. >> we did the arrest warrant and within a couple of days we were flying out to kettering, ohio, to michael wolfe back to florida. >> how did he react? >> he said some pretty harsh words. it's not very ladylike if i said it, though. >> you can say it. >> he said, i'm [ bleep ]. but now detective velasquez believed she had enough evidence to bring michael wolfe back to florida to stand trial for the murder of david jackson. >> we did the arrest warrant and within a couple of days we were flying out to kettering, ohio, to extradite michael wolfe back to florida. >> how did he react? >> he said some pretty harsh words. it's not very ladylike if i said it, though. >> you can say it. >> he said, i'm [ bleep ]. >> this was it. velasquez had her momentum. finally, after 15 years, she had made sure that someone was going to be held accountable for the death of david jackson. >> it was the culmination of 16 months of such a long, grueling, up and down is tiresome investigation, of nights of not sleeping, of days of going to work and living off of coffee, and i thought, you know what, this is

." >> there's a doctor at sloan kettering. >> does the doctor have a name?> sharon bernstein, she's a neuro surgeon. >> you know you're a weird guy, right? >> i know. >> number one in just 60 seconds. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, xfinity xfi. a more powerful way to stay connected. enhanced coverage, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi. simple. easy. awesome. xfinity xfi gives you the speed, coverage and control you need. manage your wifi network from anywhere when you download the xfi app today. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with president trump's surprise trips to u.s. troops abroad. his first stop, al assad air base in iraq. the president along with the first lady making his first-ever visit to a combat zone as commander in chief, while vowing to keep u.s. troops in iraq, defending his controversial decision to withdraw all troops in neighboring syria. a move that triggered defense secretary mattis to resign in protest. the president's next stop, germ

as you mentioned, she's recovering in this hospital behind me, memorial sloan kettering. she's expected to be here for a couple of days. we're hearing from doctors this operation went remarkably well. of course, this justice is 85 years old. she had a pulmonary lobectomy, that's two nodules from her lung. they're not going recommend any further treatment beyond the surgery yesterday. at the same time, it's very serious. of course, you could always have risks after a surgery of this level. but, remember, justice ginsburg is a survivor. she had colorectal surgery back in 1999. earlier than that, she had surgery for pancreatic surgery. she's known throughout the country for her daily exercise routine. she's become a pop icon in her own right. there's not just one but two fiance ter-length films, about her life just this year. she's gotten quite a following. and there's going to be a lot of people rooting for her. >> absolutely. let me ask you. they say because she fell and broke her ribs and they did such a careful check of her, that's why they found these miniscule cancerou

. >> reporter:tiusin gg ur memorial sloan kettering cancer center in new york city. doctors removing a section of ginsburg's left lung, after finding two nodules that turned out to be malignant. lung cancer. . today, doctors saying they found no evidence of any remaining disease and no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. no further treatment is planned. it is ginsburg's third bout with cancer. >> the fact that she has survived two cancers. one in the colorectal region and one in the pancreas suggests she is as iron-willed as people say. >> reporter: a liberalio l on f. and now for liberals, a against president trump's policies. she's vowed to stay on the court until she's 90. at least. >> as long as i can do the job, we'll see. i'll be here. >> reporter: tonight, court officials tell us she'll stay in the hospital for a few days. recovering from this significant procedure. experts say she was lucky. because she was being treated with the bken ribs, her daughters saw it, and operated on it before it could get worse. >>> much more ahead on major w. homes flooded

. >> reporter: justice ginsburg at 85 undergoing surgery today at memorial sloan kettering cancer doctors removing a section of ginsburg's left lung, after finding two nodules that turned out to be malignant. lung cancer. discovered by coincidence, after the justice fell, breaking her ribs last month. today, doctors saying they found no evidence of any remaining disease and no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. no further treatment is planned. it is ginsburg's thicancer.rdt h >> the fact that she has survived two cancers. one in the colorectal region and one in the pancreas suggests she is as ironilled as many people believe she is and makes me fully believe she will recover. >> reporter: a liberal lion on the court for a quarter centuryr against the possibility of yet another justice appointed by rn. esid >> 24, 23. >> reporter: she works out twice a week with a person trainer. and has vowed to stay on the court until she's 90. at least. >> as long as i can do the job, full steam, i will be here. >> reporter: tonight, court officials tell us she'll stay in respveri fal fro f am t

