kevin corke's lives in d.c. with more on that tonight, kevin, good evening. as you have pointed out federale authorities continue to investigate whether they are still may be a link. thatthat is a question given wht happened in new orleans and of course that deadly blastst outside of trump internationalrn hotel over in las vegas whichat happened just a few hours laterh president biden said as much when reacting to the carnage in new orleans where the search for answers is ongoing tonight. however, one thing he talkedks about in, his remarks, trace, although they were incrediblyth brief, he did suggesatt we as a nation will recover from this. >> to all of the people who havt known this and are grieving today, i want you to know, iou. agree with you in our nationh yo grieves with you. we will stand with you ad wis yu mourn and as you heal in the weeks to come. >> now it is anyone's guess just how soon we will hear on camera from former president and future president trump. but hement did make a statement tonighh t on truth social.so in fact, he took a thinly ve

kevin corke live for us in d.c. lisping and former number of israel's special ops unit, aaron cohen, and former san bernardino county sheriff deputy megan mccarty this reads come from new orleans to nice, the police can only doo much. cities can harden their sidewalks and public squares against attack with barricades and surveillance, but these killers are nothing if not resourceful. they always come up with some new method of spilling the blood of innocents and spreading fear. in the infamous formulation, the terrorist only has to be lucky one time. but you still have to pr prep fr the stuff and make sure to the best of your ability that these areas with high traffic and high popularity are secure. >> absolutely. i think there's a lot of questions that still need answers. they say you should wait 48 hours to have the true answers, but i think the american public is on edge as they should be. it's a much larger scale of the last four years we have seen. we saw an illegal immigrant let a woman on fire on a subway tra

kevin corke. >> they are worried about their dollars, worried about what he will focus on.nd if today is any indication, he most certainly will be confirmed. >> trace: people are worried about things being shaken up, bill melugin. >> did they have concerns about hunter biden's qualifications to serve on the board? they seemed to miss that. >> trace: no concerns at all. rabbi. >> 100%. he's bringing a spirit back into the army. look at how many people are signing up. we need a young strong-minded person to take it over and that is what we've gotten him. >> trace: i'm going to savior for last aaron cohen because you are the military voice and it's interesting what you have to say because a lot of people have said listen, they need youngblood, they need somebody to come in and shake things up and as he said, there were four generals in world war ii know it got 40 something. >> what it must be like to get paid by the pentagon. but i think karen bass, avenue some, joe biden, kamala harris, barack obama, all people that we were all told were qualified and look at how much they ha

senior national correspondent kevin corke is live with new information on this. >> critics argue this is precisely the thing that continues to infuriate voters of america and in the golden state in particular. even as the state burnt injuring ferocious firestorms and arson and leaving a cataclysmic health scape, many are blaming l.a. and sacramento's mismanagement. and on top of all of that now you have a state whose budget is already snatched -- stretched as tight as a snare drum setting aside $50 million to quotes, trump-proof itself including $25 million to support legal aid services for illegal aliens. not surprisingly the incoming president's chief among governor newsom's critics right thinking opposed untruth social i will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful clean fresh water flow into california. he is to blame for all of this. on top of it all the water from fire hydrants not firefighting planes. a true disaster. newsom for his part says mr. trump has it all wrong. >> that miss and disinformation i don't think advantages or aids any of us. responding to donal

thank you to law enforcement for saving the lives of so many. >> kevin corke so tragic, beautiful wordsraying for all of the victims families, reporting about a single mom, a boy, four years old without his mom because of that attack in our prayers this evening. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to the specia

senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in d.c. with the latest on that investigation. kevin, good evening. >> reporter: evening trace, las vegas police and federal officials tonight releasing new details about army green beret matthew livelsberger, confirming he acted alone, wasn't tied to any terrorist group, and was not connected to wednesday's terrorist attack over in new orleans. officials also released sections of what is believed to be his so-called manifesto in which he called on america, military service members, to wake up and see that they are being led by "week and feckless leadership." and he added this... >> right now we are terminally ill and headed towards collapse. this was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake-up call. americans only pay attention to spectacles of violence. what better way to get my point across honest on with fireworks and explosives. >> reporter: law enforcement officials believe he likely had ptsd, post dramatic stress disorder, and also had ongoing family problems that contributed to his actions. meantime pentagon officials are decl

kevin corke live in d.c., thank you. >>> governor, i live here, governor. that was my daughter's school, governor. tell me what you are going to do. >> literally talking to the president right now to specifically answer the question of what we can do for you and your daughter. >> and i hear your call because i don't believe it. >> i'm sorry, there's literally -- i've tried five times, that's why i'm walking around. >> why is the president not taking your calls? >> it's not going through. we have to get self-service. >> trace: as tens of thousands of los angeles resident struggle with losing their homes and losing much more, one resident confronted governor newsom about the states much criticized emergency response. let's bring in our confronter in chief, pacific palisades resident, california state assembly member and climate depot.com executive editor. thank you for coming on. everybody, we appreciate it. rachel, that was your deal right there. we know that he wasn't literally as he said literally talking to the president at the time because he could not g

