sorry, john berman.hey beat their division rivals, buffalo, who sat a lot of their starters, losing the top pick. afterwards, new england firing head coach mayo after just one season. now, the four- win titans secure the number one overall pick. there will likely be more coach firings in the coming hours, as today in the nfl is known as black monday. >> i don't know why coy wire apologized to our john berman. this he has won more freaking football championships than any of us here. but anyway, he's yelling back there. >>> georgia is bidding a final farewell to its native son. in the next 24 hours, former president jimmy carter's body will be taken from his home state to the nation's capitol, where he will lie in state there. >>> an emotional wins, history- making firsts, and wicked snubs at the golden globes. host and comedian nikki glaser roasted hollywood's finest. >> welcome to the 82nd golden globes. ozempic's biggest night. the bear, the penguin, baby reindeer, these are not just things found in rfk

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i'm john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. >> president elect donald trump saying now is the time to make greenland great again. he seems to be upping his push for u.s. control of the danish territory, sending his son, trump junior, to visit there today on truth social, trump posted in part, greenland is an incredible place and the people will benefit tremendously if and when it becomes part of our nation. this fixation with greenland started during his first term and will now apparently be a focus of his second. cnn's david chalian is joining us now. david, don junior's visit is not an official one. he's not an official with the trump campaign in this capacity. but what's his what's his plan? what's this all about? >> yeah. >> nor is donald trump president yet. >> we still have 13 days to go before he takes over the presidency. what they say is, is, as you know, you mentioned it was an item on the to do list that never got done in the first trump administration. and donald trump shortly before christ

i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central breaking news. >> the fight to contain california's deadly fire disaster. in a desperate new race against the clock this morning, fire crews are back under a rare, extremely critical fire risk as the resurgence of strong winds threatens to soon undo progress being made on the front lines. there you can hear the sound of the winds picking up. this hour. the death toll has risen to 24, and officials say dozens more are missing, as cadaver dogs are now sifting through the debris. overnight, the remains of 95 year old dallas curry. you can see her in the upper corner here were discovered as we're now learning more about some of those lives that are lost this morning, over 100,000 people are now under evacuation orders. thousands of homes, as you know, have already been destroyed with the fight and the nightmare very far from over. as these winds pick up. >> some up here in mandeville canyon, which was the site the last two nights of tremendous investment of resour

i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate balduan. this is "cnn news central. " >>> happening right now, a snow emergency in washington, d.c. that's getting worse by the hour. when all is said and done, an historic 16 inches could be on the ground there, which would not only surpass what was deemed in 2016 as snowzilla, but it could also be twice as much as the snow they saw the last two years combined. the city's virtually shut down, but this time, not congress, where lawmakers are gathering today to certify the 2024 election. beyond washington, conditions are also dangerous this morning for tens of millions of americans. thousands of flights have been delayed or canceled. at least three deaths have been reported from the icy road conditions in kansas and missouri. cnn's meteorologist derek van dam is tracking all of this for you. and derek, right now, where are you watching most closely? >> okay, so, d.c. this is an important day, not only for certification of election results, but also because of the amount of snow that's fallen. j

i'm kate bolduan with john berman and sa va ra sidner. this is "cnn news central. " >>> happening right now, snow. a whole lot of snow is being dumped on our nation's capital and across the midwest. more than 55 million americans are on alert because of this deadly winter storm. this hour, states of emergency have been declared across six states. this morning, at least three deaths are being blamed on the brutal travel conditions on the roads. thousands of flights have been delayed or canceled. many of those in d.c. , where heavy snow is falling at this hour. it could reach historic totals soon. much of the city shut down, but a very active scene is happening outside capitol hill, as lawmakers are expected to soon certify the 2024 election despite this snow emergency. meteorologist derek van dam standing by for us. but first, let's get to where the snow is. gabe cohen in washington, d.c. we can see the conditions are still just as rough as they were earlier. tell us what's going on. >> reporter: yeah, sara, plenty of snow still falling th