is the council's most serious crisis in decades she was weary is the director of girl studies at kettering university he thinks the saudis will focus on ending the war in yemen now i think riyadh will try to bring bring that again and saying look we want peace process to move on we need a peaceful negotiation we need the world to be and i think that is a message to washington this is serious i think that is to reduce the level of pressure on them and hush of the case so that it's a play on different cards on the same table and this is also an ending the war in yemen continue in sweden the demands of each side becoming clear among the significant issues that divide the healthy rebels and the yemeni government is the face of president average rebel mansour hadi his is one intercept down but the government thinks otherwise hashim a hobart reports from the tolls in remember just north of stockholm. talks hit a stumbling block just at the time when hopes of progress were growing. yemen's rival factions are entrenched warning if their demands are not met the talks will fail and as the negotiatio

she will remain at sloan kettering in new york for the next few days. >>> a new ruling against the trump administration. the supreme court denied the on administra request to deny asylum for immigrants illegally crossing the u.s./micorder. he wanted this enforced immediately for anyone who dn't go through official crossings. he cited the caravans movingrd through the . braeng a brent kavanaugh and three others sided with the president. >>> police say around noon, a car ran a red light at the intersection of mid county highwayd near w field road. the car hit another vehicle, causing that vehicle to lose control. the second car went t off road and then hit a traffic control employee who had been doing repair work in the area. all five victims were taken to the hospital but they're all expected to be okay. we're told charges are pending. >> a mother and daughter.c visiting during the holidays are hit by a tour bus and killed.ng now yeses b raised about the safety of that intersection where they were hit. why some called it a perfect recipe for disaster. >> sources familiar with tst ination

. >>> ruth bader ginsberg left new york's memorial sloan kettering cancer center on thursday and is nowng at home after surgery to remove two malignant growths in her lung. doctors say there is no evidence of any remaining disease. the oldest sitting member of the u.s. supreme court, ginsberg had never missed oral arguments. she's expected to be present when the court next meets january 7th. >>> let's get a quick check on your weather. >> we are tracking a very busy storm system with snow, wind and some heavy downpours. here's the snow just north of minneapolis as the snow changes over to rain. on the backside of this system, the air is brutal. it's going to be so cold we're going to talk about numbers below zero by the weekend. tornado watch for houston, southwest louisiana, including alexandria and lake charles. we've already had some rotation in the clouds that we could see a tornado touch down at any time. when you look at the frequent lightning strikes with this system, it's not surprising that threat remains through the morning hours. 5 million people at risk for damaging wind and

doctors at sloan-kettering hospital in new york did not find cancer anywhere else in her body. ginsburg is expected to stay in the hospital for a few days. she had colorectal cancel 20 years ago, and pancreatic cancer 10 years ago. she will continue to serve on the highest court as long as she can do it full speed. >>> u.s. supreme court ruled against the trump administration's asylum restrictions. the policy which the president signed last month would have prevented migrants from seeking asylum who had illegally crossed the us-mexico border. the court ruled 5-4 to uphold the lower court ruling against the policy. john roberts sided with the liberal justices ruling against the administration. >>> mexico's foreign minister said he will not deport people seeking asylum in the u.s. we have more on the situation right now with migrants on the us-mexico border. >> along the southern border immigration officials report a huge uptick in illegal crossings. as congress debates building more barriers, thousands of central american migrants wait for their chance to request asylum. under a

bader ginsberg at 85 years old casting her decisive vote on this before going to memorial sloan ketteringowths removed from her lungs. she is a true profile in courage, and a heroin to the american people. roberts is the bane of donald trump. when you vote 5-4, everything for trump's immigration, and roberts stuck it to him again, second time in the last month. >> ginsberg is critical, we are told that she helped cast the deciding vote from her hospital bed, neil, undergoing surgery for an early stage lung cancer. she became a feminist, she's a cultural icon: how important is she to the supreme court right now. >> i can't overstate it. she is deeply, deeply critical, and she is tough as nails. i can tell you, you know, i was unfortunately in court the day after her husband died, and she showed up in court and was sharp as a tack, and i mean, this is an extraordinary woman. you know, she should be celebrated by people of all political sides, her best friend on the supreme court was antonin scalia, and she's a model, really, for what our american democracy is all about. >> during her 25 yea

