's a decadelong story that began here in coastal rhode island, far from those beautiful waters of the caribbean. it was the early '90s when david and shelley met. he was the dive instructor and she was the customer on a boat out in narragansett bay. mr. swain: it was a rocky day and a little bumpy. david swain: a couple of the big tough guys got seasick, so i paired up with her and went back in. murphy: so she had some spunk, huh? david swain: oh, she had a lot of spunk. and i was showing her fish in a way that she had never seen them before. so that's what got things started. murphy: shelley tyre, was a bundle of energy, a five-foot-nothing-tall teacher and school administrator. she was as vivacious as he was quiet. and when they started dating, david was only too happy to show shelley the waters where he pursued his life's passion, teaching scuba and kayaking through his dive shop in jamestown,

david: so you already knew him.'s talk about baltimore, you went to my hometown of baltimore where the library system is called the enoch pratt free library system. and you became the head librarian of the system for 22 years. then, the president of the united states has the responsibility to nominate for senate confirmation the librarian of congress. why don't members of congress would nominate the librarian of congress since it's a congress thing? dr. hayden: i believe that started with lincoln and it would be a position that the president would nominate similar to a supreme court justice, it was that type of position. you still have to be confirmed by the senate and i went through that process. david: you interviewed with president obama and he said do you want to be librarian of congress, and i guess you said you were interested. dr. hayden: i was concerned about what i could bring to the position because i had been so involved with public libraries, public access, all of that, but i never thought of actually be

david was alive and well.t want him to know there was a threat against his life. not yet, anyway. they had more work to do. and they were concerned that notification to the metter family would have, at some point, got back to christy metter, and the case would have been concluded prematurely. andrea canning (voiceover): so they didn't say a word and kept an eye on david. it was very important for us to get the information and, at the right time, make contact with him. andrea canning (voiceover): before they launched their sting, detectives felt there was still one thing they had to do-- replace pat sabo as the hitman. police wanted one of their own on the inside, working undercover. and who was the hitman going to be, the new hitman? me. that would be me. so detective and playing the role of hitman. yes. andrea canning (voiceover): detective bowersock would play the role of vincent, a hitman with mob affiliations. it's like a movie script. it is a movie script. everything, everything has to be laid out. you kn

david: yeah. well, that's the point, i have never seen -- you've got a lot of experience in the federal government. i've never seen a case where foreign policy has been arranged before a person has actually been inaugurated as president. have you? >> look, we're not waiting. i've already been to the border several times, met with governor abbott, i met with the national sheriffs' association, what they can do for us. i've talked to the foreign minister of canada, and i've been out to arizona talking to the of sheriffs out there. so we're not waiting for january 20th. we're going to try to secure the border as quick as we can, and we've already started working on those plans. david: now, you may have gotten the attention of our neighbors north and south, but you still haven't gotten the full attention of a lot of the sanctuary cities and states in the united states. we just had a recent example of it with the bronx -- excuse me, the brooklyn d.a. not dealing with the detaining order from i.c.e. for

david? >> david: erielle reshef tonight. erielle, thank you. >>> tonight, president-elect donald trump named "time magazine's" person of the year, ringing the opening bell at the new york stock exchange. and tonight, what the president-elect is now saying about whether he'll be able to lower prices. what he says in that "time" magazine interview. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: tonight, president-elect donald trump basking in the glow on wall street, ringing the bell at the new york stock exchange for the first time. >> usa! usa! >> reporter: surrounded by his wife, daughters, vice president-elect jd vance, and a host of his cabinet picks, trump celebrating being named "time" magazine's person of the year, a recognition he's long cherished. >> it's been an honor, and every time, it's an honor, i will tell you. and thank you very much for doing it. >> reporter: on wall street, trump pledging his commitment to main street, promising to deliver on his campaign promise to bring down prices fast. >> prices are going to start comi

david: who comes up with these names? dave: not me, david. we cannot have names that are similar to each other because cracks ares make prescribing doctor --doctors make prescribing errors. we cannot have names that only work in english so we have the strange sounding names. david: a number of years ago you could tell us that somebody was working on a diabetes-related drug, and that drug got to be approved by the fda, but somebody discovered it actually helps you reduce weight. when was that discovered? was that ever the intention the drug was being developed? dave: pretty early on. we launched the medication in 2005. it was a twice-daily injection and it was indicated for people the diabetes. like a lot of things in medicine, there is iterative steps of improvement, but that was the first effort. on the cover of the animal report was a woman using the drug and she said "my diabetes is under control and i'm losing a little weight." 2006, the cover of rhino will report. but we had to improve the medicines to make them effective for weight loss