john berman you're watching all of this unfold as well. let's let's bring you into this. >> yeah.i was watching along here with three historians, biographers and my fellow civilian audie cornish. i think what we were struck by was the presence of history on that stage. andrew young himself, the embodiment of history in the last half of the 20th century, said that jimmy carter is a miracle. then again, america is a miracle. i think that's the point that andrew young was making. and jimmy carter's life away, an embodiment of that. >> well, it was a miracle he was talking about the first time he met him during the height of the civil rights movement. and what an improbable journey jimmy carter had coming from plains all the way to the white house. you know, this this underscores, you know, 30 years ago i wrote something about carter for the first time, and i quipped that he was the only man who who used the oval office as a stepping stone to greater things. and then i learned much later that carter actually resented this notion that his ex-presidency was such a success and that his p

let's go to john berman up in new york. >> thanks so much, jake. you know, we're watching two of the motorcade carrying the casket with jimmy carter traveling from the u.s. capitol to the national cathedral. somewhat symbolic journey, right, because the u.s. capitol, the kind of place where maybe jimmy carter was never quite as comfortable. but the national cathedral, that's a different story. kai bird, you know, biographer for jimmy carter. faith not just central definitional to jimmy carter. >> yeah, he was a southern baptist, a born again southern baptist who was, you know, he took his religiosity very seriously. >> and he he was always an outlier, an outsider running against washington. but he central was his morals. and i think in retrospect, we have to understand that he obviously was one of the most decent men to have occupied the white house, but also the hardest working and probably the most intelligent president in the 20th century. so. well read. and he took his faith so seriously that he would ignore the political consequences of many o

. >> i'm kate baldwin with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central. >> all right. the breaking news, the worst fires in los angeles ever. full stop. a harrowing night is making way for a treacherous morning with new, urgent warnings and explosive conditions. at least five fires are raging at this moment. the worst of them still, 0% contained. at least five people have died, but that number almost certainly will rise. more than 28,000 acres have burned. new this morning. 1000 buildings, homes, structures have been destroyed in that fire near pasadena. and the fire on the coast in pacific palisades. another 100,000 homes and businesses are also gone. look at these scenes. you can see satellite imagery showing how widespread the blazes have been. air quality is now at a hazardous level. six out of six. more than 100,000 people have fled their homes, some just now seeing what is left. >> this is our nest egg. this is where we moved in when we got married. this is where our son was born. this was our house and this was what we worked for. this was what we were going to

i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. >> and it is another busy day ahead, especially on capitol hill, as six cabinet nominees are now preparing to face questions in front of the senate today. donald trump's pick for attorney general, pam bondi, and his pick for secretary of state marco rubio are first up this morning. and these are clearly major cabinet positions we're talking about. bondi is the former attorney general of florida. she has long supported donald trump. she spearheaded legal efforts to challenge the 2020 election results in in pennsylvania, and she was part of his defense team for his first impeachment. let's talk about this big day ahead. mark preston is standing by, as well as paula reid. let's start. paula, let me start with you, if i could, to talk about pam bondi up for attorney general. people are seeing her as a more traditional pick when compared to matt gaetz. but in you which who was his first pick. you have new reporting on how she is preparing for what is sure to be so

this is what one of your fellow new york republicans told my colleague john berman today. let's listen. >> i don't know if he has the votes right now, but i do believe that he will have the votes, and i'm not sure that it will be on the first round. >> so clearly not as confident as you are right now. but, you know, johnson has been meeting with about a half a dozen holdouts. right. um, he can only lose one republican. thomas massie has already said one more republican. he said he's not supporting him. i mean, isn't that a lot of holdouts at this point? >> yeah, we have a tight, tight majority. america blessed with republicans with a very tight majority in the house, a majority in the senate and the white house. but we know the job that we need to get done tomorrow. we need to elect speaker johnson the first. and if it takes maybe a second ballot, so be it. but we need to get to the work of the nation to put our great country back on the right track. it's the agenda that we campaigned on. it's what we were elected on. and hopefully this is just a speed bump tomorrow. >> ho

i'm sarah seiden with john berman and kate baldwin. this is cnn news central. >> and breaking overnight, if he was not going to be president in six days, he would have been a convicted felon. that is the thrust of the final report from now former special counsel jack smith, released by the justice department while you were sleeping. it is an extraordinary document for posterity, if nothing else, and there will be nothing else. jack smith resigned friday night and there will be no prosecution. and this pertains only to the election interference case. the report on classified documents will not be made public. but in this smith writes, quote, when it became clear mr. trump had lost the election and that lawful means of challenging the election results had failed, he resorted to a series of criminal efforts to retain power. indeed, but for mr. trump's election and imminent return to the presidency, the office addressed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial. overnight, president-elect trump