senior national correspondent kevin corke has the latest. kevin. >> sad indeed. >> the coroner in new orleans is a gentleman by the name of doctor dwight mckenna. he's promising to release the names of all the victims once all the autopsies have been completed. and, of course, next of kin have been notified. but we are tonight learning a lot more about some of the victims whose lives were tragically cut short thanks to that evil that took place in new orleans. heartbroken family members telling us about people like martin beck. 27 year old former princeton football player. he was from lafayette. young man. had a lot to live for. he's now gone. same for drew duffin, 2023 auburn grad. he graduated in 2023. he's a systems engineer who worked at honda. his life cut tragically short. same can be said for reggie hunter, 37 years old. awful. what happened to that young man as well? he had just gotten off work and headed over to bourbon street to ring in the new year on a whim. and how about hubert gouthro, 21 years old and apparently an alum of arch

kevin corke live for us in dc. kevin thank you. let's bring in california gop chairwoman jessica millan patterson and independent women features editor in chief kaylee mcghee white. thank you both for coming on. i mean, he talked about the biden speech today. kaylee mcghee, white to you first. it took 16 hours. he spoke for three minutes. it was total teleprompter because the teleprompter went down at one point. not really confidence inducing. what did you think? >> no. and that's what makes this tragedy so much more alarming is the fact that apparently we have a commander in chief who can barely be dragged out of bed to give a few brief remarks on on how he's still being updated before shuffling off, refusing to take any questions. >> and again, this is hours after the crisis began to unfold. in fact, president elect donald trump released a statement of his own before biden had even said a word publicly. this is extremely concerning, and a big question that i have for the american public is, is no one concerned that biden's appare

kevin corke live in dc for us. kevin thank you.ltadena is another area hit particularly hard by these wildfires, the eaton fire. we actually just got some brand new numbers on it that fire up to over 10,600 acres. we've got five firefighters who have been injured at that fire. and listen to this. just in the eaton fire alone, 972 structures destroyed. that is on top of more than 1000 destroyed over in the pacific palisades. for more on that, we want to send it out live once again to christina coleman. she is in the hills above altadena, where these homes continue to smolder behind her. christina. almost a thousand structures destroyed just where you are in altadena. >> that's exactly right, bill. yeah, and i'm standing right in front of one of them. i believe this is some kind of theosophical library there. you could see the fires, multiple fires just inside this one building alone. they continue to flare up from the erratic winds in this area. you can see this building. when i was driving by, a lot of people didn't even know what

one of them wanted to spend kevin corke's money and the other one wanted to go hunt my deer blind. see what comes out this morning. >> griff: send us your photos. turn to some of the more unique ones held in cities big and small across the country last night. >> joey: chanley painter joins us now with a few of our favorites. chanley, good morning. >> chanley: hey. happy new year, everyone. great to be here. we are all familiar with the ball drop in new york city which was epic last night by the way. there are plenty of other smaller, yet no less if he has been countdown drops across the country to help bring in the new year. including the big cheese drop in plymouth, wisconsin. the town dubbed the cheese capital of the world. lit up huge slice of parmesan before it made its decent for the 18th year in a row. georgia peach state only makes sense that atlanta would bring in the new year where 800-pound 8 feet tall gi peach dropping in front of tens of thousands in atlanta. a tradition since 1989. keeping with the theme downtown miami transformed into a hub of excitement with this big

. >> kevin corke so tragic, beautiful words of their the end, thank you. >>> we are praying for all of the victims families, reporting about a single mom, a boy, four years old without his mom because of that attack in our prayers this evening. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to the special edition of "hannity", tonight americans are on edge, securities tide out of 14 innocent americans celebrating the new year in new orleans where brutally murdered by an islamic extremist inspired by asis, sadly this was not the only active tear in the new year, across the country in las vegas, an individual blew himself up in a tesla cybertruck, parked in front of the city's trump hotel. now as strange and new details emerge from this explosion, americans are left with more questions than answered. we will bring you a full report on that and just a moment. first adjoining is now with more from new orleans, fox news contributor ted williams is with us. what is the latest on the ground? >> the latest on the ground is new orleans is back. jason i came to this town a few nights ago, it seemed like a very demoralized town

