i'm fredricka whitfield. we're following breaking news. nine people dead after a plane crashed during a brutal snowstorm in chamberlain, south dakota. the victims reportedly belong to one family and two are children. miraculously, three passengers on the downed plane survived. officials say visibility in the area at the time was less than a mile and snow was falling up to an inch an hour. that storm that has blanketed the midwest is part of the same system that is now moving through the northeast right now. we have a team of correspondents scattered across the country covering these breaking stories. let's begin with nick watt and this tragedy in south dakota. nick, what are you learning? >> reporter: well, fred, as you say, nine of the twelve people on board that plane have been confirmed dead. two of them, two of the victims children, also among the dead the pilot of that small single-engined swiss-made plane that came down shortly after takeoff. as you mentioned, during terrible weather conditions. the plan was to fly 600 or 700 miles t

i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin with breaking news in several major developments today of the deadly shooting at the naval air base in pensacola, florida. authorities have not gone so far as to call the incident terrorism, but robert o'brien had this to say this morning. >> it appears this was someone who had been radicalized, whether it was here or -- it's unclear if he has ties with any other organizations. the saudis are cooperating fully with the investigation. we're going to take them at their word. >> now we're hearing from the defense secretary mark esper. one or two saudi nationals who were friends of the gunman filmed the attack. >> there are reports that several saudis had been detained and that several of them had been filming the incident. first of all, is that true? and there are some top florida officials willing to say this was a terrorist plot. >> so some were detained, friends of his that were also on that base, as i understand it. and i also was told that some one or two were filming it. w

it's really designed, fredricka, to go in and really focus efforts on space. the chinese and the russians have developed anti-satellite weapons that we want to counter and the space force is one way to put all the resources together to do that kind of thing, so the idea would be that we use space as a way to protect some of the things that we've come to use for granted, for example, our communications systems, gps, those kinds of things. so the space force would be there to help protect that. >> and so how would this space force, you know, measure up to the other five branches of the u.s. military. >> well, it would be the smallest branch that we have. the next smallest branch is the united states marine corps. they have about 180,000 people associated with the marine corps. they're actually marines that are currently serving. the space force at its maximum is going to be about 15,000 people, which is about 8% of the size of the marine corps. so it's going to be a very small armed force. it is designed to have a very specific mission. in essence it's going to

happy hanukkah, merry christmas, i'm fredricka whitfield, the battle over the upcoming impeachment trial in the senate takes a new turn today. newly released e-mails show that congressionally approved aid to ukraine was frozen about an hour and a half after president trump's call with ukraine's leader in july. that call is the center piece of the two articles of impeachment against the president. the new e-mails adding fuel to democrats' atdemands for documes and witness testimony at the senate trial. cnn's kristen holmes is in west palm beach near the president's mar-a-lago resort. how emboldened are democrats. >> reporter: it's giving a lot of ammunition on what the senate trial would actually look like, and here's why, the author of that e-mail is a man by the name of michael duffy, he is a trump appointee at the office of management and budget and also happens to be one of the four witnesses that democrats have said they want to hear from in an impeachment trial. of course they're saying this is why we want to hear from them. we have to remember at the heart of this stalemate, it's a

frederica counselor who is a missile attack policy fellow good to have you with us on counting the costs fredricka how widespread is discrimination particularly against women and is this partly down to the fact that the coding industry is is so male dominated. thanks for having me i think a lack of diversity is a real problem in the tech industry and not just in the tech industry if the workforce was more diverse especially in management and in engineering the outrageous scandals that we're seeing now would be picked up much earlier and we also would see very very different products but i also think it's important to say that diversity alone that's not the only problem that the tech industry has there's a general lack of accountability and the sort of automation and automated discrimination that we've seen just empty fi's this existing problem which is the lack of accountability you talk about that. discrimination that automatic discrimination the problems with facial recognition for example have been there tell us about that sure as the studies have shown that some of the most widely available co

fredricka? >> lauren fox on capitol hill, thank you so much. >>> up next, she's been calling for president trump's impeachment for quite a while now since inauguration. we'll ask congresswoman maxine waters if the mueller report should be incorporated in articles of impeachment, and don't forget to join anderson cooper and kelly ripa live as they name the 2019 cnn hero of the year. "cnn heroes: an all-star tribute" tonight at 8:00 p.m. here on cnn. when you shop with wayfair, you spend less and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. for small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. shop everything home at wayfair.com the ones that make a truebeen difference in people's lives. and mike's won them, which is important right this minute, because if he could beat america's biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting pla