i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. >> breaking overnight, the new legal fight that donald trump is taking on just days before he takes office. >> the president elect is now trying to stop special counsel jack smith from publicly releasing his final report on his investigations into the president elect and the two federal cases that were brought and dismissed. why is donald trump fighting this now? his lawyers read a draft of that report and argue in a new court filing that it contains, quote, baseless attacks, which they call an obvious effort to interfere with upcoming upcoming confirmation hearings. so this only adds to the mounting intrigue, of course, around this report and its potentially imminent release. let's get over to katelyn polantz. she's got much more of this for us. caitlin, walk us through this. what? what do we know about the report and when can we see this? >> yeah, kate, we've seen reports like this before from special counsel's offices, but not a fight like this. >> on whet

i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan, john berman, this is cnn news central. >> all right, the breaking news, the last thing residents in and around los angeles want to hear this morning. overnight, officials raised the fire threat level to the highest level, extremely critical in some places. that is a three out of three in terms of danger. and it could stay that way for days. shortly, the wind speeds could be near hurricane level gusts. again, the fear is the conditions will soon become explosive. just moments ago, a fire battalion chief shared this update with the red flag warning imminent. >> every one of our fires that's currently active, the containment lines that are not fully contained yet are still the challenge, and it's possible that wind could blow. >> all right. more than 100,000 people are in the evacuation zones this morning. the death toll stands at 24, but that number could rise. there are dozens of people said to be missing. let's get right to malibu. cnn's stephanie elam is there. stephanie, we can see you standing in front of just the destruction. >> so much destruct

i'm john berman with sara sidner. kate is out this morning. this is cnn news central. so mike johnson is the speaker of the house this morning. the question is, will he be speaker tonight? we are standing by for the vote. that could cost him his job. his biggest problem is math. republicans hold one of the slimmest majorities ever. and if two republicans vote against him, that could cost him everything and cost president-elect trump something too. one republican has already said he is a hell no, that he would still vote against johnson even if you pulled out his fingernails, which seems like a pretty serious political position there. let's get to lauren fox live on capitol hill. counting the votes this morning, jim jordan right there behind you, smiling to our camera. so where is he? where is everyone on this vote this morning? >> yeah. good morning john. i mean, we are waiting to see what this vote count is going to be in just a couple of hours. but you can expect that speaker mike johnson is going to be working the phones, working members in his office as he is tryin

i'm john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. >> we begin with breaking news. a brand new fire erupting overnight, flames now rapidly spreading in northern los angeles county. the nightmare there, far from over as the deadly fire disaster now rages into its fourth day. the new fire is located just outside calabasas. police nearby arrested a man on suspicion of arson. but they say right now they cannot confirm if he is connected in any way to that new blaze. this morning, the wind threat about to pick back up as fire crews face new challenges overnight. an illegal drone collided with a crucial firefighting aircraft. that aircraft now grounded today. the number of dead has doubled so far to ten people. more than 10,000 homes and businesses have been destroyed. and those numbers are sadly expected to rise. and new images of the. unbelievable destruction the l.a. county sheriff says it looks like a bomb was dropped. >> i have nothing. >> i can't even teach. >> and i'm a first responder. i teach people to sav

lively's, quote, vicious smear campaign to salvage her reputation and ruin his i'm sara sidner with john berman kate bolduan is out today. this is cnn news central breaking this morning, federal officials are calling it a deliberate act of terror as the fbi is conducting searches across multiple states. >> 15 people are dead, many more injured after a man plowed his truck through crowded new orleans streets just after the new year. three major questions this morning. were there any accomplices? was this attack tied to the cybertruck explosion outside a trump hotel in las vegas? there are notable similarities. was this attack actually directed by i.s.i.s. or just inspired by the terror group? just a short time ago, we learned the new orleans attacker pleaded guilty to dui charges in 2015, and police shared new details about a series of videos he allegedly recorded, one of which includes a pledge to i.s.i.s.. this morning, we're also learning more about the victims as witnesses. now describe what they saw we heard the gunshots and everyone started running and then they ended up locking us in the