. >> we did the arrest warrant and within a couple of days we were flying out to kettering, ohio, tote michael wolfe back to florida. >> how did he react? >> he said some pretty harsh words. it's not very ladylike if i said it, though. >> you can say it. >> he said, i'm [ bleep ]. >> this was it. velasquez had her momentum. finally, after 15 years, she had made sure that someone was going to be held accountable for the death of david jackson. >> it was the culmination of 16 months of such a long, grueling, up and down is tiresome investigation, of nights of not sleeping, of days of going to work and living off of coffee, and i thought, you know what, this is what it's all about. >> it was november of 2007 when michael wolfe went on trial for murder. after so many years, any physical evidence that might have tied him to the crime was long gone. but what prosecutors did have was the verbal confession, the drunken story his ex-wife said he had told her. >> i'm sure he told me -- >> and then, checkmate. another ex-wife told police virtually the same story. >> he told me he'd shot him in

. >> as of now, justice ginsberg remains in new york city at the kettering cancer center.preme court announced a short while ago, she underwent a procedure earlier today that removed two cancerous growths from her left lung. her doctors say she's now in the clear. however, there's no remaining traces of the disease anywhere in her body. a statement from the court reads in part "no further treatment is planned. justice ginsberg is resting comfortably and expected to remain in the hospital a few days." she suffered a fall last month in her security office her in d.c. that resulted in three fractured ribs and it was during that hospital stay on november 7 that doctors discovered the cancerous growth that they removed today, shep. >> shepard: she had been back at work since that fall. she went back almost immediately. >> that's right. since the fall she's been back in full swing here. she attended the white house medal of freedom ceremony hosted by the president and showed the fighting spirit for which she's famous at a naturalization ceremony. take a listen. >> as testament t

, siding with the liberals and justice ginsberg voting from her hospital bed a at memorial sloan-kettering. >> yes. quite dramatic. judge kavanaugh siding with the other very conservative members of the court. roberts presumably sees his role as an institutionalist now and upholding both the appearance and the integrity of the court around questions of the rurule f law. amy: but maybe doeoesn't t wanto be called the kavanaugh court. >> and taking control of the institution. the ports ofsue of entry, clearly, the trump administration is making it even more difficult day by day for anyone to apply for asylum at a port of entry because they are making the waiting lines so long. but what is the difference between enterining illegally and seeking asylum versus going through a port of entry? >> that is a very important point. they passed -- they enacted this regulation out of a stated desire to "channel people to ports of entry" to great incentives, a fact that has exists for desperate refugees. at the same time, at portsts of entry, they are blocking the application process to a trickle. migran

bush was, by his owned a mission, was very affected by watching robin be treated at memorial sloan kettering as it was then and would run out of the room. barbara used to say that robin must have thought he had the weakest bladder in america because he would hustle out. mrs. bush was strong during the treatment. after robin died on columbus day weekend of 1953, it was george bush's turn to be strong. and she always remembered how he would hold her sobbing in the watches of the night down in midland, texas, where they were living. they hadn't heard the word leukemia ever until they heard their daughter's diagnosis in 1953. it brought them together. they were a formidable political partnership. as a friend of president bush's once remarked to me, that president bush didn't like saying anything bad about folks, but he didn't really mind hearing, which was a good thing because mrs. bush was pretty candid. in fact, the president would sometimes when mrs. bush was on a particular roll, he would say, bar, where do you get so damn many opinions. it was that kind of taeasing relationship. george w. b

president bush, by his o own admission was very affected by watching robin be treated at memorial sloan kettering as it was then and would run out of the room. barbara used to say that robin must have thought he had the weakest bladder in america because he would hustle out. mrs. bush was strong during the treatment. after robin died on columbus day weekend of 1953, it was george bush's turn to be strong. and she always remembered how he would hold her sobbing in the watches of the night down in midland, texas, where they were living. they hadn't heard the word leukemia ever until they heard their daughter's diagnosis in 1953. it brought them together. they were a formidable political partnership. as a friend of president bush's once remarked to me, that president bush didn't like saying anything bad about folks, but he didn't really mind hearing, which was a good thing because mrs. bush was pretty candid. in fact, the president would sometimes when mrs. bush was on a particular roll, he would say, bar, where do you get so damn many opinions. it was that kind of teasing relationship. george w. bu