i'm kevin corke from washington now back to "hannity". ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: last night at mar-a-lago floridan desantis made a great point about the way the mainstream media is covering the devastating fires in california. imagine for a second if gavin newsom, karen bass, can you imagine the coverage in the media if they were conservative? if they were republican? take a look. >> elect or our president to be... >> appropriate for people in your industry to try to create division and narratives any time these things happen? you are not as interested in doing that because newsom is a d. if newsom was a republican you would have been nailed to the wall for what they are doing there. i know that we know that we just assume in florida any time something happens it will be politicized by the media. so you guys sitting in judgement of donald trump i mean excuse me i think your track record of politicizing these things is very bad. >> sean: well said and the more we learn about the lead up to the fires the more apparent to the failures of california's leadership are becoming. "los angeles times" now

senior national correspondent kevin corke with more. kevin. evening, jesse. the isis inspired attacker who killed 14 people in that rampage on new orleans day on new year's day down in new orleans, actually shot at cops from inside his vehicle. and we learned that today from watching the police body cam footage, which was released today. >> shamsuddin jabar had driven a white ford f-150 around a police car which had been blocking the entrance to bourbon street. after that, he killed 14 people and injured dozens more. now, cops rushed to the driver's side door. they identified themselves. they told jabar to get out. he began shooting from behind an airbag. cops returned fire and they finally killed him. now, citing the ongoing investigation and pending litigation, cops won't say exactly how many shots jabar fired or how many were fired at him. but we do know the officers involved. nigel daggs, christian beyer and jacoby jordan. they're calling them national heroes down in new orleans tonight. in fact, the superintendent there, jesse, say they clearly acted wit

president obama chatted up president-elect trump. 20 may now to discuss all of this correspondent kevin corken, what was it about this interplay that was blowing atth social mediaey. >> you know what was interesting, danger to democracy. they didn't believe a minute of it and it is all hyperbole and lies. we heardmite the expression, its makes for strange bedfellows. that was on full display. president trump and obama downright chatty and chummy and laughing during the funeral. so much for a fine people on both sides and danger to democracy. .i believe it. sure, yo u do. fofor those that are not famili, listen they are routine particles happening at thingsen likets this. for example, dignitaries like i presidents and families greet each other in the green room, if you will be for a short out to respective seating ie n the sanctuary. so, you see them shake hands orh don't shakowe hands, don't overthink it butdi not to show affection for or disdain for bet each other in public.dy j check out the frosting is between the first lady,e jill biden mvp kamala harris. we are tapping subzero, funeral f

kevin corke, what was it about this interplay that is blowing up social media?what is interesting they said, they told you danger to democracy they didn't believe a minute of that politics makes for strange bed lows. today that was obvious and full display. presidents trump and obama down right chummy. >> laura: laughing. >> laura: laughing with hitler. >> danger to democracy. i believe it. sure you do. those unfamiliar. listen, there are routine protocols that happen at events like this. dig that tears like presidents and their families they greet each other in the green room if they will before they are ushered out to their perspective seating in the sanctuary. so when you see them shake hands or don't shake hands. don't overthink it. that's not to say they don't show affection for or maybe even disdain for each other in public. check out the frostiness between the first lady joe biden and the have. p kamala harris, we are talking subzero, side eye, funeral frost bite. funeral frost bite. yeah, girl. much to the chagrin and frankly embarrassment of those presi

. >> kevin corke so tragic and beautiful words there at the end. thank you so much, kevin. you bet. we are praying for all the victims families. and i heard that reporting about a single mom, a boy four years old, without his mom because of that horrific attack and our prayers this evening. >> welcome to this special edition of hannity. >> i'm jason chaffetz in for sean. >> and tonight americans are on edge and security is tight. >> after 14 innocent americans celebrating the new year in new orleans were brutally murdered by an islamic extremist inspired by isis. >> sadly, this wasn't the only act of terror in the new year. >> across the country, in las vegas, an individual apparently blew himself up in a tesla cybertruck parked in front of the city's trump hotel. now, as strange new details emerge from this explosion, americans are left with more questions than answers. we'll bring you a full report on that in just a moment. but first, joining us now with more from new orleans, fox news contributor ted williams is with us. ted, what's the latest on the ground? >> the latest jason o

kevin corke's live in d.c. story kevin good evening. >> hardworking california and as you pointed out a busy day for the president-elect from paying his respects to former president carter to posting governors at florida tonight but amid the travels and engagement mr. trump did keep his eyes on the situation in california. what many of deemed and unforgivable mismanagement of devastation gripping the state he said this in a statement from his transition team sang here fiestas signed the water restoration declaration put before them that would've allowed millions of gallons of water, excess rain and snow melt from the north to flow daily into many parts of california including areas burning in a virtually apocalyptic way and no he didn't spare president biden saying no water in the fire hydrants no money there that's what joe biden is leaving me and for his part mr. biden did quickly move to approve the request for a major disaster declaration to support ongoing response efforts. he vowed to cover 100% of califo