i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. >> all right. the breaking news. exit your house. now, that is an urgent new warning, as officials tell tens of thousands of people to get out immediately with wildfires ripping through los angeles county. we want to make clear the situation at this hour is critical, with the explosive winds expected to make the fires even worse. the sun is about to rise there. we could get our first look at some of the devastation overnight. there's no real count yet of how many homes or businesses have been destroyed. winds are too fierce to fight them from the air. there's really almost nothing that can be done with the fire. 0% contained. this was the scene in pasadena just minutes ago. >> there is a church here fully engulfed in flames. >> it is a very large church. >> according to the map here, as it expressions church, we have just seen this thing explode in flames in the last couple of minutes. l.a. county fire is up here helping out with pasadena fire as they try to get this under control, but the winds up

i'm john berman with sara sidner. this is cnn news central. >> this morning. new developments in the deadly new orleans terror attack that killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more just hours into the new year. at this hour, officials have said they do not believe the attacker acted alone, as investigators try to determine if he was inspired by i.s.i.s. or directed by i.s.i.s.. also, right now, the nation on edge as investigators look into whether this attack is linked to a cybertruck explosion in las vegas. all this as more witnesses are now describing the horror they saw on bourbon street. >> i didn't realize in the moment that i saw a wheelchair that was sitting there, you know, at first i thought, like, is that a motorcycle? like what my eyes had to strain to understand what i was seeing, and then to see the man from the wheelchair laying in the gutter was heart wrenching, you know. and there's nothing that we can do to help. it's we don't help the situation by entering into it. so all we could do was stand by and watch and to see immediately dead

i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> and the breaking news, the final report is out. the conclusion from special counsel jack smith is in. and here is smith's take on donald trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. just days before the president elect is set to retake office after winning the 2024 election. when it comes when it became clear mr. trump had lost the election, he resorted to a series of criminal efforts to retain power. jack smith goes on to say but for mr. trump's election and imminent return to the presidency, the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial. the report dropped while most everyone was sleeping around 1:00 in the morning, and almost immediately the president, president elect responded, calling jack smith deranged, insisting the prosecution was all political. let's start this hour with katelyn polantz on everything else that we learn in this 130 page report. good morning caitlin. >> kate, to sum it up, what jack smith is s

i'm john berman with sara sidner, and this is cnn news central. >> he acted alone. the fbi changing its initial assessment of who was involved and what they have officially now deemed an act of terrorism in new orleans. they also revised the number of people killed to 14. the 15th person who died was the terrorist who plowed into a crowd on bourbon street in a rented pickup truck. this morning, authorities trying to answer questions as to how several warning signs were missed before 42 year old army veteran shamsud-din jabbar deadly attack. sources say a search of a houston home related to jabbar found chemicals typically used to build explosives. now we want to show you some exclusive footage obtained by cnn. a ring camera capturing him just hours before the attack. loading several items into his truck. and authorities say surveillance camera images show the suspect planting coolers loaded with explosives in two other locations in the french quarter. a remote detonator was found in his vehicle. questions are also being raised about security efforts to protect bourb

i'm kate baldwin with john berman and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. >> we begin with breaking news. multiple wildfire emergencies are happening right now in los angeles county. three separate fires rapidly spreading, all of them 0% contained as life threatening winds right now fuel the fires rage this morning. firefighters rushing to save lives as officials warn the worst is yet to come. tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate, many racing from their homes against simply apocalyptic conditions. right now, abandoned cars are being moved by bulldozers as they block smoke filled streets. many people forced to flee on foot as the flames closed. in this hour, the palisades fire is the largest fire burning at the moment, at one point said to be burning about five football fields every single minute. this was the scene just a short time ago. >> we are burning on both sides. this is the high school to my left. the high school is burning. the football field. all the hills on temescal canyon. this is right past sunset, r

i'm john berman with sara steiner and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> we are following the breaking news still this morning. an all out race against mother nature fire crews trying to get as much containment as possible, battling multiple deadly wildfires. still, before the winds kick back up once again, an extremely critical that's how it's deemed three out of three. weather risk is back in effect for southern california this week, which means the progress made this weekend against the fire line could quickly come to a halt. the death toll in the disaster is also rising now. it stands at 24 people confirmed killed, and officials say dozens more are being reported missing overnight. we learned that the remains of 95 year old alice curry were discovered over 100,000 people are still under evacuation orders. thousands of homes destroyed. and moments ago, we spoke with the director of fema who shared this urgent message. >> this is such a dangerous situation still, and i just want to make sure that everybody is listening to the