i'm martin savage in for fredric fredricka whitford. james comey said he got to wrong when it came to fisa. comb comey's admissions come just days after michael horowitz stated in his report that there were significant errors and omissions by the fbi's investigation team when it applied for a fisa warrant to monitor trump's former adviser carter page. >> he was right, i was wrong. i was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. that's why i'm telling you i was wrong. i was overconfident as director in our procedures, and it's important that a leader be accountable and transparent. if i were still director, i would be saying exactly the same thing chris wray is saying, that we are going to get to the bottom of this, because the most important question is, is it systemic? are there problems in other cases? >> that was comey today when comey appeared on cnn the very day the i.g. report was released. he found it a lsounded a lot mo about the conclusions it made. >> do you think this is vindication? >>

happy hannukah, i'm fredricka whitfield. >>> a new battle in the impeachment trial. newly released emails show that congressionally approved aid was frozen about an hour and a half after president trump's call with ukraine's leader in july. that call is the centerpiece of the two articles of impeachment of the president. the new emails adding fuel to democrats' demands for documents and witness testimony in the senate trial. >> the truth should come out on something as important as an impeachment. well, this new information is rather explosive. what is a trial with no witnesses and no documents? it's a sham trial. and that's why we feel so strongly that there ought to be witnesses and documents. >> cnn's kristen holmes is in west palm beach near the president's mar-a-lago resort where he is spending the holidays. kristen, how are democrats and the white house reacting to reports of these new emails? >> reporter: when it comes to the white house, the budget office essentially is just dismissing any sort of link between holding on to that aid and the phone call. but th

. >>> hello, good to see you, i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield.nt trump on the brink of impeachment and the battle lines are being drawn. one day after the house judiciary committee voted to advance two articles of impeachment along party lines, all eyes turn to the full house which is expect to vote on impeachment as soon as wednesday. if passed, president trump will become the third president in u.s. history to be impeached. a senate trial will likely begin in january. any moment now the president is expected to depart the white house headed for the navy/army game. unclear if we'll hear from him. but the white house is already plotting his defense. he set up a campaign christmas rally and hoping for a longer senate trial with witnesses. his fellow republicans in the senate now seem to be aiming for a different kind of strategy. here's senator lindsey graham a short while ago. >> i don't know where this goes, but i know impeachment will be over soon. i supported the mueller investigation, by the way, for those who care about domestic politics. i

i'm fredricka whitfield. we're following breaking news. nine people are dead after a plane crash during a brutal snowstorm in chamberlain, south dakota. the victims reportedly belong to one family, including two children. miraculously, three passengers on the downed plane survived. officials say visibility in the area was less than a mile and snow was falling up to an inch an hour. that storm that is blanketing the midwest is part of the same system that is moving through the northeast right now. we have a team of correspondents scattered across the country covering these breaking stories. let's begin with nick watt and this tragedy in south dakota. nick, what are you learning? >> well, as you mentioned, fred, three people miraculously survived this crash and first responders have to contend with that horrific weather to rescue those three. they've been taken to the hospital in sioux falls. nine people dead on that plane. as you mentioned, among the dead two children. also we're told the pilot of the airplane. they were planning to fly wes

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i'm fredricka whitfield. we're following breaking news at this hour.for three years is finally heading home as part of a prisoner swap between tehran and washington. xiyue wang is an american ph.d. student and was doing research in tehran in 2016 when he was arrested on charges of spying and sentenced to ten years in iranes notorious evan prison. right now wang is at a u.s. army hospital in germany for medical evaluation. from the

discriminate in a way that's very invisible and very hard to tackle and challenge how do we fix this then fredricka i think we need to start with the tech industry more broadly as i said it's looking accountability we tend to treat the sector as something that's fundamentally different from everything else we don't expect tobacco companies to self regulate we don't accept except ethics guidelines to guide the oil industry and yet when it comes to tech we tend to agree on these very fluffy standards so that's a general problem secondly i think in all areas where it really matters so whether where the facts are significant people need to be able to challenge the. visions that have been made about them people need to be able to find out whether they have been discriminated against and if they have they need to be able to get justice and one final question on data should europeans be concerned that data is being held by silicon valley giants more nations now are insisting that the data is stored locally where the regional champions in all of this i think europeans and people everywhere could be should