david: what about americans? mohamed: absolutely, we've seen double digit growth the last few years with american tourists. david: i was chairman of the cecconi and a number of years and very often when we have a popular attraction, tickets were free but they wanted access, do you get that kind of request? mohamed: the fact of the matter is these are institutional -- educational institutions. all students are going for free, anyone over 60 goes for free. and then anybody doing research gets heavily subsidized aspect of the ticket and they get to enter research labs. educational and community facilities. david: do private equity people go for free? ♪ david: as we talk there is a fair amount of turmoil in parts of the middle east obviously. one about this part of the middle east? is it affected by what's going on in israel and gaza and syria and lebanon or not so much? mohamed: first and foremost one thing we all as human beings look for is peace and harmony. nobody wants to see devastation happening anywhere aroun

david: yeah.s why jack smith didn't charge him with that. it's as simple -- julian, these are finish. >> exactly, and -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] if he's not guilty of this. david: i would use the phrase if this wasn't a family-friendly show, but they are smart-a lawyers. they think they're the smartest in the class. they were head of the law review at yale, i think one of them, the other was at -- i mean, this is supposedly the future of the legal department of the democratic party. i don't see them turning around. however, there was -- i have to mention something that happened on cnn, and i'm going to roll the tape on this. a cnn analyst are talking about how joe biden's presidency will be remembered. roll that. >> it's a couple weeks before the election i had a conversation with a senior person in the white house, and i said if harris loses, most of the way that bind's going to be remembered at least in the short term is the guy who was just in between the trump terms. david: the g

david? reporter: well hey, david good to be with you. former president and president-elect donald trump and president joe biden will be with each other in washington d.c. at former president carter, the late president jimmy cartedder's funeral here on january 9 announced to be inside the washington cathedral. meanwhile, president biden in his last days in office wanted to surface donald trump in judicial confirmations in four years and he did it by just one judge. 235 federal judges confirmed in four years under biden compared to 234 confirmed under trump. now, democrats, david, cut a deal with republicans several weeks ago that allowed them to move on more district court judges in return, republicans can fill the slots of four circuit court judges, which is one level higher on the legal ladder from the supreme court, down from the supreme court. republicans were quick to pushback on another legal move though by president biden, david, and his team. one far more controversial. two days before christmas, president biden commuted the sente

david? >> david: all right, stephanie ramos.eas tonight, and to the stunning new images just now emerging from russia. ukraine assassinating a top russian general inside moscow. he was the general in charge of protecting russia's biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. tonight here, the dash cam video showing the general and an aide leaving his apartment building. we have frozen the video just before the explosion. those explosives hidden on a scooter at the door of the building. tonight, ukraine says that general was a war criminal, and what russia is now saying. here's our chief foreign correspondent ian pannell. >> reporter: dramatic dash cam video tonight showing the moment a bomb hidden in the handlebars of a scooter explodes. an audacious attack killing a top russian general in the heart of moscow. the scooter seen leaning up against a wall as general igor kirillov and an aide walk out of his apartment building. the forces of the remotely detonated blast hurling the bodies of both men, blowing out windows, damaging the

david: david ursino know a little bit about panama. the fact is president is saying no, no, it's ours it will be forever but i love that american flag that donald trump put on his posting and can we show that again? in the canal, he has an american flag and what is it basically say, like it or not, here it is. this is the american property. >> he is a real estate guy and i can't find where france paid us back the 40 million, so maybe put a lien on the canal. i agree with rich's point. this is a negotiation starter. there's another issue down there, the darian gap and if you want to negotiate with molino and in panama you need some leverage and use all available tools. david: but the biggest issue that goes unstated is china. china has been bribing the hell out of panama officials for years. >> don't think twice about that too. david: exactly. we don't want china to get a hold of our canal that we built. >> there you go. david: at any rate, great stuff. >> nationalist ic, david. charles: rich lowry, david webb, merry christmas to you. >