i'm john berman with sara sidner. this is cnn news central. >> this just in. house speaker mike johnson just spoke with our lauren fox as the vote as to whether he remains speaker is about to get under way. here's what we know and what he knows or what he thinks he knows. johnson seems pretty optimistic, but he can only lose two votes, and one republican lawmaker has already said he's a hell no piling on the pressure. a brand new message from president-elect trump moments ago, saying a win for mike today will be a big win for the republican party. so trump still on his side. cnn's steve contorno is tracking trump's moves. but first, let's get straight to lauren fox, capitol hill. what did you hear from the current speaker? >> yeah, i just spoke with speaker mike johnson about what he thought his chances were today and whether or not he's feeling good going into this vote this afternoon. here's what he told me this morning. >> yes, confidence. >> how many holdouts do you think there still are? >> would you be? i think i expect we can get it done on the first ro

i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> it is now 13 days until donald trump moves into the white house once again. and to pile on the sports metaphors for you this morning, donald trump seems to be on offense and defense at the same time, and possibly throwing a hail mary pass today for greenland. we'll get to it all. first, the defense the president elect is facing a new legal fight, and we have new details on it this morning, trying to stop special counsel jack smith from publicly releasing his final report on his investigations into donald trump and the two federal cases that were dismissed. so why is donald trump fighting this now? his lawyers read we've learned a draft of that report and are arguing in a new court filing that it contains baseless attacks, which they call an obvious effort to interfere with upcoming confirmation hearings. now to the offense. donald trump is now attacking president biden, accusing biden of basically sabotaging his transition into the white house. this happen

i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn central. >> all right. the breaking news this morning. now is the time to stay on guard. that is the urgent warning from weather officials in los angeles and neighboring counties. new evacuations and curfews are in effect as one more day of extreme danger. alerts cover much of the region. at this moment, four major fires are raging, the largest one in the palisades is still only 18% contained. that's after one full week of burning. overnight. the death toll rose to 25. fema says more than 40,000 applications for disaster aid have been filed so far. we're just seeing the first images of some of the destroyed areas. it's really the first time we've been able to get to some of these places, and there are new developments in the investigation into where and how the fire started. we're going to get to the critical threat from the wind in just a moment. but first, stephanie elam is in the pacific palisades. good morning, stephanie. >> good morning john. >> and we are seeing some of those winds starting to kick up

. >> omar jimenez pamela brown and john berman. >> it's all the best.ll the worst. >> 2024 coast to coast. >> welcome. i'm tom foreman, and while every year is a unique journey, the past 12 months took us on an epically bumpy ride through big news, entertainment, sports, music, pop culture, and of course, where we begin on the roughest road of all. the biggest, best, worst political story of the year was the titanic fight for the white house between sitting president joe biden and former president donald trump. >> unbelievable. >> this year was the year of the battle. >> both sides felt like the other side represented the end of america, right? >> he's done a poor job. well, what are you talking about? >> worst reality. even as bitter words flew between the oldest presidential candidates ever. polls showed most voters didn't like either choice. >> it was the election that nobody asked for, and everyone was getting. and they were getting it every day at full volume. >> if this were a dating show, you'd want to walk off the set. >> the twice impeached tru

i'm john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. >> in a matter of moments, one of donald trump's most controversial cabinet nominees will answer senators questions in hopes of being confirmed. pete hegseth was picked to lead the most powerful military in the world. the defense secretary nominee is expected to face tough questions from lawmakers on the senate armed services committee. democrats are expected to press hegseth on a number of allegations against him, ranging from sexual assault to excessive drinking to financial mismanagement of a veterans charity. hegseth has denied all of those allegations, and in his opening remarks, he is expected to tell senators it's time to give someone with dust on his boots at the helm a change agent, someone with no vested interest in certain companies or specific programs or approved narratives. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju and cnn anchor kaitlan collins, both on capitol hill. manu, i want to start with you this morning. what are you learning there