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. >>> hello, good to see you, i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield. impeachment and the battle lines are being drawn. one day after the house judiciary committee voted to

i'm martin savage in for fredricka whitfield. >>> president trump is back on the golf course and back on the attack as he vents his anger over a stalled impeachment trial. he has been lashing out at nancy pelosi and the whistle-blower. the president frustrated by the uncertainty that's surrounding his senate trial. speaker pelosi continues to hold off on sending his articles of impeachment to the senate, as democrats wish for witnesses to testify. and majority leader mitch mcconnell signals that he's not in any hurry to get that trial underway. as the president fumes over his stalled impeachment, he's also asking for advice about who should be on his defense team and what the stream out to be. cnn's kristen hoemds is in south florida. the president has been tweeting and golfing and vending. what can you tell us? >> just moments ago

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i'm martin savage in for fredricka whitfield. we're beginning with breaking news.eing called a tragic day for worshippers across the country regardless of religion. first in new york, a crowded hanukkah celebration turns into a violent stabbing spree after five people were wounded inside a rabbi's house. to now a church shooting near ft. worth, texas. one person is dead and another is in critical condition. we're told that the

happy hanukkah, merry christmas, i'm fredricka whitfield, the battle over the upcoming impeachment trialewly released e-mails show that congressionally approved aid to ukraine was frozen about an hour and a half after president trump's call with ukraine's leader in july. that call is the center piece of the two articles of impeachment against the president. the new e-mails adding fuel to democrats' atdemands for documes and witness testimony at the se

i'm martin sav alk in for fredricka whitfield. happy saturday. with president trump one step closer to impeachment the battle lines are being drown. one day after the house judiciary voted to advance it. the focus now shifts to the full house which intends to vote as soon as wednesday. if that is passed the president will be just the third to be impeached. we know he's already plotting his defense. he has set up a campaign christmas rally and is hoping for a longer senate trial with witnesses. but his fellow republicans in the senate seem to be ageing for a different strategy. becky anderson, host of connect the world, spoke with lindsey graham who had a lot to say about an impeachment trial of president trump. >> is it okay, ever okay where for an american president to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival? >> i think being a political rival is not a -- you can't ever be asked questions. now, joe biden is a dear friend. i've traveled all over the world with joe biden. he's running for president on the democratic side. i think he'

i'm fredricka whitfield. this morning president trump is at his mar-a-lago resort in florida preparing for his upcoming impeachment trial in the u.s. senate. this just two days after his impeachment in the house. he accepted an invitation by speaker nancy pelosi to give his annual state of the union address on february 4th, a speech which could be overshadowed by his upcoming trial. the president wants an immediate trial in the u.s. senate, but the timing is up in the air right now as democratic and republican leaders clash over the rules. some house democrats are urging pelosi to indefinitely withhold articles until majority leader -- senator majority leader mitch mcconnell agrees to hold a fair trial. c. this -- cnn's sarah westwood is in palm beach near the president's home. sarah, this wouldn't be the first time a president gives a state of the union address in the midst of impeachment. what are you learning right now? >> reporter: that's right. yesterday president trump accepted house speaker's nancy pel

i'm fredricka whitfield.n with breaking news in several major developments today of the deadly shooting at the naval air base in pensacola, florida. authorities have not gone so far as to call the incident terrorism, but robert o'brien had this to say this morning. >> it appears this was someone who had been radicalized, whether it was here or -- it's unclear i

i'm martin savage in for fredricka whitfield. we're beginning with breaking news. what's being called a tragic day for worshippers across the country regardless of religion. first in new york, a crowded hanukkah celebration turns into a violent stabbing spree after five people were wounded inside a rabbi's house. to now a church shooting near ft. worth, texas. one person is dead and another is in critical condition. we're told that the suspected shooter also died while on the way to the hospital. moments ago the texas governor, greg abbott, responded to the shooting and the statement saying, our hearts go out to the victims and the families of those killed in the evil act of violence that occurred at the west freeway church of christ. places of worship are meant to be sacred and i am grateful for the church members who acted quickly to take down the shooter and help prevent further loss of life. let's go straight to cnn correspondent paul burkamen who is following the story. paul, what else can you tell us? >> we just got done talking to the people of medstar. this

i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield. it's great to be with you. president trump is on his holiday vacation in florida where he continues to vent his anger over his installed impeachment trial. he's been lashing out at nancy pelosi and the whistle-blower in a series of twitter attacks. the president clearly frustrated by the uncertainty surrounding his senate trial. speaker pelosi continues to hold off on sending his articles of impeachment to the senate, as democrats push for witnesses to testify. majority leader mcconnell signals that he's not in any hurry to get the trial under way. as the president fumes over his stalled impeachment, sources say he is also seeking advice about who should be on his defense team and what the strategy should be. cnn white house producer kevin liptak joins us now. impeachment is clearly on the president's mind and his twitter feed. >> yes, certainly is, martin. the president agitated at democrats' tactics as the standoff over his impeachment trial stretches into a new week and a new year. the president lashing out