david: the only one.: in my particular year, there was a protest vote where five people did not turn in a ballot in that particular year, as a protest to the steroid era. so, they counted against you. david: did anybody ever come to you and say, look, you are good, but you could be better if you take some of these drugs? cal: no. looking back on it, you could probably see signs in hindsight, that players who might have used. when you are playing, if you are not in that secret society, you don't know. and i didn't know. david: so, some players, they were, like, 180 pounds, and then later they are 250 pounds. you didn't suspect maybe they were doing something unusual? cal: yes. [laughter] david: you are 6'4". and traditionally shortstops were more my height. and when you came along, people didn't want people like me to be shortstops anymore. so, did you change the game of baseball by saying, shortstops should be big and better hitters? or is everybody going back to the old mode of, big, fast, and good baseb

david? >> david: aaron, thank you. >>> we're also following the state of emergency in california at this hour, after a major earthquake struck off the coast of northern california. this is the moment the magnitude seven earthquake struck, shaking this home near the epicenter. the most powerful quake in that region in more than 30 years. wine bottles knocked off shelves at a nearby inn. a rare tsunami warning for a time. has evacuations on highway 1. people moving away from the coast. the quake centered off the coast of ferndale, california, near the oregon border. but felt in san francisco, 270 miles away. and tonight here, the obvious concerns, whether there could be more coming. abc's melissa adan in california tonight. >> reporter: tonight, chaos on the west coast. a powerful magnitude seven earthquake rocking northern california, sparking a rare tsunami warning and mass evacua evacuations. >> a magnitude 7.0 is a major earthquake. >> reporter: watch the moment the quake violently shakes

david? >> david: aaron katersky leading us off, thank you. aaron is part of the reporting team on a "20/20" special right here, "manhunt: luigi mangione and the ceo murder," a special edition of "20/20," tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight right here later on abc. >>> in the meantime, the other breaking story at this hour from capitol hill and the question, will there be a government shutdown affecting so many americans just before christmas? after pressure from elon musk and president-elect donald trump on republicans not to support a bipartisan deal. now the new vote tonight with their demands. will it pass? mary bruce with late reporting from the hill tonight. >> reporter: tonight, 24 hours after billionaire elon musk and president-elect donald trump blew up a bipartisan plan to avoid a government shutdown, musk threatening any lawmaker who backed it deserves to be voted out, house republicans say they would come up with a new plan. >> we have agreement. >> reporter: hours later that plan

david? >> david: aaron katersky leading us off here tonight, aaron, thank you. >>> and aaron is just part of the team that will have a special edition of "20/20" on thursday night on this case. it's thursday night, 10:00 p.m. eastern, right here on abc. >>> in the meantime, we turn now to the other developing story at this hour, and what authorities are now saying about motive in the deadly school shooting, 24 hours ago in madison, wisconsin. tonight here, the image of the suspect. police say the shooter was a 15-year-old student, natalie rupnow, they also call her samantha, her friends. abc's alex perez reporting again from madison. >> reporter: tonight, police trying to find out what drove 15-year-old natalie rup in now, seen here in a recent photo, smiling and hugging a dog, to bring a gun to the abundant life school monday morning and kill a teacher and a fellow student. >> at this time, it appears that the motive was a combination of factors. >> reporter: police say rupnow, who also wen

david? >> david: yeah, they say he was waiting there with a silencer on that gun. aaron katersky tonight. aaron, thank you. >>> in the meantime, we move to the fast-moving new storm, a clipper system from canada with dangerous winds and snow. alerts for 100 million americans tonight, across the great lakes and right into the northeast. in fact, new york city, philadelphia, and washington, d.c. all bracing for dangerous winds, too. lee goldberg has the forecast. trevor ault with the images already tonight. >> reporter: tonight, deteriorating conditions across the upper midwest as a powerful, fast-moving system packing wind and snow heads east. bringing whiteout conditions to fargo, north dakota. this time lapse showing a snow squall sweeping across i-94 in warrens, wisconsin. the new system comes on the heels of multiple days of snow that dumped more than five feet in parts of new york and caused chaos on the roads. >> hope no one -- watch out. >> reporter: new video showing a close call for

how'd david take it? he was kind of like, ok, let's just find somebody, some lawyers, and, you know, see what we have to do. and that was it. keith morrison: the two divorced in 1985. david arranged weekend visits with john. how were they together? judy carlson: oh, wonderful. johnny just clung to him. they loved each other. keith morrison: they all moved on. a couple of years later, barbara married again. michael wolfe, an ex-military man like her dad. about the same age as her dad too. your dad and your new husband probably saw eye to eye a lot. they sure did. they had a lot in common. they would talk a lot. keith morrison: wolfe took barbara and john to live with him in arizona. but david wanted to be a part of his son's life, so he traveled out west to see the boy. he went up there with a friend of his and he saw johnny for three days. i got pictures of johnny in, like, an old western town and everything. keith morrison: and maybe it was something about the distance, said barbara. david and i became v