a pulmonary lobectomy and two nodules in the left lung were discovered incidentally at the sloan kettering, and they were at gw hospital at a time to treat broken ribs in a fall. and the thoracic surgeon says that they were found and scans before the surgery indicated no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. and no other treatment is planned, and chief juses tis ginsberg is resting comfortably. and ruth, this is i believe her third experience with different forms of cancer. we have seen that she comes back in each instance without missing a a coucourt argument. i asked her how she was feeling when i saw her last wednesday or thursday, i believe it was, and she said, well, i'm over the pain, and it is a lot better, and i'm fine. >> she was back with the trainer last week as well. she complained for like in excess of 30 seconds, and she had been walking, because she had not been able to do her training regimen on the advice of friends and doctors, and she is an iron woman, but she is also a woman in her mid-80s and she is 85. she has this what sounds like once again something that was c

i am once again, julian sanchez the senior fellow at the kettering institute. i am also a former journalist though i have taken the liberty of making myself the moderator of our final panel. i'm very pleased to have with me to talk about the effective surveillance on journalism and how journalists respond. spencer ackerman who is a national security sponsorship at the daily beast has previously worked at wired and one is part of the pulitzer prize-winning team that reported on the guardian. to his left, you're right olivia martin who is a cyber security trainer, rob mahoney who is the deputy executive director of the committee of journalists and jack gillam who is a data focused reporter for public a and has previously worked at the washington post and the associated press and the rarest of unicorns a political journalist with a serious technologist background of some sort. and i want to begin by noting that i think partly because of the revolutions but also because we're seeing a pattern of increased government willing was in the united states to target report

the 85-year-old justice spent five days at sloan-kettering cancer center in new york following a procedure cancerous growth from her left lung no further treatment is planned. >>> and sales during the holiday shopping season rose 5.1% to over $850 billion in 2018 according to mastercard, the strongest in six years the data includes in-store and online sales between november 1 and december 24. >>> and there was no big winner for the megamillions christmas night drawing. it was only the fifth time there's been a megamillions drawing on december 25 the next is friday night with $348 million it hasn't been won since october when it reached a record $1.5 billion. that's our cnbc news update for this hour. back to you, sara. >> i remember, you were all over that story, frank, thank you >>> still to come, much more on the markets as we are set to close out a rough year for stocks is the decade-long bull market over where should investors be looking right now? dow early rally fading "squawk on the street" will be right back >>> welcome back, i'm sara eisen with carl quintinilla and mike santoli at

she's at memorial sloan-kettering here in new york after she had two malignant growths removed from her left lung on friday. doctors eound nodence of any remaining cancer but they haven't said when the -year-old judge may be released. the next meeting of the court is january 7th. and justice ginsburg has never missed angu nt. >>> now to a controversial call at a high school wrestling match that's led officials in newn jersey to o civil rights investigation. >> the referee at the center of it now benched. nbc's matey bra joins us with more on this story. >> good morning. >> spectators watched as a black wrestler cut off his dreadlocks. that's after he was given two options by the white referee. cut them or forfeit. that video has gone viral with nearly 15 million views. many people were outraged over the ref's ultatum and are demanding justice. moments before his match, andrew johnsonad choice. cut his dreadlocks or forfeit. johnson's hair length and headgear weregainst the les, according to the referee. johnson ended up winning his match but los his dreadlocks. johnson's motherri wng on

president bush, by his own admission was very affected by watching robin be treated at memorial sloan ketterings it was then and would run out of the room. barbara used to say that robin must have thought he had the weakest bladder in america because he would hustle out. mrs. bush was strong during the treatment. after robin died on columbus day weekend of 1953, it was george bush's turn to be strong. and she always remembered how he would hold her sobbing in the watches of the night down in midland, texas, where they were living. they hadn't heard the word leukemia ever until they heard their daughter's diagnosis in 1953. it brought them together. they were a formidable political partnership. as a friend of president bush's once remarked to me, that president bush didn't like saying anything bad about folks, but he didn't really mind hearing, which was a good thing because mrs. bush was pretty candid. in fact, the president would sometimes when mrs. bush was on a particular roll, he would say, bar, where do you get so damn many opinions. it was that kind of teasing relationship. george w. bush