i'm martin savage in for fredricka whitfield. in just a few days, president trump will likely become just the third president in the united states to be impeached. the full house expects to hold a vote on wednesday if congress passes the historic two articles of impeachment, then the senate would vote on tuesday. senator lindsey graham is already calling for acquit the program with no articles having been called. today house intelligence chairman adam schiff urges the senate to not only call witnesses but to also introduce documents which the white house blocked during the impeachment inquiry. >> i think there are any number of witnesses that should be called in the senate trial and many witnesses the american people would like to hear from that the administration has refused to make available. and perhaps of equal, if not greater, importance are the thousands and thousands of documents that the administration refuses to turn over. i would hope that every senator of both parties would like to see the documentary evidence. they wo

get it and then that's another leg on this thing that's in the cia very baumberger our policy here fredricka i mean if you need any and you know to do any good and. i'm confirmed leagues from the area reveal horrific pictures of the egyptian army's brutal crackdown amid increasing concerns for the civilian population. for all the force to point to the egyptian army has yet to regain control of the area while armed attacks appear to be spreading through. to egypt in nov 27th president announced the final offensive of the school. for the school. for. 'd last year but lesser. or to start a little or less ship good news for the nation his method is that he is the only thing that is standing between egypt becoming another province of an islamic caliphate and stability and security and safety. in 2016 an attacker deliberately drove his truck into a crowded christmas market in berlin with lethal consequences after paris and london this was yet another deadly assault inside a european capital. german chancellor angela merkel turned to reject as a party to improve security and counterterrorism signin

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i'm martin savage in for fredricka whitfield.re going to begin this hour with more breaking news and bloodshed at another place of worship today. three people are now in critical condition after a shooting at a church in white settlement, texas. we're told the shooter is among those injured. this was at the west freeway church of christ. it's located just miles away from ft. worth, and we'll have more on that in a moment. >>> we are also following the breaking news on the attack on a jewish holiday celebration. a 37-year-old new york man has made his first court appearance. he's now being held on $5 million bond. grafton thomas is charged with five counts of attempted murder after a mass stabbing at a house outside new york city. the attacker walked into a home and stabbed five people there. the home was full of 100 worshippers of people who had gathered to light the hanukkah candle. i will tell you this morning the pictures are graphic. all the victims are hasidic juice. two are in critical condition. they described the moment t

i'm fredricka whitfield. we're following breaking news at this hour. a princeton graduate student held prisoner in iran for three years is finally heading home as part of a prisoner swap between tehran and washington. xiyue wang is an american ph.d. student and was doing research in tehran in 2016 when he was arrested on charges of spying and sentenced to ten years in iranes notorious evan prison. right now wang is at a u.s. army hospital in germany for medical evaluation. from there he will travel back to the u.s. and we'll get more on that story when we get more information and bring it to you. kiley atwood will be joining us later on. >>> the shooting now state side at the pensacola air base in florida. we're learning more about the gunman, mohammed al shamrani, a saudi national. his uncle telling cnn exclusively that al shamrani showed nothing suspicious before he moved to the u.s. in 2017 to begin training at the base. the gunman opened fire at the base friday, killing three people before being killed by police. we've got full coverage of this sto

i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield. president trump on the brink of impeachment.y after the house voted to advance articles of impeachment along party lines, all eyes have turned to the full house which expects to vote on impeachment perhaps as soon as wednesday. if passed, president trump will become just the third president in u.s. history to be impeached. with the senate trial likely to begin in january, the president is already plotting his defense, setting up a campaign christmas rally and settihoping for a lon trial preferring witnesses. the president may prefer aon

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i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield. president trump on the brink of impeachment. one day after the house voted to advance articles of impeachment along party lines, all eyes have turned to the full house which expects to vote on impeachment perhaps as soon as wednesday. if passed, president trump will become just the third president in u.s. history to be impeached. with the senate trial likely to begin in january, the president is already plotting his defense, setting up a campaign christmas rally and settihoping for a lon trial preferring witnesses. the president may prefer a long senate trial but what about fellow republicans? what do they feel in the senate? >> that's certainly not the preference of majority leader mitch mcconnell who has made that clear to rank and file members who are coming around to the idea of a shorter trial. essentially there is a concern that once you get into a fight about witnesses, including whether hunter biden would testify, the whistle-blower, joe biden perhaps, that puts some of those moderate republicans up for re-election next