david: you should try miniature golf, that is what i do. david: you kind of get bored. how can i do that? i look at it as a second chance for a career opportunity. i wanted to learn business, and it was a comfortable business model, and that was kind of fun. at first it felt like i spotted everybody else 20 years ahead of me. i am 41 but i seem like i am 21 in the business world. and then you learn that a lot of the things you learned along the way in baseball don't apply. your work ethic, how you go about doing preparation, that kind of stuff. that all applies to what you are doing now. david: now that you are an owner of the baltimore orioles, how do you feel about these high-priced contracts that the players are getting? how do you look at that, differently? cal: slightly. i try to think about what are the other intangible value that you could offer a player besides the dollars? you can make the case that you are saying how much? but it is about ego, breaking the bank, agents wanting to continue to make it go up. but if you take -- my situation was i wanted to play i

david: this is my kitchen table and also my filing system. over much of the past three decades i've been an investor. the highest calling of mankind i've often thought was private equity. and then i started interviewing. i watch her interview so i know how to do some interviews. i've learned from doing my interviews how leaders make it to the top. jeff: i asked how much you wanted, he said 250, i did not negotiate and did no due diligence. david: i have something i like to sell. and how they stay there. you don't feel inadequate being only the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right? one of the greatest baseball players ever is cal ripken. he set a record for playing in 2600 32 consecutive games over 17 years. he was an all-star 19 times, member of a hall of fame, twice most valuable player in american league and once the world series champions. i had a chance to sit down with cal ripken recently talking about his current life working for it seemed that he made very famous. so, it was said in baseball that the unbreakable record was

david: i have something i would like to sell. you don't feel inadequate being only the second richest man, right? the library of congress is the largest library in the world, led by carla hayden, the librarian of congress, unique because she's the first woman to to be librarian of congress, they first african-american to be librarian of congress and one of the first librarians to be librarian of congress. i sat down with her recently to hear about how she's trying to open up the library of congress to all americans. why does congress need a library? can't they use the regular library other people have? why do they neither on library? dr. hayden: congress, think about this, in 1800, a new nation, a new legislative body, there was the thought they needed some reference books and they were mainly law books, the first books purchased, about 600 books. that's how the library of congress really started. think of the name, the library of congress. it is a reference and research tool for congress, and they knew that. they have parliament

david: in the u.s.'s a big concern about immigration into the country and it is a political issue. here you have a lot of immigrants coming in. more immigrants live here than people from the native part, i assume. is that a concern or not a problem? mohamed: not a problem. we are still in developing country, developing city. everything is done through a well thought out strategy. it is not just opening doors and letting you come in. you are looking for talent. teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers. these are people who are helping us grow. david: sometimes when populations grow quickly you see a lot of crime. do you have a lot of crime here? mohamed:mohamed: it is one of the safest cities in the world. one, because there is a clear strategy and plan for that. but two, everybody who lives here love the way of life here. they want to sustain it. so everybody works hand-in-hand to sustain that. david: in europe and the united states you often see homeless people. i haven't seen any here, but maybe there are

david? >> david: aaron katersky leading us off, thank you. >>> we're also following a major storm at this hour, once again slamming the great lakes and headed into parts of the northeast. parts of i-90 paralyzed. multiple accidents across several states. look at these pictures from michigan tonight. an emergency crew at the scene of an accident when a truck slammed into a vehicle there. no one hurt. ginger zee has the forecast, and morgan norwood with the images tonight. >> near blizzard conditions. >> reporter: tonight, the great lakes hammered with their third major whiteout in the past two weeks. south of buffalo, jackknifed tractor trailers spinning their wheels. ditches littered with cars. even plow trucks couldn't stay on the road. not far from there, drivers barely able to see the road on interstate 90 in hamburg. residents in buffalo opening garage doors to massive snow drifts. the system coming on the heels of a powerful storm that hammered the northeast overnight. drivers plowing t

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david? >> david: gio benitez, thank you. >>> there's also breaking news tonight involving the suspect in the ceo murder case. a source close to suspect luigi mangione now saying he is expected to waive extradition and within hours, could be back in new york. here's aaron katersky. >> reporter: tonight, a source close to accused killer luigi mangione says he's expected to waive extradition, clearing the way for his move to new york city as early tomorrow to face charges for the targeted murder of unitedhealthcare chief brian thompson. >> i'm ready to bring him back here and to make sure that justice is served to someone who had the audacity to gun down any new yorker, i don't care what their title is. >> reporter: mangione's been in a pennsylvania prison since his arrest last week. he's due to appear before a judge in the morning and within hours could be brought to new york, booked, and arraigned on a charge of murder in furtherance of terrorism. >> this was a killing that was intended to ev

david? >> david: trevor, thank you. let's get right to chief meteorologist lee goldberg from wabc here in new york. lee, time out the snow, the high winds, of course, coming to the northeast. new york city even bracing for this. >> reporter: indeed, david. not all clippers created equal. this one's high impact. we've got winter weather alerts that go from the upper midwest all the way into the northeast. and that includes lake snow warnings and even a blizzard warning. now, the heaviest snow is moving from the great lakes into the northeast tonight. in fact, by morning, we could have some snow squalls just north of the i-95 corridor. some coastal rain and some of the heavier snopes start to move into northern new england. then it's all about the winds behind this arctic front. some gusts to 50 miles an hour. could be damaging. watch out for the holiday decorations. make sure they are secured. this is carrying in some really fierce arctic air. sub-zero wind chills by morning in chicago. feels like 4 below. the scocore of

david? >> david: ginger zee with us. we'll see you in the morning on "gma." >>> we turn next tonight to the new video just in of that passenger accused in that security breach at jfk airport in new york, getting past security and then getting past the ticket agents at the gate, boarding a delta flight to paris. the mrplane then taking off. abc's go yio benitez with the images tonight. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, we are seeing the woman who managed to sneak past airport workers and onto an international delta flight from jfk to paris. >> please help me. i don't want to go to the united states. >> reporter: officials struggling as they tried to send her back to the u.s. on another delta flight. according to sources, the woman was so unruly she had to be removed and she remains in france. it was last tuesday when pilots made this startling announcement after crew members discovered there was a passenger illegally onboard. >> folks, this is the captain. we're just waiting for the police to come on board. >> rep

david: absolutely. so much for your work, as always. appreciate it. for more on this, let's bring in aaron cohen, special ops veteran and host of the aaron cohen show. aaron to, great to see you. you know, these terrorist thugs have done extraordinary damage. i know you know this, but just for the audience since december of 2023, terrorism in the red red sea has cut the sea traffic by 90% this is an international blockade which is a declaration of war against the whole world. when, if not day one of the new trump administration, is donald trump and the u.s. going to work with israel to stop this terrorist blockade? >> well, david, it's good to see you as always, my friend. you nailed it on the head. as far as trying to determine, i think those conversations are probably already quietly being had. trump and bibi are very close friends, and they were in, you know, they've worked together for years. and trump knows that israel has had a really bad deal with biden over the last year dealing with the houthis

david? >> david: erielle reshef with us. erielle, thank you. >>> overseas tonight, and to syria, and the desperate search for missing loved ones after the fall of president bashar al assad. tonight, our james longman in damascus at a hospital morgue where there are images posted outside the morgue. families from all over coming to see if they recognize the bodies. to see if their loved ones, who disappeared under assad. we warn you, this is difficult. here's james. >> reporter: there's a desperate search across syria tonight for the missing. fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, who simply vanished under assad's brutal regime. on the wall outside this damascus hospital, photos of corpses. families gather to try and identify loved ones. we're not going to get too close, because it is graphic, but basically, i'm looking at the skeletal remains of multiple human beings. in the morgue, finding the truth brings no comfort. standing in a room full of dead bodies, as five men in here, you see hands, legs poking out of the bags. the sm

david? >> david: erielle reshef tonight. erielle, thank you. >>> now, to the concern in the skies outside new york city tonight. the drone mystery over new jersey, seen flying near president-elect trump's bedminster golf course and near a military base. the faa now taking action. and here's aaron katersky. >> reporter: tonight, in central new jersey, a mystery in the sky. >> what the heck? >> reporter: the fbi's now investigating multiple sightings of swarms of drones hovering menacingly overhead, night after night, for several weeks. >> i can see three drones just in this view. there is another one over here and another one back here. >> reporter: the drones have been described as larger than what a hobbyist might fly. >> they made kind of a low hum, similar to what you would expect from a plane, a smaller plane. >> reporter: some of the drones have been spotted close to a military installation, and president-elect trump's bedminster golf course and where he frequently stayed. tonight, the faa says "at the request of federa